Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

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.

Was going for that JCPenney Portrait vibe, I think I nailed it

Spidersona: The Uncanny X-Spider, Cass Carver (she/her)

Saw a new to me nudibranch, Cumanotus sp. ! It was swimming around in the watercolumn. So cute.

I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.

you are being booped, hi there boop

reblog to EVIL BOOP the person you reblogged from >:3

Boop

thank you 😭💜 

i miss being booped

A small update. I've added a few new items, and updated a couple listings. I'll be adding a couple more items over the next week, too!

My birthday is in a week, and the best present would be to pick up some items from my shop, or preorder my new enamel pin!

*Please note any non-preorder items in the same order as the preorder will not ship until the preorder item is ready!

These are excellent worms! If I may provide additional evidence of vote annelida here are some pics of some of my beloved marine worms, the nereids:

Aren't they so beautiful? They've got fairy wings with spikes for swimming feet and holographic skin. Love them. Vote Annelida.

[both pics were taken by me]

Phylum Round 3

Annelida: Segmented Worms. This group includes earthworms, leeches, and many classes under the umbrella of “polychaete”. This diverse phylum encompasses deposit feeders (eating dirt), detritivores, scavengers, deadly ambush predators, filter feeders, parasites, herbivores, and more. They are broadly defined by their repeating body segments and parapodia, which are nubby appendages used for both movement and breathing. Some have curved jaws for catching prey or scraping detritus off of rocks, while others have wide, elaborate, brightly colored feather-like fans for filter feeding. While able to crawl freely, a majority of marine Annelids spend most of their time in self-built tubes or burrows. Among their many important functions, they play a key role in mixing soil/sediment, breaking down decaying organic matter, and providing a key food source to countless other animals.

Cnidaria: Jellyfish, anemones, corals, box jellies, and hydroids. They have a gelatinous body with radial symmetry, a decentralized nervous system, and tentacles surrounding a simple mouth. The defining feature of this phylum are their cnidocytes, or stinging cells. There are two different body plans of the Cnidaria; an immobile “polyp” attached to a surface, or a free-living “medusa” which can swim or drift in the water column. Many polyp Cnidarians, such as corals, live in colonies. Some corals build reefs which serve as habitat for other animals. Free-living medusa Cnidarians must return to the seafloor in a polyp-like stage as a part of their life cycle.

Y'all! You can boop the cat on the counter! Click on it and it pops up these pink notifications and meows!!!

ideas for tumblr staff

dont remove the boop button

stop banning trans women for no reason

excited to announce my first solo show happening this summer! I’m so grateful to show this body of work in a space so instrumental in my growth as a person, in the town I call home. more info and details will be announced closer to July, with an opening reception date where we can meet and chat. for those of you in downtown Chicago this location is easily accessible from a train stop that originates in Chicago’s union station

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safe from screamers: ✔️

safe from jump scares: ✔️

safe from booping: ❌️

OOPS you're dash has been hit by long siphonophore, help them boop to the top