lumitykkimyssy

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Collection of my random interests. Expect dinosaurs, fandom, story snippets and cats.
FandomsLotR, Witcher, The Old Guard, Star Wars
Favorite animalSaber-toothed kitties
PoliticsSlava Ukraini 🌻
Fun factI have been threatened with a sword
Pingu-instanssi, jossa tuuttaukset ovat noottauksia
@markwitton I don’t remember how I originally found your Twitter ~a year ago but I have been a big fan of your art since then.
@juhaoletettu @pahoittelemme Olisinpa keksinyt tuon nickiksini täällä! 😂
En ollut löytää urheiluvälineitäni. Syylliseksi paljastui kävelysauvasekoitin.

#Thuringwethil in the Court at Tol-in-Gaurhoth...

An almost there/WIP of a non-scene* from #Tolkien, but one that might have happened off camera, with Sauron sending Thuringwethil out with a message for some other far flung ally.

*ie not really described, beyond "...the bat-fell of Thuringwethil. She was a messenger of Sauron, and was wont to fly in vampire’s form to Angband; and her great fingered wings were barbed at each joint’s end with an iron claw. "
#TolinGaurhoth #silmarilion

A relevant blog post for this Mastodon platform: 'The "palaeontological folklore" of mastodon hair': an essay about the surprising LACK of fossil evidence for brown, shaggy hair in these elephant-like creatures. It turns out that there's no reason to assume mastodons were mammoth-like in appearance, and the brown, hairy mastodons you see everywhere are a #paleoart super-meme.

(Mastodon image by Charles Knight - one of my favourites from him).

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-palaeontological-folklore-of.html

The "palaeontological folklore" of mastodon hair

The American mastodon Mammut americanum is one of the most iconic members of the North American megafauna. A frequent subject of museum disp...

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
Let's start posting assorted images of #dinosaurs and such here to expand the #palaeoart #paleoart representation on mastodon. I'm trying to find and follow the people whose stuff I like -- can we get a thread going so I find more, please? Tag with #PaleoartAtMastodon and help us find our people :) Here are assorted old images I've done ...

Can't spell "fediverse" without "diverse", is all I'm saying.

#KeepFediWeird

Edit:

I posted this and the parent toot at the start of Nov'22 wave of new people and communities joining fedi, bringing their specific needs and expectations.

Fedi learned a lot about itself since then, including that it needs to *dramatically* improve on the #antiracism front.

We need to recognize that fedi *failed* #Black / #BIPOC folks, and do better.

Context:
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109456287145465168

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] If there's a police shooting and there is a video? I put a CW around that. I also put CWs around topics like disordered eating, etc. But I experience racism almost every day, as do most Black US citizens. I'm not going to start every other sentence with "CW" just to make y'all feel better. Hiding racism to protect white feelings is just more racism. I won't do it. I do respect folks' right to Block me for that. 👍🏿

Hachyderm.io
Maybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.