getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."
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This is the devil’s hole pupfish! A tiny species that lives only in One water-filled limestone cavern in Nevada. It was one of the first animals on the endangered species list. At the last count in 2022 there were 263 pupfish observed - the most in 19 years! They’re tracked pretty carefully, as their 215 square foot habitat (the smallest of any know vertebrate) is fragile and has been disturbed in the past by groundwater extraction and other human interference.
[ID: an illustration of a shiny metallic blue fish, the male devil’s hole pupfish, facing to the right. It is on a lighter blue background with a ripple pattern. End.] l
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Why does no one else see my vision for post-war Effie Trinket. Like that woman does NOT become a civil servant, she does not join the ranks of government service. She is 100% New Panem’s first influencer. She was already having her It Girl moment as the escort of District Twelve’s victors beforehand and now there’s public perception that she was this Hunger Games insider playing the long con to dismantle the system from within and paid this great sacrifice for it by being tortured by Snow’s cadre for her efforts. Which is not true at all because she had No Clue what was going on but Plutarch needs new programming to fill all the hours that used to be taken up by Hunger Games related media so he decides to capitalize on Effie having Her Moment. And with people being allowed to travel between districts for the first time in over a generation and newfound freedom of information, there would a nationwide fascination how other people live. Effie ends up with her own lifestyle/travel series where she visits different regions of Panem and even exotic far away places such as “England”. She’s posting beach selfies on Panemstigram to promote her upcoming episode on lobster fishing off District Thirteen’s revitalized coastline.
She even gets her own daytime talk show at one point. She tries (and fails) for years to get Peeta on the show as a guest. Katniss has never watched a single episode.
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New farmer (for 1.6 update reasons).
His name is Death and he's really death. He's pretty quiet and just wants to live in peace with his chickens. Tries to interact with the town as little as possible but is really curious about them and how they live and is super satisfied to simply watch them - but as the new person it seems no one wants to let that happen.
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An alternative direction for Stryke Out where Elder gets stuck in a cage, Toothless is the top competitor for more than a few dragon fights, and— what's this? By Thor, there's a colorful mood dragon here, and she can speak Norse! What are the odds of that?
Little does Elder know that wherever this mood dragon is, Camicazi will be close behind.
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guys i just made stickers and they turned out sooooo freaking awesome. coming 2 my ko-fi store this halloween >:-)
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the unhinged thing is that at this point mainstream polling indicates that a ceasefire is actually a broadly supported stance even among American young people, American Jews - esp the ones at major universities - and the Israeli public but that the general young American public sympathizes with Israeli civilians far more then they do with Hamas so if the campus prot are had just made a sharp anti war no more bombs no more guns Biden we’re calling for peace now! Kind of movement and hacked a tschaynik outside their senators houses this entire thing would have been supported by now and the actual thing that matters - unconditioned weapons transfer to the state of Israel, which is controlled by the government and not universities - a topic of serious discussion. Maybe it’s too *centrist* for some but stopping a war matters more then ideological purity and they managed to take a broadly supported movement and make it fringe, in part by casting themselves as embattled heroic martyrs over a movement they themselves deemed fringe
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"How he got such terrible taste in men" idk maybe it's inherited Dip *stares pointedly at Ford*
I don't think the mechanics of it work much into the AU but I do think the idea of Bill and Ford being bitter exes whilst Bill is also currently married to Dipper hilarious. The triangle has a type.
Yep, in Familiar AU, Bill and Ford aren't exes - but it would be kind of funny if Bill had been just starting to form a crush on the guy before he got banished! Now he's all sour grapes about it; clearly he never liked that gross scientist jerk in the first place!
He really does have a type 😔
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