Welcome to the Late Cretaceous!

Tyto - They/her - 21 ||| I don't post my art in chronological order, because time isn't real! <3

[tytonykus]

🌿Welcome to the Late Cretaceous!🌿

Hi, I'm Tyto! I'm a full-time artist, and hobbyist writer, that enjoys all things paleo-related! I'm a huge dino nerd, and nerd about many other things, and I hope to share all my nerd-y stuff with you guys!

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[tytonykus]

mysticsuitblaze is a scammer

Yeahhh I did the research this morning, so sorry about that ! Thank you and the user that commented :'D The post has been removed, and I will make sure to double check next time <3

[circlejourney]

I don't know which artist needs to hear this, but if you don't like your lineart...if you find that the lineart stage does not add any value to your artwork...then you do not need to do lineart. your artwork is still complete if you go straight from sketch to colours. as long as you think it's complete.

[circlejourney]

The same goes for any stage of art making. does shading not bring joy or improve the piece in your eyes? then you do not need to shade! some art styles genuinely look better without shading!

[tytonykus]

ft. a tiny chibi of my bestie <3

[fallahifag-deactivated20240722]

goodnight everyone (:

do your daily click

spreadsheet of families in Gaza you can help today

donate to:

Buy an e-sim

Help diabetics in Gaza

The PCRF

Anera

UNRWA

Taawon

Help Gaza Children

Sudan Tarada Initiative

Help a Sudanese family escape conflict

Darfur Women Action

Ramadan for Sudan

Period products in Sudan

Sudan Emergency Appeal

[fairuzfan]

Here's a website where Palestine GoFundMes are vetted and shared that you can send out to people. The url is gazafunds.com

Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

[tytonykus]

here's some art

[sayruq]

Don't forget to buy eSims for Gazans as there's constant network and internet blackouts

[nikoco11]

there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.

a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.

if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.

within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.

here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all

Donate to Escaping Gaza To Pursue My Dream In Medicine, organized by Darina Bishop

If you would like to confirm the validity of this campaign, you can message… Darina Bishop needs your support for Escaping Gaza To Pursue My

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

$41,551 AUD raised of $65,000 goal raised as of May 15. please donate what you can and share

[goobersplat]

Mini Halloween Ghosts (Set of 3) B3 Customs made using LEGO parts

[tytonykus]

[tytonykus]

I'm a slow ass artist y'all

I used to be like "whoa, how do people need weeks/months to do a commission" that's because they want to have lives bro IT'S INSANE

anyways reminder to be patient and loving to your local artist, but also check-in every-so-often if you're worried. It never hurts to just be kind!

[alaaalkhateeb]

Where should my mom go😭💔?

Our house in Gaza was bombed, we escaped to #Rafah, and now Rafah is being evacuated, and my mother lives on the sand without shelter, not even a tent 😭😭

As you can see, her hand injury is getting worse due to the lack of food and medicine, causing her to have spasms in her extremities 💔💔

Please, my mother is in danger, help her get out to a safe area before it is too late🙏

Please share and donate, believe me every single dollar will make a difference and save my family life😔🙏

Donate to Help my mum to travel to a safe place, organized by Alaa Al khateeb

welcome everybody I am Alaa from Gaza I created this link in order to sav… Alaa Al khateeb needs your support for Help my mum to trav

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[malcriada]

this is a vetted fundraiser which as of today (05/10/24) has reached £4,080/ £6,000. if you feel hopeless and helpless because of the situation in Gaza please think of the positive impact your donation could have. you could be saving her mother's life! even a small sum helps.

[likegreyskies]

possibly the most important addition this week on Hozier Liked

[purplepints]

Indentured servitude is opresssion.

Indentured servitude is not chattel slavery.

The Irish were oppressed and have a history of indentured servitude.

The Irish were not bought and sold or held as property generation to generation.

Please stop confusing the two. Thanks.

