I read this as a kid and it had a really significant effect on me and and it’s a big influence on my world view and I still think it’s the most beautiful and profound thing anyone’s ever said about beauty
And this is how The End is stopped. Not by the gods or goddesses, the other races than man, no. It is Tumblr. As a mass running after a now confused and tail tucking Fenrir, whining softly as the crowd chants “PUPPER! PUPPER! PUPPER!”
Better yet: Fenrir escapes his chains and lopes forward to destroy the earth, and is met by a crowd of people. An army, Fenrir thinks, and bares his teeth in a ferocious snarl and charges toward them.
They cheer.
Wait … cheer?
Fenrir slows, confused. He smells no fear, senses no rage. This is … a very strange army.
The first hand—weaponless!—reaches for him; he tenses, ready to tear the offending limb to shreds, and lets out a high little yippy whine when it pats him about the ears.
Immediately the noise is reproduced by some four or five of the nearest humans; he smells excitement; more hands are patting him.
It’s nice.
The humans crowd around him, patting him and scritching him and shuffling around to give others a chance. Voices coo, and make puppy noises, and someone catches just the right spot and he cocks his leg and scratches himself, drawing a multitude of oohs and ahhs and cheers and squees.
At some point, his hunger awakens at the scent of burnt flesh; a human has brought him what he later learns is a hot dog; he swallows it in one bite, to more cheering, and looks around hopefully for more.
It is not long before more is bought: steaks and Big Macs and bacon; it seems like much of the group has brought him a snack of some kind and was hoping for a chance to give it to him.
The End of the World is supposed to be at hand, but Fenrir does not care. His hunger sated, his battle-lust swept away by a tide of gently petting hands, he rolls over, careful not to crush his many companions, and takes a nap.
“Who’s a good boy?” they ask him, over and over.
Is this some psychological warfare, he wonders, designed to undermine his confidence and remind him that he is nothing more than a monster who needs to be chained?
“Who’s a good boy, huh, huh?” “Who’s my good boy?” “
And then one of them answers the question for him.
“You are!”
‘Me?’ he thinks. But if there was any doubt, she confirms it.
“You are, yes you are.”
Fenrir’s tongue hangs out of his mouth as he grins. ‘I’m a good boy!’
Finally caught a chicken in one of the nesting boxes! I took the picture of Mrs. Bucket and went inside to wait, expecting to go back and get a picture of her egg before collecting it, but apparently Mrs. Bucket wasn’t the only busy hen this morning (view from inside and then outside the nesting box). I’m pretty sure the darker blue egg is hers, because it was the warmest. The lighter one must be from Lady Elaine, and I haven’t a clue who laid the pinkish-brown one.
These dragons come in two sizes, about 10″ long and about 16″ long, and there are different colors available for the different sizes. I used to have a bunch when I was younger, and they’re durable, so I recommend them to people.
of Agriculture honeybee health survey released a report (August 2nd 2017) that proves honeybee colonies rose 3% compared to last year. Also the amount of bees that disappeared or died has gone down 27%. Bees, you’re doing amazing sweetie
so we hear all sorts of things about bathroom bills to keep transgender people out of the bathroom of the gender they identify with and conservatives commonly use the argument that men are going to dress up as women and “self-identify” as a woman to get into the women’s bathroom and assault women
just a few months ago, a teenage girl went into the bathroom of the Barnes & Noble about ten miles from my house. while she was going to the bathroom, she realized someone was taking photos of her over the top of the stall. a man was in the stall and he pulled her into the handicap stall and assaulted her. she managed to get away when her stepfather called into the bathroom to check on her.
this man did not dress up as a woman. he did not “self-identify as a woman” to get into the bathroom.
he walked into the bathroom, hid in a stall, and assaulted a teenage girl.
he did this without a bathroom bill on the books to “protect” him.
Pennsylvania has no laws protecting transgender individuals. he knew the law was against him and he still assaulted a child.
The Goblin Shark is a member of the order Lamniformes, and the only living member of it’s family Mitsukurinidae. Their family has been around for ~125 million years, making the Goblin Shark a “living fossil.” They have a long and flat snout, which gives them their “goblin-like” appearance. They have highly protrusible jaws, meaning that they can extend them forward to grasp prey.
They, like most other deepwater shark, are sluggish and move slowly. They are rarely encountered by humans, as they are found in waters greater than 100 meters. The tooth of Goblin Shark was once found stuck in an underwater cable that was over 1,300 meters below the surface. Though they’re rarely encountered, they’re thought to be quite common and abundant, inhabiting deep waters around the globe.
Unfortunately, not much is known about their behavior or reproductive biology.
The Frilled Shark is another “living fossil” species. It’s found most often between 50 and 1,000 meters, but has been seen near the surface on rare occasions. Like the Goblin Shark, it is rarely seen but is thought to be an abundant species.
The Frilled Shark’s teeth morphology suggests that it feeds primarily on cephalopods. It has a very wide moth gape, and can consume very large prey. This is a particularly helpful adaptation, as food is often scarce at great depths. Despite their intimidating looking jaws, they have a relatively weak bite and pose no threat to humans.
The Pacific Sleeper Shark is a member of the Sleeper Shark family Somniosidae in the order Squaliformes. It’s a large (up to 7 meters), slow-moving species that lives in waters up to 2,000 meters deep. Though they are generally sluggish, they’re thought to be both scavengers and active predators. Specimens have been found with fast moving species such as squid, harbor porpoises, and Steller’s sea lions within their stomachs, suggesting they can swim very quickly in short bursts while hunting.
Not much is known about their life history, but they are thought to be long-lived, like their close relative the Greenland Shark.
Due to their large size, Sleeper Sharks do not have very many natural predators, though they are known to be preyed upon by orcas.
And finally, even though they’re technically not sharks, it’s time for the Shark Week shout-out to Chimaeras!
Chimaeras are often called “Ghost Sharks” but they aren’t actually sharks at all. They’re chondrichthyian relatives of sharks and rays that belong to class Holocephali. Fossil records of chimaeras date back to the Devonian period, approximately 420 million years ago.
Chimaeras are similar to sharks in many ways, however, chimaeras swim using their pectoral fins, not caudal fins, have jaws that are fused to their skulls, and have retractable sex organs on their foreheads. Yep, you read that right. They also have no stomach, instead they have a primitive “stomach” that is fused to the intestines.
I was at Adeevka where the Ukrainians are trying to take a strategically-located overpass from the Separs (I was there as a peaceful tourist who never even touched a firearm, of course) and the positions there are about 400 or so meters away from each other, so if you scream loud enough the fucks on the other side can actually hear you.
Up to this point, I’d observed a guy dropping his phone like it was going to bite him when I told him the Bruno Mars song he was playing was gay, and could reliably make people leave the room by asking them “would you rather sit on a chocolate cake and suck a dick, or eat a chocolate cake while getting fucked in the ass”, so it’s at this point in the trenches that a flash of inspiration hits me.
In my best Russian (which was utterly broken but “proper” Russian grammar is barbaric caveman-speak anyway) I scream out “next guy that shoots is gay”. And I swear to whatever god exists that two solid minutes of silence followed. It was some guns-fall-silent Christmas miracle shit
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