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Todayās Exhibit of the Day? Itās one of the largest amethyst geodes in the world! At about 13 ft (4 m) tall and 9,000 lbs (4,082 kg), this giant weighs about as much as three compact cars. It was "born" when molten magma poured from the Earthās crust some 135 million years ago. While its dazzling purple crystals might catch your eye, this geode would have originally been composed of colorless quartzāits distinctive amethyst color deriving from millenia of natural radiation, heat, and trace contaminants.Ā
You can spot this geode, and other sparkly specimens, in the Museumās Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals!Ā Plan your visit.
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Did you know? Also known as the elephant clam, the Pacific geoduck (Panopea generosa) can reach lengths of 6 ft (1.8 m) and survive for more than a century! This gigantic mollusk can be found along the shores of western North America. This critterās long āneck,ā called a siphon, has two openingsāone for breathing and feeding and one for filtering out excess water. And yes⦠itās edible. Photo: kathawk, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Alt: A photo of a geoduck held in gloved human hands.The clamās shell is gray, while its large fleshy siphon is brownish in color.
Behold the striking colors of the red-bellied mud snake (Farancia abacura)! Growing up to 6.8 ft (2.1 m) long, this reptile can be found in swampy areas of the southeastern United States. Though it uses its bright colors as a warning to foes, this critter is non-venomous and would sooner flee than fight! When threatened, it might roll over to flash its vibrant underbelly, intimidating would-be predators by mimicking the look of venomous coral snakes. It can also excrete a foul-smelling musk from glands in the base of its tail.
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Meet the rusty-spotted cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus). Known as the āhummingbird of cats,ā this species is one of the worldās smallest felines, reaching weights of only 3.5 lbs (1.6 kg). Primarily nocturnal, this cat uses its large eyes to hunt under the cover of darkness. It can be spotted in parts of Southeast Asia including India, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
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(by _adamdesjardins)
Do you really know your favorite character?
1. What do they value most?
2. What are the relationships they have with other people?
3. What do they gain from this situation?
4. What do they lose from this situation?
5. With what do they work? How did they get to work there?
6. Do they leave room for ambiguity?
7. What are the most characterized traits of their personality? What do they seek in life?
8. Are they morally gray? What is their category and why?
9. Do they possess empathy ? How is this empathy layered? How does it show ? Is it clearly shown?
10. What could possibly be the ulterior motives of this character?
IDENTITY:
11. Who are they when nobody is watching?
12. How do they define themselves?
13. How do other people define them?
14. What aspects of their identity are genuine, and which are performances?
15. What contradictions exist within them?
16. What are they trying to hide from themselves?
17. What role do they believe they play in the world?
18. If they had to describe themselves in one sentence, what would they say?
MOTIVATIONS:
19. What do they consciously want?
20. What do they unconsciously need?
21. What fear drives most of their decisions?
22. What desire overrides their morality?
23. What are they willing to sacrifice?
24. What line would they never cross?
25. What would make them abandon their current goals?
PSYCHOLOGY:
26. What is their greatest insecurity?
27. What emotional wound shaped them?
28. What memories influence them the most?
29. What emotion do they suppress most often?
30. What emotion do they express most easily?
31. What coping mechanisms do they rely on?
32. Are they self-aware?
33. How accurate is their perception of themselves?
34. What defense mechanisms do they frequently use?
35. How do they react under prolonged stress?
MORALITY:
36. How do they justify harmful actions?
37. What do they consider unforgivable?
38. Would they rather be loved, respected, feared, or understood?
39. Do they believe the ends justify the means?
40. What belief would completely change their behavior if they abandoned it?
41. What is their personal definition of justice?
42. Are they hypocritical? If so, in what ways?
43. What moral compromises have they already made?
RELATIONSHIPS:
44. Who knows them best?
45. Who misunderstands them the most?
46. Whom do they admire?
47. Whom do they envy?
48. Whom do they fear disappointing?
49. Which relationship changes them the most?
50. Do they manipulate people intentionally or unconsciously?
51. What kind of people are they naturally drawn toward?
52. What kind of people threaten them?
COMUNICATIONS:
53. What do they say versus what they actually mean?
54. What topics do they consistently avoid?
55. Do they communicate directly or indirectly?
56. What lies do they tell most often?
57. When do they become completely honest?
58. What can be learned from their silence?
DEVELOPMENT:
59. How do they change throughout the story?
60. What event permanently transforms them?
61. Which belief survives until the end?
62. Which belief is destroyed?
63. Does the story reward or punish their worldview?
64. Could they have become a different person under different circumstances?
65. Which version of themselves could they have become?
PHILOSOPHY:
66. What gives meaning to their life?
67. What is their philosophy of happiness?
68. How do they view death?
69. How do they understand freedom?
70. What do they believe humans are fundamentally like?
71. What illusion keeps them going?
72. What truth would break them?
73. What truth ultimately frees them?
NARRATIVE:
74. Are they a reliable perspective?
75. What does the author want the reader to question through this character?
76. Which symbols are associated with them?
77. How does the setting reflect their psychology?
78. What archetype do they begin as?
79. Do they subvert that archetype?
80. What would be lost if this character were removed from the story?
81. What central theme of the novel is embodied by them?
82. Which scenes reveal their true nature most clearly?
BETTER ANALYSIS:
83. What is the greatest lie this character believes?
84. What truth do they refuse to face?
85. At what precise moment do they become who they are?
86. Which decision best defines them?
87. What are they incapable of understanding?
88. What would completely destroy their identity?
89. What do they mistake for love?
90. What do they mistake for strength?
91. What are they trying to proveāand to whom?
92. If this character lived in our world, how would they be psychologically evaluated?
93. Which philosophical tradition best explains their worldview?
94. What does this character reveal about human nature?
95. If the story ended differently, would this character still be the same person?
It's nuts how common it is to not allow children to be angry, even (especially) in households where adults are angry all the time. As a child I knew my own anger was unacceptable--not just expressing it outwardly but feeling it at all. So now as an adult my immediate reaction to my own anger is often to feel guilt instead of like. Noticing when someone is being rude or unfair or my boundaries are being violated or whatever. fucked up.
