#but still some in some areas

[markscherz]

Mr Frog guy, what is the different between a frog & a toad?

This is probably the second most common question I receive, after "what's your favourite frog".

There is no difference, because this is a false dichotomy. It is not a comparison of equal categories. Toads are one of the ~55 frog families. Toads unequivocally are frogs.

If you want to know the difference between toads and some other family or clade of frogs, you would either have to be more specific, or identify features that are unique to toads—synapomorphies of Bufonidae. These are the differences between toads and all other frogs.

Synapomorphies of Bufonidae include the parotoid glands (but not present in all toads), some funky muscular arrangements, a weird bone in the skull, and the Bidder's organ, which is basically a backup ovary in male toads that allows them to become reproductively active females if their testes are damaged or removed surgically.

#frogs #toads #the more you know #anura #amphibians #zoology #herpetology #graphic design is my passion #answers by Mark #infographic #weepingwillows-sweethibiscustea #anon #anonymous #the list of countries without ANY frogs or toads of any kind is VERY short indeed #so Anon is either from Greenland or Iceland #or from a tiny or remote island somewhere #some lists say Qatar has no frogs but this is a lie #UAE has almost no frogs #but still some in some areas

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Main Road

#kingdom hearts 0.2 birth by sleep a fragmentary passage #kh0.2 #main road #castle of dreams #realm of darkness #scenery #my gif #i suppose this area is still within the same world as my last set but i felt it deserved its own post #because it's so beautiful here i love the atmosphere #some areas are so lush with pretty flowers and fireflies and a few lanterns scattered around that make the place feel lived in #while other areas are covered in an eerie fog with distorted structures and an uncanny sky shimmering above #i spent... a very long time staring at all of the foliage. nomura can you put a first person view camera back into these games please #should we question why the people who live in these worlds aren't sent to the realm of darkness but the fireflies are? #what'd they do to deserve that

[qalrey]

13 years of pones!!

flats + sketch bellow!

i had a lot of trouble drawing AJ, then i realised i've never drew her in my entire life

#this is my first time drawing 6 characters at once #i also tried cell shading in some areas and hoo boy i still don't understand how it works lmao #but yeah!! 13 years of g4!!! #it dosn't feel like it tho #it feels like twilight got her wings 2 years ago... #i know it was on the 10th but better late than never!! #art #digital art #mlp #mlp g4 #mlp fanart #mlp fim #mane six #applejack #rainbow dash #rarity #twilight sparkle #fluttershy #pinkie pie #my little pony #mane 6 #friendship is magic #my little pony friendship is magic

[finelythreadedsky]

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

Coo, Lyndsay. “A Tale of Two Sisters: Studies in Sophocles’ Tereus.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 143, no. 2 (2013): 349–84.

Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

#alphabetical order. im not ranking them #i still have two more froma zeitlin essays to read (one new and one a reread) in the next few days though #and its possible one of those might knock amy richlin off the rest (nothing personal; its a great piece just not my area) #but if im willing to have two things by the same scholar i would have to rethink including grethlein 'the poetics of the bath in the iliad' #some of my favorite articles/book chapters of the year are not on jstor though... #bill beck 'lost in the middle: story time and discourse time in the iliad'!!! #and lyndsay coo has a 2020 chapter updating and expanding this 2013 article that is 🔥🔥🔥 #and of course judith mossman 'women's voices in sophocles' which is what send me to garrison 1989 and rood 2010 but is not itself on jstor #i also reread some of melissa mueller's objects as actors book which is wonderful as always #and i would be incredibly tempted to put william m calder iii's tereus article on a top ten list for sheer entertainment value #jstor wrapped #mine

[fisheito]

He's a magician

#how does eiden keep doing that #that. naked magic. tablecloth sweep but suddenly it's rated oops for selective nudity #this is the 2nd time i've drawn eiden motion blur swiping yaku's clothes off. will this become a pattern? #yes i am still thinking about aegis r2. naked apron forever #i know there was probably an interlude. a moment between R1 and R2 [R1.5] #where eiden said TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES ok now put the apron back on #and yakumo's all ??? JUST the apron? ?? ?? #then we go into R2 and it starts with yakumo questioning eiden's costume direction #but i wouldn't put it past eiden's mystical part time abilities #to be able to selectively nakify his clan members #haHA! behold! the art of misdirection! NOW WITH SEXY CONSEQUENCES!! #at some point in the future eiden will show off his tablecloth swoosh trick (the legitimate one. that actually uses the tablecloth) #and yakumo will be mildly wary the entire time. hands hovering near his crotch area as he was lucky to do the FIRST time #anyway eiden performs the trick successfully. no one's clothes slide off. the tablecloth is swooshed. the dishes are intact. #now we can either leave it at that or go the route of Violence #like the dramatic samurai strike. there's a moment of nothing . THEN EVERYONE IN THE ROOM LOSES THEIR CLOTHES IN A GUST OF WIND #EIDEN'S ULTIMATE ATTACK!!!!! PENULTIMA NAKED FLAME RENDING SHREDDINATOR RISING TORNADO!!!!!!! #nu carnival #yakuei #yakumo #eiden

