The pancakes are mine!

Pannecake Anne cake, 4'9 she/her mom blog

[somekindofparadoxhere]

Alright! Just for you dear @triflesandtea !!!!!!!!!<3

Okay so....Coelacanths were thought to be extinct because their fossils disappear from the geological record around 66 million years ago-- right around the same mass extinction that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. Since nobody had ever seen a living one, scientists assumed they’d died out too.

Then in 1938, a museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer examined a strange fish caught off the coast of South Africa and realized it matched those “extinct” fossils almost perfectly. It was one of the biggest zoological discoveries of the 20th century.

What makes them especially important is that they’re lobe-finned fish-- their fins are fleshy and supported by bone structures somewhat similar to the early limbs of vertebrates that eventually evolved to walk on land. Watching them swim is apparently eerie because the fins move in an alternating pattern that almost resembles walking.

They’re also ancient in a very literal evolutionary sense. The lineage is over 400 million years old, meaning coelacanth ancestors existed long before dinosaurs did. Modern coelacanths live deep in the ocean, usually hundreds of meters down near volcanic caves, which is probably part of why they escaped notice for so long. They’re nocturnal predators that eat smaller fish and squid, and they can grow over 6 feet long.

And somehow they only get stranger the more you learn about them.

There are actually two known living species--one found near the Comoros Islands and East Africa, and another discovered in Indonesia in the 1990s. Until that second species was identified, people thought the first was the only surviving coelacanth left on Earth.

They live incredibly slowly. They can apparently live for around 60 years or more, don’t reach maturity until their 40s or 50s, and have very low reproduction rates, which makes them especially vulnerable as a species.

Their reproduction is wild too-- they don’t lay eggs externally like many fish. The females keep the eggs inside their bodies, and the babies hatch internally, so the young are born live after an extremely long gestation period that may last over 3 years, which is one of the longest known pregnancies of any fish!!

They also have a unique organ called the rostral organ in their snout that can detect electrical signals in the water, helping them locate prey in dark deep-sea environments where visibility is poor.

And despite looking like they should be enormous apex predators from some primordial nightmare, they’re actually pretty calm and slow-moving most of the time. They conserve energy by drifting in ocean currents and hanging out in underwater lava caves during the day before hunting at night.

One of my favorite details is that they still have a tiny oil-filled structure where ancient lungfish relatives would’ve had a functional lung. It’s basically an evolutionary leftover from ancestors that lived in much shallower waters.

And despite seeming so “primitive,” they’re not unchanged fossils frozen in time, they’ve still been evolving all along. They’re just part of an incredibly old lineage that survived while most related groups disappeared.

Also, scientists were so stunned by the 1938 discovery because finding a living coelacanth was sort of equivalent to discovering a living dinosaur wandering around unnoticed. Entire textbooks had to be reconsidered because this animal had gone from “extinct for tens of millions of years” to “apparently just extremely private.”

Good lord I went on for too long, Sorry!!😅

But I do hope this satisfies your curiosity!✌️

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[do-not-u-dare]

”Explain yourself” followed by “stop making excuses” has always baffled me because the fuck you think explaining myself is????

[commiescummie]

i’ll literally never have enough of that dylan b hollis dude cause like. hes a college student who just.,.blew up on tiktok. he has the soul of a man who has lived for 60 years in the body of a twink. he cooks and is surprised every single time. he goes CINAMIN everytime he uses cinnamon. he has the kitchen of a 60s house wife and cooks like hes going to kill someone

[teacupfulofstarshine]

other favorites include

- “moo juice!”

- E G G - G I E

- BUTTER GO BRRRRRRRR

[only-in-movies]

- Floof powder

[angryalliterations-deactivated2]

F I R E

[xanthumn]

[agoddamnedrayofsunshine]

Other highlights:

“It doesn’t tell ya how to eat it, so I don’t know if I need a knife and fork or if I need to tie my hair back” (about the very phallic looking candle salad)

“This pie is referred to as a chiffon. Now what does that mean? It means it was written by a white person.”

“We take our can of Spam and we cry :)”

“This doesn’t need salt it needs help!”

[zwoelffarben]

“I’m going to assume we have the same size package, although the last time I assumed that I wound up stunned and quite self-conscious.”

