Do you sometimes have this urge to go on an epic adventure that will completely change you as a person? Do you dream about pirate ships, highest mountains and deepest woods full of secrets, brave people seemingly not from this world? I want to discover the world so much that it almost hurts. Not just the world, but the magic in it. God, sometimes I just want to see the magic. I hope there is some of it left.
That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.
These
are more genetically compatible than These
and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues
The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.
I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate.
This
And this
Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish
Which is absolutely fuckin wild.
Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.
these
are genetically closer than these
and…
these
are genetically closer than these
and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…
these
are more genetically similar than these
COOL.
Scooby's lineage goes back to the age of myth,
His oldest known ancestor, Enki Doo, even co-stars in the first known work of fiction
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aita for not telling my husband something from a nda enforced by death of me and my loved ones? it is the same employer that made *him* also sign contract enforced by death
i (50's M) met my husband (also 50's M) originally when we were in our late 20's or so. kinda a meet cute situation. we were both in this science facility somewhere in the middle of nowhere new mexico. he ended up killing me, i got offered a deal, executed the deal, then i waited for him in albuquerque when he got out of the hospital (and also met our other husband, also 50s M) long story short the world went to shit and we ended up hunkering down on some dinky container ship for 20 years. we ended up adopting a few kids.
flash forward to a few days ago, one of our kids found something in a fishing net, and i feel he need to know, he yelled at us to get out. then a few minutes later we were told we had to go on land (really risky) to hunt some guy down. we go on a wild goose chase for a day or two, then our mutual boss asked me to show my husband the location of some meeting. i thought he died (our boss implied he would) and i didn't want to leave our other husband nor our kids to fend for themselves so i went home. but he survived and now hes pissed at me
edit: i can't legally cant tell you what the nda is, its an nda, but it *was* related to my husband
hey girl are you a boy. would you like to be
oh my god this is literally just the plot of ouran high school host club isn't it
Apparently neopets not only managed to ditch the NFT bros, but with the closure of the Jumpstart brand weeks ago, neopets is now completely independent for the first time since the early 2000′s, got millions in a new investment deal and are currently installing a flash simulator so that all their games and animations work again.
and that quirked up white boy… was your father
I know Dracula is the bad guy of Castlevania and all, but if some zealous Christians showed up at my home and horribly murdered my wife because she did medicine too good I too would probably have gone absolutely fucking feral
He gave them a year and fair warning
Bitches be like ‘I’m so tired and sleepy’ and then stay up doing hyperfixtation shit for the next 5 hours
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I have had the honor of working on two different comics projects with Don Hertzfeldt. But this is the story of my first interaction with the man.
Somebody made a Steam game where you can really play the fake games from those mobile game ads
it was the katamari devs btw
that little squirrel boy is about to get it
get what
ID. OP image is a photo of someone reading two books at once. Visible is the outer cover of the Bible, which is edited to have the cover for "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. Propped up inside the book is a Minecraft manual which is much bigger than the other book and clearly visible.
Reblog image is screenshotted tags reading, "this is just a normal part of house of leaves. if youre reading it right." End ID.
"it's over 9000" is gonna make a major resurgence in the current lingo in a few days. or maybe it won't. but you have no way of proving me wrong