(by Monica_monica315)

Fata Morgana

a superior mirage caused by warm air resting on patches of colder air in an atmospheric duct that acts like a refracting lens. Objects on the horizon could appear to be mirrored, distorted, or float. This form of mirage could be the reason for the Flying Dutchman Legend.

[Image ID: a series of tweets from Draconian Crackdown @fencuary that read:

Tweet 1: every character design course in the world should force you to draw twenty people in the same mundane profession like bus drivers or auto mechanics or nail techs before you get to draw an elf

Tweet 2: imagine how cool elves could look if they looked a fraction as interesting as Steve who bags your groceries. have you looked at pictures of your aunts and uncles lately? e-sports competitors from a country you’ve never been to? so many awesome faces to look at in the world

Tweet 3: just saying this from the perspective of a guy who could have been saved a lot of frustration from practicing this earlier on as a young artist rather than stumbling through it now, but then again I think I’m learning to embrace the Real so much more as an adult

Tweet 4: since some are taking this as a design prompt (yay), for this to work you have to show the 10 - 20 “characters” to a non-artist in your life and they have to be like, “yep, i could’ve seen any of these people today” and imagine each of them living their own rich/unfulfilled lives

/End ID]

A BOT LIKED THIS POST AND TRIED TO MESSAGE ME LMFAO

Ngl every time someone follows this blog I automatically assume they’re a bot lol

[Image ID: a photo of a fluffy snow leopard cub, old enough that it’s not helpless but young enough that it’s still reliant on its mother. It’s laying on its back in a pile of rocks, it’s tail laying next to it and its hind legs flopped over its belly. It’s front legs are stretched up over its head in a comic manner. Despite the ridiculous, kind of uncomfortable-looking position its eyes are closed and it is clearly snoozing. /End ID]

A snow leopard cub that fell asleep during playtime by Cloudtail the Snow Leopard

Can you believe that there are people who live so close to the ocean that they can just think “hey, I should go to the ocean” and then they just do???

Ngl every time someone follows this blog I automatically assume they’re a bot lol

Asian striped land leech, Haemadipsa guangchuanensis, Haemadipsidae

Photo 1 by dhfischer, 2-3 by daver, 4-5 by bentsai, and 6-7 by albertkang

Hey, I’m Meta (they/it)! This account is basically for saving references/tutorials for myself. I try to write image IDs for everything I can, but sometimes I forget to (or just accidentally hit post instead of save to drafts) or it’s unfeasible. Things that have IDs will be tagged #image id/#video id, things without tags will be tagged with #no id.

If you have feedback on my IDs please let me know!! They’re for you guys so I want to know what you think!

Main/art account: @puddleorganism

Reblog account: @puddlereblogs

Minecraft speculative biology: @mc-speculation

CW: I reblog bugs (including spiders), snakes/reptiles, rats/rodents and general creepy crawlies all the time! If you don’t like those this really isn’t a good blog for you lol