Researchers have caught on video for the first time a giant squid at 750 m below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The researchers estimated it was at least 3-3.7m long. The video was filmed on 19 June on an expedition funded NOAA.
Related to the headcanon about languages and songs: Imagine a hot summer afternoon made cool by trickling fountains and the shade of lush palms, as Crowley and Aziraphale sit in a walled courtyard on a floor tiled in colorful mosaics and eat chilled cucumbers with fresh goat cheese, and honey cakes, and drink Macedonian wine, and centuries later Crowley catches the sound of bubbling water and the scent of wild roses and remembers watching Aziraphale lick honey off his fingers.
I headcanon that sometimes Crowley and Aziraphale slip into "dead" languages that haven't actually been spoken in thousands of years without realizing it, and mostly with each other. I especially like to tie the slips to sense memories of moments they've shared together, so if they're, say, reminded of a particular evening in Rome they might start speaking latin, etc. I also like to think of them knowing and sometimes reminding each other of songs they both know that no else does anymore.
Also can you imagine coming across these two out drunk somewhere singing at each other and then getting into a bickering over who has what verse correct and how fast the pace of the song is supposed to be and neither one has any proof?
Crowley: No, no, you’re singing the chorus, it’s the bridge next, because it’s a story, right, and you have to revisit the theme–
Aziraphale: No it isn’t that’s the abridged version, I’m doing the original one, and it never sounds right without the varvitos anyway, the human voice can’t–
Crowley: the human voice
and then it disintegrates into each of them trying to mimic an ancient musical instrument in entirely different keys.
one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math
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Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.
Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.
Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?
Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.
coworker told me he “hates all mollusks” today. and to each their own obviously but like… theres 100k species of mollusk… you really hate all of them bro? nautiluses and oysters and snails and nudibranches and chitons and thousands of animals youve never even heard of???? what did ammonites even fucking do to you
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