[lotus-pear]

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

#i hate when ppl make him out to be a sadistic villain with no remorse. like did we read the same manga 💀 #but at the same time he is NOT crying abt all the ppl he sent to the grave. he sleeps just fine at night knowing he committed atrocities #yes he feels remorse? but he isn't like kunikida to weep at someone's grave for failing to save them #and then we have his emotions themselves #dazai isn't emotionless. far from it. he has difficulty expressing affection but yk he finds someone endearing when he trusts them #trust is very important to dazai and is one of the aspects of human emotion that he can fully grasp #but like everything else is in a hazy gray area that he does not feel like exploring. he feels alienated from his humanity bc of this #AUUUGHH can someone help me with character analysis PLEASE #I WASNT PAYING ATTENTION TO THIS MF UNTIL RECENTLY SO I MISSED OUT ON A LOT OF IMPORTANT DETAILS #see i would go and reread a few light novels but like i don't have time for that #and this is for dazai specifically. i am very well versed on his relationships w other charcaters #but just like asigiri himself said: it's very difficult to write dazai and write him WELL #so yeaaa i have a lot of smart ppl following me pls help #bsd #ALSO MY FRIEND STILL HAS NO LONGER HUMAN UUUUGHHHHHH I NEED THAT BACK BC I TABBED IT A SHIT TON #FOR LIKE CONNECTIONS TO YOZO AND BSD DAZAI AND WHERE ASIGIRI DREW INSPIRATION FROM YOZOS CHARACTER FOR DAZAI #THAT WOULD BE SUCH A VALUABLE FUCKING RESOURCE BC I DID SOME ANNOTATIONS IN THEM TOO BUT MY BOOK IS ANOTHER FUCKING STATE #I HATE IT HERE FML

[gaytedlasso]

“This is what my ticket says”

#yes Ted’s ticket said he should kiss Trent so true #sigh I love them and this healed me a bit after a long couple weeks #sketch.art #tedtrent #tedependent #Trent Crimm #Ted lasso #ted lasso fanart #photoshopping the background to eliminate Roy and Ted was a fucking nightmare btw #it’s still messy and my design mentor would scold me for some areas but idc! this is for tumblr fanart!

[jadeazora]

Honestly, I hate the take "Kieran is whiny" since imo the kid is having a pretty understandable reaction when the DLC is laser-focused on giving him a mental breakdown.

Like, his sister does care for him, but can be belittling and overbearing towards him, he's likely ostracized a bit by the other kids and villagers since he admired Ogerpon when the rest of them fear her (on top of generally just being shy), he finds out his family and first friend are lying and hiding things from him about something he's always been fixated on, we're fueling his self-esteem issues by constantly crushing him in battle, and on top of that, we basically steal his lifelong dream out from under his nose even tho we've only just found out Ogerpon existed a couple days ago. (When there's a fair chance it will just rot away in our PC anyway.)

Is it any wonder he snaps bad? I don't think anyone would want to be in that kind of position. 😓

#pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #rival kieran #pokemon kieran #the teal mask #pokemon sv dlc #the hidden treasure of area zero #he does have some red flag behavior here and there #but some of it is his negative emotions fueling the situation #and it's stuff he will likely develop past in pt2 #he's still just a kid

[daeyumi]

[ Minuet ] 🎵🎶~

I drew this last year, my favorite room of my favorite temple 💚

#legend of zelda #zelda #ocarina of time #zelda fanart #zelda ocarina of time #Zelda OoT #link #forest temple #daeyumi art #OoT link #i still like this one tbh tho i do feel like some areas are overworked #the grass in particular #also at one point i was planning on making a series of pieces like this #one for each temple in OoT #but this was the only one i finished lol #maybe i should revisit that idea

