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Eartha Kitt shows off her strength and athletism by doing yoga at the beach, 1960s.

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Leaf sheep, a small sea slug native to the warm tropical waters of southern Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Though they are animals, they indirectly perform photosynthesis in a process called kleptoplasty, in which they absorb chloroplasts from the algae they eat. Their chemosensory rhinophores look remarkably like the ears of a sheep!

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Emerald Tree Boa (Corallus caninus), family Boidae, Suriname

Photograph by Sandro Perez Veltman

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Red-eyed Eyelash Viper (Bothriechis schlegelii), family Viperidae, Eastern Cordillera, Santander, Colombia

Venomous.

Photograph by Elson Meneses Pelayo

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OMG friends big news! I can finally share that I’ve got a short story set to be published this summer in this collection! Also, surprise, y’all all get to know my name now. It’s Jack. For the very small number of mutuals who might have thought I was called something else, time to update my entry in your rolodex.

The piece I’ve written for this collection is inspired by the public library of my childhood. In the ‘90s, before the Internet was ubiquitous, there were so few places a gay person in a small town could go to find the words to understand our desires. That’s what the library had to offer: the ideas to explain what was going on in our own crazy heads, and the knowledge that we weren’t alone. This story is a reflection on the terror and joy of discovering all that. It’s also a reflection on how smokin’ hot would it be if two painfully shy bookworms got naked in the library (spoiler: VERY).

This is the first time I’ve ever been published, and it feels like such a huge accomplishment. I’m not exaggerating when I say that ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a writer (solving murder mysteries from my living room in Maine was optional but also very much an aspiration). As a few of y’all know, I walked away from my corporate job of almost 20 years a few weeks ago. So even though I’m not exactly pivoting to a full time career as a romance novelist, getting a story out there is a big boost to the hope that I’m good at something more valuable than pushing around PowerPoints all day.

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idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr

you could talk about wanting to fuck the space needle on here and people would still call you a poser for insisting on fucking "conventionally attractive architecture" as if that's a coherent, easily-recognizable category

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In 1932, Anna May Wong was photographed by Carl Van Vechten, a prominent portrait photographer known for his striking black-and-white images of artists, performers, and cultural figures during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. These portraits of Wong are some of the most iconic ever taken of her.

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I offer only vampire angst today I'm afraid 😗

#Art #Astarion #bg3

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my friend has a board game from 1986 called Therapy

and it’s whole thing is it’s supposedly based on scientific studies/data and even has sources cited on cards. but you know. it’s a board game about psychology from the 80s. so you get shit like this:

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i love that there’s a midsomer murders fandom on here. i talk to my mum about fan theories and then get to come on here and see the exact same discussions taking place only gayer. if you’re in the midsomer murders fandom i am kissing you passionately right now

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springtail eating a slime mold

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Nona's birthday 🐩🐕🐕‍🦺

Commission for @bensavagae

commission info

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Not a drawing of Hellboy, but not not a drawing of Hellboy, you know?

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Ciri by Yama Orce.