A short list of extremely-specific lesser-known mythical monster tropes which I didn’t expect to be super widespread:

1.  Ogres which, when slain, spawn huge amounts of mosquitoes out of their bodies.

2.  Humanoid horrors that lurk at the tops of cliffs and kick passerbies down off of the ledge so that their mates and/or offspring can kill them.

3.  Depraved ex-human cannibals for whom one of their feet has rotten away into a spike of bone which they then stab people with.

4.  Creatures which resemble pitiful old men and beg people to carry them but their legs are actually tentacle-like “straps” which they use to kill or enslave their victims.

5.  Hairy ogres with axe-heads sticking out of their chests.

6.  Grotesque female humanoids with enormous, pendulous breasts, one of which they throw over their shoulder.  (That last detail specifically shows up more times than you would think possible.)

7.  Flying detachable heads.  Organs hanging down frequent but optional.

8.  The “animal that cannot lie down,” i.e. a monster without joints in its limbs that, you guessed it, cannot lie down and has to lean on things.

10.  So.  Many.  Backwards.  Feet.  Usually as a means of making trackers think they went in the opposite direction.

11.  Swallowers.  I.e., monsters that swallow huge amounts of victims but keep them inside in their stomachs before spitting them out when slain.  Most famously present in Sub-Saharan Africa, but basically everywhere.

12.  Bisected humanoids.  Creatures with only half a physical body, cut vertically.

13.  Headless monsters with faces on their chests.

14.  Natal revenants.  The undead remains of women who die in childbirth, usually as some sort of ghostly Succubus.

15.  Female creatures with hollow backs, the main giveaway of their supernatural nature.

16.  Living meteor demons that spread disease.

17.  Chicken-snake hybrids.

18.  Rattite-snake hybrids.

19.  Parrot-snake hybrids.

20.  Monsters that fly around in the atmosphere, and if you look at them you die.  (Related to number 16.)

21.  In arid regions, RAINBOW TASTE YOU.  (Because it signals the end of much-needed rain and is therefore seen in a negative light and personified as something malicious.  

22.  Owl demons!  Tend to be witchy/hag-like.

23.  Succubi whose only giveaway of their monstrousness is a single hooved foot.

24.  People cursed into becoming weird donkey-things.

25.  River blockers.  Monsters who block off water supplies in order to cause droughts, and must be slain for that reason.

26.  Monsters who inflict some kind of seemingly unsurvivable body horror on you, before resurrecting you long enough to go home at which point you promptly die for reals this time.

And many, many, more, but I’m tired right now.  Might update later.

I recognize all but a couple of these, but would still want specific examples for all of them

Kaputar slug (Triboniophorus sp. nov. ‘Kaputar’)

Photo by n.weigner

This is the slug that lives in a lush forest on top of a plateau in the middle of barren desert. It's such an isolated inaccessible forest that it's full of species found nowhere else, just like an island in the ocean. People who have been there talk about the slugs being more intensely pink in person than can actually be captured in any photo or video and how thousands of them climb the trees every morning at once.

Don’t mind me just shooting green aura into your eyes as you read this auaaauhuaaaaaaaaaaauauauuauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauaaaauaauuuuuuuuuuuuuauuuuuuuauauauaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

don’t fucking heal me

Oh god you wish this green shit healed

The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972 (via tenitchyfingers)

Oh “self contained sexuality” makes a lot more sense of it to me than just “asexual.” It still threw me for a loop sometimes that some ace people I know can seem like super horndog but still not necessarily need the real thing to enjoy life. I guess it’s because “horny” and “sex drive” are really not the same thing at all and don’t automatically come together.

(This is content for Humans-B-Gone!, an animated sci-fi series about a giant praying mantis who works in pest control--those pests including humans. Watch it on YouTube here: https://youtube.com/c/humansbgone )

Pictured: Tricularia in orbit over Angion.

Angion is an Earth-like planet, orbiting a single sun on a cycle only slightly longer than Earth's. The surface is uninhabitable to most lifeforms, apart from radiotrophic fungi and bacteria.

Tricularia is the site of our story, a giant mutant bladderwort growing out of Angion. An actual bladderwort is a carnivorous plant, and the bladders trap and digest unfortunate little animals that bump into them, such as water fleas. Tricularia, however, works as a sort of massive organic space station.

Each bladder (each about the size of a small country) contains and tightly controls a unique ecosystem, from forests miles deep to jeweled glass deserts, and even more bizarre. There are 86 bladders (not counting sub-bladder systems) spread out in orbit around the planet, with more bladders growing still. All minerals must be pumped up by Tricularia from the planet below. As a result, the only soil is humus, the place isn't old enough for most rocks, and most abiotic substances are very rare.

Because of the small size of the bladders, there is no gravity (or at least, so little gravity as to be virtually nil) apart from the gravity-like effects of the Unknown Nature. If not for the bladder walls, all oxygen would escape into space! The bladders also circulate air, creating wind currents by "breathing."

On the bladders live not only macrovolutes, but such lifeforms as forest octopuses, huge flying microbes, weasels with prehensile organs…and of course, human beings.

I've had Japanese curry in the cupboard for like a year and a half telling myself every so often I should make some soon, finally pulled it out to make it tonight and its "sell by" date is literally in a couple hours from now

I mean it'd still be good LONG after that but what were the fucking odds

I'm gonna reblog this post on it's anniversary every year from now on

"Expired Curry Day," or something

Well, not really expired; the sell by dates on food merely indicate the date by which they're guaranteed to be freshest. For shelf stable foods like this, the date is a rough estimate of when they may begin to lose some flavor. You can still safely eat them for sometimes months or even years, depending on the type of food!

This is all just in theory though, because those dates aren't really determined by any science either; just a broad guess

Anyway people asked what I put in curry; I boil tiny bite size potatoes and sliced carrots while I pan fry onions and dark meat chicken. I also put in a lot of honey, and topped the curry with pickled daikon radish

Seen a post where ARAs are upset that a lion died of old age in a very respectable, accredited zoo because “he should have been free!!!″ Yet these same ARAs will praise people having pet foxes because “at least they get to live a long life in captivity”. 

ARA logic makes no sense

This is what I find goofiest about ARAs myself, they think an animal has the same concept of "freedom" that we do. A penguin in a zoo or a cow in a pasture or a stingray at an aquarium aren't longing for adventure on the outside, they're wouldn't be writing novels and learning to skydive and having a fling in paris if they were only "free." At most they're wondering if the extra good food is being hidden from them. Let them out and they'll have all the same concerns they did behind the fence, only now they'll get way more parasites.

…minnie is what

Source: @_jessavi

Wexler Films, Science of Light, 1960′s

So apparently i had to find out by accident today that stickbug eggs look like tiny pots and they hatch out by opening the lids and crawling out

I had this same question myself and I regret to inform you that the answer is yes it is

heres a video of a nymph hatching as proof, no clue how they fit in there like that, my hypothesis is hammerspace eggs.

They fit because an insect only hardens once it's exposed to air. Inside the egg it was crumpled up like a deflated balloon :)

One of these things is not like the other…

Ever stare at a silvery school of fish and notice one that looks different than the rest? Schooling fishes, such as anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and even tuna, often group together by size rather than strictly species. When a school of anchovies was added to the Kelp Forest years ago, a similarly sized jack mackerel slipped in with the bunch. Over time, it far outgrew its travel mates and has looked for other fish to spend time with; today, you might spot it hanging around the halfmoons. Next time you visit or watch the Kelp Forest Cam, take a peek and see if you can spot the elusive jack mackerel!