Concept art for Cinderella (1950), by Mary Blair
sometimes I reblog a post only to see the cool blog I’m trying to Get With also posted it further down and I could have reblogged it from them to keep up my months long wooing strategy of showing up in their notifications occasionally and now I gotta start all over
Day 9 of #birbfest hosted by @monkeymintaka is Indian Paradise Flycatcher, shown here in two varieties.
mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo
In the name of media literacy I need to point out the Mr Beast partnership and the attempt to lower marriage age are unrelated, they just put the two headlines together for some reason. Probably to get clicks. They lowered the missionary age, that's it.
Source: I read the article because the headline sounded too deranged. So it worked.
More info bc the Salt Lake Tribune has a paywall sometimes.
They put the headlines together to get clicks but also because that was their section on general LDS updates (titled Latest from Mormon Land). The missionary age is being lowered from 19 to 18 for women (idk if men already have that age lowered that’s just how the article worded it 🤷)
Also Mr. Beast has been partnering with them since 2024, because it’s one of the charitable organizations he donates to for one of his channels. And the church is a diamond sponsor for him but they say they “haven’t had anything significant happen since the initial connection” (paraphrased from my memory bc I went down a rabbit hole after reading the article and now I’m paywalled out)
Starting off my challenge to make 1 zine every week until march, it’s some of my favourite baby birds!
I’m doing this challenge to try to kick my habit of overthinking and never starting stuff, though I will admit I’m posting this now on my self-appointed deadline day because I spent the whole week overthinking, gotta start somewhere I guess. Once I forced myself to just sit down and just start drawing it only took me an hour which makes me feel a bit silly
I am so damn pleased with the Sedgwick County Zoo media team, y’all. They just dropped a stellar blog piece on why GenAI slop videos of animals are such a problem - and how to identify them!
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a zoo or aquarium in the United States speak up broadly about AI. (The only times I can think of any comment at all has maybe individual instances when a deepfake of “their” animal escaping is circulating.) And they did a great job with this piece! It’s succinct, easy to read, and written in a way that doesn’t shame people for engaging with AI content before they knew better.
I think this is exactly the type of resource needed for sending to that family member or friend we all have - the one who isn’t aware of the slop issue and constantly sends you clearly fake videos because they’re “so cute.”
I’d love to have Sedgwick get some public positive reinforcement for taking this stance. If you’re so inclined, a comment on their FB post would be great as it’s likely they’re going to get shit for this from sloppers & co. We really do need animal organizations to stand up for accurate, real animal content and this is a great first step in that direction.
Today's Sea Lion Is: The Gamer
Teach them this next.
Knight and heart that desires
Merry Christmas to the Vashwood fans (me).
I’m such a fat fucking jolly chud. Damn it.
For my 3D production class I had to create a three shot short that was a remake of an existing movie scene- with muppets. I ran out of time to do the particle water effects, but this is basically Pacific Rim anyway.
Transphobes can die mad 🤷🏻
A closer look because these ladies deserve to be appreciated 💓