Oh You Have A PhD In Astrophysics? That's Cute. I Know The Vibe Of Astrophysics

Captain Nemo

I drew this piece in 2019, and although I can see lots of mistakes and imperfections, it's still one of my favourite artworks

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Guys look at this GIANT millipede!! Free pattern from Projectarian! 🐛✨

Definitely want to make one myself!

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video essays about horror, fear and dread

Films That Feel Like Bad Dreams

The Nightmare Artist

Fear of Big Things Underwater

Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House

House of Leaves: The Horror Of Fiction

Monsters in the Closet: A History of LGBT Representation in Horror Cinema

The History of Insane Asylums and Horror Movies

The Saddest Horror Movie You’ve Never Seen

Fear of Forgetting

Slender Man: Misunderstanding Ten Years Of The Internet

The Real Reason The Thing (1982) is Better than The Thing (2011)

The Bizarre Clown Painting No One Fully Understands

The Little Book of Cosmic Horrors

The Disturbing Art of A.I.

Fear of Depths

Goya’s Witches

David Lynch: The Treachery of Language

The True History That Created Folk Horror

The Existential Horror of David Cronenberg’s Camera

a few more and the youtube playlist are below the cut. as always feel free to share your recs as well!

Keep reading

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World’s largest bee, thought to be extinct, found in Indonesia

In 1859, while exploring the remote island of Bacan in the North Moluccas, Indonesia, the renowned naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace made an astounding discovery: the Megachile pluto — the world’s largest bee.

Wallace described the bee, which is about four times the size of a honeybee, as a “large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle.” But for more than a century, that was the only known sighting of the Megachile pluto, and some feared that deforestation had rendered the giant insect extinct.

“It was absolutely breathtaking to see this ‘flying bulldog’ of an insect that we weren’t sure existed any more,” Clay Bolt, the photographer who captured the first images of the species alive, told the BBC. “To actually see how beautiful and big the species is in life, to hear the sound of its giant wings thrumming as it flew past my head, was just incredible.”

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Moon Mascot Needed!

Have you ever wanted to design something that could fly around the Moon? This is your opportunity. The Artemis II astronauts will use a zero gravity indicator during their mission to demonstrate when the Orion spacecraft has reached microgravity. This plushie needs to be soft, small, and importantly, remind us of home. The Moon Mascot contest challenges people of all ages from all over the world to submit a design to be made by NASA’s Thermal Blanket Lab and flown aboard Artemis II. To submit a design for the contest, visit: freelancer.com/moon-mascot

Is the fur on some bugs (like bees or caterpillars or moths) an example of convergent evolution with mammals or is the fur on those bugs not fur but something else?

I suppose any fibrous body coating like bird feathers, mammalian fur, or arthropod setae used for protection/insulation/sensation etc could be considered convergence on a functional level, but insect “hair” is an entirely different material!

arthropod setae are made of chitin (a polysaccharide), while your hair is made of keratin (a protein). setae can have many different forms, such as stiff bristles, sensory hairs, or the scales on butterflies, moths, and other arthropods. here is a good resource if you’d like to read about the various types of setae and their functions:

big fucking horror masterpost

are you a horror fan, getting into the genre, or just looking for something to watch? here’s a bunch of links to some horror films and shows (both good and bad cuz i felt obligated to put whole franchises in here) for everyone to enjoy!!!! or hate!!!! always remember: being a horror fan is watching god awful movies to find the good ones that will change your life

halloween (1978)

halloween 2 (1981)

halloween 3: season of the witch (1982)

halloween 4: the return of michael myers (1988)

halloween 5: the revenge of michael myers (1989)

halloween: the curse of michael myers (1995)

halloween h20: 20 years later (1998)

halloween: resurrection (2002) 

halloween (2018)

halloween kills (2021)

candyman (1992)

candyman: farewell to the flesh (1995)

candyman: day of the dead (1999)

candyman (2021)

the evil dead (1981)

evil dead 2 (1987)

army of darkness (1992)

evil dead (2013)

ash vs evil dead (2015-2018)

scream (1996)

scream 2 (1997)

scream 3 (2000)  

scream 4 (2011)

scream (2022)

night of the living dead (1968)

dawn of the dead (1978)

day of the dead (1985)

child’s play (1988)

