#nycteris

[lepiosprites]

Bat time

#homestuck #unrequested #homestuck sprite edit #homestuck fanspecies #fanspecies #fan species #nycteris

[notesofseptember]

#nycteris #hans zimmer #james newton howard #soundtrack #batman begins #dark knight trilogy #Spotify

[the-apocryphal-one]

Do you have a favorite fairy tale author? (Hans Christian Andersen, the Grimm brothers, etc.)

I have several!

The Grimm Brothers have such a wide variety you’re bound to find something you like, and many of them are classics. Briar Rose/Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Snowdrop/Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella, but also lesser-known ones like Jorinda and Joringel, the Golden Bird, the White Snake, and the Elves and their Shoemaker.

George MacDonald is another favorite. He’s written far less fairy tales than the brothers, but his are often longer—several are full novellas or short stories—richer in characters and themes, and have genuinely sweet romances. The Light Princess, Photogen and Nycteris, and Little Daylight are my top three and are on my comfort reads list.

Regina Doman’s The Fairy Tale Novels are a set of exactly six fairy-tale retellings set in the contemporary world, which stand out to me for three reasons: one, how ingeniously she translates some things into modern times (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, for instance, becomes cyberthieves); two, the Catholic worldview; and three, the characters and relationships are so, so good.

Kate Stradling only has three retellings I’ve read (four if you count the Beowulf one, but I wasn’t as fond of that) and they’re all great. Brine and Bone is a piece of genius—the Little Mermaid from the other woman’s point of view—and Soot and Slipper had a great twist and genuinely left me unsure of the stepmother’s character for a while.

I don’t know if she really counts since she’s only done one retelling, but that retelling—Unseen Beauty—by Amity Thompson ruined all other Beauty and the Beast retellings for me, so that has to be worth something.

The Selfish Giant alone makes Oscar Wilde worth the rec. Tears man.

#answers #fairy tales #the grimm brothers #george macdonald #regina doman #Oscar wilde #the fairy tale novels #The light princess #photogen and nycteris #Little daylight #Kate stradling #book rec

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, vol. 11, Mammals II. 1972.

1.) Greater bulldog bat (Noctilio leporinus)

2.) Ghost bat (Macroderma gigas)

3.) Yellow-winged bat (Lavia frons)

4.) Greater false vampire bat (Lyroderma lyra)

5.) Egyptian slit-faced bat (Nycteris thebaica)

6.) Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii)

#bats #greater bulldog bat #ghost bat #yellow-winged bat #greater false vampire bat #egyptian slit-faced bat #Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat

[nerdanel1485]

Nycteris the Alchemist   

Comm for a friend! D&D + Lovecraft (Dunwich) inspired

#oc #dnd #dungeons and dragons #lovecraft #mix #cthulhu #horror of dunwich #changeling #alchemist #commission #comm #art #drawing #artist on tumblr #dnd art #dnd oc

[migurski]

Nycteris grandis – Guardabosques

Via https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/guardabosques-paper-bat-sculptures/

[macamadamia]

Friday FIC REC: War, Children by Nonymos

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5373050/chapters/12409394

After Bucky was released from the hospital, it only took him a couple of weeks to give up on himself. Difficult to believe in any kind of future when the simple act of staying alive was almost too big an effort. Out the frosted window, across the street, there was a tiny homeless guy burrowing under an awning.

Artwork inspired by War, Children:

#fanfic rec #ao3 #stucky #marvel mcu #macamadamia's fanfic recs

[avoyagetoarcturus]

Nycteris Art summary 2022 🎨🖌️

Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun/Jul/Aug/Sep/Oct/Nov/Dec

Best of 2021/2020/2019/2018/2017

Happy New Year! 🍾

#art summary 2022 #maiart #watercolor art

[cassidyjaneart]

I don’t think I ever posted these here! A couple of cute children’s literature gals.

