I went to visit my favorite statue in philly, general penis, only to see that they had taken him down with a chainsaw. I actually almost fell to my knees
chainsawed this beauty into a stump. fuck this cruel world
ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself “people in real life: hey man how’s it going” and i keep it pushing
i would’ve fucked so hard as a court jester in ye olde i would’ve jangled my balls and done a little dance and sang my silly tunes i’d be so good at my job. alas i have to be on tumblr instead which is like a poor imitation of it
my 8 year old has some emotional regulation difficulties, and I’ve done my best to help him with those.
unrelated, I gave him a shovel a couple of days ago and told him to go have fun in the field because I was tired.
He suddenly seemed happier, having less trouble breathing through disappointment and just being generally all around more cheerful and able to focus in school better. Sure, my partner had to pull him out of a six foot by three foot hole today, but he was stoked about it!
Marked places in the yard where I needed holes and he happily dug them and helped me plant trees, then helped me turn the compost pile and dig the garden beds. He is happy, my back isn’t killing me, and we have discussed erosion and soil quality with the gravitas of an 8 year old discovering something they enjoy
Congrats on your future landscaper. Make sure he catches you reading books that will take him up a good path to a rewarding career.
Or gravedigger. Boy might just be in it for the holes.
What’s actually going on with this animal’s anatomy is so wacky I don’t have time to explain it right now but I’m reblogging it to do it later suffice to say there are hundreds of sea squirts in this sea squirt and their arrangement is very silly
Okay let me try to explain this, a single sea squirt is usually a bag that filters feeds as it draws water into one hole and expels it out the other, so just a bag with a mouth pipe and a butt pipe. It’s also important to understand that these are chordates, like us vertebrates, with a similar body structure in their early embryonic stages. The notochord just doesn’t develop into a proper spine, and the species with these bag-like adult stages absorb it completely:
So, now look at the blobby mass in the OP, and you’ll see a bunch of large holes surrounded by rings of smaller holes:
every small hole is the intake of a colony member. Every large hole is one big exhaust port they all share, so this is how the colonial sea squirts are put together:
This is basically what my physical therapist had me do for my back problems last year and it helped with the pain so much! Also walk for at least thirty minutes a day, even if it’s just in small chunks throughout the day.
Human: (invites merfolk friend to a boat party with their friends)
Merfolk: oh man, there are a lot of women here. Haha don’t worry guys, I got this :) *changes into a man to keep a balance because that’s culturally polite for merfolk*
wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty
inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture
merperson: i don’t… wear any? i don’t have legs?
It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.
Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that
Human: (spits drink) what the FUCK
OH MY GOD
So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.
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