AmicaNiiya

My main blog | do drawings, stories and fandom stuff | Interest change a lot! | German speaker, cis girl (she/her), aro-ace

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

a lot of stuff happened but i'm choosing to remember 2025 as the year i found out people with green eyes exist irl

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

couple things:

yes i spent my entire life until a few months ago assuming green eyes were an urban legend

"what about all the fictional characters with green eyes" thought it was a trope like with anime protagonists having naturally purple hair

i found out by watching Desperate Housewives (one of the actors has green eyes and it threw me off)

(i had never watched Desperate Housewives until that point bc i assumed it was reality tv, of the same genre as Real Housewives Of Metropolitan Areas franchise)

i still haven't seen green eyes irl, i am simply aware now that they actually exist

"have you really never met a person with green eyes." i didn't say that. it's possible I've met dozens. my autistic ass has spent decades elevating eye contact avoidance to a sublime art form.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

did more research and now I'm sort of leaning back to my original stance that green eyes don't actually exist? people say "green" but all i'm seeing is eyes that are blue-and-brown. can i get some example photos so i know what we're talking about???

[kind-of-human1]

I assume this is what people think of when they imagine green eyes. Whether they look green or not is mostly a lighting thing from what I've seen. I have gray eyes that can look green in the right light.

Green eyes are also the rarest eye color period, so I don't actually blame you for not knowing they existed at all.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

these are just blue with brown/yellow mixed in? i have those type of eyes, i assume they're pretty common. definitely less rare than people with 100% blue eyes with no mix-ins

[teslapenguin1]

blue with yellow mixed in

and what do you get when you mix blue and yellow

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ok listen

[bee-dazzle]

Gaud

I think you might have green eyes

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

they're not green they are blue and yellow that's two different colors neither of those colors is green this is what im talking about people say "green eyes" and then it turns out they're just talking about eyes with multiple colors (blue, brown, yellow) none of which is actually green!!!!!!!!!

[thegreatcatwar]

As of writing you have a little over 24 hours give or take to learn that grey eyes exist as well!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

that's light blue

[changelingchilde9]

That's grey with a hint of blue.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

my outer irises are the same damn shade, i would be aware if that was gray, but it is not it is WISHY WASHY BLUE

[librowyrm]

Clearly the only solution to this is to post a blurry closeup of your own eyes for us to argue about

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*sighs*

FUCK ALL OF YOU

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

they are pale BLUE and YELLOW my phone camera is just shitty they are two separate colors part blue and part yellow two colors

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

TUMBLR STOP COLOR PICKING MY EYEBALL

[amicaniiya]

What terms to use when describing eye colors is kinda arbitrary anyway, and that photo is kinda ass ngl gaud. On another note: Have some infodumping about the anatomy of eye colors, as concisely as I can manage. Note, the resources I found (which admittedly 9/10 were Wikipedia articles) sometimes gave conflicting information and I'm no expert dedicated to this stuff.

Most people should have at least heard of melanin, right? it's what makes darker skin, well, darker. The degree of its presence is also responsible for most of our hair and eye color variation. As I understand it, there's 2 main types responsible for these, eumelanins which range from brown to black, and pheomelanins which range from reddish-orange to yellow. (There's also the golden-yellow lipochrome, which may or may not give amber eyes their color, but that's apparently unclear/debated, also some places just say lipochrome is just another name for pheomelanin, like what??) Human irises also have structural color going on. There's a layer of collagen which can appear gray to blue depending on the size of the collagen clumps. It's the same effects responsible the clear sky being blue (smaller particles) vs. a cloudy sky being gray (larger particles).

In eyes with a lot of pigment, the structural color doesn't really come through, so you get black and brown and amber and everything in between. In eyes with next to no pigment, you see the gray to blue shades of the collagen layer's structural color. (In albinos, which lack the highly pigmented "background" behind the iris' stroma, the red from their retinas can shine through for some very trippy pale pink/violet eyes under the right lighting) With moderate pigmentation, the two can mix, finally giving us, mostly muted, shades of green. Also, many eyes aren't perfectly uniformly one exact color, but rather an uneven patchwork of various pigments and concentrations and collagen clump sizes, so you get some with both brown and green, blue and green, blue and gray, black and brown, brown and amber, blue and green and amber, and so on.

