#i guess it got bored with life

[theneverfadinglands]

Actually, seahorses belong to the class of Actinopterygii. For a reference the Actinopterygii/Sarcopterygii split happened sometime in Silurian (no I do not remember exacly when), which is a geological age dating rougly 445-420 milion years ago from what I can remember. We as humans are very distant descendants of the Sarcopterygii line.

Fish in general belong to Actinopterygii, seahorses are part of Teleostei (aka boney fishies) which is what we usually call fish, but they are part of the order of Syngnathiformes and if I remember correctly, it means something like "joined-jaw-shaped-things." It is a sister group of mackrels. So seahorses are brothers of mackrels and tunas. I would say that what is commonly called "fish" is really really broad and span way too many phylogenetical trees.

Anyway after the Actinopterygii/Sarcopterygii split, another one occured in the Devonian age (420-360 milion years ago): the Rhipidistia split. Sarcopterygii divided to Actinistia and Rhipidistia, we along with all other tetrapods, belong to Rhipidistia, the only living animals belonging to Actinistia are latimerias.. which means that this:

is more closely related to you and me than a seahorse. Please applause for our distant ancient auntie Lati, you do not want her to pinch your cheeks.

Biolib.cz. (Jan Richtr, 2009). Taxon image: Latimeria chalumnae

https://www.biolib.cz/cz/taxonimage/id106475/?taxonid=16217&type=1

I just don’t get it. How can our society act so goddamned normal about seahorses. How can anybody so casually accept that that’s a fish???

This is one of nature’s most anatomically perverse of all beasts. A FISH, like a carp or a bass or a beta is a fish, but it bent its body straight up only to bend its head permanently back down. It stretched its skull into a pipe. It tapered its tail like a lizard, specifically like a chameleon. It can also move its eyes independently by the way, you know, like a chameleon. Fun fact, it can change color to express its mood, like you know whatever does that. It doesn’t properly swim anymore. It buzzes its few remaining fins like an insect’s wings to float itself around at a snail’s pace. It lives its whole life clinging to coral branches or seaweed, which means it decided to become a “tree dweller” in an environment where gravity didn’t even matter anyway. The males get pregnant. They make noises at each other by rubbing some of their neck bones together. Every day, EVERY DAY a mated pair does a little dance and a little neck bone song so they remember which two seahorses they were. They’re a beautiful precious obscenity. Nothing so adorable ever made such a strong case against a logical creator.

They have as little skin and meat as they could get away with. Their skeleton is almost all they are.

[spookberry]

I am often plagued with the memory of how at the end of Hiyokoi they added a toxic conniving lesbian character that tried to kill herself off in front of the main character for petty reasons only for the literal next chapter to have her be fine again and crushing on a girl like a normal person

[ianthesmells]

like ooouuuughhh the sadness n grief makes me nauseous and then i cant eat anything because im nauseous which in turn makes me more nauseous

[polaroid-petals]

Sometimes my thoughts drift into how lonesome and terribly bored Omori must've felt in those four years waiting in a blank room, my heart starts hurting, and I gotta back out again

[talkorsomething]

I have Got to get more transgender

[sapphicautistic]

Starting to stress about potentially losing our housing but like it's all so up in the air and idk where we'd go so even if I weren't in a flareup and overwhelmed by everything I should be doing idk what I could even like. Do to prepare for it

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

it's controversial to say this i guess but i genuinely believe last life was the least interesting life series season and youre all lying to me about enjoying it

[corpseaten]

do you guys want to know something funny. When I feel lonely I go to play enstars roleplay on roblox on my own because i know nobody is online there anymore so i just go and sit on the swings as mayoi and do that for like an Hour and just stare at my computer screen blankly.

[poisoned-pearls]

you know, Idk if I have to say it, but, cut off those people who drain you. You shouldn’t always have to text first, your friendship shouldn’t end because you stopped talking.

And I know it sucks, that feeling of crippling loneliness. But when shit was absolutely the worst for me, when everything had fucking crashed and burned, I met a few people who finally reminded me what it meant to have someone care, and you’ll get it soon

[theflyingfeeling]

...💇‍♀️

[kokoinupi]

put in the tags what item you've spent the most money on and how much it was

[dashiellqvverty]

my opinion on season 11 is that ian and mickey were all over the place from episode to episode and i ultimately wasn’t very happy with where it ended for them

[plantenjoyer]

I SWEAR I KEEP TRYING TO DO ART BUT THEN SOMETHING GETS IN THE WAY AND THEN I PROCRASTINATE AND THEN SIX MONTHS PASS

[kerryweaverlesbian]

You legit have the best spn takes I love the patheticness of Rowena but never actually thought too much about it but your post makes me appreciate that part of her sm

Thank you! People are so nice to me 🥹 she needs to be a little scheming worm who gets maybe two thirds of what she wants maximum. She needs a project. She would be bored of running Hell with no conflict or further goals within about a week. Rowena has wanted the IDEA of running Hell for a long time but from what we've seen of what being monarch of Hell actually IS with Crowley (or, what he made it into) she's going to be bored out of her skull. She looked bored in the episode. She's a schemer!! Let her scheme! It's like if Chandler from FRIENDS just stopped telling jokes forever as his final position on the show and all his (titular) friends agreed it was good for him. Or if Winston from New Girl put down his racoon costume and said "I'm going to become an ivestment banker" and did it with no issues and no silliness that was his endgame. It doesn't feel right.

Anyway!!!!! Pathetic Rowena is so good. When she was trying to build a coven and all the witches were like. Have you forgotten that you're a complete loser??? Or when she "reconnects" with Crowley as his untrustworthy advisor and gives the most obviously scheming bad advice and the only reason he lets her get away with it is because she's his mother and he pities her a little. Or when she manages to get in good with Amara but Amara's like hm. You kind of suck huh. like that's golden.

I would have had, for her final appearance as "queen of hell", she does her whole big grand entrance being carried around by demons (loved that for her), giving (slightly quicker) lofty advice* about working on relationships (because that IS necessary for the theme of the episode) and getting her demons to look for Michael. And THEN after they get the news that he's not in Hell, have one of her demon aides warn her that the actual queen is coming so she's gotta go and the boys are like. The who. What. Meanwhile Rowena is scrambling to get her things and is like 'aye well maybe introducing myself as queen was a tad preemptive, but I will be. Good luck boys, best get out of here sharpish if you want to keep yer heads ❤️" and a specific goodbye to Sam with a kiss on the cheek since she was. His best friend???? and they don't presently have A Moment in the episode. It wouldn't take much. It would also solve the weird place of them being best friends with the queen of hell where - presumably - eternal torture is still happening. Easier to handwave if the position of power is incredibly tenuous like Crowley's was always depicted as.

To conclude. Kiss kiss kiss 💋

*not to be confused with giving Lofty advice, a character from BBC Casualty who crossed over to BBC Holby City and whom I hate with the fire of a million suns.

[zer0point5ive]

lawrence gordon last surviving jigsaw apprentice but at what cost

[risingsunresistance]

feels weird to not have much to post, i feel like i basically disappeared off social media compared to how i used to post but. there is simultaneously so much going on (things that are boring/heavy and not fun to post about) and nothing at all going on (i have not been able to play anything very much and havent been watching anything besides random documentaries i stumble across), leading to me having nothing to say lmao

i did finally write down a bunch of hypixel worldbuilding headcanon junk instead of having it only be word-of-mouth between me and ark lol. only 1700 words, i can do better 👍 it was literally only about admin magic, what exactly it means to "hack," what a server is, and limbo kjgfhk. i might make a big post about the limbo section one day :]