Im back...God help us.

Rachel/28/They/& caffeine is my latest mistress.

[proteusolm]

Crazy to think that seagulls existed before french fries.

[bluebandedagate-reblogs]

Medieval seagull struggling to fly away with an entire purloined potatoe

[pmamtraveller]

Cats by Shou Xin

[achillesinhighheels]

'Not What You Saw' [2024-ongoing] by Keerthana Kunnath

Shot across beaches, fields, and village edges in Kerala, India,

'Not What You Saw' documents the lives and presence of India's female bodybuilders.

[atlinmerrick]

Always, always, always reblogging this.

[important-animal-images]

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

@kleefkruid your tag is golden.

[lucylehane]

(this scene is why I watch this movie on Valentine's Day every year)

The Birdcage (1996)

[atlinmerrick]

I've lost count of how many times I've watched this film. I love it so. Everyone has so many moments to shine, it's amazing.

[dhaaruni]

This is very good

[velvet-jellyfish]

Looking for disability crafts I can do sitting in bed, so I’m channeling my inner grandma. Richelieu cutwork doily from a pattern I drew myself. Here is a link if anyone wants it!

[huangh]

"You sleep, I watch"

[misericordiia]

no matter how hard i try i will always be that little girl wondering why everyone is better friends with eachother than her and begging to be loved

[misericordiia]

in another life we're all on the playground sitting by the fence in the grass together and we all have eachother. maybe not here but somewhere it wasn't like this.

[catsbeaversandducks]

By sin.xline

[dankmemeuniversity]

[blluish]

[monstersovka]

✶ PRIDE MONTH ✶

[zevrt1]

"The scarlet rot writhes now, worse than ever"

[rosegardeninwinter]

I have no one else to talk to about this so let me use my blog like a blog for a second:

I’m reading the book “Braiding Sweetgrass” and in this one chapter the author is talking about how in her cultural language, Potawatomi, there are more verbs than in English, and they are, to Western ears, very odd verb constructions. “To be a bay” or “to be a hill.” But she points out that this kind of language acknowledges a “being” to the various aspects of the natural world we tend to see more as objects.

Now, I know she’s comparing Indigenous American and Western/European worldviews, but I can’t help noticing a harmony between her description of the world as a “democracy of species” and Lewis and Tolkien’s conception of nature. We all know how much Tolkien was concerned with the natural world, how much personhood he saw in trees and water and mountains. But the quote that jumped to my mind reading this chapter is in one of the Narnia books when Eustace gives the scientific definition of a star (a ball of flaming gas) and is met with the reply, “…that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.”

I realize he’s still using “it” but since the person correcting Eustace is an actual star, I think we can let this one slide.

I don’t know where this thought wants to land, but something something about people who are really spiritually in tune arriving, from different cultures and traditions, at the same sorts of conclusions about beauty, life, and our responsibility to our world.

They never arrive at exploitation and reckless human domination, do they? Curious. Almost like that whole “take care of the garden” thing in the Bible was mildly important.

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[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