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Are you managed or monitored? Shiny things collected by an easily distracted marine biologist. Here you may find fish and other marine critters, land and aerial critters, fannish things, especially of a science fishin' -y, Sherlock-y or cartoonish nature, art and fanart by other people (and very rarely by myself), tea oddities, occasionally my offspring, neurodiversity, cats, and other oddments. Enjoy! The ask is open, and while I may bite, my teeth are pretty dull. senoritafish.livejournal.com senoritafish.deviantart.com biomarina.deviantart.com senoritafish.gather.com I am a biologist. That means I find creepy crawlies fascinating. There will be occasional spiders, bugs, and other invertebrates. I do try to tag liberally for those who screen - but if there's anything I need to add, just ask. Btw, if you'd like to leave a real comment instead of liking or reblogging, Disqus comments are enabled; just click the date, and scroll to the bottom.

[thefigureinthecorner]

all the other weird fucked up cats are safe and happy and healthy btw

[senoritafish]

omg it's Glunkus!

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[senoritafish]

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When you give a Void a teapot...

Room Guardians by Anya Boz

[notaplaceofhonour]

Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

[notaplaceofhonour]

that man has been trying to climb this tower since he was 16. he has asked multiple times, and every time they said no, but now he’s famous enough & variety was able to convince them to do a shoot on the tower. it all led here. it was all for this.

[notaplaceofhonour]

I’m obsessed with the implication that this was a coming-of-age ritual where a boy becomes a man, like a bar mitzvah

[goodlittlegoddess]

reblog this if you love your cat.

because i do.

i love your cat.

[charminglyantiquated]

that story where you challenge the fairy queen to a match of wit and skill to win back your loved one. and it goes … fine, you think? probably.

adapted from this very short Elsewhere University piece, changed slightly to be a little more self-contained.

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[apolladay]

What type of science did you do for the science fair?

* physics

* astronomy

* earth science (geology, oceanography, seismology, etc.)

* chemistry

* biology

* anatomy

* engineering

* psychology

* multiple of these for different fairs

* something else

* we didn’t have science fairs

* see results

What type of science did you do for the science fair?

physics

astronomy

earth science (geology, oceanography, seismology, etc.)

chemistry

biology

anatomy

engineering

psychology

multiple of these for different fairs

something else

we didn’t have science fairs

see results

Voting ended onMay 27

[vimbry-moved]

bears

[kissed1996]

If you had to sing a child to sleep RIGHT NOW what would you sing and it CANT BE a lullaby it has to be a regular song

[senoritafish]

I often sang used "Inchworm" from the Danny Kaye movie about Hans Christian Anderson - which he WAS singing to/with children, but not necessarily to put them to sleep.

[normal-horoscopes]

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

[theslowesthnery]

ohhhhhh my godddddd

[theinturnetexplorer]

Being a nature photographer seems great, maybe I should try…

[hareofhrair-in-a-funny-hat]

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[rannulfr]

I had a 7th grade teacher in the 90s that told us we could remember the pronunciation because it was none of our "Mizness".

[senoritafish]

I work for a US state government agency and we literally use Ms. on documents mentioning staff, like justications for out-of-state travel, unless they have a specified preference (most don't).

[cute-catts]

[drtanner]

He did that.

[anonbeadraws]

Rest your bones, while you still have them. Today's warm up: Ghostly Vibes (1:30hr)

[sleepy-bebby]

Oh god, why didn’t you just let him through?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This Untitled Goose Game expansion is WILD

[falseknees]

Stickers and prints available in my store!

[catchymemes]

Astronaut tweets

[hugaddict]

anyone else wanna hug astronaut Reid Wiseman and weep?

[krystal-prisms]

This is so cool

[senoritafish]

This has probably been answered already since it looks like it's from his time on ISS, but...

They're likely squid boats, Reid.

[kar0xs]

Fanart between comms (*‘ω‘ *)