The Black Shuck is a type of Hellhound from England. It is known to live in English Graveyards.
When it leaves a area, the ground it was standing on was scorching hot, meaning it destroys the ground it stands on.
According to English legend it says if you see it three times you will meet an untimely demise.
Just realized humans don’t have eyeshine, so what is in that video might not be human, but a new cryptid.
The Buck Naked Sprinter
just to elaborate on the above comment because I learned about this in Bio 102 today and immediately thought of this post: yep, if that eye shine is real, then this dude is definitely not human.
While the human eye does sort of give off a glare when you hit it with light at night time, that glare is always red because it is reflecting off of the blood vessels in the back of the eye. while in animals with night vision like cats, the light reflects off of the tapetum lucidum in the back of the eye which is the part of the eye that gives them far better night vision.
i for one, am excited to see more encounters of the Angry Naked Night Sprinter
This is so unsettling
While that would be cool, the ‘eyeshine’ looks like it’s off of a pair of small round glasses, maybe sunglasses.
i dont think “confident” is a word i’d use on swerve, he’s kind of openly insecure at all times, so if he was topping i’d think he’s more of an eager to please kind of top rather than a domtop… i think he’d get a boost of confidence watching his partner enjoy his spike, though!
Humans: [evolve exceptional pattern-recognition, complex language, art skills, the memory capacity to store tremendous quantities of information about the world around us in our humongous brains, and the ability to transmit information between each other in extreme detail across cultures and generations, such as “which plants are safe to eat vs which plants can fuck you up”]
Poison ivy: “haha cute! what if I look wildly different from one plant to the next. what if sometimes I grow five leaves or mimic other plants. is that cool.”
Here are some reference photos for identifying poison ivy. It’s not as easy as people make it sound. Poison ivy looks different depending on the time of year, the leaves may be atypically shaped, and occasionally they may even have five leaves instead of three. That’s just the… beauty of nature, I guess.
Some tips:
Leaves, especially young ones, may have reddish tints to them.
The vines that grow on trees and other structures are often ‘hairy’ and have thousands of little roots anchoring to the surface of whatever they’re climbing. Dead plants may still cause allergic reactions.
The stem on the central leaf may be slightly longer than the stems of the other two.
Poison ivy is a shrub, so the stem is relatively inflexible and woody, as opposed to more flexible herbaceous stems (as on, say, dandelions).
Sometimes the outer sides of the side leaves form notched/jagged “mitten” shapes…. but sometimes the leaves are all smooth.
The “veining” in each leaf is not symmetrical – the lines extending from the center of the leaf will usually alternate and not match up on both sides.
They also grow white/yellowish clusters of berries:
I’m reading a tutorial on making an SCA heavy combat axe, and just
The last step before taking your axe out and dealing wholesale violence with it is, in my opinion, the most important. Put on your gear, and have somebody who knows how to throw a shot hit you with it.
I love my people.
An ancient SCA proverb;
“A 6 foot 200 pound heavily armored man with an axe? No problem. A 5 foot 2 110 pound combat archer? FUCK.”
An small sample of An Tirian proverbs:
“Kill the archers FIRST”
“If they bring a siege weapon, you will die. Just make it count”
“If you’re going to wear a spiky belt buckle, do not lean over the castle walls. If we have to call a hold to rescue you, we will never let you forget it” -it’s true, we have never let him forget it. One of my friends was hanging UPSIDE DOWN OVER A CASTLE WALL because his pointy belt got caught in the wood during a battle. They had to call a hold, and apparently it was pretty funny
Three high level pointy hats were on top of a wall. Opposing side had siege engines. One was a catapult.
Said pointy hats were standing there talking, watching a rather pitched battle. This… round… thing comes at them out of nowhere. They stand there, talking, watching it come. King in the middle calmly watches it bounce off of his chest.
“What was that?”
“Equivalent of a cannonball.”
………
“Well fuck.”
PPPPPPPPPPPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
and here’s me wanting to be a combat archer.
“why is your armor so light?”
“I need to be able to run in it.”
“So you yield when they get close?”
“As long as my arrow can clear my bow, they are going down.”
I do not yield. I go down fighting.
Alzu the thirstwolf is a Lyca, a species of humanoid canids. They have interesting laws, mostly to deal with the fact that once a month they all turn into giant, ravenously hungry nightmare wolves.
One of their laws, and unrelated to that, is this; if you’re having sex with someone and they’re just really, really terrible at it, you are legally allowed to bite them (non-lethally) until they get the hint and leave.
This is because the males have lube glands on their equipment which are quick to respond to arousal, where the females’ physical responses tend to be slower. The males developed lube glands in the first place because female proto-Lyca, unusually for non-sapient species, didn’t put up with an uncomfortable mating. That tendency to bite an inconsiderate male never really died out. It’s generally agreed to be very rude and worthy of biting to pay no attention to a partner’s discomfort.
(now, if you ask them within the boundaries of their mythology why the lube glands exist, they’ll jokingly tell you that it’s because the sky-wolf who spawned them all was very much a top and, like most of them, had no desire to be confined to partners with a certain set of equipment.)
Do you ever color an OC for the first time and it’s like seeing the colored cover of a usually black and white comic, and you’re like, “that’s not the colors I thought you were…” and it fucks you up for a hot sec? And you’re like, “I made you… I should Know What Colors You Are.” but you don’t lmao
No idea what kind of bug these nymphs turn into but I do know that they made a beautiful display that I was not about to mess with. #arthropods #hemiptera #nymphs #insects #insectsofinstagram #arthropodsanonymous #CostaRica #CentralAmerica #rainforest #jungle #biodiversity #forest #ecology #evolution #bugs #truebugs #insectagram #gang #nature #travel #critters
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