Bird School

Big fan of bugs and plants.

[alcnfr]

So far as I can determine this is the 2 extremes of my local Robberfly species, quite small Common Micropanther and giant Red-Footed Cannibal Fly.

[hauntedfalcon]

I love you Pacific Rim, I love you Ramin Djawadi's soundtrack, I love you Mako Mori, I love you found footage prologue, I love you entire concept of Drift compatibility, I love you only actual golden retriever man Raleigh Becket, I love you Kwoon scene, I love you "it's not obedience. it's respect," I love you Mana Ashida's powerhouse performance, I love you Stacker Pentecost's sun motif, I love you Chuck's jacket, I love you hallway fistfight, I love you Crimson Typhoon, I love you Otachi, I love you del Toro's "guy in a suit" approach to creature design, I love you Hansens with flare guns, I love you "for my family," I love you numerous artful nods to Jurassic Park, I love you "we can clear a path. for the lady," I love you forehead touch, I lo

[cristalplanetheart]

[bigbigtruck]

sucking at something is the first step to getting good at it

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[immaplatypus]

[bowlifecomics]

It makes me happy when they listen

[cheap-pink-mints]

[bowlifecomics]

YES. YES YES YES THANK YOU

[strawberrydykke]

opened up ravelry to look at patterns and the very first thing i saw was

The Garment by Robert Cole

[bixbythemartian]

went to read the Ravelry and that was such a treat:

Let the Garment envelop you; experience its heft and splendor. The original Garment pattern was knit in the round, from the bottom up, and designed for someone six feet in height. A simple adjustment of the number of stitches you cast on will allow you to customize the length. Follow The Garment on Instagram: @HeftAndSplendor Update, Aug 9, 2026: Many thanks for all the Garment enthusiasm in recent days! In response to sensible feedback, I’m developing and testing two alternate versions of the pattern: one for children, and the other a top-down version. I’m not entirely sure why I chose to make the first The Garment bottom-up—it almost certainly makes more sense for sizing, etc., to make it top-down—although I will say that casting on 300 stitches for the bottom of a The Garment feels like quite a leap of faith into the great unknown. In any case, both new versions of the pattern will be included in the update and sent to everyone who’s already bought the original pattern.

The pattern for the Garment costs only five usd so if you are a knitter and you want to make something beautiful and baffling, there you go. I do almost want to learn to knit so I can make the Garment.

(Also there's more pictures of people wearing the Garment at the Ravelry page and they're all FANTASTIC.)

[mayothompson]

this is my all time fav tapir pic

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

i love palamades sextus because it's like. he's "the greatest necromancer of his generation". he's jealous of an eighteen year old. he's in a codependant relationship with his cousin. he's writing erotic wlw fanfic on the wallpaper of his hallucinated River bubble. he rewrote known necrophysics. he was homewrecked. he finds those little outfits that nurses wear and strong work ethic and high test scores sexy. he's been in love with a woman seven years older than him since he was eight. he gave an ancient saint turbo cancer. he blew himself up. he's dead. he's alive. he's banned from selling erotic wlw fanfic he conceived in his necrophysically impossible River bubble. he's taking care of the dead soul of the earth in the body of a girl who lobotomized herself. he never forgets anything. and he isn't even technically the main character. NO ONE is doing it quite like him.

[oh-jod-dammit]

He isn't even technically the main character AND!! He's the ONLY character to technically appear in EVERY SINGLE novel and short story. (By which I mean. He doesn't have a direct role in As Yet Unsent, but he IS attached to his bones and there IS a point made of Cam carrying them and fighting people to keep them. He's technically there lmao. And every other work he plays a significant role, with even his very brief appearance in HtN being a huge turning point.)

He also dies in every single book. I love him so much.

[theswisscheeserag]

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

[theswisscheeserag]

And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants

[theswisscheeserag]

And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

ever since hadestown, griddlehark orpheus and eurydice has me in a chokehold. here's a poem.

[jitterbugbear-deactivated202505]

the brass ring of unimaginable swag, 2025

[triangleguy]

nightmares where theres a scary creature or something: damn that was scary Haha good thing im awake now .

nightmares about your dad: IM FUCKEDDDD THERES NO COMING BACK FROM THIS

[bigbluehorse]

[Image ID: A pale yellow design bleached onto black fabric. The words "some moments last forever, but some flare out with love, love, love." are written an old timey font. A painting of an explosion in space is in the background, with stars around the edge and a black circle in the centre. It is bordered by a box with embellished corners.]

tshirt bleaching using my dear friend's tutorial (X)!! lyrics are from the mountain goat's song love love love. background image is based on this NASA artist's depiction of a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy ✨

[sci-fi-gifs]

Pacific Rim dir. Guillermo del Toro | 2013

[sunflowermp4]

ITS DOECHII BITCH MISS D-O-E DON DADA BITCH YOU NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[layaart]

some bugs!

[bitstitchbitch]

my family is lucky enough to own a 26 acre mountain property, log cabin and all. Most people would go up there and think that it is fairly pristine nature. There’s the cabin, and a few dirt roads for 4-wheelers, but the surrounding woods look untouched.

But we actually carefully maintain that nature. We cut down the deadfall. We pull invasive plants. We trim the elderberry bushes. We get more animals than almost anywhere else on the mountain because we put up salt licks and water troughs.

some of these same things are true of national parks. A lot of places that you think of as “untouched wilderness” are influenced heavily by human care and maintenance. And this isn’t a bad thing. We are animals too. In many ways, our ecosystems depend on us to keep them healthy. Many “wild” plants that are useful for food or building materials are actually semi-domesticated because indigenous groups cared for them and encouraged their growth so they do better with human care.

we have a place in nature. We just need to be conscious of our actions.

EDIT: since this post took off, I thought I should add some sources

'Forest gardens’ show how Native land stewardship can outdo nature

Patches of forest cleared and tended by Indigenous communities but lost to time still show more food bounty for humans and animals than surr

Indigenous Fire Practices Shape our Land - Fire (U.S. National Park Service)

For many millenia, fire was integral to many Indigenous peoples’ way of life. This page describes ways Indigenous people used fire in the pa

Untouched nature was almost as rare 12,000 years ago as it is now

Most land on Earth has been shaped by humans for at least 12,000 years, suggesting low intensity land use is compatible with preserving biod

Also a disclaimer that I am not indigenous or an ecologist. I am putting time and effort into learning, but I am not an expert.

[pagecommando]

As op says, the native americans/first nations people shaped the land around them for their own benefit with the tools and technology at their disposal. The idea that they didn't is the kind of 'Closer to the land/magical elf' thinking that makes them simultaneously more and less human. (And honestly why Cameron's Avatar and stuff like it annoy the crap out of me, because it makes conservation a 'magical' act that has an idea that people 'shouldn't' interact with nature or even go into it if preserving it.)