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Lulz. INTP-A. Writer and biologist to be. Teacher. Wiccan. Feminist. I play music sometimes, and am utterly obsessed with dragons as well. Multifandom personal mess. If you need something tagged, let me know.

[sirfrogsworth]

He doesn’t look a day over 129. 

[thefrogman]

This is Jonathan the Great Tortoise. 

He lives at the Governor’s mansion on St. Helena island in the South Atlantic. (The final resting place of Napoleon Bonaparte.) He spends his days hanging out on a perfectly manicured lawn with his best friend Fred and his mate Emma. 

Here is a pic of him (left) as a young whippersnapper in 1886.

Jonathan might not look a day over 129, but he is not completely immune to the aging process. He has lost most of his vision due to cataracts. His hearing is still pretty good and he really enjoys listening to people playing tennis. 

Despite his advanced age Jonathan is still a sex machine. His handlers say his libido is quite strong to this day. Here he is posting a thirst trap to Instagram. 

After he uses his powers of seduction he’ll get busy with Emma. 

Or Fred.

Did I mention the world’s oldest tortoise is bisexual? 

Nice. 

[nikita-ermakov]

[pantaloonwarrior]

[renamonkalou]

Norway | Johannes Höhn

[antoniosbanderas]

Antonio Banderas + recording his voice for Puss In Boots movie

[ekjohnston]

i like that he’s holding a foil for effect

[fogpowers]

they gave this man a foil

[lagonegirl]

Neil Gaiman on impostor syndrome.

[taurielsilvan]

Nine companions. So be it. You shall be the fellowship of the ring.        – Great! Where are we going?

[bohemianhomes]

House Boats, Floating Homes, via Moon to Moon

[sixpenceee]

Take a look at the blue-ringed octopus. It is filled with enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.

Their bites are tiny and often painless, and many don’t notice they’ve been bitten until respiratory depression and paralysis kicks in. People who have received a dose of tetrodotoxin can be fully aware of their surroundings, but unable to move, and with no way of signaling for help. There is no antivenom to its bite. However, if you hook yourself up to a ventilator to breathe for you for 15 hours, the effects of tetrodotoxin will wear off and you will survive with no side effects. Image: Yusran Abdul Rahman / Shutterstock

[dracorouge]

Ceremony & devotion

📷:  Ryan Chang

[adamsimons]

Adam Simons.

[usgsbiml]

A marker of death.  One of the green bottle flies (Lucilia species).  You have seen this fly.  It feeds on dead things.  Common and a good cleaner upper if you like your dead things in the woods to be primarily bone.  Found on the MAGLEV train yard site on Beltsville Ag Center.  Unlike all the other species we have featured, this one will remain if the trainyard is built.  Pretty really, if you can disassociate from its preferred food.  I think of one of my favorite poems by Emily Dickinson

I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –   The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air –   Between the Heaves of Storm –

The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –   And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset – when the King Be witnessed – in the Room –  

I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away What portions of me be Assignable – and then it was There interposed a Fly –  

With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz –   Between the light – and me –   And then the Windows failed – and then I could not see to see –

        - Emily Dickinson

Photo by Elizabeth Panner. New photographer in the lab.

[jeanqrey]

I invite you to my lab, and you just kick things around? Huh?

SHURI in Black Panther (2018)

[finallybeautifulstranger]

If this were a movie, I would ride off in some blood red sunset down a stretch of desert road into the wasteland that keeps us captive here. But this isn’t a movie, these are the Badlands. BADLANDS (2015)

[frodo-baggins]

i was today years old when i discovered that a frodo rubber duck exists oh my days

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[cool-dad-deactivated20240526-de]

[peachdoxie]

[bidoctor]

nature series 4/∞