“A complete rainbow… photo was taken at around 30k ft above the Earth. On the ground, we usually only see the arc half of the circle.”

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Smith H Tammy 

my favorite thing about the internet is that the more images get passed around the more they look like that gameboy that survived a bombing

555 timer ICs are a kind of woodland beastie

you flip over a log and there's just a couple of these guys hanging out underneath

@inneskeeper

Just me?

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I have died and am dead.

Guys.

Y’all.

I…

I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.

Look. Okay.

There are two things you need to know, here.

First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).

Like this one, currently in the Met:

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Or this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:

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They’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.

The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.

Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?

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"In the Court of the Nameless Queen" now available in ebook and paperback (wow very cool)

Hello everyone it is I, award-winning speculative fiction author Natalie H. Ironside, author of The Last Girl Scout and Lead and Roses: Love Songs at the End of the World and as heard on the Tales to Terrify podcast, and I've gone and done did it again. If you like dark fantasy and queer erotica featuring big hot monster women and sword-swinging girls (both cis and normal) who love girls, golly have I got something for you!

Take a trip across the sundered worlds to the Queendom of Corynnod, a dark realm of sorcery and desire, ruled over by she who is Queen, goddess, and mother to us all, in four fantastical and titillating tales of wonder, adventure, love, sex, and—of course—spiders.

Herein you'll find the following four exciting and XXX too-rowdy-for-tv tales:

BROOD: A true and credible account of how Freydis Thorkilsdottir, war witch, became Freydis Gothi and the Mother of Abominations.
Freydis Thorkilsdottir, soldier and war witch in the army of the Nameless Queen, has always struggled to find a place for herself as a transgender woman. She volunteers to lead men over the walls in a castle assault, in hopes that, should she survive, she might earn the attentions—and the favors—of her great and terrible araneidan Queen . . .

Chanting prayers to their Queen, they drew a circle of blood around the altar and lit candles, bathing the nighted cathedral in flickering light. As they worked, the Nameless Queen nibbled Freydis’ ear and whispered, “You know what’s about to happen, right?”

“I’ve… heard stories, my Queen.”

“The stories are mostly true.”

Freydis at once gulped in terror and moaned in delirious anticipation.

THE APOSTATE: An account of how Freydis Gothi made the acquaintance of her most beloved and treasured servant.
Fleeing oppression and unspeakable abuse, Kristina Kaminski—a woman who loves women in a land where such things are not allowed—travels into the grim and mysterious north and meets a most peculiar woman upon the shores of the sea. As she settles into her new life, it comes to pass that a dark conversion often necessitates a dark baptism . . .

The two women kissed as, overhead, the sounds of revelry upon the knarr’s deck grew louder, more intense. Freydis nibbled Kristina’s lip as she broke off the kiss and said, “I must say that the thought of corrupting a Khethian nun is rather delightful.”

“I put myself here of my own knowing volition, Freydis. I’ve come pre-corrupted.”

TRANSMUTATION: An account of the coming of Steff Pelczynski, diabolist, to Caer Eldur and the court of the Marchioness.
Steff is no man, but don’t try telling her that. When the young wizard travels into the north, seeking a change, she—with the help of a rather commanding older woman—finds a change she didn't know she was looking for . . .

“Be whoever I’d like. You know, on that same night, I met the most fascinating woman; a woman who’d been born a man. I’ve not been able to stop thinking about her since.”

The astrologer smirked. “Have you given any thought to why you can’t stop thinking about her?”

“I’m sure I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“You’re a terrible liar, wizard.”

THE CARNIVAL OF CARNAL DELIGHTS: An account of how Freydis Gothi acquired her legendary sword.
Freydis Thorkilsdottir, Kristina the Apostate, and their friends take an excursion to a festival of wondrous terrors and delights where nothing is as it seems . . . and things already seemed pretty suggestive to begin with!

They came at last to the Queen’s bedchamber, a wide, circular room of black stone with spiderwebs spun along the walls. Freydis, as she had so many times before, strode through the darkness to the pile of silken purple cushions by the far wall and stood there with her hands clasped behind her back, awaiting orders.

“I would like to know more about what your body is doing,” the Queen said. “Disrobe.”

“As you command, my Queen."

(Tagged as: High fantasy erotica, monster fucking erotica, trans erotica, wlw erotica, LGBTQ erotica, Liege x Retainer, Hurt x Comfort, Dominance Hierarchy, Sex Magic, Servant of Darkness to Lovers Speedrun, found family, praise kink, body transformation)

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"But Natalie," you say, "how can I get my hands on the greatest book of swashbuckling transbian monsterfucker erotica ever written?" Well, I'll tell you. It is:

Available on Gumroad

Available on Amazon (in ebook and paperback! Wow!)

(big big thanks to @thebibliosphere for the header image and tag assistance, @kodyboye for the formatting, @chillgamesh-the-swing for the editing, @neladoesart for my author photo, and of course the wonderful and eternal @soul-hammer for the cover art)

(click the readmore for a list of "too hot for Tumblr" tags to know what to watch out for and/or spot your fetish)

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*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document

does it look like this

i was picturing this as after a successful writing jaunt but this is so much darker

Fish men

🦇 miki the cat bat 🌙

oc doodle from a while back! she's a pop punk guitarist

from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

it just gets better

and better

Experimental stuff lolz

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