Ylfdragon's Den

This is now just my personal tumblr. To find my Jewelry and shameless self promotion, follow me over at Clockork Menagerie. To see my artwork, check out Ylf's Sketchbook

[slimetony]

[sarahshahipls]

I’m not sure what kind of luck the $115 frozen pizza badger is supposed to bring but I’m not taking any chances

[jayce]

[viralthings]

The more you look at this picture, the more anxious it becomes.

[chandra-nalaar]

this is just a normal waffle house

[kayas-wife]

there is a bloody handprint on the door

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

There is somethung under the counter with the cups

[mrbeefgnaw]

This is “Blue Plate Special” by Jeff Lee Johnson, and it took a reverse Google image search and all of thirty seconds to find that out so I could give the artist the credit he god damn well deserves.

[roachpatrol]

ultimately i think kindness is the most radical thing you can do with your pain and your anger. it’s like, you take everything awful that’s ever been done to you, and you throw it back in the world’s teeth, and you say no, fuck you, i’m not going to take this.  you say this is unacceptable. you say that shit stops with me.

humans are fucking terrible and this awful world we live in will fucking kill you but if you are kind, if you are brave and clever and try really hard, you can defy it. you can impose on this bleak and monstrous structure something beautiful. even if it’s temporary. even if it doesn’t heal anything inside you that’s been hurt.  

i’m gonna sleep and i’m gonna wake up and i swear by everything in this deadly horrible universe i’m gonna make someone happy. 

[roachpatrol]

i’ve seen a number of comments and tags where people feel that they must swallow or repress their anger in order to engage in kindness. that is not at all what i am recommending here. radical kindness is an expression of anger. it is not passive. it is not repressive. it does not require you, in any way, to forgive those that have fucked you up. it does not require you to be quiet. 

it just requires that you be kind. viciously. vengefully. you fight back. you plant flowers. give to charity. play games. pet someone’s dog. scream into the dark. paint and write and dance, tell jokes, sing songs, bake cookies. you have been hurt and you don’t have to deny that hurt. you just have to recognize it in other people, and take their hand, and say: no more. enough. fuck this. no more. 

have a cookie.

i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine. 

[naamahdarling]

i will say this again: we are all going to die. the universe is enormous and almost entirely empty. to be kind to each other is the most incredible act of defiance against the dark that i can imagine.

[ylfdragon]

Fun with marbled bettas

Zigra the day I brought him home:

Two weeks later:

Today:

Shots from the side don’t really do his colors justice because he’s all backlit.  Look at that blue!

His fins got a little tattered a few weeks ago because he became obsessed with his filter intake, but I’ve baffled it better and he’s kinda lost interest.  It’s not as tatted as it looks in some shots, though, because there is still a bit of clear edging to his fins.  It gets a little darker every day.

[jadeseadragon]

Some Self Portraits by Women Artists:

Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1530-1625), Self Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel, 1556

Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660), Self Portrait, ca. 1630

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842), Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, after 1782

Marie-Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761-1818), Self Portrait, c. 1783

Zinaida Serebriakova (Russian, 1884-1967), At the Dressing Table - Self Portrait, 1909

Nasta Rojc (Croatian, 1883-1964), Self Portrait, 1912

Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898-1980), Self Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925

Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1908-1996), Self Portrait with Scorpion, 1938

Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954), Self Portrait, 1945

Yana Movchan (b. in Kiev, Ukraine, 1971), Beautiful Me (Self Portrait), 2014

[sosuperawesome]

Accessories - including the Whale Bag, Shark Backpack and Turtle Purse - by Don Fisher Shop on Etsy

More like this

[anelderberry]

@kirkoutt I thought you would like the whale

[ylfdragon]

Shut up and take my money!

[ylfdragon]

Fish creeping

So I decided, like I some times do, to check on my fish a few hours after lights out to see where they ended up falling asleep.  I found Zoa where I always do, floating in his little terrarium bedroom:

So then I went to check on Zigra.  It took me a minute because there isn’t any one spot where he tends to sleep.  Lately he seems to sleep more by his filter or tucked under his driftwood, though.  Not tonight.

