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Carl Gustav Carus

#art

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I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

#someone showed us StumbleUpon in high school #I haven't thought about it in years #but yes it was really cool

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Let’s be alone together

#tpn #the promised neverland

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Titans truly are marvelous...

#hange zoe #snk

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my artworks always turns out too dark to be visible lmao

#vinland saga

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Random fantasy/worldbuilding thing:

Everyone from a different culture seems strangely poetic and profoundly deep in their observations, but only because they speak whatever the common tongue is as a second language, and whatever they are saying is actually mostly just clumsily translated common sayings/figures of speech that flow much better in their own tongue, and make perfect sense to the people who understand the cultural context.

Someone who comes from a place where geodes are common will describe another person: "He is like a stone that seems to hold a treasure inside of it - you learn to know such stones by their shape and their weight - but once you split it open, there is no quartz, no amethyst, no sparkling and brilliant crystal you expected. Just solid rock, through and through. He is like one of those rocks." Which vaguely makes sense, but they're clearly frustrated about not being quite able to express what they're trying to say.

The thing is, in their own first language, there's a specific word for this kind of rock - one that outwardly seems to be a geode but it isn't one after all. This word is also commonly used as an insult, to describe a person who is charismatic, convincing and outwardly seems brilliantly smart, but is actually dumb as shit.

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It's been a month since this peacock appeared in the garden behind our university. I don't know where he came from, and I surmised he must have escaped from some house with a courtyard in the vicinity. This garden is also connected to a wood north of the city, but nobody ever heard about wild peacocks in this area. So, me and my colleagues started leaving seeds on a plate and a cup of water outside. The peacock stayed, and my friend gave him the name "Vinicio". Now it's been a month, it has snowed a couple of times, and temperatures are dropping during the night, but Vinicio seems to be doing fine.

As soon as he spots us, he usually starts turning away, but the other day he finally approached us and looked at us with his dinosaur eyes.

#peacock #I really hope Vinicio will survive the winter #we won't be able to bring him food during the christmas holidays #anyway it's so surreal to have a peacock roaming around in the garden behind your office #it's like a baby dinosaur #we also saw him flying up to the branches of a pine tree #so I learned that A) peacocks can fly and B) they sleep in trees for protection against predators

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Made by: Chia Chi Yu

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The anime is coming y’all

#tpn

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Gossip at the water cooler

Carolina Wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus)

April 26, 2023

Williamsburg Arboretum, Freedom Park, Williamsburg, Virginia

#birds

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Oddly shaped lava formations look like a mass of twisted bodies in Hawaii shot by Laszlo Kestay (1996)

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Hi. Did you watch the last AOT episode?

Hi! Yes I saw it. I think Mappa did a very good job as usual, and stayed true to the manga. 

I very much liked however that they expanded on Hange’s death, giving their sacrifice the time it deserved. In the manga it wasn’t clear, but in the episode they showed how many titans Hange took down, how it really made the difference. And they made it beautiful. Hange’s cape flapping in the wind, the “titans truly are magnificent” moment with Hange weightlessly floating in the air, the effort, the power and the resolve expressed in their fight, Romi Park’s voice acting, the violin music. 

Then for the very last seconds the view switches to first-person, and you get to see what Hange last saw, its end, and it hits hard. I guess you don’t have that very often with a character dying, where you usually experience A’s death from B’s perspective. 

It’s the first time I notice how what Ramzi said to Halil somewhat mirrors Eren’s line of reasoning: he steals to ‘protect his families’, ‘because someone has to do it’, ‘to get out of these ‘tents’. He even lost his hand in the process. This part is also in the manga, and I don’t know whether this is intentional on Isayama’s part, and in that case what this could mean.

The rumbling was terrifying enough, but I’m surprised Mappa left out the cliff scene of chapter 134. It was one of the most horrifying images of the rumbling, and one that upset me most while reading the manga. Anyway, I think the episode conveyed the cruelty and blindness of the rumbling crushing foot quite well. I don’t follow the fandom discourse anymore, but I hope it won’t leave any doubt in anime watchers about how wrong Eren’s actions are.

#snk spoiler #snk season 4 part 3 #hange zoe #rumbling #ramzi #aot s4 part 3

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Jonathan Klok

#photography

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Moody morning.

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sunday downpour

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#bnha 362 #bnha manga spoilers #bakugo katsuki

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Bungou Stray Dogs Season 4 »» On Air Jan 2023!

#ahhhhh I'm so excited #bsd season 4 #finally #bungou stray dogs