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by Donna McL

Cherry blossoms in Aomori, Japan, by 1min.traveller

If want to thrive in this world, you must remove yourself from the presence of those who subtly show you that they don’t like you, don’t support you, or are envious of you, and place yourself in the presence of those who love and adore you. Sometimes the hardest thing in the world to do is to get honest with the self by seeing people for who they really truly are. Environment matters and relationships shape wellbeing. You become more open, creative, sensuous, rooted, rested, and confident when you spend time around those who are warm, respectful, and encouraging. This is very basic math. -India Ame'ye, Author, What Does Your Social Ecology Look and Feel Like

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“bits to use in everyday conversations”

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

wish lion's mane jellyfish would stop doing that

coastalqueerlive

doing what?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i was going to say doing THAT

but apparently this photo is fake which is an enormous burst of relief to my already fragile, suddering psyche.

sadly though THIS photo of a barrel jellfish is real

don’t like that

getgoodloser

Yeah sure that photo is fake, but what ISN'T fake is the fact that the largest lion's mane jellyfish found was about 36 meters long. The average blue whale is about 25 meters long btw.

getgoodloser

Here if you'd like to see it:

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

we DO NOT TALK ABOUT TENTACLE LENGTH that is VERBOTEN

wolfy8tyu

damn, the girth on those tendrils tho

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT TENTACLE GIRTH

snowthesprite

Idk what the fuck yall talken about but I see jellyfish and by god do I love dem on bread.

Some of my favorite jellyfish (sorry if I go on a tanget and vear off jellyfish)

are the Stygiomedusa gigantea, which I believe is also called the blanket jellyfish, but like dude look up a video of it moving it is chilling and fantastic! This thing is 10 meters long, so not the largest here, but ohohoho look at my love

It is a deep sea jellyfish and is one of the largest invertebrate predators known. However, according to Cambridge, it has been consistently recorded in the twilight and sunlight depth zones down south so do with that what you will :)

If we want to keep going down the large and length category of ocean creatures, allow me to introduce the current longest recorded ocean animal. A deep sea siphonophore that clocks in at around 46 meters; my beautiful death halo

Technically siphonophores are hundreds upon hundreds of tinier organisms that grouped together to make a bigger one, but for all intents and purposes, this is one animal. Some of them are incredibly beautiful!

However there is also ones not so pretty, main one was something I saw a month or so ago and it looked like someone had fused like a dozen human limbs together and they were flailing to move and jesus christ yall can go mentally scar yourselves.

Man I can’t find a good picture but Deepsea Oddities has a really good video on them (and on other ocean related things… mostly deep sea)

jenn-the-mostly-harmless

Oh hey, I drew a siphonophore mermaid awhile back, or as I like to call her (them?) a siphonosiren.

goth-queen

daweyt

Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

shisasan

When these traits enhance rather than detract, they infuse creativity and empower uniqueness, stimulating intellect and cultivating personal growth, leading to a deeper understanding of the world around us.

longhairvixen

maureen2musings

Southeastern Colorado

jonahlange_

dragon-in-a-fez

obliterate the concept of "spoiling" a child. excise it from your lexicon like a cancer. that is some "the opposite of sin is suffering" Puritan ass bullshit. it is not possible to ruin a person through an overabundance of kindness.