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[obligateanthrovore]

leaving tumblr for a while

not for any of the serious thoughtful reasons people normally do that, I just don't seem to feel like tumblng

if you want to contact me I'm on discord (obligateanthrovore#4821)

[obligateanthrovore]

leaving tumblr for a while

not for any of the serious thoughtful reasons people normally do that, I just don't seem to feel like tumblng

if you want to contact me I'm on discord (obligateanthrovore#4821)

[obligateanthrovore]

leaving tumblr for a while

not for any of the serious thoughtful reasons people normally do that, I just don't seem to feel like tumblng

if you want to contact me I'm on discord (obligateanthrovore#4821)

[obligateanthrovore]

oh god

sasha

sashaaaaaaaaaaaa

[staceythinx]

Diving swans captured by Viktor Lyagushkin 

[dankmemeuniversity]

[xelayxes]

[xelayxes]

@matzahball

[dracophile]

For a second I didn’t realize it meant “high” as in a stoner–I thought “High Geologist” was like a rank of geologist or something and he was insulted you would challenge him to naming stones

[hamptercatapult]

great poast every one👍

[shirecorn]

I have drawn him…. The High Geologist

[syberfire117]

Can’t believe he’s ace

[shirecorn]

He is now And here’s the photo evidence:

[aphorisnt]

hey guys…https://twitter.com/MatthewLillard/status/1322648148364324864 so does this make it canon?

[shirecorn]

the high geologist has ascended

[ethanrayne]

every time i see this post it gets…. better? but also weirder.

[venusrrvelez]

I always gotta reblog the High Geologist once in a while.

[sapphireclawe]

I love this too much.

[is-the-fox-video-cute]

Tell me golden jackals don’t look like the weird lovechild between a wolf and a fox

[birds-and-friends]

When you have differing opinions on interior design, explore.org

[copperbadge]

TIL that the English word “Lord” in the sense of the head of an estate comes from an Old English word of Germanic origins, hlāfweard, later hlāford, later lord. 

Normally I wouldn’t remark on my romps through etymology, but “hlafweard” is a compound of hlaf, or loaf, and weard, which means guardian (see also Ward or Warden, etc). Meaning that when you call someone a lord you are calling him an esteemed keeper of the bread. 

HEY THERE BREADBOX PETER WIMSEY. LOAF GUARD PALPATINE. BREAD CLIP VETINARI. 

Lady also derives from hlaf, but in this case hlafdige or bread kneader. She makes the bread, he monitors it. Women have to do all the work as usual. 

Now, the reason I was looking this up was that I wanted to develop a gender-neutral analogue to lord/lady; there are analogues already out there naturally, but the Shivadh must be different and anyway I didn’t like the ones I’d seen suggested online. 

Given that the origins of Lord and Lady aren’t all that strongly gendered anyway (they’re about what the person does, not what their gender is), I decided that if a woman is a bread-kneader and a man is a bread-guarder, a nonbinary person should be A BREAD EATER, which would be Hlafetan.  

Thus I present to you the gender-neutral analogue to Lord or Lady: Ledan.  

[roach-works]

op i am kissing your hand

[broodcore1]

ahh fuck, made a whole fuckin universe to justify my fetish doodles again

[doombeez]

[sesamie-moving]

mutuals to be problematic queer representation with

[cl0ckw0rk-c0ntrivance]

I KIND OF JUST REALIZED THAT JESSIE FROM TEAM ROCKET FORMS A FUCKING R WITH HER HAIR AND BODY

WHY DID IT TAKE ME OVER 10 YEARS TO REALIZE THIS

[xviistars]

JAMES YOU LITTLE SHIT NOT YOU TOO

[wonderfulandterriblethings]

I never realized this until you pointed it out

[angryqueershakespeare-blog]

holy fucking shit

[i-restuff]

they love doing this btw, here’s a small compilation

[obligateanthrovore]

I'm watching the Annihilation movie and I'm trying to watch it as its own thing and not as an adaptation, I already know it's not particularly faithful and that doesn't have to be a problem, but it's so hard when so many of the changes are just objectively Worse

The main character is not into ecology any more and is instead a cell biologist. She is teaching a class on cancer. And then her husband comes back from Area X and starts dying, but just of, like, dyingness, not cancer

come on

[roach-works]

i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.

when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?

[curlicuecal]

Ahhh, what a great example of linked traits! And also shows why evolution gets so complicated

[systlin]

what ARE your anti-dipshit with a clipboard and a confident stride measures?

