#I’m out here fighting for my life

[shewantsitall]

Idk probably none of y’all have kids but if you do pls try to be nice to their teachers. They’re probably doing their best.

[jellydragons]

been watching a lot of hermitcraft recently and am happy to report that i am hopelessly endeared by these little goobers 💕 they’re like bugs to me

close ups under the cut!

gonna be real this was absolutely just me taking the opportunity to get my grubby lil mitts all up in their character designs lol i heart interpreting mc skins

[pastelpaperplanes]

KOBD for the soul

[f0x-meets-w0lf]

hey hi hello my lovely fellow goblins and fiends and friends — this feels kind of weird to do, but y’all have been so relentlessly awesome and supportive of my art and i figure it can’t hurt to ask. lately i’ve been experiencing a massive slump on my professional instagram account — needlef0x — and it is impacting my business.

i have been speaking up consistently about palestine in my stories and have a fundraiser ongoing over there and i think it’s causing the algorithm to further suppress and hide my posts from folks. i have a bigger audience (in numbers) than ever, and yet faaaar less interaction and reach than ever.

so! i’m just posting this to say! if you like my artwork and want to support me in a different way, following along on my tattoo instagram and liking/commenting/sharing/interacting with posts and stories in general would be super helpful. i am a full-time self-employed artist just doing my best to stay afloat while it feels like every social media platform wants artists/small biz folks/creatives to fail.

i know my tattoos aren’t the fanart y’all follow me here for, nor are they (generally) fandom-related, but they *are* what keeps food in my stomach and a roof over my head! so any/all support is so so deeply appreciated. thanks y’all ♡ back to regular programming now

[vvitchering]

Being on tumblr right now feels a lot like trying to live a normal life during the zombie apocalypse. Reblog a couple posts, write a meta, lean out the window and shoot 27 spam bot accounts with a sawed-off shotgun, laugh at a meme, etc.

[petitesmafia]

if you think about it Albatross is actually scary as hell,,,imagine being on the battlefield fighting for your life and you hear a mf LAUGHING

[bestanimal]

Round 2.5 - Cnidaria - Polypodiozoa

(Sources - 1, 2)

Polypodiozoa is a class of Cnidarians that contains one order: Polypodiidea, one family: Polypodiidae, one Genus: Polypodium, and one species: Polypodium hydriforme. Perhaps other species exist, but P. hydriforme is the only one known.

Polypodium parasitizes the eggs of sturgeon and similar fishes (Acipenseridae and Polyodontidae). It is one of few animals that lives inside the cells of other animals. Polypodium possesses nematocysts and a cnidarian body plan but has an unusual life cycle. It spends most of its life inside the oocytes of acipenseriform fishes. In infected oocytes, Polypodium develops from a binucleate cell into an inside-out planuliform larva and then into an elongate inside-out stolon; the epidermal cell layer is located internal to the body and the gastrodermis is located externally. The embryo, larva and stolon are surrounded by a protective polyploid cell, which also functions in digestion. Just prior to the host’s spawning, Polypodium everts to the normal position of cell layers, revealing tentacles scattered along the stolon. During eversion, the yolk of the host oocyte fills the gastral cavities of the parasite, supplying the future free-living stage with nutrients. The parasitic phase of its life cycle usually takes several years. Finally, upon emerging from the host egg in fresh water, the free-living stolon fragments into individual medusoid-like organisms [images 1 and 2] that go on to multiply by means of longitudinal fission. In summer they form endodermal sexual organs: "female" ones showing ovaria and gonoducts, and "male" ones with simpler organization.

Not much is known about the evolution of Polypodium and how it came to be. Freshwater-living is rare for cnidarians, but not unheard of, as some hydrozoans are also freshwater. The Myxosporeans and Malacosporeans, fellow parasitic cnidarians, also have freshwater representatives.

[toorurii]

Hey! I feel like you should know that your art is being actively fed Into ai, like there's an entire bot thingy with the main purpose of mimicking your artsyle on some weird site 😬

https://pixai.art/model/1717601251902205889

ik and I already looked into it...... like I have no clue how to even begin to report or do anything abt it bc clearly the site is made specifically to bar actual artists from repremanding anyone. Looked through the whole TOS and help sections of the site months ago and there's nothing helpful in it at all... I've just done my best to ignore it bc like it makes me feel sooo fucking bad knowing that I'm literally helpless against it.