my horse somehow escaped the stable, stole apples from the market, and came back before i noticed. i am raising a master criminal
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when I was in high school I had a literature teacher who had a policy of unlimited extra credit. All you had to do was read a book by a notable author (his discretion) and have a little chat with him after school to prove that you read it. No limits, no need for variety (one month I decided I really loved Kurt Vonnegut and just read everything of his I could get my hands on).
Yes, I was tearing through books constantly, and talking to this teacher at least weekly. Because even though I always loved reading as a kid, literature was always a very weak subject for me in terms of a teaching-to-standardized-test school setting (I just do awful on "what color were the curtains" type multiple choice questions. Those details don't stick in my memory THEY JUST DON'T). But that didn't matter for this class. I could just read my way out of any bad test score. I have always had fond memories of how I "fudged" my way through that class and "abused' the extra credit policy.
I was thinking about it again today, and only just now realized that he absolutely tricked me into being well-read, while my teenage self thought I was totally getting away with something. THAT MOTHERFUCKER. I hope he's doing well.
Iām 400 years old and still on tumblr
They were united, not merely through poetry quotes and kisses, notes and blond locks, rather in their very blood. They were initiated to one another. Each had been celebrant and victim. Their friendship had become a religion, they had preserved it from mere chance; they had imbibed it into themselves: according to the words of the canticle, it hid in their wounds.
ā Les AmitiĆ©s ParticuliĆØres, Roger Peyrefitte trad. yours truly
"Severus would've never joined the DEs if he truly loved Lily!!!"
You know what Severus also loved? What every fucking human being actually loves? Being safe. Being protected. Not experiencing violence and humiliation constantly. Not being murder attempted. Not being discriminated against with barely any means to fight back. Not being left without financial, social, and moral resources after school.
It's completely wild that people expect a teen boy to love a friend so much he disregards his own basic needs completely, siding with people who abused him instead of people who offered him help and protection and belonging. Severus had life beyond Lily. I am very sorry it mattered to him too, and his whole existence didn't spin around ensuring she's safe and happy. Wait until Snape is 20 so he can go mentally unwell enough for that kind of self-sabotage, geez.
Imagine a 13-16 years old Severus looking for a Muggle summer job ā to have some decent food and clothes, to replace the old things Marauders have damaged for fun, to fund some equipment and ingredients for his potions experiments, to finally buy Lily a proper birthday present and to stay away from his house ā and not being able to find anything, cause: "Youāre that Snape boy! They live down Spinnerās End by the river,ā she told Lily, and it was evident from her tone that she considered the address a poor recommendation."
And he is socially awkward, not physically strong, and wouldn't have a lot of connections with the locals in his home town. So he'd settle for the worst options ā long hours, very small pay, no protection, probably illegally through cash-in-hand.

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I donāt want a handsome Snape. I donāt need him to be āhot.ā I donāt need excuses to find him attractive. I want the Severus who couldnāt care less about his appearance because heās utterly depressedāthe Severus who couldnāt afford kidsā clothes and had to wear his motherās hand-me-downs. I want the Severus with the long nose, crooked teeth, hunched posture, and that sleep-deprived look that says he hasnāt seen a good nightās rest in a century. I want the Severus whose physical appearance speaks to his miserable life in some crumbling neighborhood in the roughest part of Englandāthe Severus whoās basically the embodiment of the poorest of the working class. Thatās the Severus I find hot.
If he ever had to leave his mess of a home on Spinnerās End and look āpresentable,ā heād throw on the oldest, most threadbare clothes he owns, probably oversized because heās skeletal from stress. Heād look like some ghost from up north, his face reflecting both his awful life and the harsh social class he was born into. This is a Snape who doesnāt give off tortured anti-hero vibes in some romantic Byron-esque way. No, heās straight out of an Irvine Welsh, Charles Bukowski, or John Fante novelāthe kind of Snape whoād be right at home in a Guy Ritchie movie. Thatās the Snape I want, feeding into my terrible, questionable tastes.
Iām not interested in some elegant, well-groomed, or conventionally sexy Snape. Please, keep that image far away from me.
I know weāve discussed this so many times in our community, but I feel the need to say it (Iām working on a few essays right now)
Severus and James were never rivals. It was mutual hate because James was bullying him. James did not grow up, escaped the war and then died. Severus didnāt escape. He was ostracized by the marauders and became a huge target, so obviously heās going to seek solace in the place where heās treated with kindness (DE). James and Sirius were rich, pureblood, privileged boys who abused their status and power over a poor half-blood with no friends which set him down that path in the first place. He has no reason to forgive any of his abusers. He is a victim many different forms of assault and manipulation, including sexual assault. Whether James actually ended up removing his underwear or not (because I see people saying that since itās not explicitly in the books, it couldnāt have happened, so weāre āreachingā), it is still sexual assault to forcibly restrain somebody and threaten to expose them.