This is where the purely informational part ends, and my ramblings/ranting begin... be warned.

So in my digging through this, I kinda stumbled over an issue... Eumelanins cover black and brown, structural colors cover blue and gray, and yellow (amber) and by extension green is somewhat unclear as it could be pheomelanin or it could be lipochrome. In the former case, how come it's not red-orange like in hair? In the later case... have you ever seen anyone with an eye color anywhere close to what one could see with red hair? or heard someone describe their actual eye color as such? I'd guess not, maybe reddish brown at best, but nothing clearly pure concentrated pheomelanin like in red hair. In that case, pheomelanin would not appear independently from eumelanin in human eyes, which... why? Why can it appear on its own in hair and skin but not the eyes? Why are eyes deprived of the full range of human pigmentation? Anyone more educated on this who knows the answer, please, I beg you, I need to know.

LIKE IMAGINE

Red eyes, orange eyes, copper eyes, or to parallel green eyes, some mixing with blue with these would yield various muted but lovely shades of purple. Add in the other pigments, or some less pigmentation + gray structural color and you get various more desaturated and/or darker shades. SO MANY MORE POSSIBILITIES. I actually added a "russet" and a "garnet" category to my list of "normal/non-fantasy" eye colors for my OCs because they're MY CHARACTERS AND I DO WHAT I WANT. AND I WANT PURE RED PHEOMELANIN IN MY IRISES. Well, not exactly my irises, but... you get what I mean.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

educate me tumblr

[amicaniiya]

there’s a nerve called the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN), which branches off from the vagus nerve, a cranial nerve responsible for many “unconscious” tasks such as heart rate, gastrointestinal peristalsis, sweating and the gag reflex, of which the RLN is mostly responsible for speech as it connects to the larynx aka the voicebox

now here’s the issue: the vagus nerve goes directly from the brain downwards, while the RLN splits off at some point to connect to the larynx in the throat, but it does so way down in the chest, going underneath the aorta before going back up again - this is the case for every single vertebrate by the way, meaning that for giraffes, this nerve that could have been a couple of cm long is over 4m (not to mention sauropods with their 10m+ necks) - all because the nerve developed way back when vertebrates were still only fish, where it didn’t matter whether it looped around the aorta or not, and got stuck on the “wrong” side for when fish started to go on land and develop actual necks, and nature could only gradually lengthen the nerve in response this is why apparently heart surgeries and such have the risk of messing up your speech

because again, there is no such thing as foresight for evolution, it can only go bit by bit, and anything that is “better than the previous step” generally sticks, regardless of its effects in the long run natural evolution is less like engineering and more like throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks, and the only reason it appears so “well-designed” is that it has such a massive scale both in terms of time and number of subjects - with so many chances, some will suceed also often it’s more about being good enough than finding the best solution, and because nature is incapable of foresight or planning ahead, some developments are... less than optimal to say the least

that’s also why our retinas are the wrong way around (the nerves connected to be photoreceptor cells point towards the pupil), not only giving us a blind spot where they gather up into the optic nerve but also making it so that the retina just, spontaneously pops off the inner surface of the eye sometimes - the cells started out that way back when it didn’t make a difference and now we’re here Cephalopods like squids and octopusses evolved they complex eyes independently from vertebrates, thus theirs are the “right” way around, and their eyes are just as good as ours, if not better

[bogleech]

Things about arthropods I was most surprised to learn were not always common knowledge:

That caterpillars and other larvae can’t lay eggs or make babies

That termites are not related to ants

That not all wasps sting

That insects even have distinct sexes and need to mate

That ticks and fleas are different things

That crustaceans count (as arthropods) just as much as insects or arachnids do and are not in fact “their own thing”

That scorpions are arachnids

That there are arachnids other than spiders

That “venomous” isn’t synonymous with “dangerous”

