just found out that giant squid meat is chock fucking full of ammonium ions to increase buoyancy so they would taste fucking disgusting if you tried to make calamari out of them. i mean i wasn't planning on it but a girl can dream right? nobody talk to me
sorry i covered your neck in dark hickeys and clamped down hard on your throat like limp prey while i was giving you a handjob. you whimpered a little too soft and i blacked out and believed myself to be a feral dog in possession of an entire rotisserie chicken
The difference between a good photograph and a National Geographic photograph is often just a slight shift in perspective. Sometimes a ladder is really inexpensive tool (less so in my case, since I had to fly it to the remote Indian Ocean atoll of Aldabra) to obtain a different point of view. This proved to be the case on assignment for @natgeo in Seychelles a few years ago, when the ladder helped me create the opening image for this story. I have posted that particular photograph before, but I will post it again tomorrow for reference.
Aldabra has the highest concentration of blacktip reef sharks I have ever experienced. The sheer abundance of sharks there is completely out of this world. At low tide they congregate in a small lagoon on a reef flat where a brisk current bathes them in cooler well oxygenated water. They avoid the deeper water off the reef edge where bigger sharks may prey on them.
Time lapse video by my assistant and talented videographer @ottowhitehead
This mentality of “if you post online it can be seen by anyone so you’re basically asking for it if you get harassed” is taken for granted as somehow sensible, but I think it’s actually pretty alarming! There has never been another time in history when misspeaking, being too earnest or autistic or “ugly” or “annoying” or etc etc could get you attacked continuously, en masse, by people all over the world. Now we’ve just accepted it as the natural order. Questioning this is seen as naive and illogical, but participating in the punishment of anyone deemed to have transgressed (whether you even actually have evidence of wrongdoing or not) isn’t. It should be alarming how quickly people slot themselves into the roles of arbiter and punisher as if there are zero ethical implications