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encounter with an angel

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Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix (1999) dir. The Wachowskis

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Today’s fish thing are these fish ties!

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i do think a lot of implausible medieval plot devices make more sense when considering the fact that these people simply did not have glasses

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A drawing I did of Ana Dolabra from The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett. It's been a while since I've done a properly coloured in drawing, so it's a little rusty but I like how it has turned out. Plus I just had to draw something bc of how much I loved the book. I've even got a Din drawing in progress too, so look out for that.

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the tainted cup- robert jackson bennett

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almost forgot this drawing

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trying to think about how the mai lanterns might look and work like also wanted to draw what i think the mai worms looked like referenced glow worms but tried to make them look a little more aquatic/crustacean with carapace and blue tones parts that arent covered in carapace I could see being squishy as for the lantern itself, i kinda was thinking it might work like old style oil lanterns. the pellets the mai worms eat in a small drawer/hopper at the bottom with an iris mechanism that can be opened/closed by turning the disk the little drawer sits in. and maybe with the size of the iris would limit the amount of worms that could get at the pellets and therefore determine the intensity of the glow? I am thinking WAY too deeply about this but i love it

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the iwi detectives

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𓆣 she hated bugs but they grew on her 𓆣

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Early morning visitors

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Lac Pavin, Auvergne, France by primpaul

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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Stained glass window in St Mary’s Church, Banbury - Pictured here is HMS Terror stuck in the ice. The image was taken from the Arctic reports and notebook of Admiral Sir George Back during his Arctic expedition in 1836. It was commissioned by Henry Back, the admiral’s brother and vicar of the church in c. 1860.

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did you guys know theres an actual fish called a 'seamoth' and its literally the coolest thing ever like this thing is a Focking Creature

HELLO?? HIS SNOOT. HIS TAIL. THE WINGS. THE SCIENTIFIC NAME IS PEGASUS VOLITANS

im literally so obsessed they are so cute THEYRE SO CUTE ARE YOU SEEING THIS?? ARE YOU LOOKING?? AUGH

AND THEYRE SO !!!! SMALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAA!!!

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day 8 of #avianaugust2025

ʻAlalā (hawaiian crow)