“You thought you knew what a unicorn was … But you were wrong,”

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction…. Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

Great prank concept: choose a target, get a few photos of them, then find an artist who can replicate some extremely specific type of historical art, commission the artist to draw a portrait of the subject in that exact style, and then have the picture saved up somewhere for the next time your target starts talking shit. So you can reply to them with

“Didn’t ask, don’t care, also you look exactly like this drunk guy pissing into his own mouth in a medieval manuscript” and sending them a picture that looks exactly like them as a drunk peasant guy pissing into his own mouth in a handwritten medieval style manuscript. Because it is.

Other great art pieces to commission of people who mildly annoy you:

1. As the husband standing in a bush in a renaissance mythological painting, watching in anguish as Zeus fucks his wife
2. French satire cartoon of a grievously insulted pompous wig noble sulking over getting ignored at an orgy
3. Getting stomped by the chariot of Alexander the Great in a classical mosaic
4. Same style but just getting stomped on by Alexander the Great
5. Erotic mural of a weeping, desperately horny human figure begging for the attentions of a satyr and getting rejected
6. Ugly renaissance baby jesus.

When your hamster shoves an entire stick of zucchini in his cheek and then goes about his day. 🤣

“He’s not going to fit that in his cheek.”

“Oh, he’s chewing it, it’ll be smaller.”

“He can’t possibly-”

“shit, I guess he can.”

IT’S AS BIG AS HE IS

IT GOES LIKE HALFWAY DOWN HIS BODY????

who up magnusing they archives

Good morning all aromantic mutuals and anyone else who’d wish to join let’s all huddle around in a circle and banish the romance back to its lair

Just gonna leave these right here…

The Boss Designs of Bloodborne

the grotesque femininity of Bloodborne

I can’t believe we’re doing a site-wide retrospective on Dr. Roberta Bobby tweets and nobody’s mentioned the all time greatest one:

I finished my outfit in time for fair!! With minor bloodshed!!!

Long time lurker, first time poster. I leave these two in your capable hands

Tsundere this, yandere that. I’m a wandere. You took your eyes off me for two seconds and I’ve already fucked off. Saw something cool glint on the other side of the continent and I’m on my way to check it out.

if you are making a personal purchase for fun and you feel guilty about it always remember at least you are not paying for a gacha game amen

Dune if I was in charge

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

In this economy you’ll be lucky to retire to your nickels

I know it goes against everything we’ve ever been taught, but we do need to put in the work to realize that being ugly is…completely fine. like entirely neutral. so is being conventionally attractive. neutral. not just for other people, but for ourselves. you need to be able to look at yourself and see what you perceive to be physical flaws and go “this is okay, this is the least important part of who I am.” It’s so beyond okay and normal and fine to be ugly. And I know! Easier said than done. But I do genuinely believe that freedom from looking into the mirror and hating yourself is a worthy goal. Freedom from judging a person immediately based off of their appearance is a worthy goal. Freedom from buying the thousands of products they try and tell you will make you perfect, as if that should be the aim and goal, is a worthy goal.

I just want to show off a little pattern testing and sewing ive been doing!

I have slid straight into circus hell. I have 30k words on a fanfic in my computer and 14k of it posted to ao3. Check it out here:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80328611/chapters/210912006

And here’s Harlow, my mc-that’s-actually-an-oc!

Ft. Outfits I think they’d be in.

Bonus height comparison that came to me in the night:

Oh sweet Pierrot! They could never take me away from you ☆

I’m ILL

some bonus mugs from that previous digital sketchdump. plus i inked ian and cynth cause i need huge wife and small husband on my desk.

oh my god cant you people just be happy for me

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently. (New York Times)

If after you read this you want to explore the draft report, here are the links to The Nature Record and to the draft report. Here’s a quick screen shot of the chapters of the report, which should give you a good perspective on the depth of the report:

Excerpt from the New York Times story:

Scientists and other experts were preparing a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of nature in the United States when President Trump returned to the White House.

He canceled the report.

The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-page draft for public comment and scientific review.

Many of the preliminary findings are grim: Freshwater ecosystems across the country are in crisis, “overdrawn, polluted, fragmented and invaded.” Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are degraded, with reduced biodiversity. An estimated 34 percent of plant species and 40 percent of animal species are at risk of extinction.

Human pressures on nature are eroding the necessities it gives us, such as clean water, food, health, livelihoods and protection from storms and fire. But there is hope, and the authors emphasized the ability to chart a new course.

