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Apparently the silksong subreddit has started doing human "sacrifices", where they ritually elect someone to be banned, in order to guarantee the timely release of the game. somehow this isn't even surprising

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Waking up from your decade long enchanted sleep to learn that, not only is sharing your True Name with the fae okay now, but there's actually a rule against using a false name when entering the faerie market.

Your friends admit that this causes some problems— it's way easier to fall victim to a false deal, or get stolen away now— but everyone goes to the fae market to buy their goods so what are you gonna do? Not see your friends? Go out of your way to buy more expensive stuff from the human market? Yeah right.

Also yes they still perform their light-footed fluttering dances under the silvery light of the full moon, but in order to get in you have to first watch the dancers perform two short plays about why you should shop at certain local businesses. Also if you want to talk about the performance afterwards then you need to trade them your True Name, your home address, your date of birth and your personal interests.

You do this so that the fae can this information on a scroll and give it to local business owners.

Another part of the deal they broke is that nobody may talk negatively about those businesses within the market walls. In fact, your friends say, the enchantment is so effective that it's very difficult to talk negatively about anything at all.

“I know it sounds un-good,” your friend admits. “But there are loopholes.”

“In retrospect,” another friend says, “I wish the town had voted un-yes to teaching the fae about money.”

“On the plus side,” the first friend says, “I hear the market is investing in one of those enchanted statues that responds to questions with deliberately ambiguous riddles, so long as you trade it your memories of secondary school.”

“Oh, cool. Is that why they're burning down the library?”

You wonder if it's too late to go back to sleep.

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Great Tusk also didn't exist yet, it was released in Generation 9 of Pokémon in 2022

Mangled corpse of cave man 8000 years old grasping primitive samsung phone discovered in croatian bog soil

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Stronger Together!!

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I think we’re really not appreciating limpets enough. They’re just a snail with extra shell and they’re equally adorable

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I'm unfollowing because of your stance on Israel and Zionism. Zionism is the belief that Jews should have a homeland. Whilst Israel has done some awful things, it should still exist.

all good, anon! my blog isn’t for people who support the genocide and illegal colonization of palestinians, or the people of lebanon (my people) anyway!

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Cycnorhamphus suevicus, a pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany and France (~150-145 mya).

It had a wingspan of about 1.3m (4′3″), and was originally thought to look similar to Pterodactylus with long straight jaws – but a well-preserved fossil nicknamed “the Painten Pelican” revealed its snout was actually much more oddly-shaped.

“Painten Pelican mount” by Mike Steele | CC BY 2.0 | cropped from original

It turns out Cycnorhamphus’s jaws arced outwards, creating an opening that seems to have become more pronounced as individuals reached adulthood. Soft-tissue impressions in the fossil also show some sort of stiff “flanges” on each side of the upper jaws, covering the gap and giving it a sort of bulldog-like appearance.

The function of this jaw structure is unknown for certain, but it’s been speculated to be a specialization for cracking open hard-shelled prey like molluscs.

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you're telling me theres a creature related to the stingray but slightly different and its called a stingaree?

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Oh, your favorite marine animal is a "cuddle fish?" Yeah I bet it is. Fruit.

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Will never forgive TRFs for making me have to reveal my AGAB to “prove” I’m not a “sensitive TME just shitting oh trans women” when I’m a heavily dysphoric agender person who hates any association with my AGAB so they fucking listen to me when I say they’re treating transmascs and intersex people like shit. Like why are they fucking doing this. Go fuck yourselves, genuinely, eat sand assholes. Fuck you for making me disclose incredibly sensitive and painful information so you don’t accuse me of being the wrong kind of trans and thus not allowed to stand up for transmascs and intersex people. Fuck you. Grow and change for the better.

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modern-day terror birds!!!

Seriemas

Amiright

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you definitely need to have that. angry that they didn't let you

I'm great at science.

@bubobubosibericus

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my sincerest apologies to clark's actual existent rizz but every single time i watch this scene this is what's happening in my head

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fun fact, mammals used to be ancestrally venomous! fossils of ancient mammals show venom spurs, and the platypus is the only one to have retained them to this day

every generation has a - hang on post cancelled I wanna talk about this autocomplete suggestion

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It wimdy

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Today’s sea slug is Tethys fimbria - it looks like a cross between a bird of paradise and a plastic plate, but it can swim and uses its broad oral hood (the plate) to capture its crustacean prey.

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/60443160