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[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[sarahmackattack]

Hell yeah

[sailatina3]

[vash-the-trans-catboy]

Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature

[oganneb]

Emil is my "yup this is real wool" detector. It's only real wool that he goes this nuts over

[unicornery]

[x-creature-feature-x]

when i was 10 same sex marriage was legalised in england and wales. that summer i went to so many weddings. there were weeks i went to a wedding every single day, some days we had to choose which wedding to go to. i loved it cuz i got to dress up and hang out w a bunch of happy ppl and eat food and dance. when i see that quote abt how gay ppl during the aids crisis had to choose between funerals it reminds me of that summer. of how far weve come and how far we still have to go. hiv is now controllable with a pill once a day. only 6 ppl have ever been cured of aids. the uk wasnt hit nearly as hard by hiv/aids as other countries like it, partly cuz of a massive public information campaign. 20,000 ppl still died. i went to so many 10 year anniversary parties last year.

[wasnotyourlover-deactivated2025]

happy gay month people i love you all

[buam]

I finally watched Project Hail Mary, it’s really good! Eva reminds me a lot of Marco (Animorphs), which definitely biased me towards her.

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Cotton-top tamarins always seem to be really interested in my masks, even at different facilities. I’m sure it’s because most places have keepers masking around primates still and not because I’m a marmoset magnet. Regardless it’s absolutely delightful to have an entire troupe congregate directly in front of your face and examine you studiously.

It leads to some wonderful portraits, too.

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[draconym]

The eye doctor is the most fun doctor you can go to. They never steal your blood. They never make you get naked and put on a paper dress. They're just like, "Can you see these letters? It's fine if you can't, we can fix that." And they don't even spell anything.

[draconym]

[orcboxer]

Every time I go they put me in a chair and they say look into this machine there's a hot air balloon or a farmhouse in there and I do and I'm like you're right I see it and they're like yeah keep admiring that hot air balloon or farmhouse and I do and I'm like this shit's quaint as fuck and then do you know what happens next they attack me they jumpscare me with air directly into my eyeballs and i fall out the chair and they say sorryyyy but they're NOT they wanted this to happen they KNEW about the jumpscare well now I'm wise to it now I know better when I go in and they say look at this bodacious hot air balloon I'm like NO WAY DUDE that balloon wishes me harm have at thee and I attack them and push them on the ground and spit on them

[buam]

I don’t recognize most of the characters in the French tumblr sexy man contest so I asked my mom and aunt to explain French culture to me but now I have to explain tumblr culture to them

[blue-nebraska]

A FRIEND OF SPRINGSTEEN — 8.5 x 11 x 1.5" cyanotype printed & embroidered fabric book

When you were looking for a voice to meld with yours, to guide your steps and tell your story, whose did you choose? Your blueprint of the self has been pieced together with scraps—innuendos in old books on library shelves, lyrics in the liner notes of CD's, a PDF of Stone Butch Blues, xerox-copied until the letters are blurred and shaky. You taught yourself to knot a tie, give yourself a haircut in the bathroom mirror, roll up the sleeves of your t-shirt for cigarettes you won't smoke. Listen—there's something you can hold onto, in that voice on the radio, reaching out to show you a door, a road… a world remade through desperate, romantic dreams.

[infestuous]

Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube

[chekhovs-raygun]

I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!

it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

Babe we NEED pics of your rubber cuck collection

so actually ☝what i collect is DUCKS

[snapcracklepop-myjoints]

If my previous ask said fucks instead of ducks I'm really sorry I'm high as balls on edibles and sleep deprivation

worse <3

[rijinks]

There’s a strange new bard in the forest.

[votez Gaston]

[buam]

y’all

we were discussing fun scientific terms during a meeting and I brought up Throckmorton because of that “my cousin Throckmorton” tumblr post and said I didn’t remember what it means but thought it was a bone or a muscle

me and a coworker looked it up and it is NOT a bone or a muscle