#not really land back

[wachinyeya]

CA Redwoods to Be First National Park Co-Managed with a Native American Tribe That Used to Own it https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ca-redwoods-to-be-the-first-national-park-co-managed-with-a-native-american-tribe-that-used-to-own-it/

questionable headline aside this is good news

The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.

The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.

#good news #environmentalism #science #canada #redwoods #yurok #save the redwoods league #not really land back #but still a good step #nature #stewardship #indigenous #indigenous land stewardship #environment #conservation #animals #trees #forests

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

#not vc sorry #bird #birds #aves #raptor #hawk #red shouldered hawk #i think. might be wrong on that id #accipitriformes #birds of prey #honestly a really cool guy so close up #I'm happy i wasn't attacked. i would not want to fight a guy that big. #talons on this bird were huge. big scary. #I've never heard of large predatory birds just landing in front of people like that so i don't know what gives #it didn't catch any food or anything. just landed near me then stared me down. #I don't know a lot about bird behavior so i tried to not look back at it but still. #it also didn't look injured. seemed like a healthy bird #if anyone has any idea why this thing would act the way it did I'd love to know

[egophiliac]

so excited for Kalim to save the day by swiper-no-swiping this dip. you can do it! I believe in you!

god I hope this reads properly

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #i feel like kalim and the marshmallow test operates under roger rabbit rules #whether he passes or fails depends on which option is funniest at the time #anyway HEY things are finally actually happening! #so glad fellow agrees with me there #did he even expect them to make it to the show. did he very quickly have to choreograph a poppy little dance number. #honestly in retrospect i am also shocked that they lasted as long as they did #i mean. floyd is there. c'mon. #speaking of which i did really enjoy floyd going BYE JADE! MAYBE I'LL COME BACK TO SAVE YOU LATER IF I FEEL LIKE IT! #revenge for the popcorn #sorry if this is nonsensical! somehow it became like 4 am while i wasn't looking #i am super digging the evil theme park shenanigans (now that they're actually happening) #it's just Very Late!

[paintpanic]

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#ta-da! super high-effort comic for you #what do you think? #...im aware i fucked up the back of his head in panel 5. by the time i realized i couldn't be bothered to fix it. #oh well! i'm still really happy with everything else. the storyboarding; the line art; the colors; the BACKGROUNDS; my lettering. #some of my best work! #kirby series #magolor #kirby #kirby's return to dream land #krtdl #panic's favorites

[katabay]

desmond & friends modern day assassin sequences…..I miss you……..

#specifying ‘and friends’ because I hate William Miles with my whole heart and he is not included in this sentiment #anyway vaguely this is nyc so the cops are probably wasting taxpayer money by fucking around in the subway #komiks tag #assassins creed #shaun hastings #desmond miles #this is almostttttttttttt shaundes #but I didn’t continue the dialogue far enough to make it really flirty. There’s a hint of flirting happening. #someday I’ll have to actually do a longer form fan comic to land my favorite ship AND my favorite narrative elements in the same #go (the horror and dialogues on free will and what we owe each other past/present/future & also what failure means AND-) #this ties into my second favorite relationship dynamic: clay and desmond. obvious. clay might live in my head rent free a little more than #Desmond does because that end of game reveal in AC1 is a top 10 games experience to me and I think about it all the time #ANYWAY IM OFF TOPIC NOW. desmond picks up snacks at a bodega on his way back

[aseuki]

[SOUL] - The Roche Limit

"A unique convergence of elements...gave a stubborn soul one last chance at revenge."

