Aromantic Romantic

[megairea]

Li Shangyin, from When Will I be Home? (tr. by Kenneth Rexroth)

[anasabdin]

I couldn't [ 10 colors ]

[aroloverboy]

Have a little nothing

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Saw a marmot while volunteering on a tundra restoration project recently!

Nice! Just in time for Fat Marmot Week!

[rosieandthemoon]

Erzi Tower Complex {info}

[iamwizzzzz]

[rozeymindedfuzz]

Armor of Horned Owl by Ryosuke Shiomi

[headspace-hotel]

Youtube advertises me pesticide, the notion of going back to school for a nursing degree, and a special razor for my pubic hair.

WHY

[headspace-hotel]

I am the most pro-bug, pro-bush person you will ever find and I have medical trauma

[sarah-maclean-completist]

🧵

[baebeylik]

Woman and Water Buffalo Rhyton. Iran or Afghanistan, 500-700 CE.

The Cleveland Museum of Art.

[tridentandtales]

Greek terracotta relief plaque with Scylla

ca. 450 BCE

British Museum 1867,0508.673

[razziliciousart]

Everyone line up for your mandatory vibe check

[fuckyeahbats]

sound on

[sailermoon]

I’m actually always thinking of that “maybe I won’t die cause I’m special” tweet

[sailermoon]

[crabussy]

Why do kiwis have such massive fucking eggs “it’s because they are related to ostriches and-“ yeah ok but like why didn’t they evolve smaller eggs if I was in charge I would do that shit pronto. Thoughts?

their big eggs are actually that size for a similar reason to human babies having massive heads!! being bigger at birth can be important.

kiwi are trying SO HARD to become mammals. fur-like feathers, whisker-like feathers, little beady eyes, nocturnal, great sense of smell.... that's basically a mammal!! they're well suited for life on the forest floor.

their big eggs work alongside these adaptations to give them a leg up in the bird world. their young hatch already feathered! they're precocial, which means they're born with the ability to open their eyes and move around. like foals.

big egg = more powerful offspring from the get-go. babies don't need to spend precious time vulnerable while they develop on the ground when they've already done all that in the egg!

(unfortunately, with the introduction of mammals to aotearoa, these adaptations are a little less useful...)

[nothingimportantanywhere]

Important addition: baby kiwi come out of the egg looking like they've come out of a shower with a hangover

[assortedinsanities]

They look like one of the downsides of emerging from an egg fully formed is how aware you are off just having come out on egg. First minute alive, already dealing with some fucking experience.

[fravery]

Afternoon Ritual Sweet Moroccan Mint Tea. Elena Wuest.

[dateamonster]

secret organizations for studying paranormal phenomena are always calling the creatures they find like "specimen 58008" or some fake latin taxonomy or something vague and ominous like "the red angel" or whatever and thats all well and good but i want a story about a bunch of cryptozoologists going around naming things the way people name like actual birds and lizards and shit.

i want to get lost in the woods and meet the ring-tailed tree creeper and roger's false elk. i want a character who is desperate to prove this monster is actually a distinct species from that very similar looking monster so they can name it after themself. i want two field researchers narrowly escaping an encounter with some ten foot tall thing made of carnivorous vines and one of them is like wow wait til the guys back at the lab hear we got that close to a lesser thorn-backed bone eater 🙂 and the other scientist is like.,...... 😰lesser?

[deadmegumi]

Theon greyjoy unanimously voted most dismemberable twink in westeros 28 years and counting

[lamine-19]

scientific fact