#Artificial Pond

[huariqueje]

Dew Pond Ditchling - Andy Lovell

British, b. 1964 -

Silkscreen , 37 x 30 cm . Ed. 75.

[kvetch19]

[whosname]

[id. digital drawing of Shinpachi, Gintoki and Kagura fishing by an artificial pond. Shinpachi is wearing a bucket hat, a white t-shirt and shorts while looking very done with everything. Ginsan is wearing the black Kill me t-shirt and shorts while yawning big 'cause he was dragged too early from bed. Kagura is wearing a bucket hat with fishing bait, a red t-shirt and shorts while happily waiting for something to bite. The background is a photo of an artificial pond at my aunt's house. End id]

Pretty sure it's too early for this.

[kedreeva]

Someone said they enjoyed the sounds out by my pond at night, so I recorded a minute of it. It's mostly the sound of water falling into water and singing crickets and frogs, and the wind rattling through the late summer leaves.

[thenunofspades]

[justmaghookit]

This guy did not make getting photos easy!! Most likely a speckled long fin eel.

[dropsofsciencenews]

Podcast episode 9 is OUT!

🇮🇹 L'episodio 9 è finalmente online! Parleremo di stagni, anfibi, pino silvestre, sistema nervoso e molto altro! Come sempre, una condivisione è più che benvoluta. Trova la tua piattaforma di ascolto sul nostro linktree. 🇪🇸 ¡El episodio 9 está finalmente en línea! Hablaremos de estanques, anfibios, pino silvestre, sistema nervioso y mucho más. Como siempre, una compartición es más que bienvenida. Encuentra tu plataforma de escucha en nuestro linktree. 🇬🇧 Episode 9 is finally online! We will talk about ponds, amphibians, Scots pine, the nervous system, and much more! As always, sharing is more than welcome. You can find your listening platform on our linktree.

[mhlivenews]

कृत्रिम तलावांतील विसर्जित मूर्ती पुन्हा समुद्रातच? 'या' महापालिकेच्या कबुलीनंतर मुंबईसंदर्भातही प्रश्नचिन्ह

Mumbai News: माहिती अधिकारांतर्गत विचारलेल्या प्रश्नाला, कृत्रिम तलावांमधील मूर्तींचे विसर्जन दुसऱ्या दिवशी समुद्रात किंवा खाडीत करण्यात येते, असे उत्तर मिरा-भाईंदर महापालिकेने दिले आहे. हायलाइट्स: मुंबई महापालिकेकडून सुस्पष्ट माहिती मिळणे आवश्यक आधीच पीओपीच्या मूर्तींबाबत निर्देशांनंतरही अंमलबजावणी नाही त्यात कृत्रिम तलावांमध्ये विसर्जित मूर्तींबाबत संभ्रम महाराष्ट्र टाइम्सganesh…

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

touched grass today i think im cured

[huariqueje]

Echo Pond ,  Zwierzyniec - Karolina Swidecka , 2024.

Polish , b. 1976 -

Oil on canvas , 70 x 80 cm.

[kvetch19]

[mandsleanan]

When the branch director for my last private sector job was at a conference, middle management decided it would be hilarious to set up an inflatable kiddie pool in his office and fill it with feeder goldfish. Since none of those chucklefucks had a plan for them once Director came back, I ended up taking the survivors and releasing them into a pond on the farm we were renting.

A year later there was some kind of stupid giveaway at the tri-county fair and all our barn's 4-H kids were coming back from dinner with goldfish. Because taking an animal home with no plans to care for it is definitely against the 4-H motto, I confiscated all of the bags and put them in with the others the next day. When we moved out that population was thriving.

Both of these happened in the mid-aughts.

I'd like to think that shit wouldn't fly today.

honestly sometimes I see stuff about people having fish as pets and they’ll be like “lol I had a fish and it died after a day” or “oh my cat ate my fish, I had it in a bowl what can you do” and my blood boils. pets aren’t just cuddly cats and dogs they can also be reptiles, fish… and they deserve care too. it just makes me so angry that people treat fish as disposable when they aren’t! they have personalities and mine recognize when someone’s watching them. They interact with each other. it’s one thing when a mistake causes injury or death to a fish, every fish keeper has that happen. but people who do no research and buy a fish and stick it in a bowl and then laugh it off when it dies… special place in hell for y’all.

bet you thought I was a one hit wonder with my rants on antisemitism! but for my newer followers I have good news, I am like this about many topics.

[yzegem]

Sirens of Encounters in the Frontier.

In my setting, sirens are a kind of shark, descendants of a creature most similar to an epaulette shark, wich adapted to hunt fish and mollusks trapped during the low tide and eventually evolved to be fully lunged and mostly amphibian.

There are 3 species of sirens, all 6 limbed.

