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why is this the only gif that will load on discord 😭

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i make things did you know. if you're in australia you can purchase it

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BUG - 5

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Learning how to make linocut prints!

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Clownfish are so gender… what more can I say

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Gonosimulistic- it's a better scientific replacement for "hermaphrodite". Use it. It's better and more accurate, and the only bad part is that we haven't bothered to codify or list the derived forms.

For a while, I was resigned to using "hermaphrodite" because I'm a biologist, and we will always need some way to describe animals like slugs or clownfish that aren't gonochoric.

I have been enlightened. Thank you, @ders1tes for showing me a better path- my argument towards the use of "hermaphrodite" was never that it isn't a slur, it's that we needed something for animals in a scientific context, and "intersex" was firmly centred on humans or at most, gonochoric vertebrates.

Anyway:

Gonosimulistic: Adjective form. "Slugs are a textbook example of a gonosimulistic species."

Gonosimulist: Singular noun form. "This slug is a gonosimulist."

Gonosimulists: Plural noun form. "Many slugs are gonosimulists."

Sequential gonosimulist: A species that changes sexes over its lifespan.

Simultaneous gonosimulist: A species that produces both male and female gametes.

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girls when they get new shoes:

fairy shrimp & tadpole shrimp

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paleozoic menagerie

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Something to remember

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Push button for 🐌

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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

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design comm for a bug taxidermy mage

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I'm not like the other shrimp

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A valley carpenter bee couple

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