Header ID: A mossy forest scene. End ID. Profile Picture ID: A picture of a sun bear. End ID. the fabled for-fun research blog. check out our pinned! posts tagged with #before remake are NOT fact checked
welcome to wikipediasunbear, otherwise known as the blog where we track our research we do for fun
Hey! We're Starship Abyss, collectively known as Epitaph. Queer + disabled + plural, notably schizoaffective and autistic.
We're trying to re-learn how to do research for fun, and reteaching ourselves how to find, read, interpret, and share information. Our schizoaffective disorder comes with a huge chock-ton of cognitive symptoms that affect how we learn and remember information, and we have multiple "memory bad" disorders, so here we are with this blog.
Originally called liifeonearth, the two crewmates that really wanted this blog to reblog gifs and fun information and what-have-you now never, ever front, and out of the two of them, only one has fronted for any period of time within the last year. So, this blog has been dead for a few years.
What we're planning to do with this blog is share what we're learning about. We've known we're plural for around five years now, but only recently have we started to discover and accept that we all want to learn different information. This blog will help us not only remember what crewmate loves which topic but will help us remember what we've been learning through our own posts about each topic. It will serve, as well, as a way to discover our individual loves and feel more comfortable as plural persons.
We also want to start fact-checking cool posts we find on our own time, so that might start up as well! Overall, we're in the business of finding and sharing information we find cool, with sources.
Under the cut, you'll find a tagging system we want to try to remember. You'll also find more about us, what we're interested in, and what we're learning! Thanks for sticking around thus far!
(Header photo by Linda Christiansen on Unsplash, and icon found on this website)
We're bodily an adult and use ze/hir, it/its, voi/void and rot/rots collectively. Alternatively, you can use they/them when referring to us. We are comfortable providing conjugations of our pronouns, as well as pronunciation, so don't feel afraid to ask!
Please only use these pronouns if you do not know who's fronting, are referring to the body/the collective, or if you do not know the pronouns of a specific crewmate. We'll try to introduce ourselves, but no promises. The general rule is that if there is a tag for the crewmate, the crewmate is open for questions about hir topics, pronouns, and other info, but please be respectful. We will not answer asks we think are disrespectful or are uncomfortable with, so keep that in mind.
As we said earlier, we're plural, specifically polyplural. We have 200+ crewmates, so frequent fronters change often. What we are learning about and interested in will change too!
Call us Epitaph or by the fronting crewmate's name. We tend to use the term "crewmates" instead of alters, headmates, etc., but use anything but "parts" language for us. We are people.
We're disabled and in college, so we might disappear often. We try to be accessible, so if there's anything we can do to be more accessible, please let us know!
We're collectively queer.
We are creative persons and have multiple creative projects. We'll try to keep our "work" research separate from our "for fun" research, but so much on this planet has beauty and interest and so it'll be hard </2 (broken heart emoji, with a two instead of a three).
Tag system:
Epitaph post: a collective talk tag to look through. We will tag every original post with this tag.
Anon post: a tag for those who are anonymous. A broad umbrella which includes those who are shy, scared of revealing themselves, or for times we do not know who's fronting / we are blurring so hard we cannot distinguish ourselves.
[crewmate name] post: a tag for a specific crewmate, for example, "vela post".
[trigger and/or censor warning]: we do not use "tw" or "cw", and will tag sensitive or triggering topics with one word, i.e. "blood".
[topic]: find our topics on our topic page! we'll tag under the broad topic umbrellas we list rather than with specificity.
Fact checked: a tag for if/when we do fact checks
Sources: A tag compiling sites of where to look to do fact checks, or for general news and such!
This list is subject to change.
Topic list + crewmate list / crewmate interest list
This pinned post was last updated July 25, 2025 (7/25/25).
