Monterey Bay Aquarium

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roma★
occasionally subtle
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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we're not kids anymore.
Claire Keane
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Jules of Nature
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

Origami Around
hello vonnie
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@basicallyinsanelyboring
If you’re having a bad day, just remember that someone somewhere is seeing Safety Tips From Anubis for the very first time.
That person is me
as an egyptologist, this fake egyptian bothered me so much. so i fixed it.
basic pronunciation followed by egyptological transcription in parentheses and translation in quotation marks.
frame 1: inek inpu (i̓nk i̓npw), “I am Anubis”
frame 2, poison: em wenem (m wnm), “do not eat”
frame 3, smoke detector: pa-yee pu em khenem khety (pꜣy pw m ḫnm ḥty), “this is for smelling smoke”
frame 4: ah-sh pa-yee tchen yot khena ta-yee tchen mawt (ꜥš pꜣy.ṯn i̓t ḥnꜥ tꜣy.ṯn mwt), “call your father and your mother”
frame 5: ankh wedja seneb (ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb), “live, prosper, and be healthy” ← like egyptian “farewell”
Names and meanings of all the flowers on this art
Chinese bell flowers
Meaning: Unwavering love, honesty, elegance. Strongly associated with Seimei because its petals resembles a pentagram. Sensei often draw them with Haru and Seimei.
Blue orchid
Meaning: Love and respect. Happiness is flying in (orchids in gral)
Blue flowers are very rare and are considered extraordinary in themselves, so they are often associated with miracles. Blue orchids specifically dont exist in nature, so to make them people just dyed white orchids with blue pigments. In 2022 tho a japanese company achieved the blue gene and produced the first natural blue orchid (which looks more purple tbh) The meaning of the blue gene orchid is marketed as “miraculous encounter”
Queen of the night
Meaning: Gorgeous beauty, ephymeral beauty, ephymeral love and "longing to see you just once".
They are flowers that bloom and wither in a single night. Very beautiful. Mayfly december mikiharu trope if you squint
Nerine (diamond lily)
Meaning: Brilliance, patience, beautiful, sheltered daughter and "until we meet again"
Takahar— [gunshots] Akira's bouquet also has these small yellow flowers that I can't distinguish.
Osmanthus
Meaning: Modesty, honesty, noble person and first love.
It is an autumn flower that blooms since early October (Renren's birthday is on October 2) to late november.
Delphinium
Meaning: Clear and bright!!! Generosity (in gral)
Nobility (purple) I will make you happy (blue) Whim, a free spirited life (pink)
Delphiniums bloom during Seimei (清明), one of the 24 solar terms that divide the year according to the sun's position. Each year has four seasons, and each season is further divided into three chuu and three setsu, each lasting about two weeks.
The meaning “bright and clear” comes from this.
Zinnias
Meaning: Eternal love, everlasting heart, i mourn your absence and thinking of a friend far away.
I couldn't find anything specifically about green zinnias, but all of their meanings are related in one way or another to endurance or the passage of time because they are flowers that bloom for around six months with new flowers alongside mature ones. Another name for zinnias is Youth and Old Age for this very reason.
They are also flowers that represent the summer (Suzaku) because they are very resistant to heat.
Roses
I'm not going to put the meaning because we all know what red roses symbolize lol but Hatanaka looks so cute here, and roses are also related to Ibara. The blue ribbon around the bouquet probably represents her. Qué viva el amorr!
redraw of one of my favourite panels
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rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3
we are in the midst of a true Real One
Dude the fact a COELACANTH blog is the one that survived when the rest died off……..
everybody here's my tiny crochet coelacanth <3
And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?
Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu
Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF
They didn't really get it.
What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?
i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was
you left out the best part of that article. the poor yahoo emplyees at those meetings were just as confused as the rest of us.
Everyone is right to dunk on Yahoo and "tumblr is the new PDF" because yeah, everything about that era was stupid.
But the PDF thing kinda makes sense. Bear with me.
But first, some context.
See, in the 1990s before PDF files there was almost no way to generate a document on a Mac and read it on a PC. Or vice versa. Businesses struggled with how to email important documents around and guarantee they looked the same on the other end, regardless of what computer & software the recipient had.
Adobe changed all that with PDF.
