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I mean surely we all grew up feeling like there was a wrongness inherently deep inside us that will endure for the rest of our lives

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"How did YOU get accepted by the wizard's college!?" "Athletic scholarship."

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can I come over and not speak

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"men and women are so different and can never understand each other" this is the bane of my existence as a non binary person.

Hearing it from cis perisex people is like "lol okay" but hearing it from trans people?? that's nasty vibes yall. We gotta stop that. Men and women are literally the same thing.

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reblog to stir prev occasionally

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*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke

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Not a big fan of what melatonin has been doing to my dreams lately.

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Excellent.

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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE NEANDERTHAL CHILD WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME? Because they're all I've been thinking about when I'm sad for the past few days. Their existence makes me less sad.

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kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity

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woke up today and realized that tumblr entirely killed fuck ya life bing bong so here ya go again

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do u ever just see a take on wicked from a straight person that just makes you go...god once you accept that glinda and elphie are gay, u will enjoy wicked more. the ending of wicked pt. 1 where glinda "sides with the enemy"? no!! that's glinda giving into the pressures of the heteropatriarchy while elphaba embraces a life of queer deviance!!! elphie begging her PLEASE COME WITH ME!!!! BUT GLINDA SAYING NO I CANT BECAUSE I NEED TO BE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE IS A VERY REAL NEED AND IT'S SAFE !!! AND ELPHIE UNDERSTANDS IT SO MUCH BUT IT HURTS. SHE'S BEEN CRAVING ASSIMILATION THIS WHOLE TIME SO SHE UNDERSTANDS. BUT SHE'S COMING TO TERMS WITH THE FACT THAT NAH MAYBE SHE'LL NEVER FIT IN. IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT "SELF-ACCEPTANCE", IT STILL IS THE IDEA OF WICKEDNESS BEING THRUST UPON HER BECAUSE SOCIETY DID THIS DISCRIMINATION BULLSHIT. it's a tragic ending!!! yes!!!! that's the point!!! so many gays go through that shit!! it's good to end on too!! GOD!

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healthy & normal teenagers are produced inside the hell whale

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It belongs in a museum,I think

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Finished a new piece. I think it speaks to my state of mind. Notice the fine details. :)

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Ethiopian wolves feed on the sweet nectar of a local flower, picking up pollen on their snouts as they do so – which may make them the first carnivores discovered to act as pollinators.

The Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) is the rarest wild canid species in the world and Africa’s most threatened carnivore. Endemic to the Ethiopian Highlands, fewer than 500 individuals survive.

Sandra Lai at the University of Oxford and her colleagues observed wild Ethiopian wolves lapping up the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker (Kniphofia foliosa) flowers. Local people in the mountains have traditionally used the nectar as a sweetener for coffee and on flat bread.

The wolves are thought to be the first large carnivore species ever to be recorded regularly feeding on nectar.

“For large carnivores, such as wolves, nectar-feeding is very unusual, due to the lack of physical adaptations, such as a long tongue or specialised snout, and because most flowers are too fragile or produce too little nectar to be interesting for large animals,” says Lai.

The sturdy, nectar-rich flower heads of the poker plant make this behaviour possible, she says. “To my knowledge, no other large carnivorous predator exhibits nectar-feeding, though some omnivorous bears may opportunistically forage for nectar, albeit rarely and poorly documented.”

Some of the wolves were seen visiting as many as 30 blooms in a single trip. As they lick the nectar, the wolves’ muzzles get covered in pollen, which they could potentially be transferring from flower to flower as they feed.

“The behaviour is interesting because it shows nectar-feeding and pollination by non-flying mammals might be more widespread than currently recognised, and that the ecological significance of these lesser-known pollinators might be more important than we think,” says Lai. “It’s very exciting.”

Lai and her colleagues at the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme now hope to dig deeper into the behaviour and its ramifications. “Trying to confirm actual pollination by the wolves would be ideal, but that would be quite challenging,” she says. “I’m also very interested in the social learning aspect of the behaviour. We’ve seen this year adults bringing their juveniles to the flower fields, which could indicate cultural transmission.”