rotmance-deactivated20210324:

reasons you should watch princess tutu, my favourite anime of all time

• it’s this—brilliant, heartfelt, intricate story about stories. the meta and layers to it… it’s a delight for anyone who loves thinking about stories
• it’s also a delight for anyone who likes BALLET. in this show characters express so much through their dancing to each other; dance as expression is a huge plot point
• it’s about a duck who is also a scattered messy human girl who is ALSO a spirit of a graceful swanlike superheroine dancer. at different times, all at once.
• it involves the BEST redemption arc i’ve seen in anime. fakir, if you’re reading this, i love you
• all the characters are so iconic and fleshed out. truly, you love them.
• i also love how funny it is—it doesn’t always take itself seriously, sometimes it’s aware of its own strangeness and delights in it.
• please watch this whimsical, magical show! it has 24 20-minute episodes, feel free to message me if you want to know sites you can watch it on.
• like just. know this show exists and is always waiting for you if you want to get to it!

lypiphaera:

kinka-juice:

pugnacious-pacifism:

nowscience:

How many people can say they have played rugby with a Beluga whale? 🐳 🏉

I’m putting this back on my radar. I want this life

I believe this is Hvaldimir, who, get this, is believed to be a defected Russian spy. Literally.

He showed up in Norway in April 2019 wearing a camera harness labeled “equipment of St. Petersburg”, has tried pulling ropes on boats, is obviously very familiar with people and prefers to hang with people. While we know Russia has marine mammal government programs (the US does too, but it’s bottlenose dolphins and California sea lions), the extent of their programs is not declassified like the US Navy’s are.

He likes to play fetch and be scratched around the blowhole.

He has taken a diver’s knife out of the scabbard, played with underwater drones, stolen a go pro from a kayaker, and other mischief. Notably, it has been said by the Murmansk Marine Biology Institute, who may have been who trained Hvaldimir, that seals are better equipped to be polar military animals, as they have high professionalism that belugas lack.

Anyhow, enjoy Hvaldimir (the name combines the Norwegian word for whale, Hval, with Vladimir, as in Putin), the defected Russian spy whale.

seals are better equipped to be polar military animals, as they have high professionalism that belugas lack.

lilolivevilo:

🌱Some helpful tips to keep healthy house plants🌱

blackbearmagic:

blackbearmagic:

Last night, I dreamed there was this really popular youtube channel called “WolfpackDan”, and it was a guy who literally lived with a pack of wolves in the forest, just documenting daily life.

Now, I need you to understand that Dan was not some sort of Coyote Peterson type. He looked and dressed like someone who would pretend to get drunk off of non-alcoholic beer and say “bruh” unironically. He looked like the “bro I am straight up not having a good time” guy. But there he was, literally living in the forest with a wolf pack, recording and uploading videos with his phone.

One of his videos opened with him talking to the camera about “yeah, the pack went hunting today and just made a kill”. He turned his wrist to pan his phone over his shoulder, where four wolves are pinning down and tearing into a whitetail buck who is two gasps away from death.

“We’re actually hoping to make two kills today,” he added, panning his phone the other way to show two more wolves latching onto a second deer. “The Old Lady’s pups are growing really fast and it’s getting harder to provide for them. Once they can join the hunt, that’ll be a huge weight off everyone’s shoulders.”

He panned back to the first deer, where the wolves were now tearing into the meal. “I’m really hoping they’ll leave the pelt on this one intact,” he said. “I need a new cape. Winter is coming, guys.” 

The last shot of that video was him running through the trees with the pack, with a still-bloody deer hide draped over his shoulders.

I can’t remember any more of his specific videos, but the gist I got from them was that he actually was a contributing member of the pack (hence the “we”) and had been raised at least partially by the wolves themselves. Not sure how they raised him into this dudebro-looking twenty-something with a name like Dan, but they did?

Where did he get his phone? How did he pay for his data? Who taught him English? Why did he dress like that?

I have so many questions for WolfpackDan.

I don’t know why this is getting a lot of notes tonight, but I’m excited for all the attention WolfpackDan is getting, and I hope that–in whatever universe he exists–he’s getting a huge influx of subscribers and is living his best life.

weaver-z:

weaver-z:

I rarely have a visceral reaction to a TikTok but this one… this one got me

List of wild things in this video:

- The guy whose computer screen you can see at the start is looking up “what to do if a dog has rabies”

- The unbroken wall of hydroflasks in front of the teacher’s podium

- Good Mythical Morning poster

- Inexplicable “NO TALKING DURING RAZOR LOVE” sign

- The guy next to the videographer just has the letters “WBOEOADRS” in giant font on his computer screen

- The teacher knowing to pause for booing after he mentione Ashe County Middle School

- The kid that yells “I hate them!” enthusiastically

- A sign that says “NO FREAKING” with a picture of two stick figures having sex

- Hand-painted “educasion is overated” poster

- The fact that the class knows to say “standing by” when he tells them to stand by

- The woman literally waiting outside the door to hand over the dog

- The tenderness with which he handles the dog before he announces its imminent demise

- “DO YOUR BUCKING VOCAB”

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sporkkles-irl:

astraldemise:

astraldemise:

astraldemise:

maybe if i look at that nice snail plushie ill feel better

pleasant :)

theres more… effervescent…

love em