#Sisters

[futurebird]

She's a cutting machine! Like a circle cutter with legs come to life!

Her body is designed to cut and haul maximum LEAF.

What a triumph!

Oh you might not like it. You might get mad. But THIS is what peak performance looks like:

The book “Gardening Ants: The Attines” (Weber) is old but it has so many banger illustrations. Here is one showing the size difference in Atta cephalotes minors and majors. This difference is entirely caused by how the ants are fed and cared for. Ants have so much variability in gene expression and they use it to shape their population to fit the work that needs to be done. (I love the naturalistic placement of the minor on the major’s head, they do hang out like this.)

When atta are cutting a leaf they make stridulations (vibrations too hight-pitched for human hearing) by moving their exoskeleton. This noise isn't just a result of the cutting, it's an extra noise that carries through the plant, letting other ants know the quality of the leaf. The higher quality the leaf the more intense the sounds she will make calling more ants to the place where the leaves are at the perfect level of development for fungus farming.

Wonder if plants are alarmed by this?

[ken-yamh]

The two versions of a single star 💫

[twixnmix]

Janet Jackson and LaToya Jackson photographed by Dick Zimmerman, 1984.

[hopelessromanticwithawhaletattoo]

My sister told me not too long ago that lupines remind her of me, and now every time I see them, I think of her, too. I'm so grateful for her.

by Alex Grace

[naughtyhousekeeper201]

peek a boo 👻

[possible-streetwear]

[feloire]

[mediumsizetex]

Royalty Redesign 2021 by eugenchen

[two-bees-poetry]

this test of the mountain

[kirislovelygf]

how is it that the only dimension where everyone’s happy is the one where vi’s gone it’s like the arcane writers WANT me to die omg

[themoonatmingitaw]

'Aura may not remember her sister.

She still recognizes her for the tragedy she is.'

Playing a resisting Dark Urge, I thought of Orin as a very tragic character. Aura has an oportunity to grow beyond what she was made for that Orin never had.

[faithbetryin]

"I'M MARIA KYLE'S KID." - "MY MOTHER WAS ISABELLA GIGANTE."

SELINA KYLE & SOFIA GIGANTE in 'THE BATMAN' / 'THE PENGUIN'

[ed13d1]

the night will cover what we've done

painting by Anna Marie Ottaviano

[commanderjosef]

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