distant mutual

you would honestly think we could get along with skeletons as a class considering we all have a personal dedication and fealty to one particular skeleton each and will literally throw our bodies in the way of anything that might hurt it even though it's often more durable than we are. Like some people won't even do that for their kids. And yet. And yet. And yet.

they have literally found people's beloved skeletons in human graves buried right there with the jewelry and plastic flowers and such that is not something you do with something you do not love

love in my heart for the beautiful beeflies, one of whom tried to sip nectar from the closed top of my bag of tortillas, and another who tried to do so from between my latex-gloved fingers. you're so stupid but please don't get any smarter it's too cute

can the skinnyfat homie rockin the cargo shorts hit it just this one time

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

Shakespeare is like this

Graced by Geckolepis typica from Madagascar. I love that they’re quite round creatures and then they have these dainty little toes. Also, their scales are full bone and both scale and skin come off when they get grabbed, which is…unpleasant. Consequently, catching these geckos for research without damaging them requires special techniques. 19th century researchers used bundles of cotton wool, but I imagine this wasn’t very effective, because cotton still has a lot of friction and the friction would pull the skin and scales off. In my (quite extensive) experience, the best technique is to carefully and quickly flick the geckos from their tree trunk or branch into an open dry plastic bag using a finger or stick.

Not only do they grow back, but they come back so well that we cannot even tell where they have ripped off before. This is very weird, because when a lizard loses its tail, it is very obvious where it has been lost and regrown. Not so these chaps. They seek out a humid place to hide, and within a few weeks, skin and scales have started to regrow. The fact that they can do this so well is the reason a team has just sequenced their genome. I believe it is hoped that the skin regeneration tech they have built into their cells could eventually be harnessed for human skin grafts.

making a mountain out of a molehill and dying on it

i like when i put a little emoticon at the end of my parentheticals (like this ^_^) because it turns it into a messageworm