Listen to me, boy. You will hear about sea slugs. You will enjoy sea slugs
Costasiella kuroshimae / leaf sheep. Discovered off the coast of Japanese island Kuroshima in 1993, they can indirectly perform photosynthesis by absorbing chloroplasts from algae
Cyerce nigricans. The cerata can be easily cast when disturbed. They can also swim by powerfully flapping said cerata when strongly stimulated. I think they look like butterfly wings!
Jorunna parva / sea bunny. They are covered in papillae, which are fleshy protuberances used for sensory functions. It looks like fur!
Glaucus atlanticus / blue glaucus. They are rarely seen, except during periods of on-shore winds which brings them and their prey into coastal waters. They are the most dangerous sea slug to handle, able to give humans a very painful and potentially dangerous sting
Chromodoris lochi / loch’s chromodoris. They are spongivores, and prefer being on the underside of overhangs on rocky reefs. Their distribution is widespread in the Indo-Pacific. Everyone I show sea slugs to seems to love this little guy
Dirona albolineata / white-lined dirona. A translucent predator that often eats bryozoans and small snails. They generally reside on rocks and sometimes mud in the intertidal. Pretty little things, they remind me of shards of glass
Phidiana hiltoni / Hilton’s Aeolid. They are known for being quite aggressive, often biting and fighting other aeolids, which is so real of them. They always reminded me of lit matches
Acanthodoris lutea / orange-peel doris. Its bright aposamatic colouration is a warning to predators of its distasteful toxicity. They also notably smell of sandalwood! You don’t understand. I NEED to hold one
Nembrotha kubaryana / dusky nembrotha. They use the toxins in their prey ascidians to defend themselves against predators. The toxins are stored in their tissues then released in a slimy defensive mucus when alarmed. Nembrotha kubaryana are well-known for their neon appearance
Phyllodesmium poindimiei / Spun Of Light. It’s primarily nocturnal and can cast its cerata for protection. Anyway, can we all agree that Spun Of Light is the most awesome name for a sea slug ever? I mean, look at it. That’s a sea slug spun of light if I’ve ever seen one
Comments on erotica are so funny because a lot of the people in those sections are trying to compliment the author without directly saying “awesome job, I jacked it to this!”
i love the french, i love the way they pronounce Rs like they’re disgusted with them
the english meanwhile seem to have developed some sort of phobia about them
When we were discussing the surgery I’d need for my sleep apnea, the surgeon told me I’d never be able to speak French properly because the French R is a uvular sound and I’d no longer have a uvula.
… that’s okay? I’m not French? I don’t speak French? I’ve always thought it was the weirdest thing for him to say!
Huh. Didn’t know you could have French surgically removed.
sorry i just cannot get this out of my head. Like, “oh you speak french? i hear there’s an operation for that”
cultural christians are some of my least favorite fucking people. “putting aside religion temporarily (or forever haha wink wink)” just say you don’t know what Taoism or the Bear Dance is and shut up
you are not against organized religion you are against Americanized evangelical Christianity. you are not against organized religion you just think all religion is bad because you had a bad experience with Christianity. join the club. it’s 2024 everyone has religious trauma but it’s time to own up to the fact that your opinions about religion are racist as fuck and you should read the fucking vedas about it or something because this is soooo tiring
no. you do Not have to account for country. i am not saying that hindu nationalism is less or more #problematic than christian settler-imperialism. this post is not saying that americanized christianity is somehow unique in being bad sometimes. religion has always been used as a weapon against humans. the great buddhist persecution was done in the name of taoism for fuck’s sake.
this is specifically about the fact that a lot of people claim to hate religion have no fucking meaningful knowledge of religion and that doing this is racist. it isn’t “kinda” racist. it is fully racist to claim you hate “organized” religion when you can’t even name 2 major buddhist sects. it is fully racist to claim you hate “organized” religion but you don’t know how to talk about the intersections and importance of the gospel to black americans and historically black slaves.
