Creatures and Corsetry

Way too old for tumblr. Currently missing my homeland of Massachusetts. Mostly excited about history and crocodiles.

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cats opening doors with their faces is astounding. you got four paws little fool.

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

“The world is overpopulated.”

Nope.

“Well, that’s just carbon emissions. What about places for all those people to live?”

If the world’s population all lived in one city that was as densely populated as Manhattan, that city would be the size of Ecuador. The space taken up by ourselves and our toys is actually rather insignificant next to that taken up by our farmland.

“Ah-hah! Farmland! We’re not producing enough food for all those people!”

The problem here is we are insanely wasteful with our food.

Firstly, half of all food grown in the US goes straight into the dumpster.

Secondly, we grow it very inefficiently. We could very easily increase the food yield of a given area of land by building a greenhouse on it (which also reduces water loss) and using poly-cultures instead of mono-cultures; the reason our preferred method is open-air mono-culture farms, which are susceptible to erosion and blight and requires a god-awful amount of water to stay hydrated, is that labor is expensive and land is cheap.

In fact, if we took it even further–growing our food in carbon dioxide-rich environments lit with artificial lighting 24 hours a day (or at least at night)–you only need 1-2000 square feet of farmland per person. Admittedly, you pretty much have to have fusion power for this to be an environmentally and economically viable option, but still; the point is, we could easily condense our environmental footprint by a shit-ton (and even more options will be available in the future) without decreasing our population one iota.

“There is still a maximum carrying capacity the planet has.”

Indeed there is. And do you know what that carrying capacity is? It’s ten trillion. And the cut off isn’t space or resources–it’s waste heat. The things we’d have to do to get there aren’t exactly the sort of things we could do overnight–hell, we don’t actually know how to fusion yet–but they’re all well within the realm of the physically possible.

[gothiccharmschool]

Oscar Isaac as Gomez

Charlize Theron as Morticia 

Chloë Grace Moretz as Wednesday

Finn Wolfhard as Pugsley

Nick Kroll as  Uncle Fester

Bette Midler as Grandmama

What do you mean I have to wait until October 2019?

[vegaofthelyre]

did i… single-handedly will oscar isaac as gomez into the universe???

[lesbomatriarchy]

wait WHAT???

[kotbliny]

mood of the month, ladies!!

[catchymemes]

Catastrophe

[nettisivustakatsoja]

Cat math. Cath. 

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when ur straight friend about to do something stupid

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WHY DID I LAUGH SO HARD

[gogomrbrown]

gay space confirmed

[irrevocably-delicious]

Hey what’s up, that HTTYD 3 poster got me fucked up

So this official poster has been released for How To Train Your Dragon 3 and it has left me with… opinions. 

My first initial reaction was excitement! Oh hell yeah HTTYD 3 is coming out! I adored the first two! But then i saw…

SIIIIIGGGGGGGHHHHHHH I knew immediately that this was most likely a female night fury and fuck yeah shit fuck it is which is so disappointing. I could write a huge essay on how female characters are portrayed in media. I could write a massive blog about smurfette syndrome and how female characters are always just a pink, soft version of their male counterparts, or how female animal or anthro characters still have to fall into society’s beauty standards so we do crazy things like give ducks tits or large eyelashes. 

I COULD talk about why these things occur, and how this is a worrying reflection of how society views human females, that males are the default and females are the other… but I’m not going to do that TODAY.

Hi my name is India and not only do I have an animation degree, but I also have a degree in animal and veterinary science.

This design doesn’t just insult me as an animator. This design insults me as a scientist. 

Let’s begin. 

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[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Reblogging for the morphology breakdown. The science of animal coloration (and how it can / should apply to fantasy creature design) is fascinating. 

[geekandmisandry]

Also how can Arthur Conan Doyle write a character like Irene Adler 1891 and have her 1. Outsmart Sherlock Holmes and get away with it and 2. Be in no way a damsel or love interest to Sherlock.. But every modern retelling not only has her be a sexual /love interest character but she is posed as being very very smart… But never smart enough to just outwit him, get away with it and move on? Women can be smart, sure, but no one is allowed to be smarter than Sherlock.

It’s been over 120 years and Irene is, at her best, never as decently treated as the original.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Arthur Conan Doyle: Here’s a story about male insecurity where the police underestimate her for being a woman and feel the need to get her because she’s a woman and Sherlock is ultimately beaten by a woman and in a bit of character development accepts it and acknowledges her intellect.

Sherlock fans: Uh no way Sherlock is smart Sherlock is so so smart she must have used her feminine wiles or her sexy things or her love to undermine him but he gets her in the end i feel a strange catharsis at changing this ending but I’m sure Doyle always meant to be this way, it just feels right.

