#same-same

[wemlygust]

Guys, soil quality matters. Like, a lot. In good soil, you've got a SHITTON of little microbes. You've got earthworms. You've got little bugs. You've got fungi. You've got the roots of other plants. It's a whole-ass ecosystem in there. All that life is what breaks down the steak (or whatever else you drop on the dirt) and makes the nutrient-rich goodness that is humus and loam. The soil gets processed into little clumpy pieces that stick together and conveniently also hold onto water and oxygen and nutrients better.

If you drop a leaf in the dead of winter in the arctic, it won't decompose, because a lot of those good soil organisms can't survive that kind of environment, or they go dormant for the winter. Basically, same reason we preserve food with freezers or ice. Similarly, food buried in a landfill - in poisoned, dead, overworked soil - doesn't decompose properly either. All of which to say, if the carnivorous plant is carnivorous because "it doesn't have enough vitamins and nutrients so it has to survive" in its natural environment, that's poor quality soil to begin with, and turning it in to great soil that will be good at decomposing a steak well enough for a plant to benefit will take a lot more than just dropping a steak on it. (I wish it were that easy, honestly - city soil these days is REALLY dead.) That said, venus flytraps come from "temperate and subtropical wetlands", where I'd suspect the soil there is probably great, so maybe there's just so much competition from other plants for the nutrients in that soil that the venus flytrap benefits from eating food most other plants don't want. Plenty of non-plant things eat bugs too, but there's no shortage of bugs in the wilderness, and bugs don't suspect plant traps and will just land on them conveniently.

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

[yupokaysuremhm]

op turned off reblogs but I want this forever

Edit: reblogs have been turned back on!

[teaboot]

I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

[seshrat]

flow winning animated feature is the kind of story that's going to be taught like the boogeyman to every big animation studio's intake class for decades

[applebeauty13]

#NowSubthisWithUSA #same-same #oligarchy

This is one of the most dystopian things I've ever read like TO PROTECT LIBERAL DEMOCRACY WE ARE ENDING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY???

[segamascott]

[an-na-ko]

Lyra, my beloved cat of 13 years, passed away this year on Father's Day. She's been by my side through very difficult times and was my little rock of steady and unrelenting love. I struggled a lot drawing this, and struggled a lot posting it, but I know I would've wanted to read a comic like this that validated my grief for her when I lost her.

Wherever you are, Lyra my little summer star, I love you always! Thank you for being the best thing in my life.

[astriiformes]

I know that realistically you can only fit so many movies into a list of approximately 100, but I cannot take that "How many of tumblr's favorite movies have you seen?" list that's been going around seriously because there are some truly egregious omissions.

Some of it is very clearly recency bias, which makes me wonder if the op truly wasn't on here in 2013 or so, but you're telling me you made a list of "tumblr's favorite movies" that doesn't include Pacific Rim or Mad Max: Fury Road? Because, like, I was there, Gandalf.

[heartbreakincident]

nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

[nattousan]

ladies and gents may i present you with my favorite photo of Ella Fitzgerald ft. that guy

homie was down bad, and can we blame him?

[slugg-it-out]

if chapter 4 did anything its that it reminded me how zooted she is for the lizard

[sneepsnorp3d]

major traffic incident

[kazisonline]

All I'm saying is Jayce Talis is a bisexual polyamorous man who has a type and that type is just, Higher Beings. His type is just Jesus Christ. Bro straight up wants to fuck God

Edit: damn bisexuals found this post hello y'all hope you have a nice day the post reached its target audience

[cunning-and-cool]

idk man but something about Stanley "taught himself extremely advance physics/math/probably many other things while running a relatively successful business" Pines and Stanford "is wanted in almost every dimension with a judicial system of some kind" Pines is sooo fucking funny to me

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes a theme recurs in your work without your permission. and sometimes it reaches a threshold where you're like. well now i think this is saying something about me against my will. don't know what though