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i wish evette was real

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continually astounded to learn that someone around me is actually for real christian. like. aren't you supposed to grow out of that

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toxic boyfriend who says "manip-ya later!!!" as hes leaving the house to go cheat on you

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i dont like that overwatch has memes in it its extremely scary. Why is there an It's Morbin' Time reference in the new stadium update. That's not even like a super commonly known meme the developers are Online

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Shitter has been banished to the yellow void

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i hate dogs with blue eyes. why is fucking jeff the killer at my back door

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buncha old worm doodles.. i stopped at like 19.2 but ill get back into it at uhhhh some point

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this is a bit of a "some people dont have their timestamps turned on" type reblog chain

it seems bizarre and unfair that i have now had three (3) dreams about animorphs in a rather short period of time and none about aisha and alec despite the fact that aisha and alec have been ruling my cranium for over a year now and the animorphs just got here and are only the subject of mild affection

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Summerween 🎃 - June 22

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halloween could save me

does anyone else miss halloween

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does anyone else miss halloween

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the worm fandom does suck because the extremely small size means that you're never more than one degree of separation away from extraordinarily unpleasant people but every time i've stared into the abyss of a large fandom tag for something i like recently i've thought man good thing the worm fandom is only like 70 people

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#the phrase ‘yaoi rapport’ lives in my head because of this post

yay my lasting impact

in the world where worm is disproportionately popular and has the most stereotypical type of tumblr fandom one of the most popular alec ships is regent/kid win. there's an entire genre of fanfiction about alec being allowed to take the hoverboard, which incites some sort of wacky chain of events wherein alec and kid win meet each other repeatedly and establish a Yaoi Rapport. alec is casted as the flirtatious bisexual who initiates shitty YA banter, leading kid win (whose personality now contains 50% more ADHD per oz) to become haunted by regular memories of the Stupid Cute Smarmy Villain. i was going to write a sentence about how aisha would be treated in this dynamic but thinking about it made me too mad so my vision of this world ends now

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i love you tumblr blacklist

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a joyeux makeaterriblecomicday to u all

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Just read The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This and it was super adorable!! Totally devastated when it ended so soon feel like we could've had another 104 chapters T_T

My fave character was Ataru I loved how every scene she looked like a sopping wet cat with lotsa piercings <3

i saw people on tumblr saying it was cancelled early at random which makes sense because it could have gone on way longer. my favorite was obviously the jessie doppelganger but my favorite side character was blob gf's coworker with the 👁️👁️ eyes. and of course fujoshi wife

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A jellyfish that only lives for 30 minutes?

When I caught this itty bitty jelly last night, I knew I had something weird. What I didn't realize was that this little medusa is reported to only live for a few minutes, just long enough to pop off and spawn. I put it aside and texted Claudia Mills, planning to take pictures once I got back to the lab. Minutes later, I was racing the clock, bolting through the state park with a little vial in my pocket...

A graduate student who was with me scavenged for a microscope while I found some slides. The labs had just opened for the summer and nothing was really set up yet. I didn't have my camera mount or a phone mount and we didn't have a lot of time to work.

When we got it under the microscope, the medusa had already released most of its eggs, but it was still pulsing.

We were able to see it's marginal vesicles/statocysts - the little googly eye looking stuctures (left), and some of it's interesting looking eggs (right):

After getting some photos and video I went back out on the dock with it, keeping an eye on it but also looking for more in the water. Other jellies wafted by, but I didn't see any other Orthopyxis.

I decided to stay up to keep an eye on it and see how long it would keep pulsing. In between check-ins I put it's little seawater container in the fridge to keep it close to the temperature it would be in the wild. At just after two in the morning, 3 hours and 46 minutes since I had found it and far longer than it was anticipated to live, I took a final shaky video of it before heading to bed.

When I woke up in the late morning and checked on it, it had passed. I won't say that I'm not lucky; I'm certainly grateful to have gotten to see this animal, but I also love how I stacked the odds for this to happen. I've been making a practice out of going and being in nature at night at a few different spots in my local community and spotting critters. Last year, I was out on docks or in tidepools over half the calendar days of the year. I'm thinking a lot about how there are so many wonders that would go unnoticed if someone didn't choose to keep going out and patiently waiting for them. And as I'm thinking about that I'm wrapping up writing this so I can head back out in hopes I can see more.

Take care, and keep looking for critters,

JA