wetland indicator code: FACW

al/buzz/buzzard || it/he/they || the real prize was the wetland plants we met along the way.

[carlyraejepsans]

“you’re the gamer girl now, doc”

“You can’t be serious!”

“woah, hey i’m just passing on the mantle here”

“You didn’t seriously wear that in public!!“

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[grundoonmgnx]

Pat Perry, Craigslist Still Life 03, 2022

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 30 in

[sstrawbearri]

basically the best thing a story can have is a woman who is doomed. massive points if she destroys the people around her in response.

[sstrawbearri]

stop tagging men on this post i'm going to kill us both

[pylonsaint]

You’re an organ in the working body of this world, Mallory Glass. No amount of scornful looks and sour remarks is going to change that.

[annabelle--cane]

one the secret sauces of the silt verses is that it's deeply grim and pessimistic about systems and society at large but it's still remarkably kind and optimistic when it comes to people. a person can always change, they have reasons for being the way they are and if their circumstances shift then most people will want to be merciful and good if and when they can, and the actual Difficulty is that society is structured around making violence as easy as possible and mercy as dangerous as possible.

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

cave divers when they are happily married with kids and beloved by their community but theres a crack in the bottom of a lake called The Devil’s Rotting Esophagus where 57 people have died

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

ungrounding exercises.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

what are five things you can't see? can you breathe in and out really really quickly for me? what are your biggest fears and what are the fastest ways they might occur? slouch in your chair put your hands on your head and picture yourself using your psychic powers to kill everyone. shoot the nearest dog.

[lezarus]

one of the worst parts of entering an established fandom is reading through the tags and realising with a dawning horror that fans have collectively decided to give one of the characters a horrible, non-canonical, cutesy nickname

[abrillustrates]

Damaya, Syenite and Essun from N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Series!!

[papasmoke]

you just hate the cis because of the things that they did

I hate the cis because it is led by the treacherous count dooku

[tartaeya]

i think there is a difference between a knowingly flawed character and a thematically uncomfortable character and knowing the difference is half the battle

[tartaeya]

knowingly flawed character: this character has traits that the author deliberately put in to show they have nuance and aren't perfect as a person. this will put them at odds with some readers and endear them to others, depending on them as people, and that's good!

thematically uncomfortable character: oh boy the author has some Beliefs

[pylonsaint]

Doodles

[targetedknowledge]

[schmergo]

is he…… you know….. [imitates crab claws]……. from Maryland?

[great-and-small]

Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

[great-and-small]

[mortalityplays]

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.