but apparently this photo is fake which is an enormous burst of relief to my already fragile, suddering psyche.

sadly though THIS photo of a barrel jellfish is real

Some of my favorite jellyfish (sorry if I go on a tanget and vear off jellyfish)

are the Stygiomedusa gigantea, which I believe is also called the blanket jellyfish, but like dude look up a video of it moving it is chilling and fantastic! This thing is 10 meters long, so not the largest here, but ohohoho look at my love

It is a deep sea jellyfish and is one of the largest invertebrate predators known. However, according to Cambridge, it has been consistently recorded in the twilight and sunlight depth zones down south so do with that what you will :)

If we want to keep going down the large and length category of ocean creatures, allow me to introduce the current longest recorded ocean animal. A deep sea siphonophore that clocks in at around 46 meters; my beautiful death halo

Technically siphonophores are hundreds upon hundreds of tinier organisms that grouped together to make a bigger one, but for all intents and purposes, this is one animal. Some of them are incredibly beautiful!

However there is also ones not so pretty, main one was something I saw a month or so ago and it looked like someone had fused like a dozen human limbs together and they were flailing to move and jesus christ yall can go mentally scar yourselves.

LARGE IRIDESCENT AMMOLITE SPECIMEN

BEARPAW FORMATION, CANADA, UPPER CRETACEOUS, 75 - 72 MILLION YEARS B.P.

Once a living creature, a large mollusc living in the shallow temperate seas in what is now central Canada, the eons have literally transformed this specimen into a gemstone. Over millions of years, continual compression and the interaction of various minerals have transformed the shell into the opal-like gemstone ammolite. Significant deposits of this substance are only found at the Bearpaw Formation, with the present piece being a particular magnificent example.

Painted Glasses - Janet Fish , 1974.

American, b. 1938 -  

forget me nots and a bee

the first 18 years of my life were full of things i’d never choose for anyone else,

but they shaped the person i became.

there are parts of my childhood i wish had never happened,

but erasing them would mean erasing part of myself too.

i can’t forget

as much as I want to.

yet

i’m beyond grateful to be the person i am today,

and I love the wonderful life I’ve had the chance to create

you're the bravest human being I have ever met