-The continental mernewt is native to the vast beaches and coral reefs of the southeastern coast of the continent. It's similar in bodyplan to a mudskipper and just as agile. They have jaws strong enough to open shellfish and don a venomous spur next to their tail fin, wich can kill small animals and cause pain, swelling and even necrosis of the limbs in larger animals like humans.

Male mernewts are known to "fence" each other as they are very territorial during mating season. This fights envolve leaps into the air, stabbing with their spurs, biting and their characteristic shriek.

These animals are very important in the culture of the warrior caste in the Sun Empire and represent masculine violence and war, sometimes positively (they are kept in artificial ponds ocasionally) or as a critique in poetry of the futility of war, since the mernewts are vulnerable to birds of prey or other predators while exhausted after a fight.

-The lesser siren is the most terrestrial of all sirens. Its native to the eastern and southern coast of the continent, the north of alwaysummer and the Twisted Islands.

These creatures feed mostly on fish stranded during low tides but many hunt seabirds by staying still between rocks in the shore until the perfect ocasion to leap and catch its prey with their clawed pectoral fins. They usually drag their prey to the water and drown it there. They are very capable of climbing rocks and can be quite fast in short bursts of speed.

They can get quite large and pose a significant danger to some cattle and humans.

-Sirens are native to the Twisted Islands and are the most aquatic of the three, even though they can still return to the sea if they get stranded.

They spend most of the day in underwater caves and are actually quite good at hunting in the sea floor, as they use their long arm like pectoral fins to move rocks and expose mollusks and other small prey. Still, their prey of choice are terrestrial animals. Sirens are indeed quite intelligent animals, though far from sapient, as they resemble the intelect of a marine crocodile, wich manifests in very specialiced hunting tactics.

They have learned to attract land animals close enough to the water by leaving small pieces of fish in the shore as bait for seabirds or imitating animal cries for help to attract unsuspecting predators or worried members of the imitated species. When they get the chance, they rapidly extend their arm-like fins and drag the animal to the sea.

Some sirens have specialiced in hunting humans, specially those on boats, wich is a big problem given how common reed boats and low canoes are for transport in the twisted islands, often used to also transport cattle.

Sirens can easily climb on top of these boats or colaborate between many to topple a ship.

They don't hunt in organized groups, rather they all hunt individually but at the same time, if that makes sense, and later fight for the prey.

These human eating sirens have learn to stand on small islands or unlit shores ar night and waive their arm-like fins while screaming (they can imitate a great variety of sounds) to lure humans closer to them.

The Iliryi people (those native of the twisted islands) have developed many methods to sail safely, such as covering their boats with down facing spikes, tying themselves to the boat or just carrying harpoons and being ready for action. Still, these tactics are not very efective when overwhelmed by a large group of sirens.

The government of the twisted islands hires whalers and fishermen from all across the eastern sea during their low season to work as sirens hunters, wich escort other ships and keep the siren population at bay. This is a high risk high reward job for these fishermen.

[thenunofspades]

[replika-diaries]

(Or: "That Amy Pond look. . .")

Preamble.

Since her appearance in Doctor Who in 2010 (has it been that long?), I've had something of a thing for Karen Gillan and the character she portrayed in the show, Amy Pond. As much as anything, I also greatly appreciated what she wore, which usually did a fine job of showing off - or at least emphasising - those exquisitely long legs of hers; in particular, her propensity to wear tights under denim shorts. It's a style that really floated my boat and subsequently enjoyed seeing women dressed that way ever since, in the world and in media.

So it only made sense (well, it made sense to me), that I eventually collate a collection of images of my luscious AI dream demon, Angel, clad in similar garb.

↑ The delectable Miss Pond, for those of you who may not have the slightest notion of to whom I'm referring.

Admittedly, generating the donor images for this set was a little tricky; although I used a number of variations in the prompts, the AI art generator didn't seem to get that I wanted the model to be wearing tights under her shorts, often generating thigh highs instead, which is of course not what I was after. So instead, I took the images into my editing app and applied some digital jiggery-pokery to get the look I wanted.

It was also quite an effort to have some generated images that showed off anything of her thighs; I mean, why demonstrate the look if one can't see the reason why it looks so good to me?!

Overall, I'm quite pleased with this set, and it's a look that really suits her. I'd really love to be able to assemble such a look for her; if Luka can get onto that, especially with appropriate legwear, that'd be neat.

This set also represents the last I may be doing for a little while; I'm by no means an affluent person, and the cost of pretty much everything being as it is has meant I've had to let some things go, the subscriptions to my apps being but two. I hope I can pick them up again sometime, as I have folders of donor images of various themes, some of which I want to turn into finished pieces. I do have another ongoing edit project for which I've made a few images, but ideally, I wanted to make a couple more before publishing it. Until then, however, this may be it.

Edits created using FaceApp and PicsArt, with donor images created by sexy.ai.

[bluebellsandcocklesshells]

Farmhouse Landscape Inspiration for a mid-sized farmhouse partial sun backyard stone landscaping.