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ehhmmmm leave some space for me pleaseeee

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Stemmur likes to narrate every encounter Erend and Aloy have in Hidden Ember (With a bit of artistic freedom). Abadund is getting impatient.

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i love saying “i’m being normal about it” bc i’m actually a filthy fucking liar and i’ve never been normal about anything a single day in my life

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if i was in jurassic park i'd be fine because the dinosaurs would love me and therefore not eat me

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Seasonal "sparrows feasting in fields after rice harvest" scene for this antique outfit.

The lovely soft grey kimono shows suzume (sparrow) fluttering in a bamboo grove, a popular winter motif.

The auspicious embroidered obi depicts an ema (Shinto wooden plaque), with a sparrow flying by bountiful inaho (ears of rice).

Obi's woven ground is a lovely example of honmon rinzu (figured satin ground combining orchid, chrysanthemum, and sayagata), a pattern often found on women kimono items.

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Sweetest little gal. After looking at the chocolate siamese and the mallowmese again, side by side now, I really don't think the mallowmese are chocolate siamese. I think they're lavender Siamese. I love their golden noses!

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you probably thought today was a normal Monday. nooooope. strong as fuck ice mummy again, sorry.

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It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!

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Source: laura_and_her_cats

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Calappa lophos

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Schiaparelli’s zodiac necklace (1938)

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Apparently the Congo river is deep enough that there are several species of fish with cavedwelling adaptations (near-total to total blindness, loss of pigmentation, etc) because light doesn't reach where they live. the fuck

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Johnny Eck was a performer from the 1930s who was born without any legs:

He's primarily known for appearing in the 1932 cult classic Freaks directed by Tod Browning.

However what I'm mostly obsessed with is this account of a magic trick he did with his non-disabled twin brother (text under the cut)

Like this is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Can you imagine

Wikipedia screenshot:

"In 1937, Eck and Robert were recruited by the illusionist and hypnotist Rajah Raboid, for his "Miracles of 1937" show. In it they performed a magic feat that amazed audiences. Raboid performed the traditional sawing-a-man-in-half illusion, except with an unexpected twist. At first Robert would pretend to be a member of the audience and heckle the illusionist during his routine, resulting in Robert being called on stage to be sawed in half himself. During the illusion, Robert would then be switched with his twin brother Eck, who played the top half of his body, and a dwarf who played the bottom half, concealed in specially-built pant legs. After seeming to have been sawn off, the legs would suddenly get up and start running away, prompting Eck to jump off the table and start chasing them around the stage, screaming, "Come back!" "I want my legs back!" Sometimes he even chased the legs into the audience. The subsequent reaction was amazing – people would scream and sometimes even flee the theater in terror. As Eck described it, "The men were more frightened than the women – the women couldn't move because the men were walking across their laps, headed for the exit." The act provided the perfect jolt by frightening people at first but then caused just as much laughter and applause. The illusion would end with stage hands plucking up Eck and setting him atop "his" legs and then twirling him off-stage to be replaced by his twin Robert, who would then loudly threaten to sue Raboid and storm out of the theater. Their act was so popular that they played to packed audiences up and down the East Coast."