Have you ever seen a pink grasshopper? Though the meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) is typically distinguished by its green and brown coloration, a genetic mutation called erythrism leaves some individuals looking pretty in pink! Erythrism is the overproduction of red pigment. While these rare insects are beautiful to look at, pink grasshoppers are hindered by their vivid coloring because it makes hiding from predators much more difficult.

Photo: Back from the Brink, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr (Meadow grasshopper nymph pictured)

göttingen 2023

The Flame by Barrie J Brown CPAGB https://flic.kr/p/2nYFt9w

トウネズミモチの花にクマバチが来ていた。

im thinking of changing my name again because im cursing at my 14 year old self who picked this random white name for me to live with now so ive been researching traditional Sakha names to get it right and apparently before the russians came and fucked up all our shit with their taxes and christianity, it was the norm for every Sakha person to change their name in their lifetime if not twice, then three times, and who knows if maybe more

basically, the newborn Sakha in the pre-christianity era would be given a name right away after birth like all kids, but once they grew up and started exhibiting individual traits they would be given a descriptive nickname which could describe pretty much anything about a person - positive characteristics, negative characteristics, physical quirks, facial features, body type, age, etc etc. one of my faves i found was Бэлтэкэ (Belteke) with means ‘round face’. would fit me ngl

anyways this is awesome news for me and i just wanted to share because learning that changing names throughout your life is historically super normal for our people makes me feel better about changing it for the second time, yknow? especially with the fact that those names were an individual’s descriptor. almost kind of like being trans and changing your name to one that suits you as a person better so you don’t walk around with the one that had nothing to do with who you really are on a personal level for your whole life

I saw an interesting post which talked about mythologizing sex, and making it seem like a special category of human behavior rather than just a thing people do.

It made me think about other common human things that every human partakes in or experiences some small way, and how interesting it would be to mythologize other behaviours when worldbuilding for example.

For example the mythologizing of food. Would abstaining from eating food be seen as virtuous, or maybe as something harmful and sick? Would there be special foods for every type of 'flavor'? Are there societal expectations around liking specific flavors, such as 'bitter' being a professional flavor, and 'sweet' being only for kids and the mentally ill?

Just had to write this down before I forget about it.

lip filler appt booked and READYYYY

it’s effing cold but i’ve not shut my window since july and it seems a shame to break my streak now 

bremen 2022

Los grillos producen su característico chirrido al frotar sus alas. El grillo macho tiene una estructura similar a un peine especializada en sus alas llamada raspador, que usa para frotar contra las crestas de su otra ala para producir el sonido.