#incredible creatures

[pushing500]

Can we see more of your cat?

Of course you can!! This is my oldest girl, who was in yesterday's post. She's an absolute cuddlebug who loves to headbutt me right in the mouth and sit on my desk while I'm trying to work until I move her onto my lap, where she will stay for hours.

She is not my only cat, however...

This is my brother's cat, but she still lives in my house. She's very noisy and thinks she's a bird, so she climbs up onto people's shoulders like a parrot whenever she can. She is also convinced she is perpetually on the verge of starvation, but what cat isn't?

My mum rescued this extremely handsome boy from a fox when he was only very smol, but now he's a majestic grown-up kitty who is very easygoing and only grumbles a little bit if you scoop him up to smooch him all over.

The gang's all here <3

There is also a very good pupper to keep the cats in line. She belongs to my dad, and she's an absolute treasure.

[goryfluff]

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

[ljsbugblog]

probably one of the nicest looking moths I've found yet, Joseph's Coat Moth! I'm back from a trip to the northern tropics, and the wildlife did not disappoint.

Joseph's Coat Moth (Agarista agricola).

[geraskierfanficprompts]

Prompt 140

"What?" Geralt asks, frowning, a furrow in his brow. "I turn into a wolf every full moon." Jaskier repeats. "How-" "You were always away on a hunt. You'd just meet me back in the morning." "...You were a werewolf this whole time?" "..Yes. I- I'm sorry, Darling. I never wanted to lie." "Why didn't you trust me with this? Did you think I would hurt you?" "No! I thought I would hurt you. I'm not myself on full moons, Geralt. I can't even remember them. All I know is that the moon raises, i feel this ache in my bones, and the next thing I know, I'm waking up the next morning, nude, with a full stomach of what is HOPEFULLY nothing gross." "...You've not transformed in towns, have you?" "No! Of course not! I'm terrified of hurting someone, Geralt! That's the only reason I'm telling you now! I got the charts mixed up, I thought the moon was still a week away, but it isn't, and we're near a town, and I need you to keep me restrained." A long pause settles between them. "You want me to guard you?" "Guard them. From me. Keep me trapped in a shack and- And lock it up tight. Chain me, hurt me, knock me out, whatever you must do. Keep me from being a danger. I never wanted to be a terrifying beast, Geralt." Jaskier says, with those damned wet doe eyes of his. Geralt agrees. Because he doesn't know a world where he wouldn't. Mere hours later, Jaskier is sat against a beam in an old rundown barn. He's tied up with rope, and chained on top of that. There are no windows in the barn, the door is fully barricaded and locked, and Geralt guards it. "You really should guard it from outside" Jaskier had said. "I'm not leaving you to do this alone. You never should have had to." Geralt replied. Thus, Geralt stands and watches as Jaskier pales and starts twitching. The moon is rising. "It's coming- I'm going to be a beast." Jaskier says with fear, before the transformation takes the air out of his lungs. Geralt watches in horror and awe as Jaskier's body changes, changes, changes.... In... Into a songbird? sitting on the ground is a fat little songbird. It easily hops over the ropes and chains, now much too lose to hold it. Him. Oh my gods. Jaskier's not a werewolf. He's a... were.... werebird... And not even a scary one. Jaskier starts pecking the barn floor and Geralt rubs a hand over his face in exhaustion. He prepared for the worst, and instead is treated to watching Jaskier struggle to bathe in a trough. "Jaskier, it's too deep." He tells the bird, as it fluffs up it's wings. "Jaskier, you're going to-" Jaskier tries to take a step into the birdbath, only to fall, dunking his whole fat little body into the depths of the trough. He flails about in the water, chirping panickedly. Geralt rushes to his aid, gently lifting him out of the water with gentle hands. Perhaps guarding over Jaskier will still be a challenge after all.

[markscherz]

Just learned that tadpoles with injured tails sometimes regenerate them with extra legs

[src]

So that's neat.

[chanrizard]

sniff sniff

[mikimeiko]

Scavengers Reign | Miniseries (2023), Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner

[smolcrow465]

tumblr killed the quality but anyways. i have brainrot <3

shamelessly drawn over that one pemis driving image. you know the one. inspired by this <3

[glovelylovely]

one day you think: i want to die.

and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually.

i think i want a coffee.

a nap.

a sandwich.

a book.

and i want to die turns day by day into

i want to go home,

i want to walk in the woods,

i want to see my friend,

i want to sit in the sun,

i want a cleaner kitchen,

i want a better job,

i want to live somewhere else,

i want to live.

(poem from duckbunny, but with a lesbian twist. post inspired by bittersweetresilience.)

[bothersomedirtchild]

My first contribution to the beetlejuice community

[hellenhighwater]

Painting on a train is kind of a bumpy prospect but what else am I supposed to do

Anyways Frankenstein was phenomenal. I'll probably talk more about it later but right now I have to figure out what to do with this dirty paint water

[bunbunpa]

I feel like we as a society need to acknowledge the media literacy every fan of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein goes through.

Which goes in this order:

-Victor is a monster for what he did/The Creature is the victim.

-The Creature is a monster for what he did/Victor is the victim.

-The Creature AND Victor are simultaneously victims of their circumstances.

-The Creature and Victor are both perpetrators and both show incredible entitlement that ruins the lives of victims around them. You cannot excuse either characters actions no matter how much you empathize with them.

[creatureimages]

in love...

[kettle-bird]

The Creature of all time

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classifcation by @waterfallpleco

"This is Spot. I’ve only had Spot for a few hours now but if anything were to happen to him/her I’ll kill everybody in the room and then myself (b99 reference I had too lol).

But in all seriousness I quickly learned in the first 20 minutes of having him/her home that she/he does what she/he wants like suction cup climb his/her way out of her/his acclimation container 15-25 minutes before he/she was going to be released into the forty gallon aquarium. Spot is an inch long baby bristle nose and I won’t know the gender til they are at least 3-4 inches when Spot either grows in his bristle beard and mustache or she just has a little “stubble” mustache lining the tip of her snout."

[markscherz]

what's your LEAST favourite herptile? the stupidest frog? the ugliest lizard? no, not either of those. so which one is it?

it's actually the very word 'herptile'. It's like saying 'birdosaurs'.

I'm guessing it stems from people wanting to expand 'herp' out into a longer word that is a noun for the animals we study as herpetologists or are interested in as 'herpers'. But that doesn't really exist. So we get this weird portmanteau of herp and reptile, apparently forgetting the amphibians. Reptibian or Amphibitiles would be better portmanteaus if we actually wanted a reasonable word representing both groups.