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shoutout to flags that look like landscapes fr gotta be one of my favorite genders

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the savage guilt of 'i didn't use my weekend effectively'

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TIL that there's an '80s movie where they portrayed Smilodon by sticking actual fake teeth onto actual live lions.

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this too shall pass

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Big fan of sun motifs in characters not necessarily being about positivity and happiness and how they're so " bright and warm" but instead being about fucking brutal they are.

Radiant. A FORCE of nature that will turn you to ash. That warmth that burns so hot it feels like ice. Piercing yellow and red and white. A character being a Sun because you cannot challenge a Sun without burning alive or taking everything down with them if victorious.

#Auryn

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Sorry I havent stopped thinking about them since I saw this post

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Drew a little baby

LITTLE

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As with the horse poll, please regard these options as sliders. The extent to which each one deviates from 1/6th of the total will determine the amount that canine aspect deviates from the "average."

I will draw the dog we make. :)

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Happy Terry Pratchett Day! 🐢🐘��🐘🐘🫓🌎🌌🌌🌌

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Disco Elysium out there with the real artist experience

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Spotless Cheetah

A spotless cheetah, now known as the ‘golden cheetah’, has been photographed around the Nairobi-Amboseli area in Kenya by wildlife artists Guy Combes and Mike Gaudaur. Its hugely diluted spots are believed to be as a result of a recessive gene (and not an albino or leucistic variation) which, according to Mongabay, makes this cheetah, like the king cheetah of South Africa and Zimbabwe, extremely unusual. The last time such a spotless cheetah was recorded was in the 1920s.

King Cheetah

(source)

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

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various fhr doodles compiled from the past 2 months....enjoy

#oh man #op your art style is so cool

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reblog for sample size !!

#white

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Preview

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paying a little visit to a beloved mutual's blog after not seeing them on the dash for a while as if i'm dropping by their cottage with some biscuits and jams in a wicker basket

#i misread cottage as cage #and #well it still felt tumblr

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vampires have been drinking human blood for centuries they don't give a fuck about guys on eight different antidepressants. they were sucking on asbestos factory workers