:)

eating him

Kelp Forest by divindk

Armored woodlice:

1. Pseudarmadillo spinosus 2. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 3. Loreola sp. 4. Loreola sp. 5. Unknown, Armadillidiidae 6. Echinarmadillidium fruxgalli

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beginning of a snow storm, 2004

black velvet + poly cotton moth with burgundy stitching! on the hydrangeas in the garden. made from my sewing scraps and this pattern :)

Henriette Ronner-Knip - A little kitten (1896)

I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???

This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.

They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.

on the topic of donkeys as guardian animals:

youve heard of cat bus now get ready for

donkey bus

in some southern european countries where traditional herding is still more common (than where i live) shepherds will often have their big donkeys carry newborn lambs or just young lambs from one pasture to the next !!!

holy shit

oranges & yellows & greens

A gorgeous lakeside spot deep in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island.

1979

Rae Klein

Vedovamazzei, Coma Paintings #2, 1999/2014  

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From living toys to haunted ones, here’s my strange vintage toy gallery.

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