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   February 1942. “Roscoe, South Dakota. Younger boys are standing in front of the pool halls this year.” Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War 

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TAKAHIROMIYASHITA The Soloist. F/W12 “Old Man Jacket” via riptides___

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It’s been said that we still have only the crudest understanding of ghosts. Here are a thousand vintage ghosts I’ve invited over.

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Steven Mayer (American, 1986) - The Green Room (2019)

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The Ending Blade Ahad @wiresandtrees

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Do you have any articles on your site about weird Fish? I know you have lots of weird animal articles but I'm meaning fish specifically. I'm joining a DnD game and want to be a weird fish-person, but don't want to just have my character be a typical vague grouper/pirannah/etc generic fishman.

I have some old articles around about deep sea fish but here are some of my obscure favorites:

I really obsess over the face of the "tube eye," like it has these great big jaws that open up, but they're covered up in skin with just a tiny little hole at the bottom!

Grideyes have normal eyes when they're young but by maturity the eyeballs have degenerated away and been replaced by these reflective yellow pits in the skull for collecting as much light as possible

walking batfish are one of the groups of anglerfish that aren't restricted to the deep sea and their fins evolved into four silly feet they waddle on

rattrap fish or "loosejaws" have jaws that basically detach to grab food like a preying mantis's claws

this illustration is accurate to a live loosejaw and several related dragonfish or viperfish by the way - the mouth just doesn't have a "floor." The jaw is nearly fleshless. This is so it cuts through the water even faster, since the jaw's only purpose is to snare food and shove it down into the stomach as fast as possible.

this is my favorite picture of a stargazer because it just really shows off how their big bulldog face is twisted straight upward

lookit the face on this eel larva !!!

Telescope fish!

Everyone probably knows about the barreleye by now but here's the barreleye. It's not quite that its eyes are "inside a clear skull" like the news sensationalized but that its whole head is encased in a gelatinous bubble, with the eyes inside specifically to protect them from the stingers of the siphonophores it preys on!

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Mother and Child (1905) by Gustav Klimt Madonna (1895) by Edvard Munch Dead Mother I (1910) by Egon Schiele Mother and Child (1913) by Emil Nolde

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Physarum sp (baubles) by Max Mudie

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i'm quite the catch!

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The Walkway  -  Annette Björk Swensson 

Swedish , b. 1956   -  

Oil on canvas ,52 x 72cm.

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Russian Empire color pictures, taken during the 1910s (1909-1915), by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii.

Library of the Congress

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Alexi Worth. Silver Apple, 2008 - 2016.

oil on canvas