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This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Also a great example of why pink is a tint of red, but also a completely different color. Erbium? Neodymium? So beautiful.

luntfontanne

holy shit

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I am reminded of this photo, where a community acted together to subdue a sheriff attempting to evict a widow from her homestead at the behest of an insurance company. This was in North Dakota in 1952.

They literally held the sheriff at a standoff until he relented. So yeah, if you love your neighbors you should be willing to free the bees so that they can enjoy the lovely flowers when necessary.

#This was part of rising rural populism when people really started to understand they needed to work together #And its even truer now with the rental economy #get to know your neighbors #seriously #its more than just borrowing sugar #its building a community for yourself and others

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Either I'm cracking up, or realtors are. If you buy this 2023 home in Benton, AR for $1,267,500 (Zillow's est.: $1,230,400) + $112mo./HOA, not only do you get a free, brand new Cadillac Escalade, but you also get a free Royal Caribbean romantic 4-day cruise to the Bahamas.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6560-Westminster-Benton-AR-72019/247594494_zpid/?

Or, on a lower budget, you can buy Big Foot's home in Dayton, OH for $177k.

Here he is enjoying a plate of spaghetti in the dining room.

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CORRECTION Bigfoot *is* the wife (at least the most popular and "original" video of bigfoot is widely though to have been of a female sasquatch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOxuRIfFs0w) I had to do a whole lot of assignments based around the biomechanics of the video to try and determine if we could solidly explain the mechanisms of how this either was or wasn't a "man in a suit" but yea, fun fact! Most depictions of bigfoot are based on that video where bigfoot truthers believe it to have been depicting a female,

#Bigfoot is a FEMALE #lol #all jokes here tho #fun bigfoot facts

lemorgo

I need more blushing jabber and more nasty zanka

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Write it badly or it'll never be written

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Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

socksonat3am

this is me with my art now. I have an idea, start doing it, hate how its looking but still enjoy the idea...and then force myself to tie it up somehow, even if poorly, and post it anyway

viralthings

I am half Scottish and half Japanese- I hand-sewed this kimono from men’s dress shirts and boxer shorts.

weareallstilllearningright

This kinda stuff is actually really inspirational to those of us with uncommonly mixed heritage, regardless of if you’re this particular mix just seeing other mixed people make their backgrounds their own instead of being forced to choose is so important for mixed children growing up tbh

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This is solarpunk AF.

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Best part (IMO) is that it actually makes sense from a historical standpoint. In feudal Japan, each clan would have a mon (an emblem sort of like a coat of arms) that would be displayed on banners and used to identify that particular clan. Members of a clan would often have their mon displayed on their clothing including kimonos, like so:

Thus, the idea of a kimono in a clan tartan pattern is in fact completely appropriate and would be perfectly familiar to feudal Japanese culture.

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And also it looks really cool.

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This weekend, Maya Caulfield posted to photos of herself modeling a kimono she sewed by hand, and her work earned her thousands of instant a

the artist is Maya Caulfield, this blog stole her post

alright well...sometimes you start something and end up not liking it once you actually get started...This comic is a result of that. I really ended up just forcing myself to finish it and post it.

The initial premise of this was what was ingrained in me when i was in my old Rifle team. "Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect Practice makes Perfect Performance" and how sometimes you just won't be able to catch up to someone by no fault of your own.

I really identify with Zanka because of that. So...I made a comic thing. Enjoy the badly rendered/shaded scribble thing

#gachifanart #zanka nijuku #riyo reaper #my art #honestly though its the truth #just practicing won't help you out all that much #you need to practice correctly and adjust when needed #just like studying #if you aren't taught “how” to study your skills start to diminish when you actually become challenged #it kind of sucks #but my time in rifle made me *want* to go to college for a dregree i knew would be hard for me #and i did it #took an extra year but i got 2 degrees and 2 certificates #i am so proud of myself #perseverance isn't going to get you what you want purely on its own and its dumb to believe otherwise

nattousan

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

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and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

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Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

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hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

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speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

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Madam....

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birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

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*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

nattousan

in other news, I am losing my sanity hairline

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I don't know what's funnier, the fact that I've met people like that guy in the last reblog comic or the fact that someone compared your work to AI of all things.

I am so tired of looking at AutoCAD. I have drawn your magical sigils! Leave me in PEACE! It's been WEEKS!

#The overtime i get for this project is really nice tho.#but i am SO TIRED of looking at this stupid screen #uuuuuuuugh

socksonat3am

Have a mothman that says “Trans Rights!”

#mothman #cryptid #trans rights #trans liberation now

So I went ahead and tried to do a thing with a bit more of a background. Granted it is a flat background but i tried to cram it full of stuff. (Unblocked version of bg below the cut.)