Marx | Sectonia | Fecto Elfilis

#kirby #kirby and the forgotten land #katfl #fecto elfilis #chaos elfilis #hoshi no kirby #hoshi no kaabii #SOUL series #aseukiart #rises from the grave again. Actually had this finished like a week ago but it's been. p crazy here irl!! #Finally graduated School so hopefully I'll get back to the drawing groove soon enough! #I habve. So Many Things to Draw #(starts replaying katfl instead) #can I be real folks the whole ai scraping thing really killed some motivation to post for a while #but I think I worked out a routine for nightshade so that's been helping! #(the routine is letting it run while I go Eat Dinner) #It's not the Cutest solution for my toony style but I'll take some fun textures over feeding my shit into The Machine #nyways. Fecto Elfilis Beloathed. Loved drawing the textures of the ears /lying #Also also their boss fight. Is Very Fun. #(Fecto forgo can kiss my ass g OD that hallway chase scene is the stuff of nightmares /loving)

[rayjayoo]

surprisingly back with more phos doodles wOOOOOO

#ray art #houseki no kuni #land of the lustrous #hnk #hnk phos #phosphophyllite #post winter phos... #i really wish we could've seen more of antarc and phos duo i adored their interactions in what little time they had together #feel like they could've blossomed into a sweet friendship as they worked together more :(( #in another universe antarc was never taken away and the two continued to patrol winters together time to time.... #post winter phos just makes me so sad man #they had to go through the pain of losing a partner for the first time and you can tell just how deeply that affected them throughout the #rest of the story #and i just #hnngghbjkjkkk #even with the loss of their legs phos still maintained their spunkiness and innocence #but after the loss of their arms in that winter... #man #its so quietly heartbreaking to realize that there truly wasnt any going back after that winter for phos #they couldnt go back to being that naive and innocent gem they once were

[bluesdeluxe]

Deniss Vasiļjevs: The Lion King | FS debut at Worlds 2024

music: "The Rightful King" by Hans Zimmer, "He Lives in You" by Lebo M performed by Kesha Shantrell and Matt Bloyd, cut by Matthias Versluis choreography: Stéphane Lambiel "This is the kind of skating that excites the skating community. No quads, but impassioned, something that ignites emotion in people. I feel inspired, it makes me want to skate!.." — Mark Hanretty's commentary.

#figure skating #deniss vasiljevs #worlds 2024 #fskateedit #included mark's words because deniss' skating is literally the reason i signed up for fs classes this year (& i used to be terrified of ice #just look at the transitions!! the sequnces!! how many things are there between the jumps! #and the jumps are so beautiful too! #(yes i saw those tight landings too + this can be filled with even more nuances bc deniss improves his choreo EVERY time he skates) #(SO deniss pls bring this program back next season!!! even though you're not really considering it right now T-T) #a veeeery good music cut btw. thank you matthias!! #blackbird fs gifs #fs gifs #the lion king program

[salemoleander]

If and when they enhance savannahs they should add small rivers/a more jungle-like sub-biome akin to parts of southeast Australia, or re-code mangrove swamps to generate closer to drier regions like that!

...this is just a ploy to ask for platypi in Minecraft. Think about it!

New egg-laying critter

Poison barb if threatened (all adults, since mc mobs aren't gendered)

They sense prey in the water via electrolocation, which imo could be sculk shrieker-style cries OR a new redstone signal mechanic

They eat shrimp and crayfish, and imo it's about time we had a new fish type. Could also add lobster cages or some other afk fishing form, that randomly catches potsherds and other detritus?

Produce milk when clicked on with a bucket

I just want them to be the savannah/mangrove swamp equivalent to lush cave's axolotl 🥺 little multicolored friends

#minecraft #salem tag #im picturing the mob model in my head and. it would be so good #cmonnn mojang they actually fit really well with your 'cute animals that can fight back if needed' #AND theyre semiaquatic so they can swim well and waddle about on land

[skipblebee]

HELLO PETRIGROF NATION 🤩🤩 Fionna and Cake finale destroyed me and made me very sad so I couldn't draw anything except silly doodles to cope pls enjoy

