[felinefractious]

NO*Loza’s Lovely Sorpresa [Pedigree]

🐱 Norwegian Forest Cat

📸 Sofia Leonsen [NO*Loza’s]

🎨 Blue Tortoiseshell with White

[hugsohugs]

compilation of some of my favorite tags on this post

[kittybroker]

saddest most miserable little creature only 4 whole cents!

[whumpawaydarling]

characters that are permanently changed by violence they enact ^_^ characters that love so intensely that they rip the world and themselves apart just to save it ^_^ characters that fear they have turned themselves into an unlovable monster out of fear and are treated with kindness anyway ^_^ characters who have only known destruction trying to be kind and having no frame of reference for the concept other than "i will literally slay all of your enemies if it means you stay safe" and being deadly serious ^_^

[metamelonisle]

the kirby franchise is really funny conceptually. it's a bunch of video games about a little pink blob that acts like usagi tsukino from sailor moon and sometimes things just kind of happen

[metamelonisle]

fun kirby details out of context:

every friend he's ever had barring maybe like 4 have tried to kill him at least once

eats raw tomatoes like they are apples

once got his cake stolen and when he tried to get it back every single person he knew inexplicably tried to beat the shit out of him over it

is implied to be the living manifestation of love

bad at singing. really really bad at singing

has worked food service during a lunch rush

ran over a deer with an 18-wheeler once

went out of his way to find and kill god specifically so that the next time it incarnated it would be able to enjoy afternoon naps

frequently causes his own problems to a very amusing extent

is like 12ish

taught a baby bird how to fly once

is the world's unluckiest fisherman

might be a cosmic keystone of slapstick comedy

can clone himself at will and uses this purely to make backup dancers for the victory dance he does at the end of stages

slept so soundly he didn't notice his house getting carried into the sky by a giant beanstalk that grew next to it

there is a cloud that really hates him but because he is not particularly important or threatening kirby does not take him seriously

has been forced to kill people twice and those two people never came back ever again

one of his best games happens because he fell down a hole once

one of his best games happens because he ate a tomato made of yarn once

his strongest ability is not the giant sword, or the magic wand, or even the hammer. it is (of all things) pro-wrestling grappling skills

people play with him like he is a ball sometimes (he does not mind)

[devpalmer]

military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps

enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it

[devpalmer]

whale fall side of tumblr you understand me

[queen-of-crows]

Not trying to victim blame or anything but you’d think with all the times necromancers have tried/succeeded in raising undead armies the people of Tamriel would’ve stopped burying their dead fully armed and equipped for battle.

Like, I know your great grandpa’s sword was A Part Of Him and all but maybe you could bury SuperDeathblade somewhere not right next to SuperDeathbladeMan. Just in case.

[karhs]

oh, what, so he can get his ass kicked when he inevitably gets raised from the dead?? you want to make great grandpa into a loser? a chump?? if his corpse is going to be puppeteered into battle by a sick and twisted sorcerer then by the nine he is going to do it well

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

For the barreleye fish, life is all about looking up! These fish are famous for their unique, transparent heads and inset, bright green eyes, which are typically fixed up toward the surface. Researchers believe that the eyes' tubular shape acts like a telescope, focusing on far-off objects, and the green hue helps them to filter out sunlight and spot the bioluminescent glow of passing prey. But once it spots a potential meal, the barreleye can actually rotate its eyes forward to stay fixed on target long enough to snatch it!

(Image: A Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) by 2004 MBARI)

[upsidedownsmore]

so i made a porcelain spine

and here it is hanging in the hallway for critique last week

wip pics and project notes below!

The goal of this piece was to invoke Russian Gzhel-like patterns on porcelain vertebrae (porcelain was the best option in lieu of white earthenware) with electric blue underglaze. To fulfill the 'process' requirement of this process sculpture assignment, I used sodium silicate to induce surface cracking while they were still leather-hard.

