TODAY IN HISTORY: Planet Neptune Is Observed By The Voyager 2 Space Probe On August 24, 1989. (via)

Cool, clear waters

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Young Chincoteague ponies wrestle on Chincoteague Island, part of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, in the 1970s.

PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES L. STANFIELD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

a 2013 Chinese stamp from a series on cat breeds

[id: a postage stamp with a meticulously detailed illustration of a Maine Coon cat. the cat is large and fluffy. its brown and white fur is rendered with careful hatching. this stamp is marked as being worth 1.20 Chinese renminbi yuan. end id]

unhinged thirty days of otherkin challenge, day 4: if your kintype suddenly opened their eyes, what would they be looking at?

the forest, and some friends to play with <3

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Thomas Grünfeld, “Misfit (St.Bernard/Sheep)” (1994): Grünfeld’s “misfit” series consists of taxidermy objects arranged in somewhat unsettling (i.e. disturbingly unnatural) juxtapositions, yet at the same time humorous, playful and imaginative. One could liken them to assemblage or collage, something like Robert Rauschenberg’s “combines.” They’re all hybrids, like cyborgs, or creatures of myth.

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Bartolomeo Bimbi, Two-Headed Lamb, 1721

unhinged thirty days of otherkin challenge, days 4 and 5: do you like sticks? do you like leaves?

you can do so much with sticks. you can stack sticks into a pile, create art pieces, break them into pieces to hear that satisfying snap, play swords... the possibilities are endless.

you have to admire the variety of shapes, textures, and colors that leaves come in. the canopy up above casts such lovely dappled shadows on the forest floor and allows only the sweetest rays of sunlight through. effervescent.

and if you find a stick with leaves on? pick that thing up and shake it around. the weight and sound of it is delightful.

sidenote: i refer to the faun 'type in the plural rather than singular ("my fauns").

would you call a singular tree a forest? of course not. likewise, you'd never see a lone faun.

it's hard to describe the consciousness of the fauns. it's alien to a human mind.

do you know about aspen trees? most of them grow in clonal colonies, meaning that all the individual trees come from the same roots. that's the closest comparison i can think of to the fauns.

all this to say, it feels incorrect to refer to my faun 'type in the singular. it's just not how my fauns work.