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Closeup focusing on the amazing #texture #adipose #pad #horn or #tubercles and #dewlap of a rhino iguana.
Fabulous fatty helmet (adipose pad) and goitre (dewlap) of the rhinoceros iguana which gets its name for the bony horns (tubercles) on their snout.
These squirrels must pack on a lot of adipose tissue during the warm months in order to survive their intense, LONG winter hibernation. Their hibernations can last seven to eight months, or more!
Arctic Ground Squirrel, Savage River loop trail, Denali National Park, Alaska.
June 21, 2025
Octogenarian and recent dark horse presidential candidate, Otto Corpulente, and steam boiler hauler, Mulehead Adipose, were matched in the first Sumo wrestling competition, American style, hosted on Talcott Ridge, Connecticut on this day in 2017. Although this was long-planned as a seminal event, it appears that few accidental spectators actually knew about it in advance, and for unknown reasons, were largely comically amused. Corpulente was declared the winner on a technicality, when Adipose tumbled down the ridge, ultimately making a colossal belly flop in the Farmington River below. The resulting splash covered a three-mile radius and was perceived my local residents as an ill-timed summer shower (even though this occurred in dead winter).
"Uh - sorry for messing up your front yard, folks. My little friend here hit the wrong button and here we were...are."
120 pictures in 2020 #57 in a muddle
Reefnetting in the fall means interesting weather. The fishermen are out to catch hatchery silvers and king salmon. How do we tell a hatchery fish from a wild salmon you may ask? Well the small fin near the tail, called the adipose fin, is clipped at the hatchery. Reefnetting allows the fishermen to return the wild fish unharmed to continue it's journey up river.
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Oh no! the adipose has ventured into Jake's unfinished study! I hope they don't get into any mischief!..., still it could be worse, the minions could have found their way in there!!!!
A stunning specimen. Note the lack of an adipose fin, indicating that this individual is of hatchery origin.
As a young woman growing up in Wisconsin, Ashley Crawford discovered her mutant ability to completely control the distribution of her body's adipose tissue. Using this power, Ashley crafted the perfect physique and became an internationally famous supermodel. For a time, Ashley was the highest paid fashion model in the country, appearing on the covers of multiple magazines. However, yearning for more Ashley responded to an ad in a local newspaper calling for men and women of action. Donning the persona of Big Bertha, Ashley Crawford joined Mr. Immortal's Great Lakes Avengers.
As Big Bertha, Ashley enjoyed her being a superhero despite often being greeted with revulsion based on her appearance. Initially, the GLA used Ashley's penthouse as their headquarters and her private jet as their transportation.
Ashley continued to work as a model with Mirror Modeling to continue to fund the GLA. Unfortunately, this also meant that she was largely absent from spending time with her GLA friends. Ashley was further pulled between her two worlds by repeated offers to move away from Milwaukee to pursue her career in locations such as New York City, London, Paris, Milan, or Rome. Ashley eventually decide to enjoy her life as it is instead of feeling like she was spread too thin.
Big Bertha continued to engage in superhero works with her friends and teammates including defeating both Dr. Tannenbaum's Giant Robot Snowman and Evil Living Christmas Trees, battling Thunderbolts, and facing off against A.I.M.
Along with her teammates, Big Bertha registered under the Superhuman Registration Act and became part of the Wisconsin branch of the Initiative. She and her teammates helped other heroes to stop the Skrull invasion of Earth including fighting their newest teammate, the Grasshopper, who was a Skrull impostor.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Ashley Crawford
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: West Coast Avengers vol. 2 #46 (July 1989)
Created by: John Byrne (writer and artist)
Fat is the new gold standard across the galaxy, it's uses are many and well received.
Here at ARF we pride ourselves in how well our livestock is maintained. We fatten them up then just pop them in the extractor, once 'milked' in a safe and humane way, they are returned to the feeding pens and the cycle continues, yep safe and sustainable, no stock killed or harmed XD
Rosy barbs are one of the most popular and readily available fish for aquarium hobbyists. They are an active fish with a peaceful temperament and bright color. The rosy barb is one of the larger members of the barb species, and it can grow up to six inches in the wild. This fish enjoys company, and if its school is large enough, it will not bother other fish in the aquarium. Rosy barbs make great additions to an aquarium and also do well in ponds like mine here in Miami.
Rosy barbs originate in northern India and are also found in Singapore, Australia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. Rosy barbs natively live in lakes and fast-flowing water in subtropical climates.
Males have a brighter red coloration. Females look more gold or silver than red. Both genders have black markings on the fins and sides. The rosy barb has a torpedo-shaped body and a forked tail. It has only one dorsal fin. Like other cyprinid fish, rosy barbs lack an adipose fin but have a second dorsal fin to the rear of the first.
Biscayne Park FL
Tag Game - Unexpected Guests..,
Take a pic of any figure of any size getting a visit from unexpected visitors! (Could be fun!)
