onenicebugperday
Contrasting jumping spider, Euophrys monadnock, Salticidae
Found in the United States and Canada. All photos are of males! Sadly couldn’t find a photo of a female to share.
Photo 1 by Marc Dufour, 2-5 by jasonheadley, 6-9 by kkrockytop, and 10 (for scale) by cc0088
prose-n-scripts
lilolilyr
When I was a teenager, all of the books I read about romance never actually described the female character being attracted to the male character. It was all about being “overwhelmed” by him and “surrounded” by him, maybe even “helpless to stop” whatever he might be doing. Never once did she admire his backside which is just…just a tragedy.
Now any description of actual attraction I write in for my leading lady towards her leading man seems almost transgressive.
That’s how het romance has shaped me as a writer and why, IMO, my gay romances—unburdened by ANY prior influence(which is its own problem)—turn out so much more loving so much more easily.
This is such a prevalent thing through our culture and the effects of it wind up being so bizarre. As a het guy these books and basically all other media you consume tell you that what is attractive about you is to be dark and brooding and aggressive, to be tall and powerful, to have a presence to you.
Then you come to the stage of your life where you deal with actual women who are attracted to you as opposed to just reading about it or seeing it in movies written by guys who never figured all this shit out for real, and by way of explanation they tell you “you’ve got a cute butt.”
And your brain has no response to this except “?????”
So figuring out what’s actually attractive about you is this whole bewildering process where you slowly piece together that you have a cute butt or kind eyes or a dopey smile and, in a way that your childhood media has left you entirely unprepared for, those things matter more than being some mysterious and hulking Adonis that looms over people.
Anyway we need to hold Hollywood accountable to stop teaching kids Weird Shit about sexuality and fucking them up for years is my two cents.
old-type-40
‘Tis the season to remind the Trek fandom that these 1994 Hallmark XMas ornaments
were used by DS9’s FX team for the season 4 opener.
So I think it’s fair to consider this episode as a Christmas episode. And TNG’s series finale could be considered as such too given that writers Ron Moore and Brannon Braga seemed to have borrowed heavily from A Christmas Carol with Picard experiencing past, present, and future with Q doing duty for all the different ghosts.
bunjywunjy
Anonymous asked:
so why can vultures and other scavengers live off of meat that's been sitting for a while? are they immune to specific bacteria?
for vultures at least, it’s because of their stomach acid!
all vultures enjoy a stomach acid pH between 0 and 1 (your own stomach acid is between pH 1 and 2), which is completely bonkers, actually.
see, the pH scale is logarithmic, so when we actually work out the math, this single-digit difference actually means that vulture stomach acid is at least 100 times stronger than a human’s! matter of fact, the stuff is about on par with undiluted hydrochloric acid.
this ultra-concentrated acid pit that vultures are lugging around at all times not only utterly destroys any bad pathogens living in the disgusting rotting meat they eat, but also bones, car keys, and probably also your phone if you let it!
onenicebugperday
Submitted by @allisonsaidthis without comment! This snail is too tiny I am going to weep about it for three days, thank you.
neil-gaiman
highladyofthetwatcourt asked:
Good Omens gave me life as a teenager. Honestly worried about watching the show. They never live up to the book. Should I just jump in?
You should. Bits of it won’t measure up to your imagination, but you’ll get bits, some of which weren’t in the book that will, I hope, make up for it.
onenicebugperday
@darkvveb submitted: hi hi!!! i recently acquired a friend and i thought you might like to see him. his name is valentine :) my other pets are very curious about the crickets but he’s safe with so much room to climb :) my gorgeous gorgeous lad
ALT
ALTHello! You were correct, I definitely wanted to admire him. He’s perfect. Please…….tell him I love him :’)
bunjywunjy
william-snekspeare
He's not being sassy; I set him down funny and he short-circuited between trying to right himself and trying to sniff everything around him.
bunjywunjy
Anonymous asked:
are there animals that use cosmetics? ya know, not for stuff like protection, but actually for the ✨looks✨
bearded vultures deliberately dustbathe in the reddest dirt they can find to give themselves a bloody appearance that others of their kind find attractive!
this is also the most on-brand animal fact I think I’ve ever written about, BOY HOWDY.
clydetanksleyart
arcticflakes
