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❁Erin ❁ 28 ❁ She/They ❁

[todaysbird]

this rose-breasted grosbeak was banded by powdermill bird banding during the fall of 2005, during a random wild bird banding of the area. participants were surprised to find the bird to be a bilateral gyandromorph - one side of the body is male, the other female. this is typically due to an event that happens in early mitosis, where one of the dividing cells does not split its sex chromosomes in a typical fashion. interestingly, most birds only have one functional ovary on the left side of the body, so this individual could still hypothetically produce offspring.

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

revealing of many things perhaps that the ‘you don’t know what you married’ fairytale trope contains such marked thematic differences between male and female protagonists… the selkie, animal wife/swan maiden, and lamia motifs being associated with the heteropatriarchal terror of perceived-feminine interiority; that if you don’t materially force your wife to stay, she might one day be gone, that there are things about her you don’t know and may not be able to understand. while female-focused versions of the structure—bluebeard, the robber bridegroom, fitcher’s bird, mr. fox, and so on—encapsulate the very real danger of abuse without recourse to anything but one’s own cleverness: the common fear that the person you marry and know might turn out to be a stranger after all, or that you may be forced to marry without even superficial knowledge or choice.

[iphigeniacomplex]

fuuuuuuck💔💔💔

[cutiesseasonisalmostover]

𝓕𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓕𝓮𝓪𝓵𝓽𝔂: 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝒽ℯ𝓁𝓂 𝒟𝒾𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒽’𝓈 𝒞ℴ𝓂𝓂ℯ𝓂ℴ𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃 ℴ𝒻 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉ℯ𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 ℴ𝒻 ℰ𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒷ℯ𝓉𝒽 ℴ𝒻 ℋℯ𝓈𝓈ℯ (𝟏𝟓𝟗𝟖)

[sagent-of-chaos]

im deep undercover

[road0flife]

[rosieandthemoon]

detail from Annunciation by Jan van Eyck, c. 1434-1436 {full}

[toout]

Souvenirs d'été

[diaryofandnwoman]

[briargeese]

A summer evening, fireflies, and an annoyed doe wishing I would get out of her territory is about as great as it gets.

[weepingwidar]

Alexis Trice (US-American, 1982) - Between Two Rivers (2026)

[rebeccathenaturalist]

August is just around the corner, and that means August 3 is the next session of The Everyday Naturalist Online Study Group! This time we'll be exploring the Fungus Identification chapter, which means all you mushroom hunters who are looking to tighten up your ID skills will want to take notice.

You can register for the session at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-everyday-naturalist-online-study-group-august-2026-tickets-1982052406102

[soracities]

What is your favourite small, painfully human gesture?

and also if we can just:

[snakeater-deactivated20260130]

yeah i couldn’t be trusted with a penis id get hard from the way the sun shines through the leaves and everyone would hate me

[jetix]

A Kermode Bear goes hunting, 2021/10

[pnwbotany]

Red Huckleberry, Vaccinium parvifolium. Ericaceae family. By axiepics on flickr. 

[fordarkmornings]

John William Waterhouse (British, 1849-1917)

The Enchanted Garden, 1917