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[shellingtons-failed-driving-test]

Hello 🦦

🐬 ABOUT THE BLOG:

This blog is SFW and kid-friendly. YAY!

No swearing and no heavy topics (if there is one, it'll be like lightly mentioned, not in detail, and it will have a trigger/content warning). [To be clear: I won't swear in my posts, but I may reblog some posts with swearing.]

This is a side blog!

I follow/like from my main blog @justmorebtsffs which I hardly use anymore because I joined Tumblr when I was really into BTS

🦈 CONTENT:

Animal stuff (marine and otherwise)

General Octonauts Things

Incorrect quotes

Headcanons

Attempted memes

I might maybe try to do fanart but I kinda suck at drawing so probably not

Some fanfiction

🐋 STORY HIGHLIGHTS:

I'm working on a Kwazii x Peso series right now. I just posted the first chapter, but it doesn't have a title yet.

🪼 SHIPS:

Shellington x Dashi 🌸

Kwazii x Peso 🩹

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[heyyoufriendthere]

This new fish species is called Snuffleupagus. You can probably guess why | CBC Radio

S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bear

SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL

[brightnessrandom]

Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!

It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey

They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!

Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!

Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !

[skunkmisa]

Mushroom hair pin

[andmaybegayer]

I think so much about the food people ate pre-Columbian exchange. Huge parts of cuisine extremely important on both sides of the pond just didn't exist.

You've probably heard a little about what was brought over from the New World, corn, potatoes, cocoa, cassava, peanuts, chili peppers, avocadoes, cranberries, pumpkins, and the like. Imagine cooking without chili! Without potatoes! Modern Indian cuisine contains enormous amounts of potatoes and we just didn't have those for the vast majority of history. The best of the nightshades all on one contiguous hunk of land. Hell, tomatoes! Almost forgot about those.

But we don't often look at what the Old World had. Wheat! Barley! Rice! A profusion of incredible grains, really, the finest poaceae has to offer. Carrots! Tons of rosaceous plants like apples and cherries and pears and peaches and apricots! Grapes! Soy and Bamboo! Okra and watermelon! All these things were simply never found in the Americas. The grains one is the wildest for me, the variety of grains available across Eurasia and Africa was truly astounding.

You know what binds together the food of all cultures across the world? Onions. Onions are fucking everywhere. There's probably onions growing near you right now. Allium Gang Unite.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[knockyasocksoff2022]

You show up to the haunting the narrative competition...

Who's winning?

Auguste de Vere - Captive Prince

Mary Wesinski (nee Hatford) - All For The Game

Oda Sakunosuke - Bungou Stray Dogs

Lucy Gray Baird - Hunger Games

Mischa Lecter - Hanibal (NBC)

Other (there's prob a lot more but I can't think of them rn)

Voting ended onMay 24

PROPAGANDA IN THE TAGS OR IN REBLOGS WELCOME LOL

[todaysbird]

i think this is…actually the most extreme stupid dove nest I’ve seen.

video

[kaiapraxidike]

[tartrazeen]

Imagine you're coming home after a long day of hunting, and the first thing you hear is your seven shitty kids screeching at you for no reason, how pissed off would you be, I'd immediately fly away too

Imagine you're the oldest of seven and a fucking HOA member broke into your HOUSE and SHIT AN EGG and is BITING at your siblings, but your dad shows so you try to tell him the problem but you're very little and you don't speak English and he doesn't speak English either so you can't communicate that a fucking GOBLIN is in your HOUSE and the only reason he doesn't know is cause his ASS was on that bitch's HEAD and he must've assumed it was one of your brothers and sisters but it was actually that FREAK WOMAN who got in, and now your dad is flying away 'cause he has no idea what's going on

Imagine you're a parent and you've calmed down and gone to get McDonald's for your seven kids, and you come home expecting to get cheers because you know the D's are always a winner, but when you fly back in through the door the kids are all still screaming, and it's not even excited screams but you don't know what's wrong so you just look into the camera like you're Jim from the Office

Imagine you're one of the small middle children and probably the one that this HOA WITCH was BITING after she broke into YOUR HOUSE and SHIT an EGG and you tried to be a good host by cuddling with her to congratulate her on her egg but then she started BITING and taking over your ROOM and threw out all your GOOSEBUMPS books and your eldest sibling couldn't call dad so you all just had to wait, and then dad comes home but your STUPID FAMILY won't stop SCREECHING to explain what's going on so your dad leaves but then comes back and he's brought McDonald's which is like yay but there is an INTRUDER, and finally your dad looks around the house and notices BITCH BIRD KAREN IN YOUR BEAN BAG CHAIR, and you're like ok dad can handle this but then you learn he's more scared than you?????

