Soup Queen, the Queen of Soup

Hello, I hope you're having a good day. :) My name is Tessa (she/they), I'm 30 (!) and I recently graduated with a data analytics degree that took me way too long to get. I also volunteer for a couple lgbt community organizations in my area. Talk to me about sustainable diy, land stewardship, green building, solarpunk, DIY art, etc.

[lukewarmtomatosoup]

gar field? that’s not where they’re supposed to be

[encryptidarchivist]

ah,,, but they are such gentle beasts,,,

[lukewarmtomatosoup]

oh wow… how serene…

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

you come onto my post and be funnier than me

[weaselle]

skillet issue

[crippled-peeper]

fungus!

[calebwittebane]

are we serious

[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.

[buraitusan]

Holy fuck this is AMAZING

[lostinhistory]

Wake up babe, new octopus just dropped

He's such a little guy!

[lackofhonor]

@imalovernotahater @plexflexico He is so perfect🤩

[plexflexico]

😍 Perfect!

[xmaveria]

HYPED HYPED THERE'S A SOUTH AMERICAN ANIME IN THE WORKS MADE AND FOR SOUTH AMERICANS Its so rare to see southam animation let alone one that has mythos!!!!!!! HYPED It looks like it is made from a studio based in Peru name Ninakami. The anime takes a lot of inspiration from the indigenous Quechua influences and other Andean and regional cultures. It even uses the indigenous language in its tittle! 🔥"APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN- El Regreso de los Dioses/ Return of the Gods "🔥

You can watch the trailer here!

APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN - El Regreso de los Dioses - PV

Las leyendas del pasado regresan a Sudamérica. De las ruinas, criaturas se levantan a reclamar lo que fue suyo. El peligro, el misterio y la

[onion-souls]

Sorry, Millennials, but recent paleontologist findings and hyolaryngeal apparatus reconstructions no longer support the hypothesis that "rawr" means "I love you" in dinosaur.

[onion-souls]

I made you a bibliography but I eated it :(

[twistedfour]

fuck. just tried to start a small fire without any runes and i couldn’t fucking do it. the wizard academy would revoke my tome if they found out i was this inept. fuck fuck fuck fuck

[pmamtraveller]

Sunset Pendant Lamp

[selkiewizard]

take everything I say with a hint of garlic, ginger, spring onions and a dash of soy sauce

[gorbling]

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

[gorbling]

[hapalopus]

[hapalopus]

More from the notes:

[vexwerewolf]

I love this post

[karifaevt]

The horse thinks as it scratches an itch

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

reblog to bonk the person you reblogged it from with a hollow cardboard tube

[aberrantceramics]

Greenflax the Tardigrade ceramic sculpture

That glow when you know you can potentially survive a vacuum

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

the nyc club girlies are informing me that they are really into a new designer drug that makes you unable to feel cold or warmth. no drink can satisfy your thirst. food turns to ashes in your mouth. all the pleasurable company in the world cannot slake your lust. and it only ends when the 882 pieces of stolen Aztec gold are returned to their resting place, and the blood-debt is repaid.

so watch out for that.

[mbari-blog]

Why are so many deep-sea animals red?⁠❤️

Red is the first wavelength of color to be lost as light decreases with depth, so red things essentially disappear in the deep pelagic zone. Animals that are red, like this Periphyllopsis jelly, appear black and remain camouflaged from their predators and prey. ⁠ ⁠ The only light in the midnight zone is the bioluminescence, or “living light,” produced by the animals that live there. Most bioluminescence is usually blue or green. Red skin absorbs these wavelengths of light, keeping this crimson jelly and its ruby-colored relatives hidden from any lurking predators searching for their next meal.

[alexanderwales]

It's absolutely crazy that intellectual labor can wipe you out. It seems like it shouldn't be a thing, like your stores of brain juice shouldn't be able to be depleted in that way.

I feel like a wizard that's out of spell slots, and to me that's a hackish mechanical limitation put in place to try to balance the classes.