#adventure time #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #fionna and cake #fionna and cake fanart #adventure time fanart #the quote from the second doodle is from a Steven universe fanart I saw back when they revealed rose quartz was actually pink diamond shsjd #Most of these are from ms paint :) #Skipsart #Will never get over this ending actually #Like three of my classmates who have never even heard of adventure time love these two now just because I can't shut up about them #ME WHEN TRAGIC LOVERS 😢😢😢 UAUAUA <- (sounds of despair) #Really wanted to see a human Golbetty design :( #Also low-key wished they pulled a La La Land and showed us the life they could've had/an alternate dimension where they're happy together #I get that they wanted us to feel like the characters and stuff but still HHHHH #Anywayz it took me two months to get over this #I couldn't listen to Everything in You without ugly crying LMBOOO #I'm a sensitive guy okay �� I'm fine now so we're good‼️💪

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i have this really stupid idea in my head that im frankly a little obsessed with and the idea is this: trent crimm doing a drunk history episode on ted lasso's first tenure at richmond. is that how drunk history works? i don't think so. do i care? absolutely not. it's a special episode who cares because this image is not only hysterical to me but treasured. i treasure this image. i hold it close in my heart and also laugh and laugh and laugh.

#ted is played by what is very visibly a butch lesbian in a huge fake mustache. #roy is inexplicably played by himself in a wig. #ternt drunkenly and passionately explaining this whole thing. he says his own line and the trent actor (who also has a wig) gets to act it #trent waving his hands as he's explaining all this. the host being like 'not very often we get to have someone include the part where They #come into the story' and trents like [dorkiest finger guns] #also yes i said first tenure bc this scenario lives in post canon fantasy fix it land where ambiguously ted comes back to richmond #at some point. and also both bc my tedependent heart is obsessed and bc it's really funny #marries trent. just bc i want this to end with trent--hammered and pleased as punch--being like AND THEN I MARRIED HIM!!!!! #[falls back on couch happily] :) #also in the line of that great 5+1 social media fic #by jessjessthebest. a sequel thats just like a youtube video like #'we made ted lasso and trent crimm watch that episode of drunk history about them' and trent is just. head in hands the whole time. #ted is DELIGHTED. #anyway i rotate this in my brain fucking DAILY. it's so goddamn funny to me. #ted lasso #tedependent #tedtrent #trent crimm #the line in question being 'is this a fucking joke' i just realized i did not clarify that #no but really im obsessed with this it's so fucking funny #also any image trent had left of being a ruthless ex journalist is thoroughly ruined #all of his former colleagues have seen him and drunk and giggling and fully admitting what he was thinking at the time and oh boy #hes a disaster <3

[pastafossa]

Little late cause busy day but happy birthday to Matt Murdock, the man who has:

Inspired me so much I wrote a fic longer than War and Peace

Made me so determined to write the above that I created an outline and I hate outlining, yet now I know it works, thanks for the self help baby

Made me hyperfixate on a character for longer than I knew I could actually achieve, I think we're basically common law married now in ADHD terms

Literally helped me make friends with all ya'll

Helped me get through a dark period

On a lighter note, awakened my love of That Ass cause DAMN

Introduced me to that smokin red black color scheme

Introduced a great many of us to the greatest cinematographic religious symbolism shots of any show ever

Taught me a great deal about fight scenes

Reminded us all that black is always sexy

May be why I get published one day

I will ALWAYS love this man, and may I make these posts for many years to come, may I one day be an old lady shouting on a front porch at passersby that it's Matt's birthday and people assume I'm talking about a real person until I shout about Daredevil, and may Matt in whatever parallel universe he exists in have a birthday that's actually FUN and not one that's tragic and full of sad martyr-y darkness.

