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you can always tell how little people actually care about art based on how much they hate modern/contemporary art

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While its true that you can't get a perfectly accurate map in both shape and size, it isn't true you can't have a map that's accurate about area-- for example, The Gall-Peters map is accurate in size, but not shape:

And also, there are plenty of projections that manage a happier medium between the two than the Mercator (often by not sticking to the rectangle and letting your latitude and longitude lines not be straight)

^ Goode - Homolosine Projection

Bonne Equal-Area Projection ^

Robinson Projection ^

Its also important to note that, since we live on a globe, there's no reason why they had to distort it in the way they did-- they could have put the poles anywhere, they could have had it be a view from antarctica at the center. Both that, and this:

South-up Robinson projection ^

... Are no less accurate than the Mercator. And because of how ubiquitous the Mercator is, it gives a misinformed view of the global south as much smaller than it is.

In their defence, a lot of it is sand.

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why are bathroom sinks designed like that. infuriating

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IMO you can't say anything coherent about most US-based right wing conspiracy theories without understanding how seriously the diehards in these movements believe in The Devil

the obvious question, "who benefits from maintaining this elaborate lie," does not stop people like Flat Earthers because many of them are young earth creationists who believe in powerful spiritual forces whose only goals are

1. convincing people that Christianity isn't true

2. the proliferation of largely symbolic Evil, which they enjoy tricking you into supporting

"tricking" people into believing the earth is round is enough of a goal for The Devil to go to all that trouble. if people don't believe in God's perfect little flat earth then they're also free to believe in things like evolution and the big bang

practicality and material concerns are usually irrelevant. the lie is worth maintaining because The Devil has near unlimited time, resources, and human servants, and his top priority is Getting You

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HORNY trannies in YOUR AREA looking to FROT

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Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

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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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okayyyyyy. Wet Snorting creature.

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Some time ago, I designed a dryad for every platycerium/staghorn fern species I have or have had (my grande died, but the rest lives). They are sorted here in the following order:

p. ridleyi

p. bifurcatum

p. superbum (+ grande)

p. elephantotis

p. veitchii lemoinei

p. cabbage

p. madagascar alcicorne

p. quadridichotomum

p. stemaria

p. coronarium

My collection has grown with two p. madagascariense and a p. mt. kitshakood since I made these, so I suppose I’ll do two more at some point. The line art, ink layers, my design thoughts and some plant talk is publicly posted on my Patreon.

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Aging is hot. Gray hairs are hot. Smile lines are hot. Get with it.

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gimma things to scribble shittily in mspaint

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

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sorry i cant hang out i forgot how to mimic human like behaviour

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