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Should I watch this Yes or No

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I love this picture so much! Post it whenever I come across it.

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Sigourney Weaver photographed by Helmut Newton, 1983.

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Images of Boophis kirki and Boophis picardi by Alice Petzold, a co-author on the paper describing some new treefrog species from Madagascar - B. kirki, B. picardi, B. siskoi, B. janewayae, B. archeri, B. pikei and B. burnhamae. "One group of treefrogs, the Boophis marojezensis complex, emit otherworldly whistling sounds reminiscent of sounds of technical equipment in the fictional “Star Trek” universe." Pics found at the first author's website: https://www.mvences.de/ and another author's website http://www.markscherz.com/archives/5786 The last link also has four audio files for the trekfrog calls. Not as expressive and varied as the sound effects in Star Trek in my opinion but a good excuse for honouring the captains with some new trekfrogs.

Alice shows off her art on https://www.instagram.com/alice.petzold.art/ and sells it on https://www.etsy.com/shop/AlicePetzoldArt

The paper is:

Vences, M., J. Köhler, C.R. Hutter, M. Preick, A. Petzold, A. Rakotoarison, F.M. Ratsoavina, F. Glaw & M.D. Scherz (2024): Communicator whistles: A Trek through the taxonomy of the Boophis marojezensis complex reveals seven new, morphologically cryptic treefrogs from Madagascar (Amphibia: Anura: Mantellidae). – Vertebrate Zoology 74: 643-681.

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This could be the job opportunity I've been waiting for. All my random, weird sideshow talents could earn me a nice little cult following...

rb if you could be the antichrist

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aparently in the latest fantastic 4 comics johnny storm has been in a relationship with an alien, and that would be pretty standard affair for marvel heroes, right.

except someone at marvel with fucking balls of steel and the biggest brain in the known universe made the alien look... actually alien

this is the greatest thing ive seen in my life, is almost enough to make me want to read the comic

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happy fuck or die 15th of september to all who celebrate. on this day, a bajillion years ago, amok time served the most cunt no one has ever served before. and then slash fanfiction was invented. it is the sacred texts 🙏

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Dracula cross-stitch sampler pattern

Since I've had time on vacation, I finished up a cross-stitch pattern I started a year ago in the first Dracula Daily round, based on the words Dracula uses to greet Jonathan Harker when he comes to the castle: "Welcome to my house. Come freely, go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring".

I wanted a sampler for my front hall, but all the patterns I could find were very Hot Topic Goth. Nothing wrong with that, but my goth aesthetic is more "creepy thing found behind the wall in an old attic", and I wanted a pattern that my aunt wouldn't realize was anything out of the ordinary. I was looking around for inspiration and stumbled on an 1871 sampler by 12-year-old Jemima Clements in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a little bit early for Dracula but the aesthetic was spot on, so I spent a long time squinting at a zoom of the best download of it they had to copy the wolves and the letters, and then left it for almost a year because I got frustrated trying to figure out how to get a good-formatted pattern out.

When we came up on a year I transcended frustrated and went with the good-old fashioned grandma method and transferred my pixels to a spreadsheet. So on the off chance you want a creepy Dracula sampler for your front hall, I now have it in .pdf and a downloadable Google Sheet. The .pdf is formatted to print on legal paper, but it will be a bit small that way; you are welcome to fiddle with the spreadsheets to get it the size you want.

PDF of the pattern of the Dracula quote ^this will not work if your browser redirects to https because my webhost messed that up, but it should work if you force http

Google Drive link to a shareable/downloadable Sheets file

The pattern uses 7-10 different thread colors; I don't believe in locking in brand-name floss, so the pattern includes color description and it's up to you to find stuff in your stash that looks good together.

I could not come up with a decision on the border, so the options are:

Make all the flowers plain lavender

Use a variegated purple for the flowers

Pick 4-6 different shades of lavender/light purple and alternate them - this is most similar to Jemima's border

Use the "allium flower" pixel art pattern I coded into the pattern (recommended only if you recognized the allium flower pixel art pattern I used.)

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Happy Bell Riots day to all who celebrate!

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This footage of Elmo after messing up a take on Sesame Street is peak relatable

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if you’re craving chocolate muffins after the olympic muffin man videos, jordan the stallion on tiktok has the recipe for you