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girls when they get new shoes:

fairy shrimp & tadpole shrimp

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If you see a post about how you should be nice to insects and arachnids and you leap into the notes to say "SO I SHOULDN'T KILL A TICK BITING ME OR TERMITES EATING MY WALLS??" You're an idiot honestly. What kind of dumb, stupid idiot thinks that's the point of those posts or a reasonable fair reaction at all. You wouldnt counter "don't be cruel to mammals" with "SO I SHOULDN'T STOP A BEAR FROM MAULING ME??" Like how completely ridiculous a response would that be? You'd think that person was embarrassing. You already know that's not what the post means. If you're dumb enough to respond that way I'm instantly assuming you knew better and chose to just be an annoying prick, which I'm going to assume is your entire personality about everything always.

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(Armadillo officinalis)

she is eating a cookie

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as funny as it is to say, "theres's no such thing as a fish" is not actually true

"science doesn't know what a fish is" is really not true

"fish" is not a monophyletic category. there is no common ancestor of everything that we call a "fish," and none of the things that we don't

"fish" is a paraphyletic category -- and a useful one! marine biologists use it! "fish" describes a general body plan and lifestyle. it is useful to be able to talk about coelacanths and tuna in a shared category, though coelacanths are more closely related to us than to tuna.

where this bugs me is the repetition of the idea that "scientists" are hidebound and uncreative, unable to comprehend anything that doesn't conform to a specific idea of categorization -- when this is fundamentally untrue! we know perfectly well what a "fish" is. the fact that it's a paraphyletic group is only confounding to pop science, as a funny factoid, not to anyone who actually understands what a paraphyletic group is.

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GIRLS!!!!!! gather roung. we are looking at this pillbug

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some original art i made after disappearing from the face of the (tumblr) earth

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i remember when i first went vegetarian i was like Ohhh but ill never be like one of THOSE vegans. well where are we now

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ponies

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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

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Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

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PINGAT JET BEADED BUTTERFLY EVENING CAPE

1890’s

Maison Emile Pingat A. Walles & Cie

Cream satin with chiffon shoulder drape beneath two layers of stiffened black net decorated as butterfly wings with silver sequins and faceted jet beads, the high neck having a large beaded wire butterfly at back.

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Kyoko Imazu - Beetle Spotting. 2018. Etching and Aquatint.

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Comatricha nigra by Andy Sands

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Lasiocampid Moth (Labedera primitiva)

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Trichius fasciatus/Eurasian bee beetle Found one of these chowing down on a chicory flower last summer and was absolutely delighted