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The Omnissiah's most legitimate and trustworthy forge master who will do no commercial crimes.
Kalanis is so slept on by me poor guy is absolutely neglected but I still love them they should never be in a position of power
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It’s an old tradition that during a leap year women could propose to men. This was usually depicted as old or ugly women trapping men, but some art focused more on the role reversal and could be quite cute.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.
#rebloging for Donny I think I want to wear the trousers#donald where's your trousers#that song's going to be in my head all morning
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SMALL-HEADED FLY SMALL-HEADED FLY 👀
Maybe Pterodontia sp? I'd never seen any small-headed flies before, and there's only 3 Florida sightings in the family on iNaturalist. Absolutely bizarre chonky creature. Basically no head. Evolution can't keep getting away with this.
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I always stop and look when I see these two plants together because they’re making a little love letter!
Forget-me-not, wandering sailor
#I know it as ivy-leafed toadflax#good plants#goosegrass I always think of as sticky plant because that's what I called it as a child
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A malevolent entity realizing he can gain more autonomy by threatening yours-> he does not know what an owl is
((Small self promo I’m streaming at 4 pm est today! Come say hi!))
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I´m having a quick sale until Friday 9am (CEST/GMT+2)
to get 20% off use code: 20FROGS at checkout!!
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"Omnipotent guidance" this "Divine intuition" that well my "Divine Intuition" is actually some guy named John and he tells me not to eat people [walks directly into a telephone pole]
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panther chameleon plushies!!!
based on the Amilobe locality of Furcifer pardalis
magnetic little hands for to grab things
soft
funny eyes
doesn´t need high humidty or complex care!
teddy joints for to move their little legs
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adopt one from my bog
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The sight of her is said to bring good luck to Sequencers. Some call her the Architect, some the Voice of the Dawn Machine. Often, she's simply known as She Who Walks the Rings.
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Old Man Archmagos Reminisces, Local Tech Priest Remembers It Completely Different
Bonus: Reminiscended event in question (weird guy scares child by being WAY too into proper machine maintenance ⚙️😇🙏🙏)
Average tuesday for von kuronar, life altering event for kat 😪
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#not my art#adeptus mechanicus#no mechanicus is ever normal about anything#40k a setting where everyone is all kinds of messed up
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Mermay 2024 is quickly approaching but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to participate much this year. But to commemorate one of my favorite challenges of the year I give you the Great Winged Sirenia.
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An entity found alone in the Far Plane. The entity seems to do nothing in its environment except exist. Its relationship with the plant-like organisms that grow around it is currently unknown.
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I think I stumbled upon some kind of ichthyological forbidden knowledge. Opened up a book of names that were never meant to be read.
You've probably heard of "can-opener smoothdream", right? It's practically a meme by now.
But the thing is, it's a deep-sea fish. And deep-sea fish have historically not had English names because nobody drops them into the conversation over a hot cuppa. Sure, there's generic stuff like hatchetfish and barreleye, but when you want to refer to the actual fish you're probably saying such euphonious phrases as Diretmus argenteus, Sternoptyx diaphana, or maybe even Opisthoproctus soleatus.
So whence "can-opener smoothdream"? Certainly no non-ichthyologist has ever used that name. It's not even a direct translation of the scientific name Chaenophryne longiceps - that would be "long-headed gape-toad". Which to me is even cooler than "can-opener smoothdream".
But I digress. The "dream" bit comes from the anglerfish family Oneirodidae, from oneiros, "dream", because those marvelous fishes look like they came out of a dream (Pietsch, 2009).
Note that Pietsch (2009), more or less the anglerfish bible, uses English names at the genus level only. So Chaenophryne is the smoothhead dreamers genus but no mention is made of "can-opener smoothdreams". So no luck there.
Wikipedia, root cause of a lot of misinformation, has this to say.
"Longhead dreamer" is a far more accurate name. And in fact, despite Wikipedia prioritizing "can-opener smoothdream" (because it's funny?), the links listed use "longhead dreamer" and "smoothhead dreamer" as the name and "can-opener smoothdream" as an alternative.
So. Again. Where did "can-opener smoothdream" come from?
The answer, as it turns out, lies with McAllister (1990).
In the book A List of the Fishes of Canada, ichthyologist D. E. McAllister sought out to list every single fish known to Canadian waters, providing both an English and a French name.
And when there wasn't an English name, like for most deep-sea fishes, he arbitrarily gave them a name. And his names "differ in many instances from the widely accepted names" (Holm, 1998)
This had varying results. This is his name for one of the netdevil anglerfishes.
The humpback anglerfish or blackdevil anglerfish becomes a werewolf (????).
This one is just confusing.
The white-spotted lanternfish or Rafinesque's lanternfish instead becomes...
And most embarrassingly, the Mediterranean spiderfish gets saddled with something that "violates the tenet of good taste" (Holm, 1998).
This then is the original source of "can-opener smoothdream". It was invented by an ichthyologist in 1990, and has seen little to no use outside of how bizarre the name is.
Maybe McAllister's goofier names will catch on. Who knows? They certainly aren't very popular in the scientific community though.
References
Holm, E. (1998) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes (review). The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 112, p. 174-175.
McAllister, D. E. (1990) A List of the Fishes of Canada. National Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa.
Pietsch, T. W. (2009) Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. University of California Press, Berkeley.
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Ornate harvestmen in the genus Sadocus, Gonyleptidae, found in South America. All photos are males except photos 6 and 7.
Photo 1 by damontighe, 2-6 by Art Anker (shared with permission - do not remove credit or re-post!), 7 by vukasinmarinovic, 8 by pedrova, and 9-10 by micaelae
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Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle (Chitra indica), family Trionychidae, found in rivers and other waterways of the Indian Sub-continent
ENDANGERED.
Predatory, feeding on a wide variety of small aquatic vertebrates and large invertebrates.
Endangered due to over-harvesting (for food) and habitat degradation.
photographs: Shailendra Singh, Turtle Conservancy, Turtle Survival Alliance
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Moths. Because moths; they're flying kittens that pollinate at night. And also it is SO close to being moth trap weather here. Thank u that is all for now from the Moth Promotional Board. 🦋🐈💖
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