Confused and Excited

Any pronouns

[tanuki-kimono]

Utterly dramatic hômongi, depicting hôô (phoenix) nestled in clouds and auspicious plants (kiri, kiku, tachibana), over honmon rinzu (woven ground mixing sayagata, orchids and chrysanthemums).

[nightlysleeper]

First time drawing some of my Long term favorite characters

[gaslit-dipshits]

[appalachian-werewolf]

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[durbikins]

[wizardarchetypes]

just saw a rly bad post get the thomas shelby meme stat

[wizardarchetypes]

i will NOT be reblogging it or making my own post addressing the issue!!!!!

[i-am-the-oyster]

[bewbin]

dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats

[normystical]

wedding dresses are white specifically so that if the bride goes axe-crazy you can rest assured you will see the blood stains all over her and it'll be sick as fuck

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[wizardarchetypes]

i am so serious when i say dark and quiet are both human rights.

i don't mean like absolute silence. obviously in an ideal community, there would still be sound and noise from people and music and work etc. but it haunts me that when i camp in the forest i can hear the howl of semi trucks on the interstate miles away. and the people who live beside it never know quiet. it haunts me that many people will live their whole lives never seeing the stars in the sky that were fully visible with NO electric light pollution as recently as my great-grandparents' childhoods.

so much of our lives is bright bright unnecessary noise. neon mcdonalds signs 200 feet in the air so we can see it from the road. led lights over billboards. parking lots lit up like sports stadiums at closed office buildings. advertisements playing at gasoline pumps. streets lined with led porch lights and decorative garden lights that genuinely threaten entire species of wildlife. music blaring outside pharmacies to deter homeless people. everything always shining and wailing for no purpose but profit and cruelty.

obviously not everything can be turned off or made quiet and i wouldn't want it to be anyway and there is a lot of nuance and room for "but what about" here, but MANY things HAVE to change because none of us are supposed to live like this and we shouldn't have to!!!

[depsidase]

[romanpaulov]

Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

[diamondguls]

Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

[danthesantana]

Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

[nightbringer24]

Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

[mammalidentifier]

Zelenogorsk (Otocolobus manul)

[turnaboutnerd]

You would think this is a deep quote from a famous artist or writer or even philosopher, but no, it’s a line from fucking Detective Dick Gumshoe in the Ace Attorney series.

[iaintnohero]

Someone put this on a fancy background please

[turnaboutnerd]

I am at your service.

[turnaboutnerd]

People are asking about the context. You should know that Gumshoe is talking about the janky-ass dancing Blue Badger animatronic that he made.

[neshamama]

Sampler, silk embroidery on linen foundation, c. 17th century, England

[catilinas]

image source

[dragon-in-a-fez]

accidentally wrote "maid of horror" and I think I'm on to something actually. new wedding role responsible for releasing a chainsaw clown into the chapel if things get boring

[pmamtraveller]

"The Wings" by artist Choi Xooang.

[paperwan]

I’m not changing