That bed bugs are a specific kind of insect (some people assume the old rhyme is broadly referring to biting pests in general)

That not every introduced species is necessarily invasive and needs to be killed on sight

That not everything in your house is a pest

That winged ants exist

That winged ants aren’t a species, but a special caste of a typical ant colony

That fleas, lice and ticks are all totally wingless

That there are no winged arachnids

That there are virtually no insects that live in the ocean

That mosquitoes breed in water

That spiders do not lay their eggs in or on other living things

That “bugs” have brains

That they have any organs at all and are not just walking shells “full of juice”

That they breathe oxygen like we do

That they have muscle tissues

The biggest one that never ends: that they’re animals at all

[saturniidays]

i once met someone who didn’t even know that caterpillars were baby moths and butterflies and she was in college

[rebloggingrexan]

turns out i need to learn more about insect anatomy. i think the main ones i actually didn’t know are

That “bugs” have brains

That they have any organs at all and are not just walking shells “full of juice”

That they have muscle tissues

also

That not every introduced species is necessarily invasive and needs to be killed on sight

That there are virtually no insects that live in the ocean

is it mostly crabs that live in the ocean??? are they considered insects???? i don’t know. huh.

[saturniidays]

crabs are not insects, they are crustaceans like shrimp and lobsters and barnacles and isopods. but, insects and crustaceans are part of the same phylum, the arthropods, which are animals with an external skeleton made of chitin, segmented bodies, a head and trunk, bilateral symmetry, and jointed legs. this group also includes chelicerates, like spiders and horseshoe crabs, and myriapods, like millipedes and centipedes. 

[bogleech]

Currently it’s now thought that all insects are a subgroup of crustaceans, in fact!

They don’t really exist in the ocean simply because an insect is an arthropod that evolved specifically for freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, and insects evolved in symbiosis with terrestrial plant life first! Insects, even those that evolved away from feeding on plants, generally just spread wherever flowers spread.

[james-silvercat]

Why aren’t there any winged arachnids?

[bogleech]

Wings have evolved only a couple times in all of Earth’s history! In vertebrates, wings come from specialized front limbs, which is so straightforward and simple that it arose independently in pterosaurs, birds, and bats.

But the only winged invertebrates are insects, and anatomically, their wings are modified from external GILLS that only arose in a lineage of early aquatic insecta.

Arachnids branched off from other arthropods before insects ever existed, and never had anatomy to develop into those gill structures. Insect wings are like a one in a trillion evolutionary outcome that will likely never happen again, so specific that even if our universe is terming with life I wouldnt be surprised if nothing else anywhere has anything like them!

Spiders do fly, though, when they’re babies, using silk to travel the upper atmosphere. Wisdom used to be that this “ballooning” was just riding the wind and didn’t count as true flight, but now we know they use electricity to stay in the air, so it is a form of sustained flight - one just as unique and unheard of as Gill Wings.

[amicaniiya]

-cracks knuckles- oh boy, finally something I can contribute something! (I’ve been looking into phylogeny, or the studies of how living creatures are biologically/evolutionarily related, for... reasons... and let me tell you, it fucks so much with your intuition and most preconceived knowledge you might have on the topic)

So, about the thing of “insects are a subgroup of crustaceans”, that is true, the thing is, “crustaceans” as it is traditionally used isn’t a clade, or a group including all members descended of a shared ancestor, but it forms one with Hexapoda (aka insects), the resulting clade is usually called pancrustacea (very creative, I know). (It isn’t that unusual that traditional taxonomic categories aren’t true clades, I mean, “fish” isn’t a clade either, it’d include every other vertebrate as they all evolved from fish, nor is “Artiodactyla” (even-toed ungulates) in its traditional sense, as it needs to include cetaceans which evolved from a carnivorous branch of artiodactyls)

