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
"Men Aren't Better Than Women: Both Genders Are Inferior To Me" is a 1991 book by Dr. Ivo Robotnik (better known for other work). Though its primary purpose is clearly to stroke the author's own ego, it is generally regarded as a comprehensive, well-constructed, and accessible work of contemporary feminist theory, and is still commonly-cited to this day.
Most of the critical complaints have been about the tone; in a review from 2005, Professor Victoria of Spagonia University said, "The constant self-aggrandizement undercuts the idea that its subject ought to be taken seriously. Also, wasn't the 'feminist' line from the Sonic Heroes manual a mistranslation of 'womanizer'?"
In 2026, Dr. Robotnik released a new edition updated for the preceding 35 years of developments in feminism, with the subtitle changed from "Both Genders" to "All Genders."
The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.
At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.
And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?
the first osprey is the father, the one that comes later is the mother.
ospreys are not eagles, they're ospreys
ospreys only eat fish, that's why they don't register this starling as possible food
the starling got home safely
the starling was not trying to eat the eggs, it was mostly curious and you can see it trying to hop under the osprey every time the osprey tries to sit down again--this is because the starling is still a baby and has the instinct to get under an adult for warmth, even though it mostly has its feathers. this scares the osprey because that is a Foreign Creature near its eggs.
at the end of the video you can see the ospreys starting to turn the eggs. birds do this so the yolk and/or embryo don't stick to the shell of the egg, which is bad for the egg's health.
ospreys have eyes adapted to seeing beneath the surface of the water!
A CBC News investigation found a number of Facebook accounts run by people overseas impersonating real Albertan separatists.
CBC uncovered several more accounts with links to Pakistan, including a number of pages that appear to be part of a co-ordinated network.
The Legacy Archives, with close to 9,000 followers, says on its profile it's dedicated to history and philosophy. Yet it frequently posts on Alberta separatist pages, often using highly emotional language.
According to Facebook's page transparency feature, the Legacy Archives is managed from Pakistan and the U.S., along with several other accounts that frequently post in separatist groups and appear linked.
CBC was able to link the Legacy Archives, Trend Top and History Addicted — which were also from Pakistan, with one page owner listed as being from the U.S. — because they are admins of a small Facebook group called Rise of Alberta.
So finally done with my 1674830th watching of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (dir. Robert Iscove, 1997) and I have some FEELINGS about the color choices they made in this film and how it helped get across their central message.
This is a long one, so bear with me.
We first meet Cinderella in the village, which is BURSTING with color from the walls of the shops to the clothes of the villagers to the boxes Cinderella is holding.
Cinderella herself, though, almost stands out in the village in her browns and muted reds.
During “The Sweetest Sounds,” we see that the prince is also wearing those exact same colors during his “undercover” excursion into the village. They both are feeling trapped and are trying to blend in and settle for being someone they’re not, just in different ways.
Cinderella’s stepfamily, on the other hand, are wearing very brightly colored outfits. And when they get back from the village, we see that they live in a similarly brightly colored house. There’s brightly colored tiles on the walls of the stairs, all the furniture is brightly colored, there’s flowers and baubles and colorful feathers everywhere.
But during “In My Own Little Corner,” we see that the kitchen, where Cinderella spends most of her time and is most comfortable, is mainly browns and some muted reds. There’s a few greens spotted here and there in a fruit bowl and things like that, but you have to look for them. And Cinderella herself dresses in effectively the same colors, browns and muted reds/pinks. So she disappears into her kitchen haven but she stands out like a sore thumb in the brightly colorful areas of the rest of the house.
The palace meanwhile, is also colorful, though it tends more towards purple and rich dark reds to signify their royalty. The Prince will dress in purples to match his parents and be who they want him to be, despite how stifling he finds it.
The kitchen gains more colors during the reprise of “In My Own Little Corner” when Cinderella is once again attempting to retreat to her little haven where she pretends her life is tolerable, but her dreams of entering the real world and actually being able to be herself kept intruding on her. There’s even blue light coming in from outside when before the light was more yellow/orange, probably indicating the outside help of the Fairy Godmother that’s about to appear.
And of course, she only gets her beautiful blue ballgown after she decides to actually accept her godmother’s help and go to the ball. She moves from the brown kitchen to the colorful outside, proving she’s making the choice to go against orders and do something about what she wants. Her brown and red clothes are literally magicked away and turned into a resplendent colorful dress while surrounded by colorful flowers and the front of the house.
During the ball scene, the Prince is immediately recognizable in a white top, signifying how out of place and uncomfortable he is amongst a sea of blue and purple, people indistinguishable from each other, both to him and the audience.
The stepsisters clash with the Prince in their neon green and pink gowns, but Cinderella compliments him with her light blue gown, immediately matching the very subtle light blue vest he has on underneath his jacket. Cinderella and the Prince are able to stand out from the crowd and be themselves while still being PART of the ball. The stepsisters by contrast are playing a part their mother has told them to play and disrupt the entire ball to the point that when Cinderella arrives, several people have fallen to the floor in the commotion.
After the clock strikes midnight and Cinderella and the Prince are separated, we get THIS:
Warm and cold tones highlighting their differences. Cinderella is back in her browns, back to feeling like she has to hide herself away and can’t fit in, can’t find love or belonging. Her transformation into confidence was only temporary, she doesn’t truly believe yet fully that she can have what she wants. The Prince, however, is 100% there. He’s fully invested in Cinderella and finding love, he’s got the confidence now to go after what he wants, to be the kind of Prince HE wants to be and that starts with finding the woman of his dreams.
During “A Lovely Night” Cinderella, for the first time we’ve seen, tries to fit into the colorful house with her stepfamily, utilizing what’s left of her courage and confidence from earlier. And she nearly succeeds, but she’s still always in her brown rags, she never truly belongs with them, no matter how much she tries to keep convincing herself she does, no matter how hard she tries to honor her last promise to her father to stay together as a family, she does not belong there and never will.
She always gets overshadowed by her stepsisters and her stepmother. And after she’s shot down once again by her stepmother, she goes to her haven, where her stepsisters’ things are waiting for her to put away, the only spots of color in the room except for some blue light coming from the window. She immediately turns around and goes outside, to the world of color and possibilities, to finally say that she knows she deserves better and deserves to be loved and so she can’t stay here the way she promised her father. She doesn’t have any hope of being able to be with the Prince, but she’s gotten to the first step towards freedom.
Back at the palace, the Prince is now FULL of color, but instead of a bunch of purples and dark reds like his parents wear, he’s got a bright blue coat on.
He’s embracing his responsibility and his destiny, no longer pretending to be someone he’s not, but he’s also going to do it HIS way. He won’t settle for a half life.
And, of course, at the end, when Cinderella and the Prince are dressed all in white for their wedding day, everyone else dresses in white to match THEM, and the stepfamily is still dressed in full bright colors and now THEY’RE the ones who don’t fit in.
The color schemes in the film are leading us towards the message of the film that you can’t truly get what you want from the world until you actively go after it instead of just dreaming about it and accept who you are instead of trying to settle for being who someone else wants you to be.
Just thought it was both a visually and mentally beautiful message.
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
i don't read a lot of fic anymore but i'm forever thinking about stephen king's 'it' where the characters went into a chinese restaurant and were greeted by a waitress wearing a kimono
This has always bothered me too and it didn't make sense until someone older told me that when they were growing up "scare quotes" were used the way we used *asterisks* or ALL CAPS for emphasis
