Always needs reblogging
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Defensive display by a Spiny Katydid (Panacanthus cuspidatus) from Yasuni National Park in Amazonian Ecuador.
(photo: Santiago Ron)
“BRING IT BITCH”
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Obligatory normal type that’s everywhere. I can’t quit making fake pokemon.
Congratulations! Your Impossum evolved into Possumable!
I love these, especially how they’re “playing dead” all the time.
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More beta Pokemon art! These guys were a bit harder to do since the only existing pictures of them are extremely blurry monochrome sprites, so I had to take a few liberties with them… I like how they came out overall though :P
So awesome! I like how the larva came out looking like a weird snowman-maggot. I always loved beetles and roaches drawn like they’re in little coats, and I wish they’d gone ahead and had this guy in the first gen. You did a great job giving it tons of personality based on what little has been shown publicly!
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The Middle Ages was a very exciting time in Europe.
I want a snail that big to ride very slow to places very close.
Oh my god this is the best medieval work of art I have ever seen in my entire life.
Cladonota inflatus, a tree hopper.
Junk in the Trunkhopper
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oh hey let me just park my FUCKING SQUID
look they left it something to drink
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Well shit. This has got to b inebof the most interesting and mind blowing things I’ve read. Like wow. Ik I’ve posted this before but everytime I read it im just still shocked that people haven’t come to this conclusion before. It’s rather creepy lolSubmitted by spirited-astray
Many classic horror icons and other disturbing creatures share common characteristics. Pale skin, dark, sunken eyes, elongated faces, sharp teeth, and the like. These images inspire horror and revulsion in many, and with good reason. The characteristics shared by these faces are imprinted in the human mind.
Many things frighten humans instinctively. The fear is natural, and does not need to be reinforced in order to terrify. The fears are species-wide, stemming from dark times in the past when lightning could mean the burning of your tree home, predators could be hiding in the dark, heights could make poor footing lethal, and a spider or snake bite could mean certain death.
The question you have to ask yourself is this:
What happened, deep in the hidden eras before history began, that could effect the entire human race so evenly as to give the entire species a deep, instinctual, and lasting fear of pale beings with dark, sunken eyes, razor sharp teeth, and elongated faces?
… Just be careful out there.
This is one of the coolest things I have ever read on tumblr.
Sharks
Our very genetics know not to fuck with sharks.
lol that’s just yolandi though
this is really cool like an alien or something idk…….
I find this kind of hot um……
No, no, no. It’s not one thing. The solid black eyes mean we can’t determine gaze direction, which is an extraordinarily important part of human interaction. That’s why humans have white sclera (chimps and other primates mostly have dark sclera) - so we can see where other people are looking. Sharp teeth? Well, we evolved on the veldt alongside some major predators, lions, leopards, hyenas, and so on, not to mention critters like Dinofelis, a cat specifically built to hunt primates. Also, there’s likely a leftover module in the brain from when our own ancestors had oversized canines they would display in threat. Since almost all animals with teeth will snarl if threatened (it’s the most basic expression, besides neutral) it would be in our best interest to retain a fear of sharp, exposed teeth even when we don’t have them ourselves. As for the pale skin/sunken eyes/bony faces, we’re probably fearing them as symptoms of disease. It’s hard for modern people to subjectively appreciate the toll disease took on our ancestors, but you can bet the ancestors who were repelled by the look of a sickly person were that much more likely not to catch the disease themselves, and therefore survive to pass on their genes.
So no, there were no caveman vampires.
^ the more you know!
As popular as that creepypasta is I could never take is seriously for the reasons above. It’s kind of a no-brainer why those characteristics are frightening, to the point that the ending feels too corny to even be charmingly corny.
I am a creepiness snob :(
Black Sumatra Rooster
Rooster why are you shaped like a dog
Stop it rooster that’s creepy
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A new article on my site about what is simultaneously the most underwhelming and incredible animal you will ever read about.
Gaze into its majestic lack of a face!
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This big ass statue is near the entrance for Haunted Trails, a tiny theme park, in Chicago. Only time I’ve ever seen Frankenstein’s monster in a suit. And why is he holding a battle axe?
Because he’s in a suit!
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Am I alone in limp, soggy french fries being one of my favorite foods in the world? I’d even go so far as to say that firm to crisp fries are an utterly joyless experience for me, like eating starchy sticks of cardboard. Fries need to dangle when picked up. I salivate thinking about a greasy, salty handful of mushy, noodle-like fast food fries. Fries you can slurp. In a group I will trade people fresher fries for soggier ones.
I can only consistently get fries in a delectably moist, droopy state from Mcdonald’s, which I hear other people complain about. I would murder somebody if Mcdonald’s came out with some new perma-crispy fry like it was an improvement. Burger King already did that to me in the 90’s and I have never forgiven them.
When I was only three years old in 1986, my local “Kiddie City” had a 1983 Rancor figure still on its clearance shelf. I had never seen the films, but everything about this gnarly brown monster called out to me, and I begged for it every time I saw it until it was finally mine.
My mother, however, was the was the type of person who didn’t want a child my age to have any concept at all of death or violence, so when I asked who the Rancor monster was and what he did in “Star Wars,” she told me one of the best lies I’ve ever been told:
The Rancor, according to her, was the best friend to the Ewoks, and assisted them in, quote, “carrying potatoes across the river.” She demonstrated by putting a single small potato in the figure’s hand, which fit snugly enough to convince me even further, along with the monster’s overall rather potato-like appearance.
I didn’t question the issue of scale, and just assumed that Ewoks grew some really huge potatoes.
I don’t recall figuring out the truth at any particular point; the potato story just sort of gradually faded until I didn’t think twice when I finally saw the Rancor biting heads off under Jabba’s floor.
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WHY IS EVERYTHING ON MY DASH SO CUTE TODAY
Shit, I JUST read his story in Tales from Jabba’s Palace yesterday. WHAT ARE THE ODDS
I got into Star Wars as a kid almost entirely for the Jabba’s Palace chapter. I primarily collected toys of him and his cronies, and played with them in my own personal canon; one where Luke was eaten by the Rancor, Han was re-frozen and Leia never got a chance to strangle Jabba. Life around the palace just continued with all its internal struggles and cool monsters while the Empire was off blowing up other planets; just something Max Rebo might read about in his holo-news and bore everyone with.
