the music of the spheres

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Teresa. 30s, Portuguese, white, queer, geeky, knitter. She/they.
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Went to a masquerade ball and danced with a charming butch, but she left hurriedly at midnight, muttering excuses about waking up early to build a deck. I've been searching the lands for her ever since with this massive carabiner she dropped...

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my cat: purrs loudly

me (derisively): you are clearly in the pocket of Big Purr

my cat: purrs louder

me (gently kissing the top of her head): you fool. you absolute shill and promulgator of propaganda. get loved, idiot.

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Dinocephalosaurus, a strange, viviparous reptile from the Triassic, gives live birth in the shallows.

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azhdarcho

oh he’s just a little guy

It was actually quite a bit bigger than that comparison shows! At least 6 meters in length, although a lot of that is neck.

It’s great because here you see the two strategies for making a long neck: add more bones or make your bones tubes

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guildenstern

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

i don't even know who took this pic. the only person who claims to know the photographer was this person who uploaded it to reddit without naming them. it just adds to the mystery of it

I know this photo!

This is a picture Nick Martino took outside a waffle house in Tennessee in 2017. It's still up on his Instagram page.

Finally a good fucking source

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aye-of-newt

guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

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berenshand

not me having started ancillary mercy earlier so the first fricking thing i read in 2022 was translator zeiat unhinging her jaw and swallowing an oyster whole