Currently: Own fiction (Maj)

[valtsv]

something i love about timeloops is that they satisfy the urge to study blorbo from your shows like a bug. i've trapped them in a timeloop and i'm subjecting them to situations. the narrative is a jar and i'm shaking it.

[trulyvincent]

Camouflaged Orange Oakleaf Butterfly

[dahelm]

nature is so damn trippy 

[dejaysus]

I thought you might like these moss-filled pawprints in concrete which I saw earlier. :-)

[bedupolker]

the dead don’t always die

[unsubconscious]

Yosuke Amemiya

[barbiesplasticsurgeon]

[jewishpangolin]

#i like the implication that dali just had that effect on things#just a surrealism field around him at all times

[willowcrowned]

there's something so compelling about stories where a character's virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.

[etirabys]

Was staring at a piece of infrastructure, pondering on the strangeness that, as sturdy as it was, it required maintenance and eventually replacement. That everything was like this – except for biological constructs that could perpetuate themselves. But they mutate. So – what if we could build everything out of biology? Our sinks and bridges become immortal – yet destined to become eerie, shifted, unrecognizable things within thousands of years.

[itsbenedict]

this is an out-of-context journal entry you find discarded in an abandoned science lab in a horror game

[faustandfurious]

The inherent homoeroticism of killing your enemy and immediately regretting it

[faustandfurious]

It’s about rage, it’s about obsession, it’s about making that two-person war your entire raison d’être. It’s about loving and mistaking it for hatred and loving and loving and loving to the point of destruction. His or yours, it doesn’t matter. And you think seeing him dead at your feet will make you feel better, but all you feel is a whole lot of nothing.

[becauseforoncethisisme]

#‘i wanted to kill you i didn’t want you to die’ (Via @mumblesplash)

[monwinvo]

Bedtime Story.

Short story by Jeffery Whitmore! Wanted to make this into a comic for a while :] just in a girl boss sorta mood hehe

thumbs + bonus :^))

[gatheringbones]

[“Not just any fungus could partner with any alga, however. One critical condition had to be fulfilled for a symbiotic relationship to arise: Each partner had to be able to do something that the other couldn’t achieve on its own. The identity of the partners didn’t matter so much as their ecological fit. In the words of the evolutionary theorist W. Ford Doolittle, it was “the song, not the singer” that appeared to be important. This finding sheds light on lichens’ ability to survive in extreme conditions. As Goward points out, lichens by their nature are a kind of “shotgun marriage” that arises in conditions too severe for either partner to survive alone. Whenever it was that lichens occurred for the first time, their very existence implies that life outside the lichen was less bearable, that together they were able to sing a metabolic “song” that neither can sing in isolation. Viewed in this way, lichens’ extremophilia, their ability to live life on the edge, is as old as lichens themselves and a direct consequence of their symbiotic way of life.”]

Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life

[vultureel]

the cyerce elegans sea slug srsly has no business looking this ethereal

[parakeet]

just found out about this cute little birdy and i am in love

[crowcryptid]

[kedreeva]

A snake in Thailand spent enough time sitting still in the water to grow moss and turn into a dragon, apparently.

More video at the source account!

[sir-virtem]

I don't think that is healthy for the snake, I hope is fine

[kedreeva]

Oh it's almost certainly not good for it, especially since the moss climbing up towards the eyes where it would obscure vision and the added water drag may slow down strikes on prey, but if the snake is otherwise healthy, the moss will likely be removed with the snake's next shed. However, it IS a fascinating wild phenomenon captured on film.

[realizedotter]

I wonder if the fact that it now looks almost nothing at all like a snake would make up for the slowed strikes. Like, if it took me about a minute to decide that that's a snake, a fish might get awfully close before reaching that conclusion

[kedreeva]

It's possible, although fish don't avoid predators only by sight, they use their lateral lines to detect movement. I would guess it would have more luck against something like frogs or lizards, but it's also possible the movement of the moss itself might confuse a fish's senses. Unfortunately the moss also makes it impossible to tell body condition to tell if the snake has been successful at hunting or not previously. It would be a fascinating case study, to see what it is doing in the wild, and whether or not it's working well.

[kedreeva]

Also since @howlsmovingnutsack asked (even though they didn't ask me), it is believed by local experts to be a puff-faced water snake! As far as I have been able to find out, the family collected it to bring to researchers, and has been feeding it while it awaits pickup.

[nocturnal-stims]

Everyday life of Pokemon

Animation by おしるこ | IG

[scrupulosity-comics]

the terror of being found by something seeking a frontier

[faustandfurious]

There’s something truly exquisite about stories where the real tragedy is the price you paid to stand on top of the world

[faustandfurious]

Hollow victories … sacrificing your humanity on the altar of what you perceive to be the greater good … the loneliness of godhood … regret for the person you used to be … the realisation that there is no way back … *chef’s kiss*

[chandra-telescope]

hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield