no for real. love isn’t a spectrum of intensity or passion with platonic at the 0 end and romantic at the 10 end. please abandon the idea that it is

platonic love is not intrinsically any less intense than romantic love

astronomy-to-zoology:

Fine-lined Pocketbook (Hamoita altilis)

Formerly Lampsilis altilis, the fine-lined pocketbook is a species of freshwater Unionid bivalve which is endemic to the United States. Like most bivalves, H. altilis is a filter feeder, filtering the water around it for nutrients. 

Currently the Fine-lined Pocketbook is listed as Endangered by the IUCN as it faces threats from a restricted range and habitat destruction.

Classification

Animalia-Mollusca-Bivaliva-Unionoida-Unionidae-Lampsilini-Hamiota-H. altilis

Image: Dick Biggins

libutron:

Source | Photographer

(Tabuk, Saudi Arabia)

yagazieemezi:

Series of Illustrations for the Sci-Fi short story Collection LAGOS 2060.

By Ibrahim Adeola Ganiyu

Lagos, Nigeria.

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Dedicated to the Cultural Preservation of the African Aesthetic

"I had wondered how a book could be infinite. The only way I could surmise was that it be a cyclical, or circular, volume, a volume whose last page would be identical to the first, so that one might go on indefinitely."

Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley, “The Garden of Forking Paths” (via only-a-voice)

(via cumaean-sibyl)

counterpunches:

lionsarah:

You’re the wild type, Sarah. You propagate against all odds. You know, you’re restless. You survive.

#have i ever talked about how this line is EVERYTHING#E V E R Y little thing#because ok#cosima is a biologist#so she know that this is not what wild-type means in a biological context#because in genetics#wild-type is just the term we use to refer to the so-called normal state of a gene#like we can have mutant flies with white eyes but the wild-type is red#the wild-type is literally the type that has not been taken into the lab and mutaganized to the point beyond recognition#(and i still believe that doing so is important! because learning about gene function is important! BUT ANYWAY)#and sarah is the wild-type in every sense#not that she is reckless#but because she is unmonitored#if the goal of project leda was to make ubermenschen then sarah is the evidence that the wild-type#- the type that nature; not science; creates -#is always the consummate survivor#she is not a product of their efforts#she is only a product of herself#and we normally see the wild-types as the uninteresting control group#but this is a show about how inherently fascinating and multifaceted humanity *anyway*#we don’t need ubermenchen when we have the ~boring normality~ of this sparkling reckless against-all odds survivor#SARAH MANINGGGGGGGGG#heroine for LIFE(via autoluminescence)

(Source: felixdawkins, via koalatyboooo)

(Source: studiotrigger, via ponderponderponder)

libutron:

dehanginggarden:

Druid’s Grove by joachim-hagen

(near Kanndorf, Franconian Switzerland, Germany)

alexkralie:

SHANNON

(via lostiesarestillaround)