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honeyglot · 2 years

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tell me your groupchat names

#mine are as follows:#The Marsh #my chemical meltdown #(friend’s name) defense squad #✨homo hotties✨🧚#no bussy green gang 💚#The Fellowship #get your shongles shit today #diary

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fiftytwotwentytwo · 2 years

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Where The Crawdads Sing

Author: Delia Owens

Fiction

Page Count: 374

How Did I Come Across This Book?:

A recent purchase from the store - Blind read.

Review:

I may be a simpleton, but I thought this book was good. It kept me very engaged - even though I predicted a major plot point of the book.

The book had slight vibes from a multitude of other genres - some dashes of romance, mystery, suspense, (court room) drama. It gave me some To Kill A Mockingbird (Movie) and The Judge (Movie) feels.

It's odd how much I love every character even though they were highly underdeveloped. I did find myself wishing the Author would explore or share more about her side characters, but I was still satisfied with the details that were provided.

The transformation/growth of the Protagonist after second thought is absolutely unbelievable to the point it should ruin the story, but somehow I was able to suspend disbelief and become enraptured with the story and I chalk it all up to Delia Owens' writing. I found our protagonist to be a strong, independent, inspiring individual dispite wild absurdities.

Probably the standout character of all was the setting/scenery of The Marsh. The author easily painted a backdrop for the entire story.

I also enjoyed her style of writing, pacing, and her prose - at times it was prim and proper at others it was broken - there seemed to be bouts of an unreliable narrator - the back-and-forthness and nonlinear story was refreshing.

With all that said the one thing I did not enjoy was the moments of romance - just reading those scenes alone with no context would have been fine - I would even say they were tame compared to some of the last books I read - but the thing that made me shudder (when you have the full text) was all the moments leading up to the romance felt like moments of grooming a young, innocent, naive individual. There was only two instances of sexual tension/acts: one which was obviously triggering and reeked of predictable disgust and the other which I believe the Author designed to be sweet and innocent, but still came off as quasi creepy/predatory - again, with the full context leading up to the scene. One highlight of those scenes was they were concise and the author did not dwell heavily in those moments - a quick in and out.

Overall, I found this to be a nice late spring/early summer read.

Personal Rating: 6.5/10

Yearly Book Total: 21

Total Page Count: 7,016 pages

#book club #52 in 22 #books #reading #page count #good reads #novel #book review #fiction #Where The Crawdads Sing #delia owens #Historical Fiction #The Marsh #Marsh Girl #Courtroom Drama

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jasonsutekh · 19 days

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The Marsh (2006)

A young woman must solve a supernatural mystery relating to the home she is using for her holiday and the marsh surrounding it.

All of the technical aspects hold up well enough for the horror elements to be entertaining. The setting is useful at night and marshes are a staple of the genre, the acting is all competent and gives some credence to the important back story, and the effects were varied enough to give the threat some range.

There weren’t, however, many aspects to elevate the movie from basic horror tropes and jump scares. The power the spirits have changes wildly, one scene they’re able to alter multiple people’s perceptions entirely or take full control of a room to commit wholesale murder, then they’re easy to escape from by running into the next room.

Some parts of the mystery are interesting to see unfold and there’s a little twist near the end. The action is consistent and there’s little messing around trying to convince people from the town since the ghosts are powerful enough to affect so much and don’t seem to be trying to hide themselves.

The overall execution of the mystery isn’t entirely satisfying, for one thing we have to be told basically all of it before we really know which ghost to route for and lending suspicion to some adult characters very early softened the impact of the ending. The scarecrow seemed like it was going to have a much larger part to play considering how much emphasis it got early on.

3/10 -This one’s bad but it’s got some good in it, just there-

#Film #Review #The Marsh #2006 #Horror #Supernatural #Ghosts #JasonSutekh

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elainiisms · 4 months

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female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls

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babythegod · 6 months

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#magical moments #@#the marsh #🌿🌱🌾#✨#sunset #🌞#vs #moonrise #🌝#btw #I braided the tresses

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buttl0rd · 5 months

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your epic!! *hands you my beloved son*

take good care of him

#d-d-dads...........#and their tiny boys #they are just little gummies #itty bitty freaks #south park #stan marsh #randy marsh #kenny mccormick #stuart mccormick #kyle broflovski #gerald broflovski #eric cartman #buttf(art)

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eto-kesha · 4 months

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some tsot doodles!

#my art #south park #the stick of truth #kenny mccormick #sp kenny #eric cartman #sp eric #kyle broflovski #sp kyle #stan marsh #sp stan #sp henrietta #henrietta biggle

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expressions-of-nature · 3 months

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Lake Cerknica, Slovenia by happy.apple

#fog #marsh #lake #plants #nature #landscape #mist #morning #flowers #slovenia #travel #outdoors #photography #curators on tumblr #uploads

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0harpies · 6 months

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DogHunt pt.5?! Kyle asks!

