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The King of the monsters
Wow! This is amazing.
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Concept: A witch cat that’s too fat to fly
Awwwww
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I am on the verge of tears please watch this
This is adorable
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!!!
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This is incredible because it is super difficult to visualise how much 6 feet actually is and most people don’t bother to try
HOLY SHIT ok first of all that is a brilliant use of technology, and second, that activated my flight response bigtime and i bet it convinced people to evacuate that weren’t gonna, which would’ve saved lives. so good job folks, worth the effort.
Why can’t she share that protective shield spell that she clearly casted on herself at least?
Superstorm Sandy...but a lot worse.
I grew up in a town five (+/-) miles south off “ground zero” from where SS Sandy hit. I had about 4 feet of water in my house that I grew up in that was built in the 1930s by my great-grandfather. Luckily the first floor was three feet off the ground, so not a lot of damage to the items in the house, but we did have to demolish and build new (would have cost just as much to raise the house more).
Never want to live through that again.
So those in NC, please heed the warning. It will be bad.
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I have not been online, but I cannot keep silent now.
I am not in Ukraine, I cannot speak on the behalf of the Ukranian people.
I live in Russia.
Today I woke up to find the news about the beginning of war: I was terrified, and then I read about what the citizens of Ukraine woke up to. Being in a region that does not border with Ukraine, I can only imagine the terror of those who are still there.
This is not a war of the countries, this is an invasion of a power-hungry government. The people of Russia don't want the war. I am ashamed to be living under a "leader" who allows his greed destroy lives, and I am terrified, both for the Ukranian people and for us.
Today, there have been anti-war protests in the Russian cities, more than 1700 people were arrested. The ordinary people do not want this war, we are angry and we are scared.
Please, listen to the voices of the Ukranian citizens, of the Russian citizens, approach the news you find online critically, double-check the facts and do not spread false information.
#нетвойне
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Spread your cosmic wings 🦋
The Butterfly Nebula, created by a dying star, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in this spectacular image. Observations were taken over a more complete spectrum of light, helping researchers better understand the “wings'' of gas bursting out from its center. The nebula’s dying central star has become exceptionally hot, shining ultraviolet light brightly over the butterfly’s wings and causing the gas to glow.
Learn more about Hubble’s celebration of nebula November and see new nebula images, here.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)
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This might be an odd or heavy question so I'm not exactly expecting a response, but what exactly is disability? I'm aware that typically people who need glasses aren't called disabled, that there are invisible and mental disabilities, that the legal definition is flawed, et cetera, but the exact definition still escapes me.
(the catalyst for me asking is my piling health problems; chronic bronchitis and several kinds of heart problems cause me to be unable to climb more than two flights of stairs without breathing like a fish and yet I still feel guilty for taking the elevator. I'm just trying to get a definite answer so my own mind would stop nagging me about it)
This is exactly my shit because disability activism was so important in shaping me into the person I am. I'm neurodivergent, but also physically disabled; I have congenital birth defects in my hands and feet that fuck me up more than you might expect, I'm mobility impaired, and now live with chronic pain. My life is way better when I don't have to take the stairs, I can only work about four hours a day, but I don't meet my government's definition of "disabled".
Disability has been an intense battleground. For centuries society has had a very narrowly defined view of disability, and treated disabled people in a very particular way. The Disability Rights Movement, meanwhile, has involved disabled people getting together and saying: The way we are viewed and treated sucks! We don't like it! Things need to change!
So one major key to things is the social vs medical model of disability. The medical model views disability as when someone has a serious impairment or illness that prevents them from being normal and healthy, and needs to be medically treated or cured. The social model views disability as the result of society failing to accommodate the full range of variation in human ability, which fails to allow the disabled person full inclusion.
Like, if someone cannot walk and uses a wheelchair, and therefore cannot get into a building, the medical model says we should focus on making them able to walk. The social model says that we should focus on making the building accessible for people with wheelchairs. A major issue here is universal design, the belief that our buildings (and by extension, our institutions and society) shouldn't just be set up for abled people. It should anticipate the presence of disabled people, and plan to include and accommodate us so that we can enjoy an equal level of autonomy and inclusion in society as everyone else.
Disability is really complicated partly because it's really diverse. There are so many different ways of being disabled. Neither of these models is 100% right or 100% wrong. Some people love what makes them different from the norm and don't believe it should ever be taken away or cured; others hate their disabilities and want them to go away yesterday. An operative issue to keep in mind is when the medical and social models are useful.
Under the social model of disability, people who wear eyeglasses are a perfect example of an impairment that's socially accommodated so that it isn't normally debilitating. Society doesn't have huge narratives about how it's tragic or pitiable when someone wears glasses; it's not generally seen as heartbreaking for parents to take their child to the optometrist. Glasses are generally affordable to the everyday person. It is, in fact, solid evidence that we can and do treat some kinds of physical differences as routine and unremarkable.
