A nine tailed kitsune but all the tails are those floating inflatable men you see outside car dealerships
One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall
"Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall." - This is a raw line.
You can be reminded of any normal thing in the world and ADHD brain will load memories of media like it just got a hilarious reference. The word, sight and entire concept of ketchup has caused an episode of Cow and Chicken to intrude into my thoughts since the 90s. Each and every day that I'm made aware ketchup still exists. It is like this with most objects and ideas that I'm aware of. Letters and numbers. Colors. ADHD brain is like "wow cool nightmare before Christmas reference" every time I see or hear just the number eleven. "Oranges?! I remember oranges from that flash animation we saw in 1999! It mentioned oranges!" yeah buddy it sure did.
25 years and 70 days of my life
Can confirm, this is my brain on ADHD experiencing life.
"Change all English names of birds that have been named after people and three additional names.
This would include 152 English names on the NACC list and 111 on the SACC checklist; if the latter were to be changed, it should be done in close consultation with ornithologists from the Neotropics.
To build AOS’s capacity to manage a new public process, conduct a pilot run of the name-change process, using <10 species names representing a broad cross-section of considerations and challenges..."
Info here: https://americanornithology.org/about/english-bird-names-project/english-bird-names-committee-recommendations/
Hey, I NEVER REBLOG other people's posts, but...
This is really important info for North American ornithologists and birdwatchers!
THE PUBLIC WILL GET TO HELP PICK BIRD NAMES
The full article by the AOS is really interesting and goes into a lot of detail about their decision to start choosing new names for several hundred birds! Very exciting!
Has anyone done a mashup of Moby Dick and The Little Mermaid, combining the prince with Ahab and the mermaid with Moby Dick? Like, the mermaid is still in love with the prince and saved him, but is also the siren that crashed his ship on the rocks to begin with and he's devoted his life to finding and killing her. It seems so obvious it must have been done before at least once, surely...
Also the mermaid should still be the size of the white whale. I’m sure that’s what OP meant, but I just want to make it explicit in case there are any cowards thinking of this mashup differently.
You've heard of Earth is space australia now get ready for: Earth is the space Amazon Rainforest. Aliens land on Earth and they are losing their goddamn minds because every square inch of the ground is absolutely PACKED with life like there are hundreds of species just in this one site, there are winged animals flying through the sky and multiple colonies of sophisticated social insects just in the shadow of their ship, this ONE ROCK is covered in MULTIPLE SPECIES OF ORGANISMS that are themselves MULTIPLE ORGANISMS LIVING SYMBIOTICALLY, the tall, woody autotrophs look so different from each other because they're...holy shit that's like 5, 6, 7???? different species on this one site???
they start talking to a human and the human is like "haha yeah that's a crow!" and the alien researcher is like "you called it a 'bird' earlier, is that a different name?" and the human is like "oh a crow is just one species of bird, there's like, 10 others out there"
"On this planet?"
"No, in the back yard right now."
If we just roll with the standard sci-fi depiction of single biome planets, this is a fairly realistic reaction for alien biologists because Earth’s “bizarre” number of habitats and biomes all linked together essentially forces everything to adapt to every other thing - even stuff from adjacent areas - at all times, creating biodiversity that would simply never exist on a single biome planet.
Hedoroyah?
The great art alone would be worth a reblog, but the simple addition of the portmanteau name with a question mark elevates it to prime fanfic fuel.
At first it looks like Destoroyah is about to erupt out of Hedorah, especially given that burst of Hedorah’s sludgy “blood.” But then in that third panel it looks like Hedorah’s exterior is engulfing and reattaching to those parts of Destoroyah, and that raises so many terrifying questions.
