Tumble

I run several other tumblrs but you might get messages, likes or follows from me here which might seem random, but that's often the only way I can contact you. This is my main tumblr, it's mostly random tumblr stuff and stuff I find on the internet. It has no theme.

[nymeria31f]

Zetian (and all of us probably) during that part in Iron Widow

[laundryverse]

qin fucking zheng waking up two hundred years from his time, barely surviving a deadly disease:

wu zetian, unhinged bitch: you're bottoming for me NOW

[tanukisurpreso]

So I read Iron Widow

[laundryverse]

having a ball up in this b tch 🤪

[lamaery]

soooo, on a vacation trip a week ago, I stumbled over @xiranjayzhao's Iron Widow in a book shop in Copenhagen and devoured it last weekend. It was quite the fun read. (And I am not that inclined to mechs 😄 but the rage filled female power fantasy and the setting felt rather refreshing to me) And after finishing the book I had to get at least some art out of my system. As usual it didn't end up what I really intended it to be in my head initially, but also, as usual it has to suffice for now or I'll never post it.

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

[scienceoftheidiot]

They existed *before beetles*

[somethingaboutsomethingelse]

[spacedandelions]

Why is this sad? Why am I sad?

[ignescent]

https://xkcd.com/1259/

Bee Orchid

[sepdet]

This is how I feel about Joshua Trees. They and avocado trees produce fruit meant to be eaten and dispersed by giant ground sloths. Without them, the Joshua Trees' range has shrunk by 90%.

(my own photos)

Not only they, but the entire Mojave ecosystem is still struggling to adapt since the loss of ground sloth dung. their chief fertilizer.

Many, many trees and plants in the Americas have widely-spaced, extremely long thorns that do nothing to discourage deer eating their leaves, but would've penetrated the fur of ground sloths and mammoths. Likewise, if you've observed a tree that drops baseball or softball-sized fruit which lies on the ground and rots, like Osage Oranges, which were great for playing catch at my school, chances are they were ground sloth or mammoth chow.

You can read about various orphaned plants and trees missing their megafauna in this poignant post:

The Trees That Miss The Mammoths - American Forests

Trees that once depended on animals like the wooly mammoth for survival have managed to adapt and survive in the modern world.



[modernvintage]

First quote from the linked article. Found it poetic.

[ready-to-fight-deactivated20161]

[ready-to-fight-deactivated20161]

Death to Fascism 

[italo-disco-calvino]

“If fascism could be defeated in debate, I assure you that it would never have happened, neither in Germany, nor in Italy, nor anywhere else.” – Frank Frison, Holocaust survivor

[antifainternational]

Sound advice from one of the members of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion - Canadian antifa volunteers that fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War. 

[ansonmountdaily]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast behind the scenes as their episode 1x08 “The Elysian Kingdom” storybook counterparts

Christopher Pike as Sir Amand Rauth, the King’s Chamberlain Spock as Pollux the Dark Wizard Christine Chapel as Lady Audrey Nyota Uhura as Queen Neve Erica Ortegas as Sir Adya the Knight Jenna Mitchell as The Crimson Guard Una Chin-Riley (“Number One”) as Z'ymira the Huntress Hemmer as Caster the Wizard Joseph M'Benga as King Ridley La'an Noonien-Singh as Princess Thalia (with Runa the Dog)

Source: startrekonpplus Official Instagram

[lizzibennet]

i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

[counterpunches]

#signor bene D I C K

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

15 seconds.

Just take 15 seconds out of your busy lives to see what a squirrel does after a hard day of squirrelling.

[awsomecutecats]

I mean… who could resist…?

[feastuponthis]

[i-have-good-taste]

[thecollectibles]

Art by J Edward Neill

[thefingersofgod]

always here for moody cats.

[curseworm]

‘bodily autonomy for some marginalized groups but not all’ will literally never, ever work. the right to abortion and the right to medical transition and the right to engage in gay sex and the right to take birth control are inextricably linked by the core right of bodily autonomy. shooting one kills them all. support others’ bodily autonomy or yours will be taken too

[robespierreofficiel]

the juxtaposition of these two headlines today

[twitblr]

A very loud dog whistle (x)

[augustdementhe]

“It’s not about raaaaace!”, until success doesn’t look like them. 

[feminismandmedia]

It’s even more apparent because the posts people are commenting on don’t even say something like “the first Black Doctor” or anything. Just.. who is playing the next Doctor.

🙄

[subarktis-deactivated20240322]

can’t find the post that’s already circulating about this now but there really is no medical privacy in star trek whatsoever. imagine if a stranger walked into your doctor’s appointment and asked for your medical details, your doctor obliged without question, and then the stranger demanded you be killed. bonkers

[subarktis-deactivated20240322]

the rest of this scene is hilarious btw