[sensitivesuggestion]

celebrate your personal victories because no one else understands what it took to accomplish them

[hotvampireadjacent]

there’s a lot going on here

[captainino]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tiger-found-caged-abandoned-home-chance-wildlife-sanctuary/story?id=61130943

Tiger found caged in abandoned home gets second chance at wildlife sanctuary: ‘He seems to be so happy’

The estimated 350-pound tiger was transported to the facility, an affiliate of the Humane Society of the United States, on Wednesday afternoon, and is settling in well, Almrud said. There, he will have the chance to roam in enclosures of up to three acres.

Almrud, who estimates him to be about 2 years old, described the moment he first walked onto the grass at the sanctuary as remarkable.

“It was just amazing to see him walk out on grass and to see him explore and have that freedom of movement,” she said. “It was just such a reward and fulfilling to us.”

Now, he spends his days rolling around the grass in glee, Almrud said.

“He comes right up to the fence every time a staff member is present,” she said. “He seems very amenable to our presence.”

The tiger is eating well – a combination of chicken, humanely raised non-processed beef and whole prey complete with organs and bones. It appears that he was being fed chicken, which is what owners of exotic cats often feed them, but chicken alone does not provide the complete nutrition they need to thrive, Almrud said.

In addition, caregivers are tasked with keeping the tiger mentally stimulated by creating “pretend hunting” games and rotating him through different areas so he has access to new smells and environments to explore.

“He seems to happy and content,” Almrud said. “Our staff is just falling in love with him.”

[bloodrock-lobster]

Just an update! Since I got curious and the og post is from 2019.

His name is Loki now! In June he celebrated his 7th birthday at the sanctuary where he lives and thrives. Here’s a few pics of the boy:

[flameraven]

The tiger

He escaped his cage

Yes

YES

The tiger is out

❤

[weepingfireflies]

The thing about Leverage is that even on the rare occasions where I don't believe a normal person would fall for something, I 100% believe a billionaire who's never been told "no" would. This is the same group of people that tried to visit the Titanic with a video game controller

[pomrania]

Tags by @everythingblowsupsilly:

i agree with this totally #whenever a mark falls for something i think is obvious #i remind myself: #what reasoning would they have to think that this situation has been carefully rigged through ultra-complex maneuvers by #a hypercompetent team of people who don't have anything to do with you— all for a not-necessarily-obvious purpose— #and why would that rube goldberg machine type explanation seem more likely than the far more straightforward appearance of the situation? #kind of like an occam's razor double-cross #i also ask #why would this mark— who is frequently conceited; privileged; overconfident— be suspicious of a situation that usually completely suits #their worldview? the crew has to know how to play into a mark's expectations to do any con; and the mark's downfall is always that they were #too carried away with the story of the con to avoid shooting themself in the foot. they're used to things going the way they want: #he considers himself a genius and he's searching for aliens— so of course he would be the one to make first contact. #he thinks he's too clever to fall for a con and he considers everyone else beneath him— so of course he would outsmart the crew and win #he's a hypochondriac— so of course he would become too carried away when he seems to show signs of sickness to be suspicious. #we get to see the sixteen layers of strategy behind the con; but the marks only see the facade. that's why leverage works so well. #it's not just bad people receiving a simple revenge; it's bad people shaking hands with karma and walking into the consequences of their #actions with foolish confidence. yknow; why not buy a popular social media platform to become its king and tailor it to your whims? #after all; you're a genius; you're popular; and your opinions are always right. and it'll obviously be successful; so what could go wrong? #good post op #i did not mean to write this much

[themintycupcake]

When you find an old smutfic in an archive that you thought had been lost forever

[jdawg696911]

Captain Picard tries out his new trampoline on the bridge

[seraphinial]

[evidently-endless]

the odyssey (2026)

[after-fear]

Overly Honest Methods in science.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

ooh this version has some ones i haven’t seen before, priceless

[wanderingandfound]

  #we chose macrocystis because every other kelp was rotting at that time of year    #we kept the crabs 12 to a sea table because we were sharing the space and couldnt use more    #the crabs were subject to a non-natural light cycle because other researchers kept leaving the lights on overnight (via Dicrocoeliumdendriticum)

[poepower]

Archaeologist. We sometimes choose places to dig because our gut says “this is nice, I’d settle here”. I’ve had field directors say “this has paleo energy” about areas. Often we see big hill in our dig area, we dig on big hill. 

