Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!
It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey
They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!
Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!
Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !
do you live in or near Oklahoma? would you be willing to make a side quest to adopt a new baby? do you want to do me a huge favor?
then you may be eligible to adopt the Little Prince! (his foster name)
the prince is a stray I recently picked up because he ran directly towards my car, displaying his incredible lack of intelligence and survival instincts! he seemed in good health at first, but he was absolutely riddled with fleas and parasites, one of the worst I've ever seen.
he's been with me for a bit, he's been medicated and is now very healthy, gaining some weight, and he's very very VERY sweet!! if you get your face close to him, he loves to headbutt.
if you have other pets who are friendly, he's also able to adapt to New Friends, given a little time!
he's a petite little boy with small paws, and he weighs about 6 pounds. there's a reason we call him The Little Prince, he's destined to sit on top of a silk cushion.
if you're interested in adopting this boy, please feel free to message me anytime! I can also send more pics.
if you're a good fit for him and promise to give him a loving home, I can also drive partway to meet you, if you're far-ish away.
reblogs are appreciated! thank you for looking at the Prince!
this bitch is literally crazy… she used to be a fitness influencer and scammed hundreds of women with alleged personalized fitness and diet coaching and she got sued by the state of texas and i believe settled for like 250,000 dollars. she then pivoted hard to conservative evangelical christian influencing. her husband is actually her second husband and he was fired from the kansas city police department for excessive use of force and when their family dog got hit by a car he whipped out his gun and shot it instead of taking it to a vet. they also forcibly exploited an unhoused man and sent him to a christian rehab… AND she holds religious retreats for roughly 700 dollars where her husband shows up despite the fact the events are described as being “women only spaces” and they baptize people in a horse trough…
Also for anyone that didn’t grow up in a fundamentalist Christian space, “husband is under spiritual attack” is usually code for having an affair/watching porn/is gay
I would say, @parkchanwoohoo that size doesn't matter spiritually, only the holiness of the items. So multiple of various sizes would probably be a good idea. Large one at home for independent study, medium sized ones for travel, for easily in a bag but large enough to comfortably hold in a hand. Maybe a small pocket sized one to keep on your person when out and about, just in case you have a spiritual emergency. Let the love flow forth from your body, and share that love with your loved ones.
“there are no original ideas” so you’re telling me someone’s already come up with my idea for a seven season tv show wherein a group of supernatural entities (led by an anemically lethargic vampire) band together to perform a series of increasingly elaborate heists, including but not limited to:
stealing an armored car but actually it’s one of those red cross bloodmobiles
similarly, breaking into a blood bank
and into an actual bank (to procure funds to buy rescue a local haunted house from being demolished)
a chemical plant, for the purpose of eco sabatoge (bastards have been dumping pollutants in the Swamp Monster’s swamp, it’s messing with the paranormal ecosystem)
an fancy auction house, to steal back the Witch’s grandmother’s Cursed Necklace (it has sentimental value)
a huge fucking castle (the Ghost left some really embarrassing teenage diaries hidden under the flagstones. also there’s Hidden Treasure, but they are mainly worried about the diaries, in which they may or may not have confessed to a murder. super cringe)
The British Museum, to resurrect the Mummy’s long-lost sibling from their sarcophagus. the gang also takes this opportunity to steal back a bunch of shit the british stole
the Vatican, to purloin a bunch of stolen sacred objects and return them to their homelands (this is complicated by the fact half of the team members are highly allergic to holy objects and certain precious metals)
a submarine, to settle a bet on whether or not the Loch Ness Monster is real (the Swamp Monster heard it from a River Nymph heard it from a Kelpie heard it from a Mermaid, but everyone knows mermaids like to mess with people and since when do they know anything about freshwater monstrology? it’s a point of contention)
a zoo. i haven’t decided why except it involves a kidnapped unicorn and a runaway selkie
you’re telling me that’s already been done? because i want to fucking watch it
These are all storylines that versions of them already exist in other media. It also seems as though your protagonist group could potentially fit into several different group tropes including the three best friends or five man band structure.
okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where he’s going to be a sex pest, namely: “Do you know where the term ‘blow job’ comes from?”
and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!
his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Man’s Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.
So I Answered It.
and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you can’t just say “oh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940s” without first explaining that ‘blow’ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain it’s fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-
i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. i’m sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didn’t realize he wasn’t looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.
anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe don’t start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.
Fun fact! Saint Valentine was beheaded, and here is a photo of his supposed skull! (which is kept in a reliquary in rome because catholics are freaky that way)
I see a reference to the Sedlic Ossuary, love the decor in that place.
this is a church that supposedly had holy ground or something that let people rot really fast, Idk what that’s about, but people really wanted to get buried there, and so they had overflow of dead people. so they exhumed old bodies and stored the bones in the church, before someone eventually said ‘hey, this would make a cool fucking chandelier.’ and then they started using the bones to decorate. this continued for several generations.
what happened was, some dude from that town (it’s in the Czech Republic) went to the Holy Land in 1278 and brought back some dirt. he spread it in the churchyard, and then EVERYONE wanted to be buried there. because Super Extra Holy(TM). eventually they ran out of room, so they started exhuming old bodies and storing the bones aboveground instead. that’s what an ossuary is, so you have a Fun Vocab Word for the day
in 1870, the church leaders were like “these bones are kind of disorganized and just collecting dust. can anyone stack them better?”
and one František Rint, woodcarver and apparent prior incarnation of Guillermo del Toro, said, “MY TIME HAS COME”
and he. did that.
he also signed it
the church leaders must have been okay with it, because I imagine he ran the plans by them and also they didn’t immediately burn the place to the ground. but I still like to picture them looking over the initial sketches with Rint watching, and roughly these expressions on their respective faces:
current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."
5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"
i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:
the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...
Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:
The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!
Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏
Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!
in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏
wait is that NOT how y'all've been using it??? polishing the obsidian mirror? giving the tarot deck the old sweet shuffle? stroking the crystals #mycrystals? are we not all on the same spellbook page here
@probablybadrpgideas idk maybe someone else who's better at marine geography and oceanic biomes and worldbuilding could make a better map but idk it was just a funny idea
Ace Dragon. Next time someone tries to seduce a dragon, the dragon pauses attacking to politely explain that they are ace and completely uninterested in such activities. If anyone else in the party is also ace, the dragon becomes willing to engage in peaceful resolution, for solidarity. If anyone on the party responds with anything derogatory, the dragon becomes enraged and will be much harder to defeat. Neutral reactions will resume combat with no significant change.