Imagine you're a dad and you just got home with McDonald's and WHO THE FUCK IS THAT IN MY HOUSE but luckily you have seven children and the mean one is willing to fight this bitch and you're just gonna chill in this corner until this problem is resolved even if your other kids are straight-up judging you

Imagine you're Kevin McCallister and you're doing Home Alone except you're not home alone 'cause your dad is home too but he's not helping, he's just holding a bag of McDonald's, so you have to be the head of this house at eight years old 'cause you're home alone emotionally but this FREAK ON AN EGG isn't leaving so you decide to screech at your dad and he's more scared of you than she is

Imagine you're a dad and your child has publicly shamed you in front of your other kids and this ASSHOLE KAREN and you decide you're not gonna take this shit anymore so you tell your kids that you paid for this McDonald's with your hard-earned bird money and they're gonna damn well eat this, so everybody stop looking at that side of the house and just eat your fucking french fries but then that fucking MONSTER starts BITING your only child willing to go into battle so you recognize this is a lost cause and throw the burgers on the counter and you remember you're an ADULT so you grab your car keys and fly the fuck away

Imagine you're all seven children and dad left you with the pigeon again

[sighinastorm]

Blended families are so important. Very excited to see how the new pidglet grows up in owl culture.

[sepdet]

Imagine you come home from girls' night out to find your STUPID HUSBAND is nowhere to be seen and there's THIS BITCH in your house who has THE GALL to lay a fucking egg in your living room among your terrified screeching offspring

So you drop the nice leftover pot roast you brought home (are those fries on the carpet?) and SQUARE UP, but that rat on wings just isn't getting the message.

So it's time to lay down the law with DINNER and show the kids how it's done. At least this'll put a kibosh on backtalk.

[tsalala]

A young melanistic leopard in Kali Tiger Reserve, India. Photographed by Mithun Hunugund.

[chaser]

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

[chaser]

First like and this has already found its intended audience

[chaser]

uh oh

[itsmyturnonthegender]

[old-radioactive-bread-offical]

@ferg-offical

[ferg-offical]

ᴴᵉʰᵉ ʳᵉᵇˡᵒᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠʳᵒᵍᶦᵉ ᵖᵒˢᵗˢ! :3

Alt text: Hehe reblog the frogie posts!

[gremlininho]

[bogleech]

We all get sad that insects aren't at least dog size and octopuses only live in the ocean and there are no air jellyfish or visibly ambulatory plants and all the giant sea lizards are gone but sometimes you gotta just tell yourself some lifeforms are special *because* they're tiny or they're far away or they helped build the world we have now. We're just the weird ones for being terrestrial macrofauna, and it's pretty special that we evolved brains capable of marveling at things at all.

[hollowedskin]

"I'm sad because I'll never see a quetzalcoatlus" consider: you live alongside pelicans and flamingos! Really sit and think about unbelievably strange a filter feeding bird is, and how lucky we are to be around them!

[winguontheweb]

think about the fact that you and everyone you know gets to live at the same time as the blue whale, *the* single largest animal that has ever lived, water or land.

[partywithponies]

One of the most annoying genres of people on the internet are people who act like they believe science is one single monolithic thing. Like, you'll see an article saying something like "scientists studying the movement of tectonic plates", and then in the comments there'll be several smug people saying "smh why are scientists doing this instead of finding a cure for cancer", like. Why would a geologist be doing that.

[lukewarmtomatosoup]

gar field? that’s not where they’re supposed to be

[21st-century-minutiae]

In the early twenty-first century, "Garfield" is a name, made famous by the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, as well as an extremely popular newspaper comic about a lazy orange cat with said name.

The name is thought to be habitational, referring to to a specific location at the time of the first Garfield's naming. Garfield in turn comes from the Old English "gar" (meaning "spear") and "feld" (meaning "field"), as in a field of spears, which may refer to a site of a battle or may refer to metaphorical spears in the form of plants that appear like them.

In Modern English, gar refers to a type of fish. It is a shortening of "garfish" meaning "spear (or pike) fish". This is the same "gar" as in Garfield.

The above is a format of joke where a person deliberately misunderstands a word or phrase. In this case, they are expressing confusion over why fish would be in a field. But few people in the early twenty-first century would actually be confused. Perhaps an individual learning English might question the name, but homonyms and etymologically linked words (like garfish and Garfield) are known concepts.

[bisexualcreature-deactivated202]

lvl 1: the plural of octopus is octopuses because the plural version of a word is the word with an s at the end

lvl 2: the plural version of octopus is octopi because if a word ends with "us" the plural version replaces the "us" with "i" e.g. cactus -> cacti and fungus -> fungi

lvl 3: actually, that rule is only for latin words. octopus is a greek word and the correct plural is octopuses or octopodes

lvl 4: actually, language is descriptive not prescriptive. since enough people over time have used octopi as the plural for octopus, it's a valid plural

lvl 5: the plural of octopus is octopeese, like geese

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Lvl 6: My Marine Biology professor told me it was technically “Octopods” to bring it in line with “Cephalopod,” but that if the class is falling asleep you can call them “Octopussies”

[mossworm]

I like when Pheidole ants do the thing with the head

[bloodandichorandmemes]

I was curious about how accurate this is and am pleased to report it is extremely accurate

[liache]

i love that we and cats share pareidolia (seeing patterns where they dont exist), but instead of seeing faces in everyday objects like us, they see snakes

that computer cord? snake. string? small snake. cucumber? short fat straight snake

[yiffmaster]

snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight

[ehlbee]

It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost

[arithetonberry]

Put together a zine of my cephalopod comics, and then figured I would also toss up a pdf. 🐙🐡💥

zines | pdf | patreon

[devinellekurtz]

I have been thoroughly convinced I need to draw Rore tiger again with my 29 year old art abilities! As soon as I have some free time, it's happening!