~ The Irony Of Loneliness ~

Heyo! I'm Em, 22, and this is me! Twitter: @emilia_dawn96 Instagram: @emilia_dawn

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[mobpsycho100]

[wildlifewednesdays]

A porcupine’s Halloween present (+ original sound effects)

[docwithtardisfez]

I had no idea giant porcupines made fucking precious sounds

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[nightonblogmountain]

THAT’S THE SOUND IT MAKES!?!?!?

UN-BE-FUCKING-LIEVABLE 

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

We got asked if this is cute and okay. I can very happily say yes, this is stupid cute and those are happy porcupine noises. 

One of my favorite things about doing zoo work was all the noises you never realize the animals make when they’re excited or interested in a new thing. Coatimundis squeak and snuffle, and giant porcupines make that sound. 

[typhoidmeri]

Omgggg the sounds.

[gigi-tastic]

Teddy is back on my dash and all is right with the world

[bears-official]

WE ALMOST TO OCTOBRE POST OF PUNKINBEARS

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[whitepeopletwitter]

[silent-calling]

You teach them responsibility by entrusting them with these devices.

You teach them teamwork by taking them away at night and storing them in your room.

[tetigistuss]

My dad kept the computer locked and monitored (and only used when under direct supervision), an intolerable situation to which my little brother and I reacted with gusto. We set up a camera to get the password, coded password guessers, bootcamped a Mac to allow us to use an entirely different system, and figured out various ways to avoid logging internet activity, logins, and even the hidden camera my dad set up. He would discover our new hack and put even more restrictions (he is very computer literate), and we would crack it again. We learned computer security just because my dad didn’t want us to.

I breezed through AP comp sci into a tech field. Ironically, I was introduced to porn because I was looking for another bypass and stumbled into a BDSM site so I can also blame my dad for me being a freaky ho.

[thegreenpea]

Out of all the responses to this post. Yours was my favourite. I cried laughing when I saw the last paragraph

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Alfred T. Palmer :: A kitten aboard a floating giant Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935. / src: National Geographic Found

related post, here and here

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[waywardrunawaycherryblossom-dea]

That’s such a relief actually. 

[cricketcat9]

Thank you for this post.

[congalineofdurin]

Hi the way people raise boy and girl children differently is DISGUSTING, I just learned that my mtf friend has never been bought a stuffed animal ONCE in her entire life???? this princess has NEVER had a teddy bear in her bed???

Long story short it is 9pm and I am furiously driving to fucking Target bc the first store didnt have any that were good enough I am

SO MAD RN

[congalineofdurin]

she’s letting me take her to build a bear and I am so excited

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what a damn excellent post

[normal-horoscopes]

RAGE ONLY MAKES LOVE HARDER TO STOP

[art-woonz]

Art By IG: @dragon_arte

Instagram: @artwoonz

[fonzworthcutlass]

I hope all of yall find $20 on the ground tomorrow.

And I mean that.

[gaze4u-deactivated20201021]

$50 maybe

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

a dropped money clip from some clumsy, unobservant capitalist shithead with in excess of $5000 in it

[toshio]

[gael-garcia]

[kidadow]

reasons why i love david tennant: this was improv

[melmariesparrow]

reasons why david tennant is a perfect person

[timelordcurse]

[errorschacha]

Don’t talk shit about people’s teeth. Seriously.

Speaking as a major dental hygiene enthusiast…

Great-looking teeth come from two things: luck and money (which is also a function of luck).

Dental procedures tend to be very, very expensive, and are almost never covered by insurance.

Healthy teeth aren’t necessarily big, straight or bright white. Depending on what someone’s natural teeth are like, achieving that look may require a significant downgrade in their dental health; unnecessary crowns and veneers cause damage.

Do not underestimate genetics’ role in determining teeth’s appearance, or how prone teeth are to problems. Genes and early development, i.e. things people get zero control over, can outweigh all else.