If you see this, please consider yourself Tagged to play along!
"Well, hello there!" say's Jenna as the adipose pay an unexpected visit to Jake's Study.
An adipose waves good-bye at my door as it heads off the porch and out into the world.
[The Adipose originally came from the planet Adipose 3. After the Adiposian First Family lost the nursery planet, they hired wet nurses in order to find new places to breed their offspring. On Earth, the wet-nurse Matron Cofelia set up Adipose Industries and disguised the Adipose seeds in the form of weight-loss pills, using humans as surrogates. The pill gained over a million customers quickly. When the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble discovered the alien secret behind the supposed diet pills, Matron Cofelia ordered the immediate birthing of all Adipose. The Adipose nursery ship collected the babies then ordered the death of "Miss Foster", as Cofelia was known, to remove any evidence, as breeding on a Level 5 planet was an illegal act under the Shadow Proclamation. ( Partners in Crime) After being taken from Earth, the Shadow Proclamation took the baby Adipose into care.
The Adipose reproduced on Nursery Worlds. When on Earth, the Adipose's development was started when a pill from Adipose Industries was ingested. The young Adipose would grow, collecting fat from around the body. Every night, the Adipose would then be born and leave the body. They could convert other material into fat; however, this practice was not good for their health. Alternative materials included the bones, organs, muscles and many other human tissues. In emergencies, this was used to dispose of people by turning them completely into Adipose.]
[Taken from Wikipedia]
A very short classified file (video) on them:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=57g3dKzYMuU
A clip from The Doctor Who episode "Partners in Crime"
"So, no brewing moonshine ale in he kitchen!" moaned Dax.
"Hey, I don't make the rules, and I ain't crossing Joe, I like living above the Arms" replied Tabi.
High power magnification of fat (Adipose) cells (400x) from a Fine Needle Aspiration of the Breast. Pap stain
"Commander River's seems to think it may hold the secret to finding RZ HQ, personally I think it will be of no use, but after we have run a few tests, we might be surprised" smiled the Doctor.
"According to these notes left by Joe, we're not supposed to brew beer in the kitchen!"
I recently found this Reindeer outfit, which is meant for a Christmas decoration Elf. However, it works perfectly for my phicen female figures.
Hi all, I'm trying to artistically photograph as many species of fish as possible to highlight the natural beauty and diversity of our piscatorial species.
Please check out my other fish photographs -
www.flickr.com/photos/141341798@N06/albums/72157668887413785
The very last shot of the study before its complete remodel, and so Jake and Jenna pose for a photo with a few friends..., well who else was going to get the last photo huh?
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This is an older drawing I made in 2007, I forgot to upload it on Flickr... :D Marilyn Monroe sometimes makes me think about the famous and idealized Venus of Willendorf.
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Woman from Willendorf
By Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe
Nowadays, in the captions to illustrations of her in books, the word "Woman" is sometimes substituted for "Venus," a switch that has contributed, together with the current growing sensitivity to the visual representation of women, to a shift in how she is perceived.
One effect of this name change is to remove her from immediate identification as a goddess and to think of her in more mundane, human terms. This demystification, allows us to approach the figure more on its own terms and, without the encumbering preconceptions provoked by a name, gives us a better chance of interpreting its meaning.
The sculpture shows a woman with a large stomach that overhangs but does not hide her pubic area. A roll of fat extends around her middle, joining with large but rather flat buttocks. She is not, as Luce Passemard has pointed out, steatopygous (that is, possessing protruding buttocks). Piette had been the first to use the term steatopygous to describe the "Venus" figurines, regarding it as a racial feature that he related to the appearance of women in African tribes such as the Bushmen, Pygmies and Hottentots (KhoiKhoi). The implication that Aurignacian people may have been African in appearance influenced subsequent interpretations.
Her thighs are also large and pressed together down to the knees. Her forearms, however, are thin, and are shown draped over and holding, with cursorily indicated fingers, the upper part of her large breasts. Small markings on her wrists seem to indicate the presence of bracelets. Her breasts are full and appear soft, but they are not sagging and pendulous. The nipples are not indicated.
Her genital area would appear to have been deliberately emphasized with the labia of the vulva carefully detailed and made clearly visible, perhaps unnaturally so, and as if she had no pubic hair. This, combined with her large breasts and the roundness of her stomach, suggests that the "subject" of the sculpture is female procreativity and nurture and the piece has long been identified as some sort of fertility idol.
A characteristic of all the Paleolithic "Venus" figurines exhibited by the Willendorf statuette is the lack of a face, which for some, arguing that the face is a key feature in human identity, means that she is to be regarded as an anonymous sexual object rather than a person; it is her physical body and what it represents that is important.
From the front, the place where her face should be seems to be largely concealed by what are generally described as rows of plaited hair wrapped around her head.
