Hey, I’m feeling really angry and snarly right now. Fav or respond, and I’ll try to say something nice about throughout the day!
Ursula LeGuin’s father was famous too. Alfred Kroeber was the anthropologist who took in Ishi, and figured out how to communicate with him.
Okay so a movie I really like is Zulu - which is probably problematic but which I felt was pretty good about portraying Zulus positively. But check this out; apartheid meant they couldn’t pay the Zulu extras, so they got around that by gifting all the animals used in the film to the extras instead!
Lamnergeiers stain their own white feathers red using clay. Nobody entirely knows why, it’s thought this might indicate how much territory they cover.
Contrary to the stereotype of wolves howling at the moon studies of when wolves were most likely to howl (in North America) showed that the peak time is afternoons in autumn!
Dolphins actually recognize themselves in the mirror; they’re aware it’s not just a reflection but it’s a reflection of themselves specifically!
It’s currently thought that a lot of East Asian dragon legends aren’t just remotely about “dragon bones;” now that more sauropod remains are coming out of China, they are *really* long necked compared to N America sauropods.
This is more specific to me, as I’m getting lunch! But it turns out Happy Donut in the financial district, isn’t just a doughnut shop. They have a really great selection of noodles and their prices are incredible for this part of San Francisco. Definitely a favorite place!
As long as I’m going more personal; last night someone who saw photos of me said something immensely flattering, though it’s personal enough I won’t blurt it out publicly.
You know the first Foo Fighters album? That's not *them*. That's *him*. The album started as Dave Grohl's demo tape as something he was doing to try to recover from Kudt's death, so actually getting a band together came later, all the instruments, vocals and mixing on Foo Fighters is Dave Grohl.
@Leucrotta have something nice instead:
your art gives me life!!!
@vahnj oh wow, thanks!
@vahnj not sure if I’ve talked about this before but I feel like, I want to entertain people. Mastodon is really good for chilling out about numbers and realizing that what I make *is* making my online community happier and more vibrant!
@Leucrotta I miss you!! *hugs* I'm gonna be in the Bay this weekend! I'll be staying with Earthshine.
If you're free I'd love to get together and potentially get inebriated and watch bad movies or something. :D
@mawr hell yes. Name times and places and I’ll make it happen. A related nice thing is, you and @kelseyhusky were in a dream last night ( though in my dream I was actually visiting Seattle). S’nice.
@Leucrotta Rad!! Is it okay if I coordinate with you and Earth over Telegram? ♥️
@mawr I suck at Telegram, and also kinda assumed that would be how we stayed in touch. Let’s do it!
@Leucrotta Ooooh, I didn't know that!
Did you know one of the big name designers for AD&D is trans?
Jenelle Jaquays is mostly known as an artist, but she also basically started scenario designs which weren’t fairly linear, and two of them - Griffin Mountain and Dark Tower - are kinda prominent old-skool dungeons. She’s still a working artist, too!