Def no hard feelings bc ik u just wanted to let me know, and if anyone KNOWS any ways to actually get this taken down I would be so grateful (preferrably that isn't super involved and won't require big boy stuff like lawyers and stuff bc I ain't got time for that), and once again no hard feelings but in the future I would prefer this isn't brought up to me w/o active solutions bc once again it just makes me feel frustrated and helpless all over again 😭

[that-sarcastic-writer]

You know you have issues when you see a man commit actual crimes without remorse and you’re like but i still want him

[angelmush]

the other day i walked around the golden lake w my love and the sun was setting hot and orange and we watched a brown duck preening through the weeds, ducking her head under the dark water. the cool lake swallowed up my tired feet to the ankles and we counted the dog walkers with their curly panting doodles and their handsome german shepherds and their whip smart little terriers and we admired the careful construction of a sand castle whose moat held determinedly against the lapping of the waves. we could feel in our chests the persistent thunderous thumping of celebratory music at the finish line of the lakeside 5k, welcoming each gasping runner across its bounds. and i felt like crying. i felt like curling into myself and crying. we walked through the swamp of the bird sanctuary afterwards and listened to the woods sing and croak and groan and then we went and got ube and yuzu gelato and devoured it suntired and sweating on the couch in our living room. and i was so overcome w a deep and true unshakeable happiness and a sort of confused grief that i wanted to sob and sob and sob.

[lialox]

In the process of 1.5 hours, so much drama was revealed to me that I’m cancelling my next trip back to my hometown next year.

[kafus]

something that’s missing from a lot of discussion on GSC, both positive and negative, is the context in which those games released. and i say this as someone who has no nostalgia for GSC and did not play them until adulthood, and who was very unaware of gen 2’s existence as a young kid.

when GSC released, the only other mainline games were RGBY. “generations” weren’t… a concept yet. through digging around and talking to folk just slightly older than me, i’ve learned that players back then would sometimes call RBY “colors” or “chromatics” while GSC would be “minerals” or “metallics” or other such variants. they were not calling it “gen 2.”

this is important because pokemon discourse and critique is always very echo chamber-y - we all, myself included, tend to judge pokemon game quality based on how they compare to other pokemon games, instead of the lens of general game design. so people judge gen 2 based on their preconceived notion of what a new pokemon generation is supposed to be, when generations weren’t even a thing and GSC was more intended to be a… RBY expansion pass? for lack of a better term.

stadium 2 being left out of the conversation is also immensely frustrating for me, though to some extent, i get it. the only ways to play stadium 2 properly with the transfer pak are to own a ton of old and increasingly expensive hardware that have dying batteries you have to replace, or to wrangle together an N64 emulator with transfer pak support. i understand that both options are not feasible for a lot of people for a variety of reasons. and it’s not like nintendo does a good job of reminding you about the stadium games properly either - the virtual console releases of RGBY/GSC on 3DS came without them, and the stadium releases on switch without RGBY/GSC, literally putting out a shell of a video game and forever burning the legacy of the stadium games as half finished rental gauntlets with minigames into younger generations’ minds instead of postgame & difficulty proto-DLC before the likes of the emerald battle frontier could fit on gameboy cartridges.

and of course none of us can teleport back to the 90s/early 2000s if we weren’t there for that, or in my case, a bit too young to get it - especially increasingly younger generations who are only going to hear discussion on johto through poketubers and have much less conception of what that era of time looked like. but i think knowing about that time at least a little bit is crucial in understanding GSC as games.

i’m not sure what the point of this post is, i just really love johto and the modern conversation about games this important to me is frankly demoralizing, and i wish i could convey what i love about them without hearing the same parroted talking points that don’t even hold up. constantly. all the time.

[sugarcoatednightshade]

Tired of seeing fic on ao3 claiming to be based off dune the book series when it’s very obvious that the writer has only seen dune the movie(s).

Yes, it matters. Yes, these are very different works. You’re probably doing this for visibility; I don’t care. Archive Of Our Own is a fucking archive, stop labeling your works with a tag you know is factually incorrect. It makes it impossible for me to filter for fics I want to read.

[novorehere]

Tummy decided to hate me again tonight. Time to pull out the old reliable heating pad and comfort scenarios

[eyk-hetaart]

[eyk lore] New York is a giant off-kilter sitcom and everyone is assigned a recurring bit

I don’t like mine

[parkitaco]

there should be an award for not telling people they’re being a bitch when they’re being a bitch and it should go to Me based on this week alone