goddamnshinyrock
a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones
shiny ✨🏔 // on tumblr since 2011 // queer as in fuck you // art history, rock climbing, ecology & birding, polar exploration, folk music, whaling & age of sail, and miscellaneous fandom nonsense
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late to the party but how about that marcille/falin, huh?
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#blood-soaked doomed femslash with borderline cannibalism? hello yes#just deleted previous version of this because tumblr auto-marked it mature. why tumblr. what word did I use#(y*ri. it’s because I said y*ri instead of femslash.)#anyway I finished the manga at 11:55pm last night and am having emotions#and art ideas
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Tree with vines, Jamaica - Frederic Edwin Church - 1865 - via Cooper Hewitt
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If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about
#horses lol#also insects. I think that was around my ‘I’m going to be a national geographic photographer’ phase#and I was really into photographing wasps
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this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious
#40 babyyyyy#getting close to the entire lower 48#just gotta knock out the upper midwest and mississippi/lousiana/alabama#and nevada. I’ve somehow managed to do the entire rest of the west and avoid nevada
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Listening to a non-fiction book about maritime disaster and the way this author is describing the ship sinking is so sexual
#this is just how maritime writers describe boats idk what you’re talking about OP#polar tag#polar exploration#ernest shackleton
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thinking about this book i found on archive.org that’s a kid’s book from the perspective of one of the ponies on the terra nova expedition. the ponies that sucked and were sickly and got shot and eaten. those ponies. never before have i been so mad a book wasn’t available to borrow i need to read this so badly.
#oh my fucking god. why does this EXIST???#also the sucker punch that is ‘published in 2011’ was truly incomparable OP you should have saved that for the end#I was fully assuming this was so weird artefact of the mid-20th-century but no#this was published when I was in college. wtf.#I want to study this author under a microscope#‘pony that will spend a year plus suffering and then get shot point blank in the head’ my children’s novel protagonist#should have titled it ‘Dog Food’#polar exploration#polar tag#terra nova
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Discworld is so delightful because you get lines like "When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve" except it's spoken by a 7 foot tall sentient clay statue named Pump 19 and directed to a man whose name is Moist von Lipwig
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the most important rule of taxonomy is to have fun and be yourself
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Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs
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me: gosh I don’t even remember what stimming I did as a little ASD kid, I know it wasn’t hand movements… did I even stim?
me: [currently bouncing on the yoga ball I got as an alternative desk chair] ……
me: nah, probably I didn’t
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nothing makes me feel more well adjusted than hearing about the problems that straight people in the periphery of my life are always having
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Greater Ani (Crotophaga major), family Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes, Ecuador
photograph by Xavier Topakian
#ani!!!!#god I want to see an ani they’re so weird#cuckoo family really excells at producing weirdos#birbs#birding
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So you're telling me, after I finally got the laundry in the washer, I also have to wash the dishes? But that's it, right? They're clean forever after that, right? No more laundry, no more dishes ever again? Okay I'll be all right then I can do that much.
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#Wait was he calling to complain about the partial eclipse#not being as dark as a total one?!
Sadly that is exactly what he was complaining about. Evidently he'd been in the path of the totality in 1979 and could not understand why it was different in 2017 when our city was at about 90%. It also took me a bit to figure out that he was complaining about the actual sun and not how badly organized the museum's viewing event had been, which lead to the most memorable part of conversation:
"Sir, did you call the museum to complain about the sun?"
"Well, you're a science museum, aren't you?"
He had me there.
someone just called the science museum to complain that this eclipse wasn’t as good as the one in 1979.
he wasn’t even a visitor, he was just mad about the eclipse not being visible without special glasses and wanted to complain to me about the eclipse “not being dark enough” for ten solid minutes
#truly a visitor interaction of all time#I don't miss that job but sometimes I miss the Wacky Hijinks#museum nonsense
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every single day I think about how american black vultures are known for engaging in allopreening (preening between different species)
and they have a specific relationship with crested caracaras, in which the black vultures assist them by not only preening them after meals but also leading them to food in the first place— due to their superior sense of smell— while the caracaras assist the black vultures by acting as a warning signal in case of danger
and while this is more typical of black vultures, this is not common at all for any member of the falconidae family— it’s a special bond!
yet another post in favor of vultures everyone , hope you enjoy:) and I implore you to do some more research on these incredible birds !!
#friends!!! 🥹😭#when I saw a crested caracara in the wild it was hanging with a group of black vultures!#birbs#birding
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love leopard seals. they are so dragon coded. that is an entire mammalian marine wyrm
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