#acrossthisantheap

[life-on-our-planet]

The tomato frog is capable of burying its entire body in mere seconds. Instead of webbed feet, it has strong claw-like fingers to help with digging. Animal Planet

[onenicebugperday]

*puts cicadas' shedded exoskeletons on my fingers like a kid eating olives*

same

[bbbrianjones]

hi again i forgot to ask but im genuinely curious whos your fave from mental as anything sorryy <333

cara irpo32pjrbewrefjpoknflej;klnf;knlfjknlfbdklnfn marry me i swear to god!!! YOU ASKING ME THIS ACTUALLY MADE MY DAY <3!!!

it's greedy!! i know i'm gonna get really sappy and a little bit emotional talking about him because he means so much to me. he really does. i don't want to be all cliche and whatever but his music changed my life. for real. one time i went laid on the floor and listened to fundamental as anything and just sobbed. sobbed my little eyes out. because of how much his lyrics meant to me. all of his songs always have these little touches of sweetness, say a song like spirit got lost. really it’s about spooky season and ghost and ooOooOOoO HOWEVER he just HAD to include the line ‘they’ll always be a chair for you in the corner of my heart’ i mean WHAT IN TH E HONEST FUCKKKKKKKK that lines launches into the fucking sun every time i hear. i listen to that line. blackout and then play it again. like my heart honestly swells so much because it’s so sweet!! it really is!! another song which makes my brain rot is ‘let’s go to paradise’, which in itself is quite a sweet and romantic song, with its line ‘don’t you wonder about the time that you spent wasting your own when you could be wasting mine?” I MEAN WHO HONESTLY WRITES STUFF LIKE THIS!!!! he’s just a big teddy bear, a wonderful little marshmallow!! he’s also quite funny, i remember an interview where he was talking about food and dinner wines and suddenly casually dropped that he was the reason his brother broke up his six month engagement. like honey i didn’t need to know that but you know what?? i’m glad i do now!!! i also LOVE seeing the development he has as a songwriter, his songs were mostly album fillers which doesn’t mean he didn’t have a banger each album which can be seen here now GO!

get wet! - insurance man

espresso bongo - won’t let me drive

cats & dogs - too many times

creatures of leisure - bitter to swallow

fundamental - date with destiny 

mouth to mouth - my door is always open to you

literally chef’s kiss to all of these songs. but really the first songs/singles were all martin’s and reg’s songs, and of course being that they are songs from this band, they slap so hard. so hard. oh my god. BUT greedy barely had any songs, at most he had three on each album up until fundamental. this is literally stretching it but to me he was kinda like the george harrison of the group where he was kinda in the background just doing his own thing and then suddenly he goes BOOM! i give you live it up, top twenty hit song in ten countries!! and while i’m at it - you’re so strong! oh? that isn’t enough??? DATE WITH DESTINY THEN BABY!! literally the first THREE SINGLES from their best selling album are from greedy. like i don’t think you understand, where is the appreciation for this sudden transformation??? my king deserves much more respect than that !!! and then greedy really does become the main guy for writing the singles, and produces banger after banger and honestly it’s such a blessing. martin once said he loved all the songs greedy has written because same same. i get u martin baby!!

look the reason i do love him so much is because with his songs, he does bring so much joy to my life especially in a period in my life where it was just awful. without going into too much detail as i will have a breakdown, live it up saved my life, because it made me feel like i was seen and loved after a very traumatic event, like greedy himself wrote it for me. like yes it is very much a pop song, in some way it can be seen as quite silly, my dad always sings ‘get it up’ rather than live it up but even HE KNOWS the connection i have with this, it’s my baby. it’s my oxygen supply, my bloodline. i saw someone say that mental as anything gave up their “quirkiness” when they released this and i got SO OFFENDED. this is literally a man talking to someone about how the whole world would literally collapse if they smiled -  how can you NOT explode hearing that?? please greedy sir warm my hands against the cold <3 it’s always a song i use when talking about why music means so much to me, it’s that song that allowed me experience connection and just a reminder that everything is going to be ok. weirdest song to have that kinda emotional response to but i don’t care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[neilfinnaesthetics]

