*me forcing everyone i know to learn about my favourite snail/entire brand *
Guys i just think they're neat. I do not have a problem. Look at my goopy guys. Gods prettiest boogers.
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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.
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The symbiosis of Blisterstick (now called Bluestick) and the diminutive flyers that evolved intertwined with them.
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Anatomy of a Spell
This infographic is based on my Anatomy of a Spell post and is based on my own experience with spell work.
Ofc tumblr butchered the quality but I'll try to find another way to post it so that it's more clear lol.
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In Gaza, family portraits have become portraits of 2023 Genocide.
THIS IS CLASSIC GENOCIDE. Hundreds of Palestinian families in Gaza have lost multiple members to the indiscriminate Israeli bombardment, while numerous families have been entirely wiped off the registry.
The situation is so gruesome that doctors coined a new acronym to describe the status of orphaned children at Gaza hospitals: "Wounded Child No Surviving Family," or W.C.N.S.F
Families in Gaza — Visualizing Palestine
Genocide : It is defined as a mass extermination of a particular group of people.
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Panda tea ceremony 🍵
Also you can check out this speedpaint ✨
This post was sponsored by my cringe uni professor👍/silly
(more about it under read more if you’re curious)
Okay so I didn’t plan on posting anything till I draw something tnmn related
But I’m finishing up my semester and one of the requirements to pass my digital illustration exam is
“upload your finished assignment to your youtube channel and generate qr code to it 🤓”
This is literally the only way to submit your work 💥💀
So well
since I’m posting the speedpaint might as well share the art 🐼🍵
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Most popular fanfiction fandoms by state
There's a specific kind of PR spam I get a lot that involves marketing firms coming up with cool quirky topics to look up on Google Trends, finding out what the data is on a national level, and then turning that data into a cute trend graph.
While discussing one such trend search, I started wondering what the top fanfiction fandoms were on a state by state level, so i did it myself.
The results were honestly not what I was expecting!
Methodology: I searched Google trends for "fanfiction" by state and then noted the top related queries for the past 12 months. If not enough data could be generated for related queries, then I looked at the top related topics. If those results were wonky, I searched top related queries from 2004-present.
Harry Potter is universally the #2 fandom behind Naruto, with the exception of Iowa, in which Harry Potter was ranked 1st, and trailing at a very distant 2nd was.... NCIS Hawaii, and Colorado, in which the top 3 fandoms are Miraculous Ladybug, RWBY, and Percy Jackson.
RWBY, My Hero Academia, and Percy Jackson were generally the most popular third place fandoms.
Wednesday Addams is by far the most popular related character topic. One notable exception is Pennsylvania, where the top related character is, uh, this random gentleman from General Hospital?
AO3 was by far the most-googled related fic archive ahead of ff.net and wattpad. (Though to be fair, Wattpad tweens aren't googling Wattpad, they're just opening the app.)
Another related query that kept popping up from state to state was this (imo basic) fanfic kink test that got popular thanks to this tumblr post, so well done everyone!
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