Gray Soul

Una shipper multifacética muy loca.

[incorrecthobquotes]

anyone whenever xie lian mentions anything about his lifestyle: your highness, you live like this?

[hotboyproblems]

all of these have the same energy

[riahchan]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[every-living-beast]

on behalf of isoetes I’m offended, Mr. Senator. 

[botanyshitposts]

[dragongyrlwren]

@botanyshitposts so what exactly is a quillwort, and what’s the big deal on this particular one?

[botanyshitposts]

imagine if there was a single remaining mammoth species on earth, and it only was able to get by into the modern era by sacrificing it’s status as a huge landscape-changing roaming herbivore to evolve into a small animal the size of a dog. it looks a lot like a dog, actually. people often mistake the tiny mammoth species as a dog, and will just casually say it’s a dog. 

small-mammoth enthusiasts, however, will avidly remind people that they are not in fact a dog, and their organs, although shrunken to the size of a dog’s organs, are still wooly mammoth organs. you actually have to seek out special vets for the small wooly mammoths because even though it looks remarkably like a dog to the untrained eye, when you’re faced with the internal anatomy it’s so far deviated from anything living today that it’s difficult to understand and work with. 

this is because there is, quite literally, no animal anatomy quite like the small woolly mammoth’s left alive on earth. this means that there’s no living approximation of how their organs work, or what the fuck is going on in there, even though they look like a dog from the outside. the closest living relative of the small woolly mammoth is so far deviated from it’s anatomy that’s literally of no help to anyone to compare the two, because the only thing they have in common is how they reproduce. scientists studying the wooly mammoth’s anatomy are forced to debate with each other constantly about what a certain organ might do, or what it at least used to do based on the fossils of the giant wooly mammoths that once dominated the landscape, but they just…have no idea. 

so the small woolly mammoth is not at all like a dog, even though it looks like one. how it works, how it reproduces, how it functions on a basic anatomic level are so utterly and completely prehistoric that they’re not at all like any other living animals. this makes them the subject of infinite fascination to paleontologists trying to approximate the biology and ecology of the giant woolly mammoths that once lived…but it’s incredibly challenging. it’s also incredibly challenging to explain why they’re different to people who just don’t care, or just see them as dogs because they look like them, because the significance of something like it is so easily lost when something looks ‘normal’.

isoetes –Quillworts– are that tiny wooly mammoth. their ancestors lived 400 million years ago and included the giant prehistoric spore-reproducing trees lepidodendron, which made up the bulk of massive prehistoric forests that were eventually compressed into the coal we’re still using today. they’re so old that the roots aren’t roots, they’re leaves, and it took botanists 100 years of bickering to finally confirm this. they’re so old that the change that weeded out all the giant 100+ foot tall members of the lineage was literally the original shifting of the continents, as in, like, when pangea split. they’re so old that it reproduces through ENORMOUS spores contained in spore packets on it’s leaves. they’re so old that we just have no fucking idea how to process it. 

quillwort anatomy is, quite literally, that of a comically small 400 million year old spore tree with the trunk squished into a woody structure so small that you could miss it if you didn’t know what you were looking for on a dissection. the anatomy of this genus doesn’t function like any other modern plant genus on earth. quillworts have organs and cell structures that we still don’t understand in the year 2019. 

quillworts are incredibly valuable finds to paleobotanists because they’re so easily passed over in botanical surveys, and their habitats are constantly being threatened, making a great deal of species endangered. although they’re still around on almost every continent– see the earlier point on them evolving before the continents split– there are a lot fewer of them out there now; like anything, they can be more common in some areas than others, but my state has only found one recorded colony in the past 50 years to give an idea of what we’re dealing with here. 

and yes. they look like grasses.

do not let this prehistoric spore tree fool you

[1995lahaine]

i am always kidding but i am also always serious. do not underestimate me

[pointnclickadventuregame]

You are a fool. When you walk clown music plays. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

be the public menace you want to see in the world

[maniacfanatic]

This is the most weirdly motivational post I’ve ever seen… I approve

[sonnyslimjim]

It’s a good day to remember that I had a triceratops plushie for the majority of my childhood named Horny and my parents did nothing

[milkvat3]

Ya girl had a teddy bear that my 3 yr old self INSISTED on calling orgy and my parents just told everyone i named him after the month August and its name was auggie

[baconnotbaekhyun]

Jaehyun: My name is Jaehyun! You can call me....

Haechan in the background: Monster 😂

[kreuzader]

friends: you literally laugh at everything what the fuck

me: no I don’t

also me: guys this image is so funny

[niczka]

I didn’t see anyone post these Cleopatra tweets yet, I have to do everything my damn self.

These had me in stitches.