what is traditionally referred to as “crustaceans” are actually a whole slew of classes, it’s essentially is just every class between hexapoda and myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes and such), so they include, depending on who you ask, around 7-10 classes, amongst which are the branchiopoda (which include fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, tadpole shrimp and water fleas), the copepods, the malacostraca (largest group, includes most well-known crustaceans like crabs, lobsters, krill, prawns, isopods etc), the thecostraca (which include the barnacles, yes they’re crustaceans), the ostracoda (aka seed shrimp) and the ichthyostraca (which include fish lice and tongue worms, probably the strangest one in the bunch) and these are only the extant classes, in other words, the classes with members that are still around today (or at least, have been in the time humans have been around to study them), there’s a bunch of prehistoric arthropods that one might consider “crustacean-like” but are nowhere near to being closely-related to modern crustaceans

to conclude: life and evolution is weird, humans are bad at naming things and I pity those that need to make sense of both of these things

[the-real-daddy-van-der-bellen]

Austrian parents be like "we shall undertake a family hiking trip today and if any of our children don't want to, we will bully them relentlessly until they give in"

[die-katholische-kirche]

[slecnaztemnot]

Czech parents be like “we shall undertake a family trip to a castle or mountains today, or possibly bicycle trip and if any of our children don’t want to, we will bully and guilt trip them relentlessly until they give it” 

[hoples]

I would like to object

Czech parents bully you to go mushroom gathering. 

The only way to get out of it is to gain reputation of finding only poisonous mushroom for several years. 

[amicaniiya]

Am I the only one whose parents bribed them into going out? 

(my mom did geocaching before and she would always bribe me with sushi to get me to come along, and I would remind her that bribery is ILLEGAL but in the end I’d still go because sushi)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

just because you can afford to commission a scribe to chisel out cuneiform hatemail does not make your contemptible attempts to defame me any less disgraceful, the quality of my copper is HIGH my ingots are PRISTINE

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I was going to say something rude but that’s actually that’s fascinating and I would genuinely love to hear more about mesopotamian writing methodology

[moiracolleenodell]

Okay! It’s inscribed with a cube-shaped tool, as seen here.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So I throughly enjoyed this it’s delightful, but also I have a suggestion: Cuneiform ASMR

[amicaniiya]

another thing about the “pressing in soft clay and letting it harden” is that such tablets were (to my knowledge at least) generally not meant to be permanent. You’d stick them into water to make them soft again and reuse the clay, like recycling newspaper. But this guy apparently just, kept them all piled up in his basement, of Arbituram not getting his copper, of Imgur-sin saying he’s tired of getting shitty copper and of Nanni going on a tirade how he had already paid but he couldn’t accept the copper with how shitty it was and how his servant who handled the transaction was treated like crap the whole time (the last one being currently displayed at the British Museum, as far as I know).

Which is how we, thousands of years later, know that the copper merchant called Ea-nasir had a history of delivering shitty ass copper, if he delivered at all. Because he kept collecting his customers’ many complaints.

[tinafeysucks-deactivated2015040]

[w-for-wumbo]

it’s time

[nyehs-deactivated20140525]

ITS NOT TIME ITS FUCKING MARCH I DONT WANT TO SEE THIS

[ewaneneollav]

it’s time

[slydilustrous]

237 more days till halloween! ITS LIKE NEXT MONTH GUYS

[hockeylvr42]

I have a feeling someone had this queued for an entire year just so they could post this in march

[edeneye30]

I T S T I M E

[scruffymcwhiskers-blog]

ITS TIME

[flynn-science]

IT’S MARCH YOU ANIMALS

[aesthetjic]

IT’S LITERALLY MARCH 8TH 2017 THE FUCK IS THIS DOING ON MY DASH

[ultxmately]

[je56-deactivated20180822]

ITS MARCH , 2018.

ITS TIME

[aquilacalvitium]

I swear tumblr has a thing about March. What’s going on? I thought I knew all of tumblr’s secrets.

Well I guess I haven’t even been here for a full year yet, so…

[aceofspades-lena]

it’s time.

[rainbowsylvie]

Time

[dark-eyed-harmothoe]

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY

[interstitiallacunae]

>??>?>??

