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pukicho

You smell of oats

dotterelly

And honey?

pukicho

Just oats

homunculus-argument

You dig a big enough hole that water can stay in, it becomes a pond. And once it's been a pond for long enough, fish somehow appear. Even though it's not connected to any other water - hell, consider all the lakes that aren't connected to any other water. How the fuck are there fish? Where do they come from?

One day, something in space is going to look at humans the same way. You go to a new galaxy and there's freaking humans in there, like they just spontaneously manifest on random planets that have the ability to sustain them. All you need is an atmosphere with enough oxygen, some form of water, and that's pretty much all you need before they seem to just pop out of the ground and start terraforming it.

The mystery of the lake fish has been solved, by the way. It's waterfowl. Much like the birds that eat seeds and spread them around, waterfowl consume roe from the water, and while the number of fertilised fish eggs that pass through the digestive system of a duck or wild goose alive and unharmed may be small, it's not zero. A goose will shit in the lake water, and through comes the roe. It happens just often enough that lakes and ponds become - and remain - populated with fish.

Humans don't pop up on unknown planets and and unreachable galaxies on purpose. They couldn't get in there any more than they could get out of there, they have no choice but to claim the most viable-looking planet they can reach and start terraforming it. But how did they even get there?

You see, every once in a while an unfortunate human spaceship gets swallowed by a cosmic duck

mightymo63

Some fish are also just able to straight up walk on land

homunculus-argument

"They just walked there" is now my favourite theory of "how are lakes populated with fish".

somestorythoughts

Is "cosmic duck" what we're calling wormholes now?

calllynx

The shape of love

calllynx

This is on paper btw

antiwaradvocates

November 7th marks the anniversary of the october revolution which resulted in the hardest painting ever made

mercurialbadger

“Свершилось!”/“Finally!”, Sergey Lukin

“[They]Extinguish the human with work… why? Stealing the life itself from the human - I ask again, Why?! Our owner - I lost my life at Nefedov’s factory - our owner gifted one songstress a golden hygiene set, even a gold champer pot! In this chamber pot is my force, my life itself. This is for what it was needed - a person killed me with work to satiate his lover with my blood - he bought a golden chamber potty with my blood!”

- “Mother”, Maxim Gorky, 1906

chatteringfox

The first painting is "Зимний взят!" / "Winter Palace Taken!" by Vladimir Serov.

whitepeopletwitter

samshine-and-lollipops-deactiva

Wait, it got better.

libertineangel

He does this a lot, to my deep surprise in undergrad:

For reference, the reason nobody likes this book and you can press tofu with it is that it’s about 1600 pages long.

horizon-penblade

It’s also, by all accounts, the origin of Cousin Throckmorton

supreme-leader-stoat

kabaks

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

l2g-deactivated20240513

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

doomedvoyages

phantom-tail

If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

levourdalak

“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

dogposts

dog literally saying “woof” (via)

niyarest

“don’t woof”

“… woof 🙄”

ankle-beez

seeing people be like "why did sinners get a vfx nomination" bro there were TWO michael b jordans on that screen!!

seracadash

That's not on vfx michael b jordan can just do that

mumblingsage

This was a kind of sweet dashboard coincidence.

sm-baby

I LOVE MY FRIENDS SO MUCH I'M JUST STUPID AND FORGET THAT FEELINGS NEED TO BE EXPRESSED IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE FELT

Happy 19 years to Neil, banging out the tunes

catmask

i remember when i talked about sharing free resources for art/learning and someone said 'dont be a communist' in response to it. ?????????????? why. are you scared

catmask

yeah its almost like if we realized we could just share things once our needs are met and capital gain wasnt treated like this thing to grow exponentially forever we would live in a better world and the current system would be threatened. are you scared. boo

catmask

lets grow vegetables together next and try that okay

feather-bone

I've been in "chrysalis mode" working on various projects and i haven't had much to share recently - so lets look back at some older works!

I started working on moving toward freelancing in 2020 and since then I've made a lot of drawings I'm proud of. Here are some faves! Many are available as prints in my shop. :-)