What is Essential is Invisible

Happy Birthday Chuck Taylor!

BLOOD — My Chemical Romance

they should make this a legal requirement everywhere

The elephant is making those chirps because they’re excited at the noise the drum makes. Some zoos give their elephants drums or horns to play with if they noticed they like making noise/“are musically inclined”. Shanthi of the Smithsonian Zoo became an internet sensation for her compositions on the harmonica:

Day 783 of reblogging videos of elephants.

Oh my goodness, the happy elephant chirps. I was dying from the level of cuteness.

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

someone brought it flowers today

STUMPY MY BELOVED!!!!

For added context on what rehabilitating the area means: there are structural issues with the Tidal Basin seawall that cause flooding like this independent of rainfall. Big portions of the sidewalk in Stumpy’s section are regularly submerged, which is bad for the land and the trees themselves, not to mention an accessibility issue for visitors.

It’s sad that Stumpy and many other trees in the area will need to be cut down, but it will ensure the continued survival of the other trees in the area, and Stumpy himself will live on in his cuttings!

I believe Stumpy will be taken to the national arboretum and his clones will return to the tidal basin after the rebuilding.

Someone left him a bottle of bourbon as an offering.

The Japanese Embassy came to pay him honor this week.

Stumpy and his cohort are part of the original gift from Japan more than 100 years ago, and many have lived this long bc the National Parks takes care of them. Normally the trees live about 40-50 years.

Willow and Juniper Kitties - 2020

why is the metal community so pressed abt this it’s literally hilarious. 10/10. love it. i want it.

Metal elitists probably are, the rest of us think this is funny as hell. Also fuck yeah to making corpse paint easier to get and for relatively cheap

I don't know why, but I like the idea of humans being to aliens, what cats are to humans...

Alien1: hey, when did you hire a human?

Alien 2: we didn't. They just wandered aboard one day, saying they wanted to "hitch a ride." Then they never left. I think they like it here.

Alien 1: the human distribution system has chosen.

Alien stares at the human, who has climbed up a very high shelving unit.

Alien: Human, get down before you hurt yourself.

The humans response is to climb higher.

Alien is secretly filming their human, who is spaced out and just staring at nothing.

Alien (whispering): I think the human is about to intercept the brain cell. (Laughter) don't worry human, if it tingles that means it's working.

@thatquietkid108 don't hide good stuff in the tags.

@phoomwhoosh another good addition

People, you can add to this. You don't have to hide stuff in the tags.

Alien 1: Oh, you guys have a human?

Alien 2: Yeah, they're a rescue.

Human (Looking dead inside from having to explain this a hundred times a day): I didn't have anywhere to stay and they offered to rent me their spare room!

When the shows of affection are mildly anoying to aliens

Human: *hug *

Alien: ummmm *frozen in place, uncomfy*

In movie night, it's late and the human fell asleep on top of someone

Alien1: *whispering* what do i do???

Alien2: *olso whispering* i'm sorry, my friend, you are traped for eternity

(Because humans can mimic cats, and cats can mimic humans -a little-)

Aliens picking up human cries, the same way humans can mimic cat cries.

*human is minding their own business*

Alien: hEy cOmE OvER hERe!

*human stares in both fear, curiosity, and pride before obeying the instruction.*

*alien is filming this for space-tiktok*: Oh my gods! It worked!

Humans able to mimic the noise the aliens make.

Human: HeLLooooo, aRRREeee yOOUU CoMmInNNNnnn???!!!

Alien: WHAT DID YOU SAY?!!

Human *now speaking their own language*: Roooow weerriy!

Alien: "Oh my stars you guys won't believe this. My human has a south galactic accent just look at this!"

Human *brings up destroyed electronics to their smart coworker in hopes they repair it*

Alien: "thank you for such.... present. Good creature!"

Also

Chocolate being essentially a (toxic to all the other beings apart from them) catnip would be a thing. Just look how happy they are!

Yes!

the catnip is weed

Alien: I made some special human-nip treats.

Human 1: whoa! HEY EVERYONE, Krizz made Pot-Brownies!

Humans 2-23: WHOA! PARTY!!!

Alien: attracts them all, every time.

Bill Braun creates paintings that look like construction paper!

The only acceptable casting for a remake of “The Birdcage”

For visual reference:

'The Kal’ut Madonna' by Linda Infante-Lyons

I will keep her safe, I promise.

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) — dir. James Signorelli

David Tennant as Romeo in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet (2000) - Part Fourteen

Photo credits include:  Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, photostage.co.uk, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and more

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