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[bishiedoll]

Daphne (1974) and Leda and the Swan (1998) drawn by Takahashi Macoto.

[summernymph]

[le-pokerus]

Growth of Berry Plants

(Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald)

[catsandwich-deactivated20240213]

This is a literal sexual harassment training video we had to complete

[the-gentleman-who-wants-to--blog]

Simply put

If a fabric is not breathable 

It is not worth your time

All of my fabrics are breathable

Not to mention quick to dry

And people wonder why I enjoy spending time at sea so often

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Smiling Bats

Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v

[crabussy]

you are alive on a planet with insects and whales and diatoms and mycelium networks and puppies and your human friends. literally so awesome to be a living thing

[prokopetz]

I understand that you were aiming for a morally grey protagonist, but in practice what you've ended up with is more of a moral beige.

[prokopetz]

@ancient-tree-with-deathwish replied:

how do you distinguish grey from other colours beyond black and wite?

Distinguishing features of moral beige:

The protagonist is constantly agonising over Hard Choices; however, circumstances always conspire to prevent them from actually having to make those choices, so in practice they're just angsting over stuff they might have done.

The text exhibits a recurring pattern whereby the protagonist seems to to have made a Hard Choice, but new information is reliably revealed shortly thereafter which retroactively establishes that whatever they did was the morally upright course after all.

The protagonist's moral impulses are straightforwardly heroic, except in one specific context which lacks any clear real-world analogue; for example, being prejudiced against telepaths.

The protagonist's actions are consistently reasonable based on the information available to them – they're merely operating on bad information basically all the time due to a bizarre conspiracy and/or a series of increasingly implausible misunderstandings.

The protagonist always ends up doing the right thing (for some fuzzy value of "right"), but, like, they're really grumpy about it.

[vale-gaai]

[huckleberryhal]

Grandma Ferret. (X)

[7pleiades7]

Roman fresco detail of the Garden painting, 30-35 AD, House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii.

[takethemonetandletsgogh]

Czesław Miłosz, “Notes”

[twinkleshirt]

Meet my goldfish, Pony

[beardedmrbean]

[lovelymimic]

[steveyockey]

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations

[s1ck0]

Juliette Brocal

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: it’s just so beautiful

The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say

Me, sniffling: I didn’t realize, I can’t, it’s so much, I, I… are the chips good, at least?

Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: they’re… magical, strange traveler

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, being spent on species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.