#alice in wonderland #wonderland #through the looking glass #alices adventures in wonderland #through the looking glass and what Alice found there #Dorothy gale #the wizard of oz #ozma #oz #the wizard of oz Dorothy #Wendy Moira Angela darling #Wendy darling #peter pan #anne shirley #anne with an e #anne of green gables #the day boy and the night girl #the romance of photogen and nycteris #nycteris #lucy pevensie #the chronicles of narnia #Narnia #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #children’s classics #fanart #art #artists on tumblr #new art account #digital art #new art blog

[ramune-raven-art]

nycteris Kanaya for @lepiosprites

#ramune raven art #painting #Homestuck #Homestuck fanart #homestuck fan species #fanspecies #nycteris #kanaya maryam #fanart for a blog

[lepiosprites]

I really loved the gif @rogueofrageedits made so i did one with all the swaps of my fanspecies!

#homestuck #unrequested #nepeta #nepeta leijon #fanspecies week 2023 #fanspecies #fan species #speciesswap #fanspeciesswap #phosphor #lumith #cheshire #nycteris #psiikhe #crocotta #raymefah #molluskin #wight #gif #homestuck fanspecies

[ensense]

Possessed by the power of the gorgeous night, she seemed at one and the same moment annihilated and glorified.

The Day Boy and the Night Girl. https://www.ccel.org/ccel/macdonald/dayboy.i_1.html

#it me #day boy night girl #photogen #nycteris #fiction #george macdonald #inspiration

[todaysbat]

Common versus Scientific Names

What are common names? Common names are names in general use for different species. They can be any language, and there's no limit on how many different common names a particular species can have. Some common names can refer to multiple different species, while some species can have multiple common names. Examples: Bumblebee Bat, Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat both refer to the same species--Craseonycteris thonglongyai.

What are scientific names? Every recognized species on Earth has a singular scientific name unique to that species used by scientists around the world to discuss their research with their colleagues. To do this, scientists follow strict international rules in naming new species and a system called binomial nomenclature. A scientific name has two parts--the generic name (generic epithet) and the specific name (specific epithet). The generic epithet is the name of the genus and the specific epithet is the name of the species. Sometimes there's a third name, used when talking specifically about subspecies. Taxonomy-the science and process of naming organisms-, is subject to change as scientists gather a better understanding of genetic relationships, and as scientists' understanding changes, sometimes scientific names of species change as well. Sometimes, as a part of that process, some species will end up with multiple scientific names. When that happens, one name will be picked as their name and the others will be used as synonyms. Examples: All bats in the genus Lasiurus were once also known by the generic name Nycteris. So Lasiurus borealis would have also been known as Nycteris borealis. The valid, currently recognized name is Lasiurus borealis and Nycteris borealis is considered a synonym.

#bat science

[warrioreowynofrohan]

The Four Loves - Eros

Lewis very specifically distinguishes eros (romantic love, being ‘in love’) from sexual desire (which he calls Venus). (This is, by the way, very helpful for my understanding the concepts of asexuality and aromanticism and the distinctions between them.)

Lewis starts off the chapter with noting that he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with people marrying without eros and in fact that’s been the nature of most marriages through history. (So we can conclud he’d be okay with ‘friends-with-benefits’ provided that it was committed, monogamous friends-with-benefits. In fact, he initially married Joy Davidman - in a civil ceremony, not a religious one - so she could retain her UK residency, when they were close friends but not yet in love, though given his convictions they probably didn’t sleep together at that time.) Nor is there anything inherently ‘right’ about eros, and it is certainly capable of leading to wrong and hurtful actions.

Lewis describes eros in this way (his entire discussion of the subject is from the male perspective):

Very often what comes first is simply a delighted pre-occupation with the Beloved - a general, unspecified pre-occupation with her in her totality. A man in this state really hasn’t leisure to think of sex. He is too busy thinking of a person. The fact that she is a woman is far less important than the fact that she is herself. He is full of desire, but the desire may not be sexually toned. If you asked him what he wanted, the true reply would often be, “To go on thinking of her.”...In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion, the love desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

...The reader will notice that Eros thus womderfully transforms what is par excellence a Need-pleasure into the most Appreciative of all pleasures. It is the nature of a Need-pleasure to show us the object solely in relation to our need, even our momentary need [e.g., a glass of water when we are thirsty]. But in Eros, a Need, at its most intense, sees the object most intensely as a thing admirable in herself, important far beyond her relation to the lover’s need.

Without Eros sexual desire, like every other desire, is a fact about ourselves. Within Eros it is rather about the Beloved. It becomes almost a mode of perception, a mode of expression. It feels objective; sonething outside us, in the real world. That is why Eros, thoigh the king of pleasures, always (at his height) has the air of regarding pleasure as a by-product. Anyway, whose pleasure? For one of the first things Eros does is to obliterate the distinction between giving and receiving.

