Month: June 2018

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viridiansunlight:

euclase:

sorceressofwildwood:

bloodandthunderp:

twintrolldevon:

brokenponycutiemark:

celticdreamz:

Icelandic descendants of Vikings singing a hymn in a German train station. They totally need to be on the next Thor soundtrack.

Oh man oh man oh man. 6 guys, and it FILLS THE SPACE. Luck of the architecture – and they know how to pull it off. Nothing is easy making vocal music in a space not built for it. I want to do this kind of thing – randomly perform multipart harmony in public spaces.

And it reminds me of Bjork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiN_YTyaNtI

My god this is beautiful.

Oh my god, the bass voice is superb.

This makes me feel so many things. Gods, it’s gorgeous and so evocative and wow. I need to find out what hymn this is.

It’s Hear, Heavenly Creator (I don’t know how that’s spelled in Icelandic, and I don’t have the characters on my keyboard for the letters anyway haha).

It’s… old as balls. Like 11th century old.

@meradorm @morkaischosen

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umberarts:

PHEW FINALLY, these took way too long but here’s some pride-inspired environments!!
I’m not super used to working with palettes this way but it was still fun to try. sorry if I missed yours– I tried to get as many as I could but I was def running low on ideas/energy towards the end

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sans–seraph:

vetstudentlive:

drferox:

So, I was chatting with my good friend Satan the other day, who is an unstoppable punster, and I may have accidentally been a little too literal when asked a question.

The question, in case the image doesn’t load, was “What do you call a fly with no wings?”

The desired answer was “A walk.”

Instead the vet brain jumped up and down because it was excited to remember something from second year parasitology that it thought was cool at the time and proudly declared “A KED!”

Melophagus ovinus, the humble sheep ked, is a fairly useless insect. It’s a fly that took  wrong turn on the evolutionary tree and somehow ended up losing its wings to instead live its entire lifecycle on the backs of sheep, eating their blood. It’s a fly trying its darnedest to be a flea. It is the Fly That Does Not.

They’re also apparently almost extinct in places, because they live on sheep their entire life cycle and widespred use of ivermectin has been very effective at controlling them.

I’d be kind of sad to see these sad little creatures go extinct, but they’re not exactly a high conservation value species.

So here’s to the Keds, the flightless flys, while they’re still with us.

And to me completely not realizing a question was a joke and making it awkward.

I’m so glad this doesn’t only happen to me. My vet humor has ruined many jokes and family dinners

I always thought they looked suspiciously arachnid. I’m not sure if fly-that-doesn’t is better or worse.