So at the base of it, here's the reality about the definition of disability:
Abled society has historically had a lot invested in keeping "disability" as a very narrowly defined category. Only the most truly deserving get the special resources that make up for the fact that they're excluded from employment and public life. There's only one elevator, so you'd better make sure that you really need it before you use up that scarce resource.
Disability activism, meanwhile, benefits from making the definition of disability as broad as possible, to argue that we aren't rare exceptions, we're 1/5 of the population and shouldn't be excluded to begin with. Literally anyone could be hit by a bus tomorrow and become disabled. Excluding us and denying us our civil rights isn't acceptable. If too many people are using the elevator, maybe the building shouldn't rely so much on taking the stairs.
This ties into what the disability community calls "the curb-cut effect". When a space is made more accessible for people in wheelchairs (by putting in curb cuts, for example), a whole lot of other people benefit: Parents with strollers, delivery people with hand trucks, travellers with luggage, and ordinary pedestrians who just found them easier to walk across. The design feature made life for everyone so much better that it became adopted everywhere, and demanded as a standard piece of urban architecture. Wheelchair users benefited because everybody wanted the kind of space they could travel in.
When you use a resource or accommodation intended for disabled people, you reinforce the idea that disabled people are common and should be routinely included. Although this sometimes puts stress on a system when multiple people are using the resource at once, the solution should be to increase that resource's availability, not to decide who needs it less and kick them out.
(This topic reminds me that hey, I'm disabled and don't make a lot of money because of it. This week I'm trying to find an apartment that doesn't require taking the stairs, but those are literally twice as expensive in my city. So if you want to support me for the work I do, here are my Patreon and Paypal!)
Just to add a few things about the vision stuff: I write on the history of blindness, so I read a lot of documents about what made schools and hospitals consider someone to be blind in the 19th century, and a whole lot of the students in schools for the blind just needed glasses. Like, I read a lot of letters written by blind people with beautiful penmanship and they write them themselves without a sighted scribe, but they couldn't see the chalkboard clearly in their one-room school house so off to the school for the blind they go so they can learn how to make chairs and knit and get proper moral teachings. Now, of course, we just post on tumblr. But I know I would have ended up at a school for the blind in 1902. In Canada, we didn't even develop a consistent definition of "blindness" until after the first world war, and we did THAT so we could determine which war-blinded veterans got how much of a pension. That's where the CNIB came from - as an advocacy group for war-blinded veterans. Anyway, some of the girls I write about were blind in the way that folks think about it now - they couldn't see anything or could only faintly determine light from dark. But the majority of them were much more like your person who needs a really strong glasses prescription now.
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yall with your ugly celeb man crushes
This is a powerful child.
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If you have a Duolingo account, please consider upvoting this request to add Coptic to their language courses.
Coptic is the final stage of the Egyptian language. It is currently endangered, with less than 300 Egyptians speaking it as their native tongue.
It would mean a great deal to indigenous Egyptians in the Coptic community to have our language preserved, and this would be a huge step forward.
If you don’t have a Duolingo account, consider sharing this with those who might. Thank you! <3
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50 tips for (fanfic) writing
- have fun
- write whatever is interesting to you, even if it won’t be interesting to anyone else
- appreciate kudos when they come, but don’t expect them
- appreciate comments when they come, but don’t expect them
- if you wish you could just write that one scene you have in your head, do that. you don’t need to create a 30K backstory for it first.
- embrace one shots
- embrace drabbles
- embrace writing your story out of order
- rough drafts are meant to be rough. if you can’t think of a word, put in a placeholder for it and keep going.
- try not to get stuck on the little things
- it’s okay if your readers can’t see the picture inside of your head
- some people work well when they have a posting schedule. some people work well when they don’t. it’s okay if you don’t know which kind of person you are, and it’s okay if the type of person you are changes over time.
- if a rule you created for yourself isn’t working for you, get rid of that rule.
- make fandom friends. even if they don’t read your fic, they’ll cheer you on while you write it.
- cheer on other writers you know. you’ll be cheering yourself at the same time.
- no trope or genre is better or worse than another one. they all just appeal to different audiences.
- quality and popularity are not the same thing, although they do sometimes overlap
- numbers and statistics will never tell you whether or not you’re a good writer. they will never tell you how valuable you are as a person.
- you belong in fandom if you want to be there
- you’re a writer as soon as you start writing things
- writing and posting are two different things. your story is still worth writing, even if you never plan to share it
- you don’t need to apologize for what you write or what you post.
- don’t worry about taking up too much space. the internet doesn’t have a maximum size.
