and just like me, you had a heart that was yearning to be set free
@eeriegloom has been pestering me to draw Pone again, so have the first pone i’ve drawn in years and probably the last.
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just gonna throw this out there again, but if yr Radical Queer Theory allows “straight guy who fucks girls but doesn’t wanna be in a relationship” to be constructed as a Valid Queer Identity That Must Be Protected, you may wanna re-examine yr Radical Queer Theory
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petition to add a “yikes” button to tumblr
These unsettling, expressionless masks were actually a fashion staple for wealthy women in Elizabethan England (c. mid to late 1500s). They were called visards, and were used by women of status to protect their fair skin from the sun, given that tanned, browned skin was seen as a sign of poverty (women with sun-tanned skin were usually poor laborers). Today, however, one can perceive from these artifacts only a bizarre, nightmarish appearance.
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Used Wimbledon Tennis Balls Become Tiny Homes for Mice
Every year, an astonishing number of tennis balls are used during the Wimbledon tournament — more than 54,000. This high figure is due to the fact that tennis balls are replaced at frequent intervals during a match to make sure they aren’t worn down or become too warm to affect the ball’s physical dynamics.
Used balls are resold every day at the club to spectators on the grounds, and nearly 700 balls go missing every year, probably taken by the audience and kept as souvenirs. Since 2001, some of these balls are being donated to various animals conservatives around Britain who make cute little homes for harvest mice.
The Eurasian harvest mouse is typically found in fields of cereal crops, such as wheat and oats, in reed beds and in other tall ground vegetation, such as long grass. An adult mouse weighs as little as 4 grams. The mice normally weave their homes out of shredded grass and reeds, attached to stems well above the ground.
Some animal conservatives then discovered that tennis balls make excellent, waterproof homes for these tiny rodents once you cut a small hole into the balls. The balls are attached to poles about a meter or a meter-and-half off the ground where they can make their nests in relative safety from birds of prey and weasels, which are too big to get through the hole.
Now aside from Wimbledon, many lawn tennis clubs around the United Kingdom regularly donates used tennis balls to various wildlife conservation organizations to help them in their conservation efforts. (Source)
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This seems to have been painted by Judy Mastrangelo, but I can’t find the original piece on her website. I went through her Facebook page as well. Finding the original artist to give credit to can be so difficult, especially when there are hundreds of copies on Pintrest.
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