#hellsitegenetics i love you so

[therainbowsaws]

i love when an infamous tumblr classic shows up randomly on my dash and then i see hellsite genetics at the bottom. it’s like watching a really spectacular train crash and then seeing someone wander by and start taking samples of the wreckage

[prancingpony42]

forbidden ramen

okay sorry if this is too much or too specific but. the entirety (or an excerpt, if it's too much) of devil's train by the lab rats. i have it all memorized by heart and i sing it to myself whenever i need to pass ~5 minutes (mainly when making instant ramen) and i want to know what my ramen mascot is.

String identified: GaaaactatatttcaccgttagtcagtatatacaattaacttagtAacgagttataaaaaaatgtacattgttaAgttgtatgtctaatgtttattaataggtttttattacAtttattttttacttccttttAtatctatagtagattatattAttttgtatgttttcaactGagtacaagaatAtataatattatatccTaatattatctattcaactaatatatacatgaaacatagtgtttattagtataattatgaattttatgtttatttatacattatacactactTttactacacagAtatatatttaattaaacattataaatagaAgagatatttcaatatttattgttacatgtgttagtaatgagacttttgtaagattatgtttgttacatgtgttagtaatgagacttttgtaagattatgtaattaatTatagtataTttttTgcttgtagtatcaagatatataatttattacatatatcacacTcattataccagttaagtgacgaagaacataggaatcaggtTatacatactgatattccttctttcttcgatagatattaacagtaaaggAttgttattatacttgttacatgtgttagtaatgagacttttgtaagattatgtttgttacatgtgttagtaatgagacttttgtaagattatgttatagtgtatagatatatgtaaatttatattaatatatactgtagaTattagtgcacataTgttaaagctttatagacacagtaGgggcaagtcttatgatttacatgaacatactacaatagaaaatttaagCatatatggActagctcttggtacaatttatgtggatTtatactaagaataaTataatattaatacgtaaaataatatgatcaggtAttataataatagtttacatgataaaaataatatatttgcaatcttgtgactatttgtttcaatcattgcacatctgtatataaatcacaatcattAaatgtaatttttaaaAatcAtcatatcatcttttatactgttgagttgttacatgtgttagtaatgagacttttgtaagattatgtttgttacatgtgttagtaatgagacttttgtaagattatgt

Closest match: Carpetania matritensis genome assembly, chromosome: 12 Common name: Earthworm

(image source)

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

Now for the final round!

@hellsitegenetics

I love them

I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.

it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!

so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches

perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for

It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!

Creatures 👍

Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite

Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.

I love them. English speakers talk like moths

If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!

uhh it’s cool

BLAST

There are so many weird bugs in the world

Yippee!!

If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.

Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH

Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie

the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise

This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.

If they win, perhaps this blog too shall become a cool organism :3

@hasgavlebockenburneddownyet

What's more happy holiday cheer than cheering on the destruction of a giant straw goat?

The birds may have won 2023, but I believe in humanity's capability for arson for 2024 <3

a vote for me is a vote for arson! This message was approved by hasgavlebockenburneddownyet

gavle is SUCH a public service and holiday feature

what's more tumblr than comical destruction and holidays?

sometimes you just gotta vote with your matchsticks

Bringing a cultural staple to tumblr since 2021

Arson is so much more fun

It would be really funny and ironic if it survives the tournament

you have no idea how much joy watching the chronicling of the gavlebocken brings me every year

hasgavlebockenburneddownyet provides an essential public service

always love seeing a bit of Swedish history on my dash 'Swedish bamboo season'

the goat account is peak gimmick blog

If I don't get to beat the goat then nobody does. -pointless-achievements

Never ask Tumblr to choose between lies and arson! The winner threatens by nature to rip apart the very fabric of our DNA!

goat statues made out of straw are exciting and interesting

I wanna see things burn

the goat is an essential part of tumblr culture and the goat blog is a sacred keeper of the tumblr high holidays

watching to see if the big straw goat has burned down each year is a true delight, something I never knew existed until tumblr and the blog dedicated to it

the incredibly focused nature of @/hasgavlebockenburneddownyet is what makes their gimmick superior.

