hello!

28, she/her let me know if you need me to tag anything! ask box & messages are always open too, if you ever want to talk

[flowerytale]

[pokemonlezbian]

Staying in my cave and I’ve been doing just fine

[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

[hgedits]

Eva Stratt:

[despazito]

I like when construction workers spray paint their strange sigils on the pavement

[dogpuppy]

[chillyfeetsteak]

my mom told me this story tonight about my grandfather. she said when he was a little boy he was afraid robbers would break into his house in the middle of the night and try to abduct him out of his bed. he thought that they would be able to feel that he was the shape of a little boy under the covers and know to grab him. so he would try to fall asleep in the shape of a letter of the alphabet. so that they would feel for him and be like "oh it's just the letter R, not a kidnappable child"

[cyberglittter]

wings scarf by harune horigome

[trashcangimmick]

[thecollectibles]

Fairy tale illustrations by Nadezhda Illarionova

[rpfofficial]

everyone get earnest and verbose in the club

[redhan]

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived, and you.

[verdantry]

& btw fruit Flies literally spawn spontaneously

[fortooate]

you look at a fruit fly and tell me it's ever been anywhere else

[frostedmagnolias]

Purple Visiting Suit

c. 1883-1884

unknown maker

Albany Institute of History & Art

[lamignonette]

[my-dailydreams]

[vinceaddams]

"Stained glass" faille jacket by Freda Blackwood, 1970's or early 80's, via Kerry Taylor Auctions.