I’ve quoted the passage at length because I am trying to get a clearer understanding of the ideas here; it is less easily understood, to me, than the other forms (and not something I’ve personally experienced). But the last line draws me to something from George MacDonald’s writings that I’ve often applied to my understanding of romantic love and how it differs from others. Friendship, or philia, is the enjoyment of someone’s company because you share the same interests. Eros is the enjoyment of the Beloved’s interests because they are the Beloved’s. MacDonald expresses this in his short story “The Day Boy and the Night Girl”, about a boy who is raised to only ever see the day and never experience night or darkness, and a girl who is raised in darkness and never sees the day. They meet, they fall in love, and it concludes with:

Hardly had one [year of their marriage] passed, before Nycteris had come to love the day best, because it was the clothing and crown of Photogen...and Photogen had come to love the night best, because it was the mother and home of Nycteris.

In the story of Aldarion and Erendis in Unfinished Tales, their marriage falls apart because they don’t have this: each of them values their own pursuits, preferences, and desires more than they value being with the other (though I think Aldarion is far more to blame, as she makes many, many allowances for him, and he makes very few for her). Likewise with the Ents and Ent-wives, who both prefer being in the lands that they love over being together.

In contrast to that, Lewis says that the goal of eros is not happiness, but valuing togetherness over being happy:

Eros does not aim at happiness. To Eros all calculations are irrelevant. Even when it comes clear beyond all evasion that marriage with the Beloved cannot possibly lead to happiness - when it cannot even profess to offer any other life than that of tending an incurable invalid, of hopeless poverty, of exile, or of disgrace - Eros never hesitates to say, “Better this than parting. Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together.” If the voice within it does not say this, it is not the voice of Eros.

It is in this respect that Eros can give us a greater understanding of our relationship to God:

This love is really and truly like Love Himself. In it there is real nearness to God (by Resemblance [in its willingness to give up everything for the Beloved]). Eros, honoured so far as love of God and charity to our fellows will allow, may [also] become for us a means of Approach. His total committment is a paradigm or example, built into our natures, of the love we ought to exercise towards God and Man. It is as if Christ said to us through Eros, “Thus - just like this - with this prodigality - not counting the cost - you are to love me and the least of my brethren.”

...In one high bound [eros] has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another at the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.

Yet, as noted above, this is not to say that eros is intrinsically good. In fact, Lewis considers it one of the more perilous forms of love, precisely because it is so overpowering that it can lead lovers to think that everything they do for the cause of love is right or justifiable. If amor vincit omnia refers to eros, then Lewis disagrees with the assertion (and so do I). The rejection of it is one of the things I love about Jane Eyre, where in the scene after Jane finds out that Rochester has a living (and insane) wife, and Jan and Rochester are still as deeply in eros as they have ever been, she chooses to leave because staying and living as his mistress would be wrong, defying both his passions and her own. Lewis describes the destructiveness of unrestrained eros, “ready for every sacrifice except renunciation,” and with the particular danger that “temptations speak with the voice of duties” - to go against romantic love feels wrong even when it is right. This doesn’t just refer to love-affairs. We see it in Les Mis when Marius determines to detach Cosette from Valjean (whom he regards as a criminal and danger, and whose wealth he suspects is ill-gotten) for love of her, and Cosette is wrapped up in love for Marius enough to forget Valjean.

And despite the overwhelming demands that eros makes, it is “notoriously the most mortal of all our lives; the world rings with complaints of his fickleness.” People promise very sincerely to be in love forever, and the feeling fades shortly. Lewis notes that “Between the best possible lovers this condition is intermittent” - which is not the case for affection or for friendship. Between those intermittent times, a committment that goes beyond momentary feeling, along with affection, and (ideally) philia between partners must be able to sustain the relationship. (Lewis, probably thinking of his relationship with Joy, asks anyone who is fortunate enough to have true philia with their spouse, in addition to eros, and who had to choose between the two loves, which they would choose; I think the implication is clear that he would choose philia, which was the intial foundation of their relationship.) Which is to say that, if we mean eros (rather than nonsexual physical affection) when we say ‘romance’, almost all people are aromantic most of the time.

