They R Slow Dancing..shhh..

the suffering never ends

They say the mustang is the spirit of the West. Whether that west was won or lost in the end, you'll have to decide for yourself, but the story I want to tell you is true. I was there and I remember. I remember the sun, the sky, and the wind calling my name in a time when wild horses ran free.

SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON 2002, dir. Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook

Bat-eating owls (the consequences the consequences!)

Deeply inspired by the work of Sesson Shukei; Mynah Birds Attacking an Owl (probably 19th century)

TFA villain of the week: Sunder

don't ask. i did this in a sleepless 4 days

A better look at Xu Wu

So Xu Wu is one of the new cephalopod monsters but after closer examination it might not be a cephalopod and instead something else, but what exactly I don’t know.

Baby Xu and Nu and their eggs for comparison. Xu’s have little butt mouths but are otherwise just nubs with more nubs while Nu actually look like baby/flapjack octopus.

Cross section of Xu’s arm in comparison to a Nu arm and actual octopus arm and starfish arm.

And a look at the mantle, mouth (note that there isn’t a beak), and some kind of indent at the top of the head which could be an oriface? Something else to note is that the underside of the arms can “close” like a starfish and the tentacle tips can basically 3d print blades of hard dry mucus. So yeah Xu Wu looks like an octopus on the outside but under the hood it’s something else.

Meanwhile the only extremely weird thing about Nu anatomy wise is that the mantle is a little small and the siphon points backwards, but we can probably handwave that last one as not the end of the digestive tract being backwards but rather the siphon just kinda loops back 180 degrees. Also you never see under Nu’s mantle in the fight anyways so it’s probably not too terribly important a detail and just something the model designers did to make the job a little easier for the animation department (the cephalopod rig already pushes what the RE engine can do).

Possible explanation for Xu’s oddities hidden below because story spoilers

There could be the possibility that the ancestors of Xu Wu got into some gene editing materials when moving to the ruins of Wyveria to eat their genetically amalgamated homunculi, thus supremely fucking them up.

Mangroves on tidal flats, Kakadu, Australia

Mangrove forests grow along creek lines on the tidal flats of Kakadu national park. This shot was taken from a helicopter flying over Australia’s Northern Territory. Mangroves are a significant ecosystem in Kakadu’s coastal zone, which is only accessible by boat or air. The mangroves not only provide coastal protection but are also rich in biodiversity and an important resource for Aboriginal people.

By Stuart Chape

Mangrove photography awards

yay I'm back. i struggled to art anything (woy or otherwise) for over a month, it sucked lollipops. greetings to my new followers!

so,,, this is how Sylvia would react to Wander and Dee breaking the news

Transformers One Airachnid Has A Breakdown ( LOL XD 😂😂🤣🤣) (Found this on YouTube)