nothing has fucked me up more than knowing the australian white ibis has a near-identical sister species called the african sacred ibis. the african sacred ibis is associated with thoth, ancient god of wisdom and reason. the australian white ibis is most commonly referred to as a “bin chicken”.

this is the guy making all your crinkle fries at the factory

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

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because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

All of the title posters for SQ Zine Vol. 2: The Silver Screen available HERE: https://sqzine.bigcartel.com/

Tumblr is collectively doing this thing where we’re an old woman in the village minding our business and making our soup but the new gentrified neighbors want to come over and see if we’re interested in starting a Home Owner’s Association and so now we gotta pretend to be a crazy old lady who does devil sacraments and maybe will come to stand in front of their house at night and stare in their windows if they talk to us.

you say that like we didn't before - it's soup by day, sacrament by night

A granny in the sheets, Baba Yaga in the streets

From I want you to want me by AmyCarey

The steps are icy and Emma Swan isn’t looking where she’s going. She slips, trips, falls into Regina Mills. 

Textbooks skate in several directions. Advanced Organic Chemistry narrowly misses an innocent squirrel. “Watch where you’re going!” Regina snaps.

“I had the right of way, princess,” Emma replies. 

Regina’s designer jeans now have a hole in the knee. Emma holds out a hand, which is cruelly rebuffed, with Regina instead pushing herself up and wincing as she gingerly steps forward on a twisted ankle. “You’re an idiot,” she says, eyebrows furrowing and mouth scrunched into a fist, “and I’ll destroy you if you ever come near me again.

You can find I want you to want me and other SwanQueen stories in the second volume of SQ Zine: The Silver Screen HERE: https://sqzine.bigcartel.com/

An Excerpt from Hearts under Fire by HelveticaBrown

Emma tries not to react, but it hurts. She’d been looking forward to working with Regina, but every overture she’s made thus far has been soundly rejected. She’s not even sure why she’s out on the set right now. She’d looked at the call times earlier, and she’s certain that Regina’s not due to shoot for another three hours at least.

You can find Hearts under Fire in the  Second Volume of SQ Zine: The Silver Screen HERE: https://sqzine.bigcartel.com/

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Absolutely losing it at this Reddit post

And the update

She buttered Jorts

The outrage summed in a perfect Tweet:

FINALLY

I've been collecting the best Jorts tweets and waiting until the moment he showed up on my dash to post them. So here you are, the curated best of the past, oh, day or so:

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences  Relationship: Evil Queen | Regina Mills/Emma Swan Additional Tags: warning: contains spiders | Bed-sharing | kind of crack  Word count:  7,952

Summary:

When Emma receives a call about a disturbance at 108 Mifflin, she doesn’t know what to expect. It certainly wasn’t this…

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

Radish. Answer the question radish.

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

Its takes less than a minute

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

Like seven minutes

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

printers are inherently malicious creatures. i have never met a printer that does not on some level want to make everyone’s lives miserable. they are full of ink and malice

Title: Here to break your streak [Protostar Art] Link: Click Here To View and Comment Artist: SwanQueenScotty Find them on: -Twitter: Just_Sandz -Tumblr: Swanqueenffprompter

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Title: Here to break your streak Link: Click Here To View and Comment Author: HelveticaBrown Find them on: -Twitter: -Tumblr: HelveticaBrown Rating: Teen and Up Audiences Warning(s): No Archive Warnings Apply Words: 19k Summary: Emma’s tennis career was over before it even begun. An injury in juniors and then life happening derailed all her plans, but now she’s making a belated comeback with an improbable wildcard entry into Wimbledon. Meanwhile, Regina Mills is at the top of her game. World number one, three Wimbledon singles titles in a row… everything in her life seems like it should be perfect. When they finally meet at this year’s tournament, it’s not just going to be about the tennis.

Created for the Swan Queen Supernova VI protostar challenge for SwanQueenScotty’s piece, Here to break your streak.

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