[acfan120]

“DEMON BABY!!”

(x)

[cd-call-official-blog]

“Nothing says the holidays like AMBIGUOUS MEAT!”

[turquoisemagpie]

*something falls in the kitchen as he’s making a bad one* “I think I’ve summoned something.”

“Do I need to call the police or a priest?” *oven beeps eerily on time* “… A priest.”

*opening a can of savoury beans for a sweet recipe* “Now I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…”

“ ‘Add nuts.’ Wha- How much? I need nut instructions.” *looks up as he realises what he just said*

*tastes a sweet pie that’s turned out great* “Nothing makes sense anymore! Why are you good? You have a bag of beans in you!”

*cooking a ‘date cream’* “I’ve never made a date cream before— I mean, I’ve never cooked a date cream before.”

[calli0pea]

unfortunately, Sky High was only (1) 1hr 30 min Disney film and not the 6 season so-bad-it’s-good CW series it could’ve been

[pannecakesass]

and even more unfortunately they can't make it now. It would get two seasons of ten episodes and they wouldn't get to Sky High until the end of the last episode of season one

[mrsfoxmulder]

Pleased to see the Red Speedo™️ made a TRIUMPHANT return in The Chair on Netflix. ❤️

[idontlikedicktionaries]

REBLOG IF ITS OKAY TO TALK TO YOU.

Please.

[hesawifebeaterdanusethegun]

I’m very friendly, I promise! ❤️

[disterbia]

[segamascott]

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

“a slug learnt how to photosynthesise - FINALLY” -a dude behind me in class right now

[rabbitlegs]

it's that easy

[foamcraft-armory]

Based on the Major X #3 (2019) Rob Liefeld cover

(stolen from @bad-comic-art's post) 😁

[daily-shitty-car-mods]

This will be available when?

[foamcraft-armory]

Soon..ish.. Maybe?

If I did make it available to buy, how much interest would there be?

Should I add this to my Etsy store?

Give it to me now!

Yes

No

You have an Etsy store?

Voting ended onApr 1, 2025

[foamcraft-armory]

Ok, my follower has spoken. I'll add it to my Etsy store (that I actually have).

One minor problem.. I put the template somewhere safe so I wouldn't lose it. But now I don't remember where that was. I'm making a new one now.

[foamcraft-armory]

I just finished building this one 😎

[foamcraft-armory]

[foamcraft-armory]

I'm so close to putting this on Etsy. Any day now. I can feel it

[foamcraft-armory]

https://foamcraftarmory.etsy.com/listing/4469620337

It's on Etsy now 😎

Only one of them at the moment. I can't afford the foam I need to finish more of them (2026 is not going well)

[hamenthotep]

@why-i-love-comics @bad-comic-art

[foamcraft-armory]

3D printable Liefeld gun. I think. I haven't tested it yet.

@organicassetone

[foamcraft-armory]

I took some new pictures for Etsy

It looks the same from every angle 😁

[foamcraft-armory]

I finished three of these this week.

A week ago I ordered more foam after the first three sold so I can make four more. It arrived on Tuesday and the dynamite has already sold out again

[foamcraft-armory]

I've made 70 of these.

Plus a lot of individual sticks mostly for cosplayers and larpers, 20 of them were for a magician.

I've made around 600 sticks of dynamite altogether

[foamcraft-armory]

77 of them now and another 52 individual sticks.

And today I forgot to put the 'dynamite' stencil on 🙃

[foamcraft-armory]

The first one of these was made from scrap foam that I just wanted to use up before buying more.

And now I have to send a bunch of them to Universal Studios

[foamcraft-armory]

Etsy says I've sold 99 of them so far

[foamcraft-armory]

119 on Etsy and five on Ebay

[foamcraft-armory]

I can finish five of these before Monday.. I'm sure of it.. should be easy 😬

[foamcraft-armory]

The thing about making five of them at once is that everything takes five times as long 😭

But they're done

[foamcraft-armory]

Behold! All the dynamite I made over the last few days!

(I ran out of foam to use as a background 😔)

[foamcraft-armory]

[foamcraft-armory]

This is the only one I've sold this year 😔

[foamcraft-armory]

Unripened dynamites