So I looked up funny wedding photos and I was not disappointed.
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These are all so wholesome and make for great draw the otp/draw the squad things for when you want to draw characters getting married but also be total dorks.
So Iâm watching a Sir David Attenborough (Natural Curiousities on Netflix), to cope withe the crushing lonliness of solo housesitting, and heâs on about Really Weird animals and talks about the origins of the pheonix- a bird that people travelling though Africa only rarely saw shrouded in the streamy mists of volcanic soda lakes (which are literally boiling hot and also extremely caustic).
And all theyâd see is the occasional bit of bright red plumage and see these things bobbing in and out of the horrible death clouds coming off the lake, and naturally came up with the myth of a firebird what the fuck ELSE would be living IN A GODDAMN VOLCANO??
The Central Africans told this to the Egyptians who told the Greeks* about this mysterious animal, and they ran hog-wild with it to create the now-famous Pheonix, but-
The bird they were seeing in those volcanic lakes?
*There is significant academic debate about who told who what when (esp as the firebird myth has cropped up multiple times and been culturally exchanged many, MANY times) but the Flamingo>Egyptian Bennu>Greek Pheonix>European Pheonix chain is fairly well agreed upon.
Some of my favorite tags so far:
@asleepinawell âNatural Curiousitiesâ is on netflix and I think the PBS streaming app. BBC streaming keeps crashing on me but probably there too. Itâs very much like his usual work, but with 500% more âLook at these funky specimens and the frantic scribbles of early scientific illustrators confronted with a fucking kangarooâ and âIâm Sir David Fucking Attenborough And Iâm Going To Snuggle This Cheetahâ
@heedra You are correct! According to Wikipedia: âThe name âflamingoâ comes from Portuguese or Spanish flamengo, âflame-coloredâ, in turn coming from Provençal flamenc from flama âflameâ and Germanic-like suffix -ing, with a possible influence of words like âFlemingâ THEY WERE TRYING TO TELL US ALL ALONG!
@melifair Youâre in good company- I used to call them âPimentosâ until I was three and finally got the hang of the Letter âFâ
Also, Apologies about the spelling. I have a reading disorder and it causes me to mis-read and by turn misspell certain words, especially ones with two nonidentical vowels in the middle of the word like Their and Becuase. Good thing we all know what Iâm talking about anyway!
But how could you not tell us WHAT THE FLAMINGOS ARE DOING IN A VOLCANO?????
So Flamingoes are pretty badass.
Theyâre hyperspecialized filter-feeders, not unlike krill-feeding whales, and thier heads are shaped Like That, so they can dangle thier heads in the water, suck up water full of algae and brine shrimp and other goodies, and filter them out with thier Spiny Tongues.
(Image Source Apparently, according to the Ancient Romans, Flamingo Tounge has a âSuperbâ flavor. You Wacky Roman Bastards)
But the lakes with the tastiest and most dense algae and arthropods are not Normal lakes. African Lesser Flamingoes (lesser becuase they have a smaller range, but probably our phoenix given how people were travelling at the time) like to hang out in extremely Alkaline Lakes where thier favorite algae grow, and those lakes are mostly in the volcanic Great Rift Valley. Where the lava and occasional venting of hot toxic gasses happen.
In addition to the wierd diet, and caustic water, Flamingoes can also cope with some pretty intense climate. The Alkaline Lakes Lesser Flamigoes like are also VERY HIGH in the mountains, where they cope with low oxygen, Intense UV radiation, and rapid and extreme temperature fluctuations- below freezing at night and heatstroke hot in the day.
You can tell how well a Flamigo is Flamingoing by itâs color! The lovely red-pink color comes from the algae and arthopods they eat: the better-fed and healthier a flamingo is, the more intense thier colors will be! Zoo famingoes can thrive on a wide variety of diets, but thier colors will fade, and it will cause everyone to lose romantic interest, so they have to be fed a special color-intensive diet to keep breeding programs going.
So while Flamingoes probably werenât the bird you were picturing when you thought of a Phoenix , theyâre Pretty Badass and worthy of the mythic lore.
