#traditional jobs

[useless-catalanfacts]

The European fan palm, also called Mediterranean dwarf palm (Chamaerops humilis), is the only palm tree autochthonous of Europe. It grows in Southern Europe and is abundant in the South of Catalonia.

For millennia, it has been used to make a kind of fabric (in the local dialect of Catalan called llata) that is used for weaving. This work has traditionally been done by women, called llatadores de pauma. There are still women in the area, old and young, who weave these palm leafs, particularly in the towns around the Parc Natural dels Ports.

Source: Inventari del Patrimoni Cultural Immaterial de les Terres de l'Ebre.

[camelidae]

Listen, you’ll be fine. Just don’t forget your library card and DON’T dog-ear the pages.

[mushramoo]

little concept design thing i reference when I draw the glamrocks, I really enjoy exploring what headcanons I have for them including some canon arcs they seem to be on (also helps me stay somewhat on model and get a better idea of the communication between them)

[boneinator]

I'll rust with you - Steam Powered Giraffe

(reblogs > likes !!)

[pallanophblargh]

Well, I found all my old cover illustration originals. However… some of them faded dramatically while in storage. They were light to begin with (likely due to the tendinitis I was wrestling at the time) and the resulting scan… left a lot to be desired. The meager paper texture has started to compete with the lightest areas. I remember this one being a massive pain in the ass to scan and adjust the first time around.

So since I’m a Luddite, I’m manually darkening key areas. It needed doing anyway. You can see the whole left hand side of the piece is being darkened, while the head and forelegs and far wing are as pasty as I found them.

I guess it’s been good to see how much I have improved over the years at the very least.

Someday there will be prints, I’m still going to make that work out.

[evorcy]

Fucking snowball

A furball

(I’m gonna eat ’em)

[bruhstation]

who here loves divorce? I do. here's captain star and captain zero: two people who can't help but drag other unwilling people into their huge mess! including the youth. can't forget the youth

(bit of ramble in the tags)

[mikrotyalm13]

everything about Gavriil feels suffocating.

how his presence alone can be almost overwhelming, how his massive body cages you everytime without a chance to escape. you wouldn't dare to try anyway, knowing that you don't even have a say against a creature of his caliber. he will find you. in your dreams, in your nightmares. in your room.

how he will be intense and vague about everything just for the sake of it; to confuse you further, to see the conflict of emotions in your eyes merge with arousal. eventually your hesitance turns into acceptance, a desperate need to feel his hands all over you. and he will be oh so grateful to fulfill that desire.

how his thick tongue pushes past your lips and into your mouth, reaching almost the back of your throat, relishing in the muffled little sounds you make. your drool mixed with his saliva drips down your chin, and your hazy eyes look up at him when he finally pulls away, giving you a second to breathe.

how his hips are slamming into you relentlessly, your wetness and lack of resistance allowing him to move almost effortlessly. forced to hold onto him for dear life instead of pushing away. all of your morals and principles are being tossed out of the window every single time he comes to you. he has you where he wants you, and will not stop until he feels like you can't take it anymore.

and how in the morning he vanishes away, leaving you guessing: was it just another wet dream? but the cold stickiness between your legs tells you more than you need to know.

[kyugo-0956]

have a little ayahata. as a treat

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

If you don’t mind sharing, since you don’t work for a zoo what is your job situation like? Making a living while working at a definitely zoo seems tricky. Is your main income zoology/animal related or is that more of a side thing?

Sincerely,

- a curious zoology student

I have a (mostly) unrelated jobjob - I’ve never actually been affiliated with a single facility, unless you count college internships before I started this blog. I freelance, working as a science media fact-checker and taking paid research contracts occasionally. I do work on a lot of animal / biology related fact-check content, but it’s not my entire scope of work. I also have the privilege of having family assistance, as I have chronic health issues that interfere with the normative 9-5 grind.

Everything I do in terms of blog writing/research, zoo industry research and publication, and photography is unpaid and pretty much a hobby at this point.

Prior to the pandemic I was trying to find funding for the intra-industry research and public-facing outreach I was doing, but there was never any money for it. (The industry is very used to expecting labor from young women for free. There was and is a lot of interest in the work I do, but the number of people/orgs that have ever provided compensation or financial support is in the single digits). The pandemic actually gave me the chance to pivot to focusing on professional fact-checking.

The only funding I get for any of this work is through a somewhat defunct Patreon I set up years ago when I was trying to make this blog / scicomm a full time gig. I’m terrible at updating it, and I’m conflicted enough about that to have been considering deleting it entirely. (For those of you who have stuck it out despite the radio silence, you’re incredible. You’ve facilitated the donation of my time to write a really cool paper with a zoo disaster response org, which will hopefully get through peer review soon).

To make something like this blog and everything else I do in the field actually financially sustainable, I’d need to fundraise and market more. The thing about a fact-checking career, though, is that it’s reinforced the need to make sure everything I write/say publicly is completely and 100% correct - because that level of rigor is what supports my professional reputation! Which means I’m slow to produce research and reticent to talk about it before it’s finished. My work comes out all the better for it, but it doesn’t fit into a content model that produces revenue.

So yeah, all of this is a side thing that I fit in around my paid work and my health. Because sometimes I just need to go see a tiger and smell an elephant, y’know?

[chipper-smol]

fresh snow :D

[useless-catalanfacts]

2022. Ceramists from Miravet (Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia). Photos by Jordi Borràs Abelló published in La Mira.

Miravet is a small town located on the shore of the Ebre river. Thanks to the river, it has an abundance of clay that has been used since Prehistory to make pottery.

Raval dels Canterers (in Catalan, “the ceramists’ suburb”) is a historical area of the town where pottery workshops have been located. Some of these buildings used are original 18th-century pottery shops, in use since then. It’s located next to the river, where they take the clay they use to make the pottery.

The woman in the first photos is Montserrat Pedrola. She’s the 7th generation of ceramists, historical documents show that her family has been working as pottery makers since the 1700s. Before plastic became the most used material, a lot of everyday objects were ceramic, especially everything used to eat, drink, and store. Now, Montserrat and her sister continue their family’s job, but they make more decorative objects and smaller versions of the traditional recipients that some tourists buy. But they don’t have any younger relative who wants to learn the job.

Besides Montserrat’s, there are 6 more active pitch-makers in the town, all of them located in the ceramists’ suburb.

More information in the article “El mirall de Miravet” by Oriol Lleonart Padrell, La Mira.

[eyebaus]

Yyyeah. I know. Sorry.

[philzokman]

everytime bones erases an incredibly important scene/detail i sob knowing danny motta will never know what was truly intended😔🙏🙏

[boneinator]

Doodle dump pt.3 🔥🔥

(reblogs > likes)

[artbyzephra]

Dinah, from Unicorn Overlord