Month: November 2013

Have you ever wondered where books come from?

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uispeccoll:

zwischendenstuehlen:

Well then, let me show you, because that’s what I do for a living.

Right now, it’s this time of the year, and the little ones have just freshly hatched:

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You’ll notice they’re still blind and naked when they hatch. So I make them little coats to keep them warm during their first winter:

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See how they happily line up to put them on:

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See? Better. Now they’re ready to go and explore the world.

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And if they make it through the winter and we take good care of them, they will grow up to be strong and wise like their older fellows:

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So, in case you were ever wondering, now you know.

This is adorable.

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#books #adorable

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slepaulica:

Synaesthesia conversation!

To me this song is predominantly Slate blue, Dark Slate blue, with highlights of periwinkle. There are some midnight blue and indigo parts. Your synaesthesia might be showing you different colours. that’s okay! reply by showing me a song that has similar colours to this one (so if you see this as yellow, show me another yellow song). Your song can be any genre of music as long as the colours look similar to you. and then i will reply with a different song that has similar colours to what you showed me. and we can talk to each other with music.

if you see movement instead of colour then give me a song with similar movement. (i see movement too, but colour is easier for me to describe in words) if you smell something, then give me a song with a similar scent. so equal opportunity, any kind of music related synaesthesia welcome.

colour chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

This was a tough one. It’s not very strongly coloured, and it’s hard to find the right mix of grey and brown.

This isn’t quite right, but I had to settle.

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#synesthesia #reply via reblog

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imagrowlithegrrr:

The Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus), one of the world’s rarest and most beautiful mollusks

 

noctstiel:

superwholocked471:

lokifirefox:

dooweeweeweeboo:

zombie1ovejuice:

weshookthesky:

that’s an alien, that’s an alien dragon baby. that’s the coolest thing I’ve ever seen

YES FINALLY BACK ON MY DASH I LOVE THIS LIL FUCKER. LOOK AT IT

ohy my fucking god i finally know how my patronus looks like

So of course I read up on it. It’s even more beautiful when it’s in the water, not collapsed like it is on the original pic. It also freakin’ eats Portuguese Man o’Wars. They are also hermaphroditic because, damn, they so pretty, no way are they gonna hit anything but theyselves.

My spirit animal.

nothing will stop me from believing this is a baby lugia

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#pretty things #the more you know