The various scattering effects of the different-colored light sources on the water is rather fascinating…
JohnnyEnzyme
Founder of European Graphic Novels, Aug '23 on Lemm.ee. Still going strong, now on PieFed. :D
I prefer to lean friendly & understanding, yet as someone dealing with a terminal disease, I’ll admit that irritability can happen fast. Eh, nous faisons ce que nous pouvons. 🙄
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His primary language would have been Ancient Egyptian, alongside early Semitic.
Doing a little digging, my understanding is that Ancient Egyptians described things in practical terms. The more foreign something was, the more they would describe it in known terms. So a zebra would be something like “striped wild ass.”
𓉻𓂸𓃘 𓈇𓏏𓈉 𓋴𓄿𓃥
2·35 minutes agoThis somehow reminds me-- one of the favorite super-retro webgames is about a vampire trying to build up its fortitude, take out the popes blocking it’s path, and make its escape.
https://adamatomic.itch.io/vampire-vs-pope-army
Simple graphics and gameplay, but the puzzles are clever and fun!
1·18 hours agoRemoved by mod
1·19 hours agoNo pets as such, but for the last couple months I’ve been helping out on a small community garden. Most of what we’ve planted & maintained are ornamental flowers, but a couple are leftover herbs from the previous maintainer, a borderline-famous restaurateur. Two mint ‘bushes’ come to mind, one of which flowered just beautifully, if not as showily as the others.
The spearmint in particular produces lovely little white & lavender flowers, which in turn attracts all kinds of little hovering insect friends. Frankly, it reminds me of my late mom’s butterfly bushes (Agastacia I think?), which attract the same, plus extra beautiful butterflies and even hummingbirds, which seemed to arrive right out of FAIRYLAND, haha.
On top of that, I could even thrust my stoopid face inches away from the scene, and nobody seemed to mind(!) I didn’t get bothered in the least, I suppose because they didn’t detect me as a predator, and maybe also they simply had things to do?
So no pets, but those are my little friends, these days. 🙂
Lots more example pics here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=spearmint+flowers+attracting+bees+and+other+hovering+animals&udm=2
22·20 hours agoSpiders are bros.
And house centipedes!
Also, I’m surprised to see an actually decent Garfield strip. (usually they put me to sleep)
One of my favorite recurring features of GAMES magazine is “Eyeball Benders,” i.e. zoom-ins on a wide variety of common objects. For example, there’s typically a matrix of ~12 of them on a page, and you’d try to see how many you could spot.
Nice photo!
Muskrats everywhere, those little pests!
Our thoughts so often are dominated by the Fusiform Facial Area and Phallus-Recognition-System, two areas of the brain, that it’s nice to get a different spin once in a while. XD
5·3 days agoCool to see some classic strips amongst the early-ish ones. Thanks again for keeping up this great project, Nocturne!
2·5 days agoGood ol’ Billy Strings!
(I have no idea who that is, but I love that album cover)
Don’t you KNOW IT. 🤜🤛
So the joke in this comic is that Jucika received a romantic “Book Day” gift, then re-gifted it to the man she was actually interested in.
Well-summed indeed, and really, a sort of chronic, tragic phenomenon that goes on between the underdog that greatly appreciates the heroine for who she really is, while she has the hots for the more ‘manly’ man. (mix up the genders, delightfully as you will, still the same equation)
I think across my romantic attempted conquests, I only got scorched once or twice, until I kinda realised some fundamental things… 😅
4·5 days agoProbably more like the richest assholes who have the most influence in politics in the EU want more DC’s.
Far as I know, no sensible person on Planet Erff wants more DC’s, both locally and remotely, due to their ~100% toxicity rate.
Simple, yet brilliant, and especially poignant for these dark, dark times. oO
2·5 days agoAs I recall it, these ground-based parrots have no natural predators, so when rats (and whatever else) got introduced to their territory, there was a horrific toll.
Lol… I could not make head nor tail of that!
Can you figure it out…?
3·6 days agoIn retrospect, maybe. In their heyday, I think they were more like what National Lampoon mag used to be. Borderline savage at times.
He should invite her to the office so that she can help him finish up earlier.