Since Acrobat Reader was available (and free!) for Windows & Mac, suddenly the problem went away. Everyone knew how to read a PDF. Adobe became a universally recognized brand overnight even if you'd never heard of Photoshop, because everyone had goddamn Adobe Reader installed.
Because of that, every tech company yearned to be just like Adobe: invent something universally desired, used by billions of people.
Fast forward to a Yahoo/tumblr meeting sometime in 2013/2014.
Tumblr development staff demonstrates how the back end of tumblr works, which (honestly) is revolutionary as compared with how any other social media site worked at the time. Each tumblr post is composed of blocks of data, any one of which can be text, sound, an image, a movie... anything. These blocks of data are threaded together into what looks to the user like one cohesive message (a single tumblr post) but under the hood it's magic.
Further, the mechanism for doing this can be standardized. In other words: tumblr could, if they wanted, publish the standard as a way for ANY social media site to manage its data.
If other sites did that, then they could trade messages with tumblr! Imagine posting a message on tumblr and reading it on Instagram. Or see twitter messages natively on your tumblr feed. I mean personally, that's a horror show. But the concept is interesting.
(In fact, that's how Mastodon and the Fediverse work in 2025. Each Mastodon post is a standard chunk of data that any website can read & display, assuming it understands the underlying ActivityPub protocol and plays by its rules.)
So the Yahoo executives attend this technology demonstration and one of them quite visibly has a light bulb wink into existence over their head. The light bulb is an old school incandescent, 300 watts at least, and glows furiously bright.
The Yahoo exec stands up. His chair knocks backwards.
"OH MY GOD," he stammers. "This tumblr thing could revolutionize social media. It'd be like the new PDF!"
Then blood shoots out of his nostrils and his head explodes, but all anyone ever remembers from that meeting is "PDF".
@sreegs or @cyle or @jv can probably explain it better, but that's what I remember hearing at the time. Please feel free to correct me.
the details here aren't correct, but as i've said many times, yeah, the PDF thing was in direct response to the Neue Post Format, which is how post and reply content is stored on tumblr. it's not as dumb as it sounds. (without that context, it does sound dumb.)
Can't believe over a decade later we're finally getting an explanation for the PDF thing.
masculine energy this feminine energy that. well i’m out of energy
need me some of this "renewable energy" I keep hearing about
Woman murders man in broad daylight
beautiful like to reblog ratio on this
That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao
based off this tweet lol
And that tweet is this (because fuck having to go to Twitter):
awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
that’s not the whole flag, now is it
hey staff what the fuck
hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose
HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE
Ostania's normalest family
The next day, at a hastily thrown together birthday party at the Forger residence:
Researchers have identified a new type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae that challenges a century of knowledge about vertebrate visual
Researchers have identified a new type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae that challenges a century of knowledge about vertebrate visual systems. Dr. Fabio Cortesi from The University of Queensland's School of the Environment said the finding could lead to new camera technology and medical treatments. "For more than 150 years, textbooks have taught that vision in most vertebrates is made of cones and rods—cones which work in bright light and rods for dark situations," Dr. Cortesi said. "But our study of deep-sea fish larvae revealed a new cell type—a photoreceptor that optimizes vision in gloomy or twilight conditions.
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Not superstitious and not not superstitious but a third secret thing (read a lot of fairytales as a child and doesn't believe them but also would never be rude to a mountain while still on it just in case)
I've said it before but this is both the Icelandic and the Irish approach:
Of course we're modern educated people who don't believe in fairies
But we're also not gonna fuck with 'em, we're not idiots
🔥 A giant curious moose inspecting a wildlife photographer 🔥
Never forget: Moose are legit Ice Age megafauna that never died out.
He just….just….pet the wild moose…the bravery, the hutzpah
The forbidden snoot!
If I could pet a moose
I would be very happy
Normally I would say you shouldn’t pet a wild animal, but the moose is already right there. If you’re that close to a moose’s snout you might as well pet it. If the moose wants to kill you, you’re going to die, so you might as well.
@paran0rmaltexas
A giant moose, OP says when that is just a normal size moose
you guys make such pretty gifs with such pretty captions and coloring like even when i dont go to a fandom i'll see gifs and be like wow that person is cool and that is still true after over a decade on this site. i think gifs are cool and that is why i'm stranded here forever. i love u gifs and gifmakers