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Art by Ralph McQuarrie for The Genesis Quest by Donald Moffitt (1986, Del Rey)
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My genius remains unrealised
Every so often this gets another wave of notes, and I will mention “Ah, my snost is getting snotes.”
Pennant-winged Nightjar (Caprimulgus vexillarius), male, family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, South Africa
photographs by Manfred Suter
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This distinctively warty lichen is Melanohalea exasperata (with several friends) on a lushly populated oak twig.
It can be tricky to find as it mostly grows high up in the tree canopy - so far I've only enountered it on branches that have recently fallen to the ground.
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Good morning, everyone!
I've been working very hard lately to make a ton of pride stickers for a local nonprofit and I thought that I would share it here as well. Every purchase is a donation to a queer-focused nonprofit in central Ohio, contributes to our community events and outreach efforts.
We like ginkgos because even though our city only planted male ginkgo trees, at least one of them has spontaneously decided to become female- and we love that tenacious spirit of rebellion.
If you are queer, and you like trees, and if you like queer trees- please consider a sticker (or magnet!) purchase in the flag of your choice.
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Religious art leaves out the best part and it’s such a goddamn shame. Livestock, Agriculture and Food is an integral part of any culture and we all need to be pushing for more realistic sheep in religious art. #FATTAILSFORJESUS
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“How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and listen for the clappeth of it’s itinerant cheeks?” - Matthew 18:12, the bible
CLAPPETH….
I made this post a long time ago and never posted the follow up post, so here it is. Additional info on Fat tail sheep
Fat tailed sheep is not a single specific breed of sheep. It’s a catchall word like “Health care worker”.
There’s tons and tons of different breeds. They all store fat in their tails, but fall into two main categories: WIDE tails and LONG tails
Wide tails store fat in the rump area and have no visible tails.
Long tails store fat in the tail itself, which vary in length in different breeds. In the olden days, people took pride in breeding sheep with the longest tail. They are not so popular today as it’s hard to find a decent tail cart on Amazon.
Speaking of Tail carts, they come in different styles and designs. We dont have any that are actually preserved, but old drawing of them show different wheels harnesses.
Some of them are literally just skateboards
Back in the day, breeding sheep with long dragging tails was all the rage. Nowadays different tails types have been developed to prevent them from dragging their tails on the ground. Such as the “folded tail” or the “Only fat at the base” Tail
Despite fat tail sheep being the most common sheep breeds in the world, most people in the west have never heard of them. The West likes Wool Sheep. Fat tails are strictly meat sheep and have little useful wool. They also do poorly in colder climates
There’s a huge community of shepherds on youtube that script, choreograph and shoot elaborate videos for their sheep complete uplifting music to highlight their best qualities (for sale and stud) It is fantastic. Such as this one:
People kept bringing up Fat Bottomed Girls. Ya’ll are wrong. These are fat bottomed BOYS. Sheep are often continuously bred, so the females are constantly getting pregnant, giving birth and nursing.
That’s very hard on the body, so they can’t build up as much fat as the boys.
The fattest sheep, the ones with the truly VAST tails, rocking them little carts are ALWAYS males.
This is why the Bible specifically states that ONLY the rumps of the Males are to fit to be offered to the lord……
Picture: God desiring the tail
“And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the WHOLE rump” -Leviticus 3:9
I mean… look.
Arguably these are just minor details and doesnt matter….
But beyond it’s teachings the bible is also a work of literature about life in the ancient world. And on some level these kinds of small details bring a sort of richness to these depictions of real…
Ancient people bred out sheep with huge butts, took the largest sheep butts, set them on fire and prayed over the burning butt. It checks out.
Item: in the 1950s research was starting to suggest smoking cigarettes might be bad for you, so one company beefed up their filter with asbestos
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Takeoff from Frankfurt Airport May, 2023
Airbus A320neo
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Anonymous asked:
How does consciousness and autonomy work for a throne? After a throning, is one of the sides in complete control and the other without any bodily agency or even without consciousness at all or is it more like a merging of consciousness/control?
Generally more like a merging. Thrones have distributed consciousnesses that are contained entirely along the CNS, rather than simply within their brain(s). This does mean you could mutilate one to remove the unbodied, but it would not undo the personality changes or effectively kill the unbodied, should the Throne survive that mutilation (unlikely but not impossible).
How separate the identities of the two prior individuals remains varies. Most thrones (a little over half or thereabouts) never become singular individuals, but that doesn't mean they stay entirely seperate either. The most common case is something inbetween. Throning unilaterally allows the sharing of thoughts between the two minds, and you can generally expect to see a degree of merge. Despite not being the case for most Thrones, anything less than a perfect merge is considered a failure, and Thrones tend to develop workshopped personas that they use for outward-facing (as opposed to private) social interactions.
The unbodied does not gain control over the bodied of the headless by force, nor does the unbodied's personality subsume and erase that of the headless, although these are both common misconceptions in-universe. Muscular control is distributed and any part of the Throne's mind can choose to move or not move any other part of it's body, ultimately a lot of cooperation is necessary.
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Cooking up some colors for MFF today! These are going to be 2oz braids of polwarth roving for spinning, and I’ll have a special price for those who want to try it out and buy a braid and a spindle together!
Update on these: they’re about halfway dry and looking gorgeous! Most colors came out a little more pastel than they looked initially, but they’re all extremely pretty and the unexpected blends that inevitably happen came out nice.
Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉
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obligatory giratina scries for the new breed (esp since someone unintentionally reminded me). i wish i could take parts of harp and eclipse to make the perfect giratina tertiary lol
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Shamrock/Strawberry XXY The very hungry caterpillar