orange flavour

?? threatening citrus. art blog at dirigibird

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the worst thing about those fancy pears is that you think “there’s no way a pear could be worth that much” but if you actually make the mistake of tasting one you will be forced to confront the fact that what you thought was pleasure is but a shadow of a shadow and there is a world out there more real than real that your senses have been waiting for, where the colors are richer and the water is wetter and sleep is refreshing. and you’re not invited.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

if you are ever offered a bite of one of these do not take it because you will live the rest of your life unsatisfied by sensory pleasures

[faun-grove]

he's so weak and helpless :(

[nagumoan]

RESIDENT EVIL: Code Veronica REMAKE - Teaser!

[uss-emberprise]

‘I shouldn’t have eaten that last pilot’ GUILLERMO 😭😭

[songsomi]

Don't move, Claire Redfield.

[frontmansdefender]

RIP to the legend

[silvermoon424]

This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.

[psykocharm]

would you guys like to see a real illustration from an actual published scientific paper? of course you would

link to the paper

[zordonmlw7]

Hey op kinda buried the lead. This isn't just some illustration. ITS THE ABSTRACT.

[stellanix]

my mushoomb,, :D

[chemkitt]

one musruum..

[meyerlansky]

just. please know. that giffing scenes like that is a fucking nightmare labor of love.

to wit:

bottom's the raw capture, middle's just flat curve correction to make the footage visible, top is the final coloring with /counts seven adjustment layers to add back in Literally Anything But Yellow

every giffer i know does it out of love for the game, but for the record it's not... easy. it's not just slapping the footage in a cap grabber and posting whatever it spits out. "professional" lighting and color grading has only gotten waaay murkier and flatter in the fifteen years i've been giffing on here, so uh. don't repost gifs, please!

[infiniteeight8]

I thought the bottom was a black bar. I didn't even realize that was footage.

Everyone say thank you to your neighbourhood GIF maker! Giffers are so important to the fannish ecosystem, but to so many people the amount of work involved invisible.

[thoodleoo]

really love this ancient letter from a kid named theon to his dad (p. ox. 1 119) because it's so ridiculously salty and rude ("WOW dad it was SO COOL of you NOT to take me to alexandria with you"), incredibly demanding ("bring me with you or i'm going to stop eating and drinking and i'll never speak to you again") and then ends with the appropriately polite typical close to a letter ("i pray that you are in good health"). truly exactly what i would expect from a moody child.

[dragonaeve]

Chinese textile terms

Putting my hanfu/textile cheat sheet here so more people can reference it. Disclaimer my Chinese is mid. I made this so I could browse Taobao better. Will probably update this as I learn more.

Fabric terms

- fabric: 面料 miàn liào, 布料 bù liào

- material: 材质 cáizhì

- fiber: 纤维 xiānwéi

- blended: 混紡 hùnfǎng

- outer materials: 外料 wai liào

- auxiliary materials: 辅料 fǔliào

- jacquard: 提花 tí huā

- brocade/damask: 锦缎 jǐn duàn

- floral satin/brocade: 花缎 huā duàn

- satin: 缎面 duàn miàn

- gauze: 纱 shā

- embroidered: 绣花 xiù huā

- embroidery: 刺绣 cìxiù

Fiber contents

- polyester: 涤纶 dí lún, 聚酯 jù zhǐ

- acetate: 醋酸 cùsuān

- viscose: 粘胶(纤维) zhān jiāo xiānwéi, 粘纤 zhān xiān

- rayon (artificial silk): 人丝 rén sī

- rayon (artificial cotton): 人棉 rén mián

- tencel: 天丝 tiān sī

- lyocell fiber: 莱赛尔 lái sài ěr

- tencel-linen: 天丝麻 tiān sī má

- linen: 亚麻 yà má

- cotton-linen: 棉麻 mián má

- cotton: 棉 mián

- ramie: 苎麻 zhù má

- wool: 羊毛 yáng máo

- real silk: 真丝 zhēn sī

- silkworm silk: 蚕丝 cán sī

- fragrant cloud gauze/gambiered Guangdong silk: 香云纱 xiāng yún shā

Clothing terms

Hanfu: 汉服 hànfú

Short: 短 duǎn

Unlined shirt: 衫 shān

Long robe: 袍 páo

Yuanlingpao: 圆领袍 yuán lǐng páo

Round collar: 圆领 yuán lǐng

Vertical collar: 竖领 shù lǐng

Stand-up collar: 立领 lì lǐng

Parallel collar: 对襟 duì jīn

Half sleeve: 半袖 bàn xiù

Pipa sleeve: 琵琶袖 pípá xiù

Cross-collar long gown: 交領長衫 Jiāo lǐng chángshān

Straight robe: 直裰 zhíduō

Pleated skirt: 百迭裙 bǎi dié qún

Beizi (outer garment): 褙子 bèi zǐ

Baofu (bellyband): 抱腹 bàofù

Raccoon sleeves: 貉袖 háo xiù

Ming dynasty/style: 明制 Míng zhì

Song dynasty/style: 宋制

Motifs

- bamboo leaf: 竹叶 zhú yè

- bird: 鸟

- butterfly: 蝴蝶 hú dié

- cat: 猫

- cloud: 云

- crane:

