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closely related to sharks but with long, flat bodies and wing-like pectoral fins, mobula rays are ideally suited to swooping through the water - here off the gulf of california - yet seem equally at home in the air, so much so that they have earned the name “flying rays”. mobula rays can reach heights of more than two metres, remaining airborne for several seconds.

mobula rays are quite elusive and difficult to study, so biologists are not quite sure why they jump out of the water. theories vary from a means of communication, to a mating ritual (though both males and females jump), or as a way to shed themselves of parasites. they could also be jumping as a way of better corralling their pray, as seen with them swimming in a circular formation.

what is known about mobula rays is that they reach sexual maturity late and their investment in their offspring is more akin to mammals than other fishes, usually producing just a single pup after long pregnancies, all of which makes them extremely vulnerable to commercial fishing, especially as a species that likes to come together in large groups.

biitumen

majestic flap flaps! <3 <3

guerrillatech

roboco-san

not to be a raging communist but I think every human being should have the right to expect a dignified life free from the fear of poverty, starvation, and homelessness

hungwy

To evolve applin into appletun you must bake your switch in the oven for 45 minutes and let it cool on a window sill for another 20 minutes

antennafarm

oh my god you guys this cat is so cute. i named her salami sandwich and she has a snotty nose and wants a lot of attention

femininerdy

I can’t believe my babies really healed from their shared experience of abuse and cult trauma together, made healthy choices, got some therapy and closure, fell in love, and adopted a cat together. This is the queer representation we need!!

hilarioushumorfromouterspace

ryuko-archive

still don’t really understand how some people have trouble just being nice

the-fault-in-our-balls

Oh my gosh you’re such a good person. Hey everybody come look at how much of a good person this is.

ryuko-archive

i literally cannot comprehend how you got offended by this but thanks for proving my point anyway

dolcifool

one-time-i-dreamt

I need this movie ASAP

cactus-pat

prescription-cactus

every time someone refers to a worker bee as a ‘he’ i get slightly up in arms

the works are all sterile females!! ladies working hard for the hive!! the male bees don’t do anything but mate and die and i think that’s beautiful. nature’s himbos.

apoemaday

What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (if She Wasn’t a Pillar of Salt)

by Karen Finneyfrock

Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark? When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did we worry what our friends might be doing with their tongues? What new crevices they found to lick love into or strange flesh to push pleasure from, when we called them Sodomites then, all we meant by it was neighbor. When the angels told us to run from the city, I went with you, but even the angels knew that women always look back. Let me describe for you, Lot, what your city looked like burning since you never turned around to see it. Sulfur ran its sticky fingers over the skin of our countrymen. It smelled like burning hair and rancid eggs. I watched as our friends pulled chunks of brimstone from their faces. Is any form of loving this indecent? Cover your eyes tight, husband, until you see stars, convince yourself you are looking at Heaven. Because any man weak enough to hide his eyes while his neighbors are punished for the way they love deserves a vengeful god. I would say these things to you now, Lot, but an ocean has dried itself on my tongue. So instead I will stand here, while my body blows itself grain by grain back over the Land of Canaan. I will stand here and I will watch you run.

figuring-it-all-out

We all know how awesome “She-Ra” is when it comes to LGBTQ representation but I don’t see anybody talking about how the last season introduced a trans dude so I thought I’d mention that here.

This is Jewelstar, a new character introduced this season with his sisters Tallstar and Starla (who make up the Star Siblings). They’re featured in the fourth episode of the newest season and are all survivors of Horde Prime’s destruction. Like many characters on the show, the Star Siblings originally appeared in the 1980s cartoon. EXCEPT they were the Star Sisters then.

Jewelstar is on the right.

Ok, so they genderswapped the character from a gal to a guy in the newer show. I know that doesn’t inherently make Jewelstar-2020 trans but it was already enough for me to headcanon that he was. Then I looked up who voiced Jewelstar on the show and he’s voiced by Alex Blue Davis, an actor who has appeared most notably as Dr. Casey Parker on “Grey’s Anatomy”. He’s also a trans man.

Jewelstar’s gender identity is never addressed on the show but considering his counterpart on the 80′s “She-Ra” show was assigned female at birth, the fact that he is voiced by a trans guy, and that “She-Ra” is exactly the type of show that would give us a trans guy as a character leads me to the conclusion that Jewelstar in “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” is a trans man.

TL;DR - “She-Ra” gave us an awesome trans dude in its last season and we all should appreciate him as much as we appreciate all the other LGBTQ representation.

fairymascot

with her role as destined protector of the universe fulfilled, adora can now dedicate herself to her true purpose in life: giving her gf so many pets and scritches

valtsv

the best part of being a kid was when you realized that birth is a curse and existence is a prison but instead of being sad about it just ignored it entirely for months or even years by roleplaying being a horse or a mythical creature or a warrior cat or something 24/7

valtsv

oh to be 8 years old and capable of ignoring all my questions and insecurities about my body and identity by simply imagining that i'm a feral cat living in the woods again

non-bender-world

Can we consider how many people Toph caused internal bleeding and broken bones?

comradekatara

oh honey they are fully dead

chemicalmagecraft

No but Toph was a professional earthbending wrestler with the power to feel the whole human body at once through vibrations with enough accuracy to tell lies. She knows exactly how much pressure the human body can take before important things start breaking or I’ll go buy a hat for the sole purpose of eating it.

comradekatara

oh, sure. she doesn’t care though. she’s 12 and she’s thriving and she loves to murder

sussura

Aang: I have to defeat Ozai, but I don’t think I can murder anyone

Toph: I can do it.

Aang:

Toph: I’ve killed like 20 people since we met

Aang:

Sokka:

Katara:

panpteryx

Toph: I mean you guys have killed a bunch of people too

Aang: what no I haven’t I’ve never killed anyone!

Toph: twinkletoes you pick people up and drop them and blow them into walls. katara hits people with water hard enough to throw them to the ground and encases them in ice. Zuko’s straight-up throwing fire at people. Sokka hits people with a club.

Katara:

Aang:

Sokka:

Toph: when you hit people really hard they often die. I mean, I feel it every time. not counting the head trauma and frostbite that probably means they die later.

Toph: ….did you guys not know you were killing people?

Zuko: I mean I wasn’t going to bring it up but she’s right

Toph: I thought we were all doing it on purpose!

Zuko: it’s all in self-defense, it’s not like we’re going out of our way to kill people, but these things happen. Sometimes people have to die to protect everyone else. I thought you understood that already

Katara:

Sokka:

Aang:

Aang: *extremely loud airbender scream*