Close examination, however, reveals that the rows are not one continuous spiral but are, in fact, composed in seven concentric horizontal bands that encircle the head, with two more half-bands below at the back of her neck. The topmost circle has the form of a rosette. The bands vary in width from front to back to sides, and also vary in size from each other. Cut across the groove separating each band at regular, closely-spaced intervals is a series of more or less lozenge-shaped deep vertical notches, some wide, others narrow, that extend equally into the band above and into the band below. These notches alternate between bands to produce the effect of braided or plaited hair. That it is intended to be understood as braided hair seems clear, although it has been suggested recently that the figure is in fact wearing a fiber-based woven hat or cap.
When seen in profile, the impression is that the figure is looking down with her chin sunk to her chest, and her hair looks more like hair; longer at back and falling and gathering like real hair might on her upper back. Some find it significant that the number of full circles is seven; many thousands of years later seven was regarded as a magic number.
Such elaborate treatment of hair is extremely rare in Paleolithic figurines, and the considerable attention paid to it by the sculptor must mean it had some significance. In later cultures, hair has been considered a source of strength, and as the seat of the soul.
Hair also has a long history as a source of erotic attraction that lies, perhaps surprisingly, not so much in its color, style, or length, but in its odor. The erotic attraction of the odor of hair is obviously rooted in the sense of smell, which plays a considerable role in sexual relations. Though greatly diminished in the modern world, smell was paramount in establishing an erotic rapport with a mate, as it still is among animals. In this context, the hair of the woman or goddess represented in the "Venus" of Willendorf figurine may have been regarded as erotically charged as her breasts and pubic area.
Another characteristic of Paleolithic "Venus" figurines is the lack of feet. In the archaeological report of her finding, the Willendorf statuette is described as perfectly preserved in all its parts, so it appears she never had feet.
It has been suggested that possibly the intention was to curtail the figurine's power to leave wherever she had been placed.
A more common explanation is that because the statuette served as a fertility idol, the sculptor included only those parts of the female body needed for the conception and nurture of children. Even if she had feet, though, it seems unlikely that she was meant to stand up. This is even more true of the other Paleolithic figurines.
Nor it seems was she ever intended to lie in a supine position. In fact, her most satisfactory, and most satisfying, position is being held in the palm of the hand. When seen under these conditions, she is utterly transformed as a piece of sculpture. As fingers are imagined gripping her rounded adipose masses, she becomes a remarkably sensuous object, her flesh seemingly soft and yielding to the touch.
What her identity and purpose may have been, why and for what reason she was carved, becomes an even more pressing question. If we dismiss all associations with goddesses and fertility figures, and assume an objective response to what we see, she might be identified as simply a Stone-Age doll for a child.
But this strikes us as unsatisfactory, not the least because of the very high degree of artistic ability exhibited in the sculpting of her forms. Compared with the other Paleolithic figurines in this group, the "Venus" of Willendorf is a remarkably realistic representation of a fat woman.
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This analysis appeared on witcombe.sbc.edu/
Captain America, aka Steve Rogers, is lost in a book, not just any book, but River Song's diary. He found it on the bar at the Ammo Arms,
"Gee, this Doctor fella has certainly got about! and I thought I was old!" suddenly something catches his eye, an adipose approaching his bottle of coke, "Whoa! what the hell is that??!!"
The Adipose are here!!!
Thanks to The Glass Eye for acting as their nanny for a few weeks before sending them on to me. I hope they weren't too much trouble, and I certainly hope you fare better than their last nanny, Mrs. Foster.
Hi all, I'm trying to artistically photograph as many species of fish as possible to highlight the natural beauty and diversity of our piscatorial species.
Please check out my other fish photographs -
www.flickr.com/photos/141341798@N06/albums/72157668887413785
No, it's not a door disguised as a watermelon!
I continue this series reserved for traditional Tunisian doors, today I will evoke the doors of the Moorish Baths (in Arabic, known as Hammam), a privileged meeting place, a place of political discussion in the time of colonization, is also a unique place for a mother to look for her future daughter-in-law!
The door of the Moorish Bath is gleaming with colors and doesn’t look like any other! It’s recognizable by these motley colors, recognizable from a distance! Indeed, the Moorish Bath, which is the oriental version of the sauna, still holds a significant place in the life of the Tunisian who goes there once a week. This habit may derive its roots from the Roman era when their ancestors already frequent the thermal baths that are now part of the Tunisian heritage. We came to these places to wash but also to relax ...
The hammam is above all a public bath, where one comes with family or friends to take a bath of heat, whose virtues prove beneficial for the body as well as for the spirit. The effect of sweating helps to eliminate toxins and excess water accumulated by adipose tissue. When you leave, you immediately feel a relaxing effect. A very pleasant moment, which you spend lying in a specially arranged room, drinking a glass of tea or enjoying fresh fruit.
The photo of the Door of the Moorish Bath is taken in the Medina of Nabeul ! The Moorish bath is called "Hammam Djedid"