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

Sum Hawke kimsses <3

#well deserved postgame fluff <3 #once again practice that got out of hand gjsgdkd #i think they turned out nice tho :] #cant decide if i like the colored or uncolored ones more so i just put both here lol #also please ignore that fenris and belas hair looks different every time i draw them <3 #fenris #isabela #oc: liam hawke #oc: lilian hawke #my ocs #my art #maybe shouldve given liam more greys cos this dude starts greying by act 3 already jdfjksd #lilian gets em later but her hair looked so empty and i think she deserves some grey streaks (bela too <3 #also fenris did have ear piercings but it was distracting to have so much shinies in one area so i removed them #just pretend theyre still there lol

[akakumoeteru]

It's a new day today.

#魔道祖師 #忘羨 #mdzs #wangxian #my art #my art 2022 #anyway some feeble attempts at learning how to draw comics #i'm still new to this so #there are a lot of areas that are probably fairly amateurish but #baby steps #also lmao weibo keeps censoring the last page #they're not even doing anything omggg

[ganondoodle]

some more ideas for the totk rewritten project (botw2);

underground general ideas i thought about what to theme the underground after, and since its vaguely like underwater in canon i thought id push it much much further, you cant actually dive and while id love that i do want to stay within a certain possible range of it still being a sequel to botw and somewhat based on totk- so im putting the low gravity effect away from the sky and instead in the underground, the ENTIRE underground, that way it is distinctly different in the way you have to play since you gotta work around the low gravity effect, the entire plant life and enemies will also be based on deep sea creatures- anglerfish like ones that half burrow and lure you with their light, those fish (or are they worms?) that hide underground as soon as you step too close, maybe they hide initially but only to make you go closer and try and snatch at you

much more glowy things too, basically everythings got some sort of light on it, there are different creatures flying around that all feature some sort of glow, so there is stuff to see but you cant immediately know what it is, theres a unique kind of plant that when you bother it spews out a dark cloud of spores (kinda like in tp) that dims any light you had; there are some landmarks you can activate or repair with the help of zelda but there is no way to illuminate the entire map and the lil light ferns expire slowly too

i also want it to be way more wet, not full with water but maybe a thin layer of water at most places and some drops from stalactites that fall constantly

there are shadowy ghosts there as well but they CAN aggro (still working on it), either by taking a weapon from their grave or some other things; also considered them or some other enemy that stalks you for some time and the only clue you get is maybe double sound of your steps or something at the very edge of your screen but you can never catch it when looking around (i dont want to make it a horror game but do want the underground to stay as creepy as when you first get down there), something elusive and shadow based that is rarely encountered but stays creepy for longer than the miasma hands sicne it cant get stuck on anything and the only way to be safe is while in the air

maybe some miasma reanimated corpses of ancient shiekah killed when the ancient hyrulean king turned on them (only foudn in the underground in this way; there are others but unposessed in alot of the broken shrines and old laboratories so seeing one suddendly move and crawl after you is probably pretty scary, kinda like the vroken guardians sometimes being still functional)

the dongos are the main friendly animal you can discover there and tame (still working out more details) they can climb around, always emit a little bit of light and the shadow enemy wont latch onto you as long as you are near a dongo, maybe even most enemies will leave you alone if you are riding one, as they are slower than horses, with the exception of gigamas (or a similar enemy ill redesign for that) as they are the natural predator of dongos; when you get to close to one it will react to it and if a fight is initiated it burrows away (you can call it and it comes back to you if you are out of range of that enemy)

tameable animals since i played skyward sword recently i just realized again how much fun it is to fly on a bird, sicne im already dividing the three map layers a bit more i thought it would be cool to make these layers more distinct, in some part by the tameable animals- the sky has birds (based on dinosaurs), the surface has horses, the underground dongos- neither of them can follow you to one they dont belong and the way to call them switches as you switch layers

im not sure yet if those birds should be ridable or are only able to give you a small boost upwards when you call them

magic bar so instead of actual batteries i planned to, as i said before, to put that into links shiekah arm prosthetic, and instead of giving you literal battery symbols on the screen it would be a bar right below your health and next to the symbol of the current selected arm ability

krog seeds a bit more to the krogs- as i said before they are no longer the way to make your pockets bigger- among an armor set i also thought about making the most expensive reward OR the end reward for finding all of them be the eponator zero- maybe it went missing during the cataclysm and maronus (engl. hestu) finds it at some point, so you get your bike back but its locked behind something bigger so you are unlikely to exploit it early on