[oh-shit-a-baby]

MARCH 1ST 2020 BITCHESSSSSS

[slimesolvant]

it’s time.

[amicaniiya]

the time has come

[theradioghost]

honestly??? honestly????? you know what animals don’t get enough appreciation?????

VIVERROIDES.

nature has given us so many perfect little weaselcat things, and we don’t give any of them nearly as much love as they deserve

[amicaniiya]

these guys, are absolutely adorable indeed

and these are one of the reasons why I find the names of one of the two suborders of carnivora, the feliforma (meaning “cat-like”), to be somewhat... misleading. I mean, compared to caniforma at least. Let me demonstrate:

This is probably the most well-known offender - hyenas (a spotted hyena in this case). Looks like a dog, actually belongs to the feliforma. The aardwolf, which belongs to the same family, of course too.

Then this guy here. This looks kinda bear-ish, no? Like it belongs in the same group as the racoon or maybe the red panda. This, is a binturong, also called bearcat, and belongs to the feliforma as well. And if I’m not wrong, op’s upper right picture (the one with only the face) should be one of this guy’s closest relatives, the masked palm civet. Yes, this guy is in the same family as civets (Viverridae).

This one looks cute, right? Kinda like a squirrel. This is a Grandidier's mongoose. It’s a native of Madagascar and (according to BBC’s Island of Marvels at least), it seems quite sociable and playful. But this is no rodent, no, this is another member of the feliforma.

Then this foxy looking one, an eastern falanouc. It too lives on Madagascar and mostly hunts invertebrates like worms, slugs and snails. And guess what? FELIFORMA. Actually, EVERY native carnivora on madagascar belongs to the feliforma! Including the upper left picture of op, which seems to be a young Fossa, aka the biggest native mammalian carnivore on the island.

And lastly (for now at least), this guy. The common kusimanse, native to forests in west africa. To me, it kinda looks like a short weasel with a coati’s head. They are actually pretty easy to tame (they are exported as pets, wouldn’t recommend one tho, they need a lot of space, will try to eat anything remotely edible-looking and they don’t mix well with other pets). This is a kind of dwarf mongoose, so again, feliforma!

In conclusion, feliforma outside true felines (y’know, cats) can look like anything but a cat. 

[ask-hothead-the-mare-deactivate]

[askthertrio]

Pokemon

[mr-3rr0r]

Sonic

[inactive-ironic-ken]

Undertale

[discopanda81116-deactivated2023]

Deltarune

[silverderp098]

Earthbound

[fizzberry-doodles-deactivated20]

Plague inc.

[fizzypopsoda-comics]

Cuphead Don’t Deal With The Devil

[pupangelremade-deactivated20211]

SUPER MARIO BROTHERS 

[guiltiest-gear]

Yakuza 0

[im-a-dragon-cawcaw]

Rocket League

[dressingasolinemoved-deactivate]

Hotline Miami

[lesbianpwnieswithweapons]

super hot

[thechapel-deactivated20240706]

Danganronpa

[dykebluejay]

super smash bros

[skeletonmaster69]

elsword

[crimsondewdrops]

hollow knight :)

[sleeplessvalley]

creature in the well

[cylaranth-deactivated20220217]

Splatoon

[snuffydoo]

A Hat in time

[clairetimes]

Kirby

[notkirbynut-deactivated20210326]

No Straight Roads

[drsatyr]

Portal 2

[memory-lane-42-deactivated20211]

The Stanley Parable

[singing-bones]

hades

[orphan-4cc0unt-deactivated20260]

Tetris

[amicaniiya]

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i’ve been informed of something truly bizarre and i want it to be a hoax but i’m afraid it isn’t

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so apparently Switzerland woke up this morning to find sand from the Sahara Desert coloring the skies, due to a weather phenomenon that just sometimes happens. i very much want this to be a social media hoax, but there are multiple videos of sand covering Swiss ski slopes so who the fuck knows. i’m going back to bed until you people sort out your shit 

[julielal]

It’s true, the sand is also across the border in France, it’s in the newspaper and everything

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

wow I knew it was in the sky but I can’t believe you’ve got sand in your newspapers too that’s so random

[amicaniiya]

person living in Zurich here, as much as that may look like an omen of the long overdue end of days, that isn’t rare actually (I’ve seen it several times in varying degrees over the years) - I usually find it more noticable when it’s cloudy, because it scatters the light in a way that gives everything that Yellow Filter look. 

