For anyone still following me, hi! This is just a small note to inform you that I am archiving this blog. I do have plans to revamp Jacky in the ( hopefully! ) near future, but this blog is just too much of a mess. I feel like my interpretation of Jacky has developed a lot since I first started this blog, and I’d prefer a fresh start with more defined characteristics for the dear girl and maybe some better defined verses! Feel free to unfollow this blog, as I will no longer be active on it, and keep an eye out for a new blog that I will have up and running just as soon as I summarize Jacky’s story in a way that I am happy with. <33
If fandom takes their ships more seriously than the navy, then the Age of Sail fandom takes their ships most seriously of all.
Just playing around with fish
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking, I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying. I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over. -John Masefield
“Don’t you ever stop dreaming. You can be anyone you want to be.”
Ezra Koenig (via wordsnquotes)
get to know me meme: favorite female characters [1/5]
↳elizabeth swann
Mover and shaker
The spotted jelly (Mastigias papua) has a job. It travels upward during the day to absorb sunlight, then back down again at night. It moves toward the sun to feed the symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae that lives within its tissue. In exchange, the algae provides the jelly with nutrients.
It’s also known as a “lagoon jelly” because it lives in bays, harbors and lagoons in the South Pacific.
This pretty jelly has a high, rounded bell that can grow to about six inches in diameter and is covered with white spots. Instead of a single mouth, it has four frilly “mouth arms” that contain many small openings that capture plankton. It also has longer, club-shaped structures hanging beneath whose purpose is unknown.
Some larger spotted jellies can have small fishes living with them. The fishes use the inside of the jelly’s bell as protection from larger predators until they mature.
You can see a flurry of spotted jellies in The Jellies Experience. But don’t wait too long – this mind-blowing special exhibition closes September 8.
Our thanks to National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore for the wonderful images of our animals that he created for his PhotoArk project.
Aktiv in rainshower
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Douglas Pagels (via wordsnquotes)
Portrait of Félicité-Louise-Julie-Constance de Durfort, Maréchale de Beurnonville, (detail), Merry-Joseph Blondel - 1808
Naval Combat between the French Frigate, Embuscade, and the English Frigate, Boston, off the Coast of New York, 30 July 1793 by Théodore Gudin, details.