Shiver Business

"Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are!" Peter Benchley, Jaws

[unscriptd-deactivated20260317]

Apartment Dwellers on New Year's Eve (1948) John Falter

[oldpaintings]

Wishing you a year filled with strength, courage, and fulfillment.

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[throwingmenthols-deactivated202]

all debates abt the artistic merits of fanfiction fail to recognize the purpose of fic. you don’t write fic to be published or to learn how to construct a narrative although you can use it to develop style. you write it so that your friends will message you “bestie you’re utterly deranged for this one im eating dirt” 

[readerofthewilderwest]

#you know those ppl who are like ‘fanfic can be good to get started but it’s bad because then you never learn how to write your own from#scratch’ ? lmao#like imagine walking up to someone planting flowers and being like ‘that’s a START but ultimately it won’t teach you how to genetically#engineer your ideal fruit tree’#like. you have extrapolated a goal that was never implied here

tags courtesy of @the-knights-who-say-book

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[thepastisaroadmap]

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

[headspace-hotel]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

[rackiera]

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

[a-book-of-creatures]

[mossworm]

I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.

[ferretshark]

Show up for your local, peaceful No Kings protest on June 14th. Make sure you submit pictures and headcount’s to Meidas Touch on youtube!!

[woman-becomer]

eat an entire can of sweetened condensed milk. you deserve it.

[platter-o-teeth-deactivated2025]

(sigh) okay... (CRUUEEENNNCH....) (SCREEEEEENCH...) owie.. (CRUUEEENCH)

[woman-becomer]

this is one of the most rewarding things about posting self care tips on this site. witnessing people's lives getting better in real time. this is why I post

[fleurdemeth]

Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard 

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer 

[heartfeltdelight]

#they look like theyve been having a chat about u and u just walked in

[antimony-ore]

I’m on mobile, somebody edit them into this please

[antimony-ore]

Y'all take too long

[tyrelll28-deactivated20201029]

Same energy

[antimony-ore]

No worries guys, they’re there too

[quemirabobo]

[important-animal-images]

[petermorwood]

I'm sure the cat is just sleeping, but its pose and the petals reminded me of a painting.

"The Grief of the Pasha" by Jean-Leon Gerome.

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black mackerel tabby

[wyrmpus]

thats a fukcing tigre

[theconcealedweapon]

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[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[theconcealedweapon]

[depsidase]

[fangorn-forest]

scientists are in labs right now creating the thinnest and worst material known to mankind so they can make women’s clothing

[ponyregrets]

#will it be comfortable? no#will it be flattering? no#will it be ecologically friendly? no#but will it obscure people's view of your undergarments? also no (via @toast-the-unknowing)

[theconcealedweapon]