Green Explotion

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

Hey. Don’t cry. I went to Plushie’s You Gave Away Island and they were all there, happy, and having a great time!!!

Ice Age Rock Art

Newly discovered 12,000-year-old rock art from Colombia shows thousands of paintings of camels, giant sloths, mastodons, horses and other Ice Age animals. Wear the new rock art as a premium face mask or neck gaiter.

sulc.us/cerroazul

Illustration by Caroline Fleet

when u come up with a tiny change for your story that not only makes the writing flow better but also hammers in the character motivations and story theme

Creating filagree ruyi jewelry using olden methods

English added by me :)

Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

just finished this pattern by craftyintentions and i'm in love <3

A master post of Thomas Romain’s art tutorials.

There’s not enough space to post all of them, SO here’s links to everything he has posted (on twitter) so far : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12. 

Now that new semesters have started, I thought people might need these. Enjoy your lessons!

He never stopped patrolling the grounds, even after death.

Encounter, by me, 2024

I am selling prints of this on my etsy store!