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truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.

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approach the world with playful curiosity or understand very little. approach the world with sacred dread or understand very little

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It is that time, you have no choice,

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Eventually your favorite fandom will forever be forgotten... except you the Merlin fandom you'll never die out and its kinda concerning.

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can we see some northern flickers please :) ? i think more people need to see them bes o pretty

GET ABSOLUTELY FLICKED BOOBOO!!!

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, found across most of North America

photograph by Lee Hunter

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), mother with chicks, family Picidae, order Piciformes, western US

photograph by Protik Hossein

Northern Flicker aka Common Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

photograph by @changingfocusphotography

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, order Piciformes, BC, Canada

photograph by Jess Findlay (@jessfindlay)

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), male, family Picidae, Alberta, Canada

photograph by Lisa M Jones Photography

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[Lysimachia europaea] arctic starflower/Siebenstern

[Cardamine pretensis] cuckoo flower/Wiesen-Schaumkraut

[Ranunculus acris] meadow buttercup/Scharfer Hahnenfuß

Some flowers for the end of the year ✨

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Golden-crowned Kinglets by David Sibley

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The Flame of Contemplation

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Beautiful Yule-themed art by Darkspire Design on Etsy

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they should invent a grief that doesn’t define you in new and strange ways for the rest of your life

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one of my favorite books as a kid was this one on speculative zoology/evolution that I loved so much I borrowed it to the point my school had to chase me up on returning it several times. it influenced my early creature art and design and pushed me to delve into my own specbio (on dragons. no surprises there). I loved the informatic entries, all their little lore bits and ecological adaptations; the wild color palettes, their weird little shapes. it was called The New Dinosaurs, by Dougal Dixon.

there were two more books in the series that my school didn’t have, which is either a blessing or a curse, because the third book in the set is called Man After Man.

which contains this.

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would you rather be taxidermied or be a wet specimen wait dont leave

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Some people say that there are no stupid questions, which is blatantly false. Of course there are stupid questions, and if you have one, you had better ask it, before you go and do make a stupider mistake. Stupid questions are more important than intelligent ones. I’m willing to bet more people die because of stupid mistakes than because of intelligent ones.