[fecktrecool-deactivated20220314]

[kuttithevangu]

Someone I know not well enough to voice my opinion on the subject said something like why didn’t God make potatoes a low-calorie food so I am here to say: God made them like that because their nutrition density IS what makes them healthy. By God I mean Andean agricultural technicians. Potato is healthy BECAUSE potato holds calories and vitamins. Do not malign potato

[w1zrad]

For all evolutionary history, life has struggled against calorie deficit… So much energy goes into finding food that there is no time for anything else. Our ancestors selectively bred root vegetables to create the potato, so that we might be the first species whose daily existence doesn’t consist of trying to find the nutrients necessary for survival. One potato can rival the calorie count of many hours of foraging… Eat a potato, and you free up so much time to create and build and connect with your fellow man. Without potato where would you be?? Do not stand on the shoulders of giants and think thyself tall!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I nearly teared up reading “Andean agricultural technicians” bc fuck yes! these were members of Pre-Inca cultures who lived 7 to 10 thousand years ago, and they were scientists! food scientists and researchers and farmers whose names and language we can never know, who lived an inconceivably long time ago (pre-dating ancient civilizations in Egypt, China, India, Greece, and even some parts of Mesopotamia) and we are separated by millennia of time and history, but still for thousands of years the fruits vegetables of their labor and research have continued to nourish countless human lives, how is that not the most earthly form of a true miracle??? anyway yes potatoes are beautiful, salute their creators.

[cricketcat9]

There are approximately 4000 varieties of potato in Peru. I’ve seen an incredible variety of corn and tomatoes, and root vegetables I’ve never seen before, on the local farmer markets. Yet some expats insist on buying only imported, expensive American brands of canned veggies… 🤷🏼‍♀️ Peruvian potatoes 👇🏼

[i-just-like-commenting]

It is long since time for us to start viewing plant domestication as the bioscience that it is. Because while the Andeans were creating potatoes, the ancient Mesoamericans were turning teosinte into corn:

And then there’s bananas, from Papua New Guinea:

These were not small, random changes, this was real concerted effort over years to turn inedible things into highly edible ones. And I’m convinced the main reason we’re reluctant to call them scientific achievements is, well, a racist one.

[coral-skeleton]

And it’s such a shame too, cause this was probably the most impotrant scientific effort in human history, it bought us the time to do everything else we do, to go from just trying to get enough calories every day to everything we do now, it game people the freedom to do other things with their lives, human society would not have existed as it is today without this

We need to appreciate our ancient food scientists

[roisindubh211]

With the caveat that this is obviously only true before The Famine, the nutrient density of potatoes made Irish peasants substantially healthier than those in other European countries whose staple food was bread! Thank you ancient Andean food scientists, for keeping my ancestors alive through a time of oppression and poverty.

[whybeaunicorn]

Once got into an argument with a lawyer from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (which is a truly *wild* place) about why the people who had a lab to synthesise the blight resistant rice got the patent and not the indigenous community who had bred specifically blight resistant rice for generation.

[suturesque]

shared by homohistoric on instagram

[stuckinapril]

Nothing screams you’re racist more than being threatened by the existence of characters of color & dismissively calling it “forced diversity.” It actually pisses me off so bad that brown & black people still have to deal with this in fandom spaces, when I’d argue that even when a character of color is involved they’re usually not as fleshed out as their white counterparts are

[stuckinapril]

An all-white cast is already the default for pretty much every franchise ever, and even if it’s not any character of color I’ve seen is usually a secondary figure that acts as a backdrop for the white protagonist. And withstanding even that I can’t remember the last time I saw an Arab character that wasn’t a caricature of every racist stereotype you could think of. There’s a reason people still gape in shock when u tell them not all Arabs are the exact same person?? That we have hopes and dreams and are diverse?? Insane

[stuckinapril]

Don’t get me started on brown or black characters being the token best friends of the white main characters in like every franchise ever. You can have the primary storyline revolve around a brown and black character. It’s fine. It will not kill you. People of color are not here to serve as decoration in stories and nothing else.

[anarchist-art]

[anarchistmemedistro]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

1985 MOVE bombing - Wikipedia