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kurtislutzart

Another Star Trek pixel art piece from a little while back!

#ds9

thecollectibles

Art by Anastasia Trusova

strawberrygiorno

[ID: A series of traditional paintings of nature landscapes. They are made with an impressionist style that uses large, heavily textured brush strokes.

Image 1: A river. In the foreground are a pair of skinny trees and some smaller green plants growing around the base. The opposite bank is green with plants. The river meets the horizon about halfway up the painting, and hills can be seen in the distance. The sky, water, and hills are colored with light shades of orange and pink from the sunset.

Image 2: A riverbank at dusk. The water forms the foreground, and is painted with dappled reds, oranges, yellows, and deep purples. The opposite bank is covered in greenery, and some leafless trees form a dark silhouette on the left. The sun is deep red and is beginning to dip below the horizon.

Image 3: A neighborhood at dawn or dusk. There are a couple of houses, one with the lights on, and some trees. Everything is cast in dark blue shadow except for a large, light pink cloud in the sky.

Image 4: Sunset over a large body of water. The horizon is set low, with the sky taking up most of the image. The sun is concealed behind some clouds, turning them dark red and causing bright rays to be cast out in all directions. The rays of light are painted and blended smoothly, contrasting with the textured clouds and water, which are given bright yellow highlights by the sun. The water and far bank are dark blue, and there’s a small dark silhouette of a ship in the bottom left corner.

Image 5: A river at dusk. The river is winding between green banks covered in trees, and disappears from view after a couple of bends. A small black silhouette of a boat is in the foreground, and the sun can be seen peeking over some distant clouds. The sky and distant background are fairly smooth and blended, and as things become closer to the viewer the paint becomes more textured, looking like huge globs of paint were spread on the canvas in the foreground. Most of the painting is in shades of blue, with light pink and orange used in the sky and the water. End ID]

#shit I’m in love with Anastasia Trusova #or with her colours anyway

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24th may 2026

ymutate

Oscar Nussio (Swiss, 1899-1976)

Engadiner Landschaft mit Silvaplaner und Silsersee [Engadine Landscape with Lake Silvaplana and Lake Sils], 1954

Oil on canvas

80 x 90 cm

Private collection

ymutate

Philipp Franck (German, 1860 -1944)

Lake Wannsee, 1914

bethfuller

hide from the sun!

heathengentleman

Deadwood

ymutate

Dale Nichols (USA, 1904 - 1995)

Guatemala, nd.

maimonideznuts

The fact that geese manage to actually scare so many people is such an interesting example of the predator instinct to avoid a confident animal.

Because we are predators, and Geese are prey animals with hollow bones, no teeth, and no claws. What they do have are wings to make them look bigger and a fuck off attitude. That attitude works on most people apparently.

Just "I'm gonna getcha" and as a species we fall for it almost every time.

gremlinwithakeyboard

Yeah they don't have teeth but they do have serrated edges on their bills that can act like teeth. They also apparently have spines on their tongue.

Read about Do Geese Have Teeth? (All You Need To Know) on Birdfact.

Geese are amazing waterfowl known for their unique mouths that have fascinated people for ages. If you're short on time, here's a quick answ

Probably still not much of a threat to adults, but they do have some tools to Get You with.

kedreeva

They do hit with their wings (which can really bruise), and they do absolutely have nails on those feet and they can cause damage with them.

But it's still funny that people are scared of them, because like... They're just not that big.

And "serrated" break is a bit of an exaggeration. It's ridged, there are bumps along the sides but they're made for grinding water plant stems, not chewing meat or anything. They have a pretty good pinch pressure, but of all the birds I've been bitten by, geese aren't high on the list of a threat.

But humans, as predators, want to avoid being hurt *at all.* Because an injury means not being able to hunt and not being able to hunt means potentially starving to death.

But geese are so so so easy to not get hurt by, and that's why it's funny.

theeyesinthenight

so what i'm HEARING is that i could disrupt the social order of a group of people I was in by charging the goose right back bc it objectively doens't hurt that bad?

kedreeva

I mean. You could if you're an asshole.

The best way to not get hurt by geese is to leave them alone and respect that they're living things that don't want to be messed with.

But they're also exceptionally easy to befriend, if you're not an asshole to them. The problem is most people don't know how to not be an asshole to geese. Therein lies the rub.

kedreeva

#many of the replies on this post were#very clearly written by a person who has never been chased by geese (via @itischeese)

You are 100% right, I have never been chased by a goose, not once in 41 years, because I wouldn't run from a fucking goose, and it cannot chase you if you don't run.

Geese are literally just animals. Here is me with one of my friend's geese many years ago.

They are not evil, they are not mean, they are not out to get you. They are animals. They are prey animals. They are defensive of their territory, their nests (because how would you like it if a giant invaded your nursery to look at your sleeping baby?? would you be super nice about it?? Would you gracefully and peacefully handle just Some Guy you don't know coming into your nursery against your will to look at and pick up your screaming kid?? like it's not even unreasonable behavior, people are just mad because it's an animal and they have weird beliefs about animals all having to allow human interaction), and their mates.

but they are literally just animals.

