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Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

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“Which shot in the movie ended up being the toughest to pull off, and why?”

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Who has chained the Queen-in-Chains and to where is it that the chains bind her? Does she prefer to be chained, or would she rather be free?

We are all chained. To each and every other individual; to every moment in time, past and present; to every place we will ever see; to every star that will ever shine above us; to our descendants, to our ancestors; to our friends; to our enemies; to the ground beneath our feet; to the air in our lungs; to the cells in our own body, to the electrical impulses of our own thoughts, to the moment of our death and the moment of death of every living thing inside of us and every thought about us that anyone has ever had or ever will have.

Independence is an illusion: individuality is a conceit as childlike and fragile as the notion of linear time. We are, all, suspended in a web of chains, each one connected to infinite others: and the strains and slacks and ripples that pass between them make up the shining tapestry of our one, whole, undivided universe. There has never been an island. You have never been alone.

The Queen-In-Chains is the Second Hour, preceded only by the Madrugad. For just as before anything ever lived, the passage beyond Death was already waiting for them (the Madrugad's domain): before a single act was ever taken, the entire interconnected tapestry of creation was waiting to respond to it.

The Queen-In-Chains is the Hour of prophesy, navigation, madmen and oracles. Her chosen include physicists and the seers of Delphi. Only she sees every link, and to what they are bound: there is probably nothing, past or future, that she doesn't know. Only she has traveled from one History to another. Only she knows what happened to the angels. Only she sees plainly the vast, black hand that turns over the cards at the bottom of Mithra. Because nothing is, that is not bound: and nothing acts, that does not travel through the entire universe as a shiver.

To petition the Queen-In-Chains is to go mad; to see the chains; to know the future. Hers is the light amplified by the shattered mirror. Blessings again, and blessings again, and blessings again.

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Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

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quick s/o to friend @sunseraph / @celestdraws's closed-species enchiron universe, which she has finally tempted me into joining. I am continually impressed by her detailed lore and variety of OCs.

starter character slots available for free. ;)

#rb

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Wilhelm pantomime costume design (1890-1910) PNGs, part 3

(from: vam)

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Time for a sea cucumber ✨GLOW UP✨

(Thanks to @mbari-blog for the first two video clips!)

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The eyes of various animals By: Unknown photographer From: Disney's Wonderful World of Knowledge 1971

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Biolumniscence by Luke Byrne, 2017.

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Luray Caverns // 2023

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I visited this cool cave in my region this weekend and this is honestly my ideal living environment.

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Various patterns and colors of Trout skin

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nina ricci ss02

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Reading about old Scandinavian/Nordic folk-magic before it got influenced by modern Wicca for a comic I’ll hopefully make and it’s fascinating.

For example, binding knots was extremely powerful and was used for almost everything from trapping bad spirits to getting rid of warts, and the four corners of the world were all connected to the element of Air/Wind instead of Water, Air, Earth and Fire so people did certain types of magic depending on the direction of the wind (North for Resistance/Trouble/Harming Others, South for Personal Growth/Happiness/Health, East for Solutions/Luck/Love, West for Darkness/Evil/Illness) and while I know it will be tempting for people to connect this to the four elements that’s not how people at the time thought of it at all. It was all Wind to them.

This style of folk-magic is just intended to act as background flavour to give the world a more distinct Scandinavian feeling but it’s super fun to read about anyway.

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Black Sun, Arkadiusz Danovski

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