- keep your readers in mind when you’re tagging your content. how could they search for your fic? if you use a tag, will be a reader who loves that tag be satisfied with how much it appears in your story?
- if you have a relationship in your fic that plays a minor role, tag it in the Additional Tags section instead of the Relationship section so that people who love that ship don’t get their hopes up
- be cautious when looking at bookmarks on your fic. they aren’t “extra comments.” that’s a space where readers make notes for themselves and each other, not for authors.
- you don’t need to know everything about canon before you start writing fic
- you don’t need to read fic in the same fandoms you write for
- you don’t need to read fic at all in order to write it
- love your work because sometimes you’re the only one who will - and that’s okay
- if your hobby starts feeling like a job, you might need to take a break before you get burnt out
- if you get stuck on a story, you can always start a new one
- if you fall out of love with a story, you can always stop writing it. if you’re worried about your readers, you can always give them a bullet point summary of where you were planning to go with thing. for a lot of people, that’s satisfying and provides closure
- if you get hate, report it
- use the tools at your disposal to block hate before it can come in (limiting or turning off comments, limiting or turning off asks, blocking users, etc)
- try replying to comments sometimes. it can be a lovely way to make fandom friends
- don’t be afraid to reblog your own writing posts.
- if you get stuck on your summary, just write 1) who the story is about 2) what they are doing and 3) what problem gets in their way
- notice when your writing makes you smile. that moment is a gift. enjoy it.
- notice when your writing makes you cry. that moment is a gift, too.
- even if you’re disappointed in how your story turned out, there’s something in there that’s fantastic. find that thing and focus on it and feel proud.
- some ideas are ones you want to write. some are ones you want to read. if you ever have too many ideas to deal with at once, give some of the latter ones away to someone else.
- sometimes the things you write will be really personal. be careful about putting them where other people can comment. they won’t know how personal it is for you, and you need to remember that comments aren’t about you, they’re about the story.
- remember that you can write series as well as stories. if the story is done but you still have passion or ideas, start a new one in the same universe.
- enjoy the satisfaction of finishing a story. savour it. bask in it a little while.
- don’t feel guilty about abandoning a story. not every story gets finished, and that’s okay
- you can have separate accounts for different fandoms. you can have one account with a million fandoms in it. do whatever works for you.
- sometimes writing is more important than sleep - but only sometimes
- it doesn’t matter if that story has been written before by someone else. it doesn’t matter if it was written by you. write it again.
- only follow the advice that makes sense to you. the rest isn’t important.
i feel like this can apply to fanart/comics too
For someone who hasn’t posted a chapter to any fanfic in quite some time, especially on fanfiction.net, I was pleasantly surprised to see I had a follow and favorite for myself, and from the same person, for Fata Donum...so thank you.
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Nothing about us without us. Image description: [pale purple and yellow background with dark text] This April, don’t support an organization that harms autistic people. [crossed out logo for Autism Speaks] Support one built by autistic people, for autistic people. [logos for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Women’s Network]
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Reblogging to spread the word, cause evidence shows that Autism $peaks are classic horror movie villains.
Reblogging because I’ve always wondered who to support instead of AS.
To every friend of mine who reblogs this, thank you. It means I can trust you. <3
Reblogging because I hate Autism Speaks.
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Future reference 👍
KEEP THEM POCKETS THICK FAM
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reblogging to add that if you want to skip the advertised sales and shop clearance, shop three seasons ahead if you can. look at shorts in november, coats and pants in april or may, jackets in july. that’s when stuff hits the deep clearance racks to make room for the next two seasons.
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Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?
Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:
- Coffee
- Cameras
- Experimental Physics
- Chess
- Soap
- Shampoo
- Perfume/spirits
- Irrigation
- Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
- Combination locks
- Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
- Surgical instruments
- Anesthesia
- Windmill
- Treatment of Cowpox
- Fountain pen
- Numbering system
- Algebra/Trigonometry
- Modern Cryptology
- 3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
- Crystal glasses
- Carpets
- Checks
- Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
- University
- Optics
- Music
- Toothbrush
- Hospitals
- Bathing
- Quilting
- Mariner’s Compass
- Soft drinks
- Pendulum
- Braille
- Cosmetics
- Plastic surgery
- Calligraphy
- Manufacturing of paper and cloth
It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.
The list goes on………..
Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!
Sources:
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I couldn’t be happier to reblog this.
this is amazing.
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SLAMS DOWN REBLOG BUTTON
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FOREVER GOT LOVE FOR THE MUSLIM HOMIES
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instant reblog!!!!!!
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Waiting literally a year for your epic revenge is the most teenage girl move ever.
This is a work of beauty.
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I had a penpal from Australia send me one of these as a joke years ago, but I loved it.
