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Kale/Neb, he/him✨a.k.a @NebulousKale, @tenebraltomes and @cephalosquiggles✨, adult, autistic system. All are welcome, just don't be mean.

[chaoticrodent]

Yoooooo, guess I should make one of these now that I'm becoming more active, these days! Coming outta my cage and I've been doing.... well, not fine hfjfjcfj

Hi! I'm Kal/Neb/KQ - an autistic, disabled, queer asf trans man that's part of a system. I'll answer to most names so long as I know they're "mine" (except Squid, I don't claim that one - you know who you are /aff).

Here's my LinkTree and my alts:

@cephalosquiggles (Chaos & Shit Posts)

@nebulouskale (UTMV Fandom Self-Insert Blog)

@tenebraltomes (18+ Writing Blog)

@kalcireblogs (Fandom Rebagels - read pinned!🙏)

I mostly post cute, pretty & uplifting things here, though. Thanks for reading & enjoy your stay!

[despazito]

thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

[despazito]

life will persist against all odds

[despazito]

For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.

This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.

At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:

[bogleech]

It’s sad when a species is so rare we know them all individually but at the same time I love that you can point at this one bird and say oh that’s Ruapuke, his mom sat on him too hard

[despazito]

thinking about that kakapo egg that got crushed but the conservation team patched it up and it survived

[despazito]

life will persist against all odds

[despazito]

For those who don’t follow kakapo conservation, they are critically endangered parrots who only breed on years where the rimu tree they rely on meet a certain threshold of fruit production. One breeding season in 4 years can be typical, and about half of all eggs laid by kakapo are infertile (they still aren’t completely certain why, it could be a recent population bottleneck) so each fertile egg is worth its weight in gold.

This was one of only 5 fertile eggs laid on the Whenua Hou island population in the 2014 breeding season and it got crushed by its mother on accident. It was mended with glue and tape and incubated by the rangers until hatching.

At 150 days old kakapo chicks are officially added to the population total and given a unique name, until then they are given their mother’s name and a number for birth order laid in the clutch. This chick was known as Lisa-one before officially being given the name Ruapuke by local indigenous Ngai Tahu people.Here he is grown up:

[bogleech]

It’s sad when a species is so rare we know them all individually but at the same time I love that you can point at this one bird and say oh that’s Ruapuke, his mom sat on him too hard

[tourdion]

say what you will about the reserve bank of india these are some cracking coins

[theradicalkanji]

[cuntubus]

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics

[hoziersgirlfiend]

this is crazy

[spacewonder19]

Baby Star HOPS-315: The Dawn of a New Solar System ©

[everythingfox]

“My big boy weighs 1 pound”

(Source)

[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

[soychronicprocrastinator]

He’s in the right for that this is so cool

[ruimtetijd]

FOR THE CURIOUS: the big eye points up to scan for predators, the smaller eye points down to search for bioluminescence from creatures in the abyss below

[bimstown]

[spadefish]

[taps mic] i like when fish have a big eyeball

[spadefish]

this is the most beautiful shape for an animal to be

[stitchposts]

[make-him-crochet]

[mindnagerie]

A Drop in the Bucket.

[alteredpanel]

thank you for making art with me

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focus energy

[littlestpersimmon]

cave angel fish