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PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU VOTE, I ENACT THE CAIN INSTINCT WITHOUT BLOODSHED FOR NOW!!!!!

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hi, friends. i know i havent been here at all recently. but if i can ask you one thing - donate. share. do anything you can for the victims of the (still ongoing) floods in south poland, czechia, slovakia, austria, romania...and more, sadly.

i am, well, heartbroken? everything in me goes out to all the victims. to anyone whos affected. i hope you are as safe as its possible. brothers and sisters, you are not alone:)

south/west poland, photos from 14-16.09.24

‼️IMPORTANT‼️

Southern Poland has been hit with cathastrophic floods that destroyed people's homes, infrastructure and injured many.

These people need all the help they can get.

Links to fundraisers below‼️

https://zrzutka.pl/sospowodz

https://pck.pl/naratunekpowodz-polski-czerwony-krzyz-na-pierwszej-linii-pomocy-poszkodowanym/

https://zrzutka.pl/naratunekpowodz

Some of you might already know about huge number of floods in Central Europe. I'm safe but some members of my family and a lot of my friends live in cities with high risk of flooding (or in the cities that already are underwater)

Polish fandom community started the charity to help people that lost their belongings. If you want to help, here's the link. No pressure with donating, I'll be glad for sharing that information as well 🙏

https://www.siepomaga.pl/en/fandom-dla-powodzian

It's a polish site and most of the charity descriptions are in polish as well but the rest of the options should automatically translate into English

Scenario: a sample of your DNA was taken, popped into a cell, and cloned into a baby, gestated in a sci-fi artificial womb vat. The first time you or anyone in your family meets this baby is after it has already been born out of said vat. You can hold the newborn if you want, it's up to you, but it is a living breathing baby that was cloned from your DNA and is genetically identical to you.

I love clone philosophy. Give me all your philosophy of clones

another bill design I had in mind :p

been thinking.... about relativity falls AU... how that would affect bill.... yeah...,,,

Relativity Falls - Bill AU

(hope no ones done this yet,,)

no context behind this painting.

apparently this is not common knowledge among punk diy sewists but if you’re sewing patches / doing any sewing that requires pushing a needle through multiple layers of fabric, use a needle grip. they’re little rubber things that have excellent grip on the metal needle so you don’t have to pinch the needle as hard. you will save your fingers soooo much unnecessary pain.

there’s two main types. the basic type is just a little circle of rubber that you fold around your needle, and the fancier type is a little rubber cap for your fingertips. they’re very cheap, under five bucks for the fancier kind and less for the basic, and they last forever. you can buy nice ones from your local craft store or steal them from the quilting section walmart idc. if you’re in a pinch (pun intended) and can’t go out, if you have a non-slip mat under a rug, cut off a little corner and that will work decently. please treat your fingers kindly <3

youtuber!nai 🌱

Random linguistic worldbuilding: A language with six sets of pronouns, which are set by one's current state of existence. There's a separate pronoun for people who are alive, people who are dead, and potential future people who are yet to be born, and the ambiguous ones of "may or may not be alive or aleady dead", "may or may not have even been born yet", and the ultimate general/ambiguous all-covering one that covers all ambiguous states.

The culture has a specific defined term for that tragic span of time when a widow keeps accidentally referring to their spouse with living pronouns. New parents-to-be dropping the happy surprise news of a pregnancy by referring to their future child with the "is yet to be born" pronoun instead of a more ambiguous one and waiting for the "wait what did you just say?" reactions.

Someone jokingly referring to themselves with the dead person pronouns just to highlight how horrible their current hangover is. A notorious aspiring ladies' man who keeps trying to pursue women in their 20s despite of approaching middle age fails to notice the insult when someone asks him when he's planning to get married, and uses the pronoun that implies that his ideal future bride may not even be born yet.

A mother whose young adult child just moved away from home for the first time, who continues to dramatically refer to their child with "may or may not be already dead" until the aforementioned child replies to her on facebook like "ma stop telling people I'm dead" and having her respond with "well how could I possibly know that when you don't even write to us? >:,C"

when elendira initially took off her coat to show her restraints i thought that was like. meat. the image never left me

There’s a little rat inside your head.

This rat doesn’t know anything, but it knows that sometimes snacks fall into its cage, and sometimes the floor shocks its feet.  It likes the snacks, and it hates the shocks.  It will tell you to do things that produce snacks, and it will tell you not to do things that produce shocks.

This little rat is not the only power inside your head, and it might not be the strongest, but it’s there and it has influence.

So pay attention to how you’re treating the little rat.

If every time you learn something new, you say to yourself “ugh, I’m so ignorant for not already knowing this,” you’re shocking the rat.  You’re teaching it to be afraid of learning new things, to associate it with embarrassment and self-criticism.

Remember to feed the rat instead.  Tell it “now I know, and that is good,” and let it eat its snack in peace.

If every time you take care of yourself and your home, you say to yourself “ugh, I never do this enough, and I’ll never get it right,” you’re shocking the rat.  You’re teaching the rat that it was safer when you didn’t try to take care of things.

Feed the rat instead.  Praise what you have done, forgive what you haven’t, so the rat can feel safe.

When the rat takes a step in the right direction, even if the step is too small or slow or not in quite the right direction, feed it.  Don’t shock it for being imperfect; it’ll only learn not to take any steps at all.  Feed it, and let it get bolder, and take bigger steps, and give it bigger rewards for those bigger steps.

