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Nonsense. Is cute baby.

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They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.

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Kaoru Yamada

Moonlit Cat

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i just found out tumblr was storing over three GIGABYTES of cookies on my device without me knowing and that's why it's been running so fucking slow recently... incredible. anyways everyone go clear your fucking cookies. don't let this website run a goddamn video game's worth of disc space in the background for no good reason.

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Shadows on the Wall: An Online Dark Shadows Fanzine: House of Dark Shadows: Spotting Maggie

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Shadows on the Wall: An Online Dark Shadows Fanzine: Bite Me, Barnabas, Bite Me!

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How this stingray may have gotten pregnant without a mate | NOVA | PBS

...  Researchers call this kind of asexual reproduction parthenogenesis. “Sisters are doing it for themselves,” says Kady Lyons, a researcher from Georgia Aquarium. This kind of reproduction can happen in certain species of reptiles, birds and fish, including the zebra shark. However, it has never been documented in this kind of stingray before – the round stingray.

What might have happened in this case is that, instead of the egg and sperm each bringing half of the DNA, the mother’s body filled in the other half of the genetic material that is typically provided by the sperm.

But where does the other genetic material actually come from? Ovaries produce eggs through a process called meiosis, where the cells split. This process results in three to four cells. One of these cells will become the egg, and the two or three smaller cells become what are called polar bodies. “The other three cells will typically die and won’t result in anything,” says Lyons. “But in parthenogenesis, what we think is happening is that the egg cell is fusing with one of those other polar bodies to restore the full complement of DNA.”

The DNA of this newly fused egg/polar body is not exactly a carbon copy of the mother’s DNA. The chromosomes are shuffled around a little bit, meaning that the offspring aren’t perfect clones of the mother. Lyons tells NOVA, “Think of them as a highly inbred individual, basically.”  ...

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Good for you, Marge! That bitch had it comin'!

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I think "Fallen asleep on," would be more accurate.

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Magician (1943) - Nicholas Roerich

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“Ghosts that draw tight fingers around the present.”

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Dark storytelling that David Lynch merely aspires to: there’s still nothing like Dark Shadows.

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Pink lady slipper orchid

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Wall painting originally from the Temple of Isis in Pompeii,depicts a priest with a mask of Anubis.

Naples National Archaeological Museum

By: Amphipolis (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Some rather surprising vintage candle imagery.

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