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I was walking on a rather remote beach when I came upon this Whip eel drying up in the sun. These are intertidal eels that can actually handle themselves out of water for a bit, but it’s not normal for them to be fully exposed in direct sunlight like this. The tide was at least six hours from coming in and I felt like this eel was in distress, so I made the decision to dig him out and return to the ocean. His body was too delicate to be simply pulled from the hole without injury, so I got to digging.

This endeavor took about 40 minutes as the eel was quite long and difficult to excavate. Also had to continually refill my temporary eel pond to keep him from drying out entirely while I worked.

If you are an eel aficionado like myself, please enjoy this silly little video of the relocation process set to some jaunty royalty-free disco music.

sycamorality

literally what i'm thinking watching this

#the only thing suicidal here is the queue

guerrillatech

lierdumoa

"If stuff was just handed to me I'd have no motivation to do anything! That's human nature!" No, babe, that's depression. Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened.

dramaticowl

[Image description: tweet by Roxi Horror @roxiqt on March 30, 2022 at 11:13 AM: “’Oh, so you think everyone should just be handed enough money to live?’ lol. lmao. yeah.”]

ruinedrainbowpooka

okay so like, we all know that housekeeping in a hotel is a Shit Job, right?

I worked with a woman who was independently wealthy. But she liked working housekeeping. So she did. And if the manager got bitchy with her, she’d just shrug and be like “Okay, I can quit.”

Like the manager treated her like a human being because she knew she had to because otherwise she’d lose one of her best workers.

Yes, everyone should be just handed the money to live.

actualaster

I worked with a lady who’s husband made more than enough to support them both. She just did the retail to have something to do with herself part-time.

There’s a lot of people who’d happily do the same sort of thing. Honestly? A lot of the jobs we consider “shitty” jobs? Are shitty because the employees are treated like garbage.

If employees weren’t being screwed over by people higher up the chain constantly or being forced to kiss the asses of customers currently shitting all over them, those jobs would by and large be a whole lot more bearable, and appealing to more people!!

amuseoffyre

Plus rich people are just handed a lot of money, whether they earn it or not, and no one questions that. Only poor people getting money gets interrogated over and over and over again.

giantgayratthatmakesalltherules

I’d like to add a footnote to this thread that the US gives more money (by way of the income tax reduction) to homeowners than it does to poor people who need subsidized housing.

hulking-godless-child-beast

My best teacher in high school was the guy who had previously made a ton of money that he could’ve retired at like 30. Man just wanted to teach teenagers.

If people as a whole were handed enough money to live on, maybe more people like him wouldn’t be put off by the poor salary teachers make. (also teachers should be paid a lot more)

atopfourthwall

There's also this assumption that if people were just handed enough money to live that they'd do absolutely nothing, as if they'd be satisfied being completely bored all the time. They'd still buy food. They'd still buy video games. They'd still go out and get coffee and put money into the economy even if they didn't want to work because they still want to LIVE. They'd buy movies. They'd go DO stuff. I review comic books on the internet and I love doing it, but I often have to compromise on some things because I just can't afford to do otherwise and I stress out about stuff because I need to earn money.

largeplateofstromboli

cryscal

"Psychologically healthy people are still motivated to do things even when their survival isn't being actively threatened."

Speaking for myself, I would be even MORE motivated to do things if my basic needs were guaranteed met. IJS

nimona-antifa

👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾👆🏾

#the only thing suicidal here is the queue

pottersdune

My biggest hope for season 3 is that Galadriel gets a proper and substantial role again. Felt like her screen time was diminished as a direct response to the criticism from lorebros, purists, incels, misogynists etc. The Nerd of the Rings did a 20 minute interview with the creators and not one Galadriel question was asked. The main character, the top billed actor sidelined.

Let’s not get it twisted, the general public and 99% of viewers (not the radicals on the internet) love Galadriel. Catering to this very small and angry subsection of people who throw nonstop tantrums on the internet would be a massive mistake. She’s played by an exceptional, BAFTA nominated actress. Let her have Galadriel’s full arc and explore her relationship with power and darkness again. Her resolution and “resisting” of temptation came way too easily for it to feel earned.

In Tolkien canon, she is not some meek, obedient tradwife and mother. She is an exceptionally powerful being who is still conflicted with her darkness in the Fellowship of the Ring. Her “final temptation” was resisting the one ring when Frodo offered it. Any erasure of that conflict within her would be far more egregious than anything the Reddit radicals would have you believe.

#the rings of power #galadriel

luzelms

"I was alone. A young, half-elven boy, without friend or kin. You gave me water" GALADRIEL and ELROND for week 5, rings of power summer celebration

#elrond x galadriel #elrond #galadriel #the rings of power

corneliarose14

"But perhaps the elves need only remember that it is not strength that overcomes darkness, but light. Armies may rise , hearts may fail , yet still the light endures , and is mightier than strength. For in its presence all darkness must flee" - Lord Celebrimbor

#trop spoilers #trop season 2 #the rings of power #celebrimbor #galadriel #elrond #arondir #the free peoples of middle earth

saudariel

SAM HAZELDINE and MORFYDD CLARK as ADAR and GALADRIEL in The Rings of Power 2x08 "Shadow and Flame"

#adar #galadriel #the rings of power #trop season 2

saudariel

SAM HAZELDINE and MORFYDD CLARK as ADAR and GALADRIEL in The Rings of Power 2x08 "Shadow and Flame"

#adar #galadriel #the rings of power #trop season 2 #trop spoilers

maul-of-shame

GALROND FAM WE STAY WINNING OMG ?????

SPOILERS FOR THE FINALE OF SEASON 2!!!!!

ALSO HELLO BUT THIS LOOKS LIKE A PROPOSAL TO ME ?????????

HE IS SO SOFT AND SMILING AND TENDER AND HOLDING HER HANDS, ALWAYS LOOKING AT HER I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!!!!

BONUS: "and the Sun yet shines" aND BRO KEEPS LOOKING AT HER

[Please tag me if you repost the screencaps!]

#elrond x galadriel #elrond #galadriel #the way he puts the ring on her finger is so intimate #feelings abound #the rings of power #trop season 2 #trop spoilers

clefchan

Okay.... I spent the full afternoon + full night doing this. It's 6:30 AM now . Drawing is like a drug. I should sleep.

#the rings of power #gil-galad #arondir #galadiel #elrond #trop spoilers #trop fanart

ringsofpowersource

GALADRIEL & EREINION GIL-GALAD THE RINGS OF POWER — 2.08: Shadow and Flame (2024)

#galadriel #gil-galad #the rings of power #trop spoilers #trop season 2

alicent-florent

Morfydd Clark: Yeah, I think [Galadriel] feels so guilty because she clearly messed up kind of monumentally. It's very kind of sobering for her to be around Elrond because he knows her so well and knows all her secrets and kind of knows the depths of her mistake and betrayal really.

Robert Aramayo: I think with the two of them it runs it's like it runs so deep, the connection between them that it sort of feels undeniable. It's a love, really. The bond is really strong.

— via Inside The Rings of Power S2E7 by Prime Video

#the rings of power #trop spoilers #trop season 2 #galadriel x elrond #galadriel #elrond