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For when they no longer serve you, cast them aside like old skin

happ new 2 u 2, snek

Just in time for the Year of the Snake, Museum herpetologists share some of their favorite serpent facts! Learn about back-up fangs, special scales, snake eyesight, and more, and get a behind-the-scenes peek at specimens from the Museum's research collection.

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simariethehawk

and hilariously that is not why it is called that.

It is the circle of the bears cause of ursa major and ursa minor, and the circle without bears cause ya'know opposite part of the sky.

We lucked right into that one....

nerdfighterwhatevernumbers

#so what you’re saying is#the stars dictate whether bears do or do not exist in places

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Astrology is real but only for predicting where bears will be

the-tired-tenor

Bears do not travel to places they cannot see their gods

hugtheteadrinkthekitten

I've seen this post before but it only just occurred to me that there might be some sort of underlying reason that "places where bears are" and "places where people name stars after bears" overlap.

capricorn-0mnikorn

Reblogging for that last comment.

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LA Fire Charity Commissions

Here is a list of artists in the animation industry who have lost their homes.

These people have worked on Gravity Falls, Owl House, Amphibia, and everything in between.

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Send me a receipt or some proof in my AskBox that you have sent either $1 to all of them, or $20 to one of them, and I’ll do a flat color request

I feel better giving money to faces than an organization. I’ll look around for an organization and see about possibly doing a charity stream.

Stay safe if you’re in LA ❤️

nyanaknifegal

🌲 🎇🔺🎆 💫

#I wanna do more animations like this in 2025 #also blow up bill cipher #this is fantastic

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Tim Curry candidly reveals an ill-fated affair during the filming of Muppet Treasure Island (1996) with Miss Piggy.

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They say that Michael Caine did so well in Muppet Christmas Carol because he treated the Muppets like fellow actors, and Tim Curry did so well in Muppet Treasure Island because he treated himself like a fellow Muppet.

I’d say this counts as strong evidence toward that theory.

derrickwildsun-deactivated20250

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

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J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

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Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.

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I’ve been a professional designer for 8 years and that last bit is so true. In addition to politics, a huge part of people meddling with creative work is just ego. They want to feel like they had a hand in the final product, even though they not only did not create it but are in fact incapable of creating something on that level. So they reach their hand into someone else’s work and command it to change, not in service of a mutual artistic goal, but simply because they have the power to do so and they like feeling that power.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Outside of censorship, I’ve heard this called the “horrible blue splotch” principle. People who need to approve stuff always want to feel like they’re contributing so if you give them good art they’ll often find something to change anyway just to have contributed. So you put a Horrible Blue Splotch on it (not a literal splotch, anything clearly incongruous will work), and then if there’s nothing wrong they can say “can we get rid of that blue splotch?” and let the rest through. Only if they actually object to something else will they also mention that.

Of course, this technique can backfire when a really apathetic approver just waves the Horrible Blue Splotch straight through, which is why my credit union’s colour palette is this:

STANLEY: And what would you like for Christmas, young man?

FIDDLEFORD: Oh, I dunno, Santa. I've been pretty naughty this year.

STANLEY: HO HO HO, Santa is nothing if not flexible!

(This is also a Chanukah treat for Stan, don’t worry.)

(And Fidds is seriously considering sporting the long white beard next. For some reason.)

#fiddlestan #cw suggestive

deprivedmusicaljunkie

assuming that people like you and want to spend time with you is crucial to making friends. unfortunately this is the hardest thing to do in the world

neenarchive

eight episodes is not a full season of television

robotslenderman

Everyone cares about labour rights until it affects their entertainment.

neenarchive

do you think studios budget for shorter and fewer seasons because they're concerned about. labour rights

robotlyra

Since we keep getting "live action" CGI remakes of already perfectly adequate animated movies, and because people need to understand that animation is a medium and not a genre, I have prepared this primer about the importance of Visual Language for Conveying Information.

Can you tell what the personalities of these two mice are?

Can you tell now?

Which of these two tigers feels safer to be around?

Which of these three dogs is the funniest one?

If you can answer these questions, then you already have experience with the idea of visual language and stylistic choices being used to impart narrative meaning. If you can understand why these choices were made to impart meaning, then you can understand why animation is a medium for telling stories that has its own inherent value, and is not merely a "placeholder" for the eventual implementation of photorealistic presentation (aka "Live Action" CGI). Animation does not need to be "corrected" or "legitimized" by remaking it into the most representational simulation of observable reality.

brytning

This is why I love 2D animation and will forever.

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oliviawhen

My holiday cards from the past several years! I love making these. It's great to reach the end of the year and make something that doesn't need to be perfect.

#adorable #I wish I had an ounce of creativity left to make a holiday card this year #maybe next year #sigh

bogleech

I knew poinsettias "faked" having big flowers by just turning some leaves red but I didn't know the real tiny flowers in the middle looked like such idiots