#creature 78

[dailycreatures]

Creature 78

Vanessa cardui

Vanessa cardui, the painted lady butterfly, can be found everywhere except Antarctica and South America. It migrates from Africa to Europe in the spring, and occasionally in the fall as well. These butterflies don’t have red receptors in their eyes meaning they are not sensitive to red light.

fact source: wikipedia

image source: thoughtco

[tsarjozinzbazin]

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[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #78: Swamp Crow

If this image is yours and you would like it credited or removed, let me know!

[polokus]

More Wilson doodles from last month. He’s good for warm ups.

[comparativeoracle]

The Owl. Art by Anita Inverarity, from 78 Tarot: Creatures of the Night Oracle.

[releasing-my-insanity]

If I had a nickle for every time Tristan Farnon had his heart broken in 1938. And the woman wore her blond hair curled and pinned up, and worked in a building that served alcohol. I'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened in two universes.

[sylvermoths]

Starvetober day 5 and 6: cycle and season

I was way too tired to do anything for day 5 so here's a tiny sketch that I drew in 5 seconds cause I was bored in philosophy class.

(the other person talking is Wilson btw)

[demigodofhoolemere]

I just wanna go home (fictional location I can’t possibly get to)

[magickpumpkin]

i present to you the newest oracle deck added to my collection!

Creatures of the Night Oracle

By 78 Tarot

their IG is: https://www.instagram.com/78tarot/ if you want to keep updated with their decks

[chrysaliscreatorii]

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 3 - Match 29

We've got some creatures today! Creature Feature comes with 153 Redemption votes, and is up against a very different kind of creature in Distant Cousin, with 132 votes from last round!

MAG 110 - Creature Feature | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Alexia Crawley, regarding her time working as a cinematographer on Dexter Banks' final film.

MAG 078 - Distant Cousin | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lawrence Moore, regarding something that was not his cousin.

[ambisun]

@78tarot's Halloween Tarot and Creatures of the Night Oracle are now live on Kickstarter! I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the project and have my work featured alongside the many incredibly talented skilled illustrators. You can find my art in both decks, The Sun ( Halloween Tarot ) and Black Cat (Creatures of the Night).

Checkout the Kickstarter here:

[e-one-seven]

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/151796-host-of-horrors-content-update-available-now/

Don't Starve Together: From Beyond - Host of Horrors [Update Trailer]

This is so cool. And that ending... WAGSTAFF!

[oatflatwhite]

the inherent homoeroticism of war media: a completely unserious presentation by me

[note: some slides have been removed because they're literally just fancams and also i had more than 30 slides boo tumblr image limits]

BIBLIOGRAPHY (just going in order of slides)

and your knees are driving me wild - mash s02e08

george mackay has found his niche in homoerotic war movies

war stories are inherently homoerotic. that's how we got stucky

hangman you look good - top gun: maverick (gif by babyrooster)

letter of recommendation: watching masters of the air secondhand

it's not just sports - masters of the air e02

1 being not gay at all, 10 being liberace in an f-16

we'll go to chicago - band of brothers e01 (gif by @fkmylif3)

it is the law that every piece of war media

kim is a homoseggsual - kath & kim s01e02

Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals) - Barbara Kruger

The Secret History of Australia's Gay Diggers - Ben Winsor (+ Paul Fussell quoted within)

Sexuality, Sexual Relations and Homosexuality - Jason Crouthamel

Soldiers bathing in Malaya - AWM

Private Frank Crocker letters featured in Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf, A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War (2014), pp. 75-78.

mike's mic screencap my beloved <3

winnix gifs by @bandofbrothers2001 @preacherboyd @galebucky

winnix art by @andromeddog

winnix art by @onefineginger

In storms and at sunset by jouissant

winnix memes/text posts: 1 (@bleedingcoffee42) 2 (@krakerjaksstuff) 3 (@claudycod) 4 (@lewis-winters) 5 (@mon-mothmas-collar)

man is a hopeless creature i don't like much of anyone (@sluttyhenley)

