#quillicous

[gatheringbones]

quillicous replied to your post:have you ever gotten sad about plants cos my...

this is an adorable typo, im calling all bamboo staves “steves” from now on

i genuinely thought she was referring to her dead bamboos as her little steves and i was both humbled and sorrowstricken on her behalf.

[illluminirk]

quillicous replied to your post: [reads 5 pages of a 39 page paper] i am a god, i...

reasons why i couldn’t hack it in the humanities: have to read the whole paper, can’t get by on the abstract and the discussion

damn fair, friend. i fucking love doing research bc my review is that simple -- here were the results, i read the summary/conclusion, and i did that for 20 other papers and feel pretty confident.

[koryos]

Hey Koryos, so birds spend a shitton of time messing with and caring for their wings, right? Do bats do anything similar? Or does the lack of feathers let them treat their wings basically just like arms? (I know they can tear the membrane but I'm thinking more abt every day maintenance.)

Good question! For flighted birds, feathers require special maintenance via preening, where they use their beak to put oil from a gland in their backs (uropygial gland) over each feather. This keeps the feathers flexible and waterproof, as well as keeping them clean.

By contrast, for bats the flight surface is composed of (usually) bare skin. Skin is a lot better at maintenancing itself than filaments like feathers or hair, if you consider our own low-maintenance bare skin. However, the bats I worked with did spend hours each day cleaning the surface of their wings, probably to keep the skin soft and flexible. Also probably, in the case of the males especially, to stink themselves up from their scent glands.

[illluminirk]

quillicous 

this one actually COULD have been a regular Tumblr weirdo but i remembered one of the last times you mentioned lesbianism here specifically it was a t/rf and that was like…“only” a month, month and a half ago? One came after me for it two weeks ago, they’re like dogs with bones abt these things and their mommas never taught em not to necropost

LMAO THE CULT. I always feel like I spend too MANY words there but im flattered u think im straightforward 

could have been but also i left a response for 24 hours-ish and im not really about that “save the hate you dont deserve” lyfe. i do remember that post, now. it was ridiculous. w/hatever... 

IT IS AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION. every time i have to remind someone it exists im like “remember that time i came back from the dead as a small leader of a writing cult” and they’re like “OH FUCK, YEAH, OK” how is this a normal part of our lives (your commentary in there is informative, thorough, and precludes any other arguments. excellent a+ amount of words.)

[illluminirk]

@quillicous​

10 bucks says this is a t/rf performatively equating "it's a bit fucked that you harbor this visceral disgust for a minority group of women" with "lesbians are gross" bc according to them t/rfs are the only true lesbians so hating them is hating lesbians

fffff every time i think i have some handle on t/rf philosophy and enaction they pop up on me again...... not giving them that space then. no platform like that on my blog. delete post.

thanks quill i appreciate that you pop up every so often to save my ass somehow

[illluminirk]

hey! happy birthday! congrats on being still infinitesimally young compared to the aging stars. hope its a happy one

aw thanks love! it’s still my favorite part of this tiny human existence. (you made it even happier. thanks for existing, you handsome duck you)

[markscherz]

mr scherz what's your professional opinion on the species of the geico geck

Opinions must be kept to a minimum in taxonomic identification. The geico gecko is indisputably a member of the genus Phelsuma. Until now I have always considered him to be a Phelsuma grandis, but he lacks a red frenal stripe. Actually, the presence of an interocular red marking coupled with the absence of a frenal stripe is not known from any wild Phelsuma species. I would say therefore that he is probably a Phelsuma grandis of an unusual colour morph. He really doesn’t have the markings to be anything else.

[foervraengd]

Mirre! thank u for sharing such gr9 art with us so frequently, you are super skilled at values and rendering, gosh <3 also, I have a protip 2 share! Your centaur drawing reminded me. if you or any of your followers are interested in getting to know more horse anatomy, you should look at tumblr users craigslisthorses & fuglyhorses. They show common physical flaws of horses, caused by bad breeding, that can harm their ability to function, which makes them good for learning proper horse anatomy.

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