there is a....fungus

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Flightless rail, Inaccessible Island, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean, 1954

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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse (2023), based on Aesop’s fable

A town mouse visits a country mouse and is underwhelmed by the humble food offerings of wheat and barley available in the country. They invite the country mouse to eat in town where the food is luxurious, but guarded by humans and dogs. In the end, the country mouse decides they prefer their basic but safe life in the country.

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[baldingfemale]

In my early-twenties I was addicted to photoshopping my nudes into Hieronymus Bosch paintings, though there came a point when the cohesiveness of the end products began to offend me

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Mike Smith, U.K.

'Wild Flower Meadow, Upper Wharfedale'.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

modern medieval fantasies don't have enough weasel-based necromancy

[maniculum]

Please elaborate on this topic at length

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i think i've made my position clear

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

anyway here are some medieval discussions of weasels and their necromantic abilities:

gerald of wales: The weasel also, when its young are dying from any hurt, recovers and restores them to life by the use of a yellow flower. We are told by persons who have witnessed the fact, having put the whelp to death to make the experiment, that the weasel brought the flower in its mouth, and first applied it to the wound, and then to the mouth, nostrils, and other orifices of the little animal, that it might inhale the odor, by which, through the efficacious touch of the plant, breath was restored, though life seemed extinct, some slight and imperceptible vestiges of it only having remained.

aberdeen bestiary: it is said, also, that they are skilled in healing, so that if by chance their young are killed, and their parents succeed in finding them, they can bring their offspring back to life.

thomas of cantimpré: Accordingly they are said to be expert in all the arts of medicine, so that, if they find their offspring dead, they make them naturally recuperate by means of a herb

also in marie de france's lai eliduc, guildeluec uses a flower she got from a weasel that was resurrecting its weasel friend to resurrect guilliadon

conclusion:

behold, a necromancer

[more about medieval weasel beliefs]

[toskarin]

me: and then you warm the glass a little with your hand so it doesn't foam too much

my alien: just like the ufo

me: [tensely] not everything is like the ufo

[mymotorcyclediaries]

Sanyu - Deer/Fawn circa 1930

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[furbearingbrick]

when there’s leaves and flower buds at the function

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mogging ❌ blogging ☑️

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[heyyoufriendthere]

This new fish species is called Snuffleupagus. You can probably guess why | CBC Radio

S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bear

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

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Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleufagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleufagus !

[natureisthegreatestartist]

Are these leaves or something else? Is you said "something else," you're right! They are sea slugs called Elysia chlorotica, which use sunlight and CO2 , much like plants.

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Faroe Islands, 2010

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Faroe Islands, 2010

[dickstolebyanalien]

im gonna eat a donut within this very week if i apply myself to manifestation fully