Favourite Character | Kusuri Uri | Mononoke
oh man thank you for reminding me that this glorious thing exists.
Love love love this show. I highly recommend it! I do not, however, recommend watching it late at night with the lights off.
Barony of Stargate Pass-Down Arrows
I received a dozen Port-Orford cedar arrow shafts in my prize basket last year when I was chosen as Stargate’s baronial archery champion. However, I shoot 5/16” shafts and these were 11/32”. So I decided to make really nice period pass-down arrows.
The shafts are painted with acrylic paint and sealed with shellac. The inserts in the nocks are holly, cut for me by leapoffacliff. The fletches were cut by hand from full goose and duck feathers. The first six arrows (which I did not get photos of before I passed them off) were wrapped with waxed silk thread. These six are wrapped with waxed linen thread.
I used no power tools in the making of these arrows. Let me tell you, cutting and gluing the holly inserts with hand tools was a royal pain in the ass. After cutting the nocks I’m pretty sure I need a new blade for my coping saw; holly is a hard wood. Then came lots and lots of sanding to shape the nocks. I fletched these by hand because I hate myself. If you’re cutting your own fletches, I recommend wearing a mask because breathing in feather bits is uncomfortable.
These are by far the most tedious and time-consuming arrow project I’ve done so far. They are also my most impressive.
Drawings done on scraps of thick cardstock/thin illustration board. I will be painting these with gouache later.
All characters are my own creations, with the exception of the Hooded Grebe which is a real species of bird.
Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile
I refuse to believe this place actually exists and isn’t just really good concept art
Patagonia really does exist. I have been to the Argentine side and the water really is that color. I need to post my photos sometime…
The Potoo - Either the most unphotogenic or the most ridiculous looking bird in the world.
unphotogenic? these are my favorite pictures of any bird ever
my spirit animal
they look as beautiful as they sound.
That’s not a bird, that’s a MUPPET
I will never not reblog this bird,
Nanostructures Make Viper Skin Ultra-Black and Stealthy
by Laura Poppick
From even a short distance, this West African Gaboon viper looks just like a pile of dead leaves. New research shows that the highly-camouflaged snake owes its elusiveness to nanostructures in its black scales.
The velvety-black patches on this snake’s back are so dark and absorb so much light, they look like gaps in the snake’s body. This illusion allows the lurkers to dissolve into leaf litter as they wait for prey on the rainforest floor.
To determine what makes these scales appear so black, a team of German scientists examined the snake’s skin under a scanning electron microscope (SEM), and found differences in the nanostructures of dark and pale scales that explain the high contrast, the team reports today in Scientific Reports…
(read more: Wired Science) (photo: Guido Westhoff)
I adore Gaboon vipers. They are so damn pretty! Now scientists are discovering why their black scales eat light? Love it!
I know you wanted this on your dash.
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen.
if you listen you can hear it when it lands
wheeeeeeee
American woodcock struttin’ and shakin’ his stuff with bonus rump shake loop.
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Oh my god, just…watch the video while listening to this music. Just do it. Trust me.
OH MY GOD
Oh wow
Everyone needs these gifs in their life.
Custom hair arrow pair commission. I dyed the feathers with fabric dye and ink.
Want your own? Commission me or look through the pre-made ones I have for sale in my etsy shop.
SEEING PEOPLE YOU ARE FOND OF BE REALLY HAPPY
Alternatively, when you are extremely hungry and someone sets food out.
i forgot i titled my paper like this and it’s too late to print off another copy
i’m fucked
I TURNED I NT INTO MY PROIFESSOR AND SHE WAS LIKE E “CHARLEMAN….NICE” AND GAVE ME A THUMBS UP IM CSREAMING
