#true european

[onenicebugperday]

@greencheekconure27primary submitted: Some more nice bugs

Oh jeez these bugs are FAR too nice. I love them all but I'm absolutely obsessed with the stag beetle having a nap on a blade of grass hammock

[mynqzo]

Why do you like vampires specifically, what do you like of them?

the sucking and fucking

[akitalockwood]

I am not immune to hot druid Jesus (and neither are you, vote for Moldova!)

Bonus sketches with my favs from this year

[dreadfuldevotee]

I didn't mean to go down this rabbit-hole but now I need to exhume Anne Rice and shake her until she tells me if Armand is based on Tadzio/Bjorn Andreson because I swear to god these are the same story. A teenaged boy being pursued and taken advantaged of by older men who do not care about his mental or physical well-being? Objectified and reduced to this ideal, androgynous beauty that infantilizes them and strips them of their burgeoning manhood? That youthful beauty being immortalized forever, against their will? The Venice and Paris of it all???? There is too much going on here for it to be a coincidence

[hero-israel]

The British military in Palestine disliked the Jews from the beginning, even when it was the Arabs who were giving the trouble.  And this attitude subsisted right through the Arab Revolt, in which the Jews helped the British.  In the mess of the Palestine Mobile Force in 1945, Richard Grossman was told:  'All through the Arab revolt, when our men were being shot in the back and protecting the Jews, most of them liked the Arabs… The old Arab will take a pot at you in the night, but he’ll offer you coffee the next day when you come to investigate.  The Jew doesn’t offer you coffee, even when you’re protecting him.’ People who disliked the Jews before the Holocaust generally didn’t dislike them any the less because of the Holocaust.  On the contrary: the Jews were seen as more pushing, strident, and demanding than ever - and cashing in cunningly on their new asset of enhanced entitlement to sympathy. Dislike of the Jews was existential. If they conformed to the traditional stereotypes - pushy, acquisitive and so on - they were disliked for that.  But if they departed from the stereotype, they were felt to be cheating.  Thus one of the most cherished of the stereotypes was that the Jew was un-warlike.  This had never been regarded as a point in his favor:  Joseph Chamberlain thought they were ‘cowardly’; Treitschke, 'lacking in the martial virtues.’  But for the Jew to become warlike was regarded as a monstrous mutation.  It was all right for 'the old Arab’ to 'take a pot at you,’ but for the Jew to do so was contrary to the law of nature.

Conor O’Brien, “The Siege:  The Saga of Israel and Zionism,” Simon & Schuster, 1986

[correctlyme]

My most srs ace attorney headcanon is that Phoenix was born with brown eyes, but the lingering poison from the glass necklace caused his eyes to very slowly lose its brown colour and shift into blue eyes.

[pkmnherpetology]

as many of you may have observed, clodsire, when threatened, will protrude large bony spikes from their back to defend themselves. these spikes are, in fact, highly modified rib bones that protrude through tubercles (the white spots on a clodsire’s back). the method of protrusion does in fact involve breaking the skin and forcing the bone through to the outside.

when a clodsire feels provoked, it will not immediately elect for this option. the level of stress and pressure a clodsire must feel to perform the rib-exposing behavior varies from individual to individual, but is consistent within an individual’s behavior (that is, the same clodsire will perform the behavior after the same level of provocation more-or-less every time). clodsire will usually initially defend themselves with their sticky white secretions first and foremost and may wail or bite in self-defense as well.

however, if pushed to the point of exposing their ribs, a clodsire will then use its powerful back muscles and the joints attaching the ribs to the vertebrae to force the bone through the tubercles and out of the body. following this, the clodsire will then secrete its own antimicrobial to prevent infection and accelerate healing.

it is unknown why this behavior evolved. unlike some of the adaptations taken on by the larval stage (commonly called wooper), evidence suggests that this ability existed prior to the habitat fragmentation that, over the last few centuries, has forced clodsire to maintain a more terrestrial lifestyle than quagsire. young paldean wooper, the most vulnerable stage of a clodsire’s life cycle, do not demonstrate this ability until shortly before or after metamorphosis, instead defending themselves primarily by expelling concentrated toxins from glands near their gills. while small subadult clodsire may experience some threats of predation, adult clodsire have few if any predators, particularly if they reach the species’ maximum size of nearly six feet long (which is rarer without an ideal habitat available but still possible).

[stirringwinds]

just thinking about the artistic connections forged between nations, and it’s one aspect of nedpan i find really cool to ponder— it’s like “your influence on me is immortalised for the whole world to see in the brushstrokes of my greatest artist”: because of how van gogh was inspired by hokusai and hiroshige (whom were themselves exposed to dutch art and techniques). and given how nationally iconic ‘the great wave’ and ‘starry night’ are in world art? if art is part of a nation’s soul, then that’s one really meaningful way to leave a mutual influence on each other. 

[mmm-asbestos]

I learned english so i could complain to a wider audience

[sambrosiac]

sometimes i go on youtube and search for "bad" 00s wincest fanvids just to feel something

[onenicebugperday]

@liebelesbe submitted: Some cool bugs I found this and last month :)

the third one I've only ever seen that one time!! Devil's coach horse beetle... so cool.

and I'm really proud of that wasp photo bc they move so fast, this is the first time I managed to get one on camera that isn't super blurry!

All very nice friends! Especially the devil's coach horse :) Also incredible ovipositor on that wasp

[horus-unofficial]

> Mechs are named after greek monsters > Manufacturer named after a egyptian god

make it make sense

sorry do you think the goblin is a greek monster

[nerefee]

help i got really obsessed with an Italian period drama on netflix ….. the clothes are so pretty…. there is NO historical accuracy to be seen, it keeps centering female characters and they’re actually nuanced, the main character is funny as fuck and she’s wearing INSECT JEWELLERY

[stellacadente]

ik the euros are over and i've also said this before but god i hate people giving stupid "political" reasons for supporting one colonizer european country over the other in fucking football. most of the time you're despising one country for things that the country you're praising also does/did IT'S DUMB. none of our countries are shit. i can't stop thinking of this (not great) pro palestine page on instagram being like pro palestine spain wins over zionist england! ....... spain literally still deals weapons with "israel" give me a fucking break. it's stupid it's stupid it's stupid just say you hate england and wanted to see them lose most of us did and you don't need to come up with reasons why the other western european country is actually morally superior

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Virtue and Riches

Artist: Godfried Schalcken (Dutch, 1643-1706)

Date: About 1667

Medium: Oil on Copper

Collection: The National Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom

Description

A small, beady-eyed sparrow on one side of a set of scales heavily outweighs the gold and pearls which a weeping woman, two tears glistening on her cheeks, places in the other. Clearly, in the real word, this couldn't happen: the bird would be much the lighter than the jewellery. But this picture does not seek to depict the real world – it’s an allegorical painting and the sparrow is probably intended to represent virtue and true love. The moral is that no amount of gold and pearls can match the value of the woman’s virtue; her tears suggest that she has traded her virginity for jewels and expensive clothes, and now regrets her decision.

Ironically, this painting also has jewel-like qualities. It is tiny and painted on a copper plate, which allowed the artist to create an exceptionally fine, bright finish.