[diioonysus]

edwardian & victorian era women

[tockthewatchdog]

?

[montereybayaquarium]

Put your 16-24 arms in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care!

💜 A male and female sunflower star were encouraged to spawn as a team of hopeful aquarists stood at the ready.

They collected eggs and sperm, mixing them together to fertilize the eggs. The resulting embryos were dubbed the “Cupid Cohort”. Since then, it’s been a total lovefest. Institutions around California have raised these leggy heartthrobs from delicate star babies into the robust, glowing adults they are today. 

🌊⭐ In October 2025, some of these juveniles took a short vacation to the open water of the Pacific. This successful collaborative study showed us they have what it takes to thrive in the wild, and helped us test out new methods to detect and monitor the presence of sunflower stars in the ocean, bringing us one step closer to a sea full of stars! 

Learn more about sunflower sea stars and their conservation: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sunflower-star?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=organic_post&utm_campaign=mba_general_social&utm_term=&utm_content=_589

Thank you to Ashley Kidd, the Sunflower Star Lab, and the Birch Aquarium for this heartwarming footage.

[troublepunk-ldn]

the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

[troublepunk-ldn]

you can't make a free, genuine choice about the time and manner of your death until you have the right to live, as independently as possible and with all your needs met.

this is also true of people who commit regular old unassisted suicide because they can't transition, because of harassment or discrimination, because they can't keep a job or don't make enough money to live. it's government murder by proxy.

[idratherhavefreedom]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[nolaplantdaddy]

I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.

[noegrets]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

perfect new meme template just dropped

[dragon-in-a-fez]

example usage

[dragon-in-a-fez]

wait I'm not done

[writeouswriter]

Controversial, but I think it's harmful to tell people you're never going to write something good on the first try or it's always going to be pure garbage, like that may be helpful for some on some level, but I personally don't think it's a healthy way of thinking, and it causes others to second guess work that is good. Is editing often helpful? Yes. But you're not going to have to Ship of Theseus everything you ever make. Anyway, the phrase "idk, man, it depends" strikes again.

[p0ppys33dmuff1n]

[ID: comment by @/the-letter-s that reads, "I swear theres been a drift from "keep your expectations low for your first thing" to "first thing is always bad #cope" and like thats literally the opposite of the point of keeping your expectations low. You keep your expectations low so you can look at your finished piece, see that it has met or exceeded the expectation of "just write something, anything" and go "wow I am capable of meeting or exceeding expectations! Thats good! I can do the writing! Huzzah!"" /End ID]

[redstonedust]

always amused by the idea of immortal characters who are older than they look but not by a crazy inhuman amount. like a vampire who got turned at 20 but is currently only 56 or something. people start asking about historical events and theyre like sorry man i dont know anything more interesting than your parents. dating scene is starting to get awkward. worst of both worlds all around.

[redstonedust]

went to the vampire council meeting and the fledglings thought i was weird and cringe because i dont understand 67 memes but the elders wont hang out with me because i don't remember the civil war. they said come back when you lose all sense of time and perspective. fml.

[figureskatingpenguin]

Alysa Liu (USA): MacArthur Park Suite | 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics, FS

"That's what the f**k I'm talking about!"

Two years after her retirement in 2022, Alysa Liu decided to return to figure skating on her own terms. Last year, she became the 2025 World champion. This year, she is the 2026 Olympic champion. Ending a decades-long drought, Liu is now the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating since 2002 and the first American woman to earn any Olympic figure skating medal since 2006.

[bananatwinky]

[desolationlesbian]

sometimes I think too hard about like. how the ability to record audio fundamentally changed how humans interact with music. can you imagine if the only time you ever heard music in your whole life was when you or another human being in your actual physical presence decided to create it. and 99.99% of the time that person was not a professional but just like your wife or your dad or your co-worker or church choir singing or playing whatever they happened to know. i honestly don't think we can fathom it

[desolationlesbian]

Everyone on this post making nonsense "WAH it must have been BETTER back then" comments is ridiculous. I have 24/7 instant high-quality access to Carly Rae Jepsen's entire catalog. Go listen to Cut To The Feeling and appreciate that miracle or get off my post.

[itsjustfish]

Day 11: Precious

For @montereybayaquarium ‘s Deep Sea December

[montereybayaquarium]

🥺

Giant ostracods swim through the deep-sea midwater by rowing their large, feather-like antennae like oars. With hinged bodies much like a clam's, these crustaceans can tuck right into their pods with only their antennae showing.

[theehorsepusssy]

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

[boingmann]

[medievaljournalist]

unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice

[le-catman]

[leavesofgas]

[splend-42]

The second rule of Fight Club is ohana means family.

[powerfulwizard]

Shoutout to Dick Van Dyke for being a cis dude whose parents gave him a drag king name for some reason

[tamedbyafox]

His parents gave him a lovely, respectable, presentable cis-man name like Richard.

He decided to be Dick Van Dyke.

[marcy-the-martian]

Please, Richard Vancouver Dicycle is my father. Call me Dick Van Dyke

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Their cold and clinical Penis Van Lesbian

vs

Our fun and alliterative Cock Van Carpetmuncher

[rqbossman]

AI Fraud

For the public record: There is currently no way to legally make generative AI clones of my voice, in character or otherwise. If you encounter one, please message [email protected] so we can take legal action. This is fraud and its putting me and my family at risk.