Today we step into the Archie McPhee Library to explore a macabre and fascinating book entitled The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death [Buy on Amazon] by Corinne May Botz, whose outstanding photos reveal one of the strangest and most significant tools in the development of modern forensic analysis: eighteen miniature, exhaustively detailed crime scene models built in the 1940s and 50s by pioneering criminologist Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962). She called her models âNutshell Studiesâ because, âthe purpose of a forensic investigation is said to be to âconvict the guilty, clear the innocent, and find the truth in a nutshell.ââ
Glessner Lee was a grandmother in her 60s when she painstakingly created these dollhouse models, each of which is based on an actual homicide, suicide or accidental death. To help ensure accuracy she attended autopsies and made sure that even the smallest details of her models were correct. Clothing is appropriately worn out, pencils write, locks, windows, and lights all function, whistles blow, and mice inhabit the walls. These astonishing models were (and still are!) used to train detectives on how to asses visual evidence.
Corinne May Botzâs lush color photographs lure viewers into every crevice of Frances Leeâs models and breathe life into these deadly miniatures, which present the dark side of domestic life, unveiling tales of prostitution, alcoholism, and adultery. The accompanying line drawings, specially prepared for this volume, highlight the noteworthy forensic evidence in each case. Botzâs introductory essay, which draws on archival research and interviews with Leeâs family and police colleagues, presents a captivating portrait of Lee.
Frances Glessner Lee was also an heiress who used her considerable fortune to found Harvardâs department of legal medicine, the first forensic pathology program in the nation. In 1943 she was appointed an honorary Captain in the New Hampshire State Police. She was the first woman in the United States to hold that rank.
Itâs a dark topic, to be sure, but this beautiful book is an intimate and utterly captivating look at the work of a truly remarkable woman and one of the most important figures in the development of modern forensic analysis.
Do you ever read a piece of writing advice so awful youâre not entirely sure if itâs satire or not.
If your character is an evil assassin, you might want to refer to his fingernails as daggers or stabbers.
Stabbers. Stabbers. Yep.
A jealous ex-girlfriend might have witch hooks or tentacles. Sugar- or flour-coated hands could be clues that a protagonist is a baker. Or a serial killer with a fetish.
Well this has taken an odd turn.
Use âhandsâ too often, and the word will annoy readers. English offers a multitude of options.
Oh no.
Analyze what the hands are doing and assign a noun that suits them. In addition to the following, check the Movement section for verbs you could convert into nouns. For example, âboo-boo soothersâ.
Get the fuck out of here.
prestidigitators
No.
shadow puppeteers
???
stranglers
WHY DOES IT KEEP COMING BACK TO MURDER
See also 300+ Words to Describe Human Skin.
I was looking for something else in my blog and found this post and absolutely lost my shit all over again lmao
If your jealous ex has tentacles you might have other problems.
After being hammered by hurricane Maria, the residents of the rural
Puerto Rican mountain town of Mariana got tired of waiting for the
bumbling, privatized, cash-starved power authority to reconnect them to
the grid, so the anarchist organizer Christine Nieves founded Proyecto
de Apoyo Mutuo, one of a dozen-odd cooperatives across the island to
create their own solar grid; by the time the The Puerto Rico Electric
Power Authority finally put in appearance, Mariana had had power for two
whole months.
After Maria, Puerto Rico suffered the second-longest blackout in world
history, ignored by both the federal government and the gutted, heavily
privatized local government. So community organizers like Nieves took
matters into their own hands.
Nievesâs group formed an alliance with the Katrina-inspired Mutual Aid
Disaster Relief, which fundraised to send gear to Puerto Rico.
The island-wide efforts are rare bright spots in a year-long crisis with
no end in sight. Naturally, theyâve faced police harassment and raids
looking for âantifa.â
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit
Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had
anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much.
Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers,
like 3000âŚ. [twitter]
âŚ.This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as
possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help
rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just
add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico! [twitter]
Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017. The 2,975 count
comes from a George Washington University study, published in July,
which included people who died of thist, starvation, disease or neglect
as a direct result of the storm. 64 (not â6 to 18â) were reportedly
killed outright by drowning, falling debris, in collapsing buildings,
etc.
