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アンドロジナス . Some Asian person. Some artist, sometimes I cosplay, Likes vidoegames. BJDS. Contain NSFW materials. Otaku trash.

[anxietyproblem]

[kilo-nova]

[thecollectibles]

Throne by TwhY

[aqua-regia009]

Mountain Stream in the Moonlight (1905) - Albert Rieger

[official-sokka]

Yip yip

[charamells-deactivated20220424]

Mini starter final evolutions 

[yla9]

Never been the type to wanna fit in, I’ll sit alone if I have to.

[yuyuuyuyuu-deactivated20230726]

List of priorities 2021:

1. Me

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

[angel-kiyoss]

Octopus filmed changing colours while sleeping.

[fierceawakening]

i wonder what they are dreaming about

[plum-soup]

Changing colors duh

[max1461]

What’s really cool about this is that cephalopod (octopus, squid, etc.) intelligence evolved completely separately from intelligence in tetrapods (which includes primates, dolphins, crows… basically any other intelligent animals you can think of). Cephalopods are very, very far away from us on the tree of life. For context, you and a starfish are more closely related than you and an octopus. The last common ancestor of humans and cephalopods was the so-called Urbilaterian, the hypothetical first animal with a left-right symmetric body. This animal almost certainly had, at most, an extremely simple nervous system, without anything resembling a brain.

All this is to say that the fact that this octopus appears to be dreaming means one of two things. Either

a) dreaming is a very, very old thing indeed, going directly back to the Urbilaterian. This would mean that almost every animal, from insects to starfish to sea slugs to newts, is likely to have the ability to dream in some capacity or another (unless they have specifically lost it by evolutionary simplification).

or

b) dreaming evolved entirely independently in cephalopods when they developed greater intelligence. This would suggest, at least, that there’s something very fundamental about dreaming related to intelligence itself, which causes it to emerge independently when sufficient intelligence arises.

Needless to say, either of these outcomes would be really very cool.

[dsxsbx]

[crittizen]

this is a poem

[vj87g]

Princess Zelda, Impa and Terrako.

[nicostiel]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Some days I feel everything at once. Other days I feel nothing at all.”

— The Idealist

[mono-caps]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“I’ve learned a lot this year. I learned that things don’t always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

— Jennifer Weiner

[quiet-nymph]

Photography by Kohei Yamaguchi