reblogs and whining

[violetcomplains]

I don't get people who like fake eyelashes. Everyone I've seen wearing them in real life just looks like they have really bad conjunctivitis.

[herpsandbirds]

Eastern Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor), male, family Agamidae, Maldives

AKA Common Garden Lizard and Bloodsucker

photograph by Kate Newman

[violetcomplains]

I went to the fitting room to try on a shirt in the big uniqlo in Tokyo and the attendant gave me a bag for my head. Like, yeah, i know, but that's a little harsh.

[herpsandbirds]

Long-nosed Horned Frog (Pelobatrachus nasutus), family Megophryidae, Lupa Masa Rainforest Camp, Sabah, Borneo

photograph by James Jolokia

[herpsandbirds]

Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias), family Eurypygidae, order Eurypygiformes, Costa Rica

This bird is the only member of its family.

Its closest living relative is the Kagu of New Caldeonia.

photographs by Rodrigo Cordero Hidalgo

[reefshrk]

salmon friends :)

[violetcomplains]

I was kinda disappointed by Kaiju No. 8's second season. It kinda forgot about a lot of the stuff that made me like it.

Honestly my favorite part was just seeing the cleanup crew guys again.

[gretchensinister]

Insensitivity reader to make sure that your characters are ignorant assholes in the ways that make the most sense for the characterization you're trying to achieve

[himitsusentaiblog]

Screencaps from the Legendary episode 4 of Chikyu Sentai Fiveman “Get the Earth Drunk”.

I am so glad I finally got to see this one, it is way more fun than I can express in these few images.

(edited for a typo misidentifying the series… thanks ninjadrive for the correction!)

[maureen2musings]

Frozen sunset

georgeduluth

[gothicbug]

the really bad reverse isekai fanfiction i'm never going to write

[violetcomplains]

Black Tabby Games posted a clear drawing of Quiet from Slay the Princess like an hour ago and I remembered I had this WIP sitting on my ipad for months. I was kinda close on the body shape!

[expressions-of-nature]

June Sunrise in a Young Forest by Andrey

[snapdragonnz]

i just found out about this bird (scale-crested pygmy tyrant) trying to find the most biodiverse countries and i feel tears welling up in my eyes because its so cute

why does it look like that i love him so much he's a little fella

[wild-e-eep]

One of the pixy cup lichens brightening up an old, grey stone wall.

iNaturalist observation 326750374

[violetcomplains]

A friend left some really grungy fingerless gloves at my place and I'm fighting every impulse to not wash them. I won't see her for weeks but it'd be really awkward to return pink and white striped gloves and not the bandaid and grey shade i found them as.

[violetcomplains]

Not to generalize, and I have an admitted really small sample size, but I feel like when men write necromancer protagonists they tend to make their characters not do anything cool, like raising skeletons, because it's EVIL and FORBIDDEN! They'll at most have a necrotic magic missile in spoOOoky green or something. Maybe they fight zombies. They're a good necromancer who often could have been literally any other type of wizard narratively... Then you'll get women writing necromancers and it'll be like 500 skeletons! Someone punches a tooth out and they turn it into a bone spider and spit it in their opponent's face!

I don't know. I just wish dudes would stop lying about the wizards they're writing.

[violetcomplains]

Wait, wait... One of the worst offenders was a woman. My bad.