ok i’m officially Back on my Bullshit™ sorry y’all its new breed speculation time
i’m sure some older users may recognize the above screencap- this was from an art stream by undel prior to November 16th, 2013. the cape apparel shown above was released on Nov. 17th, so the stream above had to have occurred at an earlier time (though the exact date is unknown).
it shows the capes previewed on all the now known dragon breeds- at the time, coatls, nocturnes, and bogsneaks were still unreleased (hence the ‘nopes’ over their boxes). this shows that even as early on as this in FR’s history, multiple new breeds were being developed waaaay prior to their official site debut. bogs weren’t released until September 19th, 2016. this means they were still in development, even after both of the adult poses were completed as seen above, for around 3 years. (2 years, 10 months, & 3 days to be exact!)
but, you say, why the hell does this matter? that screencap is old as hell and all the breeds in it are already released, so who cares? its not like any more new breeds are gonna get made at this point, FR staff obviously has too much on their plate for all that work.
well, i say, you’re wrong, hypothetical opposition for the sake of my argument! wrong!!
lets take a closer look at the cape screencap, hm? that bottom right corner… that ‘so much nope’…… suspicious, is it not? if bogs were the only breed they were hiding down there, why the black boxes and text placement like that? its almost as if….. there’s been even more unreleased breeds in development all this time…!
by overlaying images of the appropriate size, and accounting for image cutoff, we can see that the zone of ‘so much nope’ is exactly sized to be covering 4 new dragon poses. that’s 2 possible new breeds that have yet to be seen!
ok, but…! you say again, argumentative as ever, how do you know that there are 4 whole poses hidden down there, rather than just 2? the ‘nope’ zone words only cover enough space for 2 of the images!
well…! i say, that would be a valid point if the cape apparel was the only piece of evidence available- which it is not! please consider the following screencap, from a different undel art stream that occurred prior to October 2nd, 2013 (as the silk tunics were released on Oct. 3rd).
as you can see here, the ‘so much nope’ text at the bottom is in the exact same place as the words in the first image. and, seeing as the tunic preview is older, it stands to reason that the text placement here was the original intention for public art streams. its right in the middle of black space that could contain exactly 6 dragon poses. 2 of which of are bogs, ofc, but those other 4 spaces? those could be anything.
while we, uh, don’t know literally anything about these breeds, we do know that FR staff have had plenty of time to work on them. seeing as the earliest evidence of their existence is from the October 2013 stream, my rigorous scientific calculations estimate that these 2 unreleased breeds have been in development for around 5 & ½ half years.
ok yeah BUT, you say, thats just not a feasible thing to expect FR staff to be working on right now, aren’t they focusing on other projects this year? the lair tabs & hibernal den? the map update/ BOTE lore continuation? its too much work, a new breed just isn’t realistic.
fair point, my made-up devil’s advocate, but i disagree. seeing that its been roughly around 3 years again since the last new breed release, which is the same timespan as the bogsneak’s debut, it is perfectly possible for a new breed to be added before the 2019 is over. probably not til after the aforementioned updates, ofc, but its certainly not too much to ask for, considering that the art team has been sitting on at least one new breed for like 6 years at this point.
keep in mind, 2016 also had several major site updates that didn’t hinder the release of a new breed. the crossroads update, colorwheel expansion, progenitor restoration, welcome weeks, & the bogsneak mutagen all happened that year- certainly a lot of big, time-intensive projects! but did that stop FR? no!!the new breed hype must go on!
calling it now- 2019 will be the year of a new breed! mark my words!!
tldr: we’ve had 2 new breeds in the works for like 6 years FR staff where they at
“villain attempts to go back in time to kill superman as a small child, gets shot in the face by ma kent, who buries him behind the barn with the others” would probably have niche appeal as a comic but i don’t care, i want it
The first time a man from the future showed up at Martha Kent’s house, Clark Kent was two years old.
According to his birth certificate, anyway. She just kind of accepted that the details were a little fudged. Relativity, and all.
Maybe the stranger would have succeeded in whatever it was he wanted to do, except that he really did just show up. Appeared, like a ghost made flesh, right in the backyard. Clark, thank goodness, was out in the fields with Jonathan. He couldn’t bear to be alone, that boy, and they could never bear to leave him.
Which left Martha free to shoot the ghostly intruder in the face.
Martha had not always considered herself a shoot first, ask questions later sort of a person. But that was before she found a baby in a spaceship where her corn was supposed to be.
