A tree frog in Jember, Indonesia, shelters from the rain under a leaf. The amphibian reportedly held the leaf for 30 minutes before the storm passed.
That high-pitched shrieking noise you just heard was me, dying of the cute.
All together now:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!!!!
Let’s switch up an old cliche!
The subject of diet comes up, and the alien/s at the table is/are horrified and/or disgusted that humans eat plant matter.
“We’ve done our best, of course, to find compatible foods, and make you feel welcome.”
Sh'shrii had to hand it to the humans. They had only seen the Ssarqa once, over a slightly dodgy analogue communications link, but they were clever enough to cobble together near-appropriate
Read more »MY MOM SAID IF THIS GETS 500,000 NOTES SHE WILL FINALLY CALL ME “KHYLE” AND REFER TO ME AS HER SON PLEASE THIS IS A HUGE STEP FOR ME AND HER
we’re gonna get you your 500k notes. I swear. Idgaf if i have to reblog this 4000000x myself.
^thats the fucking spirit!!!!!I reblog this every time I see it
one more time!
Read more »Write a story about a young man, who on the best day of his life, finally realizes why the old man is dancing in the middle of their locker room waving their trophy around in this link. Make both he and I cry please.
[AN: Sport is not my forte…]
(#00210)
It had been his job to round up the towels on the day they won. The crowd had been too thick for him to see the old man, and too
Read more »Read more »Women have historically critiqued and challenged their subordinate role. In 248 ce, a Vietnamese peasant woman, Trieu Thi Trinh, told her brother that: “My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I want to drive the enemy away to save our people. I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines”. Women also challenged the male claim to religious authority and power. A’ishah, Muhammad’s third wife,
Jadzia Dax runs a care facility for very young children on the station… who are Kira, Julian, Miles, Keiko, Sisko (pick one) Quark, Rom, Garak and possibly Morn.
Then one day, as she’s taking stock of the arts cupboard [Kira regularly breaks in] the bell rings. Someone new is coming to ‘class’.
It’s a bucket. Almost full of orange goo. Plastered on the side is a post-it that reads, “Free to a loving home&
Read more »Last Person To Get Smallpox Dedicated His Life To Ending Polio
So far, the human race has eliminated just one disease in history: smallpox. But it’s on the cusp of adding a second virus — polio — to that list.
One special man in Somalia was at the battlefront of both eradication efforts. He died unexpectedly last week at age 59 of a sudden illness.
Ali Maow Maalin was the last member of the general public to catch smallpox — worldwide. And he
WHAT TEACHERS MAKE by Taylor Mali
Truth
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This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.
I don’t like “reblog if"s, but this one’s special.
Read more »When Julie dreams.
“Good morning, Miss Shayde!’
Shayde turned. The only person who could get away with ‘miss'ing her was skipping along with a peculiar little box in her hands and, as always, Nanny in tow.
"Good morning, Julie,” she said, tagging along because it was way more interesting than grocery shopping. “What’s in the wee box?”
Julie blushed and giggled. “It isn’t wee, it’s dreams.”
Dreams?
Read more »Stfu Assholes: goddessofcheese: hippyveganchick: fffcuk: lzbth: ‘got herself...
'got herself pregnant' is the dumbest phrase in the world like forreal if it was possible to get pregnant by ourselves we'd have eaten all the men long ago
it actually is possible to get pregnant (without the sperm of a man…
Science has surpassed the need for men.
It begins with a secret facility on the isle of Lesbos, and soon spreads through covert fertility clinics all over
Read more »we are the song: OPEN WORD WAR
I'm gonna open up a tinychat for anyone who wants to get some writing done in a fun competitve way!
((totally stealing featherwriter's description of a wordwar here))
What is a word war?
A word war is a friendly competition in which a group of writers speed-write to see who can write the…
I’d love to participate, but my wrists fail me. I pretty much have to stick to my daily
Read more »There is a “block” button on tumblr for a reason.
If someone is saying something you don’t like on tumblr, you can block them. Of course, they can go on saying whatever they damn well please [which, as I understand, is a constitutional right in the USA where most tumblrites are] but the bonus is - if you block them, you never see it,
You can even attempt to report them for harassment.
That is, if you think
Read more »Scott, inspired by crying while watching Sara at the harp, tries to apply himself to a creative endeavor to become, one day, even a tenth as proficiently expressive as she was. Mr. Adrien interrupts with a few pertinent questions.
There was a reason why arts were not so well funded as, say, sports. Or the sciences. They could be tested and quantified and finally summed up by a number. Which meant that people could compare scores.
Art… was subjective. As Sara
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