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I have Tumblr.... Wow, almost forgot

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The spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi) is a species of heteroconger belonging to the family Congridae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific.

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White-faced Saki monkey (Pithecia pithecia).

male

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Please can I have an overdressed fish?

There’s no reason for her to be doing all that

You get a Ryukyu Fairy Wrasse

Cirrhilabrus ryukyuensis

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I went to the small pizzeria in a nearby village last month and asked for a calzone, and when she brought it to me the owner had a look on her face I can only describe as bitter.

Naturally my first assumption was that she was judging me for my food order (maybe calzones are too easy compared to other pizzas and she felt under-challenged as a pizza chef?), but then I looked at my calzone and the more I looked at it, the more I felt like it might have been a failed attempt at a cat calzone.

(I didn't ask for a cat calzone, just a calzone.)

If I had immediately identified it as a cat calzone I would have of course said something about it, such as "Aww that's so cute! You made it in the shape of a cat!! Thank you!" — but it was too late. I hesitated too long, and it was just failed enough that I wasn't sure it was meant to be a cat.

I think this poor woman knew her cat calzone was a failure and I wouldn't be able to recognise her effort for what it was, hence the bitterness in her eyes when she brought it to me.

I asked my friend if my pizza looked like a cat to her, and she said "Are you saying this because of the olives? I think they were just placed randomly."

no, I think they were meant to be eyes, and a cat nose. And those are the ears. Wait, I'll turn it in your direction so you can see

Friend: "It's just a pointy calzone... Maybe you should ask the chef if she meant to make it a cat?"

If I tried to make a cat calzone and the recipient of this gift went like 'hey, sorry, is this weird-looking thing meant to be cat?' I would sell my pizza restaurant and drown myself in the river.

After considering this, my friend said we could brainstorm a better phrasing—but then we ended up agreeing that since the chef didn't go 'haha sorry I tried to make a cat and failed!!' when she brought my pizza, the options were a) she didn't try to make a cat; b) she feels humiliated by her failure, and either way it's better to say nothing.

But I felt deeply curious about this unresolved mystery, so this week when I went back to the pizzeria I asked for a calzone again.

The options were now: a) the chef brings me a better, recognisable cat calzone and I immediately remark upon it and she's happy and we erase the failed cat calzone from the historical record and never mention it ever;

or b) the chef brings me a normal calzone, which suggests that the vague cat shape from last time was accidental and just another instance of chronic cat pareidolia.

(I refused to consider option c) The chef brings me another failed, hardly-recognisable cat. She just doesn't seem like the kind of person who would let that happen to her twice.)

Here's the photo of the failed cat calzone from last time, which, according to my friend, just looks like a pointy calzone with randomly-placed olives and not a deliberate attempt to make a cat:

And here's what the chef brought me this time:

THAT'S A CAT.

I knew it!!!!

And it looks so sad!! This cat calzone looks like it will burst into olive oil tears if you once again fail to identify it as the cat that it is

But I didn't; I was so ready this time. I went "A cat!!!!! It's so cute!" and the chef went like yes!!! I tried to make one last time but it looked weird :(

I said I was pretty sure it was a cat last time and apologised for not bringing it up and she said no, it's my responsibility to make it a decent cat. She also said she was glad I'd come back and ordered another calzone because she was really bothered ("vraiment embêtée") by that first failed attempt, and wondering if I'd noticed an attempt was made (and failed)

That's so relatable. It's like when you make a really embarrassing spelling mistake in a text and you're not sure if the other person has seen it and is judging you for it. Should you bring it up? Can it go unnoticed if you don't? It's the cat calzone equivalent of that. I'm so glad we were able to clear the air.

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Sheikh lotfollah mosque entrance ceiling, Esfahan Iran.

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unbearably cute magazine cover photo omg 😭

also i swear that 10+ years ago this basically would never be on the cover of a ‘regular’ magazine, only focused wildlife or even specifically bug- or invertebrate-themed magazines that selected for ‘creepy’ images most ppl wouldn’t like. rather than a social-regional human interest magazine selecting, out of a whole inside-magazine gallery of nature photos including charismatic megafauna, a bug photo clearly framed as and considered cute….i feel as though bug perceptions around me have really changed a lot and i wish i knew how to search for better evidence about whether this is a real change or not. idk. is it just me?

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Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen in a publicity photo for Tammy and the Bachelor (1957). The romantic comedy was the first of four Tammy films, but the only one to feature Debbie Reynolds as Tammy. Her single version recording of the film's title song, written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, became an across-the-music-charts number one hit and earned the songwriters Academy Award nominations.

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Sharp tongue

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impresje małopolskiego

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LADY CAPULET: Thou knowest my daughter’s of a pretty age. NURSE:  Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. LADY CAPULET:  She’s not fourteen. NURSE: I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth (and yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four) she’s not fourteen. How long is it now to Lammastide? LADY CAPULET:  A fortnight and odd days. NURSE:  Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.

Happy birthday to Juliet Capulet!

(The holiday of Lammas is celebrated on the first of August.)

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*shaking myself out of a stupor to confront the first Hero who has trod this path in millennia* ufghhuhuhun*kough* waitaminute holdupnow *wheezing cobwebs out of an overly elaborate set of full-body plate armour that surely never saw use outside of a single 16th cent royal procession* gots a question to ask ya

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Wanted to quickly sketch horsies before bed...i was too tired when drawing the black one so yeah

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"The Verandah", Cressida Campbell, 1987.

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My 11-month male cat lets my foster kittens nurse on him.

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