hi new people, here’s some mess i never posted on twit for the occasion
oh beautiful planet...oh planet of Creatures...oh planet of Life...
Gets on iNaturalist
Searches for insects
Sorts by faves
Starts crying because life on Earth is so much more wondrous than the mortal human mind has the capacity to hold or imagine
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy swagful symmetry?
there are thousands of bugs this cool and we haven't even found them all...
More stills from The Sandman season two. This seems to be a flashback scene to Ancient Greece and a conversation between Morpheus and his son Orpheus. If I remember my Greek mythology correctly things don’t end well for young Orpheus.
I have just found out that, like leopards, servals can also be born black.
Look at this beautiful baby
Melanistic Serval, Leptailurus serval ninjatus...
Oh it’s been WAY too long since we had some good melanism!
alright so during into the spider-verse's introduction to peter b. parker, we see his wedding, and he stomps on the wine glass right? this is a jewish wedding tradition, which makes this version of peter parker jewish (further confirmed in interviews -- however, i believe this is enough by itself). it's a nice nod to the jewish roots of the character.
we get to see a bunch of peter parkers throughout the spider-verse films, and none of them have any explicit religious associations like peter b. parker. except for one!
here we have gwen stacy's peter parker and aunt may, from earth-65, saying grace over a meal. from my understanding, this is generally a christian practice -- in judaism, we prefer to say short prayers before eating, and save the long, in-depth ones for afterwards. so to me, this was a clear example of the character being coded as christian. i was a little disappointed that they didn't make peter parker jewish here too, but since across the spider-verse discusses variants and the differences between instances of the same person between different universes, i interpreted this as a continued commentary on peter parker's ethnicity -- although he was initially jewish-coded and one of his two creators, stan lee, is jewish, this is often erased, especially in more modern interpretations of the character.
and then i remembered that this peter parker also literally turns into the lizard.
and y'know what? good call on that one guys.
