violets from the dead land!

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[kingcatnine]

wildlife take care not to stand still for too long lest you end up one of my inaturalist observations

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is the two-colored orange spider wasp (Heterodontonyx bicolor)!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Females of this Halloween-coded species are nearly twice as big as the males. She has to be big though to hunt and carry her spiders of choice: huntsman and wolf spiders, aka the big burly ones that are often even bigger than she is. These wasps are also capable of a real whopper of a sting, though they are unlikely to sting humans as their chief concern is the spider grind.

[waspdaily]

Fanta flavored

[literatureismyentirepersonality]

I have never been able to write in any steadfast way, it is always like being struck by lightning and I have to grab the wind before it gets away from me

[limulusamebocytelysate]

If it helps I am also like this.

[devoutjunk]

“Magic in Clarke’s novel is synonymous or inseparable from the living force of the natural world. It doesn’t seek to refuse reality or deny history. Instead magic functions as a radical rejection of stasis and separateness, a dissolving of borders not just on the level of nations but on the level of individual consciousness. When Drawlight is swallowed up by the enchanted wood, Clarke writes: “The trees, the stones and the earth had taken him inside themselves, but in their shape it was possible still to discern something of the man he had once been.” This is the darker side of Clarke’s vision of interlinkedness, an eco-consciousness that is all-consuming, vengeful even, rather than benevolent. But even this ambiguous force carries with it a kind of hope: Drawlight’s devouring represents a world where humans function as part of nature rather than stand outside of it. He is able to live  “inside” the world while still retaining “something of the man he had once been.” In her depiction of magic, Clarke reintegrates the human into the natural.”

A Candle Burning: Nation and The Agency of Nature in Fantasy, Caroline Shea

[status-quo-hater]

Honestly I don't think you should need a diagnosis of anything to get HRT. I think you should just be able to go buy it at CVS like it's ibuprofen.

[eternal-fractal]

I can buy cigarettes at any 711 and get lung cancer and waste thousands of dollars, but I can't get estrogen because I "need to be sure its what i want, so i don't end up hating my body?" But I'm free to cough up tar from my lungs as soon as I'm like 21?

[longingforrotkehlchen]

You have to resort to paparazzo photos since there's only one Heckenbraunelle in Stuttgart – and I'm willing to take the heat for my unethical actions.

Heckenbraunelle (dunnock) auf dem Blauen Weg, Stuttgart-West.

[limulusamebocytelysate]

Mantis lords hollow knight...

[apolladay]

What do you call these?

tangerines

clementines

Dancys

mandarins

satsumas

tangors

Cuties

something else

multiple of these interchangeably

I don't know/results

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

[averyterrible]

KUBLAI: You have told me of the many cities of my empire, ones I have never seen. You have told me of how they carve and trade chalcedony, grow corn and taro, and shape themselves from the landscape of the human animal. In your stories, I begin to determine the hidden laws that cause cities to rise. But I have a question for you now in turn.

MARCO: Of course, Great Khan, I am at your disposal.

KUBLAI: I would describe to you a city, but ask if you have seen it, but I know you will say, "the city, Great Khan, you speak of is Leodora, but it does not have marble terraces and jade ponds, but basalt spires and ever-present umbrella-sellers. The illusion of the jade pond arises from the green color of the umbrellas customary to that city," or something similar. So instead, I shall speak plainly.

At this point, the Khan fell silent, and looked out across the pleasure garden he shared with Marco Polo at sunset. He smoked deeply on his hookah, while he reflected on his words. There was a hidden law that guided questions, not only cites.

KUBLAI: Tell me then, Marco Polo, are the real Invisible Cities the friends we made along the way?

[night-the-starfish]

Girls' night, gouache on paper.

[goldcrested]

10.01.2026 - he has the power of water droplet manipulation

[a-book-of-creatures]

Cicada sketches by Vincent van Gogh.

Found in Vincent van Gogh, Letters from Provence (French edition).

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Chrysis elegans!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

These cuckoo wasps like it dry and sandy, but aren't picky when it comes to deciding which fellow hymenopteran nests they'll dump their kids off in. They'll lay their eggs in the nests of either ground nesting wasps or cavity nesting bees and then flit off to frolic among the flowers of wild carrots.

[waspdaily]

See her elegans

[lilyflxwers]

ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know

[3rdvoice]

3rd Voice: 146th Scene: Kid

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[adhdo5]

Tumblr post 1: Stories are all too grimdark and such it is fash doomerism to assume reality is evil What we need in these times is stories that inspire hope that is truly revolutionary

Tumblr post 2: Stories are all too fluffy and happy and such it is fash revisionism to shy away from the darkness What we need in these times is stories that are cathartic and unsettling that is truly revolutionary

MORAL: All storytelling is evil (telling lies)

[limulusamebocytelysate]

I think I'm simply going to have to exposure therapy myself out of my fear of needles.