#11/11 was her death day

[jewish-space-laser]

RIP CAMILLE L’ESPANAYE

[ministarfruit]

day 8: living dead ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[nobleriver]

The dead stay silent...and we must wait.

[bayetea]

seeing non-black people critique rick's portrayal of black characters is interesting sometimes. only like 30% of the critiques I see make any sense to me to be honest

[taxi-boi]

everyone shut the fuck up pretend its still 413

WOW GUYS LOOK ITS THEIR DAY! ITS THEIR 413 DAY WOOHOO YEAH

[shmeegledeegledorp]

Even though I only own like 2 mario golf games the renders are always my favourites bc genuinely what the fuck is the vibe here

[tariah23]

Just got back home from the hospital

[cranraspberry]

the way katniss’s mom just didn’t give a fuck about her is so crazy like she won the idgaf war but not in a good way

[quietwingsinthesky]

Drabble 27/366 - Supernatural

Millie doesn't have much. She packs away souvenirs, feels guilty-sick, takes them out, feels ungrateful, puts them back.

"Going somewhere?" She doesn't jump, though he wasn't there seconds before.

"Home."

"No, you're not." She can hear him smiling.

"My brother's alive. I'm going home," she snaps. 

She's holding a snowglobe with a tiny dancer trapped inside among the flakes.

"No," the Trickster says, "you're not." He's still smiling, and she's a hundred thousand miles from where she should have been waiting for this miracle.

"Like you could keep me here," said lightly.

"I could," he responds as easily.

She shivers.

[apollos-boyfriend]

👀?

i've talked a lot about jane to the point where i think she's like. the most verbally fleshed-out character of the cast but. i can never talk about her too much ^_^

as i've said, post mansion-arrival she completely switches her worldview and diverts her rage from jeff to the people who made her that way. she wants to both stop any further deaths from happening at the hands of the government in a fruitless attempt to stop a 13 year old brat who spends 80% of his time playing shitty roblox games and also get revenge for the years of her life they took from her, as she was an assassin for the government for several years before her arrival. she's since realized the government never actually cared about her, bringing the criminals to justice, or getting any semblance of closure for victims' families. she never even had proof for most of her hits. they just told her who to kill and she killed them, because she believed by doing so she was doing the world a better place by getting rid of "bad people". and sure, maybe everyone she killed was a horrible murderer. but that's not the point!

now that she's gone rogue things get a lot harder for her, obviously, but it just fuels her rage. it's really important to me that she doesn't lose her rage and need for revenge, because it's Such a trademark of her character. also as i've said i think the liquid rage would fucking kill her if she stopped being angry for more than 2 seconds so she's gotta divert things Somewhere.

she has a Very weird dynamic with jeff because jeff reminds her of jessie, so ofc her instinct is to go big sister mode and protect him, but jeff is Not about it. he doesn't hate her, but he thinks she's a pussy for not being able to kill him. there was a solid week where he kept taunting her, trying to get her to actually try and kill him, before jack smacked him upside the head and made him promise he'd stop trying to get himself killed. jack's the one that holds more of a grudge towards jane, but more in the sense that he's Always on guard when it comes to the other kids' safety. nina's the one that Genuinely hates jane's guts and constantly attempts to kill her, for obvious enough reasons

[send me a "👀" and i'll ramble about an au]

[apricote]

suddenly i miss my grandma so much

[shadowglens]

lilah growing her hair as a form of healing, as proof that her body is capable of growth and life after so much death. lilah gaining weight slowly, in bits and pieces, over the years as a symbol of her life becoming stable and safe. lilah's skin becoming more suntanned, less death-pale, as a sign that she has fought back against the cursed blood in her veins. for a few years at least, lilah looking healthy and content and happy.

[bloggingwithsirenss]

[juanitasupreme]

The way social media just casually got us to watch people death through our phones is insane

[tjerra14]

This week never hid the fact it was going to one of Those Weeks™ from the start and yet it somehow still managed to get worse with each consecutive day

[champ-wiggle]

'She is so old': One-eyed wolf in Yellowstone defies odds by having 10th litter of pups in 11 years

By Patrick Pester, published June 3, 2024

Wolf 907F recently gave birth to her 10th litter of pups, which researchers say is likely a Yellowstone National Park record.

