#help identify

[jaymir]

moth?

can anyone tell me what species this thing is? Its so pretty but i have no clue. I found it on the ground. (Location: Hungary)

Edit: It does look like the small elephant hawk moth! (Deilephila porcellus)

[homeofhousechickens]

Alright plant nerds. Saw this weird plant on the road but couldn't get a picture. My partner thought it was a fucked up dandelion. It had a tall dark purple stem and yellow? Seed heads or flowers? That reminded me of wild parsley. The stem was pretty thick looking, the leaves were dark green and spikey with a bit of purple at the base and it looked like thicker dandelion leaves almost. I'm in the Midwest and this plant was along the road in a parking lot.

If I see a picture of this plant I should be able to know it instantly because it was pretty interesting looking.

[dailywalkhauls]

Legos! :D

Three LEGO pieces.

Is there anyone who'd like to provide the block ID for these?

[raekiez]

HELP ME IDENTIFY THIS STUFFED ANIMAL!!!!!

This was my first stuffed animal, Squirrely, who was mistakenly thrown away by a family member in 2014. I've been trying to find a replacement ever since, but haven't been able to.

HE IS NOT ANY OF THESE

He was purchased sometime around 2004-2005

His eyes were plastic/hard material, they weren't sewn in

The bottom of his feet and belly were filled with beans

Id appreciate any help with this, I've been trying to replace him since he was thrown away with no luck. He was my first stuffed animal and meant the world to me :(

[umbraldame]

Hello fellow bug appreciators does anyone know what kind of caterpillar this is? Found in Colorado and is very small

[wings-ofa-crow]

does anyone know what these mystery berries are

taste like blueberries and generally share a lot with blueberries, probably not blueberries if I were to guess.

Took a few pictures of the plant, I don't have pictures of the flowers (if the flowers would even be visible)

I want to know what these are, because I like the flavor, I just always have to get them out of my mouth afterwards because I dunno if they're poison.

[willabee]

hey what's this

[cosmicrhetoric]

my personal fave "luffy holds a mirror up to someone's soul" moments. aka the whole point i think

[posttmann]

do you think that ford just purposely uses old paper in the book of bill for the aesthetic. cause like, if you look at stans, dippers, and mabels papers, they’re all white and fords is old rotting paper. he is completely capable of using paper that doesn’t look like it’s seen the rise and fall of rome, but he just doesnt.

[disableddyke]

how to get abled people to understand that doctors will straight up not care about you or your illnesses and don’t care to find out the source of your pain because the majority of doctors are not how they are portrayed in shows

[inkskinned]

crows use tools and like to slide down snowy hills. today we saw a goose with a hurt foot who was kept safe by his flock - before taking off, they waited for him to catch up. there are colors only butterflies see. reindeer are matriarchical. cows have best friends and 4 stomachs and like jazz music. i watched a video recently of an octopus making himself a door out of a coconut shell.

i am a little soft, okay. but sometimes i can't talk either. the world is like fractal light to me, and passes through my skin in tendrils. i feel certain small things like a catapult; i skirt around the big things and somehow arrive in crisis without ever realizing i'm in pain.

in 5th grade we read The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, which is about a young autistic boy. it is how they introduced us to empathy about neurotypes, which was well-timed: around 10 years old was when i started having my life fully ruined by symptoms. people started noticing.

i wonder if birds can tell if another bird is odd. like the phrase odd duck. i have to believe that all odd ducks are still very much loved by the other normal ducks. i have to believe that, or i will cry.

i remember my 5th grade teacher holding the curious incident up, dazzled by the language written by someone who is neurotypical. my teacher said: "sometimes i want to cut open their mind to know exactly how autistics are thinking. it's just so different! they must see the world so strangely!" later, at 22, in my education classes, we were taught to say a person with autism or a person on the spectrum or neurodivergent. i actually personally kind of like person-first language - it implies the other person is trying to protect me from myself. i know they had to teach themselves that pattern of speech, is all, and it shows they're at least trying. and i was a person first, even if i wasn't good at it.

plants learn information. they must encode data somehow, but where would they store it? when you cut open a sapling, you cannot find the how they think - if they "think" at all. they learn, but do not think. i want to paint that process - i think it would be mostly purple and blue.

the book was not about me, it was about a young boy. his life was patterned into a different set of categories. he did not cry about the tag on his shirt. i remember reading it and saying to myself: i am wrong, and broken, but it isn't in this way. something else is wrong with me instead. later, in that same person-first education class, my teacher would bring up the curious incident and mention that it is now widely panned as being inaccurate and stereotypical. she frowned and said we might not know how a person with autism thinks, but it is unlikely to be expressed in that way. this book was written with the best intentions by a special-ed teacher, but there's some debate as to if somebody who was on the spectrum would be even able to write something like this.

we might not understand it, but crows and ravens have developed their own language. this is also true of whales, dolphins, and many other species. i do not know how a crow thinks, but we do know they can problem solve. (is "thinking" equal to "problem solving"? or is "thinking" data processing? data management?) i do not know how my dog thinks, either, but we "talk" all the same - i know what he is asking for, even if he only asks once.

i am not a dolphin or reindeer or a dog in the nighttime, but i am an odd duck. in the ugly duckling, she grows up and comes home and is beautiful and finds her soulmate. all that ugliness she experienced lives in downy feathers inside of her, staining everything a muted grey. she is beautiful eventually, though, so she is loved. they do not want to cut her open to see how she thinks.

a while ago i got into an argument with a classmate about that weird sia music video about autism. my classmate said she thought it was good to raise awareness. i told her they should have just hired someone else to do it. she said it's not fair to an autistic person to expect them to be able to handle that kind of a thing.

today i saw a goose, and he was limping. i want to be loved like a flock loves a wounded creature: the phrase taken under a wing. which is to say i have always known i am not normal. desperate, mewling - i want to be loved beyond words.

loved beyond thinking.

[cardi-c]

giggling ghoulettes <3

[sherrymagic]

AOUBOOM'S WORKING GOALS 🌼🧸 #FEEDxAouBoom | translation cr. ©

[tides-that-bind-us]

Grandmother Whale Shark

Inspired by werewolfsister who shared their adventures of swimming with whale sharks! I started researching and learned about their significance in various cultures.

For the people of Balikukup, whale sharks are known as Hiu Mbok or Hiu Nenek, meaning grandma’s shark. The name comes from the local belief that a whale shark embodies a kind-hearted grandmother spirit. If local fishers encounter a whale shark on one of their trips, they see it as a sign of good fortune and prosperity.

The image of a grandmother shark wouldn't leave my head so these sketches came out. She doesn't have a name or story yet. The basic idea is she travels the vast oceans, being followed by all sorts of ocean life, sea birds, zora and rito! Whale sharks are the largest fish in the world so I wanted her to be MASSIVE! The largest whale shark on record was 61 feet! There was a whale shark female titled MEGAMAMMA SUPREME because she had 300 babies in her belly!

[fish-with-more-eyes]

[ids in alt]

more tarots!

reasoning below the cut:

sae: temperance — for his calmness and clear vision

shidou: the devil — canon theming + lust/base vices