Thank you so much for tagging me @acrossthisantheap!!!

last song: 'The Devil You Know' by Split Enz. Honestly this song is so underrated and is one of my fave Enz songs. This song has a similar meaning to me as 'Last to Know' as it has pulled me through some really tough times. Plus Neil's voice is divine!

last movie: Not really a movie, but I just watched the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and I'm crying, screaming and throwing up because the ending was too emotional for my sensitive soul and I will miss all the characters so much!!

currently watching: I am about to start watching Star Trek: Voyager (btw Next Gen is my fave Star Trek and Troi is my baby).

currently reading: Literally the 20+ hours of uni readings for my final year of my education degree :))) I really want to read 'Stranger Than Fiction: The Life and Times of Split Enz' again though bc the stories about Neil in that book are hilarious.

current obsession: Anything Finn related. This has been a decade long obsession and there's no sign of it stopping.

tagging @hessiesshed and @lovescrashingwaves if you want!

[earthandsunandmoon]

acrossthisantheap -> earthandsunandmoon

[life-on-our-planet]

Raggiana bird-of-paradise “In a forest so rich in fruit the females can rear their chicks alone; the males are merely a colorful sperm bank. Such independence means that the hens can shop around for the most exciting males.” BBC Earth

[life-on-our-planet]

Raggiana bird-of-paradise for @acrossthisantheap

[bbbrianjones]

i wonder who is your favourite member of midnight oil?? 🤔

you will never be able to guess 🤔🤔🤔 i think his name is like rob hirst or something?? wait a minute i wonder what his middle name is, give me a second.... oh my god it's george!! silly little goose with the middle name of george! ok but for real, i love him so much!! i just feel like i know him on a spiritual emotional heck maybe even physically connection. again, i mostly got into him because i thought he was just so pretty, i saw beds are burning video and that split second where he's asleep in the truck, as soon as i saw that i just knew. and then seeing him in concert literally made me convert to the religion of rob hirst which i'm a proud supporter of <33 look not to put any of the other members of midnight oil down because i really do believe that without any of them, it just wouldn't be midnight oil blah blah they all bring their own piece to the band blah blah BUTTTTTT considering rob (and jim) wrote nearly ALL of their hit songs... i think u get the idea. i am putting him up on a pedestal because he is my baby girl and i think about how i wouldn't mind him mansplaining an interest of mine that i know everything about because you know that's something he'd do. i do love hearing him talk, he's just gets so excited about the funniest things. i think about this long ass video here where he begins every answer to this question with just "......... so..." like baby?? do u know your own history of your own band?? honestly that video of him talking about how men in England had sheds by the railway so they could get away from life is somehow the funniest yet sweetest thing i have ever watched. sweet because he gets so excited and gushes so much about the history of sheds or something idk but also funny because WHO IN THE RIGHT MIND WOULD KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SHEDS!!! as you stated before, he's a historian, he's a rockstar, he's the love of my life <33

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: A very polite asiatic oak weevil I found last summer...they've become my favorite weevil, just look at that face!!

WEEVIL TIME!!! My goodness look at that face!!! Really excellent. What a cute little dude.

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: ohhoho he is on a MISSION

There they go!!! Late for a meeting

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: Society if smartphone cameras could actually focus on bugs

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: This little guy was munching on a milkweed flower, which I found odd--I've only ever known monarchs to eat the leaves!

I’ve only ever seen them eating the leaves too but maybe this one thinks the flowers are tastier. I’ve never eaten milkweed so I can’t say :)

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: Gorgeous green june beetle friend my dad found (he always alerts me when he sees good bugs 😄)

COTINIS MY BELOVED. It’s nice to have someone in your life who will show you bugs :)

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: I went for a walk today and met this distinguished woolly bear who was also enjoying the spring weather!

Ohohohoho fuzzy little child. I love them :')

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: No ID needed, I was just impressed by how utterly tiny this swallowtail caterpillar was!!

They’re so tiny I’m going to WEEP FOR DAYS

[onenicebugperday]

@acrossthisantheap submitted: I wanted to share a photo of this friend I found in 2019 :)

Extremely good photo of an extremely good friend, 10/10