“The future is not fixed,” said Phillip Levin, who directed the assessment both under the government and since. “Conservation, restoration and renewed connections between people and nature can improve ecosystem health and strengthen community resilience.”

The report’s name has changed from the National Nature Assessment to the Nature Record, to reflect that it is a new, independent effort, but it builds off work that was already underway and most of the authors remain the same. Its scientific review will be conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the same organization that would have reviewed the report had it remained under the auspices of the federal government.

The first two chapters that will summarize the sprawling endeavor are not yet written, because the authors are waiting until after this round of feedback. But 13 other chapters are in place.

The report explores not only actions that harm nature, but also how people are affected by nature and its loss, with chapters on human health, the economy and national security. And throughout, the report highlights solutions and nature’s ability to recover when given the chance.

The initial effort began in earnest on Earth Day in 2022, when President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed an executive order calling for an assessment of the condition of nature in the United States. In January 2025, with the authors weeks away from submitting a first full draft, the Trump administration disbanded the effort.

But Dr. Levin, who left his government role with the change of administrations, continued the work alongside about 125 researchers who were not federal employees.

“The first thing we had to do was get funding,” Dr. Levin said.

Virtually all the authors were already volunteering their time. But the group needed to rehire administrative staff, secure technical support and pay for the review by the National Academies. The group raised more than $3 million, mostly from foundations, Dr. Levin said.

“It just reaffirmed, in a really visceral way, the importance of the work,” he added.

All along, the assessment’s charge was to synthesize existing research, and so its individual findings are not new. Rather, it is intended to provide a scientific consensus by which policymakers and the public can make informed decisions.

“Having a clear picture of where nature is, what its condition and trajectory is, is going to help people manage their relationship with nature,” said Kyle McKay, a civil engineer who served on the report’s original steering committee as a liaison to the Department of Defense.

After the assessment moved to the private sector, so did Dr. McKay, and he continued to work on it.

The White House did not respond directly to questions about the assessment or say whether the administration would read and comment on it. But Kush Desai, a spokesman, wrote in an email, “The Trump administration’s efforts to slash taxpayer funding of waste, fraud and abuse in grant spending — including for ideological pet projects — are only strengthening what’s driven America’s dominance in research and development.”

Open world survival game where if any of your attributes get too high, people who cultivate, worship, or oppose that attribute will show up to kill you. In some cases this is straightforward, like skill at firearms drawing challenges from rival gunslingers, or powerful psychic abilities attracting witch hunters, Caves of Qud style; for attributes like “Cooking” or “First Aid”, the motives involved may be more eccentric.

A high enough cooking skill gets you swarmed by rats trying to take over your body

I’m sooooo normal about murderbot btw

(painted by @asterbee)

I am SO stoked that you like it!!!

posting ocs is scary like what if everyone kills me

“I love you but you’re doing wrong in a way I cannot condone” and “I hate you but you’re being wronged in a way I cannot stomach” are top tier and I need more of them.

i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking “dang what are these bitches, i can’t remember…” well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can’t believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i’m gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

!!! Learn From My Humiliation!!! THESE ARE THE BITCHES!!!! DO NOT FORGET THEM !!!!

ALT

ID: same image with the text “I forgor.” End ID

early to bed and early to rise leaves a man so fucked up that he dies

Fuck that post going around saying “you can have coffee in your story without justifying it :) you don’t need to explain everything :)” I want, no, I DEMAND a fully researched ethnobotanical paper on every single food item in your work, if you don’t explain to me where did potatoes come from in your fantasy setting or don’t explain how the industry of coffee works over interstellar distances with full detail you are doing things wrong and I personally hate you and I hate your stupid story, fuck you

Why are your stupid little wizards and knights eating potato stew in your dumb European middle ages fantasy world. Where did they get potatoes from. Where is the center of domestication of potatoes, do you have a fantasy Andean civilization? What are the social and economic consequences of having such a calorie rich crop in cold climates. I don’t care about “themes” or “enemies to lovers with found family”, I didn’t ask about that. Where does your idiot space captain gets their shitty coffee from. Is it imported from Earth? Are there coffee growing worlds? Is it an alien species replacement with the same name? What are the social consequences of that? Don’t try to change the subject, I’ll stop pointing the gun when I want, I’m trying to have a conversation here,

gold in them there tags