you know what’s actually kinda racist under the surface? trying to pretend that you “have to account for country” and bringing up hindu nationalism as a whataboutism because you missed the point so bad.
nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back
seriously FUCK netflix and most other streaming services!!!! i miss physical media so much!!! behind the scenes footage, bloopers, interviews, cast/director/producer commentaries etc… bring this back, damn it!!!!
if school was actually fun and cool they’d let me give a presentation on their flaws and suggestions on how to fix them based on student survey and research
for fuck’s sake, can we start being nicer about spiders?
every time I want to talk about cute or cool or badass spiders I get at least one fucking japester who’s like “oh I bet it won’t be tiresome and irritating if I write trite and unprompted flash fiction about murdering innocent and harmless animals with fire (a particularly torturous form of death) THIS time”, and they’re wrong every single fucking time.
I would rather have ten people telling me they are horny for spiders every time I mention an arachnid from now until the day I die than have to continue living in a world where one of my favourite animals is most well-known on the internet for being the centre of a quote-unquote “joke” about extreme and pointlessly cruel animal abuse.
jesus christ, guys. spiders are just animals. they’re not even, like, pests, or invasive, or anything. the vast overwhelming majority of them can’t even hurt humans, and the ones that can don’t want to.
like, shit, sorry for the graphic image, but how would you feel if every time you posted a picture of a cute cat you got replies saying “if I saw that in my house I’d put it in a fucking beartrap”? because that’s how I’m starting to feel about the “burn the house down when you see a spider” joke.
and before you get on my ass about arachnophobia, I am arachnophobic, being in the immediate IRL presence of spiders gives me an uncontrollable physical fear response, but the existence of arachnophobes does not give you free reign to jack off to the idea of being able to freely torture and murder animals that “give you the ick”. you cannot trot out arachnophobia here as an excuse. there are tons of people who are scared of dogs. doesn’t mean you gotta be a dick about dogs. same with spiders.
one of the most popular superheroes in the world is spider-themed and you still got fuckers out here thinking they’re the funniest man alive for making jokes about killing spiders holy shit
anyway, rant over. picture of a cute spider under the cut ->
I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.
That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.
So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.
This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.
Leave to where? I’ve realised that Tumblr is literally the only website like it
I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.
That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.
So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.
This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.
I just realised that the reason why AO3 has a queue for making an account and why it’s still in version 0.9.whatever is because it’s still technically in open beta
Since 2009
…
Now that’s what I call true commitment to the ZeroVer philosophy
I really think that it’s important to remember @staff are trying to phase out custom blogs! Literally the most fun and interesting part of Tumblr and a very awesome selling point of Tumblr’s entire model.
That’s part of their whole ‘Tumblr’s not easy to use’ bullshit. They’ve been working at it for months now, you can’t even access someone’s custom blog from mobile anymore and like not even on the mobile website.
So yeah that theme and those pages you worked so hard to make unique and interesting? The webcomic hosted on Tumblr in such a way that it basically has it’s own website? The ARCHIVE of your blog that you can pretty much only access from a button on your custom blog? It’ll all go down the gutter if we don’t yell until our voices go hoarse.
This is a BLOGGING website the point of the website is THE BLOGS! I didn’t work hard to maintain my blog and keep the pages on it looking pretty for some hack at RND to decide it needs to go to make way for their ‘definitely not-Twitter’ ideal website. I swear to god the loss of our custom blogs will be the exact last straw for me and I WILL leave.
It’s funny when Tumblr screenshots circulate other websites or you show one to someone who’s not super online and they think they’re supposed to pay attention to the usernames as a part of it so they get really hung up on the fact that a comment comes from a handle like “SloppyMuppetBalls” or “werewolf-smegma-collector.” No not that part. That’s the normal part. Don’t laugh at our dear friend ClownHoleSlurper I’m trying to show you their insightful takes on economics
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