Please guys bite gavlebocken

Look, I'm Danish. I was put on this earth to annoy the Swedes and vice versa, but even I voted for @/hasgavlebockenburneddownyet

gavlebocken is also such a fun name and this blog informed be about its existence, so for that I am grateful

hasgavlebockenburneddownyet is providing a vital service! Every year, people rely on their updates regarding the fate of our most beloved Yule Goat! How could they NOT deserve the win!?

sacred anti-corporate arson

a vote for gävlebocken is a vote for anarchy!

pls vote for them they're the funniest gimmick keeping track on the funniest phenomena in recent human history, like when i look at their acc i think to myself this is what tumblr was created for

the goat is the GOAT

HASGAVLEBOCKENBURNEDDOWNYET DESERVES TO WIN, I have them on post alert for a REASON

the holiday season wouldn't be the same without them

they do important reporting. Do you look at the news and be like 'the reporters aren't doing work they're just telling you whats happening.' Have some respect for the goat news

let the weird burnt sacrificial ritual of it all appeal to you

nothing makes my December more interesting, arson should win

doesn't barge in on other peoples posts which is always a good thing in my books. not a fan when obnoxious gimmick blogs turn a decent post into a garbled mess

[shirecorn]

Finding Beyond Nemo

I did a quick search around the internet and collected some blogs and websites to discover unusual fish species for mermay inspiration (and because fish are fun)

Doing a clownfish mermaid is great, but what about doing a fish you only discovered that day? Let's see what we can reel in with these sites.

Tumblr blogs!

@herpsandbirds offers amphibians, reptiles, birds, and a bunch of other unusual and awesome critters including fish!

herps and birds fish tag

for a truly random experience, browse @hellsitegenetics to see what aquatic wonders are hiding in our posts.

You could also browse the entire tag of #ichthyology, the study of fish

Creature Websites!

Now to sail off tumblr to some of the sites I've browsed in the past, designed to introduce you to new species across the planet. I've narrowed these links down to fish sorted entries, but please browse the rest of the sites for fun as well!

My favorite for many years, The Featured Creature! Make sure to open every article to see the fish in question, as the article previews don't always show that each post has many beautiful photos of beautiful fish

Another archive with dozens of pages of fish spotlights! Check out activewild and see what you can sea

A classic! Check out articles and species spotlights of National Geographic

There's also lots of smaller blogs with only a page or so of fish. Coffeeandcreatures, thewildlife.blog and many many many more!

Start a new bookmarks category, pinterest board, or image folder and just start throwing fish in there. Your ocean of ideas will never run dry.

Not an artist but desperately want to see an obscure mermaid? You can ask me to tackle it! Just make sure you've browsed my mermay tag to make sure I haven't done it in years prior.

Request a mermaid here!

If you're an artist and you used this list to discover a new species, let me know! I love seeing what other people find interesting.

Happy mermay!

[pplatonic]

hey tptm-ers. the speech on the ??? page felt like just a bit too much to request of in hellsitegenetic's askbox out of nowhere so i did it myself, count this as an archive of the text i guess

Despite everything, I don't believe you. you can't understand how I feel or what I've been through. Maybe life just isn't for some people, and I'm one of those people.

Stop. Stop talking for once in your life and listen. You think you’re the exception? You think you’re special? That you are, somehow, the only person in human history to escape the bounds of being a social animal? You don’t think that’s conceited? Unreasonable?

You engage in wishful thinking for the diminished soul. You’re acting out fantasies of emotional masochism. You’re self-fulfilling the prophecy. Nobody is asking this of you but you. Nobody else is slobbering over your grief, your pain, your misery, but you. It’s unbecoming of you. Do you know what you look like from the outside, when you ask to be unloved? To let go of everything good? Because you sure as hell don’t look like the person you think you are. Your frugality is selfish, your lack of connection to the real world a cry for help in itself. The people willing to love you, to want you, to cherish you; they watch you do this.

We are no different from deer traveling in groups, fish latching onto bigger fish, egrets removing ticks from the skin of cattle for food. Yes, even in this age, you cannot fight the natural need to be loved, to prosper.

If you want to kill yourself, I can’t stop you. You have control over your own future, your own body, mind, and soul. Do whatever you please. But if you’re going to keep living, please, for your own sake, stop fucking living like this. You don’t have much time. You know this. Do you really want to spend the rest of your life devoted to loneliness, kneeling at the altar of your suffering?

