Fannish things, writing, other stuff. Often NSFW. My pronouns are they/them.
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Latest Posts by applesforthis - Page 2
[First image description: a hand holding several trading cards with pictures of middle-aged men on them. This image is a hyperlink to an article in the Tokyo Weekender, titled Middle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan Town. /End first image description.]
[Second image description: three trading cards with images of middle-aged men on them. The writing is in Japanese, which I can't read, but two of the men are pictured with a light bulb and a bus respectively, so I think they are an electrician and a bus driver. /End second image description.]
[Third image description: text reading, We wanted to strengthen the connection between the children and the older generations in the community. There are so many amazing people here. I thought it was such a shame that no one knew about them," she said in an interview with Fuji News Network (FNN). "Since the card game went viral, so many kids are starting to look up to these men as heroic figures." The plan worked. Kids have started attending local events and volunteering for community activities -- just for a chance to meet the ojisan from their cards. Participation in town events has reportedly doubled since the game launched. /End third image description.]
I still get excited when my friends refer to me as their friend
"My friend said" "this is my friend" "they're my friend"
Im freaking out inside every time
[Image description: a tweet from user Stacy Cay (@stacykay) reading: If a trans woman became the world champion in bubble blowing you'd hear some shit about male saliva density and lip stiffness /End image description]
[Image description: a Bluesky post from user Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reading: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity. User has shared a screenshot of a New York Times headline reading, Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard. An official on the administration's antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. /End image description.]
So this is definitely a case of "we did not expect Harvard to fight back and we forgot they have billions of dollars and the best lawyers"
“Three swans in flight”, 1945, by David Lloyd Evans (b. 1916)
signed and dated ‘I Lloyd Evans-1945’ (upper left)
coloured chalks on buff paper
24 ½ × 18 ½ in. (62.2 × 47 cm.)
well you can TELL by the way i USE MY WALK,
i'm a WOMAN'S MAN! no TIME TO TALK.
I've been looking for a fun/quick little animation sideproject to flex my frame-by-frame muscles, so introducing Margie! A cat-goose dragon based on this little fella from this medieval manuscript
Yeah and another fun thing is when someone speaks to me and I understand perfectly what they said but I can't for the life of me identify what language it was in
What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.
Pushing the definition somewhat but still a griffon imo
-3012
[Image description: a gif from the show Brooklyn 99, of Captain Holt on his feet, gesturing with great emphasis and yelling, "And you'll hear it AGAIN!" /End image description.]
few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again
[Image description: a text conversation between two people. One person asks, "Have you heard if you're leaving early?" and the other replies, "Nope." The first person responds with an image of a wolf howling disconsolately in a snowy forest. The second person replies back with a different wolf, also howling longingly, also in a snowy forest. /End image description.]
how my wife and I communicate when we miss each other
Artem Rohovyi - Symphony of Branches gouache on paper
This artist is amazing
𝖮𝗂𝗅 𝗉𝖺𝗂𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖻𝗒 𝖨𝗏𝖺𝗇𝖺 𝖹̌𝗂𝗏𝗂𝖼́ ( 𝖻. 𝗂𝗇 𝟣𝟫𝟩𝟫 𝗂𝗇 𝖲𝖺𝗋𝖺𝗃𝖾𝗏𝗈)
Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) skin detail
Photos by Pete Oxford
[Image description: a social media post from user b.sharise reading, Not enough Americans equate 100 years of Jim Crow Laws with fascism and that bothers me. Utilizing imagery of Anne Frank and the gestapo instead of lynchings, forced sterilizations (the Mississippi Appendectomies), internment camps, and sun down towns adds an unnecessary layer of distance. It incorrectly asserts that fascism is this foreign thing that the US has never known, much less allowed. That could not be further from the truth. /End image description.]
via @b.sharise
The baobab is known as the thickest tree in the world, with its trunk reaching up to 9 meters in diameter, and the largest one recorded had a circumference of 54 meters. Its upper trunk smooths out into thick branches, forming a crown up to 40 meters in diameter.
– There are nine species of baobab in nature: six of which are found on Madagascar, two on the African continent, and one in Australia.
– The baobab can absorb and store a significant amount of water, with an average tree holding up to 4,500 liters. Elephants love this and eat the baobab’s bark during the dry season.
– Baobabs are incredibly long-lived, with some trees reaching up to 3,000 years old.
– Because the baobab’s trunk has very few growth rings, radiocarbon dating is needed to determine its exact age.
– The wood of the baobab is soft, spongy, and fibrous, used in the making of cloth and rope but unsuitable for traditional woodworking such as furniture making.
– The baobab plays a crucial role in local diets: its leaves taste like spinach, its fruit contains six times the vitamin C of an orange, and its seeds can be processed into oil
https://lifeontheplanetladakh.com/blog/baobab-tree-majestic-lifesaver-africa
[Image description: a picture of actor Pedro Pascal with the quote, "I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist." /End image description.]
There's a park in my city that's right at the edge of a cliff. Once I was sitting there having some tea and looking out over the distance, and this hawk came gliding along the edge of the cliff exactly level with me, about ten feet away. She didn't see me -- she was hunting and she was focused. She was a red-tailed hawk and her eyes looked a lot like this. I love their faces. I'm so glad they exist.
Blue Hawk
[Image description: a social media post from user Harriet Marsden (@harriet1marsden) reading, Your semi-regular reminder that if your concern with trans women is that men might claim to self-ID as trans to gain access to women's spaces and assault them, then your problem is actually with predatory men and not trans women. /End image description.]
[Image description: apparently a social media post from user God, reading Thou shalt not deny gender is a spectrum while claiming to be manlier.
If you can rank it, it's not a binary. /End image description.]
#ManuscriptMonday :
“Solomon takes advice from the animals”
from partial copy of Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli) by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi (d. 1504-5), painting inscribed to Dhanu; Agra, Mughal India, c. 1595-1600.
Detached folio, ink, colours & gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script with painting on recto.
Chester Beatty In 04.74
“Solomon was known for his great wisdom, and for his ability to speak with all creatures. One day, he had the opportunity to drink the water of life, and to live forever. Hesitating, he decided first to take advice from the animals and birds. They all gathered at his court, and discussed the great decision. The heron advised the king not to choose immortality. There was only enough water for one person, the bird said, so if Solomon were to drink it, then he would outlive everyone he loved.
This folio is from a copy of a highly-regarded Persian text, written by Husayn Va`izi Kashifi (d.1504-05), a preacher and scholar at the Timurid court in Herat (modern Afghanistan): <Lights of Canopus (Anvar-i Suhayli), a reworking of the animal fables Kalila and Dimna (Kalila wa Dimna)>. His patron was Amir Shaykh Suhayli, whose last name is punningly inserted into the new title. Writing in a sophisticated court style, Kashifi composed an updated version of these lively animal fables, which have a long transmission history going back to Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit texts. This manuscript was made in Mughal India, and features 96 paintings (mounted separately).”