Lone Gen Sailboat in a Sea of Ships

Cis female, aro/ace, she/her, fully adult and currently multi-fandom, into various anime, pet rats, and Batfam/Tim Drake content. I adore, reblog, and create: bromance, team dynamics, hurt/comfort, platonic cuddling, pudding. I do not ship, but I do not condone antis.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[parkchanwoohoo]

This kid is so fucking good holy shit. I love how into it the audience is, too

[crowboy-bebop]

unauthorized fucking thing!!!!!!

(warning: loud chirping throughout)

source: hellgate osprey cam

[curlicuecal]

[aetherograph]

More context:

the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.

ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys

ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food

the starling got home safely

the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.

at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.

ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!

[shitpostingkats]

If you heard "Batman has four sons", you'd be forgiven for thinking that each of those sons has three brothers. But that's a rookie mistake. Dick is the only one of them who actually has three brothers, and that's because he put in the work for it, thank you very much. Jason has one brother (Dick), and two kids that his dad had after he moved out (Tim and Damian). Damian actually ping pongs between acknowledging Tim and Jason as his brothers, and thinking they don't count because they're not related to him, but regardless of how he feels about those two he is always related to Dick, Dick just isn't always his brother. So Damian can vary wildly from having three brothers to two brothers to zero brothers.

Tim is literally only brothers to Dick. The other two are his annoying coworkers.

[catchymemes]

[catasters]

[monchursouls]

Smacka smacka smacka

[middlering]

My favorite genre of self-portrait is cartoonists being bothered by their characters while trying to draw

Bill Watterson – Calvin and Hobbes (1986)

Hergé – Tintin (1947, Tintin Magazine)

Jeff Smith – Bone (1993, Bone Holiday Special)

Walt Kelly – Pogo (1950, Maclean's Magazine)

And a bonus:

Berkeley Breathed – Bloom County

[polarcell]

for the reverse, take this image of Tove Jansson about to murder the moomin characters

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[girlsworldrats]

borb (betsy orb)

[girlsworldrats]

[cecelovesrats]

can i lovingly smooch the rat on its head

yep it's possible

[meetthemischief]

My sweet stinky piss boy chaos potato Duke enjoying some pats for snuggles time.

He really like firm caressing down the entire body. Often just lies there flat as a pancake with eyes closed 💜

[shadowtherat]

I caught Crumb gently cleaning her ears 🥺 IDK why this is so cute to me, but seeing her gently scoop them is adorable ❤️

[iggykoopa666]

me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals

[dykentery]

the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.

the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional

[majorarc]

It also puts the bibly at the front and center, which is important, because bilby were once widespread in Australia, but due to the threat of habitat loss, disease, and predation by invasive species in Australia, like foxes, these little guys have dwindled in numbers.

You can learn more about bilby conservation here, as well as get links to other resources, and, if you're a bilby fan, some access to bilby merch. I think I see some chocolate Easter bilby in there, too!

[everythingfox]

Loving the water

(via)

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[zitasaurusrex]

unrestrained summer fun

[kriimhild]

monty

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[kiralamouse]

Since I hate having to do my own searches to verify stuff, here’s a Science Daily link and the journal article it cites for any similarly lazy-but-conscientious people after me. (And the University of Michigan press release, for what it’s worth.)

[ratsquinks]

the magnificent shramp