#the-explorers-journal

[heroineimages]

Giant woman with a tiny girlfriend

Always a fan. Thanks for the ask!

Link: https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D37836715/

[odinsblog]

A sensitive beast is in a fragile cage. The beast does not fly, does not crawl, does not walk, and does not sleep. But it does flutter, slows, and races. What cage is the beast in?

@the-explorers-journal

For some reason upon reading this riddle, I immediately tried to recall every one of Aesop’s fables, but alas, no luck. So I’ll go from my gut: the only “sensitive beast” that I know of that “flutters, slows, and races” is my heart. And let me tell you, far too often I have been a slave to that beast and followed it far more often than I should.

That’s my guess. How’d I do?

[tekbro]

Marceline with a lil tbh creature for @the-explorers-journal

yipee

[undeadcourier]

@the-explorers-journal replied to your post “thinking about how the theme of letting go (and...”:

I feel like all of New Vegas is a quest of the old world vs letting go vs making something new. Even the name New Vegas fits in

​absolutely! and it's such a magnificent juxtaposition to "war never changes" ulysses' line sums it up perfectly: "it's said war - war never changes. men do, through the roads they walk"

maybe the nature of humanity is such that there will always be those who will use violence to their own ends, but we're not cogs in a machine and our choices to resist violence and selfishness and the pursuit of ultimate control matter.

[codedcore]

Trick or treat?

Alright here ya go have some snickers before she finds us

[litterbot]

Bunny!

[longreads]

In the new issue of our sister publication, The Atavist Magazine, Allegra Rosenberg writes about a doomed expedition to Antarctica—and the untold love story of two crew members who survived the journey.

"Pennell left a trove of letters and diaries behind, but they sat largely unconsulted for a century. The romance hidden inside them was a gift waiting for the right moment to be discovered."

Read the introduction, “The Romance History Forgot,” on Longreads.

[sunbeamsinapinecone]

Kechery River, Wadakkanchery, Kerala.

[takataapui]

A micro solo(journalling)ttrpg about being a patch of moss in a bog, and dealing with the inevitability marching nature of time, and accepting your future state of peat. Or something like that, anyway.

so, you're a small patch of moss in a big bog... on itch.io now!

[heroineimages]

Steward: "My queen, the Amazons will only agree to an alliance against the Scythians if we solidify the alliance with a marriage with the princess."

Queen: "I'll ask my daughter if she'll agree. But for the good of the kingdom I hope she will."

Princess with a tattoo that reads Πάτησέ με μαμά under her left nipple, Ρούφηξέ με under her right nipple, and Το φιλί της Σαπφούς above her vagina: "I'll make it work for the kingdom mother."

*Pulls up Firefox's translator*

Okay, yeah, this is even funnier than I expected.

[odinsblog]

The Ides of Mars have come Soothsayer...

And I am patiently waiting 🗡️🗡️🗡️

[tekbro]

I am still fine

Commission for @the-explorers-journal

I really love how it looked especially when its closer to see the effects going through <3

[valyrfia]

I think the "Charles are washed, Carlos will fight for the WDC" arguments that I see here and on twitter are indicative of a wider crisis that's happening in general media AND scientific literacy right now which is that people want to take easy facts at face value, and refuse to listen to or understand the context behind it.

Charles is not washed and Carlos will not fight for the WDC. These two facts are pretty clear, but to understand they require a person to go beyond the Instagram graphic of a race win and actually examine the contexts in which Carlos won, and the wider separate contexts of Charles and Carlos's recent careers. Carlos is less consistent that Charles on all fronts, and the reason why Charles is not a WDC yet has nothing to do with his mindset nor a lack of talent, but rather a complete mismanagement masterclass by Mattia Binotto who was Ferrari team principal for four years of Charles's career, and whose influence was still felt in Ferrari until the end of last year and will continue until Carlos leaves at the end of this year. These are not "excuses", these are vital data to take into account when trying to predict an outcome. I have a STEM background, and the first thing that is drilled into you for all laboratory experiments is to always provide environmental context for your set-up, as anything not accounted for will skew your results. A pretty famous one in physics is scientists supposedly measuring faster than light travel (which is impossible via our current understanding of physics), going on to publish and record their findings, before finding out that a loose cable accounted for the time deficit and their measurements returned to being slower than light once the cable was fixed. Similar principle applies to the Ferrari F1 team at the moment, Carlos only appears faster than Charles if you don't consider all factors that could produce a result like this. Once you do, it becomes clear that a lot of the sensationalism surrounding Carlos at the moment is simply untrue.

Context is vital, ESPECIALLY in a sport like F1 where team management, engineering, and the interplay of both with a driver are absolutely crucial factors to success and its a real problem that current F1 journalism (cough cough Sky Sports) more often than not refuses to provide it, in most cases seemingly because they can't be bothered and it makes their jobs and lives easier to run a sensationalist headline that people will spend less time trying to dissect and understand.

[codedcore]

There's many benefits to being a marine biologist.

[caramelsprout]

"Where are we, Sen?"