Is Hedorah just trying to smother Destoroyah in its own body, or are they fusing in what is simply an excruciating process for both of them?
can’t get over when famous gangster lucky luciano was like “hey lansky seems like quite a hassle getting all those nazis offa your terf you want us to help ya out” and meyer “Left Russia Because of Pogroms and Became A Gangster In The US” lansky was like “no. no getting to beat the shit out of nazis is reward enough for us. sorry lucky this one’s personal don’t worry about it”
here’s a quote from a New York Times article abt it
also bonus quote from that article
everybody says that “the government” enlisted these mobsters to beat up nazis, but like. no. no that didn’t happen? judge nathan perlman illegally called up a man who could have him shot dead at a minute to say “hey. i’ve scoured the fucking law books tryna find a way to get these fucking nazis out of here, but my legal means have unfortunately run out. so-” and meyer fucking lansky was like “ah say no more boss lemme call a buncha friends and we’ll get this sorted out real quick don’t even bother paying me.“
can you imagine that phone call. like genuinely. how am i supposed to continue living my normal life knowing this happened. people who loooove talking about punching nazis, taKE FUCKING NOTES
this is my favorite Meyer Lansky story.
my second favorite Meyer Lansky story is about the time, many years later, that he was at a meeting of mafia heads and one of them started bragging about how his son was following him into the family business.
Meyer Lansky said “That’s nice. My son works for NASA.”
having a husband who is a forensic science student who does nothing but study skeletons all day is ridiculous because we were in the middle of doing...adult....stuff....and he suddenly just grabbed my head and said "oh my god, you know you've got a healed skull fracture here?!" like WHAT do you MEAN I have a HEALED SKULL FRACTURE???
he told me my skull healed really weirdly and I probably have brain damage from it because there's a fuckin crater in the back of my skull that I just thought was a normal thing everyone has. I should probably see a doctor
update on this: he keeps like grabbing random body parts and trying (and failing) to subtly look at me and im like STOP EXAMINING ME because he's so fascinated by my fucked up skeletal structure. the other day we had Christmas drinks with my coworkers and he told me afterwards that someone in the group had a weird shaped skull and something about processes and i was like god can't you just be normal and stop examining people
I told the person I'm dating that one reason I like old movies is because most actors don't have Hollywood-perfect smiles and I like to look at all the different shapes of their crooked teeth and misaligned bites and the way their silver and gold molar fillings flash when they talk.
They just looked at me and said "That's such an anthropologist thing to like," and honestly? No rebuttal possible.
(After this conversation I drunkenly showed them my favorite pages of my paleopathology textbook. Bless them for not immediately running as I caressed an image of a snapped femur that healed at a 90 degree angle.)
I came home from my bioarchaeology masters and started poking my dad’s head because his skull was so extremely masculine in every feature.
One of my supervisors went to her doctor at one point and said ‘hey, remember when those shelves in my office fell and the hospital were only concerned about my neck? Well, I think I actually fractured my skull.’ and her doctor started feeling her head going ‘I seriously doubt...wait...that’s...ok, yes, you did fracture your skull but it’s healed pretty well!’
Also, @slipstreamborne which textbook is that, because I want to see!
@narrativerehearsal , let me introduce you to the joy that is ORTNER'S:
ALTMy favorite skeletal pathology text. The vast majority of images are from archaeological sites of various ages, because thanks to modern medicine and improved diet it's far less common to see advanced presentations of untreated skeletal disease and trauma. Only comes with black and white images, unfortunately, but the text has all the details needed for a thorough differential diagnosis.
Some of my favorite images!
The aforementioned femur that healed at 90 degrees; femur was weakened by osteomyelitis (infection in the bone):
ALTThis person dislocated their hip and the femur was never put back into its socket (bottom circle). Eventually the bone formed a new socket (arrow)!
ALTAnd for @angiethewitch , what your husband was likely feeling, depressed fractures on the skull (the two round impressions with arrows). Presumably you fell and struck your head on something, were in an accident, or were hit with a ball or other hard object when you were younger. If the area is larger/flatter and mostly on the back of your head, however, could just be flattening from lying in the same position a lot when you were a baby.
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