They’d switch off, Jonathan and her, who got Clark and who got the shotgun. Martha got the shotgun more often than not. Guns made her husband uncomfortable. She was hardly a fan, but she’d always been a terrible pacifist. Too determined to defend herself.
The sight of all that blood and brain and bone was still nauseating. She compartmentalized, told herself it was no different from slaughtering a cow; didn’t think about riot gear or tear gas or the friends she’d lost or all the things she’d moved away from when her heart couldn’t take it any longer. This was different. This was her son.
She prodded the corpse with her foot. It remained a corpse. A real nasty looking corpse, all big and burly and holding a gun much too large. She didn’t like making assumptions based on appearances, but she didn’t imagine he’d been coming for anything nice. She bent down to search his pockets, found a metal wallet and flipped it open.
Born 2018.
Well, hell. Wasn’t that just a kick in the pants?
Probably she ought to have been a bit more unsettled than she was. But she’d been waiting two years for someone to show up on her doorstep, men in black or UFOs or something. Hell, she’d half expected her sweet little boy to hatch into something worse.
Just because she brought home space babies didn’t mean she was a damn fool.
Jonathan had rejoined her in long strides, was holding Clark in such a way that he couldn’t see the corpse on the ground. “Well, shit,” he said.
“Eyup,” Martha agreed.
“Don’t look government.”
“Nope.”
“We burying him?”
“I’ll bury him,” Martha said, standing up. “You get Clark inside and read him a book or something. I don’t want him seeing any of this, getting him messed up in the head.”
“You sure? Looks heavy.”
“That’s why we have a wheelbarrow. I’ll stick him out behind the barn, might as well keep all our secrets in one place.”
Martha had a long time to think as she dug a time traveler’s grave. There were a lot of reasons someone might travel back in time trying to kill her kid. The first was her instinct as a mother, which was: he was a fucking asshole. Who killed a kid? Fucking assholes, that was who.
Now, it was also possible that her sweet little boy grew up to be some kind of space Hitler. She didn’t think she’d raise that kind of a kid, but she didn’t suppose there was any parent who set out to raise a Hitler.
Still didn’t sit right with her. She didn’t much like the idea of killing baby Hitler, either.
i’m fairly confident the reason everyone assumes Curiosity is about the size of a dog is because informal NASA press (and by extension, the general culture of people who care abt what NASA’s up to) talks about Curiosity like it is, in fact, an unusually smart and self-aware pet, and i think that’s beautiful.
i have never understood or played magic the gathering, but i have nothing but respect for it after seeing this tittieless snake woman
you could have gone the easy route. you could have given her titties. but you didn’t. cause she’s a reptile. thank you mtg. thank you.
She is feeling Fresh and Fabulous.
SHE SURE IS because she is literally finishing up a shed there, look, you can see the last of it clinging to her tail
but she’s already dressed again, after peeling off the skin that would previously have been under that armor
the only logical conclusion here is that she wanted a picture of herself at her SHINIEST and PRETTIEST and hurried to get dressed once enough of her fresh and shiny new skin was uncovered
I bet her bestie took the picture and has been eagerly waiting with the magical fantasy camera for like, hours
“oh my GOD T’sissra your scales are SO VIBRANT this picture is going to be AMAZING”
Jewish and Muslim people go on Chopped and are made to cook with pork and they make it work, one vegan goes on and refuses to use any meat products he’s given and they have an all veggie episode for him.
The final basket had honey in it and e refers to it as a total nightmare scenario. Go talk to the Muslim woman who knocked out a pork loin without being able to taste her dish about dealing with nightmare baskets
My mum was watching a baking show where a 20 year old Muslim woman was a contestant. They had to make an alcoholic dessert. She nailed it despite not being able to taste it. When she mentioned that she couldnt (not as a complaint or excuse) everyone gawked at her and someone said “how old are you???”. Like, really?
I saw that one! Seemed like purposeful sabotage when your contestant can neither religiously or legally taste the ingredient
“Ice Cave” by Georgia O’Keeffe and a photograph of an ice cave.
yeah Georgia? that’s an ice cave ? that’s a god damn ice cave? that’s the only thing you intended to paint? that’s it? just an ice cave?
all of georgia okeefes art is like this dont act surprised
It Really Is.
Staff seeing this:
i hate to ruin everyone’s fun BUT you guys are so annoying. georgia o’keeffe very specifically stated how much she hated it when people, especially men, sexualized her art. male art critics pushed the interpretation of her artwork as sexual onto her and it upset her VERY deeply:
“When people read erotic symbols into my paintings they’re really talking about their own affairs,” O’Keeffe said. Still, the sexualized misconceptions of her work devastated her. “I almost wept,” she wrote of one review in 1921.
now, because of some immature dudes in the art community, her work has been sexualized forever, and her paintings are now sexual objects. so like…making pussy jokes about her artwork isn’t just annoying, it’s disrespectful to everything she worked for, and it’s like rubbing her legacy in her face.
