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Try unique reactions next. For example: a grimace, an eyes-closed gut-busting laugh, an angry shout, a Spock eyebrow raise, someone brushing their teeth or about to inhale a big sandwich, blowing a kiss or whistling, etc.
Find a reaction gif or meme that speaks to you and draw it.
Jon Stewart is fun to draw.

Also, try drawing hands, feet, trees, and insects.

I look forward to your future work; you’ve got a great start here!

Username checks tf out.
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This is a poison garden.

Hemlock, henbane, poison ivy, khat, giant hogweed, poppy, stinging nettle, yew, rhododendron, and many other toxic plants can be found in a poison garden.

Why? In old times, to make medicine, probably. The difference between poison and medicine is often dosage/timing. These days it’s mainly for educational purposes. Gets folk into botany, helps prevent poisonings, teaches respect for nature.

As one would imagine, they require special care to maintain.

The sculptures reminded me of Bene Gesserit, so naturally my next thought went to poison needles and dangerous caretakers.

If ever there was a lawn that needed converting to a poison garden, it’s this one.

The on-the-fly meme-making by the Trekkies is positively inspiring.

Comrade Pauli?!

As close as you can get without your eyes gettin wet.

Pippin’s barrels and brooch at Isengard. One of the best chapters.

Was the Tachi ejected to save MCRN? Or did it float out of a wreck?

Veritasium - This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)

Lies, Inc. is another by PKD that will leave your head spinning.

Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.

To the depths of Jupiter, then.

Wouldn’t Jabba being ‘stupid as fuck’ and making erroneous claims about nature be the less convoluted answer here? Bioengineering, canon or not, sounds like the more complicated explanation.

Sarlac that lost the ability to grow ‘roots’ and instead worked out venom and energy storage (fat and muscle) would outcompete and supplant the sarlacs still producing energetically-expensive, overly-complicated stasis bellies.

What happens if they momentarily fail to keep their meals alive, do they starve or become poisoned by the rotting meat? Do they have issues keeping a varied diet alive? How do they maintain a net positive energy balance after producing all that is required to keep organisms alive? Why not stun them and stash them, like wasps and spiders? Why not fatten up like -gestures broadly at all life-. Fat requires very little maintenance.

Could one, in theory, rescue one’s friends were they trapped in a sarlac?

Sounds like an organism that would quickly be out of business were there any competition at all.

edit: How do they handle the waste produced by the meals-in-stasis?

Looks like Sepia (Peertube), 藍 ‘Ai’ (Misskey), Mastodon, Fox Tan (Pleroma), and Lemmy.

https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-06_Meta-proposing-Threads-to-the-Fediverse_by-David-Revoy.html

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_mascots

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1012/happy-holidays-2023

While reading up on The Last Boy Scout, I found this:

Shane Black and Tony Scott both expressed dissatisfaction with the final film, and said in later years how the original script was far better. Scott accused Joel Silver of interfering with the production and swore off working with the producer again. His next film, True Romance, features an unflattering film producer character patterned after Silver.

This is so cool!
Sent me on a deep dive into the history of snow in the region.
Seems like it is rare, but not impossible. The kind of weather the elders would be able to contextualize.
Fascinating!
Now I’m curious about older references. Is there a subdiscipline within history that is concerned with the weather?