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this year’s prom theme is… *opens envelope* Great Lakes Invasive Species And What Boaters Can Do To Stop Them
And the subject of tonight’s ecology panel is *turns on powerpoint* Enchantment Under the Sea

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Dibaeis absoluta
OK, so why does this lichen look like it is growing mushrooms, even though these are decidedly not mushrooms? My first answer is "just to fuck with you," but D. absoluta evolved long before humankind, nonetheless you specifically. So my second answer is because the mushroom shape just makes functional sense when you want to produce a fruiting body by maximizing the physical area that produces spores, and raising them above the substrate by a thin stalk so they can get caught in and distributed by wind. Ok, so they are the spore producing structure of fungi, shaped like that, how are they not mushrooms? Mushrooms are we typically think of them are the reproductive structures of basidiomycete fungi, the spores are typically released from the lower surface of the fruiting bodies like this:
And in an ascocarp, the reproductive structure of an ascomycete fungi like that of D. absoluta, the spores are released from the upper surface of the fruiting bodies. So like this:
OK this is waaayyy simplified. There are also a bunch of internal physiological differences but you, dear reader, can look those up yourself if you are curious about the nuances of fungal development. But very generally speaking, basidiospores come out the bottom, ascospores come out the top.
So not tiny mushrooms, but very very cute just as they are!
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this morning my coworker and I were evaluating some beans and I said ‘man these beans look pretty good’ and he was like ‘meh I’ve seen better’. top ten exchanges that have happened for thousands of years in every language ever spoken
Most writers don't have a writing problem. they have a finishing problem. and finishing is its own completely different skill that has almost nothing to do with talent. finishing requires you to be okay with the thing being real, being done, existing in the world where people can have opinions about it.
And a lot of people would rather keep it unfinished and perfect in their head than done and flawed and out there. an unfinished draft can still be anything. once you finish it, it becomes one specific thing with specific failures that specific people can point to. so you keep tweaking. you keep saying it's not ready. you go back to the beginning again.
And the years pass and you are a person who is always working on something and never the person who made something. and those are two completely different people with two completely different relationships to this thing they claim to love.
there will never be anything as funny as the mutual disbelief between long form and short form fic writers about each other's style.
short form writers look at people writing 100k+ fics as though this is some sort of talent given as part of a fae bargain, that the commitment required shows some sort of ungodly mental fortitude.
meanwhile long form writers look at people writing 1000 word one shots like god I would cut off my left nipple to be able to say anything concisely. i would love to play with multiple ideas. free me from the shackles of this child I have birthed. i love them but I now must take them to t-ball and doctor's appointments and they're going to destroy everything I own.

