when you move in with a new person, what are the top four movies you’re making them watch in some sort of fucked up mandatory film festival so they understand you? for me it’s the big lebowski, wild wild west, papillon, and fight club.
Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart
“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”
This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.
[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:
Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.
We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]
But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?
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because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing
I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation
I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.
kids these days don't understand the atmosphere of eric kripke seasons, he was an absolute master of his craft/vision and anyone who actively convinces anyone to skip 1-3 is not in one's right mind. eric completely understood the backwoods old school americana, the influence of 70s rock and og blues incorporated into the essence of the show. the original soundtrack of supernatural wasn't just about sounding good but woven into the narrative of the story (blue oyster cult/ACDC/led zepp/styx/robert johnson/the chamber brothers) music that held the entire spirit of time & culture of that time. (I can't tell you how much watching supernatural at 12 shaped my music taste today) the smoky roadhouses/bars, mullets, scrapyards and classic americana cars, oh he just got it.
kripke fabricated the toxic hyper-co-dependent brothers we know and love, he managed to write the most obnoxious, gung ho, red blooded masculine guy also be the obedient, subdued, desperate, needy brother/son/man who's worth is only attached in those he can gratify. the tender and gentle, sorrowful, conflicted and misfit little (big) brother who endeavoured every path to avoid his fate yet succumbed to it anyways. two brothers so layered in their attachment with one another that if you witnessed it before you you'd be down right scared
I hold onto this series so much because of how 1-5 made me feel, the nostalgia he captured.
Going into the Supernatural tag when you aren’t a shipper is like psychological warfare.
STACKEDNATURAL ⇉ 90/327
3.6 Red Sky at Morning Written by Laurence Andries Directed by Cliff Bole Original Air Date: November 8, 2007
supernatural meme: (4/9) relationships | dean and bela
Well, aren’t you a glass half-full? We’re all going to Hell, Dean. Might as well enjoy the ride.
As he stands there, brimming with grief, brimming with life, the woman lies there in silence. The woman dies for him. We watch it happen. We read about it happening. We come to know it well.
— The Woman Dies, Aoko Matsuda
LAUREN COHAN As BELA TALBOT In Supernatural (2005―2020)
free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it
free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them
free my girl she acted irrationally in a situation where it was impossible to act rationally and is now being hated for it
canon character my beloved vs the same character but fanon version my fucking detested
//Today is Jack Davenport's Birthday.. 51 years ago today the most handsome and debonair British actor came into the world and I am SO appreciative for his existence.
Happy Birthday Jack, you are beloved and your wife is the most lucky woman in the world.
james norrington + being a royal bitch (inspiration)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
A breathtaking declaration
i love that interview for at world’s end where jack davenport is asked about lord beckett and he’s just like ‘beckett is Evil and Short. the source of all evil is Being Short. also he had to stand on Apple Boxes all the time’
this man is so insanely well-spoken and with such an eloquent vocabulary, and the way he keeps referring to norrington as “me” and “i” ugh he’s keeping my norrington dreams alive