Operation DINNER OUT is a go.

I'm an Actual Adult (30s) living life as it comes. I still love road trips, good books, flying space cities, and anything involving either princesses or giant robots.

[ramalamacreatures]

Have you ever made a coelacanth? Your squids and cuttlefish are super cute. Sea hares and anemones would be fun to see too.

Thank you so much! Yes, I made a Coelacanth not too long ago. Here it is! I think a sea hare will be next soon, and maybe anemones too (⊙‿⊙✿)

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1912

Callot Soeurs

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

[ramalamacreatures]

Voilà! Opossum family sculpture before and after paint, one of my favorite little pieces, hope you like it tooooo (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

[foldingfittedsheets]

May I present: Leda and the Swan Princess! It's based on this post about a swan princess who refuses to go quietly in obscurity when cursed. (If you liked this one you will probably also like my other comics which you can find on my pinned post).

If you enjoyed and want to support a queer art student, you can tip me over on my Ko-fi! Tips help me out dramatically while I'm still in school!

Find this and my other comics on Tapas, Once Upon a Meet Cute!

[ltwilliammowett]

Bark Europa- Rounding Cape Horn

[beadcrafts]

A 4,500-year-old Egyptian dress was painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza, Egypt. by Ok-Egg835

[biologicalstepfather]

If you know who Emmett Till is please reblog.

I’m trying to prove a point to my dad.

[capitulism]

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

[exmellivorinae]

June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.

[butch-reidentified]

I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.

[butch-reidentified]

With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this

[spinningprincess]

ten fucking years.

[ramalamacreatures]

Handmade Polymer Clay Coelacanth Fish figurine painted with acrylics.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[palaeoplushies]

Arapaima gigas plushies! Now in LARGE (90cm/35inch). I would, eventually, like to do a 3m long one but that's gonna be a project for another day. I also have a few smaller beanie ones up for grabs too!

Find 'em here: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/shop

[enchantedbook]

"Offering" by Ulla Thynell

[spacepearl]

Ulla Thynell is also on tumblr! https://ullathynell.tumblr.com/

[bunnypets]

Garden cake by cantstopcakes

[mismedleym]

the past lives in you

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The world is oftentimes such an ugly place, but sometimes it can be so beautiful.

Like, when two choirs, one from Croatia and the other from Zimbabwe, met on the opposite sides of a Lisbon subway station and both sang to each other.

I unfortunately do not know what the Zimbabwe children choir sang to them (although it was so beautiful), but the Croatian klapa Kastav sang 'Kuća puna naroda' (a house full of people).

And let my reward be a house full of people, my life, give me a voice, so I can embrace you with songs.

Video source: Irena Grdinić

[not-a-telescope]

The song the Zimbabwean choir sang is called Indodana!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Thank you so much!!! <3 <3 <3

[justinoaksford]

It’s finally, finally here *___* After months of work, Here’s my first comic ever, “Ozymandias”, based on the poem by Percy Shelley. If you want to support me, you can buy a hi-res PDF of the comic, along with some sketches, a very small 1 page tutorial, and the full-res PSD on gumroad for 2 dollars here:

Purchase Comic & PSD Thank you to everyone <3