those little things on ur nose aren’t blackheads, don’t try and get rid of them they’re sebaceous filaments and they’re permanent and literally everyone has them
every girl has that little pouch of fat on her lower tummy, despite what magazines try n show u, you have important organs there that need to be protected don’t try and get rid of ur pouch
ur body is smarter than u think and it knows what to do when u eat more than normal. one bad day, or even week, of eating poorly isn’t gonna ruin anything at all I pinky promise
if u think u look good up until u try taking a selfie, it’s not ur fault – our faces are asymmetrical and when u see ur face flipped it will look unnatural to u, since u don’t see it that way when u look in the mirror. to everyone else it looks perfectly fine
no one’s stomach looks the same at 8pm as it does at 8am. no one has a chiseled six pack after a day of eating, not even the super fit people u see on tumblr, because ur stomach naturally expands after eating and expecting to have a flat tummy before bed is very unrealistic
no one notices if the bags under ur eyes are bad today. no one pays attention to the bump in ur nose or the zit on ur chin or the piece of hair that u missed when u were straightening. literally no one notices these things except you so stop worrying about it ur gonna be fine
oh that makes more sense ! still have no idea since i havent worked with them lmao but @neofeliis and @whitejenna know better than i tbh 🙂
This popped on my dash while I was sitting at a table full of lifelong cat keepers, so I polled the table. 🙂 How big cats respond to eye contact differs by species, by the body language involved, and by the individual.
We’ve talked about soft affiliative eye contact vs a hard stare with a number of other species on the blog before, and the rules for that generally still hold true. Soft eye contact or just looking at an animal’s eyes casually isn’t normally confrontational, but a hard or prolonged stare is rude at best and can be aggressive.
In general, they said, lions are much more sensitive to the type of eye contact and how you’re approaching them – especially male lions. The joke at the table was that it’s like the Godfather: you’re okay if you’re respectful about it, but you better come bearing gifts.
Tigers are much more variable than lions (and the people I spoke to said they wanted me to clarify they’re mostly talking about hand-raised tigers – they haven’t had a lot of experience with mother-raised tigers). Sometimes they can be super down for prolonged eye-contact, but a hard stare can and often well piss them off.
Leopards, jaguars and snow leopards basically interpret any eye contact as the fact that they’re visible – which is not their preferred operating state. Leopards and jaguars tend to not be stressed by a prolonged stare very much, but snow leopards will generally find it much more invasive. Everyone cautioned that forcing a hard stare with any of these generally invisible ambush predators is a great way to lose a couple chunks of flesh. EDIT: Not that doing a hard stare with a lion or a tiger won’t also be aggressive and potentially a provocation, but there was emphasis that the other species really don’t like it.
Can we stop implying aromantic people are going to spend their lives in painful isolation, please?
Some might want or have a long term sexual partner
Some might want or have a long term platonic partner
Some might even want or have a long term romantic partner, because feelings are not and never will be completely black and white
Some might want to live solo because they’re happy that way, and their existence is not some tragedy you miraculously avoided because you feel romantic attraction
Stop throwing aromantic people under the bus 2kforever
some might live alone but hAVE SOME GODDAMN FRIENDS
European honeybees have no innate defense against the hornets, which can rapidly destroy their colonies. Although a handful of Asian giant hornets can easily defeat the uncoordinated defenses of a honeybee colony, the Japanese honeybee has an effective strategy. When a hornet scout locates and approaches a Japanese honeybee hive, she emits specific pheromonal hunting signals. When the Japanese honeybees detect these pheromones, a hundred or so gather near the entrance of the nest and set up a trap, keeping the entrance open. This permits the hornet to enter the hive. As the hornet enters, a mob of hundreds of bees surrounds it in a ball, completely covering it and preventing it from reacting effectively. The bees violently vibrate their flight muscles in much the same way as they do to heat the hive in cold conditions. This raises the temperature in the ball to the critical temperature of 46 °C (115 °F). In addition, the exertions of the honeybees raise the level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the ball. At that concentration of CO2, they can tolerate up to 50 °C (122 °F), but the hornet cannot survive the combination of high a temperature and high carbon dioxide level. Some bees do die along with the intruder, much as happens when they attack other intruders with their stings, but by killing the hornet scout, they prevent it from summoning reinforcements that would wipe out the entire colony.
Bad and Naughty Hornets will be cooked in the Ḅ̖͔͓̤̜̘̀͂ͮ͌͊̂ ͓̥̥̒ͭ̔̒Ẹ͎͎̫̠̞ͩ͒ ̲̥̦̲͒̏Ë̘́̏̾ͮ̒ ͉̬̦̹̳̜͈̋͗̀̇̍̌ ̱͕̱̤̣̟̓̽ͧ
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What theee fuck
who the fuck is out there seeing a ball of vibrating bees and decides to check their temperature
when noblewomen try to refuse an arranged marriage, it’s always because the man is “fat, old, and ugly.”
someday i will write a princess refusing to marry a young and beautiful prince because he’s cruel and stupid. choosing instead to marry a king who is fat, old, and ugly, but also sensible and a good statesman, because she knows her marriage is a political alliance and she can always get her jollies with pretty courtiers if it comes to that. “my petticoats are full of politics,” she will say. “my royal booty is much too important to waste on handsome jerks.”
the business of getting an heir is awkward, because her husband tends to act like an indulgent uncle and that’s not at all sexy. but he’s happy to mentor her in statecraft, knowing his age means he’ll leave her in an awkward position. when he does die, they’ve solidified her standing enough that she can rule in her own right.
her second marriage is for love. as a stately middle-aged queen, she can marry prince charming, and make him prince consort rather than king. his gentle nature makes him a fine diplomat, and he’s not inclined to try taking power.
her daughter, raised by political maestros, never marries at all. she handles power with such a deft hand that she can name a well-educated cousin as heir and take him to apprentice without more than token grumblings from the nobility.
and that, i say, closing the storybook, is how our kingdom came to elect its royalty from a pool of candidates based on aptitude scores. now go to sleep.
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