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These are beautiful, I recognized the first from Exandria Reborn but I'm trying to place where the 3rd (with the oxycotl) is from.

Art by Zuzanna Wuzyk

I'd like to know the origin of this limerick

My staff has murdered giants/ My bag a long knife carries/ To cut mince pies from children’s thighs/ With which to feed the fairies

This is so true, we need people choosing kindness more often in this world.

😢He just needs a hug..

just watching him

Beautiful words

canary, omen, harbinger.

@jmfenner91 // seryn // mia novakova // mary oliver // wanda koop // mikko harvey // jan van kessel the elder // rainer maria wilke // @alisonzai // the oh hellos

Beautiful! I want it.

Fables from Aesop by James Reeves, 1961. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson

Reblogging this so I'll remember it.

#the more you know the more you'll grow.

Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire

So true.

Note: This isn’t an insult/sassy come back to people to asking valid questions/statements (well maybe a bit sassy lol), none of it’s meant to offend people that are calmly trying to educate themselves to lgbtq+. Questions are always welcome!

These are beautiful, so atmospheric I wish I could step right into them.

Art by Charlotte Cousquer

I love cat sidhe folklore.

The Cait Sidhe

Celtic mythology describes Cait Sidhe as a fae spirit that takes the form of a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. People of ancient Ireland believed that cats operated somewhere between the mortal and spiritual realms.

They viewed them as guardians of the gates of the Otherworld.

a link between humans, the Otherworld and other realms. According to Celtic folklore, spirits that took the form of Cait Sidhe, a large black cat, could steal the soul of the dead before the Gods, devil or the angels could claim it. Where they take the souls nobody knows.

Northern Scottish believed hearing a Cait Sidhe scream or yowl meant you or someone in your family would die soon while the centeral and southern Scottish saw them as gentle guardians of death that guided lost souls into the place after.

The Insular Scottish believed they were the ones that warned you of death but also would grant you wishes if summoned and given offerings.

The Icelandic people have the yule cat which is put in the cait Sidhe terminology.

From what I can tell Russians and Germans held the black cats are witches in disguise belief but they also had a fearful respect if them.

Another Irish tradition derived from the ancient belief that certain spirits took the form of a cat happens on All Hallows Eve, known in Ireland as Samhain, hallows eve, all hallowsv day and just halloween on that night, spirits, fae and demons would be roaming the earth. Everyone set a dish of milk outside so that when Cait Sidhe passed your house, they would be happy with the offering and bless your home and maybe even your whole blood line. If you did not set out milk, Cait Sidhe would be displeased and disrespected so they'd leave a curse on your livestock and cause the cows to not give milk or bare young. Possibly curse your wife as well woth infertility.

Catholics and Christians took the idea of the Cait Sidhe and erased the fae part. Claiming they were demons sent from hell so they may sell innocent souls..

The mythology of the Cait Sidhe even had it's hold in the Americas. Ingenious people say the black cat as a trickster, african south Americans saw the black cat as a symbol of evil while African north Americans saw them as guardians.

White americans had mixed feelings on black cats but they always held some sort of magical power be that a protector or a trickster.

The neolithic Irish people and many Scottish also believed in the Cait Sidhe but believe that Cait Sidhe were not fairy spirits but were actually witches that could take the form of a cat. It was said that these witches could transform into a cat eight times but if they took the form of a cat on their ninth transformation, they would remain a cat. Many think it's the origin of the saying that cats have nine lives.

This is also thought the term " never cross a black cat's path " comes from since that cat may just be a Cait Sidhe or a witch.

References too the Cait Sidhe can also be found in Edgar Allen Poe's story the black cat✨

Cool character concepts, definitely giving me Kung fu Panda vibes though.

ALL CREATURES (Part 2) by 瓷 骨

Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?

Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?

Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?

Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.

Gorgeous, have you ever seen a piece of artwork you wish you could walk into? This is one of those for me.

Uncharted Heaven by Lorenzo Lanfranconi

This is beautiful and very narrative inspiring.

Art by 简繁

Epic

Art by Maxime Desmettre

Just beautiful, I would read a graphic novel like this. Love the scenic concepts, especially the water tree with merfolk-esque creatures living inside it. Amazing!

Art by Arina Shimolina

I love these characters. New D&D PCs anyone?

Bird Warrior - Character Design Challenge by selected artists: Đặng Trường, Bruno Jacob, Isaac Jadraque, Thomas Dumey - Locki, Liam Rogge

🌈The more you know!

just learned that magnolias are so old that they’re pollinated by beetles because they existed before bees

This would be great for a garden.

Mushroom Table and Stools

Reverie Treasure Co on Etsy

Motivational inspiration of the day

Friday Concepts on Instagram / Etsy

Hilarious, this makes me crack up everytime I watch it.

She got maced!🔊 sound on

More: https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/its-a-revolution-woman-admits-on-camera-to-storming-capitol-says-she-got-maced-video/

This is such a cool concept

Here’s how to charge your phone when it’s alive, full of guts, and you are a crab alien who lives in the sea. Scuds are amphibious, comfortable breathing on land as long as their gills stay damp, but they spend most of their time in saltwater intertidal zones. This makes human-style technology powered by heat and electricity improbable, so scuds never really developed that– instead, animal husbandry and artificial selection developed to the point that extremely sophisticated manufactured technology can be created through the surgical combination of extremely derived sedentary animals, alga, and bacteria.

So what powers a phone full of guts? The simplest form of food: sugar water with essential nutrients added. The charging cable also deals with the outgoing (mostly liquid) waste from digestion and the nitrogenous waste from the phone’s metabolic processes.

Ironically, while humans have trouble bringing our electrical technology underwater, scuds have trouble bringing their biotechnology onto land. Even with a lung attachment, biotech innards have a high risk of desiccation and temperature shock on land. For especially large or delicate pieces of technology, the lack of underwater buoyancy can cause internal distention and damage.

PATREON | STORE | Runaway to the Stars

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tw: animal death

So I’ve read scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. Ouch. Webtoons

This is beautiful, @jenny-jinya you just earned another follower.

CW: animal death

People have asked for more interactions between Life and Death. Life is bringing so much color into my comics haha <3

This is an awesome concept

The Root Of My Being. TW / IG

Good to know

Hilarious

A cartoon for @newscientist a while back. #thematrix https://www.instagram.com/p/CTrSgq1MyVS/?utm_medium=tumblr

A beautiful statement

A 7th Century Irish Catholic Creed

Our God is the God of all men, the God of heaven and earth, of the sea and the rivers, God of the sun and the moon and all the stars, the God of high mountains and low valleys; God above heaven and in heaven and below heaven, He has His dwelling in heaven and earth and sea and in everything that is in them. He breathes in all things, makes all things live, surpasses all things, supports all things; He illumines the light of the sun, He consolidates the light of the night and the stars, He has made wells in dry earth and dry islands in the sea and stars for the service of major lights. He has a Son, coeternal with Him, similar to Him; the Son is not younger than the Father, nor is the Father older than the Son, and the Holy Spirit breathes in them; the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are not separate.

Bishop Tírechán, Collectanea (26:8-11)

Love it; where's your towel?

The best restraint tool in vet med is a towel, hands down. Do you know how many things I’ve restrained with a towel?

Angry cat? Burrito it.

Scared bunny? Burrito it.

Tiny squish faced dog that you cant get a muzzle on? Burrito it.

Screaming macaw? Burrito it.

Injured wildlife? Burrito it.

I burritoed an arctic fox today. Last week it was a cormorant. Before that it was a blue heron. When in doubt, burrito it.