“You are not allowed into the facility without presenting identification. Okay, lovely. I also need your site specific training for specific hazards of this location. Okay, thank you, finding that on record. Okay, so who is your plant contact? And what work are you here to do precisely? Your work order number should be on the job assessment that your supervisor should have been sent when setting up this job….oh? You’re missing any one of those things? Sorry I cannot allow you into the facility today.”

[systlin]

If someone shows up and is missing any single one of these or can’t come up with a plant contact name? They get turned away.

[systlin]

I have in the last week in fact had a dude scream at me because I would not simply let him in. He was insisting he was here to meet with a maintenance manager to see about repairing some of their equipment. Problem with this is that he said ‘your maintenance manager’

We have like seven maintenance managers who each specialize in specific departments or systems or projects. Not a single one. Someone saying ‘THE’ manager of anything here is, 100% of the time, trying to fish info out of me.

So I ask WHICH one, and he gets upset, and finally says the name of a dude who retired three years ago. I say ‘no, he does not work here, any other contact information you have?’

Now, what this dude wanted, 100%, is to go into the plant with his pickup truck and steal scrap metal and he was trying to Bavarian fire drill his way in. It did not work. He didn’t have any other names or contact info or appointment information or anything that could verify that he was supposed to be there. He was HOPING that when he screamed at me that he’d talk to someone and have me fired that I’d go ‘no no it’s fine of course’. If I HAD done that I WOULD have been fired. I didn’t. He left. Haven’t heard shit. Knew I wouldn’t. Wrote up an incident report with his description and vehicle description so now everyone knows what’s up with him.

That’s how you defeat a dude with a clipboard and a confident stride.

[fieldbears]

OP has it absolutely right, and I want to ride on these coattails to tell a different kind of anti-sneak story.

I worked front desk for a company that had a LOT of sales people cold calling us about shit. They wanted to sell us office supplies, supplies more specific to our business, seminars for our employees, every damn thing you could think of. Our company was part of a much bigger company, so they assumed we had a ton of money to spend on contracts, gear, whatever. Enter Peter Jenkins - name changed for privacy reasons.

Our website listed Peter Jenkins as head of Sales and Marketing, or something to that effect, and he was essentially the go-to for anyone trying to sell us something. As the front desk person, I manned the single fax machine of the office, and I’d get several sales-oriented flyers that had things hand-scribbled in the corner: “For Peter, as per our chat last week! Take care!” I’d get tons of calls that needed to be directed to Peter’s line. Lots of people were cold calling… but several said that Peter was expecting a call back from them.

Peter did not exist.

“Peter” had a voicemail inbox that was regularly emptied without being checked, an email inbox that was never checked, and basically served as an incredible litmus test for sales people’s honesty. We once had someone come in saying they had a meeting booked with Peter - I asked them to sit and wait, called up a high-ranking person in the office, and asked them if Peter was in the office today, because someone was here for a booked meeting with him. Said high-ranking person said please take down all their information and let them know Peter was not in today, could they please email Peter to reschedule. I think we blacklisted that company within a few hours of that salesperson walking out.

[sleepy-bebby]

Development of bipinnaria larvae of the Luidia sarsii starfish.

[catadromously]

absolutely incredible metamorphosis on these buddies, that orange back end is the only part that continues on as an adult. they grow an entire new digestive tract in a different direction and switch from 2-way to 5-way symmetry. then they just discard the rest! it’s like they hatch from inside themselves

[arborealgargoyle]

seriously?? imagine if human babies had their normal shape but then a whole other body attached to them that they just lost like baby teeth?? wtf?? nature is weirder than fiction

WAIT WAIT it’s WEIRDER i looked this up and wikipedia says: “The larva of the species attains an unusual size (up to 35 mm[1]) and a juvenile starfish develops inside the larva. During metamorphosis the juvenile migrates to the outside and detaches from the swimming larval bipinnaria stage. The larva continues to live separately for several months.[2]”

??? whaat ???

imagine if your lost baby teeth got up and WALKED AWAY

[curlicuecal]

they said the digestive tract changes directions, so I think this is like if you grew up and then your butt crawled away and you were the butt now

[riotouseaterofflesh]

#or maybe it’s like if u grew up and gave birth to ur butt and the butt was u #nobody tell me if I’m wrong

what even is an “I” that could possibly be wrong at this point

that first tag is giving me an existential crisis