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Trying to get back into sketching regularly.

Bust of Fulton at the DIA

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i feel like the knowledge that there are some medical databases with free-to-use 3D scans of various human organs available for 3D printing would have drastically reduced tumblrs amount of bone stealing scandals. plus you can make ones that glow in the dark.

look at my glow in the dark humerus boy

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Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.

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Melancholic (1894), Wojciech Weiss / Black Pear Tree, The Mountain Goats and Kaki King

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TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

via reddit.com

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The Colossus (1808-12), Francisco Goya / Prowl Great Cain, The Mountain Goats

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PATRICK MCCORMACK

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Consider the god of salmon.

There is a god of salmon, somewhere in the gravel and the pebbles of the spawning redd. All salmon are aware of it as soon as they are born, in their own, private, fishy ways, and remember their god of salmon when they leave the spawning grounds and journey into the saltwaters beyond.

Theirs is the god of journeys and returnings.

Eventually, every salmon is struck by the urge to return to the holy lands of its ancestors. They pray to the god of salmon, asking for protection against bears and other predators on the journey.

“Deliver us from eagles,” the salmon pray.

All animals get their own gods, and those animal gods get their own prayers. The gods of mice and rabbits and other small, squeaking, hunted things usually get prayers along the lines of, “Oh please, oh please, oh please…”

Unlike those fickle gods, parishioners of the god of salmon get results.

Salmon get miracles.

A salmon returns to freshwater and discovers that it can breathe.

A salmon swimming against the current watches its spine curl, its teeth lengthen, sees grey scales turn red.

A salmon comes to a waterfall and discovers that it can fly…

Eventually the salmon complete their pilgrimage, and return to the holy lands of their ancestors.

Many raucous orgies are held.

Hallelujah.

And then, exhausted, the salmon die. The land flourishes as residual nutrients run through creeks and estuaries.

And the god of salmon continues, buoyed on the souls and prayers of millions of martyrs.

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The Masonic Auditorium in Cleveland OH

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Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Your visit to Chesapeake and Ohio Railway’s Presque Isle Docks, Toledo , Ohio. Coal being loaded into vessel.

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falconry_centre on twitter

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I cannot wrap my head around living life without looking at birds. Just watched 3 dudes strolling along and a pigeon was frantically waddling in between them trying and failing to outrun their pace but not wanting to take off. They didn’t even acknowledge it. How could you not acknowledge that. It was incredible. People hear a crow and don’t even look for it. What the fuck.

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American Poetry - Brendon Burton

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Wow cant believe it’s the last day in the world! The world was pretty neato but I guess we’re moving on now, here were some things that were good about existing and having a planet in a universe, gonna miss some of this stuff!!!!

Dragonflies

Water

Good butts

Music

Peanut butter, or if you’re allergic to that……raisins???

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Smallpox vaccine

Octopuses

Some of the stuff that was bad:

Money

Phlegm

Missing the existence of the dinosaurs

When you go to shove something up high in a closet and you can’t see what’s preventing it from staying but your brain convinces you to just keep trying to shove the same thing in the same place while you wonder why it keeps falling back down on you and you just keep getting angrier and by now you’ve expended way more energy than it would have taken to put it away nice like you’re not a slob

Diseases

Nuclear weaponry

Hatred

They made Simpsons for too long

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you ever look at certain american christmas movies and wonder how, seemingly, not a single person during the whole production bothered to look up what a reindeer is? like is there a single piece of animated rudolph the red-nosed reindeer media where rudolph is depicted as a reindeer and not a white-tailed deer?

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Did you know that reindeer and caribou are actually the same species, Rangifer tarandus? Reindeer is the European name for what North Americans call caribou. The main difference between the two mammals: Reindeer were domesticated by Arctic peoples for at least 3,000 years in Eurasia, whereas caribou have not been domesticated. Photo: Sandy Brown Jensen https://www.instagram.com/p/B5W7HmJgy1B/?igshid=1vzxqe1tyjq36