Talk to your doctor about this. Find a local group that caters to your interests. Make a friend. Whatever you do, do something to prove to yourself that you’re still here. Every interaction has meaning if you let it. Everyone is connected. You can still do your part, you know. It’s not too late. Love is everywhere. It’s in the organs that keep you alive, in the synapses communicating these words to your brain, in the ache of hunger in your stomach, in the purple and yellow and green of a bruise healing, in the sound of blood rushing when you cover your ears. It’s all within you, asking to be shown, to be appreciated. It’s time you started listening. Please. If you listen to anything in your fucking life, please, I’m begging you, let it be this.

String identified:

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Closest match: "Zebrafish DNA sequence from clone CH211-247J24 in linkage group 21, complete sequence"

It is a zebrafish / Danio rerio :)

[owlchimedes]

I'm sooo glad to find an envi sci studyblr!!! It feels like it's so rare.

yess!! there are like none of us out here! possibly it has to do with the venn diagram of tumblr users and people who go outside being separate circus tents, but that said, I'll list some cool people I follow if you want more env sci on your dash.

i was in parasocials with mallaidh-ann when he was working with seals and now he's doing salmon fishery work? swoon

headspace-hotel does environmental rage like no one else and also insanely good poetry

@hellsitegenetics is new and very funny

MC does fantastic work with @reasonsforhope to promote good environmental and human rights stories

@memecology makes me laugh, though they've been afk for a bit

@deadnaturalhistories is a natural history PhD candidate

@ecologie-txt is an ecology PhD candidate

@botanyshitposts is what is says on the tin (also, very smart)

@fatehbaz does anticolonial ecology 👌🏼

@weird-ecologies does wildlife conservation and scicomm

I really liked my friend's blog eco-filth but I think our upcoming master's thesis ate them...

mutuals with @endless-forms who's a science journalist

@wilder-thyme does archaebotany (wow!)

@moon-thestars is/was a biodiv conservation student, may be afk

nollectquest posts some foraging/homesteading content that I really enjoy

gallusrostromegalus likewise has an excellent #The Garden At The End Of The Universe tag

wild-west-wind is a park ranger

I've tagged those who are studyblrs and simply linked to those who are more personal blogs so as not to bother them too much. The best advice (imo) for finding envsci people on this hellsite is to hover around the solarpunk/tolkien/hozier/gardening/trc/justice tags and reblog-hop until you find somebody cool.

Feel free to add recs or nominate your own blog if you fall into any kind of botany, environmental science, zoology, conservation gig! Love to extend the circle!

[waspsinyouryard]

24 and 25?

Context:

24

I don't have any interest in getting any tattoos. Maybe I'm just a boring person but the benefits to having a tattoo (having a cool picture on your body) isn't worth the consequences (having to get that cool picture poked into your body). Also my phone's background is literally the default one and so is my computer's. There isn't really a precedent for me doing this sort of thing on even a much more convenient and reversible context.

25

I love my mutuals but I'm going to intentionally exclude them from this list which is in no particular order

@hellsitegenetics

@foxeseveryhour is always nice

@gayocats (even though it's inactive)

@ca-dmv-bot

@postsofbabel is—full disclosure—my child. But aren't you supposed to love your children?

@seobot posts infrequently but their posts are. interesting.

@aita-blorbos

[abyssal-luka]

seeing you rb like 10 posts with the "Fish" tag makes the "you know what that means! Fish!" soundbyte play in my head each time i see it and i love it. keep doing that

(-hellsitegenetics)

hjksjfkg i just really like marine animals. i go inactive for large stretches of time sometimes but i need them on my blog and i want to find them again to look at so. fish 👍

glad it's mutually bringing us joy

[karlyanalora]

So I actually sent an ask to @hellsitegenetics with some famous Optimus quotes and I am waiting to see what the DNA says.

But tfp Optimus would be a horse. A gentle, kind, giant of a creature you forget is deadly until it kicks you. A creature that loves its own kind and humans. Wonderful herd dynamics. A force of nature. A weapon of war.

Gentle enough to carry a child and deadly enough to carry you into battle.

If Optimus were an animal, what animal would he be??

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

@hellsitegenetics

I love them

I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.

it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!

so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches

perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for

It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!

Creatures 👍

Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite

Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.

I love them. English speakers talk like moths

If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!

uhh it’s cool

BLAST

There are so many weird bugs in the world

Yippee!!

If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.

Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH

Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie

the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise

This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.