#cs lewis #the four loves #christianity #romance and aromanticism

[gothamself-ship]

BatFam 2- Justice League

A few months passed before Seph was finally released from the hospital. After a lot of physical therapy he regained the strength had lost from his injuries. He did not really know what to do with the information he had. He could not rat out the dark knight for two reasons. He believed that the identity was kept for a reason and Batman is probably scarier than anything he could think of.

He walked from the hospital to the hall of justice the moment he was released.  With the superheroes help the area was nearly fully reconstructed. It was as if the battle had never happened and maybe facing off against the Joker was just a nightmare. He chuckled knowing that it was a ridiculous thought, but it was nice to think maybe he had helped.

He walked through the front door of the Hall of justice letting his eyes roam and hopefully not show how anxious he was to be there.  He walked to the front desk taking a deep breath to calm himself. “ I need to speak to Batman please” He said. The lady sitting behind the desk looked up at him “you and every other fan boy…what is it pertaining to?” She answered.

“ummm…I… Well you see… give me one moment” he said turning away rubbing his temples. What was he thinking just walking in and demanding to see Batman? He can’t just blurt out that he knows their secret identities. He stood there thinking for a moment ‘what would Batman do?”

He turned back over with a smile and leaned onto the desk making sure to be nice and clear. “Tell him I have some information on Robin’s car accident 8 months ago” He said  with a grin on his face confident that it would work. Before the front desk woman could answer a buzz came from her phone. She picked up and stood up looking at Seph whose cocky smile was now harder to keep. What if the justice league was the type to make you disappear if you learn their secrets?

“Right this way young man” She said leading him through a pair of double doors. They sat him down in a room with an obvious one way mirror. He could not believe he was going to meet Batman face to face or maybe that was the last face he would ever see.

The door opened and his entire body went ridged. They had barely given him any time to make himself comfortable. He could hear someone had walked him, but to his slight disappointment it was robin who sat across from him. “Have we met?” Robin started with.

Seph could not think straight even if it was robin it was a hero acknowledging his existence and he was nervous. He could not help but shake a bit and stayed quiet not able to speak. This was suddenly harder than walking out against a room full of thugs. If robin was here then who was watching behind the window.

Robin stood up leaning forward confused at how the young man was acting. He poked at Seph who jumped before suddenly letting it all out “ You are Dick Grayson, Batman is Bruce Wayne and I suspect Superman is the reporter Clark Kent”

Robin was frozen in place with his jaw hanging down. He had not expected all of that. Seph was frozen in place pointing a finger at him with a face that one could clearly tell he was internally screaming. “How?” Robin asked.

Seph finally took a deep breath calming him enough to speak “When the Hall of Justice was attacked I was the one you recued from those thugs. I had passed out, but when you came to Joker had unmasked you. When the news ran the story that you had a car accident I recognized you from the picture and from there connected the dots. Bruce Wayne is your adopted father and he is the right height and build to be Batman.”

“What about Superman?” Robin asked curiously

“Clark is often seen around Bruce Wayne and once you really look past the glasses it is kind of obvious that he is Superman and it would make sense to become a reporter since it lets you get the news first and you can save people much faster” He answered.

The door opened before Robin could get another word in. Batman and Superman walked in with Martian Manhunter. “please don’t kill me” Seph blurted again internally screaming. The three looked at each other “So what do we do?” Superman asked with a worried look on his face.

Batman turned to the Martian “we could wipe his memory” he said bluntly, but Superman raised his hand in disapproval. Seph once again took a deep breath feeling a bit daring. What could he possibly lose at this point “You could always offer me a job?” He said giving the three men and Robin a thumbs up while screaming internally.

#seph/harely #harley quinn #seph #batman self-ship #batman #bat fam #dc universe #dc #dc comics #fan writing #fan work #kat #nightwing #Dick Grayson #alexa #tim drake #jason todd #bruce wayne #nycteri #this shit is cray #like #wtf #hahahah #dick didnt even know what was coming man #yeah man lets just give this noob a job #cuz you know #thats how life works right?

[horrorslashergirl]

Made more kinky stuff involving our favorite classy dude, Nycteris. It's not that good, but it's something! That's what matters.

Ohooooo.... Juicy👀 Sounds interesting

#Slasher OC #Not my OC