[ninja-librarian]

Half of the reason that Adler was able to out-wit Holmes was because Holmes was too narrow-minded. Holmes is smart and has knowledge of many subjects, but he also strongly relies on social order and norms to solve crimes. He’s even says in A Scandal in Bohemia that:

“When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to thing which she values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have more than once taken advantage of it … A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box.”

Holmes uses this social norm and order to stage an attack and find out where Adler hid the photo in her house. He drops his guard and is so proud of himself because he knew that this would work, he knew that if he created disorder,  “natural” order would attempt to counteract that disorder.

Adler defies those social orders and norms: she is an untitled American woman who earned her own money through a career as an opera star, instead of relying on a husband or family to have financial security; she outwitted Holmes because she cross-dressed and indicated that she frequently did so, allowing her to have a lot more freedom roaming around London on her own terms, and her stage career aided that so that she could act like a man easily; and she didn’t care one bit about her reputation or being a “pure” woman, had several boyfriends, and was known for being an “adventuress”. More importantly, she had the ability to defy those social norms while simultaneously being able to present herself as the ideal respectable and under-estimable Victorian-era woman.

Adler literally defeats Holmes by dressing in drag then happily goes off with her new husband whom she loves very much. And Holmes respects that and is thoroughly impressed. Not only does he respect that, he realizes that he was on the wrong side of things, that he shouldn’t have agreed to take on the case for the King of Bohemia. This is the exchange that follows after Holmes, Watson and the King read Adler’s letter.

“Would she not have made an admirable queen? Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?”

“From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty,” said Holmes coldly

Holmes takes Adler’s side and realizes that the photograph is her protection from the King, not something she intended to use as a weapon against him. Adler never exploited the King to get what she wanted, only kept it as a safeguard of her own happiness. She made sure she had a way of ensuring that she alone guided her future.

Irene Adler is “the woman” to Sherlock Holmes, not because she was sexy or he was in love with her. She was a reminder that real life doesn’t always follow what social norms and order are to be expected, that people shouldn’t be taken on face value or respected just because of their title or apparent respectability and ability to follow social order and norms, and that there are two sides to every story.

Take a lesson from Sherlock Holmes, people. Doyle knew what he was doing. If we’re going to keep making him roll over in his grave from creating Sherlock Holmes media, please, at least respect him and Irene Adler.

[maplesquidartsarchive]

Here’s the finished wip from the other day!  They’ll soon be made into keychains and stickers for sale.. 

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@be-a-warrior-not-a-worrier

[tehriz]

[shamashreshusur]

#OSHA (operatic safety and health administration) (x)

[labete-du-gevaudan]

The O’Reilly Spite House is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is one of several spite houses in Massachusetts. A spite house is just that - a home or building built out of pure spite. The O’Reilly house was built after Francis O’Reilly’s neighbor refused to buy the little plot of land as an investment. He built the 308 square foot house in 1908. It measures in at 37 feet long and 8 feet wide. As of 2006, a store called Annie Hall Interiors resides in the tiny building.

[hashtagloveloses]

concept: taika waititi tv remake of the hitchhikers’ guide to the galaxy

[labete-du-gevaudan]

To thank all my followers for helping me hit 20,000+ followers and supporting me so much, I want to do a giveaway! This Giveaway is a special one, though, and I need you to follow my rules to be entered. Thank you so much, I love all of you!!

Please type in a reply or in your reblog, the number of the prize you want to be entered to win. 

Prize 1: Mothman’s reward - This prize is a copy of the book Mothman: The Facts Behind the Legend, and a copy of the film The Mothman Prophecies. 

Prize 2: Lake Monster’s reward - A Kraken/lake monster tote bag and a copy of the book People Are Seeing Something.

Prize 3: Bigfoot’s reward - This has a copy of the book Legend Tripping (on more than just Bigfoot), a copy of the film Letters From the Big Man, and a Sasquatch field guide. 

Rules:

You must be following this blog. This is a giveaway for my followers, to thank them.

You must be okay with giving me your address for items to be shipped to you. 

I will ship internationally. 

No giveaway blogs.

Multiple reblogs do count as separate entries. Just please don’t spam your followers!

I’ll be using a random number generator to get the winners. (Random.org)

The winners will be chosen on July 1st, 2018.

The winners will have 24 hours to reply before I pick a new number.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! There’s probably something I’ve forgotten to mention. 

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Prize 2!! This is awesome!

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[weirdlandtv]

A 19th-century Batgirl. From La mode illustrée, Journal de la famille (1887).

[cowboysuggest]

spiders. IN the tub, spiders in the tub. Come on now, SPI DERS IN THE TUB! SPIDERS IN THE TUB!

[animatedamerican]

I can only assume this is meant to be chanted to the rhythm of “uptown funk you up, uptown funk you up” but I cannot begin to speculate as to why

[patrickat]

Stop! Wait a minute.

Why my tub got these spiders in it?