2014 Donmar warehouse production - the most popular version on tumblr, very gay, tom hiddleston as coriolanus

2011 movie - my personal favourite, presents the complexity of the characters (especially coriolanus and virgilia) very well, ralph fiennes as coriolanus

2018 RSC production - includes intros to both acts by the cast, very gay, sope dirisu as coriolanus (this one is in four videos, two acts and two intros, all are on this link)

2019 stratford festival production - very naturalistic production style, andre sills as coriolanus

1984 movie - hilariously bad but also great, very gay, very fun to watch, alan howard as coriolanus

I generally suspect everyone who follows me might know but I better check:

OH NO 😭😭😭 more than 0 people didn't know 😢😱

Barnacle is a crustacean bug shrimp guy & gal (has ovaries and also longest proportionate penis in whole animal kingdom) living on their back inside themself

Filter feeders just like mussels and sponges and corals but these are Arthropods called cirripedes (hair legs) because their legs are hairy for catching the plankton. Living in soup and eating the soup with their feet forever

I actually did think the right answer would be like a 90% lead or more, poor barnacles 😢

These are the life cycle stages!!

Also very important:

They are NOT PARASITES!

Parasitic barnacles exist, but you'd generally never recognize most of them as barnacles. The barnacles that grow on whales and turtles and crabs are just chilling there, eating plankton, causing no damage or drawing any energy from their ride. It also ALWAYS DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD FOR A HUMAN TO SCRAPE THEM OFF! DONT DO IT!! 😢

If a sea turtle feels bothered by barnacle overgrowth it actually just migrates to colder or warmer waters and the shift will kill the barnacles. Crabs and lobsters discard them with regular molting, and whales don't notice them at all. Other animals like fish and squid are too soft, move too constantly or have slime coats that barnacles find inhospitable.

Barnacles have been encrusting everything in the ocean for millions of years, the things living there with them inherently evolved around handling it just fine!

If you're amazed to learn they're arthropods I hope you've also taken a moment to appreciate that these are related animals:

In fact, we now know that insects are a direct offshoot rather than mere cousins of crustaceans, much like the revelation that birds are literally dinosaurs.

Bringing this back so more people understand banarnacles

i’m obsessed with benedick and beatrice and the fact that he trusts her. claudio refuses to believe that hero is innocent no matter what she says. no one believes her, even leonato immediately takes claudio’s word, a man who he has known for a few days, over his own daughter’s. and beatrice knows it’s a lie but no one believes her because the word of a woman means nothing. but benedick believes her. he doesn’t know hero that well, he has no evidence to prove that she is innocent, but he knows she is because beatrice says so, and he trusts her - more than he trusts even claudio, his “sworn brother”. the contrast between claudio’s “proof” destroying his trust in hero, and benedick trusting beatrice no matter what, even though he has no proof

Benedick trusting Hero, through Beatrice, even when her own father will not believe her.

This is why I think it’s really important that Beatrice wasn’t Hero’s bedfellow the night before the wedding. Because Benedick doesn’t just have to trust Beatrice’s word, he has to share her belief.

Julian Friers

"The enormous Straight-Tusked Elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) that once roamed across much of Europe, trudging across the landscape in view of a Red Deer".

FUCK YEAH COLUMBIA UNI STUDENTS!!!!!!

Maurice (James Ivory, 1987) set photography: Rupert Graves as Alec Scudder waiting at the boathouse.

I’ve always loved this shot, but for many years I only had a microscopic newsprint copy. There’s also a gorgeous variant (impatient Alec in profile).

He's so me it's unbelievable

Fun thing to do for Americans today:

Call your congress people and demand that they vote for the Ukraine aid bill.

It's been almost 500 days since congress last approved aid to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 forces are severely lacking in ammunition there, which means they cannot protect their cities and energy infrastructure and have to leave soldiers at the frontline without cover because they need to ration their firepower. Civilians are dying, soldiers defending freedom and democracy are dying. Ukraine will lose and cease to exist if they run out of weapons.

Russia is 100% responsible for the war, but inaction makes the USA complicit and will lead to a bigger war in Europe that is very likely going to include NATO directly, meaning your fellow countrypeople will actually have to come here and fight. Don't want that? Then fucking support Ukraine NOW! It's the morally right and logical thing to do and serves your own interests!!

DO this!!

This is very important!!

Here's a useful link to find your congressman, how to contact them, and see their stance on aid for Ukraine.

BREAKING NEWS

I just learned about a bird species called Golden Plover. Their chicks have an amazing camouflage: their baby fluff resembles MOSS!

LOOK AT THEM! JUST LOOK AT THEM!

...Oh to be a tiny golden plover lying in the moss safe and sound waiting for your mom to bring you some worms...

@normal-horoscopes

ATTENTION: IT IS NOW TIME FOR MOSS

Reminds me of the "Tapera Naevia" aka Striped Cuckoo whose chicks look like Pine Cones, so now we have "Moss Birb" and "Pine Cone Birb"

CONIFEROUS BIRB!!!!

no thoughts just trans man cassius

A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

reddit is having a glitch where it puts the wrong captions over photos and it’s the only thing i care about right now