Having a normal one.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

The outermost feathers of Kora's tail are growing in and her tail looks so cool right now

History of Step

What is Stepping?

What is Step?

Stepping or step dancing is “a percussive dance in which the participant’s body is used to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand-claps,” writes the African American Registry.

Step has its origins in Africa, as dancing has been a large part of traditional African culture for centuries.

Calling Step a "bizarre silent dance without music" has to be one of the wilder antiblack racist descriptions I've ever heard of stepping lmao. Anyway if you see the video, it's step!!! They're stepping!! It's a Black American form of dance!!

"Autumn Light" 9x12" Oils on stretched canvas I love painting lighting effects, this one I referenced a snowshoe hare. Available here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1541529848/autumn-light-original-oil-painting

100% this. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I do believe that at one point Knives' intentions were close to good. But he decided that the only one who knew exactly what to do was HIM and that no one else could properly salvage the situation - Vash had been brainwashed by Rem and his sisters were enslaved and had no voice (at least from his point of view).

Does he ever acknowledge the plants that died in the Fall? No, no more than he ever acknowledges that humans are forcing Plants into Last Runs BECAUSE they're trapped on a hostile planet that he put them on with zero infrastructure and food and the only way they have to survive is by utilizing every last drop of energy from the Plants.

I don't think Knives ever communicates with the Plants because I don't think he really understands them as being capable of thought and expression. Unlike Vash, who as Hellsingmorel said engages with the Plants and treats them with respect, Knives seems to think their personhood is Lesser than his own in a pitying sort of way-

HOLD UP TANGENT TIME. Disabilities. Specifically disabilities thay make it difficult for the disabled person to communicate, move independently, etc. Knives the "oh poor Plants they are incapable of anything they cannot fight foe themselves or do anything to improve their situation how sad it is good they have ME to speak for them" vs Vash the "yes they cannot communicate the same as us or do the same things as us but they are their own ppl with thoughts emotions and lives and we should try to meet them where they are and assist them in getting what they want instead of controlling their narrative for them"

Okay that was stream of thought. Sorry.

I can't sleep.

Did knives ever try to communicate with his plant sisters on what they wanted? Did he ever ask them what made them happy?? What was his plan past freeing plants from humans because it doesn't look like he was improving the quality of their lives past not sending into a Last Run but what would an improvement on their lives look like??

Do the Plants even know what they want? They must, from the sparse glimpses we get from their perspectives.

Am I focusing on the wrong things in trigun lmao

The fact that Dragonball/DragonBall Z isn't on the list is a travesty

Everyone’s jumping straight to Summerween — but what about Hallowspring? Folk horror, haunted cottages, rustic cults, monster-infested forests, green witches gathering beneath the eclipse… every season deserves its spooky moment

Depression is horrible, painful and devastating and no one should discount the effects it has on a life

But also, sometimes ppl who are in depressive lows are in such pain that they can't contain it and they want others to feel the way they do, or they want to get a rise out of someone to prove something to themselves, and you do not have to sit there and take it. You can take a step back and say hey I'm not taking this shit. I'm right here for you, I will help you as much as I can, I will pick you up and I will hear you out but I am not going to let you hurt me. I understand you're in a bad place right now but that doesn't mean I have to take the shit you're dishing out.

"I gave fire to man, and they screamed in tune with the crackling of my flames."

Lengai is a crankly old man, prone to violent outbursts. Love a good angry dragon. ♥ This is my part of an exchange in a discord server.

Lengai belongs to @syvaender !

Accurate

hater of socks

I was trying to ID the shark, he might be a Silky?

😳

A good collection of nine early to late 20th century stuffed and mounted freshwater fish mounted within glazed presentation cases

all within naturalistic settings with painted backgrounds, eight mounted within bow-fronted cases, some with verre eglomise titles and dates, and one mounted within a rectangular case, comprising a large tench, the cased marked 'THE COMMON', Found dead 19th June 1993, Branston Gravel Pit. Best weight 29lbs 4oz, a small tench, the case marked Tench 4lbs, Caught at Theale by G Krohn 15th July 1934 and further larger tench, the case with paper label to the interior marked CAUGHT AT PERSHORE BY A.J. PARSONS, JULY 25TH 1922, WGT 5LBS, a pair of cased small perch, both with paper labels to the interiors marked 'PERCH CAUGHT ON DEC 3RD 1948 IN THE RIVER BEWDLEY by MR G. HERD. MEMBER OF BIRMINGHAM ANGLING SOCIETY and with further taxidermist labels for E. F. Spicer of Suffolk Street, Birmingham, a larger perch, the case marked Perch 2lbs 8oz. Caught R.E. Wrigglesworth at Thorley Bridge, 'Louth Canal', 9th Sept 1921, and similar perch with paper label to the interior marked 'CAUGHT BY MR F SCHOFIELD, 2 TERRY ST, CARBROOKE, SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 4TH 1903 AT WESBEACH', together with a trout, the case marked 'TROUT' caught in the River Dunn, Hungerford on May Fly, June 8th 1912, wgt 5lbs, and a trout.

Bonhams

Random sketchbook shit

I want a bowfin tattoo so bad guys

I was born in a time machine

broken down at some gruesome scene

Sometimes it works in reverse - so I relive what hurts

On related note, a few years ago, the Entomological Society of America officially discontinued the use of "gypsy moth" and "gyspy ant" as common names for Lymantria dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides. L. Dispar is now known as the "spongy moth," so named for the appearance of their eggs, but I don't think a new common name has caught on for the ant species yet.

These changes we brought about, in large part, by the advocacy of Romani people in academia. You might not think that bug names are a very serious issue, but I believe that language matters. These species became known as "gypsies" because their attributes were likened to certain stereotypes and negative perceptions of actual Roma, so the continued use of those names reaffirmed those negative associations in the public consciousness. Slurs and pejoratives can never be truly decontexualized.

In my mind, one of the biggest obstacles that Romani people face when we are trying to advocate for ourselves is a lack of recognition as a marginalized group that deserves the necessary consideration. Even for seemingly trivial matters, like bugs or comic book characters, the way that people talk about us-- and talk down to us, when we get involved-- is telling. So, I always think that changes like this are a win, because it means that people are willing to learn and grant us the dignity we deserve. And there's nothing wrong with wanting to effect change in your own field, even arts and science.