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….But he is right…. That’s a cuttlefish….

it’s not a cuttlefish 

imagine continuing to mansplain squid to a squid scientist after being called out for mainsplaining squid to a squid scientist

Looking back and going forward

Between and love unbolts the dark and eastward and moonwhite (soft-petaled wounds) by @blackkatmagic I found myself a bit short of Agen Kolar art. I thought maybe I could contribute a bit.

Of course the flower is from that one scene in and love unbolts the dark.

Star Wars movies and games and TV shows will have villain organizations of fascists and actual for-real evil wizards led by people named Darth Babykiller McFascist who list committing genocide and killing babies as their favorite hobbies and some fans will say they're ideologically right or justified because a Jedi might have been slightly mean to them that one time

How long has red lipstick been political? Maybe not that long …

Davrin doodle, put those things away breastie

Mona Lisa cat nest 😭

In the new miniseries, Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories—Tides of Terror, fan-favorite Star Wars comics writer George Mann returns with a tale of aquatic intrigue perfect for readers of all ages. Featuring artist Luis Morocho, inker Le Beau Underwood, colorist Michael Atiyeh, and letters by Comicraft. Eduardo Mello is the main cover artist for the series, with variant covers for issue #1 provided by Pius Bak, Edwin Gaimon, and Tony Fleecs. The four-issue miniseries will make a splash beginning in July 2025. Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories—Tides of Terror: Jedi Master Kit Fisto has been sent to the ocean planet Tordus, alongside Mace Windu and Shaak Ti, to investigate a controversial underwater research facility. The facility is in danger of flooding and being crushed into rubble, and if that’s not enough, there are giant monsters circling them. With disaster looming, his diplomatic excursion quickly becomes a rescue mission! Kit Fisto and his fellow Jedi must race against the clock to save innocent lives from the hungry leviathans that fill the depths. This standalone story is full of murky intrigue and ancient abyssal nightmares. Can the Jedi fend off the danger lurking in the ocean's briny waters? “Following the success of The Bad Batch: Ghost Agents, we’re thrilled to see Dark Horse continue with their next Hyperspace Stories mini-series,” confirmed Lucasfilm creative director Michael Siglain. “Tides of Terror is part disaster story, part horror story, and all fun. It’s a race-against-time adventure in which the Jedi will face off against saboteurs and the sea creatures, and readers will learn to beware what lurks in the deep, dark ocean world of Tordus.” #KIT MACE AND SHAAK IN A FOUR ISSUE MINI TOGETHER #PART DISASTER PART HORROR STORY??? #GIVE IT TO ME NOW #THOSE ARE THREE OF MY FAVORITE JEDI #GIVE ME THE BLORBOEST OF BLORBOS NOW!!! #ALSO THAT COVER IS A BANGER #BUT I AM OWED A VARIANT COVER WITH SHAAK TI FOR HER NOT BEING ON THIS ONE

I want.

- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

- American Psychological Association (www(.)apa(.)org/ monitor/2012/07-08/ce-corner)

WITHOUT JUDGMENT

Kitty shredding

(via)

#codywan#digital art#star wars#I think it would be hilarious if cody was the person anakin went to for help when he found out padme was pregnant#like he's a responsible adult but not a jedi and doesn't have the same expectations of him that palpatine does#so in anakin's brain cody's the obvious choice to give advice#potential reasons behind cody's confusion:#1- he and obi-wan are not actually in a relationship (no matter how much they'd like to be)#2- they are in a relationship but they're both cis or both trans#3- they are in a relationship but the trans one tops#i think its funniest if cody and obi-wan *are* together but anakin doesn't know that and he still leads with this question

fucking fantastic, I want 100k words about this ridiculous scenario

By popular request ;D Holmes being neurodivergent was something I thought about a lot while writing the game (channelling my own experiences a lot of the time!) and I know that our director discussed it with the actors, too. This is definitely not all the scenes or even the most prominent examples, but they're the ones that felt non-spoilery!

This is from my Sherlock Holmes point and click game The Beekeeper's Picnic which releases March 26th 2025!

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AHHHHHHH THE VOICE ACTING IS SO GOOD!!!!! AND THE GAMEPLAY IS SO GOOD!!!!! AND THE GRAPHICS AND THE STORY AND THE LAYOUT AND THE BEESSSSSSSSS

Anyway I'm very excited for this game if you couldn't tell 😅

I MUST PLAY THIS????

I had a Terry's Chocolate Orange once in an airport 10 years ago (they’re very hard to come by in the US, I’ve never seen them sold anywhere else) and I think about it everyday.

So what you’re saying in the replies is that they are sold everywhere and they’re just hiding them from me every time I enter a store.

So what you’re saying is some sort of evil sorcerer put a curse on me to make Terry’s chocolate oranges totally invisible to me.

Attempting to obtain the orange by other means is not working.

Literally no joke, last November I ordered a case of Terry's Chocolate Oranges and they didn't arrive in time for Christmas stockings. Months later, this arrived in a package that looked like it had been toted around on Odysseus's journey:

Who is Terry, what realm does he inhabit.

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

Helping the humans who belong to the ecosystem is a key part of healing the entire ecosystem