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I had this scene kicking around in my head for a while so glad to finally have an excuse to get it out!!
Fuji?! MeLoNiE? BANANTHONY?! I would cherish them with my whole and entire heart.
I spent the whole time worrying that she was gonna drop one so I'll tell other viewers in advance: she doesn't drop any
does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw
We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.
A friendly reminder to USians: if you are planning to vote on Election Day, your mantra is "Nothing I see today convinces me not to go vote."
Exit polls suggest DT cannot be caught? YOU STILL GO VOTE.
Exit polls suggest KH has it in the bag? YOU STILL GO VOTE.
Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly red? YOU STILL GO VOTE.
Pundits are saying the country is swinging overwhelmingly blue? YOU STILL GO VOTE.
Polls can be misleading (intentionally or not). The methodology can be biased (or simply poor). Early results may not reflect what the full count will show. There may be a red mirage. NOTHING YOU SEE CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.
The biggest Democratic win in swing states means nothing if democrats don't turn out everywhere to keep the reliably blue states blue.
VOTE. Wear appropriate weather gear if you think you may have to stand in a line outside (coat, hat, gloves, umbrella, sunhat, whatever, you know where you live). Bring water and a snack and something to do (book, game on your phone, podcast and headphones, whatever, you know what you like). GO VOTE.
NOTHING YOU SEE ON ELECTION DAY CONVINCES YOU NOT TO VOTE.
Love this, but reblogging it specifically for “Get rid of secret rules.” That’s one of the most amazing illustrations—and points—I’ve ever seen.
so important especially for perfectionists who procrastinate and never finish, or even start because they set such high standards for themselves.
We are now enterning the "edgy" universe. And as you may have seen in my ig stories, I'm working on a new short comic... keep an eye on June 11th. I think these were March's ST sticker club. PS: sorry, I couldn't help myself but to make "Edgy Bones" like a doctor that actually doesn't gives a crap about you and anyone hshshshs
Jelly cycle, gamblin ink on kitakata paper, hand pressed
I will never get tired of adaptations and fusions of Hall of the Mountain King.
the idea of protists is really funny. Ah yes, the kingdoms of life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, and Don't worry about it:)
i just started taking my first botany course and politely op what the fuck is this supposed to mean
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All creatures with cells that have the fancy stuff like nucleus and mitochondria are Eukaryotes. That picture is from the Wikipedia page for Eukaryotes.
Long ago there was just the Bacteria and Archaea. Then something weird happened and an Archaean ate a bacterium but the bacterium was not consumed, instead they became friends. By "friends" I mean "permanently merged together into an entirely new kind of life form that can do all kinds of fancy stuff with its cells." This life form is your ancestor and the ancestor of all Eukaryotes.
One of those new, fancy life forms ate a cyanobacteria and made it into chloroplasts. This created the plants.
A few others decided to go multicellular and form tubes out of cells that could wriggle around, and they became animals.
A few decided to also go multicellular and team up into big networks of interconnected thread-like tendrils, and they became fungi.
But most of them just kind of went off and did their own thing, going about their single-celled business, evolving into all kinds of weird stuff without doing anything multicellular. And all of those guys got called protists. Every eukaryote that didn't become multicellular is a protist.
The guys that went multicellular are just a few weirdos in these random corners of the tree of life, but they get all the attention cause we multicellular organisms are kind of self-absorbed (and we had to do some strange things to sand to turn it into lenses to see the single-celled organisms).
If each of those multicellular clades counts as a "kingdom," how many kingdoms do the single-celled guys make? Good luck with that one. We keep finding more of them.
Every time we look at some more pond water, the taxonomists collapse into sobbing again. There are too many ways to be a little guy. Every time there's a cilium or a flagellum somewhere it's not supposed to be, or there's something suspicious going on with microtubules or zoospores or helical structures something, or god forbid two guys get freaky and do another endosymbiosis again, they have to rewrite everything and there's at least two fistfights and one brawl.
Protists: Just don't worry about it.
Oh my god, anyone realise that for Jiang Cheng to have had the comb to give to Wen Qing after Lotus Pier fell, he must have had it on him on the day which means...he regularly carried it around. This teenage boy who knew full well after the Qishan Indoctrination that the Wen were The Enemy and he wouldn't ever be allowed to be with Wen Qing carried that comb around with him because he presumably couldn't bear to put aside that symbol of his feelings. Remember the day Lotus Pier was sacked started out the same as any other day - even if Jiang Cheng anticipated trouble from the Wen at some point following the fiasco in the Xuanwu Cave, there's no way he could have known that by nightfall he would have lost his home, his parents and his sect and be on the run with his siblings with nothing but the clothes on their backs and whatever they carried with them. And so he carried that comb around next to his heart everyday, just like afterwards he would carry his love for Wen Qing despite her clan massacring his, despite being so traumatised he flinched from her in the supervisory office. He carried that love through the months after the sacking until he offered it to her along with the comb when he found her in that cell. And much later, when she followed him down from the Burial Mounds and returned it to him because she couldn't accept his love and his protection, not when she would have to leave her family behind, the freaking devastation on his face as she gave it back and the way he took it so reluctantly as if it physically pained him because his feelings hadn't ebbed at all...man, that comb encompassed so much. And it was a crying shame that they couldn't be together, that the world wouldn't let them.
Can I also mention that combs and hair are also *marriage* related in Chinese tradition. Firstly, if your original wife (yuanpei also known as your jiefa/hair tying wife) dies young, tradition states that you break the comb you used during marriage/wedding night and keep the half with a few strands of her hair while the other half gets buried in with her in her coffin. (1.) There's also the jiefa ceremony, which iirc happens on the wedding night to your first wife where newly married couples each clip a lock of their hair to tie together to symbolize their union. Nowadays the term "jiefa fuqi/hair tied husband and wife" refers to a couple who knew each other and married when they were young.
There is ALSO a tradition for married couples to break apart a chai (double pronged hair stick) when they had to separate/one of them leaves on a long trip so that each of them has one half of the hair stick and the chai will be reunited when they reunite. (2.)
In some parts of china a comb is a betrothal present!! (pardon my exasperation I can find lots of modern sources re this comb betrothal present thing AND also about the hair combing ceremony but the historical sourcing I've been finding on this is vague, however this is not a vogue modern tradition so I think my search terms in chinese are just lacking)
The whole thing is a HIGH commitment symbol. They chose a COMB as a symbol of ChengQing's feelings towards each other for very highly specific cultural reasons and they have to do with what a comb symbolizes -- marriage, fortune, love, growing old together, romance, and most of all deep commitment.
Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this
I’ve been mesmerized by this. I love all the details each artist put in. I highly recommend watching the full video. It really inspires me to write.
This took forever to make but I'm pretty happy with the results.
After the third time watching I checked the tags
This is the sacred texts, this is the holy grail.
This a GOOD STUFF, people. Read and try, it may work for you 🤞
Soothing layers. Like laying at the bottom of a pretty fish tank, my oldest says. I hope you enjoy - take a moment and breathe!
Happy Monday, all!