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Lohen coming out in the same region as Varka is so funny to me because it makes me think Hoyo had a meeting where they asked themselves "What parts of Gintama made people lose their minds?" and the answer was:
"Tomokazu Sugita and unhinged, battle crazy sadists"
me: being a parasitologist would be pretty neat
also me: *proceeds to rip the skin off my flesh after reading about any skin parasite*
Do bed bugs have any ecological purpose? From what I've read, there aren't really many species that feed on them extensively, since they mostly live indoors.
All the creatures that can thrive indoors with humans are creatures that live in caves, bird's nests, or hollow trees in the wild! Bed bugs for instance are also bird parasites, so as the birds raise their young, the bed bugs use the bird blood to raise their own young, and excess bed bugs get eaten by spiders, predatory beetles, centipedes and all sorts of other tiny predators. The ecological way of looking at this is that the birds are taking nutrients from their environment that the bed bugs are "taking back" and redistributing in a new form. The bird's nest becomes a bug factory cycling that energy back to the bottom of the local food chain. Even if they weren’t eaten by anything else, nest parasites (which include bed bugs, soft ticks, lice, mites, bloodsucking fly larvae and louseflies among others) also help regulate their host's population density, and are the reason many animals avoid reusing the same nests, thus giving other species a turn to use that space and those resources!
Also while this isn’t related to the original question, people should know that bed bugs were once relatively easy and inexpensive to get rid, until the discovery of DDT, hailed as an unbeatable miracle insecticide. DDT became so overused that bed bugs were thought to have been eradicated from the United States for almost 60 years, but what we really did with that excess pesticide was leave behind only the most resilient portion of their gene pool. So resilient, it can cost thousands of dollars to eliminate them from a home, they can still come back from a single surviving female, and some people have had to sacrifice their homes and all possessions to get away from them. So, an attempt to wipe out an “annoying” pest single handedly created a “life destroying” pest, for reasons not a single person predicted at the time.
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Trying to figure out how to draw armour. These are some of my notes I uploaded on patreon. A lot more to come since I really want to figure this one out.
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This is a great reference for mid-15th-century plate armor. I'm going to add a few things that aren't meant as corrections but rather, like, additional info.
That type of bevor seen in the first picture wouldn't usually go with an armet-style helmet, but rather with a helmet without its own built-in neck protection, such as (what is neologically called) a sallet or kettle helm.
If you wanted to get more neck protection out of an armet, you'd use what is usually called a "wrapper plate" which is kind of similar to a bevor but shaped to fit armets.
Arming jackets/doublets (usually also called gambesons - the thing about the Middle Ages is that they didn't actually have a lot of standardized words for things at all and many words we use today to refer to specific pieces of equipment are either completely new, or they refer to something specific today but a medieval person would have used the same word to refer to many different things) have strings all over them not just to keep them tied together but because that's how you attach the plate armor to the body. Their padding also not only acts as padding, but also offers some basic resistance to blades in the event that a blade gets between the plates and through the maille (chainmail) armor that usually fills the gaps between the plates. There is almost no chance at all of a blade penetrating the plates themselves.
Bigger thicker gambesons were worn as a form of armor themselves for poorer soldiers who couldn't afford anything better. They are surprisingly cut-resistant and cushion the body against blunt force as well. Stabbing weapons will go straight through them, but even then it's better to have it than not, because if you're wearing 2 inches of padding and get stabbed by a 5-inch blade in the heat of battle when everyone is constantly moving around and your opponent has no time (or desire) to drive it all the way in, that's only 3 inches deep into your actual flesh instead of 5.
Oh one tip I will give that technically is a correction is that that belt in the bottom-left picture is anachronistic. It's hard to describe how 15th century belts buckle but it usually looks something like this.

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the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
curious. anyway,
I saw that "tiktok killed hobbies" video and I agree with it, but I raise you "modern times killed hobbies as a passion"
as fun
as "amateur work" because now we hear someone is an amateur and we think they're: unexperienced, new and shallow.
when amateur meant "love"
"passion"
the desire to experiment–
so; curiousity
today I took a photo I liked and wanted to edit it on my phone's app. rudimental work for a photo edit, I know. but I played with the configurations. when I felt satisfied I excitedly asked a photograph friend if it looked ok to them. bc they have more experience in photography
the photo had a dawn sky.
cold hues.
I tweaked with everything an average phone build photo edit app let me, colour wise.
he said the tind was too warm.
I have knowlegde in colour theory.
saturation
claire-obscure
3d dimension
lyricism (I believe... I hope)
(I have a formative? art background and like to write. and I love to play with things)
I wanted the tind to be warm, because I had a warm element in the photo; I thought the sky having warm hues would be neat.
the criticism was not malicious. they did say it was personal preference and I am confident? in my visual arts knowledge.
but it made me play with the settings again. this time more, mix them up. see what comes out.
in the end I came up with something closer to my vision
but not quite. I didn't show my friend the new version. I do want to play with it in a better program, on my laptop with the photo.
maybe next time
but my enthusiasm for it died.
not because of my friend. not because of the criticism
...
I realised my "amateur" self
(=love)
(=enthusiasm)
(=passion)
for art died when I was little and my father "corrected" my painting to match the rules
and now im just picking up the pieces.
bit by bit.
year by year.
piqued curiousity.
kindled flame.
stupid, childish enthusiasm waiting to be inevitably snuffed.
yet refusing to be so.
stubborn by nature.
father's daughter in everything but stubborness. because I had been stepped on so many times, you would not bear to endure;
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I find this very interesting bc the EN translation uses "varcolac" (Romanian) and not "volkodlak".
CN also uses different terms, 鬣兽 for "varcolac" and 兽怪 for "volkodlak" (they both mean some kind of beast). What's more, Russian translation also uses "varvolaka" which is an unusual term from what I gather and seems to have the same roots as the Romanian one (and with how Greek also has a similar, term, I'm gonna assume it's from the Phanariot influence but do correct me on that if I'm wrong) Also I do wanna add that I'm aware of the Bulgarian origin of the word. I just find the choice of this particular form of it to be a curious one.

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You know, with this new direction Genshin is taking with its traumatic events and their impact on the victims, I can't help but wonder what this will mean for Childe's story going forward...