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before and after we taught him Frost Shield 🥺🥺

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1555 Jacopo Robusti (Tintoretto) - Portrait of a young man

(Barber Institute of Fine Arts)

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Top ten imaginary bugs?

A tree dwelling cockroach that lights up like a firefly

A big spiny predatory katydid that lights up to lure the cockroaches

A freshwater mantis shrimp I could just find at the average creek like I can crawfish.

A "giant" (like 2 inches) flightless lousefly that can thrive on any vertebrate blood and bites things at night like a vampire bat, wouldn't spread disease or infest homes or even be any more painful than a mosquito but you know it'd freak people out real bad anyways. Just something extra to keep humans on their toes.

A giant (like 1 inch) snout mite because they're really fun carnivorous mites with pointy noses, I wanna be able to keep them as pets too, or an even more giant tick but it's a non-biting scavenger. I want a big friendly tick.

A freshwater goose barnacle that can grow on land and catch insects like a venus flytrap.

A fully terrestrial crab that lives positively everywhere just so we'd have a culture in which crabs have to be recognized as common woodland creatures instead of mainly sea or beach creatures. I just think that would be fun. Might be neat if it's also super spiny all over.

A positively colossal (half an inch) tardigrade. Some tardigrades are predators, it could be one of those. A ferocious mega tardigrade that eats worms and termites and things.

One single small, plain species of trilobite that survived extinction by coming onto land but it's a petty nuisance to us, like it loves to eat stucco or something.

A biting vampire butterfly. Vampire moths exist, but they're rare and nocturnal. The vampire butterfly should be common and act like any other butterfly except that it will bite you if it gets the chance. As with the woodland crab I just wanna see what cultural impact there'd be if one butterfly was scary. It should look really distinct among all butterflies for ease of artistic use. So nobody has to explain what kind of butterfly it is if they got it for a tattoo or put it on an album cover.

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look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston

Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.

Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

#shakespeare adaptation

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poem about a spider climbing on the wall and you think it’s one of those feel-good release-it-outside-don’t-kill-it poems but then it abruptly switches to talking about seizing it in your jaws and how crispy and fatty the spider is and you realize it was written by N°11 the large female house centipede who of course is a brilliant poet (all house centipedes are because they eat silverfish, and those eat old books of poems, and knowledge is transferred through the paper and flesh) and now you’re oddly hungry

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Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.

#saving this for the rec list #thank you op!

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how do you infinite scroller webcomic people DO IT

#totk #yooooooooo #exceedingly cool use of an already cool idea #big fan of the switch in colour and brightness for Pay Attention to make it really pop

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hehe

Could we crash tumblr if we all posted the word "crash" on the 1st of april 2022, 12:35 EST?

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I'll just schedule a reblog of this for that time - more bytes!

Could we crash tumblr if we all posted the word "crash" on the 1st of april 2022, 12:35 EST?

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Animal Reviews!

Source: facebook.com

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Star Trek: tos as tumblrs banned words

#sulu: GUN #star trek: the original series #ST:TOS

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bringing this meme format back since history is repeating itself.

#oh tumblr

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finally a good fucking quiz

100% accurate results, every time!

(Submitter’s note: please take the quiz I beg of you. gender neutral, no sex/romance questions, no timed questions, one “do you care about your star sign” question but it doesn’t list the zodiac and there’s a “no” option)

#lmaooo #half the time ace isn't even an option on these #so i like this one

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Controversial opinion of the day: People can play whatever gender TTRPG character they want. Exploration is good, regardless of whether or not you identify as a certain gender or not, and regardless of whether or not you end up identifying as that gender in the future.

Questioning people use TTRPGs to explore gender identities they might feel more comfortable with. But also, cis people exploring different gender identities even if they continue identifying as cis is good too. Just, exploration is good and gaining different experiences is good. Having a general environment where everyone feels safe and free to explore gender (or sexuality) through TTRPGs is good.

Why? Exploring your identity and what it means to you is something many people need, and roleplaying allows us to experiment with many of these aspects in a safe environment. Not only gender or sexuality, but also personality wise (like trying to be more assertive, or more social, or less uncertain), and we can experience and practice these things through roleplay.

Furthermore, it is in fact very good if the people playing around with gender through roleplay aren't only those who already identify as trans, because questioning people might be too scared to do so if they will be relentlessly asked about their identity. They might not yet want to be labelled as such or get outed before they are ready.

But also, anyone of any gender identity trying out different things and seeing whether they like it or not is just GOOD regardless. Trans and cis people playing around with gender in a safe, comfortable environment is good.

Obviously, leaning heavily into stereotypes is bad, or doing things for the lulz and making people at your table feel uncomfortable is bad. That's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about the core concept of playing characters who are different from how you yourself identify, which can be very good and healthy and I think everyone should do it.

#yup #in other news today: #putting yourself in other people's shoes in a game is a useful tool for building empathy and understanding irl! #who'da thunk it #Like #I'm currently playing a half-orc wizard who also is a man #I myself am not a man #but neither am I a wizard #and pretending to be someone who is both is a) fun b) interesting and c) leading to some fun insights #like: I hate doing trig ratios on the fly to calculate who is and isn't in a cone-shaped aoe #but also: how do fantasy cultures deal with presenting masculinity? wizard's robes #(the way they are depicted most of the time in our fantasy anways) #look kind of dress-shaped a lot of the time #which I associate with a feminine presentation (although ofc that's def not always the case) #but would a wizard dude have that association? #idk #but it's interesting! playing people who are different from you is interesting! #building characters who aren't just you with a hat is fun and good actually #(also demanding only X people play X type of character is asking for people to out themselves #and that's just bad manners)

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an illustration for my grandmother