Most recently, I’ve found two sites because I was walking to my next hole and saw some petrified wood I wanted. Started picking up pieces and saw a half buried biface lmao. 

Other site, I was walking and imagined a little native girl running along the ridge. I had a gut feeling to dig like 5m from where the hole was. Found a utilized petrified wood flake. Could’ve written it off as a plow fact, but due to all the pet wood I’d been collecting throughout the area (I’m a greedy little thing who wants pretty rocks), I knew the was it was broken was inconsistent to how the pet wood naturally breaks. 

What sealed the deal for me was cleaning the mud off, and it cut me so, yup, definitely utilized. 

[megalunalexi-aesthetic]

So glad you commented this because I was looking for the term for “people saw a pretty rock and took it with them” forEVER now and couldn’t find it. Fuckin love manuports

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

eternal human urges:

shiny rock!!

throw object in body of water

big hill. climb.

not come in to lab on weekend

[thatdisasterauthor]

We found our T. rex last summer by just walking around and sticking a very long, thin stick in the mud until we hit something hard, then we dug.

[ospreyonthemoon]

@katy-l-wood PLEASE tell us about your t-rex

[thatdisasterauthor]

Here’s the article/press release I wrote about it!

https://www.rmdrc.com/post/25-years-and-thousands-of-miles-walked-to-find-a-t-rex

[shisasan]

[ruhlare]

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

[doctoralhashimi]

(insp.)

[unheardoracle]

I love characters who are like "I'm a terrible person" but when you look closer it's more like

"I adapted to survive something and now I don't know how to stop being that version of myself."

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[morionette413]

@eddieintheocean

[animentality]

[whyenn-reader]

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

[whyenn-reader]

the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.

[belindarimbi13]

Augustrope 2026

This August, join me for the 30 Days Writing Challenge, #Augustrope✨

In which we have a list of various tropes as the writing prompts. While these tropes are commonly used as recurring plot devices in fanfiction, you can also write your original story with them.

For 30 days (August 1st—August 30th, the 31st is the rest day), you can write anything with a different prompt for each day.

Any ship, fandom, characters, genres are welcome. Be it fanfiction or original fiction, just write it!

★★ 2026 Augustrope's Prompt List ★★

Day 1 — First Meeting

Day 2 — They Were Roommates

Day 3 — Beach Episode

Day 4 — ‌Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

Day 5 — ‌Domestic Fluff

Day 6 — Two People Love Triangle

Day 7 — ‌5 Times This + 1 Time That

Day 8 — Mistaken Identity

Day 9 — Coffeshop AU

Day 10 — Age Regression

Day 11 — ‌Near Death Experience

Day 12 — Enemies-to-Lovers

Day 13 — POV Outsider

Day 14 — There's Only One Bed

Day 15 — Coda/Episode Tag

Day 16 — Relationship Reveal

Day 17 — Hallmark AU

Day 18 — Amnesia

Day 19 — Body Swap

Day 20 — Potion/Spell Goes Wrong

Day 21 — Everyone Knows But Them

Day 22 — ‌Road Trips

Day 23 — Your-Fave-Movie AU

Day 24 — ‌In Vino Veritas

Day 25 — Elevator Fic

Day 26 — Fake/Pretend Relationship

Day 27 — Mutual Pining

Day 28 — ‌Meet The Family

Day 29 — Non-Human Character

Day 30 — Soulmate AU

🖇️ More info about Augustrope

Feel free to tag your work with #Augustrope (and/or #Augustrope2026) so that I can find them.

If you're on AO3, you can also add your work into the Augustrope Collection (Augustrope2026).

If you have any questions regarding the prompt, you can directly interact with this post 🫶🏻

Hope you can participate! ✨

[worst-mark-tourney]

THE FINAL ROUND

Anne Hannity (The Inside Job) VS Damien Moreau (The Big Bang Job)

Worst Mark?

Anne Hannity

Damien Moreau

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

Anne Hannity: Designed a mutation of wheat capable of withstanding the blight UG99, and intended to release this blight on the world to make the company she works for the number one company in agriculture, and so that it would put the other companies out of business while also causing a famine.

Damien Moreau: Career criminal, infamous and renowned. Eliot's previous employer, and the top of the crime pyramid. Almost killed Hardison. Attempted to rig an election in order to escape jail time. Murderous type of guy.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

everyone in the tags adding the fennell wuthering heights is correct btw

[princesssokphanny]

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