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Writer of weird fiction and poetry. Sometimes artistic. Read my work at the link below. Interested in ecology, history, antediluvia, folklore, and forteana.
New short essay is out! Come and learn about the time the world almost got blown up by 4,000 Tunguska Events in 1883! substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://p…
Dejah Thoris cover art by Joseph Michael Linsner #comicart #scifiart
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🚨 LMAO! President Trump just posted a photo of he and JD Vance chasing down Obama in police cars... ...look closer at JD's face. No way 🤣
in 1990, scientists recovered a single wing from a bird that they called the nechisar nightjar. after decades of failed attempts to rediscover this bird in the wild, scientists took DNA samples. just this year, they determined it was a hybrid of two other nightjars!
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Not sure about favourite but here's something cool. Everybody knows about the dodo painted by Ustad Mansur (left). But a later unfinished painting of various animals from the Bundi School dated to late 17th c. (right) has a dodo too. The artist labels it as a “गीध” or “vulture.”
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spontaneous human combustion. don't hear about that much anymore.
Old people in general no longer smoking so they can't fall asleep with a lit cigarette while sitting in their recliners with a polyester blanket on them probably helps a lot too.
new goblinoid species appears with whimsical aims. a time of great magic is soon upon us. the elves will return and a king will be chosen. woe to many.
Serial butt sniffer arrested again for sticking schnoz in woman’s backsides at a Nordstrom Rack trib.al/NC3Hv70
A major US air assault during the Vietnam War was interrupted by a small-scale race war erupting on one of the Navy's aircraft carriers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kitty…
Portrait of English stage actress, dancer and singer Gabrielle Ray. Photographed in 1906.
I heard about this & a number of other incidents with our Afghan auxiliaries even back in 2021 - surprising that it took this long to be officially reported. Wonder when stories of US Army's Floyd Mutinies & deaths of Airborne troops sent to Ukraine in April 2022 will come out.
A plausible and well-sourced piece in this week’s Spectator alleges some army families now feel unsafe on bases where large numbers of Afghans have been relocated. It even suggests some soldiers have quit military service in order to escape garrison towns. Simply extraordinary.
It feels like mosquito bites have recently become more painfully itchy and the itch lasts longer.
I am autistic, this is like asking me not to breathe.
For once you’re allowed to not be autistic about every fucking thing.
The function of bird wings is roughly analogous to that of mammalian breasts- mammals are born with underdeveloped digestive systems and need milk; birds are born with underdeveloped thermoregulatory systems and need to be kept warm under their parents' wings.
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Elisha Cook Jr. was a great actor, surprisingly creepy and compelling villain in The Falcon's Alibi as opposed to being (intentionally) a tryhard wet blanket in The Maltese Falcon.
Western cartoon girls (pre-calarts beanface event) are obviously superior to anime girls, the only thing the latter has going for them is they are allowed to show boob. If western animators were allowed to show boob they would dominate instantly.
You're not the first person to respond that anime/manga are popular because the "Japanese have figured out the ideal way to draw a human female," but that's not true at all - it's just the puritanism of American culture has limited the career opportunities for American sexy girl…