I WAS IN THE MIDDLE GROUND

LOOKING TO FIND THE FOUNTAIN OF INFINITE MIRROR // hey! I’m haunt/andie, they/them only please! // sideblog for cryptidcore, dark science, bugs, and other stuff I like // dni if nsfw/pro-ana/etc // content may cover forensics but gore is limited and tagged

[spooniestrong]

[fishtish]

[id: an image of dr. mario on a black background next to white text that reads, “Requiring doctors notes to excuse absences due to illness is inherently classist in a country without universal healthcare”. / end id]

[metfell]

Only good thing about Christmas time is I get to hear carol of the bells all the time but the bad part is I have to act normal like that song doesn’t go hard as fuck

[metfell]

Every other Christmas song is like la la la I love you christmassss or oh jesussss I love youuu meanwhile carol of the bells is like fire shooting out of a flaming skull but it’s like in a snow globe it’s like a fucking boss track

[bumblebeerror]

I highly recommend listening to an orchestra play carol of the bells. Shit goes UNFAIRLY hard

[theunfairfolk]

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

[chassdraws]

Daddy Electric and Mother Nature sounds like a cute 70s act

[cube-cumb3r]

what if miku was transmasc

[cube-cumb3r]

what if he wore a thomas jefferson binder. what then.

[lyrae-art]

Saw this post while half asleep n i dreamt of this

[70s-pop-80s]

Artist: Manuel Sanjulian

[thatsbelievable]

[belindasays]

i love you sober friendly spaces i love you restaurants w mocktails on the menu i love you social events not hosted at bars i love you bringing non-alcoholic drinks to parties i love you shamelessly being sober so people know it’s accepted i love you not making fun of ppl who don’t drink i love you still inviting people who don’t drink to social events where ppl are drinking if u know they’re comfortable w it i love you normalizing not drinking

[boghome]

Theodore Kittelsen

[sesamie-moving]

sundays are so fucked it's like i'm still a kid i'm basically grown i should cut all my hair off i should compose a clarinet duet i should go through all my belongings and give away everything that doesn't matter to me i should write in my books with green pen i should burn some CDs and throw my phone in a lake i should perform my own surgery i should sleep for thirty-four hours i should kiss someone i should ask the clouds to rain i should sharpen all my pencils down to a stub i should make something i should destroy something i should change my whole life i should end it all forever. and then they expect you to do rhetorical analysis

[reasonandempathy]

Crows Perform Yet Another Skill Once Thought Distinctively Human

Scientists demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion—a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what numbers are. Researchers now report that these clever birds are able to understand recursion—the process of embedding structures in other, similar structures—which was long thought to be a uniquely human ability.

Recursion is a key feature of language. It enables us to build elaborate sentences from simple ones. Take the sentence “The mouse the cat chased ran.” Here the clause “the cat chased” is enclosed within the clause “the mouse ran.” For decades, psychologists thought that recursion was a trait of humans alone. Some considered it the key feature that set human language apart from other forms of communication between animals. But questions about that assumption persisted. “There’s always been interest in whether or not nonhuman animals can also grasp recursive sequences,” says Diana Liao, a postdoctoral researcher at the lab of Andreas Nieder, a professor of animal physiology at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Super Smart Bird Brains

[perkwunos]

It is an important finding that the animals with highest intelligence have evolved in rather distinct branches of the phylogenetic tree, not only in mammal genera like primates and cetaceans, but also different branches of avians like parrots and corvids. ... Convergent evolution excludes assumptions that reasoning abilities should be specifically connected to very particular brain architectures and rather points to the fact that intelligence as such possesses structures which may be described, to some degree, independently of their neural instantiation.

Frederik Stjernfelt, Natural Propositions

[headspace-hotel]

The natural world is more interconnected than you can possibly imagine and learning about it just gives you an endless cascade of realizations about symbiotic relationships that permeate every level of the ecosystem

I've been learning about fallen leaves. Many of you may know that fallen leaves are used by many moth and butterfly species to hibernate through the winter. This, my friends, is only the very beginning of the leaf layer's importance.

The layer of fallen leaves that covers the ground in winter has the following functions (and more):

Keeping the soil temperature more consistent

Insulating the earliest spring flowers to stop them from freezing

Protecting plants late in the year from being killed by early frosts

Sheltering 94% of moth species during their winter hibernation as well as many butterflies and other insects

Fertilizing and enriching the soil. The nutrients in fallen leaves are the main source of soil nutrients in habitats worldwide. Streams and rivers in forests carry the nutrients of leaves far and wide.

Providing habitat for predators like salamanders and spiders.

Suppressing weed growth.

Improving the germination of tree seeds (e.g. acorns)

Attracting beneficial microbes

Increasing the water holding capacity of the soil

Providing a food source for birds to feed their babies on in the spring (insects)

What's more, the fallen leaves of every species of tree have different properties that affect their effects on the ecosystem, including: size, shape, toughness, and speed of decomposition. The leaves of broadleaf deciduous trees are optimized to support and fertilize the deciduous forest environment.

[olowan-waphiya]

Mitakuye Oyasin. We are all related. All my relations.

[paper-swirls]

Froggie Wizard Council

[triplendejamain]

@lighting-diyas @lesbiansayaishii

[kamil-a]

I NEED A SICKO… im holding out for a sicko till the end of the night ..and hes gotta haha and hes gotta say yess at the window with a look of delight

[escuerzoresucitado]

*wakes you up because it needs to go outside and pee*

[penseesduncookie]

fav show

[holyantenna]

[cryptotheism]

It is our duty to spiritualize the periodic table

[pantestudines]

Carbon, the bridge, that which can be anything, the bond maker, the peace bringer, it of substance and warmth and strength and body

Oxygen, the destroyer, it who breaks and it who breaks and it who burns, the spark of the entropy that is life

Hydrogen, the pure, the begining, it who made all else, the one point kept, the capper of carbons ends, the ignition of oxygens fire

[cryptotheism]

You. You get me.