- dragon: 龙

- feather: 羽毛

- fish: 鱼

- fishscale: 鱼鳞

- heron:

- jellyfish: 水母

- kingfisher: 翠鸢 cuì yuān

- phoenix:

Colors

- ombre: 渐变

- white: 白色

- grey: 灰色

- black: 黑色

- brown: 棕色

- red: 红色

- orange: 橘色

- yellow: 黄色

- green: 绿色

- cyan: 青色

- navy: 藏青色

- blue: 蓝色

- violet: 紫色

[fairycosmos]

big life tips dont be neurodivergent dont be poor dont get in any sort of situation and dont let yourself need or crave

[fairycosmos]

not getting good reports back on your progress with this guys

[bevsi]

silliest girl award

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[butchfagminotaur]

the sims will never not be one of the funniest games on the planet

[daughter-of-muse-and-myth]

L’Odissea (1968)

[venndaai]

The great part about Breq and her gun is how vitally central the gun was in her plan. When you think about how she spent 19 years on a plan that apparently started with “join a religious order and work my way up until I get an opportunity to get filthy rich risking my life in Space Political Deathball” and ended with “find gun that may or may not even exist and use it to shoot one clone of the immortal thousand bodied emperor” it really highlights how she truly was insane in a spaceship way. Like, there HAD to have been easier ways of taking out a single Anaander, if she was determined to spend the rest of her life on that. Going after the lost magic mythical gun was not the most logical approach.

[barren-and-trivial-words]

I think part of the issue was that for most of its existence, Justice of Toren really only ever had to be afraid of one (1) weapon and so when it tried to think of the best weapon to kill Anaander Mianaai it naturally went for the one it had been afraid of.

[venndaai]

I agree! but fascinating that this doesn’t come through in the narrative, part of how Breq generally elides any and all of her feelings around events at Garsedd

and also either character-defining or indicative of the “AI type of insanity” mentioned in canon that she comes up with that goal and then so single-mindedly dedicates herself to it despite the impracticality

[whetstonefires]

i always felt like having an epic goal that would take as long as possible was kind of the point. drawing the thing out, you know?

[beatrice-otter]

All of this is true, but at the same time, I think you’re overstating things a bit.

For one thing, yes, it takes her twenty years to get the money and then the gun. But I don’t know that Breq is used to considering things on a human timescale. Twenty years is nothing to an AI, that’s an eyeblink. Ships and stations are effectively immortal, unless they are killed in a battle or something. How many thousands of years old is Justice of Toren by that point? And it may be reduced to one ancillary, but that ancillary isn’t old; it’s got time. What else is JoT/Breq going to do with the ancillary’s life? She’s not expecting to survive, after all. She might as well put in the time to make it really epic.

She’s got the time. A few years here, a few years there, it’ll add up, but she’ll still be capable of carrying things out. There’s no rush. She can be patient, implacable. It’s a very AI/ship perspective, but I wouldn’t call it crazy or insane.

The other thing is, you have to consider her goals. Breq doesn't just want to kill an Anaander, she wants to kill her while all of Anaander is watching, so the divide between the two Anaanders can’t be concealed. (And thus, what Anaander--both of them--did to her can’t be concealed.)

There are many easy ways to kill an Anaander. There are a lot of Anaanders walking around, and if you pick an older one there won’t even be any bodyguards, we saw that on Shis’urna. Walk up, snap its neck, boom, done. Probably happens all the time.

Except that won’t get the attention Breq wants. It will be absolutely useless. She’ll just be “random person snaps, gets re-educated.” It won’t get her Anaander’s attention.

If she wants to get the attention of multiple Anaanders, so that they’re both paying attention and it can’t be hushed up, it pretty much has to be on a palace station in a temple in a formal audience. And if you want to kill an Anaander there, that is much harder. The station will see everything, it will see any weapon you bring on station, so you can’t use a weapon. And there are guards at the beck and call. Even an ancillary might not be able to kill an Anaander in the middle of a Palace temple without a weapon, and you can’t get a weapon.

Unless you get a weapon that station can’t see.

Also, while Breq is affected by Garsedd, we know there is someone who is far more affected by Garsedd, and that is Anaander Mianaai. All the trouble, all the conflict, all the internal fighting that is becoming a civil war, it all starts there. Anaander became a house divided against herself because of what she did at Garsedd. If you want to absolutely rivet the attention of all Anaander segments out there, pull out the missing Garseddai gun.

And with that gun, you might even be able to kill multiple Anaanders before they take you down, even in the middle of a palace temple.

Believing she’ll be able to find the weapon that all the Radch agents couldn’t ... that was hubris. But she was right that it would be the most effective way to achieve her goals, if she could manage it. And she had the twenty years to spare. And if it didn’t work out, she could always go for a simpler way of killing an Anaander. So why not?

[parkayquarts]

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

[parkayquarts]

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

[theheroheart]

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.

[team-thickness12]

This also fixes screen sharing to other screens. It has been GODSEND

[lucarleigho]

type this in the toolbar to find this setting in firefox: about:preferences#searchResults

[mctreeleth]

ol' Zachary Zoetrope is back in business!