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what’s wrong with les mis

victor hugo failed in his duty to visit a psychic before writing it who would have warned him that 150 years in the future his decision to include nine shippable twinks as minor characters in his magnum opus would lead to the development of one of the most insufferable fandoms of the twenty first century

#erik you are correct this is the best post on this website #and I am not immune to the shippable twinks #happy barricade day to all my annoying gay revolutionaries #les miserables

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#WHAT A DUMB BABY #fuzzy animals #dawww

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Reblogs for sample size are greatly appreciated ❤️

#failed to start color of magic lmao #then read all the tiffany aching books #have read the first two of the guards series and also equal rites #I will probably devour the rest of the guards books as soon as I get my hands on them but I’m trying to find them all used #and… don’t actually stop in book shops terribly often. note to self look in ny!!!!

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I basically never repost art but I wanted to share last year's queer-coded cicada piece again in honor of They're Here

This design is still up on my RB for those interested!

[ID copied from alt: An adult cicada, cicada nymph, and cicada egg drawn in shiny gold lineart against a dark background. Text between them reads, "we have been here all along." End ID.]

#omg obsessed w this jack #also just generally obsessed with thinking about cicada larvae. 17 years gnawing on roots in the cool dark earth #Nidhöggr-coded of them #biology #art

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Reblog this to give The Librarian a banana*

*very, very carefully

#don’t see why I need to be careful. I’m giving him a banana! I have nothing to fear! #discworld

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The Lion King: It is impossible to CGI photorealistic lions who can also emote!

Chronicles of Narnia:

#amusing things #narnia

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Feel free to specify in the tags :) if the animal is one that needs company assume you'd have multiple

#I want ratties!!!!! #I’d love to have chickens if I ever have the appropriate space for them

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gimli loves galadriel... yes true but !!!! have you ever heard a gay man of a certain age talk about madonna

#you’re so right bestie #The Lord of the Rings

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#amusing things #biology #what is the corresponding inclusive fitness theory look like

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Reeve Carney (with Eva Noblezada) leaving the Hadestown stage for the final time [x]

#I've watched this three times now so I should probably reblog it huh #hadestown #musical theatre

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“If all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable, and if, as disembodied spirits, we could then investigate it, we should find its mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes, and oceans represented by a film of nematodes. The location of towns would be decipherable, since for every massing of human beings would be a corresponding massing of certain nematodes. Trees would still stand in ghostly rows representing our streets and highways. The location of the various plants and animals would still be decipherable, and, had we sufficient knowledge, in many cases even their species could be determined by an examination of their erstwhile nematode parasites.”

–N. A. Cobb describing his idea for a really cool Skyrim mod in the 1914 Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture

#it fucks me up that there are worms in all the plants #there are allowed to be worms in all the animals. this is normal. worms in all the plants is weird tho! #biology

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Foggy early morning in the North Woods of Minnesota

Taken February 2024

#it was SUCH good and also somewhat terrifying fog! #nature photography #happy things

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I love the concept of russingon where Fingon is being like "hi guys look at my husband he's a pethetic wet man I love him so much he's my pathetic little meow meow he's so soft and cute and imperfect ❤️🥰 He's so babygirl you'll love him he's so handsome and hot and strong 😳😻😘 I rescue him all the time he's my princess bride 🥰"And then the camero zomes in a white ginger lanky nine feet tall dude who's drenched in orc blood, has a haunted look in his face and stares at you with the light of the trees shining through his grey eyes. Like sure man whatever

#its a p good shitpost #The Silmarillion #russingon

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ADHD testing guy at my verbal comprehension results: did you every consider pursuing a literature PhD instead?

ADHD testing guy at my working memory results: uhh do you have to do much mental math as a biologist?

#for the record no I do not #I'm actually fine at mental math as long as I only need to remember 1 thing at at time! that would be the working memory part though huh #anyway we get the report next week so we'll see but its looking like I miiiiight in fact have adhd lmao #he also immediately asked about my SAT and I had to tell him I got a perfect score on the reading section (cringe) #personal

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they're always bringing experts or activists on the news to agitate about porn and there's a standard script for this that's like "I think sex education is important, I'm not anti-sex, but so much of this porn is violent and misogynistic if not outright illegal, and it's far too accessible to our children"

I want to see someone finally be brave enough to say that the government should just make its own porn for teenagers that accords with community values, so they don't have to go to these shady places to get it. I think the government porn would probably be pretty bad but I would be so eager to hear about the process of designing it. there would be so many stakeholders and consultations. in canada it would have to be bilingual

#amusing things #canada

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she jack my pine (P. banksiana) till my serotinous cone's sealing resin melts at 50°C (122°F) allowing my seeds to disperse and colonize shortly following a stand-clearing fire (Larsen & MacDonald 1998).

#voyeuristically appreciated by our habitat specialist (Kirtland’s Warbler Setphaga kirtlandi) #biology

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a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod

#this is a very good reason yes #grad school #me #birds #tbh tho the biggest reason I keep studying birds is I know a lot about them #learning a whole new organismal biology well enough to actually do it justice in research is so much work