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@star-driver

life through the eyes of a galactic pretty boy. formerly stereotypecaster, formerly sir-raichu, formerly swampert. now apprivoising! P.S. i also help run the cantroblog and joseph ducreux tumblrs.

Today I learned that my husband keeps a notes app on his phone that has a list of all of my favorite things including but not limited to flower, ice cream, and cocktail and I don’t know how I feel about it 😂

Oh listen I know this is very very sweet because again Husband is rocks for brain bubble man. It is hilarious to me because the list has things like

“Favorite ice cream: butter pecan. I married a little old lady.”

“Favorite Ben and Jerry’s (this is different then regular ice cream) Phish Food. Has no idea who Phish is just thinks the chocolate fish are neat”

And I feel exposed.

“Favorite flower: orchid or lily, but she can have neither because our cats are stupid demon babies spat out from hell who will eat them and perish. She would prefer chicken nuggets anyways.”

“Favorite donut: old fashioned, for breaking in half and sharing with with the dog.”

“Favorite coffee: iced. Do not offer hot coffee under any circumstance. The only hot beverage allowed is hot coco and the yearly white chocolate peppermint mocha”

Okay I don’t need to be called out like this.

the mortifying ordeal of being married.

Stop it this is hilarious

The dedication it must've taken to watch and analyse 11h only to end up with this

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Not to act all high and mighty but if someone kept trying to trick me into taking my meds by hiding it in a spoonful of peanut butter I wouldn't really for it more than like 3 or 4 times maximum

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CHEESE?

*sniffsniffsniffsniffsniffsniffsnffsniff*

CHEESE?

Colleague: hey, what’s up with Nov 5th and Supernatural? seeing lots of chatter about it and I wasn’t here last year so any insights you have would be appreciated!

Me: okay so there is way too much context for this to type out in slack. have a minute to have a quick meeting so I can fill you in?

Colleague: sure, that would be great!

One thing I love about Tumblr compared with other social media is how absurdly obsessed everyone around here is with random anniversaries. Something interesting happens on Tumblr? Someone’s make a post that goes viral? There is a funny discussion in the comments? Tumblr has a big outage? We have a new Tumblrversary! The coming years people will massively reblog stuff from that day wishing everyone else a happy <random> August 27th</random>.

On SLACK you did this on your WORK CHANNEL conceivably at WORK?????

i work at [tumblr] lol

Tumblr still has STAFF??????

How did you say tumblr like that

You put it in brackets! Like [ tumblr ] without the spaces in between the text and brackets!

Cates out here sharing the 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖇𝖎𝖉𝖉𝖊𝖓 [tumblr] 𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖊 for us all.

This post gave me more information about Tumblr than any of the official Tumblr staff posts from the past decade.

Do they not have skulls!? Why is it mushy there!?!? @bunjywunjy

well of course beluga has a skull!! that's just not where it is.

see, you wouldn't necessarily pick up on this, but beluga skulls (and most cetacean skulls in general) are pretty much

flat...

so what's going on up there? well, most of the beluga's head is taken up by soft tissue and a large organ called the melon, which is basically a big ol waterballoon of semiliquid fat!

(boob. it's a head boob.)

this organ is found in every toothed whale and dolphin species on the planet and it's INCREDIBLY important, because the melon is what lets them echolocate!

the actual sound-producing organ is inside their nasal passage of all places, which sits up behind there, but the melon is what's actually used to fine-tune the soundwaves into the laser-accurate pinpoints that dolphins and toothed whales are so famous for.

tldr: without their head boob, belugas and their relatives would be literally flying blind!

does slapping the melon like that hurt it ? like does it affect how it works or anything

@weirdgirlwambsgans @vampire-juicebox you guys are in luck bc it does not! Belugas will squish their melons voluntarily against things like rocks and glass. Think of it like when you squish your butt (but at the same time not, bc they have no nerve endings beyond the skin) they even voluntarily let humans play with it!

This is a strong creature, if that hurt or bothered it, you would know

There are many benefits to being a marine biologist

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maybe i am too old for tiktok

My son once came back from a record shop visit with his uncle and with wide eyes and excited smile presented me with a cassette tape. “Look what I found!” As though he’d unearthed ancient pottery at a dig sight.

I love it. I love when my kids discover something that I take for granted. I hear songs with new ears because they are in a state of wonder. My son played me “Paint it Black” the other day, I’m like yeah Rolling Stones so what? And then I see his face and that LOOK like he just discovered sunsets and he’s like yeah but listen to this part, listen to the guitar right here - and I hear a song anew. Like watching a puppy see a bird for the first time, and oh oh right yeah birds are fucking amazing, forgot about that.

#finally a comment that doesn’t have disdain for kids discovering old things #isn’t it cool that someone didn’t know Queen and they got to hear it for the first time? #isn’t it cool to witness that excitement?

I think this is largely why “react” channels on YouTube have become so popular. Watching someone experience something you love for the first time is exciting. Rediscovering that thing through their eyes is also exciting. 

Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats

IT GETS BETTER

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In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there’s people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.

i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.

Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn

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May I present my 4 year old bastard insisting on wearing my very buoyant thermometer

DOUG DIMMADOME??;?