Said before, most likely, by somemany who is much more eloquent than us, but! Do you ever think about how paywalling articles and entire article sites effectively stop folks from doing their own research and how much this probably effectively stops any well-meaning curiosity?
real big apologies, college started up and we’ve been dealing with the Mysterious Affliction so doing research and learning things not for classes is hard
We're currently in college doing a bazillion things a day ^^; (apologetic face with sweatdrops)
Oh! Yes! On the topic of college and this blog, we mentioned before (maybe?) that we were looking into transgender history for a project of ours! Well, the project has now launched. We're debating linking it here or not, though, for a few reasons. If you're interested in a website about building a trans future, feel free to DM us or send us an ask <2 (heart with a two instead of a three)
Bakuya Kofun (牧野古墳) is a burial mound, located in the Umamikita neighborhood of the town of Kōryō, Nara Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1983.[1] It is one of the burial mounds that make up the Umami Kofun cluster.
I’m not a Wikipedia blog, though that is a fun find!
This is a blog where we post about what we’re learning and things we find interesting. So— not a joke blog or anything like that! ^^; (embarrassed face with sweatdrop) just wanted to clear that up hehe
Researching the blog's namesake (the wonderful sun bear) for a creative non-fiction essay! One must remember we're creative writing majors before all else ^^; (face with sweat drops). If we find anything interesting, we'll make a post!
We're currently in college doing a bazillion things a day ^^; (apologetic face with sweatdrops)
Oh! Yes! On the topic of college and this blog, we mentioned before (maybe?) that we were looking into transgender history for a project of ours! Well, the project has now launched. We're debating linking it here or not, though, for a few reasons. If you're interested in a website about building a trans future, feel free to DM us or send us an ask <2 (heart with a two instead of a three)
Oh, yeah- we saw a very interesting post about the Portuguese Man 'o War yesterday, so I'm excited to fact check that! Sources are in the post so it should be easy enough
The post has been released from our drafts! A fair warning, though, that we couldn't read the study, so our fact check is based on the abstract and introduction. We're debating taking it down for that reason, or changing the tag to "not fact checked" (by us, at least). We also found an article that backs up OP's words, so we're in the "probably won't take it down" zone, haha. Please read the tags on the post itself for more information!
UNMASKING THE BLUEBOTTLE REVEALING FOUR DISTINCT SPECIES THROUGH GLOBAL CITIZEN SCIENCE
For over two centuries, the Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia spp) was considered a single, cosmopolitan species, drifting across the world’s oceans and stinging unsuspecting swimmers. But new genomic research has overturned this long-held view, revealing that Physalia is not one species, but at least four: P. physalis, P. megalista, P. utriculus, and a newly described species, P. minuta. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 151 specimens from around the globe and found strong reproductive isolation between genetic lineages, even when their distributions overlap. This evidence aligns with historical descriptions from the 18th and 19th centuries, which proposed several species that were later dismissed due to limited data.
Crucially, the study integrated over 4,000 photographs from iNaturalist, using citizen science to match distinct morphologies with genetic lineages. These images, contributed by amateur naturalists, swimmers, and lifeguards, allowed researchers to confirm physical differences that earlier taxonomists could not consistently observe due to preservation challenges. The result is a rare success story in which modern genomics, historical records, and participatory science come together to clarify the taxonomy of one of the ocean’s most recognisable creatures.
The discovery not only rewrites the story of Physalia but also challenges assumptions about biodiversity in the open ocean, reminding us that even the most visible marine life can hold hidden complexity, and that everyone, from sailors of the past to today’s citizen scientists, has a role to play in uncovering it.
Reference: Church et al., 2025. Population genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open ocean. Current Biology.
We're going to be doing some queer history/movement research today! It's a huge interest of ours and also something we're doing for a project for college. Hopefully something will come of it- we're very nervous about it.
We have a huge list of links, PDFs, and own quite a few books (as well as knowing a few sites and having reached out to some history professors and librarians) but if anyone has anything specifically on trans history, we would appreciate it, even if it's just for a look-through!
