Things

Love a good show with beautiful scenery and animation

[kuromilesbian-deactivated202205]

🌈 here is a little rainbow for anyone who is sad today

[everythingfox]

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[augustdementhe]

COOL. 

[iwilleatyourenglish]

i’d just like to add that this

is more related to this

than this

this is not a joke—elephant shrews, ends up, are not shrews but are actually closely related to elephants.

[fleur-marigold]

i don’t care about zodiac signs or alignment charts!!!!!!!

what freakin eeveelution are you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fleur-marigold]

i’m flareon

[lesbianatlarge]

here’s a quiz to help you out!

[3crowsinatrenchcoat]

Glaceon

[official-sokka]

Umbreon

[halfbloodcampfan]

Leafeon

[melancholymango]

I did the being edgy and self-deprecating thing, it gets old. I wanna be soft and lovely and easily impressed. I wanna appreciate all the little things that make me happy the same way I’ve dwelled on every single thing that upsets me.

[curlyhair-kid]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqwD5Q5n9Jc/

[eb0shi]

[ghibli-collector]

Hayao Miyazaki’s Anime Blueprint Layouts - Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

[thelovelylights]

I say it every time but we don’t talk enough about the sheer strength of the emotional bond they have. And how that love bleeds through to people outside of the cluster

We see it in Capheus when he greets Rajan like an old friend, calls Felix his brother the moment they first meet. Riley when she tells Diego someone she only met for a few hours that she missed him with such profound sincerity. Lito when he screams “Family, we’re coming!” Because Amanita, the girl who makes Nomi feel beautiful and loved is now his as well. It’s Wolfgang swearing to protect Nomi’s sister and destroy anyone that harms her, because he would die for his family and now his family also includes his clusters loved ones. Will trying to stop sun from breaking her ownheart even more because he can feel the desperation and hurt raging in her, the love that she still holds for a brother who never loved her. The way that they never ever question someone outside of the cluster coming joining them. Dani, Hernando, Bug, Amanita, Mun, and Rajan are all welcome from the moment they arrive because the others can feel that deep rooted trust, that love, and it puts them at ease.

And it’s beautiful because it really brings home the message that love conquers all.

[ellielyrehc]

“I quit trying to fit in, trying to be one of them. I knew I never would be. But more importantly, I didn’t want to be. Their violence was petty and ignorant, but ultimately it was true to who they were. The real violence - the violence that I realized was unforgivable - is the violence that we do to ourselves, when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.”

[bi-trans-alliance]

Antarctica is about to have its first ever Pride

Antarctica is set to have its first ever Pride event thanks to a group of LGBTQ+ people based in an Antarctic research center. 

(images by Planting Peace)

[strangereddie]

🏳️‍🌈✨happy pride ✨🏳️‍🌈

[niggazinmoscow]

This shows humor is criminally underrated

[halfbloodcampfan]

Candle (Part1)

In your innocence, you lit me on fire, leaving me burning, my heart as wit, being consumed by this damned flame- this love awoken. Its light colored my world with lively renewed colors. Oh, had I known its price then, for as my wax was spent, so was my joy. Any effort to blow it out was useless, cooling my soul even further. And since you were blind to my light, I- inanimate object-  was forced to evolve, to grow a voice of my own, just to tell you that you were killing me. By that time still hoping that, maybe, by telling you, your eyes might adapt to see the light I emmited just for you.

-By me

[belovedbane]

Concept: I finish school. The job I work isn’t my dream job but I enjoy doing it greatly still. It pays enough to cover everything I might need. My bills are never overdue. Money is not a thought in my head. I have a place to live. So do my dogs. It is nice and warm, I have some plants, my bookshelves are full, my sheets are always clean. There is time to read at the end of a day. I read a lot. Thinking is a good thing. I meet up with friends regularly, old and new. They love me. We make memories. I have nothing to be ashamed of. I travel a few times a year, always different places. The places I see steal my breath away. The people I meet teach me of life. They are good. There is no war. The sea calls to me and pay visit. I am independent. I am content.

[lxzyfangirl]

we are such a sad generation. the dream is a modest and decent life.

[moosemakes]

Roses are red

Storm clouds are grey

[fanwright]

Poetry is great.

[firenationandrecreation]

lemme try…

Roses are red,

Some tulips are black,

[thesilvershire]

The roses have bloomed,

The ground is muddy,

[tuna-trash]

@irritable-kiwis

[zuzuthejerkbender]

Roses are Red,

Katara’s mom was named Kya

[modernbookfae]

acotar instagram series: azriel + elain + lucien

I couldn’t tell if she was looking at his blue Siphon or at his scarred skin beneath as she breathed, “Beautiful.”

Color bloomed high on Azriel’s golden-brown cheeks, but he inclined his head in thanks and led my sister toward the back doors into the garden, sunlight bathing them.

But Elain said nothing. Did not so much as take one step downward.

Lucien inclined his head in a bow, the movement hiding the gleam in his eye—the longing and sadness.

And when Lucien turned to signal to Rhys to go…He did not glance back at Elain.

Did not see the half step she took towrd the stairs—as if she’d speak to him. Stop him.

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