hey sorry i didnt text you back for 2 weeks i just became completely jaded with the entire human experience. anyways whats up
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.
people are saying do it scared, but you also gotta do it alone. you'll miss out on so much you want to do if you wait til someone will do it with you. do it scared and do it alone.
YES I’ve been chased and hissed at by a Canada goose but it doesn’t make me hate them guess I’m just built different
- welcome to our native bee garden! over there you can see leafcutter bees slicing leaves to line their nests, and that’s a carpenter bee hard at work chewing a tunnel for her larvae!
- oh, what’s that little green one?
- that’s a swear bee!
- don’t you mean sweat bee?
[Bee]: fuck!
I'm a sad person not because anything is wrong. but because as a child I saw an alligator gar at the aquarium and experienced a joy so profound it permanently blew out my dopamine receptors and I've been incapable of happiness since
profoundly jealous of every solitary burrowing invertebrate that can just chill in a hole alone for its entire lifespan. I try my best to do the same but unfortunately belong to a highly social species
Vultures are holy creatures.
Tending the dead.
Bowing low.
Bared head.
Whispers to cold flesh,
“Your old name is not your king.
I rename you ‘Everything.’”
@emptyshellofanillusionwizard
leopard seals are my favorite seal species they're so fucking weird looking i love them
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