First three vertebrae constructed:

The shapes are of course not exactly anatomically correct, mostly due to time constraints but also due to lower initial expectations for the project. If I were able to change anything about this project, it would be the accuracy of these forms. But then again, abstracted roughness seems to be a running theme with all of my school work.

Crack-inducing sodium silicate added alongside electric blue underglaze Gzhel-like patterns:

The underglaze patterns were similarly roughly applied, forming a kind of abstracted impression of Gzhel without being nearly as detailed or meticulous. It's this abstraction of heritage that I've focused on for my capstone, which you'll see more of in the coming week or so.

Glaze fired and set up in preparation for weaving in the yarn:

Funny enough this was my first time doing pretty much anything with yarn, first time braiding anything since maybe when I was a kid lol. Very pleasantly surprised that it worked out as well as it did!

Though the assignment was to make a sculpture with a process as the central focus, I instead wanted to mainly focus on this spine and Gzhel imagery. At the time, there was about a week or two before I had to accompany my dad for his fairly intense back surgery across the country. To say it was on my mind would be a understatement, and really the whole month of March was filled with intense anxiety around this surgery. Luckily, the operation went well and there were no trip complications, and he seems to be recovering as well as expected so far. That anxiety has since mostly died down, but this random ceramics assignment still holds a lot of significance for me. Between my dad and me I feel like I've had to have back-related issues in my mind for my entire life, and getting to express some of that anxiety in a fragile set of porcelain suspended against gravity has been good.

[lilyblisslys]

if I ever tell you “lmk what you think if you read/play/watch it!” I am firmly inviting you to send me a play by play minute by minute cataloguing of your thoughts about The Thing

[crimsonender]

The problem isn't the over designed twinks or the silly horse girls or the goofy cookies it's the gambling. You guys know it's the gambling right? I need to you all to know the problem with gatcha games is that they're just normalizing gambling addictions to younger generations.

[crimsonender]

yes! this!!! the big grift of gacha games is that they've convinced people they aren't gambling or contributing to the machine of gambling! its a free world and we all have our vices I am not going to blow you up for playing poker at a casino or smashing your yuri cookies together but you absolutely need to treat both the same way

[larval-tear]

dinosaurs are like the coolest thing possible for a child to learn about. it’s like hey i know you were just borned but giant monsters are real and they fought each other in wars for 100000000000 years and then blew up when the sky exploded.

[thyrse]

my tiny pitcher plants: wow this rain sure is good lately

me, hovering over them with a bottle of orchid fertilizer: grow faster god damnit i need you to open a pitcher so i can shove a pipette full of seaweed goo into it

'makes 300 litres' yeah im not doing that when my bloody mary is turning into a sprawling mass being continuously fed more undiluted seaweed extract

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Crassula deceptor

South Africa, 2025

[romanceyourdemons]

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

[romanceyourdemons]

here she is!

[ID: a sculpture of a chinese cabbage carved from a piece of two-tone white-and-green jadeite, resting on an intricate wooden stand /end ID]

[stoned-ratpack]

I wonder if Neil’s owner/s know about how we celebrate the date of that photo

Neil himself is long gone from this world, and yet every April 13th this group of internet strangers come together to celebrate him and his act of banging out the tunes. Like an entire holiday, all for this little guy

Cause I think it’s pretty beautiful if you wanna get all sentimental and sappy

[plants-and-concrete]

good news :)

A Brief And Fruitful Quest To Find Neil, Who Banged Out The Tunes | Defector

The story goes something like this: On Thursday, April 13, 2006, Neil sat down at his piano, and played some tunes. The only piece of surviv

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Gaze into the eyes of this extremely thick rainbow trout

[e-kidd-online]

@fullfrontalfish

[fullfrontalfish]

He's making me so hungry...

[clover-seeds]

time to disassemble the hoya shelf for moving

[gardenvarietygay]

Very large. I think it may be a creature.

[sickbugdude]

a wasp impostor!!! 😲 (spotted wood fly)