ten-thousand worms in a trench coat

24 | they/she/he | AuDHD | based UK | ecology and worldbuilding!!

[nemfrog]

Dragons. Anton Seder. Das Thier in der decorativen Kunst. The animal in decorative art. 1896.

Internet Archive

[ducissatenebrarum]

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Flying Fox, 1886

[wolfertinger666]

when you remember what happened to the word "woke" you'll never stop being mad. woke originally meant to "stay alert" during antiblack racial injustices that black individuals face and now it got turned into meme shit and it's genuinely infuriating when antiblack systemic oppression is still ongoing across the world.

[wolfertinger666]

seeing nonblack leftists use the word ironically without at least knowing the origin of it is blood boiling. I'm tired of black phrases and slang being turned into "memes" it's turning black culture and awareness into a joke.

[bogleech]

(This but just replace "mother" with my uncles. My mom is nice)

[enchantedbook]

'Stag meeting a Unicorn'. Historical artwork from 'The Book of Lambspring', (1749) edition, showing a meeting between a stag and a unicorn in a forest clearing. In alchemical tradition, the stag sumbolises the Sun and the Unicorn represents the Moon - a union of opposites, harmony of energies.

[pmamtraveller]

By Jane Nevill

[theveryworstthing]

the deceptively named Cradle Kelp is actually a type of mermaid that makes their home in kelp forests. little is known about them due to being on more of the eldritch ocean spirit side of the mermaid spectrum, but they seem to be harmless unless threatened (then they become VERY harmful) and intelligent enough to have an extensive sign language.

Fun Facts:

when resting they use their alarmingly strong grip to anchor themselves to the sea floor or nearby kelp stalks and let the rest of their body float free.

they love to go in shipwrecks and fiddle with buttons and levers and things that have interesting textures.

they have retractable claws.

if they feel like it they can comfortably leave the water for a few hours. so if you see trails of hand prints in the sand, don't worry about it :)

[theveryworstthing]

a Coral Mermaid watching over the reef.

there's some debate about whether these actually count as mermaids, but other mermaids obviously think they do so everyone else's opinions don't really matter. they begin life looking and acting like any other non-sapient coral, but over the years they grow very large (like, 12 to 15 feet) and vaguely mermaid shaped (in some cases so vague that you only know what you're looking at if you catch them at a specific angle and suddenly you're swimming next to A Person).

they do not move or make audible sounds, but many are seen with "masks" tethered to their "heads" by thin flexible tendrils. this is the closest they get to emoting. the "masks" are often pieces of their own bodies that have molted or broken off, but they'll sometimes be spotted with an acceptably sized piece of driftwood or other chosen debris. reports of coral merms using human skeletons or entire sunken ships as "faces" make for good stories, but they probably are also just stories. there are cooler, more accessible skeletons just laying around and She was probably always a myth.

[wild-e-eep]

19 months of development on this fantastic dead end sign. November 2024 -> June 2026.

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💬 0  🔁 121  ❤️ 242 · This is the standard UK highway sign for "this is where all the lichens are" :3

[drafthearse]

velvet mite on lichen

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

i need to read everything ever before the end of the summer

[seasoflife]

Elizabeth Shull

seasoflife

[die-rosastrasse]

Tapestry creatures 🖤🌷

Pictures taken at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam during the 'Metamorphoses' exhibition. This medieval tapestry is called 'Narcissus' by an unknown author | 01 III 2026

[zooliminology]

An old photo was discovered in non-Project archival records. It appears to be an aberrant form of Prince in an area yet to be discovered by staff. The photo's visual noise denotes the presence of ionizing radiation.

[chimeride]

a harpy but the hind legs are the wings like a Sharovipteryx

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[knitmeapony]

She started to transition after 5000 years. It's never too late.

[cassiefisherdrake]

This is one of many reasons why scientists are (sometimes slowly, sometimes quickly) moving away from "male" and "female" flowers to calling them staminate (pollen-producing) and pistillate (seed-producing). Plants just don't fit our definitions of "male" or "female," rendering the old terminology insufficient - though, really, even humans don't fit this binary!

Also, fun fact, the flowers that include both pollen- and seed-producing structures on the same flower are called, among other terms depending on exact structure, perfect bisexuals. Moving away from the sexes terminology, they're often just called perfect.

[theveryworstthing]

divingbelles are mermaids in the selkie family who use humanoid skins to house aquatic forms instead of the other way around.

as this lovely lady demonstrates, some of the more delicate divingbelles that take after jellyfish or molluscs hold onto their skins kind of like snail shells. they dislocate the pieces to unfurl from the spaces between when under water, and pull the bits back together when they want to hide or walk around.

[silicon65]

Rotting Dragon