ngl I really need the tutu fandom to appreciate that when they say “duck” they imagine this

But I’ve never seen a duck that looks like that, ever. Australia only has these:

And this is relevant because whenever someone draws Ahiru as the former, my brain does not interpret that as a duck. That, my friends, is a goose.

And lemme say. A goose with ahiru’s big ‘ol shoujo eyes?

b a d.

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says

retroactivebakeries:

sumpix:

Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery
where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art,
say archaeologists.

Research indicates young children expressed themselves in an ancient
form of finger-painting. And, just as in modern homes, their early
efforts were given pride of place on the living room wall.

A Cambridge University conference on the archaeology of childhood on
Friday reveals a tantalising glimpse into life for children in the
palaeolithic age, an estimated 13,000 years ago.

(via Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says | Science | The Guardian)

“Some of the children’s flutings are high up on walls and on the ceilings, so they must have been held up to make them or have been sitting on someone’s shoulders,”

@madegeeky

@paksenarrion-reader I’m still skyping but I had to stop myself from laughing loudly at your replies. His defense was “they should have done it the way the Gene Roddenberry did the original Star Trek.”