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kaijuno: Is this the whole thing??? It’s the first time I’ve seen this version. Ye Yes, that’s the...

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:54:07 -0400

kaijuno:

Is this the whole thing??? It’s the first time I’ve seen this version.

Ye

Yes, that’s the whole image

flowerinaflame: Ain’t nothing wrong with eating some bread dipped in olive oil, balsamic vinegar and...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:50:29 -0400

flowerinaflame:

Ain’t nothing wrong with eating some bread dipped in olive oil, balsamic vinegar and various herbs

botanyshitposts: dragongyrlwren: botanyshitposts: isoete: on...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:40:35 -0400

botanyshitposts:

dragongyrlwren:

botanyshitposts:

isoete:

on behalf of isoetes I’m offended, Mr. Senator.

@botanyshitposts so what exactly is a quillwort, and what’s the big deal on this particular one?

imagine if there was a single remaining mammoth species on earth, and it only was able to get by into the modern era by sacrificing it’s status as a huge landscape-changing roaming herbivore to evolve into a small animal the size of a dog. it looks a lot like a dog, actually. people often mistake the tiny mammoth species as a dog, and will just casually say it’s a dog.

small-mammoth enthusiasts, however, will avidly remind people that they are not in fact a dog, and their organs, although shrunken to the size of a dog’s organs, are still wooly mammoth organs. you actually have to seek out special vets for the small wooly mammoths because even though it looks remarkably like a dog to the untrained eye, when you’re faced with the internal anatomy it’s so far deviated from anything living today that it’s difficult to understand and work with.

this is because there is, quite literally, no animal anatomy quite like the small woolly mammoth’s left alive on earth. this means that there’s no living approximation of how their organs work, or what the fuck is going on in there, even though they look like a dog from the outside. the closest living relative of the small woolly mammoth is so far deviated from it’s anatomy that’s literally of no help to anyone to compare the two, because the only thing they have in common is how they reproduce. scientists studying the wooly mammoth’s anatomy are forced to debate with each other constantly about what a certain organ might do, or what it at least used to do based on the fossils of the giant wooly mammoths that once dominated the landscape, but they just…have no idea.

so the small woolly mammoth is not at all like a dog, even though it looks like one. how it works, how it reproduces, how it functions on a basic anatomic level are so utterly and completely prehistoric that they’re not at all like any other living animals. this makes them the subject of infinite fascination to paleontologists trying to approximate the biology and ecology of the giant woolly mammoths that once lived…but it’s incredibly challenging. it’s also incredibly challenging to explain why they’re different to people who just don’t care, or just see them as dogs because they look like them, because the significance of something like it is so easily lost when something looks ‘normal’.

isoetes –Quillworts– are that tiny wooly mammoth. their ancestors lived 400 million years ago and included the giant prehistoric spore-reproducing trees lepidodendron, which made up the bulk of massive prehistoric forests that were eventually compressed into the coal we’re still using today. they’re so old that the roots aren’t roots, they’re leaves, and it took botanists 100 years of bickering to finally confirm this. they’re so old that the change that weeded out all the giant 100+ foot tall members of the lineage was literally the original shifting of the continents, as in, like, when pangea split. they’re so old that it reproduces through ENORMOUS spores contained in spore packets on it’s leaves. they’re so old that we just have no fucking idea how to process it.

quillwort anatomy is, quite literally, that of a comically small 400 million year old spore tree with the trunk squished into a woody structure so small that you could miss it if you didn’t know what you were looking for on a dissection. the anatomy of this genus doesn’t function like any other modern plant genus on earth. quillworts have organs and cell structures that we still don’t understand in the year 2019.

quillworts are incredibly valuable finds to paleobotanists because they’re so easily passed over in botanical surveys, and their habitats are constantly being threatened, making a great deal of species endangered. although they’re still around on almost every continent– see the earlier point on them evolving before the continents split– there are a lot fewer of them out there now; like anything, they can be more common in some areas than others, but my state has only found one recorded colony in the past 50 years to give an idea of what we’re dealing with here.

and yes. they look like grasses.

do not let this prehistoric spore tree fool you

lavanderlavellan: THEYRE FRICKING GIRLFRIEMDS

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:37:14 -0400

lavanderlavellan:

THEYRE FRICKING GIRLFRIEMDS

buckycap: SAMBUCKY RIGHTS

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 19:53:51 -0400

buckycap:

SAMBUCKY RIGHTS

feiandaris: Solas: talks about the fade, shows empathy and respect to spirits, has an interest in...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:55:58 -0400

feiandaris:

Solas: talks about the fade, shows empathy and respect to spirits, has an interest in the history of magic, etc.
me: :)
Solas: starts saying some dumb shit
me: 🔪

fuckbioware: teyrnacousland: dalishdick: morthils: you know what all of a sudden i’m boiling with...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:15:55 -0400

fuckbioware:

teyrnacousland:

dalishdick:

morthils:

you know what all of a sudden i’m boiling with rage over dragon age 2 all over again they name alriks plan “the tranquil fucking solution” and expect us to sympathize with templars. “anders is the one who turned it into a war” nah bitch! it was already a fucking war! what the fuck! what the fuck! the dude spends his whole life watching people like him lobotomized and killed knowing he’s just a small slip up away from being next but somehow he’s the monster here! fuck you! fuck the chantry! fuck bioware! you can’t spend years beating a dog and then act surprised when it bites! you can’t just name shit “the tranquil solution” and then make a templar a love interest in the next fucking game!

