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TWO ASEXUALS SITTING IN A TREE

S-I-T-T-I-N-G

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Han’s lucky that Alderaan blew up because their press would eat him alive. My guy has to contend with the fact that the last Viceroy who married into the royal family is Bail freaking Organa and he ran drugs for a living. Somewhere there is a space Piers Morgan throwing a fit about it.

"han solo would be star wars meghan markle in an alderaan isn't exploded au" isnt meta i ever expected to read but it is nonetheless very correct

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*cracking my knuckles* I’m going to write a one shot about this

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They shouldve put steven universe on adult swim and made rebecca sugar take shrooms & peyote it would have been dune for women #Thoughts

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I'm disappointed that Elon Musk left the Trump administration so quietly. I thought we were at least going to get some really entertaining tantrums out of that partnership

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can't believe genly spent a meek 2 sentences on the subject

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GENLY's eye is frozen shut. It is encrusted in white crystals of ice. GENLY: Um. Harth? GENLY stops pulling the sled and turns around.

ESTRAVEN looks up from where they were pushing the sled.

ESTRAVEN: ? ESTRAVEN: Ai? Where are your goggles?

ESTRAVEN walks around to GENLY and puts their hands on his shoulders.

GENLY: I packed them away this morning. Stupid. ESTRAVEN: Yes. Stupid. Sit down, Ai.

ESTRAVEN is close enough to GENLY that GENLY can see his reflection in ESTRAVEN's goggles.

GENLY sits down, taking shelter from the wind behind the sled. His arms are crossed. ESTRAVEN sits next to him and removes the balaclava-like covering from their face.

ESTRAVEN is very close to GENLY now. They grab the back of GENLY's hood and pull it back.

ESTRAVEN: It's likely simply frozen shut. GENLY: Um. Harth?

A close up: ESTRAVEN leans in and breathes on GENLY's frozen eye, causing a little bit of it to melt. A bird's eye: ESTRAVEN straddling GENLY with both of their hands steadying their shoulders. A distant shot: GENLY and ESTRAVEN are two small figures in the icy landscape.

ESTRAVEN: Still frozen.

ESTRAVEN pulls back.

ESTRAVEN: Sorry about this.

GENLY (blushing, taken aback): Sorry? What for?

ESTRAVEN leans forward again and presses their tongue to GENLY's eye.

After a minute ESTRAVEN stops. GENLY's eye has melted.

ESTRAVEN: How is it?

GENLY: Uh - Blurry. Dark.

ESTRAVEN gets off of GENLY, leaning on the sled to push themself up. GENLY watches them.

ESTRAVEN: Good. You haven't lost it then. Do you feel like you can continue?

GENLY: Yes.

ESTRAVEN offers a hand to help GENLY up, and GENLY takes it.

ESTRAVEN then gives their goggles to GENLY.

ESTRAVEN: Take my goggles, Ai.

ESTRAVEN and GENLY continue in harness pushing and pulling the sled across the flat snow.

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the only “ai” i respect is genly ai, first mobile on gethen/winter, hainish cycle 93, ekumenical year 1490-97

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Swallow drinking from a stream By: Stephen Dalton From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

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you can tell the writers had a lot of fun on this episode there are so many good and iconic gags i couldn’t upload them all at once and decided to compile them together

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Red-breasted green tiger moth, Chlorhoda metamelaena, Erebidae

Photographed in Colombia by alefox123

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Vintage Wool Fish Rug by Canvello

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I've always been fascinated by cooperation and communal living in the animal kingdom. There's so many reasons that species will live communally, and not all of them are because they particularly want to.

Maras, a large rodent species, are monogamous but will put their babies into a creche. One couple will stay to look after the babies whilst the rest of the parents go and graze for the day. If the sentries spot danger, the babies run into the burrows, safe and sound. It's a really effective system!

ID: A baby and adult mara touching noses with each other. They are rabbit-like in body shape, with fur that is a gradient from grey to reddish-brown.

The thing is, maras hate each other. They really, REALLY loathe being around other maras that are not their mate. They are NOT very sociable animals.

So when it's pickup time at the daycare, things can turn ugly very quickly. Whilst they may tolerate being in the same vicinity as another adult mara, there's only so much they can take before things go south. Punches. Kicks. Even the yeeting of babies. Their commensalism hangs by a thread, and they are constantly gnawing at it. But the creche system is so effective that they will continue doing this, litter after litter, year after year.

I think this is a really interesting example of how social behaviours can arise even when the animals are themselves not very tolerant of each other. It goes to show how useful working together can be, even if the thought of being in the same geographical area as someone else can send you into a blind rage.