40,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Painted Hands On The Wall Of A Cave. This Morning, My Baby Cousin Began

40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back. 

There's a user called Erika Horn (@erikahorn.art) on tiktok who made a "duet me" challenge so technically impressive that all of the duets are exactly like this LMAO

I'm not an expert, I know nothing about ornithology or biology or zoology or wildlife science or animal behaviours or animal intelligence, but sometimes I think about the fact that birdwatchers in Toronto observed a raven learn how to mimic crow calls, make a nest with a crow and raise a pair of crow-raven hybrids the birdwatchers referred to as cravens and I just think. That's gotta be love, baby.

This is one of my preferred D&D/Pathfinder aesthetics.

Which always makes me think about the worlds the players are visualizing in collaborative tabletop games. How even with amazing flavorful narration and scene discriptions there's space for wildly different internalized visualizations of the setting.

Just something I think about a lot when I'm making Pinterest boards for my punky Monk. Who I'm sure has an entirely different vibe depending on which of the other players you ask.

Honey // Arrah

Currently: lvl 5 barbarian

In the future, children will think our ways are strange. "Why do old people always grow so much milkweed in their gardens?" they'll say. "Why do old people always write down when the first bees and butterflies show up? Why do old people hate lawn grass so much? Why do old people like to sit outside and watch bees?"

We will try to explain to them that when we were young, most people's yards were almost entirely short grass with barely any flowers at all, and it was so commonplace to spray poisons to kill insects and weeds that it was feared monarch butterflies and American bumblebees would soon go extinct. We will show them pictures of sidewalks, shops, and houses surrounded by empty grass without any flowers or vegetables and they will stare at them like we stared at pictures of grimy children working in coal mines

Those Who Declare Actamut Pombia a Wanted Criminal

• [x] declare Actamut Pombia a wanted criminal 

• [x] place prices on lives

• [x] would prefer that Actamut Pombia suffer

• [x] causes bounty hunters to appear and hunt for Actamut Pombia

• [x] has the power to mobilize the hand of the law