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My Merlin Reverse Big Bang fic is up! Based on the prompt and with art by @sa-ua!!
Arthur has known for a long time that Merlin means more to him than he thought anyone, or anything, ever could. When everything he thought he knew about his manservant changes, Arthur has to decide if he really ever knew Merlin at all, or if everything he dreams of having is going to slip through his fingers.
Read here: You're Woven in My Soul (Never Let Me Go)
art sneak peek (since the post yesterday was behind a mature warning):

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Pleasepleasepleaseplease can you just write a LITTLE of the Stiles in Derek's DMs??? I just need something to keep me going while you slowly rip my heart out with other ideas?
I will pay in love?????
Hey Anon, I'm guessing you're talking about this post?
Just for you, ok? :)
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Look up the percentage of Australia desert for **funsies**
Stiles typed out the list and hit send before sliding his phone back into his jacket pocket. The barista called his name and he scooped the large tray of coffees from the counter with a slight wave and a fiver in the tip jar. Shelly always made sure to add the extra whipped cream on his caramel macchiato frost and that was not to be forgotten.
The Boston air was crisp this morning as he stumbled out of the little coffee shop and towards Roscoe who was parked on the narrow street. While school was in Cambridge, the best coffee was across the river and everyone in his Computational biology department knew it.
Which was why Stiles was always the errand boy.
FUCKING REBLOG TO CAST NOW
The entirety of Pritzker's speech today is extremely important, and I highly recommend everyone read it (or listen to it if you prefer), but I would like to share some segments that highlight the overall point of his message.
"I want to speak plainly about the moment that we are in and the actual crisis, not the manufactured one, that we are facing in this city, and as a state, and as a country. If it sounds to you like I am alarmist, that is because I am ringing an alarm, one that I hope every person listening will heed, both here in Illinois and across the country."
"Over the weekend, we learned from the media that Donald Trump has been planning, for quite a while now, to deploy armed military personnel to the streets of Chicago."
"What President Trump is doing is unprecedented and unwarranted. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. It is un-American."
"If this was really about fighting crime and making the streets safe, what possible justification could the White House have for planning such an exceptional action without any conversations or consultations with the governor, the mayor, or the police?
Let me answer that question: This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city, in a blue state, to try and intimidate his political rivals.
This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections."
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention."
"So in case there was any doubt as to the motivation behind Trump's military occupations, take note: 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rate have Republican governors. None of these cities is Chicago.
Eight of the top 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois."
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today, and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is."
"Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidence, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab."
"Earlier today in the Oval Office, Donald Trump looked at the assembled cameras and asked for me personally to say, 'Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city?' Instead, I say, 'Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.'
You are neither wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office that you occupy.
Most alarming, you seem to lack any appropriate concern as our commander-in-chief for the members of the military that you would so callously deploy as pawns in your ever-more-alarming grabs for power."
"To my fellow governors across the nation who would consider pulling your National Guards from their duties at home to come into my state against the wishes of its elected representatives and its people, you would be failing your constituents and your country. Cooperation and coordination between our states is vital to the fabric of our nation and it benefits us all. Any action undercutting that and violating the sacred sovereignty of our state to cater to the ego of a dictator will be responded to."
"Finally, to the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, to the public servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man, to any federal official who would come to Chicago and try to incite my people into violence as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous: we are watching and we are taking names.
This country has survived darker periods than the one that we are going through right now, and eventually the pendulum will swing back."
"You can delay justice for a time, but history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually. If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
sourdough starter is 250 grams of flour, 250 milliliters of cool water, and either 4-6 fresh grapes, roughly chopped, or a small organic apple, cored and roughly chopped. you mix it all up until it resembles to pancake batter.
itāll take anywhere from 3 days to a week for it to come to life: it should have the texture of jelly and smell like parmesan cheese with a bit of vinegar and fruit (it should smell āaliveā).
it helps to have multiple glass masonry jars to store it in.
if you donāt use it all the time, keep it in the fridge. if you do, make sure you have it in a spot that is regularly 65 - 79° f and you can look at it on a daily basis. make sure to refresh it after 2-3 days.