Wolf 907F walking past a trail camera in Yellowstone National Park. (Image credit: Yellowstone Wolf and Cougar Project)

The alpha female of a Yellowstone gray-wolf pack has defied the odds by having a 10th litter of pups at the age of 11.

The one-eyed wolf elder, named Wolf 907F, gave birth to her latest litter last month, the Cowboy State Daily reported. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) have an average life span of three to four years, so it's rare for them to reach 11, let alone have pups at that age.

Wolf 907F has given birth to pups every year for a decade straight since she became sexually mature, which Kira Cassidy, a research associate at the Yellowstone Wolf Project, said is likely a record for the wolves of Yellowstone National Park.

At age 11, Yellowstone’s Wolf 907F has lived more than twice a wild wolf’s average life expectancy. In this photo from April, she was pregnant with a litter of pups that she’s since given birth to. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)

"Every day, I expect that she might die just because she is so elderly, but I've been thinking that for the last few years, and she keeps going," Cassidy told Live Science.

Cassidy has calculated that only about 1 in 250 wolves in Yellowstone make it to their 11th birthday, with just six recorded examples since wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995. The oldest of all of these great elders lived to 12.5 years, according to the National Park Service.

Wolf 907F lies in the snow in Yellowstone in 2015. (Image credit: Kira Cassidy/NPS)

Wolf 907F is the oldest wolf to have lived her whole life in the park's Northern Range, where there is more prey but also more competition from other wolves. Wolves rarely die of old age in the wild, and in Yellowstone National Park, the biggest threat is other wolves.

"In a protected place like Yellowstone, their number-one cause of death is when two packs fight with each other," Cassidy said. "That accounts for about half of the mortality."

One of Yellowstone's oldest wolves, Wolf 907F is pictured here with her pack last year. She's the gray collared wolf on the lower left. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)

Wolf 907F is the alpha female of the Junction Butte pack, which has between 10 and 35 members at any given time. Cassidy noted that this is a large pack — the average wolf pack size is about 12 individuals — and that reduces the risk of being killed in territorial fights. Wolf 907F's experience also gives her pack an edge.

"Packs that have elderly wolves are much more successful in those pack-versus-pack conflicts because of the accumulated knowledge and the experience that they bring to that really stressful situation," Cassidy said.

Wolf 907F has likely boosted her pack's survival chances outside of battle, too. Cassidy noted that the Junction Butte pack rarely leaves Yellowstone's border and that Wolf 907F is "savvy" when it comes to things like crossing roads and avoiding humans.

Wolf 907F, Yellowstone's aging matriarch at 11 years old, only has one eye. She's the fourth wolf to pass by this trail cam. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)

What makes Wolf 907F even more impressive is that she does all of this with only one functioning eye. Researchers aren't sure what happened, but her left eye has been small and sunken since before she turned 4. "You would never know [when] watching her," Cassidy said.

Like other elders, Wolf 907F takes a back seat in hunts now that she's older, and she spends most of her day hanging around with the pack's pups. Cassidy and her colleagues have counted three pups in her current litter, which is smaller than the average litter size of four to five but not surprising. A 2012 study of Yellowstone wolves published in the Journal of Animal Ecology found that litter size declines with age.

"The fact that 907 is still having pups is amazing, and her litter being small is expected given that she is so old," Cassidy said.

A few of Wolf 907F's offspring now lead packs of their own, but most of her pups never reach adulthood due to the perilous nature of being a wolf. However, Wolf 907F and the others in the park don't seem to live like death is on their mind.

"They are happy to be with their family going from day to day," Cassidy said. "Even if they have injuries or are missing an eye or something really stressful is going on in their life, they move through that stress and go back to seemingly really enjoying their life."

At age 11, Yellowstone's Wolf 907F - the gray wolf in the center of this photo from 2020- has lived more than double the typical lifespan of wolves in the wild. (Courtesy Yellowstone Wildlife Project)