A wide range of chronic conditions impact oral health and teeth’s appearance, too, and may contraindicate various types of work or raise procedures’ cost even more.

Finally, for many people and many reasons, celebrity-looking teeth just aren’t a priority (even when they’re attainable; some people might want, y’know, a new car instead).

Regardless, don’t be an asshole. Not even very attractive teeth look good on those.

[honeysuze]

I’ve NEVER seen a post like this and I’m thrilled TBH because I’m very insecure about my teeth and there is literally one reason they are not nice and that is money so I’m literally down for teeth positivity

[sylceon-remade]

Credit: [x]

[princesstigerbelle]

Me in the winter

[fieldbears]

Please do not miss the tiny socks

[princesstigerbelle]

WHAT NOOO HOW DID I MISS THAT

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[doggables]

look at this

[mawkit-deactivated20190715]

for anyone interested these are paso fino horses and this gait is natural! they are the smoothest ride with no bumpy movements. you could practically drink juice and not once would it spill on your face!

[sealedbeastnue]

these bears need to chill theytre stressin me up

[kickassfemaleathletes]

Lynne Cox is an accomplished American open water swimmer. Twice, she held the record for the fastest crossing of the English Channel. Cox was the first woman to swim the Cook Strait and the first to swim the Straits of Magellan and around the Cape of Good Hope. Cox swam the Bering Strait from American soil to Soviet soil in 1987, at the height of the Cold War. 

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Look at her. 

I know open water swimming isn’t really glamorous, but Lynne Cox is arguably one of the greatest overlooked athletes of the 20th century. 

And quite possibly a mutant. 

She can withstand water temperatures that you or I would die from because of her training and her body’s unique reaction to cold (you know how the blood will leave your fingers and toes when it’s cold, to preserve heat? her whole body does that, pooling her blood in her core and insuring her body temperature stays toasty where it counts).

She funded the Bering Strait swim herself, clearing out her bank account when she couldn’t get corporate sponsors. After she succeeded (to almost everyone’s surprise: if you get in the Bering Sea without serious gear you generally just die) Gorbachev mentioned her during treaty talks with Nixon: “Last summer it took one brave American by the name of Lynne Cox just two hours to swim from one of our countries to the other. We saw on television how sincere and friendly the meeting was between our people and the Americans when she stepped onto the Soviet shore. She proved by her courage how close to each other our peoples live.“

She wasn’t just the first woman to swim the Strait of Magellan. She was the first person to make it across. 

On top of setting multiple world records, she swam a mile+ to the coast of Antarctica, in just a bathing suit, and did not die. 

She’s swum over 50,000 miles. 

And look at her. This is a photo from when she was young, at the peak of her career and setting records all over the world. She is a great athlete. She is a human who can do things most humans would die trying. I’m sitting here at 1 AM getting all teary eyed because this is the first time I’ve looked up a photo of her and I am so surprised, so gratified, so overwhelmed to find out that this world record setter, this literal superhuman, has nearly the same body type as me. 

[aqueerkettleofish]

Since they wouldn’t let her be a fantasy creature in a video game, she just did it in real life, I guess.

[jenniferrpovey]

Anyone who thinks there is just one athletic body type isn’t paying attention during the Olympics opening ceremonies.

Her body type is optimized for her sport. The shape of her body and the presence of fat both provide insulation to keep her core warm while she swims.

A lot of open water swimmers aren’t this chunky, but that’s because most of them are actually triathletes, and their body type is a compromise between the ideals for the different sports.

There really is no one way to be fit and athletic. For some reason, we tend to get ourselves hung up on the body type of track and field athletes, especially that of marathon runners (who tend to carry almost no extra fat) as the ideal.

[gallusrostromegalus]

Dude HOLY FUCK she’s a badass.

[vmohlere]

I’ve read two of her books - Swimming to Antarctica and Grayson - and found them charming and enjoyable. Grayson is pretty sad, tho.