child’s play 2 (1990) 

child’s play 3 (1991) 

bride of chucky (1998)

seed of chucky (2004)

curse of chucky (2013)

cult of chucky (2017)

chucky (2021-ongoing)

the texas chainsaw massacre (1974)

the texas chainsaw massacre 2 (1986)

leatherface: the texas chainsaw massacre 3 (1990)

texas chainsaw massacre: the next generation (1995)

the texas chainsaw massacre (2003)

the texas chainsaw massacre: the beginning (2006)

texas chainsaw 3d (2013)

leatherface (2017)

texas chainsaw massacre (2022)

saw (2004)

saw 2 (2005)

saw 3 (2006)

saw 4 (2007)

saw 5 (2008)

saw 6 (2009)

saw 3d (2010)

jigsaw (2017)

spiral: from the book of saw (2021)

ringu (1998)

ringu 2 (1999)

ringu 0: birthday (2000)

a nightmare on elm street (1984)

a nightmare on elm street 2: freddy’s revenge (1985)

a nightmare on elm street 3: dream warriors (1987)

a nightmare on elm street 4: the dream master (1988)

a nightmare on elm street 5: the dream child (1989)

freddy’s dead: the final nightmare (1991)

wes craven’s new nightmare (1994)

freddy vs jason (2003)

friday the 13th (1980)

friday the 13th part 2 (1981)

friday the 13th part 3 (1982)

friday the 13th: the final chapter (1984)

friday the 13th: a new beginning (1985)

friday the 13th part 6: jason lives (1986)

friday the 13th part 7: the new blood (1988)

friday the 13th part 8: jason takes manhattan (1989)

jason goes to hell: the final friday (1993)

jason x (2002)

hellraiser (1987)

hellbound: hellraiser 2 (1988)

hellraiser 3: hell on earth (1992)

hellraiser: bloodline (1996)

alien (1979)

aliens (1986)

alien 3 (1992)

alien resurrection (1997) 

predator (1987)

predator 2 (1990)

predators (2010)

prey (2022)

house of 1000 corpses (2003)

the devil’s rejects (2005)

3 from hell (2019)

fear street part one: 1994 (2021)

fear street part two: 1978 (2021)

fear street part three: 1666 (2021)

the strangers (2008)

the strangers: prey at night (2018)

a quiet place (2018)

a quiet place part 2 (2021)

the silence of the lambs (1991)

hannibal (2013-2015)

get out (2017)

us (2019)

nope (2022)

perfect blue (1997)

killer klowns from outer space (1988)

the thing (1982)

carrie (1976)

the shining (1980)

doctor sleep (2019)

pet sematary (1989)

it (2017)

it chapter 2 (2019)

trick ‘r treat (2007)

suspiria (1977)

black christmas (1974)

my bloody valentine (1981)

american psycho (2000)

el hoyo (2019)

shaun of the dead (2004)

train to busan (2016)

resident evil: welcome to raccoon city (2021)

hereditary (2018)

jennifer’s body (2009)

the lighthouse (2019)

little shop of horrors (1986)

orphan (2009)

spree (2020)

re-animator (1985)

wolf creek (2005)

freaky (2020)

bloody birthday (1981)

scary stories to tell in the dark (2019)

mandy (2018)

the cabin in the woods (2012)

ready or not (2019)

10 cloverfield lane (2016)

the blair witch project (1999)

possum (2018)

the exorcist (1973)

stranger things (2016-ongoing)

the twilight zone (1959-1964)

twin peaks (1990-1991)

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Hey, repost with how obscure your music taste is and your most listened to artist on this Spotify stats site. The higher your score, the more obscure your music taste is. I want to know what you all get :)

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Canada Day is Coming ... Knit or Crochet a Mesmerizing Maple Leaf Shawl: 👉 https://buff.ly/2Tq7fqv

The Trilobite Buddy Plushie

I've been working on this for a while, and I'm very excited to share! I am not a professional by any means, but I got into sewing last year. I am also a huge paleontology nerd. This was the result. Anyway, I thought I'd share this for everyone here!

Feel free to download and share, I just ask that you don't repost or try to make any profit off of this pattern. This is just a resource for any fellow paleo nerds out there who would like a trilobite plushie as much as I did.

Enjoy!