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From the boardgame Ewoks Save the Trees: A closeup of an illustrated ewok fishing while sitting on a rock, facing away. Its lil butt is very well defined.
A grainy screenshot from a 1993 commercial for a Special Effects Cookbook showing some very questionable food-based holiday crafts called "Cabbage Xmas Tree" and "Pineapple Xmas Tree" with what appears to be powdered sugar and vaguely fruit-looking spheres scattered around them. None of these things look edible.
A juvenile crow and an adult crow sitting on a porch railing next to some bowls of water.
The humming sometimes rose to the high-pitched vibrato warning that the wires were at breaking strain. A seaman knew to clear out when it started; a flailing cable could slice a man in two as neatly as a guillotine. One by one, the wires snapped, like so much bailing twine, and by mid-April, most had given way.
A book screenshot reading: On October 29, 1908, Shackleton and his comrades struck out with a team of Manchurian ponies and a customized motorcar, the first ever in Antarctica. Training had been haphazard before departure, since financing travails left just seven months for planning and preparation before the Nimrod sailed. While several men had undergone an intensive course in typesetting in order to print a book, none had been instructed in skiing and ice travel.
A Mind Maze room. There is a person in a pillory and a figure in a hooded cloak leaning down menacingly to talk to them. Nice rug though!
The title screen of the old Microsoft Encarta trivia game Mind Maze. It's an illustration of a medieval castle with a dragon and some people, like a Jester who is wildly huge compared to the size of the castle. How is he gonna fit through that portcullis, man?
Boodle (a grey tabby) looking serenely at the camera.
Movie covers/posters for Mad God, Big Trouble in Little China, Phantom of the Paradise, Skinamarink, and Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
a group of 13 cedar waxwings perched on a porch railing and drinking water from a couple of plastic takeout containers
The cover of Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie and John Geiger. It has a spooky photo of the ice mummy of John Torrington on it.
A dark mode box that says 8568/50000 total words
A screenshot of two different quotes from a book, both nearly identically describing a person exhaling cigarette smoke through their nostrils like a dragon.
Boodle, a smug cat sitting on top of kitchen cabinets
A bowl of homemade tomato and ginger soup next to a plate with a slice of sourdough bread on it.
A print-on-demand listing for a yoga mat with a print of Sir Edwin Landseer's 1864 painting Man Proposes, God Disposes on it. The painting shows two polar bears chowing down on the remains of a shipwreck.
A black and white illustration of Herbert Ponting (a photographer and doofus) on an ice floe, close to being eaten by a creepy looking killer whale.
A gray marbled tabby named Boodle
A cute brown tabby cat laying in a pile of blankets on a couch. She has her tongue sticking out and is licking her own nose.
A vibrantly orange sunset over a wooded neighborhood
A cat yawning in a scary way