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You know when you're checking out a new fandom and you stumble across a writer/artist you loved in a previous fandom and it feels like running into a childhood friend at a bar

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behold: what has been taking up my time for the past two and a half weeks!

this piano was a public art commissions for the city! it's covered in dinosaurs that have actually been found (and in the case of 3 of them, discovered) in my home state of colorado. i'm super happy with how it turned out and i had a blast painting it :^)

[image id: a piano painted with various dinosaurs. the left half of the piano represents the dinosaurs in their fossilized form as bones surrounded by fossil leaves and debris. the right half of the piano is the dinosaurs alive in their natural environments. among the species featured are fish, ammonites, orthocones, a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, a brontosaurus, a triceratops, a stegosaurus, and a fruitadens]

#dinosaurs #good art

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did I ever tell yall I used to think charlie chaplin was a drag king. for like three years straight

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Lindt, Mondelēz, and Nestlé together raked in nearly $4 billion in profits from chocolate sales in 2023. Hershey’s confectionary profits totaled $2 billion last year. The four corporations paid out on average 97 percent of their total net profits to shareholders in 2023. The collective fortunes of the Ferrero and Mars families, who own the two biggest private chocolate corporations, surged to $160.9 billion during the same period. This is more than the combined GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, which supply most cocoa beans. Decades of low prices have made farmers poorer and hampered their ability to hire workers or invest in their farms, limiting bean yield. Old cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to disease and extreme weather. Many farmers are abandoning cocoa for other crops, or selling their land to illegal miners.

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Crystal dagger uncovered in Spain, dating to around 3.000 BC

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What a good and gentle big brother. :')

Ok, pay attention

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#FRIENDS

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i think we should all consider getting emotional over this xkcd. as a group. let's get emotional about it

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No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus

#definitely cooler online lmao #but maybe not for long!! #I am a work in progress <33

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I feel like playing Zoo Tycoon. Good thing I still have the list of cheat codes I printed 20 years ago

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if the council don’t fix the sinkhole near me i’ll spray paint a massive cock and balls over it

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‘DON’T TALK TO THE MEDIA ABOUT DIY HRT’

prints available here

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If you have shared it with someone else or didn't finish the whole thing, select a "yes" option. Select the option that best describes your experience with cigarettes.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#I tried it exactly once and it sucked lmao

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columbia administration is threatening to call in the national guard tonight

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So I've seen conflicting stories about the colour black in history.

Some say it's very expensive and hard to maintain, so that's why rich merchants wore black. Evidence in portraits.

Some say that for dyes it's on the cheaper side actually.

Some say the expensive black doesn't come from dye but rather the colour of the animal, so black fabric comes from black fibre which comes from black sheep. How exactly would black sheep be more expensive than regular white sheep?

Which one is right? I know this is probably influenced by which century it's set in, like maybe some eras have an easier time getting black dye

I found a well-sourced blog post about this, luckily, because I'm a 19th-century focused researcher and I've heard conflicting things about black in earlier periods. It seems to be that high-quality black-dyed fabric was difficult to obtain in the west from the Middle Ages potentially through the 18th century because it required massive amounts of dye to get the color very deep ("true black"). Lesser black shades were quite common, though, so black, period, doesn't seem to be more expensive than any other color. Possibly the intensively dyed, deep blacks might have been? But not black in general.

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Rich merchants did wear black- but so did other people. They just usually didn't have portraits.

The black sheep thing I've never heard before. And anyway, that could only apply to wool- not cotton, linen, silk, leather, etc.

#actually useful things #art reference #writing reference

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Demonstrators march against the Vietnam War as Chicago prepares to host the Democratic National Convention in 1968

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Reblog to let the demon come to you. Like to enlarge their power.

#it was a tough call between the 7ft burning warrior and the pot-bellied oni but we went with the oni in the end #I feel like he'd be nicer to cuddle with and also I like food. so