the sun will come for us again

official linguistics post

When I boop an SPOP mutual, that's a SPOOP.

a cartoon for the guardian

We live in the desert, and the door to our apartment gets a lot of sun. We keep burning ourselves on it by accident. My roommate got fed up and crocheted the door a condom. by Darth_Titty-ous

Happy birthday Eiffel! You are now the star of a 80s scifi paperback

Alt version under cur

transmasc adora is really funny. she-ra shows up in a town to save them and they're all like Oh my god it's she-ra she's gonna kick the horde's ass and adora is like "actually my pronouns are he/they. i know it's confusing with the whole she-ra thing. 'she' actually wasn't a pronoun in eternian language but i understand the confusion. it's ok."

despite all my dread i am still just a rat made of thread

catrouble redraw

I edited Double Trouble into the 80s outfit scene from Roll With It. I found conflicting images of their original outfit, but I tried to draw it as accurately as I could. The screenshot of them is what I used as a base.

it’s easy to forget, so I’ll remind y’all: you can make fantasy versions of anything. yes even things you might not think about. like soil types. I am thinking of fantasy soil types right now

This post is what got me to start feeling like I was ‘allowed’ to just start wholesale inventing species and I want to thank OP for this it has enriched my world-building so much.

when at the end of the day, they know they would do anything for each other

Dawn to Dusk at the Great Serpent Mound

June 20, 2016 Summer Solstice

The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot (411 m)-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Once believed to be of Adena-’Hopewell origins, a 1996 carbon dating study led scholars to believe the mound was built by members of the Fort Ancient culture around 1070 CE.  Most recent dating conducted by a team led by archaeologist and archaeoastronomer William F. Romain places the mound at around 300 BCE, once again placing its initial construction firmly in the Adena Period. Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy in the world.

Adena Period graves at the site suggest the principal function of the mound and its immediate surrounding area was to serve as a burial site and as a directional marker for the spirits of the dead, not a place to conduct large ceremonial gatherings as is popularly suggested by tourism materials.

There is also a strong astronomical significance to the effigy mound. Clark and Hardman (1987) published their finding that the oval-to-head area of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset. Dr. Romain has suggested an array of lunar alignments based on the curves in the effigy’s body. There is a scholarly argument for the Serpent Mound’s coils being aligned to the two solstice and two equinox events each year. “If the Serpent Mound were designed to sight both solar and lunar arrays, it would be significant as the consolidation of astronomical knowledge into a single symbol.” [x]

On June 20, 2016, we visited the site and were fortunate to witness the summer solstice alignments at both sunrise and sunset. 

photos by s.m. 

i’m a grown woman ♪

“I know you have it hard sometimes,  don’t let the bad things rule your life. Sit back and watch your life take flight. You’re just so young, you have the time."