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stuffedeggplants

I love medieval travelogues where the author casually mentions seeing "big frogs" or something in the Nile river, followed by an irritated comment about how the locals bodily prevented the author from seeing these big frogs up close.

The big frogs, doing their best to be innocent and frog-like, they would never hurt anyone, certainly not: 🌴🐊🐊🐊🌊

stuffedeggplants

"So they call it a 'crocodile' but it's basically a giant frog. ANYWAY, about the hydrology..."

"I was amazed at such lack of manners, I was just trying to look at the crocodile."

Large frogs deprived of lunch yet again. Very sad to be a frog.

hyperpotamianarch

The idea that the Plague of Frogs was actually one of crocodiles is something that exists in Jewish thought abd exegesis! Not that common and well known, but it exists. That's what Obadiah di Bartinoro means when he mentions Nahmanides.

On the one hand, they supposedly made a comment on a Hebrew word of meaning that was unknown to them. Meaning, one might think that they just believe the Hebrew word "Tzfardea‘" means crocodile. However, it's just as likely that they considered crocodiles bog frogs. However, the only reason I find that idea compelling is that a plague of frogs sounds ridiculous, while one of crocodiles sounds legitimately scary. Meaning, they might not mean "it's a frog, so basically harmless", but "it's the kind of frog that's actually dangerous, the one that troubled the Egyptians in the Plague of Frogs".

littlealienproducts

Antique Saturn Ceiling Light by PacificHub

artofmaquenda

Omg my mind is blown...

An amazing Bulgarian woodcarver, Stefan R Todorov made my 'Get Out' artwork into a woodpiece, all tradiotionally handcarved

I am absolutely speechless and honored.. it is making me emotional, so very stunning!!

orcaking

Leather and Steel 🗡️🖤

(available as stickers via patreon through september 2025)

[ID: Digital illustration of a nude trans masculine person, cropped from thigh to neck. They are posed head on, one hand resting on the strap of a black leather strap-on harness. The other hand is holding the hilt of a sword, pointing down. They have top surgery scars, body hair, and a bandaid on their thigh for their T-shot. They are framed in thorny vines, with some 6 pointed stars around them. The background and figure are both a ochre yellow, with black lineart offset by red. /. End ID]

pangur-and-grim

feeding her some joker mush

keroa

herpsandbirds

recently discovered the jacana and pukeko and I am in love with this genre of birds with ridiculously large feet (especially the babies lol.) do you know of any other birds that are like this?

Have you seen these silly fellows?

Common or Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, found across much of Eurasia, northern Africa, and Oceania, Australia and New Zealand

The remarkable feet of coots are fissipalmate (lobed/partially webbed), which help them swim and walk across soft mud (without sinking).

Coots are not ducks, but are more closely related to rails and gallinules/swamphens (and more distantly, cranes).

photograph by Pat L. on flickr

American Purple Gallinule (Porphyrio martinica), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Everglades National Park, FL, USA

photograph by sandrino

Great Crested Grebes (Podiceps cristatus), parent with eggs, family Podicipedidae, order Podicipediformes, Sweden

photograph by Bengt Nyman

singing-bowl

thinking about how ursula k leguin said "what goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives" and how everyday i wake up slightly different and i can feel myself shed the skin of who i used to be slowly, slowly, until i look back and can scarcely recognise who i was... but also she is still a part of me, part of the leaf litter and the humus, supporting me as i send new roots down and new leaves stretching up to the sunlight

oceanlandworld

“I am Princess Sofia” - Criselda Vasquez 24” x 36” Oil on panel 2018

”All she wanted for her 5th birthday was to be an American princess. Since then she has refused to be called anything else, but Princess Sofia.” -Laura

mithli-archive

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

it's so easy to peer pressure men to become women. nobody is telling them that they shouldn't be women or be like women in any way, so pretty much as soon as i suggest it it's a piece of cake

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

the second i say "you should be a woman" they are never insulted they are always exactly curious enough to be led by the nose but without showing so much curiosity that they seem interested, which would suggest they have any agency. they don't. nobody has ever told them that men shouldn't be women or that they are men & their value lies in that. i stand unopposed

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

nobody is talking to you here, man. nobody is talking to you, or about you, or about your issues, or about whatever you're talking about here, because nobody is fuckin talking about you here, man. the post is about something else. i'm talking about some other thing that isn't related. you see? it's not related to you. or to what you're talking about. so it's not about you. because nobody is talking to you. this is actually about something different. do you see that? are you capable of seeing that? do you understand that some things are not about you, or about what's on your mind? and some things don't actually have to do with you? do you get that? am i making sense? can you get your head around the idea that nobody is fucking talking either "to" or "about" um, "you?"

persianmom-deactivated20260602

honestly + unfortunately I am never surprised by men laughing at a woman’s expense

persianmom-deactivated20260602

like marilyn frye said: “to say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). all or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. the people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. in their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. from women they want devotion, service and sex. heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

herpsandbirds

Longhorn Spiny Orbweaver (Macracantha arcuata), family Araneidae, Singapore

photograph by Jack K H Loo

hangsawoman

Nan Goldin. Anne-Marie and Claude kissing, NYC (1987) / Rise and Monty Kissing, NYC (1980) / Lynette and Donna at Marion’s Restaurant, NYC (1991) / Aurele kissing Joana in my apartment, NYC (1999) / Self Portrait on Top of Brian, Kissing, NYC (1983) / Swan-like Embrace, Paris (2001) / Simon and Jessica kissing in the pool, Avignon (2001) / Philippe H. and Suzanne Kissing at Euthanasia, NYC (1981) / Matt and Lewis in the Tub Kissing, Cambridge (1988) / Gilles and Gotscho embracing, Paris (1992)