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Stella really is one of the most perfect Creatures ever I think. few can Creature as well as she

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the wildest thing for how common it is on invertebrate ID groups are people who have positively no idea what an isopod is. Like people posting "HELP!!! WHAT are THESE!?!?" and it's a woodlouse or a roly poly. I have never in my life been in any place where some sort of isopod isn't under every single stone or brick or piece of wood on the ground. I'll bet you can find one on any walk in any environment barring the hottest possible sand dunes or solid frozen ice. How does one live more than a couple years on this planet without encountering these creatures.

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So I knew of the "ReAction" toy brand before this, but I didn't know until now just how many fun little novelties they suddenly make including great original concepts, beings from album covers and just whatever characters and creatures never got collectibles before.

love that this post found the exact laser-focus target audience of the most niche possible collector's item. These are like the chaotic good alternative to funko pops (which are lawful evil)

You can buy a little figure of THE Mr. Bones!?

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@revretch and I especially always loved the entire gargantuan towering hillside eaten by Kudzu, right around the back from some of the above photos. I took these pictures in the fall almost a decade ago:

Now here's the same hill from two days ago, but in the early springtime:

Does the kudzu have yet to grow its summer leaves in (does it do that?) or was it all successfully killed off??

I love the town of Port Deposit Maryland. It's all these incredibly old houses build onto levels carved into the side of a mountain overlooking a river and it's not actually "far" from anything else yet there's still a good few miles of little to nothing on all sides making it feel very much like an isolated bubble. I want to say it has never changed, but the residents are constantly building more stuff onto the homes as they deteriorate. They have been doing this since I was a baby, so does that mean it always changes, or does that mean it never changes, because constant change is its natural state?! It's like a bunch of different game assets clipping through each other, assembled by someone with a rough understanding of what a town looks like and how to make it look relatively normal from just certain angles.

Today there were all these vultures at a park there

Port Deposit also declared its own two genders, but they are both welcome to use any restroom they please

I grew up 20 minutes away from it but I never met anyone who lives there or works there. People definitely DO. We met a super nice lady today who owns her own little coffee bar there. But it is difficult to accept that anyone in Port Deposit really exists concurrently with the current timeline of this universe. It will blow my mind if there's a single person on tumblr who lives there. The population feels like it's just 20 or 30 aunts and uncles. I don't know whose aunts and uncles. But they are somebody's.

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I love the town of Port Deposit Maryland. It's all these incredibly old houses build onto levels carved into the side of a mountain overlooking a river and it's not actually "far" from anything else yet there's still a good few miles of little to nothing on all sides making it feel very much like an isolated bubble. I want to say it has never changed, but the residents are constantly building more stuff onto the homes as they deteriorate. They have been doing this since I was a baby, so does that mean it always changes, or does that mean it never changes, because constant change is its natural state?! It's like a bunch of different game assets clipping through each other, assembled by someone with a rough understanding of what a town looks like and how to make it look relatively normal from just certain angles.

Today there were all these vultures at a park there

Port Deposit also declared its own two genders, but they are both welcome to use any restroom they please

I grew up 20 minutes away from it but I never met anyone who lives there or works there. People definitely DO. We met a super nice lady today who owns her own little coffee bar there. But it is difficult to accept that anyone in Port Deposit really exists concurrently with the current timeline of this universe. It will blow my mind if there's a single person on tumblr who lives there. The population feels like it's just 20 or 30 aunts and uncles. I don't know whose aunts and uncles. But they are somebody's.

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Here are my 3 largest leeches in a jar while I was cleaning their tank a week ago, I tried to post this video directly to tumblr probably half a dozen times and it just never showed up so I had to go through youtube!!! The big suckers clinging to the glass are their tail ends, while the smaller head end has its own retractable sucker, identical except for the tiny jaws at its center (I say this a lot but leeches don't really have a ring of teeth like in cartoons!)

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It's just so fucked up that America doesn't have any dedicated toy store chains left. Toys R Us wasn't even the only or most prominent one when I was a child. We also had one called Kiddie City and another called The Toy Works, both gigantic, and we had KB Toys that weren't just in the mall. They actually all went out of business when Toys R Us bought their locations one by one, so I guess that's capitalism for you. One guy gets so big he crushes the rest so then if that guy dies that's it, he leaves an empty void.

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Tarantula: May I have a coke please

Waitress: All we have is Pepsis is that okay?

*Tarantula sweating nervously*: Y-you have what

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I'm still fussing with it here and there, but

Here is the official cover reveal for my upcoming book, THE CICADAS OF NORTH AMERICA!

Preorders are available NOW at www.OwlflyLLC.com/publications !!!

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Oh, it turns out that the classic candy isn't universal. He is a classic candy!!! The package art and the "he's so real" comes straight from the old candy packaging

He has countless imitators usually around Halloween!

You can buy a little figure of THE Mr. Bones!?

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You can buy a little figure of THE Mr. Bones!?

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This baby swordfish went viral once but this isn't even the tiniest possible baby swordfish

It's dangerous to go alone, take this

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America has completely homeless starving people dying in the streets constantly so what in hell does that dude think is going on in the upper middle UK

this shit is scary what the fuck are they talking about

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when i die i hope i come back as a beautiful microscopic granule of sand

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just a few geophilomorph centipedes today

found nearly anywhere with soil (their name means earth-lovers), these are the most successful and species-rich order of centipedes.

you’re unlikely to see any unless you dig, and this bunch was sifted out of old soil and put in a container for release. while geophilomorphs are caring mothers that guard their many babies, these juveniles and adults wouldn’t likely be associated so closely or touching one another naturally—but given that I only inspected three small pots, can coexist at very high densities!

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I know those little guys!!! They work at problems

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish, 1852 - 1934)

Neural Drawings, circa 1900 - 1908

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I think this is why they call them jumping worms