#And a wikipedia list

[johannepetereric]

Ok, so I’m googling Brazilian dragons cuz I’m making a Brazilian half-dragon OC, and I don’t want THIS dragon parent to be pulled out my ass.

So, if I got this right, I found the boi-tatá, which is a big snake that murders people and eats the corpses’ eyeballs as its food, and it has fire for eyes (like Percy Jackson’s Ares, apparently). It is basically blind during the day, but has OP night vision. I think it’d be funny if they got to a “human fucks a dragon” story because the human is blind, so there’s no point in eating the eyeballs except for habit, since there’s no eyesight to steal in the first place. And so it falls in love with this exception. And then the offspring is similarly blind. There’s apparently this repel spell where you stay still to ward it off, close your eyes so it won’t eat your eyeballs? But we can keep that, and it’s a condition to keep your eyes closed, if you’re a seeing person, when you’re in close contact in them so they don’t eat your eyeballs (and of course the option of blindfolds) We can keep the murder, have the humans be morally grey/dark by ok-ing the murder and mutilation that isn’t them.

Is that an ok way to spin this, or is there a different way to spin the beast, or is there another, better candidate for dragon(-ish) parent?

Can somebody who actually knows Brazilian mythology fact-check me?

#tw eye horror #brazilian mythology #i guess #A few mythology sites said so #And a wikipedia list #So Imma interested in running with it

[asterwild]

PENGUINS. all of them!

(not precisely to scale, but close)

#most species have a range of several inches and i was just eyeballin it #re: little vs fairy #wikipedia has them divided into two species (aus vs nz i think) #if this hadn't been so hastily put together i wouldnt have based it solely on wikipedia #and probably would've actually gone with the global penguin society who lists them as one #i'm no expert and have no idea what sort of taxonomical debates are going on & whether this is a hotly contested issue #but i did switch to just one when i updated this for prints and such #penguins #animals #animal art #birds #id in alt #all the things

[puphoods]

this thing is a rodent

#et cetera #sorry for looking at wikipedia page for list of birds in australia. lookat it though

[prokopetz]

I feel like I've discovered something dangerous.

#wikipedia #animals #lists #insects mention

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

#uh just a heads up if you expand the tags to see all there's. a lot. very long #amphibian #frog #poison dart frog #based on my most popular frog to date (day 651) #inspired by everyone pointing out what they think it looks like #here's a fun secret fact the original guy is actually a phantasmal poison dart frog (Epipedobates tricolor) #(according to the original artists title of the drawing) #not Anthony's poison arrow frog (Epipedobates anthonyi) #i feel too awkward to really point it out though because they look the exact same. i cannot tell if there is a difference #im half convinced the same frog was just discovered and named twice #its very curious btw if you go on the (english) wikipedia page for either species it doesn't mention the other #while hereptiles.info (no idea if this is a trustworthy site) lists both names as common names for the same frog (incorrectly??) #while inaturalist lists them as two different frogs. curiously with tricolor having wayyyyy fewer photos #ok anyway that's my rant i went on a whole journey trying to figure out if these are the same frog or not and i have no answer #i did some more 'research' and i am more confused. some sources seem to imply they are now considered the same species ( e. tricolor) #i think my conclusion is i am willing to agree the drawing looks more like e. anthonyi. it seems like tricolor is generally less vibrant re #and the white is darker and more green? #i feel like thumblr should stop me from typing more in the tags at this point this is a whole essay #at this point i am failry convinced this is specifically the Santa Isabel frog. isthat the real subspecies or morph or whatever #or just the name pet sites are using to sell it?? #i even found some sources (frog selling websites) refering to it as “Epipedobates Anthonyi 'Santa Isabel' Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog” lol #Anyways if you read this far hi. species are confusing. i am not a frog scientist #the first few tags are like an hour old now i just kept trying to figure it out and adding more tags

[mokeonn]

The girls are having a sleepover! Featuring their favorite activity.

#art #my art #simon says #I think they would enjoy the wikipedia list of common misconceptions #I know i did #sketch #colored sketch #mlp #my little pony #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp fim #my little pony gen 4 #mlp pinkie pie #mlp rainbow dash #mlp twilight sparkle #mlp rarity #mlp fluttershy #mlp applejack #pinkie pie #twilight sparkle #rainbow dash #rarity #fluttershy #applejack #mlp mane six #mlp mane 6 #anyways I hope yall enjoy another joke that was funnier in my head

[sasperine]

who wrote the wikipedia descriptions for catullus's poetry

#tag yourself lmao #it should also be noted that wikipedia lists the recipients of each of the poems and four separate poems are addressed simply to “cock” #catullus was one of the first writers i translated in latin and oml what an introduction #tagamemnon #catullus

[altarwaiting]

American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has released 10 original studio albums.

insp

#tswiftedit #tswiftgifs #taylorswiftedit #tsedit #candy swift #taylor swift #* #don't yell about the genres I used i'm just going off wikipedia and apple music 😭 #also most of the albums have more producers I just listed the ones who worked on the most songs/are most associated with the album #ANYWAY this took a while pls don't let it flop <3

[froody]

oh boy. hope we find him soon.

#Wikipedia article list of missing aircraft is so wild

[mccoppinscrapyard]

new bisexual pride flag

#from the Wikipedia ‘list of colors’ #bisexual #colors

[cinnamon-flame]

Concept for a lynx piñata cause I love Viva Piñata and I love lynxes and I think those two things should go together.

