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kxowledge

Women in Restoration by Isabella De Maddalena

sonshine-arts

"take 3! get in for another family photo!" 🌈

pwlanier

Cicada-shaped hanging basket, Kansai, Japan, circa 1915–1950. Bamboo (madake variety), rattan, wood, and metal.

cipheramnesia

Consider, dragons where at some point in thwir evolutionary process the advantageous trait of dropping their tails got into them, and it just never really went away.

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You have to be careful because the size and potentially multiple century age of dragons means the nerves in their large body parts have grown into superdense clusters, similar to a dinosaur, which allows them to move and react faster than if a nerve signal had to travel to the brain and be part of a conscious decision. It's inaccurate to claim the limbs of a dragon each have their own brain making independent decisions, but the pressure to be able to accomplish complex tasks more expediently does mean dragon's limbs can undertake what seem like very complex mechanical decisions independently.

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The point being that if a dragon is in danger and drops its tail, a hundred something odd writhing monstrosity with enough nerve clusters to form its own thought process is not only a significant distraction, it's an entirely new problem.

cipheramnesia

Consider the dragon not just as a large animal, but a large animal designed to grow what it needs to continously get larger over a period of at least multiple centuries, to an indeterminate end which large depends on what point its cells begin producing so many errors that its body ceases to have the ability to support its mass and it just dies, and that thing which has a spinal cord larger in diameter than a humam brain, but also which can think and move with the same alacrity, clarity, and complexity as a human. Which has the ability to learn and mostly remember continuously during its lifespan, and form muscle memories, and develop autonomous functions that border on complex thought, to the point where most humans don't easily distinguish between the way dragon organs seem to think and the way an actual dragon thinks, and then keep baby dragon tails alive in protein baths, like pets, which eventually get flushed and develop into legends with some truth to them, about giant man-eating dragon tales in the sewers.

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Speculative biology for fantasy worlds should start with the bombadier beetle, and consider how absurd a bug mixing up a boiling hot chemical blast inside its guts really is. Not because the leap from weird bug to giant monster is direct, but because evolution is fucking bananas by the seat of its pants. Yea molecule size and the cost of energy between breaking down the bonds makes a big difference at extreme scales, but consider the giraffe neck and accept the development of life is unconventional. Maybe it doesn't make sense for animal to grow another heart or brain lobe or nuclear power plant inside its body over time, but the entire universe is pretty dumb and the planet earth made fish that hunt flying animals and spiders that need air to live but spend all their time under the water. Stupid awesome shit is everywhere, bees that kill invaders by vibrating til they over heat should be a guiding light.

I'm like this because one time I read a book and almost right out of the gate it had xenobiologists dissecting a Tyrannosaurus sized creature, and they cut open its skull to examine what should have been its brain, but the brain climbed out and immediately began killing everyone in the lab. I was changed as a person forever in that moment. It wasn't even the plot, just a tidbit to emphasize how incomprehensibly violent the alien world was.

thekimonogallery

Furisode and obi. Japan

pagewoman

Young Rabbit

by David Adams

rosieandthemoon

By Heather Roblin, the Daphne and Apollo sterling silver ring set.

fuckyeahkitschy2

krowtesque

some more twin peaks stuff because i’m still thinking about it

prints (1 & 2)

ltwilliammowett

A sailor's sweetheart needlework panel, early 19th century, possibly depicting HMS Rainbow, a British Royal Navy 28 gun frigate, which was launched 1823 , size: 5cm