The colour can also range as seen above, from being a pale yellow to rust red. At some times, it makes the world look like an old but treasured family photo... at others, it’s like the Guy upstairs took his Dog on a walk and we were its hydrant

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i need to raise $447 to get my license reinstated, so for every $10 i’ll be releasing yet another cursed image previously securely contained in my inbox of horrors

starting with the pic of the foot with tiny mouths

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

all right you deviants, as promised: 

next up: Mr. Peanut in a pink thong

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you utter aberrants! Have it:

Coming soon: choice of 🦷 on a 🌽, or 🦆🐍, take your pick

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you greedy little hussies

i tell ya what, next up yer getting photos of bad taxidermy from local museums. no this is not a negotiation 

[ims0up]

why do these exist

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

my license was revoked also i experience boredom and disdain so

[amicaniiya]

Gaud

you are a treasure

a horrifying one, but a treasure nonetheless

also where did you get these from, especially that teeth corn cob? looks incredible

[log4]

oh so you like math? Name every number

[gayhex]

(-♾️, ♾️)

[log4]

[amicaniiya]

that’s not every number! 

you only named real numbers all numbers would be ℂ

[gaymerexe]

Hey! You just caught a pokemon! What could it be??

Everyone who reblogs this will get a random pokemon based off their blog and url! I’ll also provide a detailed analysis of why you and the pokemon go together.

[amicaniiya]

Woa, nice background! You drew it ?

yesh

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I saw the future. There were so few bees left that they cross-bred beekeepers with them so they could better connect with them.

I was taking a test to identify plants (I won because some dude thought pineapples were berries) and after that I met a beekeeper who worked inside of a giant glass beehive and had little antennas and a dope ass beard.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Everyone was commenting on this post, saying that pineapples ARE berries, and even I was like, huh, that’s not right, so I looked it up, and

[jollygreengiantdick]

[luischocolatier]

Bananas, tomatoes, watermelons, coffee, cocoa, pomegranates and pumpkins are also berries.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

W-what????????’

[captainlordauditor]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN POMEGRANATES ARE BERRIES????

[anotherhawk]

You know what isn’t a berry? Strawberries. Fuck fruit scientists.

[amicaniiya]

-cracks nuckles- so listen here. botany is fucked up, especially when it comes to the categorization of fruits. (No garantee tho, I’m no botanist)

Since fruits are defined as the seed-bearing structure of a plant that’s formed out of the ovary, tomatoes, nuts, cucumbers, avocados, bean pods, peppers and wheat grains all count as fruits. Not just the sweet’n’tasty ones.

They can be categorized into several groups, depending on how the seeds are distributed, the structure of the “flesh”, also called pericarp, and other criteria. Simplified, it basically goes like this:

Berries are fruits where the entire pericarp is soft and often juicy. Ex. avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, bananas, eggplants, citrus fruits and grapes

Nuts are fruits where the pericarp is completely hardened, here, the seed is usually what’s edible. Ex. peanuts, hazelnuts, acorns and walnuts

Drupes have the inner layer of the pericarp hardened, while the outer layers are soft. Either the seed or the soft part of the pericarp can be edible. Ex. cherries, mangos, coconuts, olives, almonds, peaches and coffee cherries

Legumes have their seeds encased in a pod that (usually) opens to spread them. Ex. peas, beans and poppies

Caryopsis are basically all grains, their thin pericarp is fused with the seed coat. Ex. wheat, rice, and corn

In accessory fruits, the “fruit” isn’t made up of the ovary like in real fruits, but some other tissue. Ex. strawberries, cashews and figs

There also the difference between singular, aggregate and collective fruits. Simply speaking, aggregate fruits come from one flower with multiple ovaries that fuse together (Ex. Raspberry) and collective fruits come from several separate flowers fused together as fruits (Ex. Mulberry)

Many fruits don’t fit into these categories neatly. So could peanuts be classified as legumes, but are also nuts. Strawberries, despite their same, aren’t berries, but the seeds on their surface count as nuts (and since the flower has multiple ovaries, it’d be a aggregate fruit). The “fruit” of the cashew is merely accessory, but the cashew itself possesses a soft outer layer, technically making it a drupe. And as mentioned before, pineapples would be a collective berry.