to refresh it: scoop out half of it, which is the ādiscardāāthere are endless recipes out there that can make use of the discard so you donāt have to completely throw it away. replace that with 100 grams of flour with 100 milliliters of water and stir it in really good.
if you havenāt refreshed it, itāll form a layer of dark liquid on top. thatās called hooch, and itās basically an alcohol and a byproduct of the fermentation process (i.e., itās harmless but a sign that the airborne yeast needs something to eat). you just pour it out or stir it back into the starter after refreshing.
before using it, refresh it and then let it sit so it can be all frothy and jellylike. this will take anywhere from 12 hours to a couple of daysāsourdough is one of those things that you work around.
make sure the jar and your tools are nice and clean, too. if you start seeing mold (green, pink, white, or black spots on the starter), itās probably rancid, like there was a contamination along the way or itās been in the fridge for a long time. all else fails, start fresh in a clean jarāas painful as it is to say that; otherwise, if itās on the side of the jar and not the starter, then it probably was inactive for a long time: toss the part that is moldy and work carefully and bring it back to health. mold spores are as ubiquitous as wild yeast, but a sourdough starter is a downright hostile environment for them given itās acidic and alcohol based. iāve had my starter in the fridge since early september so iām in the process of doing that as we speak: no idea if iāll have sourdough rolls to go with thursdayās dinner, but it needed some revamping!
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Darcyās introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really āwhat if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dadās life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where heād just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl heād just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger sheād clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out sheās really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.ā
i actually need to know people's thoughts on this because at least in my experience the answer to this has drastically changed since i was on tumblr in the 2010s and its driving me fucking insane
what's the appropriate way to engage with a fandom take you disagree with on tumblr?
voice your disagreement in the replies
voice your disagreement in a reblog addition
shrug and move on
vaguepost and complain about it on your own blog but dont engage directly
send it to a trusted moot and vent about your frustrations about it in private
bald / nuance / see results
*im talking about fandom takes specifically. not someone being horribly evil about a real-life issue or or blatantly factually incorrect. literally just harmless fandom disagreements or differing interpretations of a text/character/etc.
i need you dorks to REBLOG this if you voted.... i already know my circle of moots and i have the same opinion i need this to spread across fandoms to get a real accurate sample of sufficient size COME ON!!!!!! and love and kisses to everyone reblogging and leaving their thoughts in the tags <3 muah muah xoxo
my grandpa was a good man. and it really wasnt his fault - recreationally lying to kids is a proud family tradition - but he told me, once, that cutting a worm in half resulted in two worms.
i think he said it so i'd be more morally okay with fishing? i actually dont remember the context.
point was, he told me this, and he understimated (by a very large margin) how much i liked worms. i was a worm boy. very wormy. and after hearing that, i went home, and i dug through the garden, flipped over every rock, did everything i could to gather as many worms as i could, and then i uh.
i cut them all in half. every worm i could find. all of them. with scissors.
i then took this pile of split worms, and i put them in a box with a bit of lettuce and some water and stuff and went to bed expecting to double my worms overnight. i have math autism, so i had a vague understanding that if i did this just a few times in a row, i would eventually have a completely unreasonable amount of worms.
i was very excited to become this plane's worm emperor.
(i think i was...six?)
anyway, i did not become the inheritor of the worm crown. i instead woke up to a box of dead worms and cried. a lot. i got diagnosed with panic attacks as a teenager, but i think i had them as a kid, i just had no idea what they were. i was kind of processing that a.) i had killed what i had assumed was every single worm in my yard, and thus would have no more worms, and b). i was going to like, worm hell.
