Hello!

I'm Alex (any pronouns) I'm 21 (omgomgomg time passes and im still here for another year)

[thoughtstherapy]

Which one is your favourite? @thoughtstherapy

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

this is fred, the dot.

fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

reblog to give fred a branch

i will post fred status updates as he grows

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

look at him go!

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

he's figuring out how to tree!

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

35 reblogs, he's growing so good :D

[the-silly-words-on-your-screen]

75 reblogs, fred continues to grow

reminder to spread out your branches (ie. dont spam reblogs on one post), he's starting to get a little crowded near the trunk :(

[gallusrostromegalus]

At 1788 Reblogs, Fred is spreading nicely... But We Can Do Better :)

[siderealglimmer]

I would like to see the Fred again please

[the-choir-invisible]

[siderealglimmer]

Oh, ✨Fred!✨

🤩

[cantotallyeven]

This is Fred the post. Please help Fred the Post grow more. We love Fred the Post.

[the-haiku-bot]

This is Fred the post.

Please help Fred the Post grow more.

We love Fred the Post.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[starflare2]

@bethancahill @dookdookie

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 2013

[starflare2]

@bethancahill @dookdookie

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i appear to have made mortal nemeses with a pigeon

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tumblr stop rooting for the pigeon

[iamcon-fu-sion]

pick a side

team gaud

team pigeon

Voting ended onJun 1

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

CEASE THIS IMMEDIATELY

[starflare2]

@bethancahill

[twilightcitysky]

The thing is. The thing is, the show is a romantic comedy. The book wasn't, fine. But the show IS. intentionally so. What was the point of the Jane Austin emphasis in S2, all those mirror couples, the ball, the freaking S1 cold open and subsequent breakup... if not to tell us that we're doing romantic comedy? It follows all the beats including a big disagreement/ rupture in act 2.

If you are going to do that, you HAVE to follow through on expectations for the central couple. That's what the audience expects and how these narratives are crafted. Instead, they decided to go "nihilist philosophical" in the last scene with no warning and flip the table on everyone's expectations, and it isn't fair to do that and then say we're the ones who are media illiterate because we didn't like it. They are the ones who set the expectation in the first place and capitalized on that.

[crowleysgirl56]

Thissssssssss

[cowboydeanwinchester]

is he … you know … open to interpretation?

[cowboydeanwinchester]

nobody on this webbed site can read

[wormcoded]

[rvllybllply2014]

I need to know his obsession with taking things and making the exact same thing out of the first thing

[aviantastic]

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

[fluentisonus]

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

[cryptidofthecove]

[ineffectualdemon]

I am a kind and caring person who would be corrupted by absolute power so fast it's embarrassing

I am self aware enough to know that I would speed run from well meaning altruistic do gooder to villain so fucking fast

And not in the lame Elon Musk or JKR way

But in the "I have built a space laser to enforce Silly Hat Friday"

I am hard coded to be a Saturday Morning Low Stakes Cartoon Villain and just lack the funds and ability

If I had access to all the money and power I needed Monday I'm feeding the hungry and funding hospitals

By Friday I'm laughing manically from my base in a Volcano just before I'm defeated by a bunch of plucky 10 year olds and their amusing pet.

So it's probably for the best I'm poor.

[ineffectualdemon]

I am definitely a low stakes villain because if I had lasers and a secret base and a shark moat or whatever I would definitely be able to be defeated for a week by a group of 10 yearolds with a contraption made of string, planks of wood, and pie

Also my schemes would be nonsensical and pointless but very annoying if they worked (they never would because of the 10 year olds)

[gayfertilitygoddess]

saw this post and I had to

[lutheban]

Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD previous

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[thememedaddy]

[yasmin1000000]

“So basically my couch has electricity and I use it to charge my battery powered doorbell”

“Okay that makes sense”

[la-reine-du-disco]

Now explain it to a Japanese samurai from the year 1218

[rui-cifer]

"do you know how waterwheels grind up grain in a water mill using the force of running water? We found a way to create a huge source of force that runs all the time and can transfer its force over long distance. I can tell you in more detail, but that's the basics. Now that is a chime that has a mechanism that one can press instead of having to open the door to let you know that you are waiting to be let in. It requires the transferred force to make the mechanism work and that wire is how we transfer the force to the chime."

[sizhens-deactivated20250415]

[mediocrefantasy]

i love these sort of posts because they feel like a vision of a kinder and more thoughtful world that I wish more than anything was the mainstream instead of the exception

[death-by-sc0tland]

it's still killing me that the doctor and the master are canonically each other's emergency contacts. who gets your will when you think you're about to die oh right it's the guy that's been trying to kill you. for centuries

[patt-off]

oh your pronouns are he/they?

well that’s mathematically incorrect becuase you can still simplify the fraction since both sides have “he”

making your pronouns technically 1/ty

[patt-off]

>:)

[ncah-czerny]