-Shadows and Stars-

Hey there! You can call me Nova. 23 y/o. I reblog too many different things to list. 0/10 doctors recommend following. Blog is occasionally nsfw.

[stargoyle]

Big announcement:

Fucking petting hims

[catmintnepetas]

2️⃣7️⃣ love is war

[itskebb]

Wearing it Unironically

TADC SPOILERS!!

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Ok kind of embarrassing but idk how to quote my first post to make a part two. Trying to do that I accidentally deleted the original post. SO IM POSTING IT ALL AGAIN HORAY!!

I’m really happy people enjoyed my wearing it ironically piece. I hope you guys enjoy this too! Part 2 coming REAL soon (at least as soon as I figure out how to post it lol) ty!!

[crow-keys]

Gonna miss these freaks

[crow-keys]

I've uploaded high res protrait and landscape versions of this piece for anyone who wants to use them as wallpapers. You can download them at my Gumroad!

[cartoons-and-vodka]

Bnuyy 😭💜

[chapispng]

happy n dating funbun :-3

[oncelerfucker]

Jax literally killed himself in the circus after making the other two openly queer people around him - a nonbinary person and a non-straight woman - the targets of some of the worst of his externalized self hatred and queerphobia.

But in real life, in the physical world, she's at Riley's bar. She's surrounded by other queer people. He killed himself but she's alive in a place hosted by the nonbinary person he resented. She has the community of other queer people that he rejected.

I wonder if Goose meant anything by this.

[cyndaquilism]

[huskscatnip]

Gender euphoria spa day adventure

[cromerone001]

Pomni learing the piano in the end credits gave me ideas

[magdahlia]

(TADC: the last act fanart- implied spoiler)

i walked into that theater with no real ships and walked out a multishipper

oh man the brainrot is…. not going away

[crowfarerr]

this song makes me cry and now I'm associating it with this stupid rabbit and that makes it even worse

[blackwellselfieho]

I kinda like the idea of jax becoming a cautionary tale of what happens when you let dysphoria and self hatred eat you alive. I've met so many of him IRL in my own circles. I think people need to hear it. I need more characters who eat themselves alive and actually have to suffer the consequences of not choosing to be better. It's pretty refreshing to see a different and nuanced take on dysphoria and how it doesn't always manifest the way you would expect.

[oofiegoopie]

With the Fortnite announcement I really thought he would look so cool in the game..

[kokoorok]

Angel AU small comic

[mazorca98]

I like angel Caine a lot idk why (no I actually do it's because he's a sweet angel that deserves all the love someone could ever get in existence!!!!) I also LOVE the angel wings/hands on the caine varsity jacket. I remember seeing it and feeling the strongest urge to get it immediately, it was the first time I ever bought merch from a show and now I'm slowly buying all the caine merch I can get my hands on 😾

[acti-veg]

‘While bats can only sense the outer shapes and textures of their targets, dolphins can peer inside theirs. If a dolphin echolocates on you, it will perceive your lungs and your skeleton. It can likely sense shrapnel in war veterans and fetuses in pregnant women. It can pick out the air-filled swim bladders that allow fish, their main prey, to control their buoyancy.

It can almost certainly tell different species apart based on the shape of those air bladders. And it can tell if a fish has something weird inside it, like a metal hook. In Hawaii, false killer whales often pluck tuna off fishing lines, and “they’ll know where the hook is inside that fish,” Aude Pacini, who studies these animals, tells me. “They can ‘see’ things that you and I would never consider unless we had an X-ray machine or an MRI scanner.”

This penetrating perception is so unusual that scientists have barely begun to consider its implications. The beaked whales, for example, are odontocetes that look dolphin-esque on the outside—but on the inside, their skulls bear a strange assortment of crests, ridges, and bumps, many of which are only found in males.

Pavel Gol’din has suggested that these structures might be the equivalent of deer antlers—showy ornaments that are used to attract mates. Such ornaments would normally protrude from the body in a visible and conspicuous way, but that’s unnecessary for animals that are living medical scanners.’

-Ed Yong, An Immense World

[namu-the-orca]

Cetacean echolocation is one of those things that boggles your mind once you really start to think about the implications. They can see each others' hearts beating fast with fear or excitement. They can see if another dolphin is healthy, or pregnant; how the fetus is doing; if they have ingested debris. Their echolocation is also incredibly precise: a bottlenose dolphin could discriminate between cilinders differing in wall thickness by just 0.23 mm (0.009 inch) from 8 meters away!! And they certainly notice when something is off.

I'm not sure if I ever shared this story before here, but in Curacao, when I was allowed to assist in a guest interaction programme, there was suddenly consternation in the pool behind us. A guest had entered the water and the dolphins were going crazy, paying no heed to the trainers anymore. The lead trainer that was with me gave the dolphins to me to watch over while she went to help. When she came back she told me what had happened. The guest that had caused so much uproar had left the water again and was asked if he had done anything to upset the dolphins. He hadn't, and he couldn't imagine what was wrong... until he mentioned he had a pacemaker. The younger dolphins in the pool had never seen someone with a pacemaker before and apparently it rocked their world.

It was such a wild experience, and offered such a cool insight into how dolphins experience their world. I'll never forget it.