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raedioisotope:

end0skeletal:

Collected from the Egyptian desert in March of 1846, the Helix desertorum specimen was sent to the British Museum, where scientists thought it had expired in transit. It was glued to a cardboard display card shortly after.

One day four years later, curators noticed something strange about their catatonic mollusk: the shell seemed to have moved from its glued position and a trail of discoloration followed it.

Archivists removed it from the card to give it a bath, with a suspicion the snail might have in fact been slumbering.

After just a few minutes of exposure to moisture, the snail’s head poked from its shell and surveyed its new home with four eye stalks.

As the snail adjusted to active life again, it became a minor celebrity and sat for a portrait by the museum’s zoological artist for inclusion in a book on mollusks, seen below:

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Sleeping Beauty

Source: end0skeletal

windsilk:

comprehensive list of things I’m allergic to: 

  • tumblr’s “your fav is problematic so I must VOW TO HATE THEM FROM NOW UNTIL ETERNITY” culture
  • tumblr’s "I am not even 1% problematic” culture 
  • tumblr’s “wow look the media is so biased and puts so much spin on everything and we are angels who don’t spin at all! we are beacons of unbiased knowledge!” culture 
  • tumblr’s “wow this person is so wrong so I MUST SEND THEM TWELVE THOUSAND ANONYMOUS MESSAGES TELLING THEM TO DELETE AND DIE” culture 
  • tumblr’s “THIS PERSON IS THE BEST PERSON EVER THEY ARE OUR QUEEN OUR KING OUR SAVIOR AND CAN DO NO WRONG” culture 
  • tumblr’s inability to see things in not black and white 
  • tumblr’s inability to recognize that people can change and grow–moreover, their inability to acknowledge change and growth as legitimate 
  • tumblr’s inability to perceive complexity 
  • sometimes I have seasonal allergies when the weather changes dramatically 

coffeeandmoorland:

Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with the insatiable desire to learn. To know astronomy and geography and language and architecture; to recognize each constellation, planet, and star; to speak and understand all languages, be able to decipher ancient Greek and Latin text; to grow my understanding of how the human body works; study the differences and similarities of each religion; recognize the use for each herb and seed and sapling.

I want to better myself, not for fame or recognition or power. I just want to understand.