This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
Avengers AU - If Tony was Peter’s biological father
Tony is super protective of his son. And Peter, inspired by his dad, becomes Spiderman anyway (his dad and his Uncle Rhodey figure him out in a second though).
Gouldian Finch chicks are born with phosphorescent beads around their mouths which glow in the dark. This helps their parent’s to feed them in the pitch black.
Top 10 Dinosaur Features That Will Never Fossilize
Birds That Are Better At Accentuating Their Best Features Than I Am
No, not just for feeding in the dark, but also a defense against
Brood parasites
One of my favorite evolutionary developments! Other species of birds will lay eggs in finch nests, leaving the finches to do extra work raising their young.
This has led to an evolutionary arms race, which has led to extreme gape coloration.
Among the most successful brood parasites is the cowbird. Like most brood parasites, the cowbird chick is larger, has a larger gape and is more likely to get more food than it’s nestmates.
But as you can see, the gape of the cowbird is a slightly different color than the other chicks’. It has a red gap and white rictal flanges.
This difference spurs the evolutionary pressure for parents to see color and fine patterns, so they can select for their chicks when feeding.
Not to be outdone, brood parasites then felt the selective pressure to more closely mimick the nestlings, and the race was ON.
We have such stunning likenesses as the pin-tailed wydah (parasite, left) and the common waxbill (right).
Gouldian finches are among the champions. (The adults are quite stunning, btw)
These guys are parasitized by cuckoos, also champions in the game.
Gouldian finches are cavity dwellers, so their chicks hang out in the dark most of the time.
Birds That Are Better At Disguising Themselves As Acceptable Than I Am
Let’s all appreciate this cute moment between Don and Mikey. It’s so cute when Mikey does something stupid and his brothers just… follow him. Bros being bros (TMNT 2003 Season 4 Episode 26)
Millennials are ruining corrupt corporate capitalism by caring about animals
Because we do research on branding and see which don’t poison or kill our pets 🙄🙄🙄🙄 but I guess the only killing that matters is another industry
Most of these foods contain grains and sugar which are bad for carnivores. Wet food is often made of spoiled or mechanically reclaimed meat. MRM is bad for humans so why feed it to your dog?
For the record, she actually abandoned the movement BEFORE they all got whooping cough, but abandoned it too late. There’d been a breakout of measles in her area that caused her to reassess, and she and her doctor had already drafted and started a catch-up vaccination schedule, but her kids caught whooping cough just before it could be started. Then she wrote a blog post for The Scientific Parent explaining how she and her husband had come to wrong decisions in the first place, how they changed their mind, the consequences they suffered as a result, and asking other parents to please vaccinate their kids. And now she’s an activist for destroying the misinformation of anti-vaxxers, and reaching out to anti-vaxxers because she’s understands their fears but knows their kids deserve better.
She was trying to the best for her kids and just didn’t know how to interpret the validity of information or its sources, an actual skill that can be actually difficult and that is under-taught and a necessary first step to being able to trust vaccination research, so chose no action over taking an action she wasn’t sure of. She kept looking into it with family and friends and even eventually came to the right conclusion before her kids became sick, but it was still too late.
Honestly it was pretty brave of her to publicly admit she was wrong. She could have just quietly vaccinated her kids and not become a national news story, but instead she spoke out, even saying “I’m writing this from quarantine, the irony of which isn’t lost on me.” and also “I am not looking forward to any gloating or shame as this ‘defection’ from the antivaxx camp goes public, but, this isn’t a popularity contest. Right now my family is living the consequences of misinformation and fear. I understand that families in our community may be mad at us for putting their kids at risk.”
She understood the consequences and still put herself and her story out there.
You know what, it does take a big person to admit they were wrong so publicly and work to undo the harm. I believe I made fun of her in the past, but timemachineyeah changed my mind.
paintedlandscape asked: Wait, wait wait. What is this intriguing Publish to AO3 Google Doc? I write all my stuff in Google Drive, but I agonize through fixing the formatting when I paste it from there into AO3. Have I been missing something magical?
THIS IS THE BEST DOCUMENT IN ALL OF HISTORY. Basically, it has a script in it that has a “Post to AO3″ option and it will go in and fill in ALL the HTML you need - italics, bold, paragraph breaks, you name it!
It has directions in it for how to use it, but it’s real simple. You just always chose “Make a Copy” when you start writing to make a new document that you can then re-name. Change the language to American English (or whatever language you use) and type away. Then right before you post, click the button, get all the code in there, copy, paste, AND POST.
It is literally so, so glorious and I want to tell everyone.
(Also, the AO3 Cool FAQ page has some other cool stuff too!)
Toxic for rabbits:
Anise, Clove, Oregano, Tea Tree, Wintergreen
Safe for rabbits:
Lavender, lemon, orange, fennel, eucalyptus and peppermint, all should be diluted with water!
why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman? do y’all know who controlled the sun? apollo. icarus is gay as fuck, y’all.
Sometimes it was helios, not Apollo. Icarus was still gay as fuck
“Icarus we just escaped prison don’t ruin it by flying too close to the sun”
[Icarus already fucking launching himself across the sky for the sake of some godly dick]
woops
Guy getting himself killed to get some godly dick is propably the most Greek thing to ever happen in mythology
I showed my friend this and he goes “Icarus want dat Dickarus
