Sir, that is my emotional support food stash

🍓she/her🍓 🌿22🌿 🐝be queer, induce fear🐝 ♦️currently fiending on: dr. stone, the apothecary diaries, gachiakuta

[hinamie]

@itafushi-week day seven: free!

redraw to round out the week <3

[heartbreakincident]

writing your fave having sex with with their love interest is OUT writing your fave shamefully jerking off and coming pathetically fast at just the idea of fucking their love interest is IN

[prokopetz]

You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

[calloutnevvegas]

For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

[revretch]

….. Didn’t know most of that

[iamthekaijuking]

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

[revretch]

Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

[bogleech]

(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

[assuming-dinosaur]

Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by anonymous:

RATING: RELIABLE

Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.

Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’

They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.

Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’

They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.

Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’

The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.

Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.

“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’

The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.

It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.

Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’

Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.

Source: ‘Flamingos have very specialised diets. And their food is responsible for their famous pink colouration. The two species in Planet Earth II eat a lot of floating microscopic algae, which contains carotenoid pigments, the same types of chemical that make carrots orange. These pigments turn their feathers pink, orange and red – without them, flamingos would be white.’

[adaginy]

… @todaysbird ??

[todaysbird]

yeah they’re just like that

[juney-blues]

information that is also important

[figofswords]

weary and wary are not the same word and have very different meanings and if i see one more person use wearily when they mean warily I’m gonna combust

[figofswords]

weary: tired, worn-out, beaten down, exhausted, in need of rest. they were weary after their long journey. wearily, she sat down on the couch and kicked off her shoes. he had grown weary of this conversation.

wary: guarded, cautious, on-edge, careful. they were wary of the approaching stranger. warily, she poked at the dark shape in the corner of her room. he paused, wary, but nodded anyway.

[luxwing]

[figofswords]

thank you for this reply you get the funny crown today with bonus points for accuracy

[sound-the-horn]

I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.

It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.

As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.

I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.

So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.

The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.

I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.

The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.

You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.

When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".

"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?

However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.

[levinintozbezi-deactivated20220]

[witchsing]

places with very good energy

souvenir shops

thrift stores

big rocks in shallow streams

gardens

candle shops

farmers’ markets

libraries

tea shops

riverbanks

feel free to add more!✨

[wtchy-writings-blog]

- antique shops

-clearings in the woods

-fields of wildflowers

-playgrounds & preschools

-the beach at sunset

- art shops/classrooms

-Arboretums

-japanese gardens!!!

-at a warm hearth

-lighthouses

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It was a global problem

[everythingfox]

*Takes Soul*

Photo by Winnerslens31

[iofthebunny]

soul now in good paws

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[chickentriestowrite]

✮⋆˙Tendou headcanons with a lonely reader (gn)✮⋆˙

♥︎ Tendou, who never says anything when he catches you scrolling through the stories of people with more exciting lives than you, with more friends than you, with more everything. 

♥︎ Tendou, who notices everything with those sharp eyes of his and soon pulls you in a little closer. "Cheese!" To show how awesome we look, he explains.

♥︎ Tendou, who always starts yapping loudly to drown out the noisy friend groups stumbling on home drunkenly, asking questions and listening to your responses with rapturous attention. 

♥︎ Tendou, who leans his head against your shoulder and falls asleep to the soft rumble of your voice once you go to bed.

♥︎ Tendou, who doesn't pass up a chance to stay at home and avoid parties. You ask him if he, too, feels like he's missing out on his youth. He grins. "I'm spending it just fine, though." 

♥︎ Tendou, who's never been one for social settings in the first place. He knows that feeling of ostracization; he'd never judge you for staying away, but you always face the same refrain first: "You could do it all, if you wanted." You do want friends. It's just...hard.

♥︎ Tendou, who introduces you to his old friends from high school and guides you through the conversation, never letting you fall behind and chiding the others for their unexplained inside jokes.

♥︎ Tendou, who makes a big deal out of the accomplishments nobody else does. He celebrates each step you take, every flick of your wrist—all of it.

♥︎ Tendou, who may not be able to stop you from feeling lonely, but will do anything to prove you're not alone.

[itadoriahh]

YUUJI & THE GANG 🗣️‼️

[itadoriahh]

oh, he’s crying. i don’t think he can feel it.

poor thing :( … he’s got lots to live up to :( </3

[retroject]

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

[scififantasystuff]

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This snower (snail shower) is joyful and whimsical! 🐌🚿

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[miseria-fortes-viros]

@staff ???

[strawberry-starss]

@staff make it how its supposed to be.

[velvetnightgallery]

sapphic paintings

Pt2

Washington Allston “Helena and Hermia” (1810), Giovanni Battista Gaulli “Justice, Peace, and Truth” (1672), Frank Skipworth “A Roman Holiday” (1889), Simeon Solomon “Sappho and Erinna” (1864), Tadeusz Styka “Dark and Fair” (1908), Hans Zatzka “Two Fairies Embracing” (1930s), Unknown “Boarding School Friends” (1837), Jean-Frédéric Schall “The Hug” (1800)

[fandomsallaroundme]

im just gonna say it: fic writers needs to stop writing post-overhaul midoriya like beginning-of-show midoriya. he isn’t going to crumple like tissue paper every time bakugou so much as looks at him. he doesn’t cry at the drop of a hat anymore. he’s calmer, more mature, and has friends outside of iida, uraraka, and todoroki. you guys keep ignoring all of his progression and keep him stuck the same as he was at the start of the school year when he’s a completely different person now

[softer-ua]

I’ll fight anyone who says Deku has ever crumpled like tissue for anything, he was tender footed to begin with but he was NEVER weak, y’all best not be slandering his character like that

Dekus caution had more to do with how sensitive Bakugo was not him. Not wanting confrontation and not being able to handle it are very different.

Even in the first episode when Bakugo is at his worst and blows Deku out his desk, Deku is on the floor but he maintains very passive body language and claps back at Bakugo “I can still try” he’s not confident but he’s also trying to balance not rolling over and not spurring Bakugo on, Bakugo who is clearly dealing with having almost zero emotional regulation skills

Dekus never afraid, intimidated, or even persuaded by Bakugos actions. He still does whatever he wants. He also happens to want to avoid upsetting Bakugo, not out of fear but simply because it’s exhausting to deal with, no one likes upsetting people you care about

Now that Bakugo has some real support systems and affective checks and balanced in his life he’s chilled out some and won’t have a tantrum at the drop of a hat, so Deku is a lot quicker to correct him, he also just doesn’t have the time or the spoons to dedicate to Bakugos problems (middle school Deku probably would have noticed that Bakugo was struggling with the AM retirement)

Dekus definitely more confident now but he’s never ever been a push over, I will meet the whole fandom in the Walmart parking lot and spar you all sports festival style one by one on this.

Put some respect on my little arborvitae’s name 😤