wtf i forgot about this

This might be a little bit off topic but your rage inspired my rage and the line “Anders turned it into a war” stuck with me. Because that only sounds like a bad thing if you choose to completely ignore everything that was happening before the rebellion. The options weren’t “war or no war”, or “war or peace”. It was “war or a lifetime of persecution, slavery, and literally every type of abuse there is including forced lobotomization at the whim of your oppressors”. It wasn’t a war before because the mages couldn’t fight back. That’s literally the only thing that changed. It’s good that Anders “turned it into a war” because what it was before was way worse.

this is why i get 1000% done with people who summarize da2 with “what the fuck anders”. NO what the fuck at you. Thats ALL you saw? seven years with hawke seeing the abuse the mages went through and HE is your issue???

the first quest you get with anders you are forced to kill his long time lover!! who was made tranquil and passed his harrowing. (illegal) and tranquil mages walking around the gallows talking about how they were enslaved to ser alrik, not to mention the torture devices at the gallows. quest after quest where the game shows how the templars are out of control and abusing their power like ?????

this has been going on a thousand years but people dont care!! and this is why i celebrate what anders did because a clear messaged NEEDED to be sent!!

brunhiddensmusings: 990000: simongerman600 i was going to say ‘i have no idea what to do with...

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:55:46 -0400

brunhiddensmusings:

990000:

simongerman600

i was going to say ‘i have no idea what to do with this information’ but then i realized its a handy guide to generate fake words that sound english

pedromgabriel: - My beautiful summer (miss it) - by Pedro...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:34:40 -0400

pedromgabriel:

- My beautiful summer (miss it) -

by Pedro Gabriel

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bears-official: aghostintheforest: springcottage: the...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:09:39 -0400

bears-official:

aghostintheforest:

springcottage:

the incredible things i’ve seen while following a moose and her calf for a year // jasper national park.

cbc on youtube

@bears-official

farmin of mine own HONEYS

sexetc: daisies-with-bruises: What do boundaries feel like? It is not my job to fix others. It...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:09:46 -0400

sexetc:

daisies-with-bruises:

What do boundaries feel like?

It is not my job to fix others.

It is okay if others get angry.

It is okay to say no.

It is not my job to take responsibility for others.

I do not have to anticipate the needs of others.

It is my job to make me happy.

No one has to agree with me.

I have a right to my own feelings.

I am enough.

Tips on how to set healthy relationship boundaries.

codyfromstatefarm: What I say: I write What I mean: Don’t ever talk to me, my 5 unfinished fanfics,...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:31:39 -0400

codyfromstatefarm:

What I say: I write

What I mean: Don’t ever talk to me, my 5 unfinished fanfics, my 20 fic concepts, my 30 original story ideas or my 300 drabbles I ralphed up on a whim and left to die ever again

transjemder: transjemder: God what’s that one poem abt homosexuality. Of all definitions of...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:31:21 -0400

transjemder:

transjemder:

God what’s that one poem abt homosexuality. Of all definitions of homosexuality I’ve read not one mentions love. That one

Not a poem but from annie on my mind by nancy garden. I get it. I get it.

Photo

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:06:58 -0400

banozac:I think it’s cute that thing humans do when they see a boat pass and the people on the boat...

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:03:52 -0400

banozac:

I think it’s cute that thing humans do when they see a boat pass and the people on the boat wave at them and they wave back. For absolutely no reason. They don’t know each other they’re not trying to communicate anything other than “LOOK! I am on a boat!!! Hello!!!!” “I see you!!!! On the boat!!!! Hello!!!!!!!!!!” in a genuine moment of wholesome human connection and excitement.

iboughtplumblossoms: lunchboxpoems: Transcript under the cut Keep reading

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 06:14:57 -0400

iboughtplumblossoms:

lunchboxpoems:

Transcript under the cut

Keep reading

c1tylight5: Durdle Door, England | Kim Freeborn

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:24:08 -0400

c1tylight5:

Durdle Door, England | Kim Freeborn

wondrousworldbuilding: bemusedlybespectacled: I always find it kind of weird that matriarchal...

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 18:49:41 -0400

wondrousworldbuilding:

bemusedlybespectacled:

I always find it kind of weird that matriarchal cultures in fiction are always “women fight and hunt, men stay home and care for the babies” because world-building-wise, it makes no sense

think about it. like, assuming that gender even works the same in this fantasy culture as it does in ours, with gender conflated with sex (because let’s be real, all of these stories assume that), men wouldn’t be the ones to make the babies, so why would they be the ones to care for the babies? why is fighting and hunting necessary for leadership?

writing a matriarchy this way is just lazy, because you’re just taking the patriarchy and just swapping the people in it, rather than actually swapping the culture. especially when there are so many other cool things you could explore. like, what if it’s not a swap of roles but of what society deems important?

maybe a matriarchy would have hunting and fighting be part of the man’s job, but undervalued. like taking the trash out or cleaning toilets: necessary, but gross, and not noble or interesting. maybe farming is now the most important thing, and is given a lot of spiritual and cultural weight.

how would law work? what crimes would exist, and what things would be considered too trivial to make illegal? who gets what property? why?

how would religion work? how would you mark time or the passage into adulthood? what would marriage look like? if bloodlines are through the mother, bastardy wouldn’t even be a concept - how does that work?

what qualities would be most important in a person? how would you define strength or leadership? what knowledge would be the most coveted and protected? what acts or roles are considered useless or degrading?

like, you can’t just take our current society and say you’re turning it on its head when you’re just regurgitating it wholesale. you have to really think about why things are the way they are and change that.

This.

lambylingames: you’ll be the talk of orlais!

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:06:31 -0400

lambylingames:

you’ll be the talk of orlais!

The Past And Present Of Dragon Age 4

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:03:37 -0400

The Past And Present Of Dragon Age 4:

felassan:

felassan:

Jason Schreier’s anticipated Kotaku article on Dragon Age 4 has dropped.

A recommended read.

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