#Geographical Origins

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[cameoliob]

Island gal 🤭

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Florence, Italy, late August 2024

[beansprean]

Laszlo is a nathusius pipistrelle bc they are teeny and actually SING to attract mates!

Nadja is a geoffroys bat (which is hilarious bc...Jeff) bc they really like olive plantations for some reason and also do a lot of screaming

Nandor is a greater noctule bat, big enough to eat birds but a face cute enough you'd let him

[inkymaterial]

Riverside Train Ride • California Zephyr, Colorado countryside

[wandering-cemeteries]

Kaskaskia Cemetery.

Kaskaskia, Illinois

April 2022

*Fun Fact: Kaskaskia is an island that used to be connected to Illinois. The Mississippi River shifted and cut the island off from Illinois. Now it's only reachable by bridge in Missouri.

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[s-m0key]

Polar bear sunrise. By, Ian Plant Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, USA.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

something so charming to me about how china's overall lack of creative power has extended even into company names, leading companies to have dry bangers like China North Industries Group Corporation Limited and China Southern Asset Management

[spite-and-waffles]

Stop colouring the entire race of brown people in the same skin tone.

If you're colouring East Asians, Southeast Asians, Middle Easterners, Anatolians, North Africans, South Asians, Polynesians, Native and First Nations people, Romani and everyone from Latin America the exact same shade, including those who are half-white, you're just making us into a monolith.

[devcoll41]

Mountain top stars

[saints-who-never-existed]

Look, I know this is very random but thinking about Manson and his Shetland origins brought me back to this video concerning Shetlandic/Shetland dialect, and I thought perhaps others might be interested to see it too.

It features Christine De Luca, who not only has an incredibly lovely, mellifluous voice but is also a celebrated poet who was made Edinburgh's Makar in 2014 and has long been an advocate for Shetlandic.

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Villa Terra Morgana, Tuscany

[rosemusic]

Okay so this is a pretty basic rant, but what I want to know is that am I justified in this opinion or am I just being racist?

We all know that the "How To Train Your Dragon" movie live action adaptation is set to hit cinemas in 2025, June 15 right?

Well I googled the cast today for the hell of it.

I was pretty happy to see that Hiccup would be played by Jay Baruchel, they look alike enough.

My issue is with Astrid's actress.

America Ferrera's acting skills aren't something I can give an opinion on, purely because I haven't watched any shows it movies with her in it. But here my issue is with her looks.

It's one thing to make inclusive live actions. It's one thing to show that times are moving forward.

I had a hard time swallowing Leah being Annabeth too, until I accepted it and now love her wholeheartedly, but I feel like doing the same with Astrid is a step too far.

The fair skinned, blonde VIKING girl living in the northern hemisphere in and around snowy islands and icy seas, being played by a brown American actress???

And again, I just want to reiterate that I am brown myself, but again, I just don't get it. At this point this doesn't even feel like they are trying to be inclusive, it just feels like they know they've messed up in the past so now they're trying willy-nilly to overcompensate for it by shoving things like this down our throats.

Let Astrid be blonde. Let her be fair and white. Let our childhood stay true to itself, that's all I'm saying.

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i realized i have never actually colored shoua so i rectified that really quick bre draw tucson area not at dusk challenge failed

jackrabbit brujo book 1

[king-of-kaoss]

hey did we know that trafalgar means 'end of the west' because i didnt and that's either very foil to luffy coded or maybe a little ominous and definitely has a lot of see you at Laugh Tale vibes