Hi there! My mom and I always laugh when we see this photo I took of a frog we saw at a zoo a few years ago, and I was wondering if you had any idea what kind it is (I did not get a picture of the exhibit label). Totally fine if not- just the joy of sharing of the silly Full Frontal Frog is enough for me 🐸
Yup, this is Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog, a goober of a frog if ever there was one; a mixed blessing for the world. These are the frogs that used to be used as pregnancy tests, and are still extensively used in medical and other research. But because of this, they may also have had a major role in the spread of the amphibian-killing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, which has driven numerous frog species to extinction over the last century.
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Say what you want but censure actually created such a multifaceted deeply repressed queer characters that now, almost 60 year later I'm standing beneath the spirk and as a profound psychologist and detective I'm trying to solve the impossible case - make me spock and captain kirk kiss in a way that is completely in character and goes along with canon
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Couldn't find good Shanix reference so I just made my own
was going to write some robot money headcanons but migraine too stronk so here's the short one
TFMR headcanon - What a bot can buy with each Shanix coins
Brown coin - Energon gumball from a gumball machine, or a dry-ice popsicle from a street vendor
silver coin - cheap everyday items from Rivets Mart(something like Cybertronian Dollar Tree), such as laundry clips, trash bins and so on
Gold coin - A simple meal from cheapest local diner
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DISASTER SHIP TEMPLATE!
Sheet originally made by thunderin-brainstorm (you can find the original template here!), this one features a couple slight changes plus a Skyrim UI-inspired design. Open it in an editing program and fill it in for any ship, using different coloured markers of your choice to specify where each character falls! Have fun!
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"Jiang Cheng would have been involved in the attack on the Burial Mounds even without the death of sister"
For context, this all takes place AFTER JZX was killed. From JC's pov that was all 100% WWX's fault (bear in mind, WWX does have some culpability with his death. He lost control because of his unrestrained resentment for JZX. Sooo).
Was JC not supposed to do anything? Just sit there and twiddle his thumbs? Object to the siege entirely, perhaps? How do you think that would have looked to the rest of the CW? It would have been very suspicious if he didn't take part in eliminating a potential threat to the CW. Especially when said threat was once a part of his sect and KILLED his brother in law. Wouldn't they think it is strange that he refused to take part and get revenge on behalf of his sister??
If he did object or refused to take part, the rest of the CW would have grown even more suspicious of him. And the Jiang sect would have had a huuuuuuge target on their backs next. Especially giving how power hungry the Jins were becoming.
It was a very difficult situation he was put in. Not one he could easily talk his way out of. We've seen him try to numerous times even before things escalated to vouch for WWX and even once for the Wen siblings. And we all saw how that went down. Do you seriously think he could talk his way out of this one? After a sect heir had been slaughtered by his former SiC? Come on now.
All of this is why we see JC desparing so much because he is watching his brother spiral and spiral, and all he can do is watch on helplessly, for it is beyond his power to save him.
WWX kept so much from JC. He sided with the sect that almost wiped out his own and then goes on to inadvertently kill his brother in law. How do you think that must have looked to JC? How JC must have felt?? Let's be real here and look at things from his pov. Because I feel as though some of yall are failing to do so.
To JC, WWX had become unhinged and out of control. But even after the death of JZX, JC still seemed to desperately hold onto hope for his brother. He exclaims when he's holding his dying sister in his arms, "I thought you said you could control it?!"
That says to me that JC had faith in his brother that he could fix all this up until JYL was caught up in it all.
If you look at things from JC's pov, you'll see how bad things looked for WWX. How culpable he appeared throughout it all. And when you take that into consideration and realise that JC doesn't have all the information we as the reader are privileged to have, we can easily see why he came to such a conclusion.
It was either WWX or the lives of hundreds in his sect. JC chose to protect the many. And that doesn't make him a terrible person. Nor does it make him a terrible brother. He did all he could for WWX. But to him, WWX had made his bed, and so he should lay in it.
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I need other people to imagine Spiderman with all his hair everywhere being bright blue and red, with his eyes completely spidery black when he’s not wearing glasses, has venomous fangs, and he has a fit body under the spandex and stuff, like that’s his default way of looking
But when he’s out and about as Peter Parker, he wears the coke bottle thick glasses over brown eyes that can’t see for shit, he dyes his hair brown and has to wear mascara and stuff to make his eyelashes and eyebrows look like normal human colors, he hides his fangs, he wears a ton of layers of loose clothing and slouches to look as much like a weak nerd as possible
And then when he’s out as Spidey, he’ll still wear like a blonde wig over his hair after washing out the brown dye (I like to think he sciences up his own hair dye stuff that shows the color perfectly without killing his hair so it’s still soft and easily washes out with a solution he made for it), and colored contacts, and stuff
And when Nick Fury finally sees him without his stuff, like it was an intense fight with carnage or something and Spidey’s suit is torn and bloody, his wig is gone, cried out the colored contacts awhile ago, his fangs are flashing because of the adrenaline from the attack, he tears off the torn remains of his mask, so Nick Fury whips around aaaaaaannnnnd he still has no idea who Spidey is because that’s not how he walks around as a civilian
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Outfit doodles? Artemis in 🤒🤧
I was very tempted to just draw him in a nurse uniform. He would act like he's dying when he is sick tho.
Feel free to send more outfit&character combos!
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something is unique about being a woman headmate in a transmasc body, we were so feminine we were in my ideal body but it was altered to please the majority of the headmates and the host so we were suddenly manly, masculine, my opposite (not that im upset at them, i understand) but I'm host now its my turn to make the body fit my aesthetic and its such a rush of euphoria to look and the mirror and see a girl again 💕 (<- put makeup on and our hair in the world's smallest ponytail now we're giddy heheheheh 💕‼️)
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