(EDIT) (forgot to mention the dragons- im putting them each in one layer of the map- eldra in the underground bc gan is there and youknow, demise coming from the ground and fire being associated with the ground etc, farodra on the surface GREEN etc, and naydra in the sky, bc wisdom and owls and gods and all that weeeeee)

(on a sidenote im also thinking about ditching the building mechanic to some extent since i dont think it fits very well as a whole and it makes it too easy to completely skip stuff- i want the main way to move things or to get around be the hookshot/grappling hook part of links arm; still working on all that though .. so far it does seem likely like it will be much more limited)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rewrites totk #also since alot of the shrines are now more like bigger caves and less in number i thought about making a broken tower into a mini boss #like a mass of miasma spilling from a hole in the ground like the big one in the gerudo area that wields the tower as a weapon #some of the bigger regional changes i wanted to mix it up alot more without redoing the entire map #so gerudo dessert might be flooded #the zora are dealing with all the water in the region having gone through a crack in the earth leading their area to dry up #rito area isnt just snowed in but in an actual blizzard that coated everything in a thick layer of ice #YES ICE PHYSICS WOOHOO #and made them flee maybe into vah medoh whos unfunctional and resting somewhere else #maybe isntead of floating hyrule castle is sunk into the ground .. tho im not so sure on that yet #.... listen theres so much stuff you could do with world to have it have actual changes #what if satoris mountain was half broken and sunk into the ground but the mountain is still there at night like a spiritual footprint #you know #make it actually feel like a big order destroying event has happened!!!

[frogtowns]

going to the park

#mayor text #acnh #animal crossing new horizons #anura #my ext #ext #idk what tags i use at this point but!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! here is some of my town. #i have done a lot of changes lately and completely remade some areas. #i still have a lot to go but i like it. #i hate restarting in animal crossing but i like tearing down areas and starting over if i'm not happy with it. #i just don't reset my game lol #nor do i completely flatten because there are some things i do like about my island. #but i figured out how to make my rivers feel more natural and real and i like it a lot more now

[lilacthebooklover]

I've been wondering-- even though shadow milk's been sealed away again, isn't he still fully capable of canonically interacting with pure vanilla through the dark side of the moon? that's what he's been doing the whole game, after all, disguised as the light of truth; he simply chose to reveal himself at the start of theatre of lies because he believed there was no need to lie anymore. he thought he'd won. but now pure vanilla not only knows he's there, but also has no control over when he ends up back in his soul's "abyss of regret". there's a very real possibility that sm could just,, continue to pester him despite being back inside the silver tree

#i'm just saying... #possession arc could still happen #am i delusional? #probably yeah #do i enjoy their interactions too much to care? #...also yes #I mean he's going to come back at some point #he's too important to the plot not to #(and very much a fan favourite) #we all know that #maybe he'll return in some big event around his area of beast yeast? #hnbgbbg i need more of these 2's dynamic </3 #they've rotted my brain #pure vanilla cookie #shadow milk cookie #crk #cr kingdom #shadow milk crk #cookie run kingdom #cookie run #pure vanilla crk

[knifewieldingenby]

Frenchie calling other men in the crew babe and dear is something that can actually be so personal

#Frenchie ofmd #yes yes I know its just how dudes talk in certain areas #but that doesnt make it any less special for people who arent used to it #I live in a pretty progressive city and still most guys would never do that for fear of being seen as gay #some people in my inner circle do but outside of that it's pretty uncommon #seeing Frenchie say these things so casually gives me emotions #anyway can you tell I'm feeling talkative today? #ofmd #lex rambles #original posts

[enden-k]

I was poking around the Sumeru section of the updated area (the new bay and the stretch of desert) and I feel so upset about the size of space they just left fully empty lmao

They put nothing in it, not even like a handful of puzzles or enemies to fight

Love the Fontaine lore and space but augh

did the same, exact same thoughts!!! i found one chest at the top but yea when i unlocked the new map and saw all the huge area was just water and one small island and some part of sumeru, it was rlly disappointing. even more so when there was NOTHING there. the island and castle thingy is rlly pretty tho but still

#i expected an area u could explore a lot like the recent liyue addition but this is rlly tiny #unless there will be more. im still in the middle of the world quest #but yea sumeru was just a whole area of nothing just like some parts of the desert #reply