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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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shark vs the universe
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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HAPPY 10 YEARS OF SHEITH ♥♥
VOLTRON: LEGENDARY DEFENDER || Release date of season 1 - June 10th 2016
It takes more than a glowing alien wound, a fall from the upper atmosphere, and crashing into a hard pan surface at what I’m guessing is about 25 meters per second squared, to get rid of me. How are you?
Day Six | Snark • Banter • Humor
This was a very new style tor me and quite a bit outside my comfort zone! Hope you enjoy ❤️
I love this banter between Nate and Anders
The Murderbot Diaries are a power fantasy about being aromantic and still developing extremely important dedicated emotionally intimate partnerships where you are a top priority in a person's life, equal to their other family or romantic attachments despite your own emotional difficulties. And having guns in your arms
Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay
Love being reminded that Geralt is the character of all time. He’s a horse girl. He’s a girl dad. Before he went out on the path he gave himself 5 names to seem more like a knight but everyone bullied him about it so he settled for being called “of Rivia” even though he was not from Rivia and had only been there once after he’d become a Witcher. He’s constantly bullied by everyone around him because he’s an idiot. His two best friends are a bard and an elderly higher vampire who doesn’t drink human blood because the last time he did he got so drunk on it he flew directly into a building. He names every horse he owns Roach and always picks chestnut mares. He’s centuries old and didn’t know about periods until he got Ciri and he and the other Witchers got chewed out by a sorceress for not knowing what periods were
A watercolor painting from last year I gave up on but came back to finish up ❤
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have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard
just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !
Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir
I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks
They’re fucking. Ice Elementals.
So it’s very likely they diverged from other Sleeper Shark lineages during one of the Pleistocene ice ages, when thickening polar ice would have trapped certain populations in perpetual icy darkness for thousands of years. These are the descendants of the survivors of that.
Their flesh is toxic for numerous biomechanical reasons that directly relate to their ability to not only survive but thrive in waters that would literally freeze you or I solid.
Urea and Trimethylamine-N-Oxide
The Greenland shark accomplishes this using first concentrated Urea, which is a natural antifreeze and depresses the freezing point of the shark’s fluids; and TMAO, which stabilizes proteins against denaturation, both from the concentrated Urea and the crushing pressure of the deep.
Additionally, the Greenland Shark has 3 distinct Hemoglobin complexes in its blood, 2 of which are apparently specifically adapted to be unaffected by the high antifreeze concentrations. More research is needed here.
{anecdotally; once pulled from the water by fishermen, the shark allegedly persists thrashing and fighting for far longer than any other fish, and there are stories of the flesh itself continuing to twitch and move long after its apparent death, as the creature is butchered}
Their longevity is partially enabled by a highly derived genome: it is comprised largely of transposable elements, also known as “jumping genes,” which normally cause organisms to be more prone to Cancers, but, are also capable of self-replication; and amongst these, we have already identified over 80 discrete gene sequences dedicated specifically to DNA repair.
They’re viviparous, and the female reproductive systems are quite complex, including a system of villi to deliver oxygen to the developing pups. The variability in gestation time remains subject of ongoing study: how is this accomplished? What triggers it? Many questions; fewer answers.
Truly a remarkable and magical Beast of the lightless depths. It is an honor and a privilege to share this wet rock with you all 🫡
These tags made me laugh:
Literally!
THE WITCHER 3 EXPANSION IS HAPPENING!!!!!
Handers Exchange
For the Handers exchange being run by @handers-time
Please enjoy, @newkate !
Accompanying fic is on AO3:
Summary:
“You’re angry,” Anders said, hoping to dispel the anger, or to at least allow it to come forth. The sooner it was dealt with the better. Hawke nodded his head, looking down at Anders’ healed hand. “I’m sorry,” Anders said again. “You can be angry at me. I destroyed everything you–” “Stop. I’m not angry at you. Not like that.”
https://archiveofourown.org/works/86249916
The 2026 Dragon Age Census Survey
It's time!
The goal of this survey is to collect data on the demographics of and choices made by the Tumblr-based Dragon Age fandom. Everything is 100% anonymous, and all questions on the form are skippable - just keep in mind that the more questions you answer, the more accurate and thorough the data will be!
The form is split into the following sections:
Voter demographics and series-wide preferences - this asks things like your age range, gender, favourite game in the series, and which mainline and side-content installments you've played
Choices specific to and your preferences within Dragon Age: Origins
Choices specific to and your preferences within Draon Age II
Choices specific to and your preferences within Dragon Age: Inquisition
Choices specific to and your preferences within Dragon Age: The Veilguard
And a very optional bonus section where you're invited to share your more specific opinion on each individual main game and companion, along with a place to share any feedback on the blog and suggestions for future tournaments!
This form will remain open for a month - submissions will be accepted until July 7th, and results will be shared shortly after.
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idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????
'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa
THIRTY TWO??????
Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.
May I present the best apple:
the world is so big and beautiful
that list is just a small sample. i know this because my favorite isn't on it. Gala apples - crisp and sweet- organic only please. It's also not an american thing. Just like potatoes, different apples have different purposes. There are cooking apples for instance. Apples for pies. It's a whole world. And pardon me if I don't think it's excessive. It's beautiful. It reflects human ingenuity. It reflects earned expertise in this very niche field. It reflects variety and choice.
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who grants you clemency / commission for @whumpawaydarling !!
