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💜 The Locked Tympanum  💜

Print available here - a portion of the proceeds will be donated to local LGBTQ+ organisations/women’s shelters.

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you ever think about how canaan house is probably the most life gideon’s ever seen?

this has been sitting in my wips forever, so i decided it’d be better to post some version of it than let it languish in procreate forever.

edit: due to popular request, this piece is now available on my shop!

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LOST THYLACINE FOOTAGE REDISCOVERED

Originally shot by Dr. Randle Stewart, an Australian psychiatrist, whilst on honeymoon in Tasmania, these 18 seconds of combined footage show the last captive thylacine in the world.

Commonly referred to as “Benjamin”, the individual lived at the now-abandoned Beaumaris Zoo from the early 1930s to his death in September of 1936, incidentally the same year thylacines were granted official protection by the Australian government.

The footage, shot in 1931, had been considered lost since the late 1970s.

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Computer Powered by Colony of Blue-Green Algae For 6 Months

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The soldier

#dangit making me cry on my wednesday off

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Wanted to redraw some of mu nature guardians :D Here's the first ^W^

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so hard to find a decent exorcist these days :/

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Pinface

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This is now a Gator Loki (or Goki, as I call him) stan blog

Alligator Loki wallpapers

like/reblog if you save ❤️

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DIY Knit Snake Scarf Free Pattern

This is my attempt at a realistic Pseudonaja affinis, an elapid snake common in Western Australia. This was a requested design by a herpetologist studying these snakes for her PhD. The color Sequoia looks the most realistic for this snake which is sometimes called a Spotted Brown Snake

The 12 inch tail is knit like cord starting with very small needles. Most of the snake is stockinette worked back and forth. The head is knit in the round and requires a little hand sewing with a scrap of some non-fraying fabric similar in color to your yarn. You need some polyfill and eyes. I also added a patch of leather inside the head for shaping.

Knit this Snake Scarf by Barbara Tomlinson from Beachton.com. Find the PDF pattern on her website here, or on Ravelry here.

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This is a portfolio piece I drew for #Nativember, and it is inspired in large part by the indigenous people of Puerto Rico, the Taíno, of which I am a descendant.

There are a few things I want to raise awareness about regarding this artwork and the culture that inspired it. The first is that history tells us that the Taíno were completely wiped out by colonizing forces that occupied the Greater and Lesser Antilles, which includes Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the Bahamas.

I was heartened to find out that this is untrue. The Taíno nation exists, its culture survived by traditions passed down through generations. For this reason, I want to clarify that I, myself, am not a part of the Taíno nation, as belonging to the culture means living it, and I am simply a descendant who wished to explore a piece of my family’s heritage through artwork.

But even that in itself is a tricky business. To depict the Taíno as they were instead of as they are now can be problematic, as I learned when I was conducting research for this piece. Artist renderings of indigenous cultures run the risk of overwriting history, fetishizing indigenous people, or in the case of the Taíno, sealing them in the past as a dead culture when, in fact, the culture survives today in an atmosphere of extreme privacy. Which is completely understandable given the horror and violence that decimated their numbers.

So when it came to trying to connect with my great, great, grandmother, the Taíno woman in braids in the aged black and white photo that circulated among my family members when I was a kid, I wasn’t sure how to proceed. I wanted to honor where she came from without committing an act of erasure.

For this reason, I imagined a different universe altogether. One in which the Taíno were not betrayed, brutalized or enslaved by colonists, but rather free to flourish, untouched by violence.

I asked: What kind of future might have been for the indigenous people of the Caribbean had Europeans not interfered? How might things like gender performance and clothing and technology changed and/or stayed the same? The result was this piece.

Out of respect for the indigenous people, I want to stress that this art represents a concept, not a reality. It is an idea of a futuristic people who share a common ancestor as the Taíno that survive today. This young woman is both very different from and also an echo of those who greeted Ponce de Leon. Unlike the women who inhabited Boriken long ago, she is a hunter, but she wears a traditional bacua or cotton apron because she is married. She waits among the flaboyan trees with her poison-tipped arrow.

For more information about the indigenous people of the Caribbean click here: http://www.elboricua.com/history.html

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Hidden Surprise Mugs

Marie Claude Roch on Etsy

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since we're talking theories, can we revisit the "seventh daughter of a seventh daughter" concept?

the seventh son of a seventh son is a concept from folklore regarding special powers given to, or held by, such a son. the seventh son must come from an unbroken line with no female siblings born between and, in turn, be born to such a seventh son

traditionally, it's the seventh son of a seventh son, but there are plenty of more modern examples of daughters or just seventh children, regardless of gender, who are bestowed some kind of power as a kind of birthright due to the order of their birth.

i don't think anything is ever mentioned about lucy's extended family (specifically aunts/her mother's siblings), but we know she's the seventh daughter ("her brood of girls, of whom I was the seventh and the last"), with no brothers, and she is exceptionally Talented.

she started working when she was eight and on her eleventh birthday she got her Third Grade certificate, which she said was much sooner than normal. we also know her mother had some ability to see ghosts when she was young ("everyone knew, you see, that there was Talent running in my family. My mother had seen ghosts in her youth, while two of my sisters had sufficient Sight to get jobs with the night-watch in the city of Newcastle, thirty miles away. None of them, however, had actually been agency material. From the first it was obvious that I was different. I had unusual sensitivity to matters relating to the Problem")

it's never specifically stated, but i don't think it's unreasonable to guess that lucy's mother may have been a seventh daughter herself who had some psychic ability and that lucy being a seventh child of a seventh child compounded the strength of her Talents and that's at least one contributing factor of her being so sensitive to ghosts and maybe why she's one of very few people who can communicate with the skull and other Type Threes

lucy having six older sisters was one of the first things i noticed when i read the screaming staircase for the first time and i just think it's a cool way to incorporate some traditional mythology and folklore into the series

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why the heck is the army emailing me, they don't want an asthmatic German in the U.S. Military

#its through my college email so that's probably why #they're preying off of people with bad debt #even if i wasn't incredibly fortunate to not have debt I wouldn't join the military #bc again #asthmatic german #the army #us army #army recruitment #army recruiters

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This months Patreon stickers are the bat cat~

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Reblogging in honor of the one year anniversary of not having to use the cursed psych building toilets

no matter what bathroom you use in the psych building on campus the toilet in the third stall down always flushes before you stand up and it sprays you with toilet water so yes, I'm pretty sure they're cursed

#the one good thing covid did for me