Whirly Twirly Gum Drop Forest

Hey. (now with peaches)

[noping-out-deactivated20241117]

It would be a real shame if instead of being covered by paint, which can be removed, bronze statues of racists were to come into contact with saltwater or tomatoes and be destroyed by irreversible bronze disease.

[popsunner]

Was just informed by my mom that I do in fact have ADHD and the reason I thought I didn’t was because ever since I was seven whenever I got super energetic my mom would have me go chop wood so now when I’m feeling The ADHD I go chop wood and I thought it was just some sort of routine I started when I was little and wanted to blow off steam

[popsunner]

I’d also like to point out that my sister has a really hard time staying present (I can’t remember the term because we’ve always called it Tethered at my house) and whenever she’s feeling Untethered my mom has her knead bread and make syrup because they’re repetitive and easy things to do that ground her

[popsunner]

Now that I’m thinking about it- my brother has days where he doesn’t talk and doesn’t eat unless he’s prompted, and on those days my mom sits him down in the fish pond in the backyard and plays Mozart and because he’s so used to that being his wake up he always comes back in after like an hour rambling about random things

[popsunner]

Oh yeah and when it rains my mom has a required hour where we all have to go outside and run around and whoever finds the most worms for the garden wins and then we go inside and my mom makes us tea and we watch Studio Ghibli movies

[popsunner]

Wait!!! When one of us has a bad day at school we make a fire in the backyard and roast homemade sausages and my mom tells us stories until we laugh and then she tucks is in bed like we’re five again and sings us songs

[popsunner]

Uh.... wait guys is my mom a witch raising a bunch of fae kids hold on-

[saint-batrick]

your mom is very definitely a witch raising a bunch of fae kids, please tell her i love her in the abstract way one can love a complete stranger.

[weeabooparadise94]

I am enamoured with your mother

[letitrainathousandflames-archive]

I just. I don’t like this view of “millennials vs Gen Z”. This is NOT supposed to be a competition of who got fucked over the most and who’s “actually fighting back”.

Millennials are fighting back just by surviving in a job market where the minimum wage doesn’t cover the living cost. Millennials are awesome at “killing” the diamond, golfing and napkins industries. Millennials are using the internet to make sure things that corporations want to keep in the dark are exposed. They’re open LGBTQIA-friendly business, they’re supporting each other with online donations so everyone can survive this shitty economy.

And the Gen Z kids? The Gen Z kids are rad. I remember a post about something like the millennials making a collective promise to never become a disenchanted generation that only criticizes the next one and I want to point out that this “millennials vs gen z” trend is trying to do exactly that: split us apart. Prevent millennials from being the older siblings that teach the younger siblings to throw a good punch and turn them into the annoyed adult complaining about “those kids” on their lawn. We are the two groups that grew in a connected world of information. We are two very unique generations.

I think that it’s our duty for us millennials, as a disrespected, underpaid, very angry generation to stand up by our younger siblings, and fight together the oppressive systems that brought us all to this point.

[willowofthehearth]

They’re trying very hard to pit Millennials and Gen Z against each other because I honestly think they’re terrified of what the two will accomplish together.

[asgardian-viking]

They already started making articles about TikTok Gen Z teens are making fun of Millenials. Don´t fall for that shit

[tally-art-deactivated20201005]

Only the subtlest metaphors on this Tumblr.

[pastel-hutt-deactivated20180115]

This works as a metaphor for children but also it works perfectly well when played totally straight because horse people are actually like this

[rider-waite-blog]

it literally took me three solid readings through this to realize that it wasn’t necessarily about horse people, because they are exactly like this

[nessa007]

Queer Eye | Season 5, Episode 1

[quantum-dragon]

[unashamedly-glaswegian]

[kaijuno]

[kreature-ofthenight]

gays dress like everyone from Jurassic Park tbh

[kaijuno]

Fair point

[weavingviolets]

─ Art in details│Painted by Abraham Janssens & Karel Dujardin.

[ymcr]

Visit Original Link

[paddington-two]

was this joke maybe the dumbest one he’s ever done? yes. did it make me laugh so hard that i cried? also yes

[jakecooliced]

“you dumb piece of shit! despicable people, how am i related to you” has the same energy as “you dumb piece of shit! i cant believe we share genetic material, you make me so angry. i hate your guts”

[cruentumrosas]

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

Me going through with an impulsive thought

[inthisquarter]

This is a requirement for getting a geology degree

[theenduringsun]

the sand guardian’s elusive brother…the stone guardian…

[cottoneyenoh]

hephaestus quivers before him

[entierradefrikis]

[mitski-miyawakis]

when moses returned from the mountain with the stone tablets with the 10 commandments and saw the people worshipping the golden calf

[finalgrlfriendarchive-deactivat]

if my bones are gonna crack like glow sticks every time i move i think i deserve bioluminescence. both to complete the aesthetic and as a consolation prize

[tobeohs]

sokka: i challenge you to an agni kai

zuko: wh- but you cant even-

sokka:

[stability]

i literally can’t stop thinking about this video and i lose it every time

[politicalsci]

[bunjywunjy]

What's this about oarfish mouths?

so most bony fish mouths all work pretty much the same way, which is that the actual mouth is a fairly delicate structure that’s normally folded up inside the fish’s face like an accordion. and when the fish sees something it wants to eat/intimidate/smooch gently, it extends the mouth and literally launches its jaws forward out of its face and at its target.

“oh dang, I am just a normal fish going about my normal fish day.”

“HEY YOU GIMME SMOOCH”

and Oarfish are no exception! their version of fish origamiface is just a little more... extreme. like someone tried to make a paper crane while drunk, and also possessed by a demon. normally their faces are folded up all politelike like this, 

but when they see something delicious....

*SHOOMP*

this exploding-face trick creates a low-pressure zone inside of the Oarfish’s mouth, which forcibly sucks in any shrimp/small fish/souls of drowned sailors that are in the Suction Zone. these goodies are immediately swallowed as the Oarfish puts its face back together and goes back to being not a nightmare alien creature.

“hello friend, it is me, Normal Fish!”

and sure, there are definitely fish out there with WAY more extreme mouth extension than the Oarfish! but those fish are not also 50 foot long earthquake-predicting mirror sea serpents that spend their time hanging vertically in the deep ocean like they’re pretending to be a support column.

we love you, Oarfish, never change.

[dogplane]

An animal that I love that lives near me (southeastern united states) is the american paddlefish, which goes from this:

To this:

and it utilizes its gaping maw to filter feed. Their eggs are also used for culinary caviar.

[zuroyuso]

The Slingjaw Wrasse (Epibulus insidiator) is another extreme example of how fish jaws work. Normally they look, well, like normal fish like this:

However, if they want to feed a bone filament slides over their skulls and their faces extend like this:

This is what it looks like in action and is what you really need to see to understand what on earth is going on in these fish (and in a lesser extent, to most other fish as well)

Phenomenal

[feanor-the-dragon]

How dare you hide that in the notes

[cillianmurphy]