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Wild caught clownfish will be like ‘hm you see, the anemone you got me is a slightly different color and tentacle width than the one I had back home, so I will not begin hosting it. I’ll be a sort of wandering ronin for the rest of my days.’ And then a captive bred clownfish will be like ‘ok so I have this curved rock I found and I just sit above it and it take care of me 👍’

c-53

Some of my favorite clownfish hosts

cipheramnesia

#mybrick

foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland

3 mutuals rb the same post in a row and u have to pick who to rb it from and it locks ur game into their ending of the game

codecicle-archive

monsterblogging

I think one important step in decolonizing fantasy is to recognize how wildly anti-environment Europeans became, and how this affects the way we look at the nonhuman world. Like, in England wolves were driven to extinction because they were perceived as threats to sheep. And white people absolutely carried this kind of mentality everywhere they colonized. We see it in people who think rattlesnakes should be killed on sight. And it comes out in fantasy when every kind of creature that's challenging to humans is degraded, unpersoned, and treated like something to kill or keep contained out in the deep wilds.

nick-nonya

specialagentartemis

Intelligent alien species based on bugs but specifically those moths that don’t have mouths and only live for a week after they pupate. This species’ whole conscious life is actually in the larval phase; larvae are the ones considered people, larvae are the ones with conscious and complex brains who build society, and each instar of the larva is treated as a different phase of life. Larvae become emotionally and socially and cognitively mature without ever becoming sexually mature. When they pupate, they metamorphose into something different and strange and close to mindless, with no mouth and no digestive system, whose only instincts are to mate and then quickly die. Metamorphosis is treated, functionally, like a person’s death, and the imago phase is a kind of proto-afterlife of majestic flight and the continuation of the species. Birth and death inextricably intertwined. Sex is not something people do during their lives, it’s a thing that is done as an imago after you’ve passed on from your life but before you return to the soil in death. Resultant eggs are collected by family members to raise. I think this would be fun.

doctorgrantthinksthatsabadidea

You may be interested in a short story in the Predator anthology Eyes of the Demon:

The Distance in their Eyes by Stephen Graham Jones (AND it’s the second story so if you just look at the sample on Kindle the whole story’s included in the first 10%)

mcgravin

I'd also recommend James Tiptree Jr.'s "Love is the Plan the Plan is Death". It's a story told from the perspective of an alien species who have sapience during the warm summer months, but their minds revert to animalistic, instinct behavior ("the Plan") during the cold winter.

transfemininomenon

saddest string of words ive ever read please get some self respect baby girl

gravityjunior

Starting a collection

cupcraft

You never know what color pallette someone's Tumblr is till ppl are screenshotting posts and tags

aropride

do u like mine

cupcraft

Oh wow.

cupcraft

Some people on tumblr are reading ancient scrolls and you'd never know

winged-void

does anyone know if princesses can get in trouble. quickly.

magicalastronomies

princesses can never get in trouble otherwise they wouldn't be princesses 😺✌️

winged-void

whew. okay. that's good. *unbarricades the doors and fires my guards*

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

gentle reminder that if u feel hungry soon after eating, it might be bc you’re eating mostly carbs without adding enough protein. try eating a handful of nuts or smthing alongside your next meal.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

and you don’t have to change the recipe or anything! you can eat what you were going to, just add some cheese cubes or a handful of nuts or salami slices on the side. u don’t have to change your meals, just add a little extra protein

kreature-ofthenight

thats nice but what do I need to do If I wake up around 3 am every other night with an unquenchable hunger for flesh even tho I ate normal balanced meals trough the day?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

spoonful of peanut butter

trustworthymedicaladvice

another way to manage the undying hunger for flesh is to eat 15-20 live crickets. their souls are weaker than most other animals that size but they are easy to get a hold of and have the best flavor

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

this checks out!

creepish

tachyon-log

They are going to cancel me on account of my various science experimence.

catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241

by far the best ad I’ve gotten on this app entirely because I tried rotating it out of sheer curiosity and absolutely nothing happened

catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241

averyterrible

The children's show villain is a figure who sadly is not seen outside the children's show. There are few stock characters who as succinctly declare, from sheer stage presence, "the world is unloveable and it is painful to live here; that which delights mankind is like ash on my tongue" without being too fucking whiny about it.

averyterrible

maladaptive suicidal ideation: "i'm going to kill myself"

productive, growth mindset: "i'm going to steal all the instruments from Musictown!"