thetygre:

30 Day Monster Challenge 2 – Day #26: Favorite ‘Monster’ Plant

1.     
Black Bat Flower

2.     
Mistletoe

3.     
Venus Fly Trap

4.     
Pitcher Plant

5.     
Sundew

6.     
Corpse Lily

7.     
Corpse Flower

8.     
Mandrake

9.     
Sargasso

10.  
Kudzu

My list of favorite weird plants. The Black Bat Flower obviously takes the top spot because it looks the most like an actual monster; you can just imagine it coming alive and flying off to suck some blood. The rest I like for a variety of reasons. Several are carnivorous, with at least one used in a Southern Gothic as a metaphor for human sexuality while being mislabeled as another. Others, like the mandrake, are associated with the supernatural and have mystical properties. The best, like the parasitic mistletoe, combine the qualities. And then there’s kudzu and sargassum, quietly biding their time as they wait to cover the world.

Report: Pedro Pascal to lead ‘The Mandalorian’ series

clubjade:

This was one of the very early reports on the show, and now it’s back, with Variety doing the heavy lifting. Pascal “has been offered the role and negotiations are underway,” they report.

It feels super odd to me that this show has supposedly been filming for weeks but they’re only now locking down a lead actor, but hey, at least maybe this means that we’ll get official word before the year turns over.

Pascal is probably best known by genre audiences for his role as Oberyn Martell in HBO’s Game of Thrones. He played one of the Statemen in Kingsman: The Golden Circle and has a role in the upcoming Wonder Woman 1984.

The Mandalorian, written and executive produced by Jon Favreau, will be exclusive to the Disney+ streaming service, which is expected to go live in late 2019. Dave Filoni will direct the first episode of the series.

Report: Pedro Pascal to lead ‘The Mandalorian’ series

end0skeletal:

featherenthusiast:

end0skeletal:

The flame bowerbird is endemic to the rainforests of New Guinea. Shown above are the brightly colored males who build bowers and perform courtship displays to attract females.

(Photo sources: x x x x)

Holy heck, I never knew there was another species of bowerbird, especially one this flashy!

There are, in fact, 20 species of bowerbirds that make up the family

Ptilonorhynchidae. Here are a couple favorites!

Regent bowerbird:

Satin bowerbird:

Green catbird, which is in the bowerbird family, but does not build bowers. Instead, it clears an area of debris to perform a dance for females:

And finally, the

Vogelkop bowerbird, which is plain, but builds and decorates some of the most elaborate bowers:

A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries

rejectedprincesses:

“Many of the artists in the database were self-taught, barred from seeking formal training or studying anatomy on account of their gender. They could not hope to make a living from their talents when women were forbidden from issuing invoices.”

A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries

tomloki:

By most definitions, Tom Hiddleston is…uncool. His vulnerability, his enthusiasm, his Bolognese, these are not trademarks of a dashing movie star. And yet here he is, a sweet-natured bookworm trapped in the second act of a movie where the overlooked geek has been given the face and body of the only man who should ever be allowed to wear a suit (or jeans, or that long-sleeve navy T-shirt he wore when we had dinner).

elodieunderglass:

hayore:

elodieunderglass:

chiribomb:

mojave-red:

That’s really really interesting. Scavengers either did not hit the body or they did but they were small birds or mammals. Animals not capable of tearing the bones apart. Vultures can do that so no vultures. But the rear legs are gone which highly suggests frozen in deep snow or ice with the legs being accessable to bigger animal. Looks like it just laid down and died. Amazing find. 99% of the time I find animals they’re scattered over a hundred yards.

I was gonna make some joke about “dragon soul absorbed” but this is a much much better addition

I think frozen in deep snow is a good one! or, possibly, you might see this if something died on a ledge or high area (or was even caught in a tree!) and the remains were later dislodged or dropped to rest on the ground. 

This picture talked to me. 

it whispered ancients tales without words. Lifes lived through present, in a green world, boundless yet buried under the leaves of tall trees, breathing through seasons and cycles, ended but not over yet.

Thank you for this picture.

That’s so beautiful, what an evocative drawing!