As did my cat, Mittens. Anytime I was at work or class, she would manage to find it in my room, bring it out through another room, down a flight and half of stairs (loft area/weird floor plan courtesy of my great-grandfather), and leave it by the top of the four remaining steps by the foyer (again, weird floor plan) for when I got home.
She loved the ears mainly. I wish I kept the can, but in my stupor I threw it out with the recycling. I still have the koala though somewhere.
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i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today
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these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it
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things pirates of the caribbean got right:
1. will and elizabeth’s love story
2. elizabeth becoming pirate king
3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women
4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme
5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.
6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.
7. Will’s hat.
8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.
9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.
10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.
11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.
12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.
13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.
14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.
15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.
1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.
2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!
3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.
4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).
5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.
6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.
7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.
8. The actual fighting. I’m doing historical sword and rapier fighting and let me tell you while show fighting definitely is different there’re so many films out there where I just cringe at the fighting sequences. Not this film. My sword master actually told me to watch these duels because of their great swordsmanship. Like they’re SO accurate and amazingly good performed
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Amazing Nature Phenomenons
ᴋᴀᴡᴀʜ ɪᴊᴇɴ (ʙʟᴜᴇ ᴠᴏʟᴄᴀɴᴏ) ɪɴᴅᴏɴᴇsɪᴀ
ᴛᴜʀǫᴜᴏɪsᴇ ɪᴄᴇ: ʟᴀᴋᴇ ʙᴀɪᴋᴀʟ-ʀᴜssɪᴀ
sᴜᴘᴇʀᴄᴇʟʟ sᴛᴏʀᴍ
ɢʀᴇᴇɴ ғʟᴀsʜ sᴜɴsᴇᴛ
sɴᴏᴡ ᴄʜɪᴍɴᴇʏ: ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛ ᴇʀʙᴜs-ᴀɴᴛᴀʀᴛɪᴄᴀ
sᴋʏ ᴘᴜɴᴄʜ
sᴛʀɪᴘᴇᴅ ɪᴄᴇʙᴇʀɢs:ᴀɴᴛᴀʀᴛɪᴄᴀ
ʟɪɢʜᴛ ᴘɪʟʟᴀʀs
sᴀʟᴀʀ ᴅᴇ ᴜʏᴜɴɪ (ʀᴇғʟᴇᴄᴛɪɴɢ ᴅᴇsᴇʀᴛ) ʙᴏʟɪᴠɪᴀ
ᴍᴀᴇʟsᴛʀᴏᴍ
ᴇʏᴇ ᴏғ sᴀʜᴀʀᴀ:ᴍᴀᴜʀɪᴛᴀɴɪᴀ
ғɪʀᴇ ʀᴀɪɴʙᴏᴡ
ᴘᴏʀᴏʀᴏᴄᴀ (ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴡᴀᴠᴇ) ᴀᴍᴀᴢᴏɴ ʀɪᴠᴇʀ-ʙʀᴀᴢɪʟ
ᴀᴜʀᴏʀᴀ ʙᴏʀᴇᴀʟɪs
ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ʙʟᴜᴇ ʜᴏʟᴇ:ʙᴇʟɪᴢᴇ
ʀᴀɪɴʙᴏᴡ ᴇᴜᴄᴀʟʏᴘᴛᴜs ᴛʀᴇᴇs
sᴛᴏɴᴇ ғᴏʀᴇsᴛ:ᴍᴀᴅᴀɢᴀsᴄᴀʀ
ᴄᴀᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍʙᴏ ʟɪɢʜᴛɴɪɴɢ (ɴᴇᴠᴇʀᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ sᴛᴏʀᴍ) ᴠᴇɴᴇᴢᴜᴇʟᴀ
ᴍᴀᴍᴍᴀᴛᴜs ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅs
ᴡʜɪᴛᴇ ʀᴀɪɴʙᴏᴡ
ᴜɴᴅᴇʀᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ ᴄʀᴏᴘ ᴄɪʀᴄʟᴇs
ʙɪᴏʟᴜᴍɪɴᴇsᴄᴇɴᴛ ᴡᴀᴠᴇs
ᴍᴏʀɴɪɴɢ ɢʟᴏʀʏ ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅs
ᴠᴏʟᴄᴀɴɪᴄ ʟɪɢʜᴛɪɴɢ
ɴᴀᴄʀᴇᴏᴜs ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅs
ʀᴀɪɴʙᴏᴡ ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴs:ᴄʜɪɴᴀ
ʟᴇɴᴛɪᴄᴜʟᴀʀ ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅ
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Please take a look at how beautiful Earth is
The “underwater crop circles” are made by males of a certain species of pufferfish in order to attract mates.
Neat!