(six year babylon spent a lot of time worrying about god.)
so i kind of freaked out, and i climbed a tree, because god can only smite you if you're touching the ground (?) and i sat up there mostly inconsolable until my mom came out and asked, hey, what's up? what happened?
so i explained to her that i had killed all of the worms, forever, and was also Damned, and she took me to the compost pile, and we dug for all of five seconds and found like twenty more worms.
the compost pile was full of worms.
and she told me that a). there were more worms, and we could put them back under rocks and stuff and recolonize our yard and b). that one day, i would die, and i would go to heaven, and i would be able to talk to the worms, and i would be able to tell them all that i was very sorry, and that i killed them on accident out of excessive Love, and that they would forgive me, because worms have six hearts and no malice.
at that point, i think i was sixty percent tear-snot by weight, and i had no choice but to gather enough worms that i could hug them. which my mom helped with. and then after that she helped me put some worms back under each rock.
and for my epilogue: i spent a significant portion of my childhood in trees. and for many years after, even when my mom didnt know i was watching, i would catch her giving the space under the rocks a light spritz with the hose. not because she loved worms.
but because she loved me.
Wait, you're telling me I spent the latter half of my childhood deathly terrified of worms for NOTHING? That was a lie?
huh. you viewed worms entirely mythical regenerative powers as something to be feared. i viewed it as an opportunity. something something The Duality of Man.
i am considering that fear produced a better outcome for you and the worm than love did. this feels like an important thought.
That addition really ices that cake
honestly even the highest concept sci-fi seems tame once you learn BioSteel⢠Goats exist irl
What the fuck are you talking about
you know. the spider goats. the goats spliced with spider genes.
they shoot bulletproof webbing out of their udders!
ok ok that last partās not technically true, but the truth is still pretty nifty:
yes these goats really exist! in most ways they are normal goats, except for how they secrete spider silk in their milk
(or rather, they secrete a special protein in their milk, which is then extracted and woven into silk fibers)
their DNA contains transplanted genes taken from the Golden Orb Weaver Spider, whose silk is incredibly strongābut canāt be naturally produced in large quantities. becauseā¦spiders are tiny yaāll.
these superpowered web-slinging spidergoats genetically modified but otherwise normal and healthy goats can produce much larger amounts of this material (marketed as BioSteel), which is stronger than steel and more bulletproof than kevlar. plus itās lightweight, elastic, and bio-compatible (compatible with living tissue), meaning it has a ton of potential industrial and medical applications.
(imagine 40 years from now you need knee surgery, and your doctor sits you down and explains that your shiny new anterior cruciate ligamentĀ was actually artificially woven out of SPIDER GOAT MILK SILK. also in this magical hypothetical future we have universal healthcare. and the wealth of all billionaires has been globally redistributed. this is my hypothetical scenario, i do what i want.)
like i said. pretty nifty!
and here is a photo of one such genetically modified BioSteel⢠Goat, her name is Freckles
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May I add the fantastic glow in the dark cats. Theyāve been tagged with a gene from jelly fish that causes them to glow and that can be passed down. Was used to help study how other genes were passed.
for those wondering, yes glow-in-the-dark jellyfish cats are a real thing and they are helping scientists with AIDS research
I love how this reads as if the cats are actively choosing to assist with scientific research.
site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word
site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definitionĀ
site that gives you words that rhyme with a word
site that gives you synonyms and antonyms
THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITERāS DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES IāVE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMNĀ IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT IāM USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
This oneās an always-reblog, because who knows who needs it and hasnāt seen it yet?

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can i be emotionally vulnerable for a second While i partially understand the sentiment of "fandom is meant to be fun!" i also think that the way others may choose to interact with & interpret different medias, and subsequently the people within those medias [and fanbases] does have a tendency to reflect their personal political beliefs and morals lol. i think that it is entirely fair to judge somebody or choose not to associate with somebody due to the amount of tact they have when handling certain subject matters & interacting with certain groups of people. [ontop of any implicit biases]
[ID: a tweet by @/feldfog edited to say, āItās just fandom culture dude. And the fandom culture is just rooted in ideas. That Iām just reinforcing šā. end ID.]
Questions I think to myself a lot when confronted with certain kinds of Online Posting:
Do you want a better world, or do you want revenge on those you think arenāt doing enough to improve it?
Do you want a more just world, or do you want to see bad people suffer merciless punishment?
Do you want a less oppressive world, or do you want the reins of power for yourself?
Do you want to do the right thing, or do you want to feel righteous?