Does anyone know what this lovely little creature is? Looks like possibly a color variant of something else, the colors seem a bit splotchy to be the pattern it’s supposed to have.
Photo belongs to Alex Mustard Underwater Photography
This fish seems to have gill rakers, which are structures used a little bit like the baleen of the baleen whales. They swim around with their mouths open, and water goes into their mouth and out their gills. The plankton in the water goes into their mouth, but is caught on the rakers and funneled down the throat rather than going out the gills. It’s kind of like if you attached a mesh funnel around your face and ran around catching flies with it, except that the funnel is also your lungs.
It looks really silly when an entire school of them does this at once.
this guy on the Great British Baking Show tried to make bagels and they went really flat, so he’s being gently kidded at about having invented bagel/flatbread hybrids, “flagels”, and I’m just over here genuinely wanting to try that. I like the outer part of the bagel the most, a flat bagel would be ALL outer part.
Somebody make me the flagels!
Also, I learned that bagels are made by poaching the dough shapes before baking, which is why they have that skin and the texture. I’m a fan. Bagels are the best possible bread component of a peanut butter sandwich, IMO.
Also I love how Rose must’ve just…watched this fuckin baby gradually crawl all the way across the beach and onto the boardwalk. how long did that take. can you imagine, her bending down to his level patiently following him like “yes! choose your own path!”
and she’s just watching him in complete wonderment meanwhile baby sour cream is scaling death-defying heights but Rose is just so proud like “yes, do as you like! invent yourself!”
Someone really should’ve told her that babies are both very determined and very fragile.
I dedicate this to Baba by @crownofpins because 1, it def inspired it, and 2, that fic is the whole reason im spiralling out of control so like, thanks for my life i GUESS
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