If they win, perhaps this blog too shall become a cool organism :3

@one-time-i-dreamt

people sometimes dont read the URL and think that the dream is something that actually happened. creates confusion and the funny

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

@hellsitegenetics

I love them

I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.

it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!

so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches

perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for

It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!

Creatures 👍

Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite

Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.

I love them. English speakers talk like moths

If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!

uhh it’s cool

BLAST

There are so many weird bugs in the world

Yippee!!

If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.

Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH

Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie

the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise

This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.

If they win, perhaps this blog too shall become a cool organism :3

@making-you-in-spore

Incredible works of art from a limited medium, the blog favors quality over quantity and I am always in awe when a dancing creacher in Spore [2008] crosses my dash.

His spores often take him multiple hours to create, and he will go through astounding amounts of effort to commit to the bit. He made his cull poll in spore and then blew it up. Hes also super responsive and active and seems really eager to share his creation techniques and spread the joy of making things in spore [2008]. His blog almost singlehandedly sparked a significant resurgence in interest and playerbase of a 16 year old game that most people see as nothing but a meme. Hes just a guy who likes spore [2008]

i say vote for making you in spore because seeing them blow up their opponents after they win is hilarious

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

The final poll has reached its conclusion. The people have made their voices clear.

The blog most deserving to win this competition is hellsitegenetics!

But we arent done quite yet...

Can it beat ESTEBAN?

@hellsitegenetics

I love them

I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.

it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!

so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches

perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for

It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!

Creatures 👍

Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite

Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.

I love them. English speakers talk like moths

If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!

uhh it’s cool

BLAST

There are so many weird bugs in the world

Yippee!!

If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.

Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH

Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie

the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise

This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.

If they win, perhaps this blog too shall become a cool organism :3

Esteban

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

@hellsitegenetics

I love them

I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.

it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!

so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches

perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for

It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!

Creatures 👍

Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite

Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.

I love them. English speakers talk like moths

If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!

uhh it’s cool

BLAST

There are so many weird bugs in the world

Yippee!!

If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.

Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH

Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie

the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise

This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.

If they win, perhaps this blog too shall become a cool organism :3

@official-boob-posts

This blog was featured in the video ‘Depths Of The Tumblr Gimmick Blog Iceberg’ on the YouTube channel ‘STRANGE ÆONS.’

Boobs ( . )( . )

[hellsitegenetics]

you dont have to post this on valentine's if you're too backlogged since it's a message for my sister :) BUT HIII HII I LOVE YOU AND ALSO UR PROBABLY THE BEST PERSON I KNOW and i really hope this is a type of bug i like. literally osmosis'd her into loving bugs. was so autistic about those guys i spread it bro aint that wild. also hi lord of the genetics and the critters that be (that's you hellsitegenetics) i hope youre having a lovely valentine's <3

String identified: t a t t t at' ' t acgg c t' a ag t :) T A A A T T a a t a t g . ta ' t g g. a attc at t g a t at tat . a t gtc a t ctt tat (tat' tgtc) ag a at' <3

Closest match: Triglochin maritima genome assembly, chromosome: 13 Common name: Seaside Arrowgrass

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

@hellsitegenetics

“I love them”

“I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.”

“it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!”

“so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches”

“perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for”

“It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!”

“Creatures 👍”

“Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite”

“Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.”

“I love them. English speakers talk like moths”

“If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!”

“uhh it’s cool”

“BLAST”

“There are so many weird bugs in the world”

“Yippee!!”

“If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.”

“Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH”

“Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie”

“the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise”

“This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.”

@jesus-holding-your-fave

“an underrated gimmick blog where jesus holds all of your blorbos”

“jesus just wants to hold your lil guys”

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

Surprise! We're doing it now!

Also, I lowered the queue down to 8 posts a day. Anything more than 2 won't slow the competition down, and doing it this way adds suspense and doesn't spam your dashboards

@hellsitegenetics

“I love them”

“I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.”

“it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!”

“so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches”

“perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for”

“It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!”

“Creatures 👍”

“Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite”

“Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.”

“I love them. English speakers talk like moths”

“If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!”

“uhh it’s cool”

“BLAST”

“There are so many weird bugs in the world”

“Yippee!!”

“If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.”

“Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH”

“Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie”

“the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise”

@orca-detector

“orcas are pretty cool i think”