#Evolution of a Man

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[azvhaalk]

glorious evolution

[ven04ka]

hehe they are so happy and freaky and not dead full in my telegram <3 тгк: венька

[sunsetsands]

Season's Greason's to all who celeason's

[figtreegif]

Wardrobe // Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) // Doctor Who Seasons 3 & 4 (2007-2008) + Torchwood Season 2 (2008) + specials

[vaxxildamn]

finally…… the legendary Level 20 Scissor Gal-adin

[umbrellainkart]

I understand why evolution didn't use his comics backstory. However,

[a-bad-case-of-the-stephs]

As much as I like the idea of Steph getting-over-it™️ and moving-on™️, no longer being defined by the shitty actions of men in her life, I also really really like the idea of a Steph who can’t fully let go. Steph who picks fights with Bruce for no reason. Steph who says things to him that sting, unwarranted, out of nowhere, not even because he did anything recently, at least nothing she can consciously recall, just like automatically. Steph who for a single, just one single half second, gets jealous of a ‘good work’ and pat on the shoulder, and immediately afterward feels an immediate overwhelming wave of revulsion so intense she thinks she might throw up. Steph who gets weird looks from Cass, Steph who gets glares and awkward coughs when she says something out of pocket, Steph who gets asked why she’s being immature, why shes stirring up shit for no reason, Steph who doesn’t know how to answer that, because she doesn’t know why she did that, she doesn’t know why she keeps doing it, it just keeps happening. Steph who doesn’t know how to stop or even if she wants to stop or not. Steph who doesn’t really need to make a conscious effort to avoid being left alone with Batman, but who still takes pains to avoid it, just in case, just in case, because what would she say then? What would he say then? What could either of them possibly say to each other at this point. What kind of horrible resolution would happen, what kind of terrible breaking point would manifest, what could either of them say? Nothing good, Steph knows. Nothing good. So she takes pains to avoid being alone with him.

[jemilygifs]

JJ fiddling with Ros' necklace & Will's wedding ring.

CRIMINAL MINDS 5.13 / 18.03 Requested by Anonymous

[alphynix]

Spectember 2024 #05: Most Weasel

@gaycoonie suggested a "future legless mustelid":

Descended from an arboreal offshoot lineage of the modern least weasel, Maximagale gaycooniei is a bizarre mustelid that appears to have converged on the lifestyle of ambush-hunting tree snakes, evolving in northern latitudes where actual snakes are largely absent.

Growing to about 1m long (3'3"), it's not truly legless but its limbs are all reduced down to tiny vestigial single-clawed spurs, which are used to help anchor its body while climbing and as claspers during mating. It moves around with a distinctive inchworm-like looping gait, alternating grasping and releasing with its front and hind spurs.

Its build is bottom-heavy, with most of its mass concentrated in its thicker back end, and its tail is semi-prehensile. It clings to trees with its body bunched up, camouflaged with cryptic coloration, and rapidly whips its long flexible front half out to snap its powerfully-muscled jaws at prey – such as insects, birds, lizards, frogs, small mammals, and pretty much anything else that comes within its reach.

It will also opportunistically raid the nest of birds and arboreal mammals.

Due to the less frequent meals its ambush-hunting tactics provide, it has a much slower metabolism than its ancestors, and it conserves energy with daily periods of torpor and longer hibernation during the colder months of winter. It has also retained its ancestor's tendency to seasonally shrink its brain size to reduce energy requirements even more.

[garfeee]

Viktor art nouveau poster anyone

[bold-embrace]

I need to draw Natori more often

[egophiliac]

the lovers, reversed

(aka I'm still freaking out about Jou)

[onlyhereforangst]

#luke really said #trust me i'm more than aware

[yellosnacc]

Hey, it's bio man! Or at least that's my way of using his "nickname" that would translate closer to "A marital-man-partner to beating-objects" or well, a nature guy. He's one of the main characters of the story, directly involved with the expedition to Pimple Island.

At the moment, he lives among 'monk-priests' of a Ciwan monastery but isn't one himself. He seeks shelter there in exchange for service to the pack. Most people in his position only wash away their family name, then gain a new monk name, and eventually also take on the new gender and title among the workers of the gods. Bio man has been living in the monastery for years without trying to get any of that and is considered something of a freak for his way of isolating himself from the social groups that slomen so strongly gravitate to. Some of the slomen there even think he's only there to gain access to the archived knowledge, or is even some sort of spy.

But bio man is just a person who wants to be alone, untouched, unsensed - an easily overwhelmed guy. Humanoid in attitude but still emotionally lacking due to, well, not being a human that can just do his own stuff forever.

He has his own plans and motivations, but for now, his actions mostly include collecting plants, rocks, and carcasses to bring back to the house to stare at (as some would put it). And thanks to the pity of the higher priests, this only affects his nickname. (Well, it also got him the mark of knowledge, which he has to wear in public as one of his services to the house. It makes outsiders aware they can ask him questions, mostly nature-oriented.)

I already posted him outside Tumblr, hoping I would be done with his other outfits when I post him here, but I think I will just post them in a reblog later with more context for them and the setting.

[mortalscience]