Stop asking me for money. I don't have any.

Lex, 28, she/her, fantasy writer, really, really, REALLY likes animals and metal music. Ask me about my dog and geckos. Other blog: Skittykatt. AO3: WastelandMonarch

[not100bees]

I just saw the world's freshest baby in Panera bread. Like that thing was JUST out of the oven. I've heard of being wet behind the ears but this baby was wet behind the everything. It was still damp.

[sturgeon-system]

[hanpetos]

yeager brothers be like

[nemfrog]

The dragon. Fictitious & symbolic creatures in art. 1906. 

[archpaladin]

[whereserpentswalk]

The dragon! ^_^

[ackee]

someone rbing a post from me: #oh my goddd this is just like my ocs zapa and trunky

me on their blog now looking for pics of zapa and trunky:

[snailkites]

Decembird Day 16: Front View

White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis)

TIME FOR YELL

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[notdayle]

Me and my girlfriend did a lil photo shoot in our regalia back in December

[notdayle]

Oh we’re engaged now btw 💍

[queer-joy-detector]

Queer joy detected!

[kiwi-thefruit]

asexual people should say “this is better than sex” anytime anything happens

[herpsandbirds]

velvet worm? spare velvet worm for a desperate midwesterner? 🙏

ON OF THE MOST ANIMALS OF ALL TIME!!!

Velvet Worm (Euperipatoides sp.), family Peripatopsidae, QLD, Australia

photograph by Stephen Zozaya

Velvet Worm(Peripatoides novazealandiae), family Peripatopsidae, New Zealand

photograph by Frupus (Flickr)

Velvet Worm (Oroperipatus sp.), family Peripatidae, Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

photograph by Geoff Gallice

White Cave Velvet Worm (Peripatopsis alba), family Peripetopsidae, known only from two cave systems on Table Mountain, South Africa

photograph by Rodrigo Ferreira

Also, check out this video:

This Worm Uses a “Silly String of Death” | National Geographic (youtube.com)

Red Velvet Worm (Peripatus solorzanoi), family Peripatidae, Guayacán Rainforest Reserve, Costa Rica

photograph via: Guayacán Rainforest Reserve

Velvet Worm (Epiperipatus sp.), family Peripatidae, Costa Rica

photographs by Raby Núñez

[remindertoclick]

Reminder to Click for Palestine today!

Click for the other causes as well if you can!

[astriiformes]

The polar opposite of corporate accounts trying to come across as hip and super friendly are the ones for libraries, aquariums, parks systems and the like, that are basically just trying to get people excited about learning and the wonder of history/science by posting things like this:

[mangopatch]

[demonladytakkuri]

You know how much I would lose my mind if I was at an aquarium and turned a corner to see a wild ass heron staring at a fish tank

[hazerl]

The first half of my Mutillidae mini print set! Dasymutilla sackenii, Dasymutilla klugii (a number one on the Schmidt sting pain index!), and Hoplomutilla spinosa, all digitally illustrated and printed at 3.5" by 2.5". Stay tuned for the second half!

[holopics]

black vultures

[sparklingbog]

[wordfather]

[unidentifiablelifeform]

[nondelphic]

"who’s your target audience?"

me and the five people in my head who get it

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[joyandotherstories]

Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world