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'The Rainbow’, Nikolay Dubovskoy. 1892. Oil on canvas.

So.. hermit crabs use OTHER animals' shells as their own shell? Shells from a dead animal?

yep, the crab didn't make this!

naked hermit crabs have a long, soft abdomen that's basically begging any passing seagull to strike the crab in their weak point for massive damage, so the very first thing that a baby hermit crab does when it struggles out of the surf onto the beach is to look for an appropriately-sized shell to cover their nakedness!

the type of shell doesn't really matter much, just the fact that its previous owner is no longer with us, so to speak.

(which is actually beginning to be a problem, as shells become scarce and trash becomes plentiful! if you go on a beach vacation you may be as likely to see a crab rocking the latest in bottlecap fashions as you are to see one enjoying an old snail condo.)

the baby crabs then scuttle off in their new set of armor, impervious to most attacks. they'll trade their shell out as they grow, which is fine because hermit crabs are social animals and tend to trade their shells all at once when somebody finds a nice big one they can move up into!

"okay, everyone! form a line in order of size and get ready to move up one!"

talk about a set of family hand-me-downs, though. at least with your cousin it's just pants and not external bones.

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Also, hermit crabs sometimes fight over a good shell. Other crabs will line up behind the fighting crabs so as to acquire the winners empty shell, and each crab in line will get the hand-me-down. Crabs in the line will even switch sides if they think there combatant is going to lose.

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‘Jays on Berry Tree’, ca. 1910 - Ohara Koson

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I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

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Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

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no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

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I took a stained glass class during the pandemic and now I have a hummingbird hanging in my kitchen window. And this year I’m finally getting chickens!!

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This is literally why I have my Sailor Moon thermos.

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it doesn’t even have to be the trauma of bad parents. It can be the everyday human pain of “I lost my favorite toy when I was 12 and never found it again.” It can be the parents who loved you and fully sympathized with your desire to have the thing, but honey, we just don’t have the money right now. It can be the fact that you no longer live with your brother who’s highly allergic to dogs, so you can finally have the dog you always wanted that you always understood why you couldn’t get, and you accepted it, but it was still painful. It can be the Atari games or Nintendo games or Sega games that don’t exist anymore that you played in your childhood.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized – you don’t have to be suffering some great trauma, something unusual and particularly damaging, to feel pain. You don’t have to have lost your entire home in a hurricane to have lost something you truly valued and miss a lot. You don’t have to have had toxic parents to have been denied some things you wanted because they just didn’t have the money, or the resources, or the health.

Time is pain. Loss and disappointment are part of human existence. But you don’t have to try to justify why your specific loss or disappointment is especially bad to admit that it hurts and do something to rectify that hurt in some small way.

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I realised I’ve always wanted a globe. So I’m getting one. YOLO

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I need everyone to understand the above gif is unedited. That actually played on TV.

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people keep asking about this one as well

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Now THIS is real art

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4D-printed aquatic plants spring to life

"Hydrophytes are futuristic aquatic plants created with multi-material 3D printing. They are part of a master's research project focussed on designing and choreographing movement through 4D printing. The film is true to life with no effects created in post-production."