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Time to switch to my fall desktop background: Dan McPharlin's 2009 cover for 'Prefuse 73: The Forest of Oversensitivity' EP

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Utroba Cave in the Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. Carved by hand more than 3000 years ago (?), it was rediscovered in 2001.

Archeologists hypothesize that an altar built at the end of the cave, which is about 22 m deep, represents either the cervix or the uterus.

At midday, light seeps into the temple through an opening in the ceiling, projecting an image of a phallus on to the floor.

When the sun is at the right angle, in late February or early March, the phallus grows longer and reaches the alter, symbolically fertilizing the womb before the sowing of the spring crops.

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[VIDEOS TAKEN: JUNE 24TH, 2024 | Video IDs: Two videos, played one after the other, of several red, yellow, and black paper wasps working on their nest, generally seeming to be ignoring the camera as they build up paper cells and tend to the young, apart from one or sometimes two workers who are calmly watching /End IDs.]

Some beautiful paper wasps building up their nest! I had to get extremely close to get these videos, by which I mean, within inches of the nest, which, apart from indicating I probably need to get a camera that can shoot video from afar some day, goes to show how calm they were at this point! Given this is a whole nest of them, I did have to spend a while gaining their trust, but they've been generally perfectly ok with my presence as they grew in number from the small nest you see here to the 30 - 40 individuals that stand there today!

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Adding Fuck to LOTR, from the Hobbits.

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We made this during lockdown for the Glorious 25th and I just have to share it again.

My wonderful cosplay friends and their amazing costumes made me so happy to come together and celebrate Terry and his world.

And a hardboiled egg.

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Thank you so much for the response! I watched that clip like 10 times, their wing movements are very interesting, and I will definitively be using those diagrams instead of my magnifying glass going forward.

I do want to clarify that the larger wings in the paper wasps on my porch all all quite literally folded i half, as in i need something to hold them flat when I'm looking at them. I can only speak to the status of the dead wasp's wings as none of the living ones hang around long.

Howdy, I'm working on a wasp themed fairy costume (paper wasp with creative liberties). To do this I was trying to find good photos of wasp wings (short supply), and resorted to taking my own.

I was wondering if you knew why, or if you could point me to any potential resources as to why paper wasp wings are all seemingly folded. I'm from southern Louisiana if that makes any difference.

Well, I think the general, most simple answer, is that, that's just the most natural resting position for their wings to rest, that and I'd imagine that wings that are on top of one another rather than spread apart are more protected, especially the notably smaller hindwings (but that's just an educated assumption). Paper wasps will actively use all four wings in flight (as all flying wasps do), with those wings coming mostly (but not necessarily fully) out of position with each other, but are more inclined to keep them folded at rest or even when taking a more defensive position, prepared for takeoff.

and yeah, honestly, finding good reference for insect wings and other parts of their anatomy can be an absolute pain in the ass, I've had to resort to taking apart some long dead insects at least twice before to get a better understanding. Here are a few references that aren't that-

[Image Sources: ResearchGate, CABI Digital Library | Image IDs: An illustration showing the head of a paper wasp alongside two of its wings, one forewing, one hindwing, followed by a photo showing a paper wasp, Polistes dominula, with its wings more spread out /End IDs.]

Note that paper wasps with dark/black wings will have similar venation and a shape that's only a little bit different, but just be more opaque/darker.

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Writing References: World-Building

20 Questions

Basics: World-building ⚜ Places ⚜ Imagery ⚜ Setting

Exploring your Setting ⚜ Kinds of Fantasy Worlds

Editing

Setting & Pacing Issues

Writing Notes

Animal Culture ⚜ Autopsy

Alchemy ⚜ Creating a Magic System

Art: Elements ⚜ Principles ⚜ Photographs ⚜ Watercolour

Creating Fictional Items ⚜ Fictional Poisons

Cruise Ships ⚜ Dystopian World

Culture ⚜ Culture Shock ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

Food: How to Describe ⚜ Word Lists: Part 1 2 3 4 5

Food: Cooking Basics ⚜ Herbs & Spices ⚜ Sauces ⚜ Wine-tasting

Food: Aphrodisiacs ⚜ List of Aphrodisiacs

Food: Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables

Greek Vases ⚜ Sapphire ⚜ Relics

Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Kinds of Love

Medieval Art & Architecture: Part 1 ⚜ Part 2 ⚜ Some Vocabulary

Mystical Items & Objects ⚜ Talisman

Moon: Part 1 ⚜ Part 2

Seasons: Spring ⚜ Summer

Shapes of Symbols ⚜ Symbolism

Slang: 1930s

Symbolism: Of Colors Part 1 2 ⚜ Of Food ⚜ Of Storms

Topics List ⚜ Write Room Syndrome

Vocabulary

Agrostology ⚜ Architecture ⚜ Art Part 1 2 ⚜ European Renaissance Art ⚜ Fashion ⚜ Gemology ⚜ Geology Part 1 2 ⚜ Greek Art ⚜ Law ⚜ Literature Part 1 2 ⚜ Poetry ⚜ Science

Writing References: Plot ⚜ Character Development

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im going to post old cat images now

ceiling cat

monorail cat

long cat

the OG can i haz cheezburger cat

the lesser known graphix cat

invisible bike cat

my planet needs me cat

cat with the gat

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I just know some characters would unleash this line onto an innocent bystander but I want to hear everyone’s specific thoughts

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Just some Crown while I'm warming up today

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mercymorn the first reportedly tried to stop the world just to stop the feeling

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it’s so funny in retrospect when in harrow the ninth harrow’s like “i never had dolls when i was a child but if i did i would not have played with them i cannot fathom why someone would want to play with dolls” cuz it’s like GIRL you fell in love with Barbie herself

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that regular lesbian experience of being a good girl in love with an evil nun.

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I think  the main reason everybody underestimated Palamedes at first was because even though he was a necromancer that knows a lot about the medical and healing part of necromancy, he didn't use it to fix his eyesight! Which, I must emphasize, is easier to do than treating symptoms of cancer (Dulcinea) and helping the kidneys remove all the toxins from the body (Judith).

Harrow probably guessed it was a misdirection. Pal trying to appear less powerful than he actually is. Gideon mentions that when he takes his glasses off is a form of a threat, not vulnerability or openness.

I think fans will say it's him just sandbagging.

But the interpretation that I like is that it highlights his biggest flaw. When Palamendes sees the solution to a problem, he elaborates a plan, and doesn't stop to consider other alternatives. With that approach he corners himself.  Pal learned medicine to help Dulcie so he didn't consider that he could've used it on himself. He discovered who the killer was and thought only his abilities could take them down, when it was a combined effort that killed the lyctor. He wanted to discover who Nona was but didn't realize that she wasn't neither Harrow or Gideon, and because of that, she was killing the body she occupied the same way he was killing Cam's body.

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The LIBERAL Tomb

IanTHEY

Naberius TRANS

Marta DYKEas

Palamedes GENDERtus

John GAYus

Commander WOKE

GAYdeon THEY Ninth

Ortus NiGAYnad

LOVEISLOVEday Heptane

Pyrrha

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