I think my fish is broken, guys.  The little weirdo fell sleep half draped over a leaf, nose pointed straight down. 

[elasticitymudflap]

masterpost of fish names i really like

[hugh--jassmann]

[iguanamouth]

[ylfdragon]

suspiciouspopsicle replied to your post: WHO WANTS TO MEET MY FISH?

*o* gasp! They’re gorgeous! <3

Thank you~  They are my beautiful derpy children. Children would try to murder each other if they ever got the chance.  Well, Ziggy would anyway.  Zoa has only ever shown aggression towards the tweezers that I sometimes use to feed him.

[ylfdragon]

WHO WANTS TO MEET MY FISH?

So I’m not dead.  I just needed to step away from most social media for a bit.  In the meantime I’ve started a new hobby. 

Meet Zoa Muruchi.  He’s a male Cambodian CrownTail betta.  He’s a sweet and gentle soul that I can not convince to flare for me, so this shot is the best I’m gonna be able to get to show off his fins.  I got him shortly after Christmas.  He’s in a 5 gallon portrait aquarium with a bunch of live plants and a nerite snail that I can almost never find.  I know it’s still in there because it poops 20x more than Zoa.

This is where he sleeps.  I’m not being cute, he goes in here every night after his lights go out.

And he’s a shameless beggar.

This is Zigra, he’s a male Halfmoon betta.  He’s considerably more active and aggressive than Zoa.  I got him about 3 weeks ago, and he’s had a pretty dramatic color change since I brought him home.

Day one:

I was worried about that brown splotch on his head, but whatever it was is gone now, along with most of the white in his fins. He was listed as a ‘Butterfly male’ because petco likes to take some artistic license in labeling betta fish.

Ziggy got a better tank than Zoa because my boyfriend is an enabler and this Fluval went on sale. (Some day I might get Zoa a longer aquarium to replace his portrait, but he seems pretty happy for now.)  Unlike his step brother, Ziggy lives alone.  I don’t trust him with a snail, and I don’t trust a snail to not escape through the hole in the fluval’s lid.

The new project is a planted bowl I’m setting up for my mother.  It can only hold about 3 gallons, so for now it’s just plants, but once it’s matured a little she’s going to try to keep a few dwarf fresh water shrimp in it. 

I haven’t quite figured out how to move it yet.  I’m probably going to have to drain it most of the way before I try.  It’s possible I didn’t think that part through.

I’ll return to my usual steampunky shenanigans soon.  Unless the fish eat me.

[poyzn]

Pet the catellite for better reception.

[drgrlfriend]

Sometimes the internet is just so amazing I can’t stand it.

[pankurios-templeovarts]

Works by David Palladini - well known for his Aquarian Tarot and The New Palladini Tarot. Illustrations for books is another field of his art. 

[stopandimaginelove]

IMPORTANT - Save The Day

Do NOT skip this video.  WATCH IT NOW.

[ylfdragon]

I’m pretty sure this was created specifically for tumblr.

[tortagnamgnam]

This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

[the-night-wizard]

@thelunarviking

[lazulisong]

I dont care look at that little leeeeaf

[ylfdragon]

I swear this guy was a summon in the last JRPG I played.

[nestregards]

you’ve been visited by money birb. reblog and good fortune will come your way.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

< Stands on desk

OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

[lazulisong]

Awww

[ylfdragon]

Can’t. resist. cute. chain. letter. meme.

[suspiciouspopsicle]

Like, it’s little things that are tripping me up with this sci fi story. I need a character to refer to a gun, but we’re not talking shooting bullets here, so what do I call it? Blaster? Is that too generic? It sounds reckless. Phaser is series-specific to Star Trek, I think. Laser gun sounds silly. Laser rifle sounds okay, but maybe too big for what I want suggested here. Ray gun is right out.

[ylfdragon]

Might I suggest just giving the specific gun a silly sounding nickname and not going into specifics? Unless you're world building, in which case I would just chose a random science term and add the name of a kind of gun after it. Gamma rifle, ion pistol, neutron revolver, etc. Unless Neil Degrasse Tyson reads it, the odds are low that anyone will call you out on it being nonsense.