(SORRY FOR THE WAIT LOL)

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(Writing credit: @sophszzz)

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reasonsforhope · 3 months

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"Many people know about the Yellowstone wolf miracle. After wolves were reintroduced to the national park in the mid-1990s, streamside bushes that had been grazed to stubble by out-of-control elk populations started bouncing back. Streambank erosion decreased. Creatures such as songbirds that favor greenery along creeks returned. Nearby aspens flourished.

While there is debate about how much of this stemmed from the wolves shrinking the elk population and how much was a subtle shift in elk behavior, the overall change was dramatic. People were captivated by the idea that a single charismatic predator’s return could ripple through an entire ecosystem. The result was trumpeted in publications such as National Geographic.

But have you heard about the sea otters and the salt marshes? Probably not.

It turns out these sleek coastal mammals, hunted nearly to extinction for their plush pelts, can play a wolf-like role in rapidly disappearing salt marshes, according to new research. The findings highlight the transformative power of a top predator, and the potential ecosystem benefits from their return.

“It begs the question: In how many other ecosystems worldwide could the reintroduction of a former top predator yield similar benefits?” said Brian Silliman, a Duke University ecologist involved in the research.

The work focused on Elk Slough, a tidal estuary at the edge of California’s Monterey Bay. The salt marsh lining the slough’s banks has been shrinking for decades. Between 1956 and 2003, the area lost 50% of its salt marshes.

Such tidal marshes are critical to keeping shorelines from eroding into the sea, and they are in decline around the world. The damage is often blamed on a combination of human’s altering coastal water flows, rising seas and nutrient pollution that weakens the roots of marsh plants.

But in Elk Slough, a return of sea otters hinted that their earlier disappearance might have been a factor as well. As many as 300,000 sea otters once swam in the coastal waters of western North America, from Baja California north to the Aleutian Islands. But a fur trade begun by Europeans in the 1700s nearly wiped out the animals, reducing their numbers to just a few thousand by the early 1900s. Southern sea otters, which lived on the California coast, were thought to be extinct until a handful were found in the early 1900s.

In the late 1900s, conservation organizations and government agencies embarked on an effort to revive the southern sea otters, which remain protected under the Endangered Species Act. In Monterey Bay, the Monterey Bay Aquarium selected Elk Slough as a prime place to release orphaned young sea otters taken in by the aquarium.

As the otter numbers grew, the dynamics within the salt marsh changed. Between 2008 and 2018, erosion of tidal creeks in the estuary fell by around 70% as otter numbers recovered from just 11 animals to nearly 120 following a population crash tied to an intense El Niño climate cycle.

While suggestive, those results are hardly bulletproof evidence of a link between otters and erosion. Nor does it explain how that might work.

To get a more detailed picture, the researchers visited 5 small tidal creeks feeding into the main slough. At each one, they enclosed some of the marsh with fencing to keep out otters, while other spots were left open. Over three years, they monitored the diverging fates of the different patches.

The results showed that otter presence made a dramatic difference in the condition of the marsh. They also helped illuminate why this was happening. It comes down to the otters’ appetite for small burrowing crabs that live in the marsh.

Adult otters need to eat around 25% of their body weight every day to endure the cold Pacific Ocean waters, the equivalent of 20 to 25 pounds. And crabs are one of their favorite meals. After three years, crab densities were 68% higher in fenced areas beyond the reach of otters. The number of crab burrows was also higher. At the same time, marsh grasses inside the fences fared worse, with 48% less mass of leaves and stems and 15% less root mass, a critical feature for capturing sediment that could otherwise wash away, the scientists reported in late January in Nature.

The results point to the crabs as a culprit in the decline of the marshes, as they excavate their holes and feed on the plant roots. It also shows the returning otters’ potential as a marsh savior, even in the face of rising sea levels and continued pollution. In tidal creeks with high numbers of otters, creek erosion was just 5 centimeters per year, 69% lower than in creeks with fewer otters and a far cry from earlier erosion of as much as 30 centimeters per year.

“The return of the sea otters didn’t reverse the losses, but it did slow them to a point that these systems could restabilize despite all the other pressures they are subject to,” said Brent Hughes, a biology professor at Sonoma State University and former postdoctoral researcher in Silliman’s Duke lab.

The findings raise the question of whether other coastal ecosystems might benefit from a return of top predators. The scientists note that a number of these places were once filled with such toothy creatures as bears, crocodiles, sharks, wolves, lions and dolphins. Sea otters are still largely absent along much of the West Coast.

As people wrestle to hold back the seas and revive their ailing coasts, a predator revival could offer relatively cheap and effective assistance. “It would cost millions of dollars for humans to rebuild these creek banks and restore these marshes,” Silliman said of Elk Slough. “The sea otters are stabilizing them for free in exchange for an all-you-can-eat crab feast.”"

-via Anthropocene Magazine, February 7, 2024