I would never be chased by a goose, because I don't run, but also because I leave them alone. And the few times I have had to interact, I was polite and they responded in kind.

A mated pair with 8 goslings in the narrow road I needed get down? PRIME candidates for being the "mean goose" everyone claims exists.

Yet, they moved politely out of the road when I got out and shooed them to the side, and they brought their muppet kids over to say hello when I greeted them properly. I gave them a few goose-safe treats and went on my way. No chasing, no attacking, no biting. One of the parents hissed a few times, but still bowed back when I bowed first.

I saw a lone goose in an Aldi parking lot earlier this year, and I brought over a cup of water and set it down, then backed away. It kept its distance while I was setting the cup down, but waddled right over to drink once I backed off. Didn't hiss once. Didn't chase me. Didn't try to get me.

Like, it's literally so easy to not be hurt by geese. I'm not talking out my ass; I've interacted with or been near so many geese and I've NEVER seen an actually aggressive one- only geese being harassed by humans into a provoked reaction.

I'm sorry to the people who got chased by one as a four year old or whatever and never recovered, but that's a you and/or your parents problem for bothering or allowing you to bother wild animals. Calling geese evil and nasty and mean because your parents allowed you to act inappropriately around animals as a toddler is an anthropomorphization that continues a cycle of wildlife harassment, because people feel justified in harassing "bad" animals.

And acting like I (or others) only think geese are not mean because I've never been chased by one is an excellent example of having fallen for their defensive mechanisms, as well as an excellent example of the attitude people have about geese that leads to people harassing and consequently getting attacked by geese.

So again..... leave them alone. You'll find them a lot more pleasant, and they'll like you a lot more.

#like I’ve been saying #you’ve just gotta greet the geese

turquoisemagpie

Masks of the Fae.

(When designing fairy creatures, my love for old traditional illustrations of over the top caricatures, and my urge to lean towards the inconceivable Eldritch unknown are always at war. So I’ve made a compromise of both. XD)

fuckyeahanarchistposters

"Hate FIFA, Love Football"

Poster by Kattattak Studio

our-lady-of-haymakers

It's really awesome how a vast majority of self-identified liberals conceive of liberalism as this smol bean birthday boy ideology of Let's All Get Along Together and frame it as this brave and kind yet tragically neglected voice of empathy and reason rather than, y'know, the dominant ideology of the capitalist world system that has caused countless wars, overseen colonialism and settler colonialism and neocolonialism, eviscerated state systems to create free market carnage, toppled countless popular governments through interventions on trumped-up charges of illegitimacy, and produced a climate catastrophe of near-apocalyptic proportions by putting its hands up while corporations torch the world.

And in the face of all this, and the inevitable rise of fascism from the material conditions created by the liberal world order, the liberal can say with complete earnestness that what we Really Need is a return to the good old days of liberalism where everyone was niceys and the slaughter and cruelty and meanness was confined to the global periphery and the slums and the villages rather than interfering with our sacred rituals of treat consumption.

crisurdiales

Beltalowda! Cara Gee as Camina Drummer in the Expanse TV show

#the expanse #camina drummer #for beltalowda!

autumnillustration

“Someone’s sending all this to Dukat, yeah?”

Man, this was a blast to draw. With all the negativity in the world right now, just needed something fun to cheer me up.

Based off @captaincrusher‘s post.

To sum up, it’s never really touched on that Sisko has Dukat’s old office, and the implications of this. One of the theories thrown in was that a week after settling in, a life-sized bronze statue of Dukat shows up (after being held up in Bolian customs for three weeks), and Sisko has to sign for it. They don’t know what to do with it, so it just does the rounds of the station:

It ends up in the rec room for Julian and Miles to throw things at.

Kira gets back from a week-long mission to Bajor, finds it just inside her bedroom door. Barely misses it with her phaser.

She places it just so inside the infirmary doors, so it’ll topple onto Julian when he walks in the following morning.

Nog looses a bet with Jadzia, has to sneak it into Sisko’s office wearing the ‘Everybody loves me’ shirt.

Revenge is enacted.

Quark thinks it’d be a great way to fool Odo. Turns out paper plates sticky-taped on aren’t the answer.

It ends up at Garak’s. No one’s sure exactly how or why, but the results are beautiful.

Ziyal, my poor baby. Sisko’s given her a cargo bay to decorate.

At one point, O’Brien has to go on an urgent mission. For some godforsaken reason, the statue has ended up in the runabout and there’s no time to unload it. So he pilots for 54 hours straight while feeling the itch of Dukat’s soulless glare on the back of his head.

Oh, and they might have won the war by posting all these to the… whatever the Trek equivalent of the net is.