“kill them with kindness” WRONG!! boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you boops you
people who don’t have boops on, I respect your peace but also picture me standing outside your blog scratching the door like a cat wanting to be let in
i’ve lost count of how many asks i’ve gotten that say “omg you made cookie clicker?? i thought you were just this guy on my feed” and in addition to everyone strangely forgetting how to spell my name i’m starting to understand the kind of stuff Tony Hawk has to go through
the booping is cute and all but lets not forget the violent transmisogyny and antiblackness of this site. ok
“thanks for ruining the joke, i bet you’re fun at parties” sorry for not wanting people to brush over staff’s shitty actions. especially on trans day of visibility
like okay, indulging this reply for a second. the things i’m pointing out are things that are happening now, right this moment, that are affecting real people. if i point out that something shitty is going on and your response is “wow, thanks for ruining the mood” you don’t actually want things to improve, you just want to be blissfully ignorant.
i’ve gotta be honest this transgender day of visibility has been entirely hollow to me. smarter blogs than mine have said it, but over the last few months there hasn’t been a day where transfems have had a single fucking second of release from this constant panopticon of hyper-visibility that has been constructed around us.
how am i supposed to feel happy at all in the fact that i’m “seen” when the only thing that visibility has brought my community is destruction?
If you’re referring to a specific noun- person, artist, writer, actor, teacher, etc.-
It is _NOUN_ of color! Artist of color, writer of color, teacher of color.
Please stop saying “poc character, poc artist” (person of color character person of color artist). While I recognize that if you chose to follow me, you likely had no mal-intent, it comes off in a very… Distancing way. “How can you claim to care about me and you don’t even know what you’re saying” way. If you know someone’s race or ethnicity, feel free to say that! Black artist, Filipino writer, Indian character, etc. It’s okay to be specific! Our goal is intent, and part of being intentional is knowing what we’re saying when we’re saying it. 👍🏾
i like to pick up feathers while out on a walk, and today i decided to trim and paint this dove feather i’d found and cleaned a while ago.
it’s not quite proportionally accurate and the feather didn’t take the watercolor paint as easily as i was hoping, but i’m happy with it as a first attempt!
i don’t have another pure white feather in my collection right now but as soon as i pick up another one i’ll try again :]
Forever baffled by the fact that Tim Burton is still thought of as a defender of oddness. He treats monsters as things to be gawked at, to be drawn and imagined, then put away in a safe little box. He doesn’t love monsters, he loves freak shows.
“Tim Burton is a defender of oddness!” Tim Burton can’t stand the idea of not treating fat people as carnival freak shows who are usually some flavor of cruel, disgusting, and/or just flat-out evil. He thinks he loves monsters so long as the monsters are coded as conventionally attractive skinny white people.
I don’t care if I know you bc we’re mutuals or I follow you or you follow me or if you’re just randomly on my dash/notes but if I see your url and I see that boop button you’re getting fucking booped
I don’t care if I know you bc we’re mutuals or I follow you or you follow me or if you’re just randomly on my dash/notes but if I see your url and I see that boop button you’re getting fucking booped
staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn’t really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)
I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???
This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.
They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.
This thing is one of the most successful hunters on the planet. Because their mouth is fused shut, except for the tip, they can create a powerful suction force in front of that one little opening in order to draw in prey.
Lions have a 20-30% success rate on their hunts, depending on daytime and if they’re in a group. Great white sharks, anywhere from 40% to 80%, depending on the size and skill of the individual. Dragonflies, which are one of the most successful terrestrial hunters, can hit about 80-85%. Seahorses? 90% success rate, sometimes more. Only a fraction of their prey escapes that powerful vacuum. They’re incredibly precise.
If you touch them, they feel hard, because of the skeleton underneath their skin. Their tails are being studied to make coiling bridges, because of how strong that interlocked structure is. Different species range in size from over a foot long, to barely an inch.
Behold: not just a fish, but a wildly successful predator!
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don’t forget their majestic cousins the sea dragons! these are the leafy and weedy sea dragons
and the newest seahorse family member, discovered in 2015, the ruby sea dragon ❤️
Yeah that’s when someone tried to straighten the seahorse back out and it still didn’t look right. The more they bent and mushed it in their hands to look like a fish again the worse they fucked it up until finally they just left it and walked off and hoped nobody would ask who did this
(I love them so much)
Syngnathiformes my beloved. Always happy to see my favorite weird fishes get appreciated.
And if you want to expand your horizons on the order, may I suggest trumpetfishes
This has to be my alltime favorite image of a banded pipefish. Thank you so much!!
As thanks let me gift you this image of an absolute 34cm unit of a spiny seahorse wich was caught in the channel south of england ( and later released healthily ) in 2015.
Zionists can honestly be hilarious. Like one moment they’re acting like a normal human being and then the next they’re blaming innocent babies for the world going bad.
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