Be kind to your little rat.

When the "Sonic 3" trailer dropped yesterday I had to figure out how to describe who Shadow the Hedgehog is to my dad without spoiling anything & eventually settled on...

"Switch out 'his dog' for 'only friend' and he's the Sonic version of John Wick"

...before I remembered that Keanu Reeves is voicing Shadow and I burst out laughing.

The winner of this Infested Community Poll:

You can join the Infested Community here and participate in more silly polls like this one!

The Sonic Classpects Art Project is here!

I've decided to draw Sonic characters with their own respective classpect outfits! Hope y'all like! Check them out in this thread :3

Sonic The Hedgehog: The Knight of Breath!

Miles "Tails" Prower: The Page of Light!

Knuckles the Echidna: The Mage of Blood!

Amy Rose: The Maid of Heart!

Shadow the Hedgehog: The Prince of Time.

Rouge the Bat: The Thief of Void!

Silver the Hedgehog: The Witch of Space!

Blaze the Cat: The Sylph of Doom.

And finally...

Eggman: The Bard of Life!

And there it is! Here's a time lapse of my work :3

This was a lot of fun to work on! I hope y'all like it just as much as I had fun working on it as well :3 I may do Mighty and Ray and the Chaotix in the future, as well as making stickers/charms of some of these designs :3 Thank you so much for watching!! ❤️❤️

Alternation of Trigun Plant Generations

So, not a bird post, but they have feathers so it counts, right? Right?? *sweats*

I was recently introduced to Trigun, and am absolutely fascinated by the reproduction cycle of Plants. Its time to, once again, put my degree to good use. Here goes nothing:

So at first glance it seems pretty damn fantastical. The main character(and main villian) are the, presumably asexual, reproductive products of a creature with significant physiological differences from them. This is strange for asexual reproduction, as such a thing usually results in a sort of “clone” of the parent. Or does it?

Enter, the life cycle of a fern.

The diagram is a little confusing, but the main point is that the diploid fern(top) asexually reproduces to create the haploid fern(bottom), which looks very little like its parent. The haploid fern can then sexually reproduce to create a another diploid fern, and the cycle goes round and round. Sound familiar? Don’t worry, I’m about to explain it in excrutiating detail. I even made a diagram!

So similar to the fern life cycle. In Trigun, the Dependent Plant can asexually reproduce to create an Independent Plant.

First, up at the top of the diagram, the Independent Plant reaches a state of sporing.

This happens very rarely, as there are only two instances of it occurring on SEEDS ships, and no instances on Gunsmoke/Nomansland. It does seem to, however, become more common on earth, as more Independent Plants arrive at the very end of the manga. I would theorize that this has to do with an incredibly extended lifespan leading to a very late onset of sexual maturity, but that is a theory for another day.

Second, moving down and to the right on the diagram, the Dependent creates spores. These take the form of humanoid infants.

Now, this part of the diagram assumes that the known Independent Plants (ie Vash/Knives and Tesla) are actually male and female(and aren’t functionally sexless like Dependents), which is how they could theoretically reproduce sexually. This is where things diverge from general fern life cycles, as the two sexes are in separate entities not combined into one plant. Therefore, when the Dependent Plant spores, it would create either X(female) or Y(male) Plants originating from one half or the other of its own XY genes. This does align with fern reproduction somewhat, as Haploid plants are created from only one half of a copy of the Diploid plant’s genes. In ferns, both sides of the genes have both male and female characteristics, but for Plants it seems to be split, creating Independents with separate sexes.

Third in the diagram, moving to the bottom. The spores grow into recognizable Independent Plants, with far more humanoid forms than Dependents. These guys would then, at sexual maturity be able to sexually reproduce to create a Dependant Plant zygote(fancy word for baby), which would then grown into a fully formed Dependent Plant. And thus, the cycle continues.

Obviously, we do not directly see this in Trigun, as for the majority of the story, there are only two(presumably male) Independent plants. This cycles has clearly not been documented in the era of the SEEDS ships, so the initial method of plant reproduction was likely simple cloning with some genetic engineering involved. But it is more than possible that natural Plant reproduction was determined on earth, which would be why we see more independents showing up with the earth ships at the end of the manga.

Additional Notes:

Returning to something I mentioned earlier on, dependent plant sporing was not occurring on Gunsmoke/Nomansland. I would guess that this is due to the levels of stress placed on the Dependents by the human populations relying on them. Had the humans been able to reduce the strain on their Plants, they may have been able to produce Independents, therefore allowing for the creation of more dependents, further reducing the strain on existing dependents. But that is just my pet theory.

I have additional theories on the mechanisms behind Dependent Plants resource production, and what an ideal environment of multiple plants living freely might look like, but that is for another post.

Thank you for reading! I honestly don't know if I will do any more non-bird metas, but if you liked this, you can always look at #bfw(my general works tag). As always, my ask box is open to suggestions for bird stuff for me to check out!

More trigun bmc au… i receive the Visions every time i listen to a bmc song these days so i had to put something to paper

guy who always say some shit like "well you see, the thing is, if you think about it, the state of having a body is inherently horrifying" when you ask them if a piece of media has body horror in it

happy quick bday doodle for these two dweebs

And I still use it after... idk how many months it was

An art of my (and my friend's) character Charlie. I made the version without reflection but then my friend said they wanted it for a wallpaper so I made the other one :D