To the absolute super-weirdos here downvoting this post, it’s precisely the question for our times.

Idiots…

I believe that’s “Water Guardians” by the Latvian artist Julia Soboleva.

And some eery connections to Jeff Smith’s ‘Crazy Rat Bastards,’ is it not…?

(Anyone think he looks like Jeffrey Epstein)

Dude, that is SO fucking unworthy of you, the man’s life, what he had to impart upon kitchen-life, and whatever else.

Please don’t say stupid bullshit like that here ever again, at least for my sake…?

As someone who lives & dies upon 'the arts," this is… yeah…

Fuck!

Oh, wow… nice to see you again, mate!

I’ve something I’m trying to shape-together unto a small tribute upon all your good work… please standby!

Back in Philly in the late 90’s, around Olde City, I would often spend my lunch-breaks feeding the squirrels. Across multiple encounters I would call out to them to ‘come and get your nuts!’ (like the classic NA song)

Not much later, the whole thing pretty quickly turned in to public, hilarious squirrel-congregations when I was in their territory, speaking in even a normal voice, from that point on. They would just descend en masse, and heaven help me if I’d not brought a bag of nuts along.

Eh, I really like this gal on YT, what with her little feasts:
https://www.youtube.com/@Squirrels_at_the_window/videos?view=0&sort=p&shelf_id=1

I love deer on every level, and am generally happy to see them where I live. Except for this-- that they can carry deer ticks.

Which for a person already disabled, would pretty much be curtains. But even for the completely healthy, getting Lyme Disease is generally a complete disaster.

Tool-use is seen today across a range of animal species, so it’s not hard to conceive of it being pretty ancient indeed in Earth history. Probably many millions of years old, in fact.

Also interesting here is that the 430k date means that the tools predated Sapiens, and was therefore down to a small handful of earlier human species.

Edit: lemvotes.org, linked below by another comment.

Aw, shoot. It doesn’t seem to work for PieFed. For example, here’s a link straight to the original instance and thread: https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/1701717/

Changing that “p” to “post” didn’t seem to work, either.

Oh-ho, Dream Weasel
I believe you can get me through the night…
Ooh-ooh, Dream Weasel
I believe we can reach the morning light…

Haha…

Advocatus diaboli:

“If there’s something worth stealing, I steal!”
–Picasso

In this case, yeah… there’s still plenty of good design and features to lift from Reddit, and why not? Also, in terms of the FV as whole (i.e., not just Lemmy), I’d love to persuade more of Reddit’s better users to migrate, especially the more they realise that they’re not much more than a “$” sign to spez and the investors, anyway.

Pretty crazy how we saw such naked greed and contempt from them back in Summer '23, and yet the bias of recency (or whatever it has) has largely normalised it out of existence for both the Reddit and the FV side. Like… bloody hell, mate…

Thanks for the extensive reply! Yeah, I’m one of those weirdos who loved the Silmarillion, even as a teenager. I guess I’ve read it about 4x over the years, and I generally found it way more rational and absorbing than something like Le Morte d’Arthur.

Trying to cover the whole book seems insane to me, but as mentioned above, I feel like major stories and chapters could very easily be turned in to some kind of effective adaptation. They more or less stand alone, compared to the brutal, endless slog of the overall elves against Morgoth arcs.

The time seems (and has seemed) really ripe for such stories to be told, that I hope the Estate can move forward in some useful way upon such stuff. That said, I can very much understand their unhappiness with Jackson’s TLotR movies, which were good, but way too ‘Hollywood’ for my taste across various scenes. I actually enjoyed the ‘making of’ mini-movies in the deluxe set far more than the movies themselves…

Okay, I see, but… is there some reason they wouldn’t be open to the idea of doing Silmarillion stories?

languages that lack a set of rules to correctly pronounce every word ever are mental illnesses.

Yeah, I don’t know enough about French grammar and pronunciation rules, but I think part of the problem comes from them trying to maintain a written language that got left in the dust by the spoken language ages ago. So instead of updating the written one, they chose to ‘preserve history’ and add a landslide of little rules explaining separate cases, not just for pronunciation, but in a hugely systemic way. Native French-speakers have actually complained to me about that occasionally.

I could give you any Spanish word you don’t know and you wouldn’t miss pronounce it.

I love that about Castellano, just that some regions speed it up so much that I can barely catch it.

Well… I mean… what later become “English” branched off from its West-Germanic roots, long ago, and never did become “High German.” So theoretically, as an English-speaker, I have great familiarity with modern French, and we share the same basic sentence-structure as with modern German. Some of that is actually true. In practice, I could not be more of a complete dumbass upon those languages.

TBC, I can speak Castellano and Français like someone with heat-stroke, and I can vaguely understand Dutch and German.

Like learning Norwegian (bokmål) while living on the west coast.

In all honesty, I’d be absolutely terrified of trying to learn a Nordic language, which is absolutely NOT due to the lovely Nordic people I’ve met across the years.

It’s a “me” problem, and case-closed, please.

Nou, bedankt!

‘stop having fun’ as another commenter’s meme here is saying.

Haha, a bit of truth balanced by a bit of cynicism, one supposes…? XD

Shit, I need to get off my arse…
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels?tag=dutch

Thanks! But haha, that’s it? That’s the main critique?

TL;DR?

a lot of swallowed and mumbled consonants

This has been my experience learning French. The written language and the spoken one are pretty wildly out of tune, with up to ~5 letters at the ends of some words either not pronounced at all, or heavily swallowed.

Learning the pronunciation of Castellano (i.e. a sister language) was vastly easier for me.