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“Hey, I found your blog on Tumblr-”

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The sack of goop is used for echolocation too!! Theres a organ that makes a sound that travels to the front of the sperm whale's head and back to the starting point and then out again. When it hits the front of the spermaceti sack/spermaceti organ (spermaceti is the name of the goop) part of the sound is released into the water and comes back when it hits an obstacle. Them being SO LOUD is an important part of this process, the sound wave "lasts longer" per se.

This is knowledge from a weirdly specific physical exercise from last year and Herman Melville's Moby Dick - or "The Whale", so some of it might be a bit blurred in the mind archives. Its still very interesting. I love sperm whales!

Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

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If we get a hoo show I plead

Leo talking about how some male celebrity or some male camper is so hot as Piper give him side eyes

Hazel swearing the dirtiest things while everyone stares at her like 😧

Leo feeling proud the monsters were afraid of him, but cut the scene to show Frank and Jason standing behind him

Frank hitting his forehead on the top door frame (multiple times)

Some scene where they kill a insect but then Hazel ask "where Frank is?" and everyone FREEZES (bro was just taking a tap)

Leo constantly making "deez nuts" and similar jokes to Jason (and he fall everytime)

Jason sniffing his friends hair in the background

Annabeth and Leo arguing like the classic architect vs engineer ancient fight. Jason try to help them out but they both tell him to fuck off.

Leo and Nico discussing on the background (Nico is straight up insulting him as he should)

Nico making some Italian jokes that doesn't make sense in American English and just going "in my culture this is hilarious"

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The fandom is so deprived that the artists are turning into Monet 😭

before

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Worst pain

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I am in awe

yes, percy rose through the ranks of new rome disturbingly fast. no, jason did not do the same at camp half blood. yes, percy's rise to leadership at both camps took about two weeks and was completely unplanned. no, the same cannot be said for jason. his rise was carefully planned and took over a decade. they're both children of the big three, but where percy thrums with raw power, jason is a sword honed by zeus and hera. where percy is a survivor, jason is a weapon. where percy is a cycle breaker, jason can't get out. jason's fatal flaw was temptation to deliberate because he never managed to make his own choices. he was every classic definition of a hero rolled into one, and he never questioned it because his happiness came after the responsibility. jason was never going to ascend as fast as percy because jason was raised on hard work and discipline while percy, an abuse survivor and child of poverty, knew when to fight dirty. where jason was a transplant, percy was an invasive species. jason was always going to die because he was never more than a tool for the gods to throw away when he outlived his usefulness, or when he started to question his place. if someone as locked down as jason can question the system, anyone can. now that luke has put thoughts of overthrow in everyone's heads, zeus has to be very careful because while jason was expendable as his weapon, percy was unexpected in every way. zeus has no plan for him. when percy dies, he will become a martyr, so he can't die, except now everyone knows that percy doesn't want to be a god either. jason had to die, and now percy has to live.

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Bought a sweater for my step dad today, for Christmas, and the man in front of me was taking ages to get his stuff ready (not blaming him, the process takes a while, be was really nice about it too) and the man waiting after me, probably thinking no one would notice, started 'dancing' doing little rythmed steps from square to square on the carpet in the middle of the store... It was adorable. Guy was probably in his fifties and still doing little kid dances on patterned carpets because it's okay and fun and it brothers no one.

Be like the guy and dance on the little squares you find :)

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toradora makes everything better

I love toradora so much, truly one of my favorites of all time

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Thank you, Monet, for being the absolute best at flowers 💚💚💚💚

Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

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It was very cold today. And as I walked the streets, going back home, the café close to my school shared some warmth with me, lending me cinnamon and cider through its open door.

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About my girls 💚

I think my best friends are the most beautiful girls in the world. All their "imperfections" sit perfectly on them. When they sing, I try to drown out the music to listen to them. When they join in the laughter I hold my breath to look at how wide they're smiling. When we're walking side by side, I purposefully bump into their arms to see the bounce in their step when they turn to look at me and ask what I wanted to say. I say I didn't have anything to say and that it was an accident and then look at the flow of their hairs when they turn back to the conversation they we're holding with the friend on the other side. When they talk to me, I find myself studying their faces, the movement of their eyes and eyebrows. Sometimes I have to ask them to repeat themselves because of that.

And after school, each four of us having gone out separate ways, one of them probably playing thumb war with her brother on the backseat of the car, another one waiting for the train and the other in the frontseat of her mother's car singing along to White Lies, me at my workdesk (I always get home before them) staring at the limits worksheet on my computer, I think about them. I open Google docs and make them the fearless one woman army with a sword on fire, the bounty hunter that rides a lilac dragon and the fairy princess that holds all music inside her wings, all of them protagonists of a fantasy. I make them the sensible, the sceptical and the compassionate goddesses and queens of a hundred civillizations I imagine. To be by their side, I make myself the witch with a thousand spell and alchemy books, the charming muse of the smaller temple, the travelling Oracle that reads their dreams and brings then their good fortune.

Even when only one of them trusts me to know the timing to cross the street just as the light turns red and the other two stay behind shaking their heads. Even when only one of them wants to go to the playground for kids half out age and do stupid stuff that makes the other two joke about not even knowing us. Even when only one of them sings along to the funny songs by kids' artists that I put on when it's all to silent and the other two ask us to lowers the volume. Even in those moments when they frown and roll their eyes and look exasperated, even then, I love them to the marrow.

So, to you, sensible warrior, thank you for following to the lunch table on that first day of school. And to you, sceptical hunter and compassionate fairy, thank you for letting us sit next to you at that lunch table.

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Just walked past a girl exiting the art school near my house. It's cold outside and the smell of her salty French fries warmed me up.

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Perfectly worded.

romance is probably the best thing storytellers have ever invented and the stupidest thing people have put into practice. what the fuck were we thinking doing this nonsense irl. that's for art and storybooks idiot. go back to the canvas and easil, peasant

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Thank you so much!!

Does anyone have good fics of Percy and Nico being friends and kind of brotherly??? I need some dose of that before going back to real life

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oh, don't mind me. Just thinking about how Percy canonically used nature magic even though that shouldn't have been possible for a normal demigod. (in the lightning thief on gabe, I swear)

oh don't mind me, i'm just thinking about how Sally seems to get younger when she's near the sea and her eyes change colors as well.

oh don't mind me, i'm just thinking about how Percy described the sea nymph his father sent to talk to him as looking exactly like his mother.

oh don't mind me, i'm just thinking about how Percy is part sea nymph and nobody fucking noticed.

EDIT: no I don't think sally is a full blooded sea nymph I still think she is more human than mythological creature. I just think it might explain a few things

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If your opinions and feelings have justified bases then yes, i would.

Jk, id love you even if your favourite hero was Theseus

Would you still love me if I'd say I actually feel bad and sympathetic for Paris

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I am sure of it.

Do you think Odysseus of Ithaca can crush a watermelon between his thighs