I Have Never Been Wise

He/him 36.The nerdy alternate to Nienda-Rion All things Cosmere, Wot, Rote, anime, friends at the table, midnight burger and whatever else my hyper fixates on.

[lazylittledragon]

domestic caitvi to recover from the post-con depression (with bonus timebomb obv)

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[fairyinthetrees]

finishing up the last book of a series is not for the weak 😭😭😭

[exactlyasitwas-blog]

Painting my way through RotE summer, here's a more pleasant scene from Royal Assassin of Fitz & Nighteyes playing.

Gouache, 10x7"

I'm overcoming my fear of documenting the ugly stages, so read more if you want to see some progress pics.

First thing's first, here was my reference picture, which I lack credit for, but I had to share because look at that goofy goober.

Started with a pencil sketch for this one, since I wanted to make sure Nighteyes fit in the frame.

Getting the base in place. A tip I learned is to go warm when painting your first layer for living things. It gives them a lifelike glow.

More details, hitting peak ugly phase here.

I try to use a very limited palatte to keep things unified. This one was painted with Pyrrol Red (Daniel Smith), Hansa Yellow Medium (Daniel Smith), Indigo (Holbein Irodori) and Permanent White.

Piece is finally coming together, more fine brush details and gave it a bit of a background

Added a warm yellow glow, some darker shadows, and the final details.

[myspace]

Six flags commercial from 2004 you most likely forgot about.

[nonenosome2]

Nobody who has seen this has ever forgotten about it.

[poketcg-art]

Chikorita -- kamonabe

[clementine-kesh]

jack dequidt really is so good at giving their characters fascinating psychological problems

[forest-woman]

🌾🐾🍄‍🟫🌸mushrooms are so magical🍄🍃🌾

[transfemmbeatrice]

i think part of why counterweight works is that rigour isn’t the source of all ills. rigour is capitalism but it isn’t just capitalism it’s also exploitation of labor in general, and it isn’t the origin of capitalism or the only reason it exists—society is plenty shitty and exploitative before it wakes up, and has been since before it was made. the sign and signifier stand side by side. and it also understands that killing the monster is only the beginning. i feel like a lot of the-monster-is-capitalism make that the only source of those problems when it’s so much more insidious than that.

[windrunner-rion]

Finished reading the Arc of the Scythe series

Lots of feelings about it

[goth-queen]

[rowanraven08]

The only reason Caspar was written to not meet the physical versions of Effie and Zebulon is because they would trigger a sexuality crisis. At least with Ted he was able to convince himself his love of tormenting the man was born purely of contempt. Click post

[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.

[moringmark]

[mayonezli]

butterflies 🦋

[scratch-meowt]

my hottest take

[keeper-of-the-flames]

Counter point, those machines can make me a peach sprite.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

guys did you know the tech in that nefangled machine revolutionized preemie healthcare

[maimonideznuts]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

yeah the guy who invented them made incredibly precise infusion pumps (as opposed to gravity fed ivs) which not only meant they could give medications to teeny tiny babies safely, it's also used for insulin pumps and portable dialysis machines. the key element is that it's a peristaltic pump so the liquid stays in sterile tubing for safety

(unholy drink cloaca uses it to dispense precise amounts of flavored sugar syrup)

[hedgebotherer]

Then how the haters loved him,

As they shouted out with glee,

"Unholy Drink Cloaca

You'll go down in history!"

[dduane]

The Star Trek title card generator is over here:

Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

The sitemaker (Josh Mayfield at https://bsky.app/profile/bean525.bsky.social) has asked for people to come in and kick its tires so he can work out any bugs they turn up. So do give him a hand, if you feel inclined. :)

(also, deeply amused by this one...)