You Create Intricate Rituals: The Homoerotic Action Movie - Rebecca Radillo (Lyvie Scott featured)

val kilmer icemav warrior compliation by @mavernick2

t as in top gun: maverick (@misaothewitch)

which is gayer (@holypowell)

we're fools to make war by whimsicule

all my roads lead back to you by liadan14

m*a*s*h video by @amrv-5 (+ reblog tags)

clegan/buck(y) gifs by @4o4notf0und @rcbertleckie

clegan fanart by @ifapromise <3

clegan memes: 1 (@rcbertleckie) 2 (@season-two) 3 (@ww2yaoi) 4 & 5

bomber's moon by moonrocks

**i tried to tag/link everything, if anything is broken or unsourced please let me know and i will endeavour to fix it! standard disclaimer that a) any discussion about war media based on real life people is based upon the fictional portrayals of those people and not the actual dudes. and b) this powerpoint was made for fun, it is not rigorous academic analysis. all opinions expressed are my own. please do not take it too seriously! that's all <3

[teaandspite]

The Great Goodreads Diss List (Part 1)

Context: For many years now, I have been collecting funny lines from Goodreads reviews to share with my coworkers. (I do collection development, reader's advisory, and weeding at a public library, so I read a LOT of reviews)

Are some of these, perhaps, rather mean? Yes, but they are also very funny, and come from a place of honest frustration. In the tradition of Bargepole threads and lists everywhere, names and titles have been censored.

"First, I want to say that I understand how hard it is to write a book and how amazing it is when it is actually published. Congrats to the author for that accomplishment. That said--"

"Warning: This review will be lengthy due to pure hatred."

"I found myself feeling really, really annoyed with the world that this book is allowed to exist. We live in a universe where the passenger pigeon is extinct but this book goes along merrily being read by unsuspecting lovers of words and ideas and stories? It just seems like too much, you know?"

"Don't do it. Don't spring the cash for the hardcover. Instead, eat an entire bag of Twizzlers, spend some money you don't have at a high-end department store, look up on Facebook the shady college boyfriend that made you cry, research the current value of your home or 401K and then read all about how the big hedge fund managers are faring during the economic crisis. You'll feel about the same stomach pain if you waste your time reading this book."

"This wretched novel begins with the mugging of an old lady and it appears I may be in the process of repeating that loathsome crime as [author] was 78 when she wrote it. It is not nice to put the boot into such a poor defenseless old creature lying there with only a damehood, a Booker Prize and a few million quid. It’s a nasty job but somebody has to do it."

"I think this is the way dead people would write, if they could."

"I am considering setting up SPABB: Society for the Protection of Accurate Book Blurb. This blurb appears to have been written by someone from the publishers who met [the author] the night before, got very drunk, lost his notes and then constructed something in a fug of hangover the next morning."

"I congratulate [the author] on the early half of his book, which was thoroughly fun and made me laugh and think. I congratulate [the author] on the second half of his book, for finishing it. It reads like that was difficult."

"…a woman whose taste in contemporary literature has roughly the same batting average as a pitcher in the National League."

"The author is a pompous windbag."

"Recommends it for: No one. Recommended to me by: A friend who apparently wished to cause me great suffering."

"Makes me wonder: is it possible to obtain similes at a volume discount?"

"The repeated phrases made me want to mail a thesaurus to the author."

"I'm disappointed in myself for finishing this book."

"if the author described [character's] eyes as "obsidian" one more time I was tempted to write her and ask if her thesaurus broke."

"They say that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters would, if given infinite time, eventually produce the complete works of William Shakespeare. [This book], on the other hand, would probably take the average monkey just under two hours."

"I can't imagine what the author had to do to get this nadir of Western literature printed on innocent trees, but he does seem to know a LOT about being well-connected in New York."

"This book is so bad it is almost worth reading just to make you appreciate the other books you are reading."

"Reads like it was written by a brilliant author, the night before it was due."

"raises interesting questions, like: can a book be so bad as to constitute an act of terrorism"

"has this author ever spoken to a human woman"

"This acorn has fallen so far from the tree that it can’t even see the forest."

"I’m guessing they are touted as ‘beach reads’ because no one will care if they get dropped into the ocean."

"This book begins with all the energy of a hand vacuum near the end of its battery life, and the pace doesn't quicken much from there."

"At least everybody’s eyes stayed the same color this time around.”

Part 2

Part 3

[comparativeoracle]

Death Head Moth. Art by Jayde Hilliard, from 78 Tarot: Creatures of the Night Oracle.