I also love moths so totally self indulgent drawing of the lynx and a mothdrop

#fun fact I actually dislike licorice #but no other candy went so well with lynx so it stayed #(I did look at the wikipedia list of candy and woah there's a lot of different types of candy) #I'm actually quite proud of the design (especially the sour one look at it it's so funky!!!!) #designing in the style of viva piñata was a fun challenge #the brainstorming was great too #but for some reason I got stuck with the rendered painting of the piñata house and three months had to pass until I could come back #the funny thing is that my art style changed a bit between those two last drawings #and I drew like 50 drawings inbetween them counting by the stuff in my folder #anyways this is for me and for you fellow viva piñata fans #maybe I'll draw more of this guy since I like their design a lot #I actually doubt we would get a lynx piñata if another game came out since there are at least 3 kitty piñatas #but that's exactly why I'm drawing this #viva piñata #viva pinata #vp mothdrop #vp #mothdrop #lynx #cinnamon's doodles

[cannibalcaprine]

thinking about Deimos being moved from Martian orbit to Titanean orbit in 40k

like

do you think Deimian tech-priests will occasionally dig up old thrusters inlaid in the surface? do they look up at the sickly-yellow methane world their home revolves around, and think fondly of the rusty red marble that used to hang in the sky? the chaos of living deep in Saturn's rings tolling over the old, peaceful skies under Mars?

also, whoever the hell did the orbital calculations for that deserves the Star of Terra, holy hell

#warhammer 40k #deimos #did y'all know that the wikipedia page for each celestial body has a listed adjective

[franticbindings]

When I was a kid, there were a number of "games" people would sometimes play that purely existed as an excuse to try and slap your friends hand as hard as you possibly could.

At the Citadel, the young apprentices refer to these games as "The Wizard Smarts" (as in "ouch that smarts"). There are several variants of the game - ones where you lose if don't avoid getting hit, and ones where the first person to flinch/give up loses. In either case, the loser gets the title of The Wizard Smarts until they can beat someone else at the game.

#wbn #worlds beyond number #the wizard the witch and the wild one #the wikipedia article on childlore lists a number of possible ways child culture can manifest including - and I quote - torments

[umeji-writes]

Why the manga Mairimashita! Iruma-kun is a masterpiece, part # (idk at this point)

Spoilers for the latest M!IK chapter (332) under the cut ♡

Okay, I was loving this art-focused arc already, as someone who after... several years (hi I'm old)... decided to learn illustration for good. But unholy shit I wasn't expecting an actual storytelling lesson from Nishi-sensei!!! I'm specifically referring to these two pages:

..........do you see what Nishi did????? See, I always found the characters in M!IK to be exceptionally alive, as if they had independent lives outside the pages we can read. Basically all named characters are consistent and three-dimentional, even if they appeared for a couple of chapters at most. And there are LOTS of them, I tried to compile a spreadsheet for personal use and we are well beyond 100 at this point (I'm not done yet). This is most likely Nishi's writing method. It fits: "when it comes to terror designing characters, what's important is the foundation. When, where, from whom, and from what was that terror were that character's motivations born? Without that, art doesn't live". See all the crumbs of information Nishi left along the chapters, in text or drawings, or in the Q&As. M!IK's characters are alive, like the Bowing Palome. Clearly this is not new when it comes to storytelling in general, and to manga specifically. As an example, there's a whole chapter dedicated to character design in Hirohiko Araki's Manga in Theory and Practice, The Craft of Creating Manga (most recommended read btw), that goes over the data to collect even before drawing a character. I imagine that's among a mangaka's best practices. But that's the point, Nishi actually follows the rules of the Golden Way*, and created a work which is nearly perfect from any point of view: the four fundamentals (characters, story, setting, and themes), and even rhythm, art, comedy... I'm in awe. I know I sound like a smitten fan, and I am at this point, but seriously, this manga is qualitatively great, and it's a pity it's so underrated. *The set of rules/tips Araki compiled, which if followed would lead to a manga being successful, according to him. I guess there are other sources as well out there, like illustration schools? But this what I can tell you, as an outsider :D

#mairimashita! iruma-kun is seriously underrated aaaaaaa #i wonder if bim is a sort of nishi self-insert #oh and i wrote “bim” not “beem” because it's an alternative spelling for bune #another demon from the ars goetia #who btw is able to move the dead so kinda relevant to the bowing palome? #it's funny how the wikipedia page for “list of demons in the ars goetia” looks more and more like a list of M!IK characters #i love it #m!ik #mairimashita! iruma kun #mairuma #iruma kun #welcome to demon school iruma kun #iruma #manga analysis #m!ik analysis #manga #anime and manga #thanks tumblr for reading my ramblings

[commsroom]

one of the best things about eiffel is that he manages to be a guy whose personality revolves around 80s / 90s pop culture without being even a little elitist or gatekeep-y about it. genuinely delightful. but you must never forget that he does fantasize about being in a ready player one scenario where trivia that amounts to "hey, remember the 80s?" and acting out movie scenes from memory will make everyone think he's soo cool and awesome and get him laid.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #and i want him. so what does that say about me. #i think he should give hera some book recommendations. i think that would be very funny. #he's exactly the kind of guy who loves to read Lists of Things He Recognizes. horus if you see this i can't stop thinking about #'he's like a wikipedia boyfriend but for tv tropes.' hauntingly real. doug eiffel you would love the random page button on tvtropes dot org

[friendofcars]

very important day for richard gansey ii apparently

#rchl #trc #the following happened on april 14th: #lincoln assassination 1865 #mt vesuvius eruption 1906 #john singer sargent death 1925 #titanic iceberg collision 1912 #amongst many other events listed in a wikipedia page i just spent 10 minutes staring at #mt vesuvius and sargent's death are not in that article but i had them written down in my chapter notes