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A fish swimming in the Great Lakes today may have been alive before many colonial settlements existed in the region.

A new scientific study suggests lake sturgeon may live far longer than previously believed. Using 44 years of tagging and recapture data from five Great Lakes populations, researchers estimated that male lake sturgeon may live 90 to 279 years, while females could potentially reach 99 to 427 years.

For many years, scientists estimated sturgeon age by counting growth rings in fin spines, similar to tree rings. Researchers now say that method becomes less reliable as lake sturgeon age because their growth slows and the rings become increasingly difficult to distinguish. By tracking individual fish over decades, the study offers a new way to understand how long these ancient fish may live.

The findings also align with knowledge long shared by some Indigenous communities, whose oral traditions have described lake sturgeon as exceptionally long-lived beings. In many Great Lakes cultures, sturgeon hold deep importance as part of foodways, seasonal knowledge, and relationships with waterways.

Lake sturgeon were once heavily harvested and treated as nuisance fish in the late 1800s, contributing to major population declines. According to Michigan DNR reporting, less than 1% of historic Great Lakes lake sturgeon numbers remain. Because they mature slowly and reproduce over many decades, recovery takes time across generations.

The study highlights the value of long-term monitoring and collaboration among Tribal Nations, fisheries researchers, universities, and conservation agencies. Protecting healthy rivers, spawning habitat, and connected waterways remains important for the future of this species.

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★ for personal favorites ✂︎ for short stories

i'm not including Faustus or the works of William Shakespeare because I am of the belief they were made for the play medium, and therefore should be watched not read.

Epic of Gilgamesh by Unknown (2100 B.C.) [X] First story written down. Wrestling with the hunt for immortality and doomed yaoi it's got everything you've ever wanted.

Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer (750–700 B.C.) [X] If someone tells you to skip the Iliad make sure their heart stops beating. Straight up worth the hype and I'm not kidding.

Beowulf by Unknown (500–521) [X] There's a lot of filler but that's the fun part. Gives you a higher understanding of LOTR and Skyrim which you can whip out for the clout.

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1000-1021) [X]

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1194) [X] Actually more interesting than it first seems, stick with it. Surprisingly woke (Jewish woman main character who does that time period's equivalent of a mic drop).

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1320) Again a fucking trek, but also fucking fascinating

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1387-1400) [X]

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (1513)

Water Margin by Shuihu Zhuan (~1524)

Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1596) [X] It's a FUCKIN READ so prep yourself but to be fair if you made it through Beowulf you can do anything.

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605-1615) [X] Has a chapter where a woman breaks apart incel ideology in front of a crowd and it's not even part of the main plot. Long asf but worth it (for the clout).

Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) Best if read as a character study on the author himself.

Cadenus and Vanessa by Jonathan Swift (1713) [X]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729) [X]

★Songs of Innocence and of Experience & Other Poems by William Blake (1724) [X] The version linked works well as the images ARE important, he drew, carved, and then printed the art with wood prints at home on his own to sell.

Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin, Gao E & Cheng Weiyuan (1791)

1800s & 1900s

★Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1811) "Were I asked, what is a fairytale? I should reply, Read Undine: that is a fairytale… and of all fairytales I know, I think Undine the most beautiful." - George MacDonald INCREDIBLY unknown for how influential it was, my theory is it's a tragedy instead of a romance, in every sense of the words. Directly inspired and is practically the mother of Hans Christian Anderson's Little Mermaid. Created the term Undine which some may be familliar with. Don't let Toby Fox fool you, THIS spelling is pronounced un-deen.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)

✂︎The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820) [X]

The various works of Edgar Allen Poe (1827-1849) ✂︎ Horror: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher Detective: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, The Purloined Letter by the way he invented modern detective fiction but they don't tell you that.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) [X] The birth of Sci-Fi

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1839) [X]

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens (1843) [X]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) [X]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) [X]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (1848) [X]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) [X]

Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851) [X]

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup (1853)

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for men and women by George MacDonald (1857) [X] If you were wondering who he is and why he's so important earlier he directly inspired the Inklings (Tolken & Lewis)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll (1865) [X] [X]

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868) [X]

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald (1872) [X] For younger audiences, but who gives a shit.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (1876) [X]

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1881)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883) [X]

✂︎The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) [X]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1891) [X] If you didn't know, Oscar Wilde was convicted in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.

✂︎The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892) [X]

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892) [X]

✂︎Désirée's Baby by Kate Chopin (1892) [X]

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) [X]

★Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) [X] It's actually a collection of letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings, etc. So the 1800s equivalent of found-footage. if anyone tried to convince you of a mina x dracula romance make sure they never again breathe

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Lili'uokalani (1898)

I Am a Cat, Kokoro, Botchan, Sanshirō, & Light and Darkness by Natsume Sōseki (1905-1916)

Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908) [X]

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) [X]

Peter Pan : [Peter and Wendy] by J. M. Barrie [X] (1911)

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915) [X]

And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, and Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (1919-1970)

The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore (1919)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Gatsby's black

The Flowers of Buffoonery by Osamu Dazai (1935)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

★Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938) Don't let shitty movie remake trailers make you think it's a romance. It's, in all technicality, a ghost story.

✂︎Are Women Human? by Dorothy L. Sayers (1938)

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (1948)

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1948)

1984 by George Orwell (1949)

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (1949) Many people say this is a better version of Confessions of a Mask. Probably because it's instead about him "masking" being gay.

✂︎There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (1950) [X] [Illustrated]

The Bad Seed by William March (1954) Was so popular it was immediately made into a play and then a Hitchcock film released 2 years later. When people read the book or saw the play, they'd stress not to tell those you'd recommend to read/see it the twist, so the first story I can at least find with spoiler culture. If you're wondering why, it's the origin of a genre trope.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955) If anyone tells you it's glorifying anything shoot them on the spot for me thank you.

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)

★The Once and Future King by T. H. White (1958) You ever watch Disney's A Sword in the Stone as a child and wonder why it was all Arthur as a kid? that was not an original idea it was based solely on this book. Written very cleverly and whimsically.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (1958)

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (1960)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962) Book that makes it very clear Shirley Jackson was developing very bad agoraphobia. Not a horror novel if you're avoiding them.

The First Promise by Ashapurna Devi (1964)

✂︎An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1963) by Ambrose Bierce [X] Got an adaptation via an episode of The Twilight Zone [X]

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin (1967)

★The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (1967)

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1972)

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

three things:

1. it’s true

2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt

Some of my pixel Ghibli studies

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