Dances With Noodles

Cries a lot for someone with no emotion. 30’s.gay. goatherd. swamphag.

[voydhymn]

having many trinkets and books is so cool and fun until you realize you have to dust them

[rebeccathenaturalist]

A Vital Part of Your Body Will Continue to Live Years After You Die

Each human body contains a complex community of trillions of microorganisms that are important for your health while you're alive.

I'm working on clearing out some old tabs, and ran across this piece from last fall. The short version is that your gut microbiome and other microbes that accompany you in a series of symbiotic relationships throughout your lifetime persist even after you die. While you might assume that these bacteria and other little beings would perish along with you once you're no longer warm and living, it turns out that they shift gears upon your death, being part of the massive effort to return your remains en masse to the nutrient cycle.

There's honestly something rather poetic about that. Here you've spent a lifetime being the center of a holobiont--a sort of miniature, migratory ecosystem. And these many millions of life forms that you have given safe harbor to for thousands upon thousands of their generations are among the funerary vanguard caring for your remains after you're gone. They pour forth from their ancestral lands--the gut, the skin, and other discrete places--and spread out through even the most protected regions of your form.

And then, just as you constructed your body, molecule by molecule, from a lifetime of nutrients you consumed, so do these microbes go through the process of returning everything you borrowed back to the wider cycles of food and growth and life and death. The ancient halls where their ancestors lived in relative stability are now taken apart in the open air, and their descendants will disperse their inheritance into the soil and the water through the perpetual process of decomposition.

I've always wanted a green burial, and I find it comforting that when my remains are laid in the ground, they'll be accompanied by the tiny ecosystems I spent a lifetime tending, and who will return the favor by sending my molecules off in a billion new directions.

[sugarpkts]

there are’m only 23 types of people in the world

[sugarpkts]

[asksloyxp]

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

[shinyrock6498]

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

[asksloyxp]

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[rosesforyourproses]

Ramy Mirza, is this you?

[thatromanoff]

And you have the nerves to tell me this woman isn’t gay

[paparoach]

i will be your 30 year old mutual

[memories-of-ancients]

Rock crystal bracelet, Moche culture, Peru, 1-800 AD

from The Museo Larco, Lima, Peru

[cornbelt]

last illinois winter

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do

[pansyfemme]

close your eyes and imagine freshly roasted root vegetables perfectly seasoned and crispy as far as the eye can see

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam trying to get Frodo to take one more step

[nighttimepatrons]

Sam psychologically tormenting Gollum

[th-orne]

gumboot chiton, cryptochiton stelleri

...also known as a WANDERING MEATLOAF

6.26

[redlipstickresurrected]

Iness Rychlik (Polish, b. 1991, Poland, based London, England) - Willow, Photography

[ot3]

i fear we are never making it out of this alive because the greater collective of the human race is still struggling with "maybe we shouldn't openly and explicitly hate women" and the thought of managing to get to "maybe we should actually like and respect women" anywhere in my lifetime feels about as attainable as everyone spontaneously learning to fly

[thatgaybitxh-deactivated2025062]

why am i dressed slutty you ask? to read classic literature alone in my room. mind your own business.

[somekindaspacecadet]

[herpsandbirds]

Whiskered Auklets (Aethia pygmaea), family Alcidae, order Charadriiformes, off of Adak Island in the Central Aleutians, Alaska

photographs by Marc Kramer