#matt murdock #daredevil #it's true in adhd land i have now married him as a hyperfixation #he takes his place on the permanent interest pedestal #i really do love him tho #i need to get some money piled back up next year and get that tattoo

[fallahifag]

here’s the video i was talking about in my last post for anyone who wants to see

#palestine #dabke #indigenous solidarity #land back #WE ARE ONE 🧡 #ps this video is from 2018 #the oppression has lasted years #i really hope these boys are still alive and well today </3

[fantastic-nonsense]

thinking about the 'load-bearing event' post and how nearly the entire post-1990s Bat mythos rests on No Man's Land happening, and it getting punted out of canon when the reboot happened irreparably fucked over both the "Batfamily" as a concept and multiple character dynamics until Death Metal/Infinite Frontier re-canonized it last year

#batman #batfam #dc comics #No Man's Land was literally THE Batman event. EVERYTHING about the Bat mythos post-2000 hinged on NML's consequences & fallout #it re-organized Gotham's power structure‚ kickstarted Ivy's redemption arc‚ introduced Cass‚ and was the first true 'Batfamily' event #not to mention it tied both Dick and Barbara back to Gotham in ways they previously hadn't been #established Huntress as an actual Player™ #gave an avenue for the comics to properly introduce Harley Quinn #and led to MASSIVE character growth and changes for Tim and Steph #is it really any surprise that the Bat books ALL felt like they were missing something vital from 2011-2020 #when one of the most important events that ever happened to them was de-canonized?

[pistachi0art]

More Ben fam stuff I believe I have neglected to put here

#Neo’s way more of an E boy now #men’s fashion can be difficult sometimes aight #small things #the twins are Marley n Neo #bc YES I take back what I said about Ben not having any twin siblings #I like twin dynamics ok #and Cohen! #I’m going through his design n personality and have landed on ‘moody singer who writes songs about how shitty everything is’ #he’s also like. coping bc he took Ben’s ‘thing’ #long story short Ben really liked singing when he was younger but never wanted to pursue it #and Cohen just happened to also be really good but not as good as Ben so he claimed that singing would be HIS thing #and now he feels guilty bc he knows that Ben never pursued it bc Cohen took that confidence from him #and it was really more about the fame n glamour for Cohen too so #he feels his singing is ingenuous #lmao #lore jumpscare!!! #big thoughts #late night posting #benrey fam

[bonefall]

Super interested in how you plan to write Leopardfoot! I feel like both fanon and canon tend to make her into a sweet mom(tm) who’s super sad that Tigerstar is evil, very similar to how Goldenflower is usually treated. What’s her thoughts on Pinestar and him leaving? How did she influence Tigerstar? What are her political beliefs?

Society has progressed past the need for sad moms who stare tearily at their evil sons and boohoo about all the murder. It's MOTHER AGENCY TIME

BB!Leopardfoot was FEROCIOUS. Her father was the indominable Adderfang, and he taught her about the importance of honor and glory. When Tigerpaw was given to Thistleclaw as an apprentice, she was proud of it. It felt perfect to her-- that her father's apprentice was now her son's mentor.

For his brief rule, she supported Sunstar completely. It helped that he came after the disastrous and embarassing exit of Pinestar, which ruined the legacy that she wanted him to give her son. Pinestar was a damn coward and a codebreaker... and she assured Tigerkit that he was more HER son than his.

She even gives him a life, for Legacy, in defiance of StarClan

She was friends with Bluemoon for a time, but after ascending to StarClan, she learned about the Forget-me-nots.

This changed her opinion of her. Leopardfoot supports Thistle Law, STRONGLY so.

She supported THISTLECLAW when he tried to forcefully void the Queen’s Rights. If Bluemoon hadn't broken the code, then what did she have to hide?

She backed off when Thrushpelt leapt to her defense though, "She didn't reveal it because she doesn't love me are you happy now??"

Leopardfoot: *awkwardly turns away feeling like an asshole now, tea SPILLED, her friend's dirty laundry EXPOSED, thought she was crusading for the law but she just dug up drama*

Towards the end of Pinestar’s reign, he was getting exhausted. He wanted peace. Leopardfoot wanted kittens around that time, and figured that there was no better cat than the son of Oakstar, architect of the infamous Crusade Era.

