#american lions

[cryptid-quest]

Cryptid of the Day: American Lions

Description: In 1770, a traveler on the Kanhawa River, West Virginia, claimed a large, cat-like creature devoured half his horse. He reported the incident to Thomas Jefferson, who believed was an unknown species of lion, and not an eastern cougar. 

[antiqueanimals]

From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 15, No. 2. Fall 1976.

Internet Archive

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

The upcoming Stitch event feels like those trailers of Lilo and Stitch where Stitch intrudes disney films. Stitch has intruded in Disney movies, now he has intruded in Twisted Wonderland too

[Referencing this post!]

NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT

Yes!! There were commercials and teasers for the Lilo and Stitch movie where Stitch is shown invading other worlds, such as Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, etc.

I also remember that the Lilo and Stitch animated series had a ton of crossover episodes with other Disney Channel original cartoons. There was American Dragon Jake Long, Recess, The Proud Family, and Kim Possible!

So Twisted Wonderland is just another universe/time period/part of the world Stitch is invading… Honestly, such a natural evolution 🤡 I, for one, happily welcome our new fluffy blue alien overlord—

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal ! 🦭

Sea Lion Effigy Stirrup Vessel

Moche, Peru, 50-800 CE (Early Intermediate-Middle Horizon)

Earthenware (Blackware), H: 6 1/4 x W: 9 1/2 x D: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm)

The Walters Art Museum 48.2842 https://art.thewalters.org/detail/79387/seal-effigy-stirrup-vessel/

“This vessel shows a swimming sea lion, an animal commonly found on islands in the Pacific Ocean close to Peru. Apart from being an important source of food for Andean people, sea lions commonly swallow beach pebbles, which they later vomit up. These stones were considered to have powerful medicinal qualities, and could be ground to make herbal remedies in ancient Peru.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[sleepyconfusedpotato]

49ERS WIN RAHHHHHHHH

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH BANG BANG NINER GANG 💥💥💥

Me and @alypink watching that game was like

and then the comeback happened....

(based on this real conversation on discord 🤣🤣🤣)

Now onto the Super Bowl vs Chiefs!! I do think it's gonna be a dog fight between Niners and Chiefs. I surely want Niners to win, but Mahomes and Kelce and Andy Reid has more Super Bowl experience, so it's gonna be HARD.

but hey, at least Usher is performing in the halftime show. I LOVE HIM.

oh yeah almost forgot. Me and Aly also made a few discord touchdown stickers! 🤣

[weird-things-first]

Visiting Edgar The Seal together :)

koska sä oot ylivoimainen

[thefugitivesaint]

John Augustus Knapp (1853-1938), ''Secret Teachings of All Age: An Encyclopedia of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy'' by Manly P. Hall, 1928 Source

[scrimbly-mc-scrombly-iii]

some video essays I thought were really good/interesting (tagging the fandoms and movies involved)

The Postmodern Horror of TikTok’s Encanto Discourse

How the Music Spoils Sweeny Todd (and why that’s a good thing!)

The Lion King 1 1/2: Judaism, White Pride, and Paranoia

Monsters University and Disability

The Trans Boy Meets World Episode

The Queer Subtext of American Psyco

Women are Meat | Silence of the Lambs is a a movie about Womanhood

The anti-establishment undertones of Horrible Histories

The Internet Folklore of Creepypastas

Unpacking Moral Orel | An Under-appreciated Masterpiece

How Doki Doki Literiture Club Perfected Psychological Horror

Puss in Boots and the Three Villain Types

Images that Make You Kill Yourself

Issac Higgintoot: lost in adaptation (note: this one is about BBC Ghosts btw.)

Did FNAF Ever Have a Good Story?

[cadenreigns]

Dee Bradley Baker piece for an upcoming con

[blended-ice]

thinking about LeoJi 💛💜

[antiqueanimals]

Rancho La Brea mural by Charles R. Knight, 1925. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 31, No. 1. Fall 1992.

Internet Archive

[dread-doughnuts]

Carnivoran skulls from the Florida Museum of Natural History:

Lesser short-faced bear (Arctodus pristinus). Became extinct around 300,000 years ago, fossils are found in high concentrations in Florida. Related to the modern spectacled bear.

Ambruster’s wolf (Canis ambrusteri). Became extinct around 250,000 years ago, found throughout the United States. Taxonomy of this species is somewhat confusing, it may be related to modern grey wolves but may also be ancestral to dire wolves (which are now placed in the genus Aenocyon).

American lion (Panthera atrox). Became extinct around 11,000 years ago, found from Canada and the United States to southern Mexico. American lions were the sister species to Eurasian cave lions and are closely related to modern lions.

Sabertooth cat (Smilodon gracilis). Became extinct 500,000, had a fairly cosmopolitan range throughout North America and parts of South America. S. gracilis is the smallest Smilodon species and is believed to be the ancestor of S. fatalis and S. popular or. Sabertooth cats are not closely related to any modern species of cat.

[paigeoforacle]

Some dead friends from a weekend trip to the museum.

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #InternationalDayOfTheSeal 🦭

Sea Lion Pup Vessel

Moche culture, Peru, 200–850 CE

Ceramic & slip, 19.7 x 15.5 x 16 cm (7 3/4 x 6 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

The Cleveland Museum of Art 2014.375

“Sea lions commonly appear in Moche art as effigy vessels, like this appealing pup, or in complex scenes that often show them as the targets of human hunters. They may have been prized in part for the beach pebbles found in their stomachs; modern Peruvian folk healers consider such pebbles to have powerful medicinal qualities. Also, colonial-period natives believed that sea lions carried the dead to off-shore islands, an idea that could date to Moche times.”

🆔 South American Sea Lion (Otaria byronia)