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sapphling: sitting anti-kink posters down in front of a wrestling match and explaining kayfabe to them with the patience of a preschool teacher sapphling: You see that one? He's called the "heel." He looks mean and says a lot of scary things, but it's not real and he's actually very nice. When he says "I'm going to break you in half" you don't have to be scared because it's pretend. These two talked about this beforehand, and now they're playing pretend together. Can you think of any other situations that might be like this? sapphling: *screenshot of tag that says #crying and throwing up when you tell me the undertaker didnt REALLY die and come back to life all those times* no that part was real

Inktober Day 14: Trunk.

This can work with yesterday's prompt too.

I wonder if mammoth trunks were also very fluffy...? Possibly?

Also, isn't it cool that a trunk acts like both an arm and a nose?
Imagine you reach out for an orange and you are smelling it at the same time. Very cool.

Inktober Day 11: Sting.

Red ochre is used by people as a sunscreen and insect repellant.

Remnants of red ochre paste have been found in Neanderthal sites as well. Were they used for the same purpose?
I'm sure they didn't want pesky insect bites too!

Junar has one surviving sister, Jaya. There are two deceased siblings between them.
This created an age gap, but they are still very close. ❤️ They have a strong bond.
Junar's journey is motivated by her. Their relationship is the core of the story.

Inktober Day 9: Heavy

After a mammoth is taken down... How is it transported? Must be a very arduous task. They'd have to divide it into manageable pieces and carry it towards their headquarters.

I used a new brush pen. Sakura Pigma Brush. I'm still rusty with it. I need more practice!

A herd of mammoths, with three large individuals up front, and lots of smaller, more distant individuals in the background, surrounding a shallow Pleistocene lake. They stand on browning, yellowing grass in front of a blue, partly cloudy sky. The mammoths are variable in colour, some being dark, some pale. A juvenile mammoth, blonde all over, has broken ranks and started chasing mallards around a pond. He has made a little grebe nervous. Why has this baby mammoth started attacking other species? Well, animals are a lot like people, Mrs. Simpson. Some of them act badly because they’ve had a hard life or have been mistreated. But, like people, some of them are just jerks.

New #paleoart posted to #Patreon: woolly mammoths around a duck-filled lake. Accompanying the hi-res and WIPs of this image is a discussion about mammoth colour: the uniform red-brown mammoths of classic palaeoart seem unlikely now. Check it out at www.patreon.com/posts/night-...
#fossil #sciart

Inktober Day 5: Deer

This is the second deer I draw for inktober. But this time, it's megaloceros (my beloved).

Image depicts Link in his adult form from Ocarina of Time looking wistfully at a memory of his younger self running through the woods with his friend, Saria.

Linktober 2025 Day 4: Nostalgia 💙

#linktober #artposting

Pair of homotherium latidens sitting in the shade of a tree. One is yawning and the other is grooming its' own arm.

Homotherium painting I did back in June. I never posted it because I wasn't entirely satisfied with it... But now I'm thinking it's alright?
#paleoart

A Neanderthal holding a spear stands confidently overlooking a mountainous landscape. A small child hides in his shadow, clutching his clothes for comfort.

It's been three years since the day I started brainstorming this prehistoric story idea. It changed a lot from the first draft, and it's getting closer and closer to something I'm happy with 😁

1. I constructed him as an 'emo teenager' but made him Neanderthal. So it's fun to explore what kinds of decisions he would make, living in this prehistoric world, and being an angsty teen.
2. He's also an older sibling and with a lot of responsibilities. I think a lot of people can relate to him.

new tattoo is at the point where it's itching really bad but i cant scratch it. im going insane

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

a finger holding a rose with thorns, that has pricked her fingers and blood is on her hands

🌹
#fireemblem #fe

Me when everything we know about human evolution has been rewritten again

(It hasn’t)

i'm back in the fucking building

who awnts to buy me odyssey for my bday

OC art~
A scene in the first chapter. Little Junar and his dad watch mammoths.

Illustration by Ren Strapp of fat neolithic horses running in pastel candy risograph colors

STAMPEDE!!!

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

Ice age steppe biaon

Once more some mammoths

Bunch of neanderthals #sciart

Manmoth hunter

"Neo" Homo naledi #sciart

Homo erectus KNM-ER 3883 #sciart

Young neanderthal woman based on Krapina 3. #sciart