anemone

im here for girls and karl marx

[memorycycle]

genius. it creates energy clones of itself to gather resources, while the main body stays alert and safe. and if i attack, it can simply swap bodies with one of its clones

[bahrullmarta]

Abstract noise

[queermasculine]

the wallet chain and the carabiner, while not penis-like in appearance, are definitely at least symbolically phallic. which is why it's actually normal to want to put them in your mouth, if you really think about it

[slimetony]

The fedex guy threw my package full of priceless fingerbones of various saints and apostles over the fence into a big puddle because he couldnt figure out how to use the front gate. This is the tenth or eleventh time this has happened now.

[fatehbaz]

check this out

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A newly described anemone species has been found off the coast of Japan and appears to live exclusively on the shells of one hermit crab species.

First-of-its-kind video recordings of the hermit crab and anemone duo show the hermit crab moving to a new shell and spending more than 40 hours poking, peeling and dragging the anemone to come along.

Researchers believe the hermit crab and anemone are in an obligate symbiotic relationship, or that they need each other to survive. The anemone eats falling debris and protects the hermit crab from parasites and predators, and in turn, gets to hitch a ride to fresh feeding grounds.

In deep waters off the coast of Japan, a hermit crab is wearing haute couture. On its shell is the new-to-science anemone species Stylobates calcifer, named after the fire demon Calcifer from the novel and Studio Ghibli film Howl’s Moving Castle. 

A research team led by Akihiro Yoshikawa, a professor from the University of Tokyo, collected the anemone-hermit crab duo from the sea floor at a depth of 100 to 400 meters (330 to1,300 feet) in the sea of Kumano and Suruga Bay on the Pacific side of Japan. Researchers have published descriptions of the new anemone species in The Biological Bulletin. The newly described anemone species appears to live exclusively on the shells of the hermit crab species Pagurodofleinia doederleini, a hint that these two species are in an obligate symbiotic relationship […]. Much like a conch shell, anemones use their own secretions to form their shell-like attachments (in this case, to their hermit crab host). “The shell-making ability of the new species in the species-specific relationship appears as if Calcifer was in a magical contract with the Wizard Howl, constructing his Moving Castle,” Yoshikawa told Mongabay in an email. […] “Our study is perhaps the first observation of the behavioral interaction of the rarely studied amazing mutualism in the deep sea,” Yoshikawa said. There are at least 35 other symbiotic sea anemone species known to science that live on the shells of hermit crabs. This newest species is the fifth of its genus but the first found in Japanese waters.

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Headline, images, captions, and text published by: Liz Kimbrough. “In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back of a hermit crab.” Mongabay. 2 August 2022.

[rnismatch]

(guy who hasnt ever seen anything) i dont know what that is. it kind of reminds me of nothing

[peysk]

OP must have been eating seasonal fruits when they wrote this!

[sweatermuppet]

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[enmiljontystnader]

[viscerate]

morrowind is really good actually

[sweatermuppet]

[Image ID: a black and white typography edit that reads "chivalry is not dead... chivalry is transsexual." in an old western-style font. there are a pair of work gloves, a pair of boots, a pair of pruning shears, and a single rose on the stem. the entire image is textured to look aged and photocopied. /End ID]

click for quality (instagram) (my shop)

[wnq-psychology]

“Studies show that most emotions last no longer than 90 seconds unless we attach stories to them. You have a feeling of being lonely—and this will pass through you quickly unless you make up a story about how you’re lonely because you’re unlovable and worthless and nobody will ever love you and you’re going to be alone forever. When you attach to the story, you suffer needlessly and the suffering can linger for years. But you don’t have to choose to suffer this way. Your soul can find peace, comfort, and stillness even in the most difficult times if you’re able to view your negative emotions from this witness position.”

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Lissa Rankin | @wnq-psychology

The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

[konspiratsiia]

you cant tell me what to do i will suffer as needlessly as i want

[formerlybutchpoet]

I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

[memorycycle]

people on the subway train are alwaus looking at their phones well we should look to eachother and build a community that lives on trains and be like a siphonophore that uses the train as a shell . and float through the pelagic zone and share the seas nutrients such as small fish and crustaceans among our linked bodies

[memorycycle]

we have to combine into one organism and live in the ocean

[godsarecrazy]

I need an IV of creek water STAT

[bearie]

u can post something like 'i love my kitty cat' and as soon as it starts getting notes someone is going to tag it as #this is John Cellphone and Refrigerator Pete

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

Terracotta Bust of Isis-Aphrodite Ptolemaic Egypt, c. 300-30 B.C.