[figuerockfaeth]

the BEST part of mamma mia (2008) one of the greatest movies ever made:

the (purposeful?) lack of effort put into the flashbacks, just straight up putting a wig on 47 year old colin firth, 55 year old pierce brosnan, and 56 year old stellan skarsgard and saying they’re all like 20 (TWENTY) is a level of iconic very few movies possess 

[theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt]

And then proceeding to make their young versions look NOTHING like those flashbacks in the sequel

[archivesandcyanide]

story time: when my brother was born I was about three years old and I can’t remember much, I just remember wanting to pick his name and finally settling on “Rainbow” and telling my parents hey so I decided we should name the kid Rainbow, top name right

bear in mind i was three and had all the naming capacity of a young fan making their first forays into making a power fantasy self-insert oc

but apparently dreams can get you somehwere because years later, when i was about thirteen i mentioned this memory to my mother, and she said “yeah, we called him that” and I was like “lmao as if you called him that I know brother’s name duh” and in short she got out his birth certificate, and yeah. My brother’s fucking middle name is, officially and legally, Rainbeau.

ok but it gets better. because my brother’s first name is Morgan, a welsh name which by some translations means “arc over the sea,” which can be argued means “rainbow”

my parents called my brother Rainbow Rainbow

i had too much power when i was three

[nakamotens]

he’s having a good time 🐎

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Profiles from the Monster High website c.2012

[bitchelixir]

MY AB WORKOUT

*You may choose not to do all parts of the workout but for max results, complete everything!*

I’ve been wanting to do one of these workout posts for a while and I’m finally getting to it lol

I was a competitive jumper and sprinter in high school, and of any events in track, jumpers and sprinters have the best abs. Hands down. So I kinda know my shit alright? Alright

Part 1: Warming Up Abs- Compound Exercises

Exercises that target multiple muscle groups

Burn hella calories which helps you burn more fat when you do target exercises

Squat Workout

-15 normal squats

-5 pulses

-hold 10 sec in squat

(Repeat 3x)

Why this helps: Your abs need to be engaged to help keep you balanced.

Tips

-legs should be hip length apart

-try not to let your knees go past your toes

-don’t look down, try and look at a point slightly above you

-dig your heels into the ground

-squat as low as possible

-ENGAGE your abs. Flex your abs when you squat. Bruh

Push Ups

-Do 10 push-ups on your toes

-You can do the pushups on your knees, but for max strengthening, try to do them on your toes.

(Repeat 3x)

Why this helps: Your abs need be engaged to help fight the force of gravity pushing your hips to the ground.

Tips

-Don’t worry how fast you’re going. It’s better to go slow and have good form

-Don’t let your butt stick up too much. Try to keep your body in a straight line the whole time

-Go as low to the ground as possible

Part 2: Toning: Target Exercises

For extra toning! These really aren’t as effective unless you do do the compound exercises before but you do you!

Plank Workout

Do each for 60 sec with minimal rest between exercises

-Plank

-Ins and Outs

-Plank

-Russian Twists

-Plank

-Flutter Kicks

Notes:

-Research shows that after 10 seconds, holding a plank is pointless. So instead of just holding a plank for 60 seconds, I add new variations to keep my abs engaged in new ways.

Plank Instructions:

-0-10 seconds: hold elbow plank

-10-20 seconds: pulse forward (still in elbow plank)

-20-30 seconds: pulse backward

-30-50 seconds: plank twists

-50-60 seconds: hold elbow plank

(It’s hard to tell which direction I’m doing the pulses in the video and it also looks hella weird but hopefully you get the point lol)

Tips:

-Make sure to not stick your butt up in the air when planking. Remember: your body should be in a straight line!

-You can search up the alternating ab workouts online if you don’t know what they are or you can replace them with your own! I change these up pretty often so I don’t get bored

-Ins and Outs: Instead of putting your hands on the ground, try to hold them by your side in the air

-Russian Twists: It’s easy to make Russian Twists ineffective. Make sure you are fully twisting your body

-I like to do my Russian Twists by making an Ins and Outs/Russian Twists hybrid. I basically do 4 Twists coming up and then 4 Twists going down

-Flutter kicks: Looking at your feet instead of just laying your head on the ground will engage your abs so much more!!

I apologize for how long this post is lol. Let me know if you guys have questions.

ALSO: I hate my legs ok. Please no hate. Doing squats will not make your legs look like mine. My legs are big due to being a sprinter and jumper for 8+years and it’s the natural body type. I prob don’t even need to say this shit but my body dysmorphia fucks me up xx

All gifs are mine thanks for ignoring my messy dorm room adios bitches

[qvestchen]

They will never let Doyoung breathe