In The Brush I Hide

⚡️Sci-Fi⚡️/ 22/ full of whimsy and woe Ghouls about!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[michaelnordeman]

Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (March 31, 2023).

[florad0ra]

Fish bag sample for classes this spring/summer

[mothssmeat]

instantly enamoured with this bag so decided to make a similar one! i thought the drawstring looked a litlte like barbels, and so I modeled mine loosely on a redtail catfish!

I'd meant to make the mouth opening a little larger than it turned out, but I can still fit my whole forearm in there so I'm pleased.

[aquariumpacific]

We threw a birthday party for Alfred the Sonoran Desert toad. She turned 19 years old today!

[aquariumpacific]

more Alfred for all of her new fans. isn't she lovely?

[all-mammal-creechur]

Yanbaru Whiskered Bat Myotis yanbarensis

It is known only from three islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago, south of Japan, Okinawa (where the Yanbaru forest is situated), Amami Ōshima, and Tokunoshima. The species has been classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.

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[homunculus-argument]

Wouldn't it be fucked up if something was farming humans for our kidney stones.

[punaparta]

Is this about pearls?

[sonnywortzik]

i’ve mentioned this here before, but it will remain one of the most ideologically influential experiences of my life: when i was in fifth grade i did a report on post traumatic stress as manifested in veterans of the vietnam war, and my father did me the huge favor of connecting me w/ a vietnam vet friend of his who was diagnosed with PTSD, assuring him that while i was only ten i was bright and curious and he should be as honest with me about his experience as possible. 

i remember entering his office with my tape recorder, sitting in a chair that was too big, and asking him questions about war, and his life after war, while swinging my legs over the edge of the chair. i remember being very, very quiet as he spoke of pulling the car over on the highway for fear of crashing when his hands would shake uncontrollably in response to song on the radio or a smell that he couldn’t be sure was real or sense-memory. and of ruined relationships and anger and american hypocrisy. 

and i also remember that was the day i learned what “valor” meant. he used “valor” in a sentence and i didn’t know that word, and when i asked him to explain “valor” he became very quiet. and i can’t remember precisely what he said, if he ever offered me the dictionary definition or not, but i do remember him looking very sad, and saying something about our country’s idea of “valor”, and also something about a broken promise. and there was an edge to his words that i couldn’t parse at the time that i would later come to understand was bitterness, that he sounded bitter. 

to this day i can’t hear or read the word “valor” without seeing sunlight coming through his office window at a slant, close-to-sunset light, and feeling the kind of quiet, confused, completely internalized panic a child feels when they sense that a grown up is trying very hard not to weep in their presence. 

[creative-anchorage]

[asweetprologue]

this is so devastating. laois should have just shot him with a gun

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

How the fuck have I never reblogged this. (Also, preserving op's tags)

[the-haiku-bot]

How the fuck have I

never reblogged this. (Also,

preserving op’s tags)

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[pangur-and-grim]

I had a dream that this local rescue had taken in a coyote that was pregnant with half-chihuahua babies, and I was like oh, a half-coyote half-chihuahua? sounds great, I'll take one

[pixalartantfarm]

Recommended

(Toast is actually half mini husky but she looks like a tiny coyote)

[bogleech]

You wont believe exactly where a mole's eyes are relative to its skull

Dirt orca

[dokelsss]

land gar

[fluff-e-boy]

Don’t worry I’m vaccinated and neutered

[fluff-e-boy]

And those nice ladies at the front desk will put me in a funny cardboard box if you don’t have a carrier to take me home in

[fluff-e-boy]

Bad salesman

[redstonedust]

you think you're sooooooooo funny huh? well you are. i find you a delight to be around and im glad you have the self confidence to recognise it. i love you.

[teathattast]

[baradragon]

speaking from a place of privilege (good url)

[baradragon]

some of you should not be reblogging this

[assdad]

[falseficus]

everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -

enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.

and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends

[mushroomemoji444]

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