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is this harrow the ninth?

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btw you will miss this in 5 or 10 years. memory will smooth these circumstances down like a river stone, and you will find yourself longing for a shade of light or a moment of this particular innocence. you don't know about what happens next, and one day that will be the most alluring thing of all. don't leave it all for nostalgia. have a nice night now, whatever night it happens to be.

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Why do so many cephalopods die immediately after reproducing?

Okay so the physical reason is that mating triggers a change in their brain chemistry and hormone levels that essentially poisons them and makes them behave strangely and stop eating. If the gland responsible for this change is removed, the cephalopod continues as normal and lives for many months after laying eggs.

But the evolutionary reason is the end-Cretaceous extinction. Cephalopods used to have a pretty huge variation in lifespan, ranging from a few months to over 200 years (https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-paperclipshaped-sea-creature-could-live-for-200-years-57685)

Large, long-lived cephalopods were hit hard by the mass extinction and those who survived did so by being short-lived and reproducing quickly, so they were selected for as cephalopods recovered from the extinction event. The most ancient species, the nautilus, can live for several decades and mate many times, hinting at the high diversity of life strategies that cephalopods used to have.

So yeah, the reason octopuses usually only live a year or two before self-destructing is because of that fucking asteroid.

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life is so good when ur reading a book and taking it w u everywhere like your little child

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9 books for 2025

tagged by @dustdotorg (thank you!!) to share 9 books that i want to read this year

How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

1984 by George Orwell

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A Writer's Diary: Woolf Virginia

Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

tagging @barbarawar @isagrimorie @purlturtle @suave-alpaca @problematick and anyone who wanna do it <3

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✞ 666 ✞

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Writing a list can save your whole life

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Jupiter Van Gogh

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marine biology related posts | 2024 masterpost

Thanks everybody. See you next year.

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― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

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It's been dark and rainy down here, so I thought I'd draw a piece to fit the mood. Here's one of my favorite whales, A72 Bend. I saw her on the Orcalab live cams for the first time a few years ago and have been obsessed with her ever since. Tragically, there's not many good full body reference pics of her, but hey, that won't stop me from trying to draw her. 💖

I gotta practice drawing Northern residents more often. Their lanky proportions and tiny eyepatches can be a bit tricky sometimes.

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me: okay forest make a cute and relatable sticker design next

me 20 minutes later: dead salmon hat fashion orca

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Janeway looks like she's crawling out of a microwave lmao

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Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you’re currently wearing.