So yeah, nature’s weird thank you for listening to my TEDtalk Hope it made more or less sense and I didn’t get too much wrong

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Space Is Not That Cool When The Ocean Is Already Full of Weird Shit

[feniczoroark]

Does the Ocean have GIANT SPINNING BALLS THAT EMITE RADIATION?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no, but it has this thing!

[raymondcest]

Don’t forget about this other thing!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and these things!

[frogtrenchcoat]

i really like this thing!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I love the holographic special editions!

[luidilovins]

Come down the trenches! We have

Plastic bags

Old Man McGregor

Sea Swine

Underwater Lipstick

This Geek

Sheepshead Fish because Peopletoothed Fish was taken

A dick

Seizure machines

Seamus who I met at a Rave in downtown Seattle once.

Cosmic Brain if nothing was going on in there

And Much Much More

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what the fuck

[schweetheart]

I would like to politely ask the ocean to STOP

[nudityandnerdery]

Space is cool because it’ll get you further away from the terrors in the ocean.

[amicaniiya]

I mean, the shallower waters are already weird enough with species like the crab-legged gurnard or the living kindergarden drawing that is the red-lipped batfish but lack of sunlight in the deep sea seems to have nature go completely bonkers. 

most species are either white or transparent, making them look like ghosts that just suddenly shoot towards you. For the same reason do those creatures usually have either no or humongous eyes. 

then there’s this one fish with bright red headlights it uses to hunt since most fish down there are completely blind towards reds (red is filtered out the quickest in water, so most deep sea fish don’t even have the ability to see it - imagine someone being able to see UV light and using a UV lamp to spot others in the dark)

and despite the lack of sunlight, there’s actually a huge light show going on down there. many species have developed bioluminescence, which can be a stunning sight (if you can ignore the often terrifying looks)

about mister “Cosmic Brain” up there... those green orbs aren’t its brain tho - that creature’s a barreleye or spook fish and those are it’s titular eyes. as the name implies, they’re cylindric like barrels, pointing upwards, covered by their transparent head. it spots food floating above and when it found something tasty, that whole part turns forward so it actually sees on what it’s munching and those thing in the front you thought were its eyes? those are its nostrils

and don’t even get me started on the whale graves...

Space is cool and mysterious and all, but it’ll never top the sheer strangeness and creativity of evolution. and the sea is the very cradle of life after all

(but then again, there’s that shit with burning ice planets and planets with diamonds raining down, neutron stars maybe having single quarks in their core or the interior of black holes - but that’s are different kind of weirdness, still interesting, just different)

[ask-kiri-ocs]

-anoncat again appears- I like the new place ;3 (*cough* 4th wall break *cough*)

Imma just use this ask, cuz it looks cool ( hope yah done mind the outfit change)

For those who are new this is ANONCAT, an oc me and @amicaniiya own. Yeh Anon boi has two creators

[amicaniiya]

it was really just a joke... I’m not even really part of the hazbin hotel fandom and I already share custody over an OC...

I love how our boi turned out tho. such a snarky lil shi- *muffled speaking- Anoncat: *appears and quickly covers my mouth* language

[kirieybean]

-anoncat poofs into existance above ace- hewwo :3

ELLO BUD (srry for the super late reply)

Btw if yah, see this, can you reblog it so i can get ur username

Im makin anon cat’s refsheet and i wanna credit u on it

[amicaniiya]

owo

Can’t wait for it our baby~ xD