If Pinestar had no children, a glorious bloodline would have died out. She wanted it for her kits. Pinestar agreed on the condition that he would be their Mi, which she happily accepted.

So when Pinestar left, she jumped into the nursery to take over and had to explain to her kits where their Mi went.

She drove it home to them that he abandoned everything, because his weakness took over. They would never be like him, she promised.

Mistkit died very young. Nightpaw made it to apprenticeship before she also succumbed. Tigerclaw remembers very well how hard it was to lose his sisters.

Leopardfoot herself was taken shortly before TPB, in Spottedleaf's Plague. Her death causes Tigerclaw to have a bit of a moment.

After the trial in Bluestar's Flowers, Leopardfoot leaves StarClan along with a bunch of other Thistle Law supporters, including Thistleclaw himself. She joins the BOTTE at the end of OotS, fighting to the end with her son.

She misses him a lot, and remains in the Dark Forest to the current arc. She chose her path; and has the dignity to walk it.

She does miss StarClan sometimes though, and will tell you stories about it if you ask.

In terms of demon friends, she's somewhere in the clique between the harsher and softer spirits.

She dislikes Morningstar, Cloudberry, and Ryewhisker on the softer end, and has come to resent Thistleclaw and Finchflight on the other, but likes Darkstripe, Leopardstar, and Silverhawk.

Gets along with a range of "mid" level demons.

In particular I imagine she hangs out with Darkstripe a lot. Taste test buddy, he asks her to try his experimental recipes because she's honest but not mean. One of the few Thistle Law supporting cats he hangs out with after the double-death of Tigerstar.

He calls her Lefty. Her official nickname is "Left" but he calls her Lefty.

(Clanmew: her name is Saorpwyyar. Others call her Saopr. He calls her Sapyy.)

Her mom and dad Swiftbreeze and Adderfang are here too, following Thistleclaw like she did, but she's been minimizing her contact with her dad. She feels like she is owed an apology somehow but also doesn't have the emotional intelligence to know that it's what she wants.

She just knows that she feels really bitter talking to him, and that's unpleasant.

She used to be VITRIOLIC with Pinestar, who is also here, even going after him physically when he chose to join in with the Dark Forest trainees. But now... honestly so much shit has happened, she just doesn't like seeing him. She wishes he wasn't here.

I write her being very dignified. She doesn't like to admit publically she was ever wrong and speaks with confidence, quietly backing off and not wanting to speak about her mistakes. She loves her children and her family, but explores the world in a very "self-centric" way, trusting her feelings and personal judgement over anything logical.

A reactionary sort of person, if that makes sense.

Her Land Mar has to develop over time because she is an ex-StarClan migrant (damned souls get theirs instantly after judgement), but it's called the Fence Cliff. It's a picket fence that blocks off a sheer drop, making a sharp turn down the cliff face and acting as a walkway. Follow the fence down the slope, and you can access the Dark Forest's town biome.

#BB!Leopardfoot #Better bones au #Pinestar’s Crusade #Spottedleaf's Plague #I think I made her a land mar once before but I like this idea more #I may repurpose the old idea when I remember it for someone else #Because I like the idea of Leopard and Dark walking down her land mar to get to the town to collect odd ingredients #And have Leopard talk about how ironic it is that her life's worst moment still goes back to the choices of other people #And Dark kinda puffs and says 'im sick of people blaming everyone else for their own mistakes' #And Lef doesn't really have a response to that #And Dark backpedals not wanting to offend her #And the Cliff Fence would be a super neat setting to write such a convo in #BB!Dark Forest #Dark forest demons my beloved btw. #I was actually at one point planning a cutesy like... not-rework BB-original novella story #Of Ryewhisker gathering ingredients for an anniversary dinner #And meeting with various DF demons #But now that Darkstripe is getting a whole ass postmortem arc about healing through cooking #I might make it about him #Especially so I can put that convo in it