The male gaze really be like that sometimes huh?
I’m a woman and I saw a pussy.
Same
Those 100% look like vaginas and nothing will convince me otherwise.
Another girl here. Yep, them be vaginas
I think it’s less “immature males” and more immature people in general
i just had the funniest experience in vr chat, i joined a random server and the one i joined had Japanese people so i waddled around in my goofy club penguin avatar that i have saved, after a while a guy walks up to me and clones my avatar so were both penguins then another guy shows up and clone my avatar
now keep in mind there only speaking Japanese i don’t know what they are saying, then another guy joins in, so i got a group of three penguin friends
we just waddle around and goof about, the one of them tries to talk to me, but not only do i not have a mic i also don’t speak Japanese, they figure out i don’t speak Japanese and start listing various places, they get the part of being European right, and after listing a lot of places they ask if im from the UK and when i nod they all just start cheering. after hanging out for a while one of them gets real close to me and whispers…
With all the instances of people getting retrieved from the fae, I think it would be pretty interesting to free a person that you aren't looking for. Like there must have been people from before Elsewhere formed that gambled and were lost because of it, so what happened if you tried looking for one of them. What kind of culture shock would someone get from living through something like that?
“You drive a hard bargain,” says the eight-foot-tall lavender-skinned woman dressed in moth’s wings.
“I haven’t even asked for anything-“ you try to say. She cuts you off.
“A hard bargain, but a fair one! I will fulfill my end of it!”
“But I didn’t-“
She raises her voice. “Let no one say I don’t keep my word! It was a good game, after all! A good game! And I will be loathe to give him up!”
“Give who up? We haven’t even finished one game of Jenga-“
“ALTHOUGH IT BREAKS MY HEART TO SAY IT!” She’s shouting to be heard over your protests. “YOU HAVE WON HIS FREEDOM!”
With a curl of smoke and a noise like little bells there’s a guy standing next to her, looking lightly stunned. He looks about your age, but he’s dressed about a century out of fashion. He says, “Elsa?”
She gives him a shove between the shoulder blades. He stumbles forward. “ALAS THERE’S NOTHING I CAN DO, HOW FOOLISH I WAS TO BET YOUR FREEDOM MY LOVE, BUT I HAVE BEEN OUTWITTED, I MUST RETURN YOU TO THE WORLD YOU CAME FROM-“
The boy says, “Elsa, baby, are you - are you breaking up with me? Is this you breaking with me?”
This is the point when you leave the room.
I am choking this is the funniest thing I’ve read all day!
Most companies are probably going to continue their regular food safety procedures, but a few things you can do to reduce some personal risk:
Buy hard, solid veggies and fruits (apples, melons) or ones with rinds (bananas are probably fine). Scrub the peel/rind thoroughly with soap and water before consumption.
The more solid and dense the meat, the less likely it is for contamination to spread very far. Buy your meat in solid cuts, NOT GROUND. Especially not ground chicken rn, salmonella bad.
Cook things thoroughly. Follow guidelines for the internal temperatures meat is supposed to reach and stick to those guidelines. Use a meat thermometer. Make your steaks well done for a while.
I’d stay away from shellfish as a whole if I were you. The diseases you can get from it are some of the nastier ones. No sushi for a while, too. If you have fish, make sure it was frozen following anti-parasitic guidelines and cook thoroughly.
AVOID LEAFY GREENS. This is where we’ve been seeing the most outbreaks lately, so be very careful.
The pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised, and the very young are the ones most at risk in an outbreak. If you are in one of these groups, be extremely cautious and avoid soft cheeses and prepackaged deli meats. Check on friends and family in these groups. Report symptoms of foodborne illness to a doctor so they can report to the state health depts that are still running.
Even with these in mind, remember that most outbreaks of foodborne illness are due to things like improper cooking and storage. Stay safe out there, folks 💙
I just got Mordred thanks to the amazing @cefli who gave me the chance to roll for the guaranteed smmoning SSR on FGO for New Year and I was wondering what would happened If Mordred was summoned during Fate Zero at the place of Arturia.
21, she/her, super queer. Also, I have ADHD. I post a lot of miscellaneous things I find funny or interesting, with some fandom mixed in. Mostly Fate/Series. Let me know if you need anything tagged, I'll do the best I can.
