A Lover of Animals A Dreamer of Tomorrow

I was going to wait until they were finished to post, but I couldn't wait to show you the turtles I painted.

How colonialism redefined "Islam" and how Muslims are moving beyond it | Faisal Devji | UNAPOLOGETIC

In the latest episode of UNAPOLOGETIC we sat down with Faisal Devji in Oxford. Devji is a widely acclaimed scholar of both South Asian history and the history of intellectual thought.

In his latest book, Devji presents a novel idea: that "Islam", as many of us commonly use the word today, meaning a single thing with a will and a direction of its own, rather than the faith Muslims practise, is barely 150 years old.

Sometime in the mid nineteenth century, people increasingly started using the word Islam not to describe the faith that Muslims follow, but as the name of something that acts. Islam wants, Islam demands, Islam is in decline, Islam will rise. Devji's argument is that this shift happened not because Muslims became more or less devout, but because Muslim political power collapsed under European empire. Once "Islam", or more specifically Muslim political power, was no longer held by kings, caliphs or clerics, it became something anyone could speak for, and many people did.

can I just say how relatable I found Susie this chapter

World tiger day! I love these big cats

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Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

This is relevant to art also because it is becoming increasingly difficult to find reference images online during simple searches.

Movement nudge!

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I LOVE THIS GUY.

All those "spend just 35 minutes doing a bunch of really hard exercises and you'll feel great forever!" videos are really discouraging. I usually end up doing like, 2 minutes of some of his while waiting for my shower to heat up, and ykw?

That's 2 minutes more than I would have done otherwise.

oh hey I have a thing like that last one that I like to do sometimes, but I do it lying down in bed. it's a very satisfying pop/shift in my hips/lower back, but doesn't always work. maybe I will try his version and see if it is more effective for me

Connemara stallion Thorgal De L'Aubier

avian august: underrated birds edition

day 02: roseate spoonbill

Wood Grouse aka Western Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus), male, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Poland

photograph by Paweł Łabaj

someone tell OP i did it, i spent about 3 hours on it

All the owlbears at once! You can find them on fabric at Spoonflower, or a bunch of other stuff at Redbubble!

You can see the process gifs here, and find their individual links: Sun bear, Polar bear, Asian black bear, Kodiak bear, Spectacle bear, Sloth bear, Panda bear

PAR Babes WarningShot

Something something Erid is a high-pressure, no light planet with liquid water and bioluminescent, lure-based, energy efficient ocean creatures could develop; something something Eridians have close to no spatial memory and therefore worse scale? memory; something something Eridians are the apex land predator specifically.

(All that, and I forgot the suit. Ah well. Point is, they deserve a buddy comedy ending.)

Wild horses of Miyazaki’s Toimasaki (Cape Toi)

throwback thursday: storms may collide