Slug Is Such A Great Word It’s Perfect For The Animal And For Bullets And Fake Coins And Lazy People

Maybe if you looked at the diversity of loricariids then you'd feel better

(From Lujan et al. (2012). Trophic diversity in the evolution and community assembly of loricariid catfishes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 12(124), 1-12)

It is absolutely vital in any fandom to have a favourite character who you want to wrap up in a pile of blankets and give sweet treats to and a favourite character you want to beat on the head with hammers.

Florida Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri), family Emydidae, found in Florida and far SE Georgia, USA

A subspecies of the Eastern Box Turtle.

photos: Jonathan Zander, Andrea Westmoreland, Jud McCranie

my thing with jack is like I do find him tragic just not on the surface level I don't think people finding him generally distasteful disliking him and throwing him to eldritch beings to save their own skin is sad I think it's funni I laugh when these things happen to him. the tragedy of jack is that he's become such a piece of shit throughout his long sordid life that he Does deserve every bad thing that comes his way. like the tragic character isn't present day jack sparrow the tragic character is the misty lady's cabin boy who maybe could have been dealt just a slightly better hand by life. I'm not sad because he's being killed and eaten I'm sad because if he had been just a smidge more well adjusted or if one of the several formative incidents hadn't happened I'd feel worse for him when everything we see happen on screen happens to him. you know. this evil bug creature makes me mentally unwell I fear

Red-shouldered Bug (Jadera haematoloma), taken April 4, 2025, in Georgia, US

Just a little guy posing for a picture! He seemed to be following the camera as I tried to get different angles. This insect has two adult morphs: long-winged (macropterous) and short-winged (brachypterous). The short-winged morph has, as you could infer, shorter wings that leave part of the abdomen exposed. I've seen both forms in a solitary setting, though this species apparently tends to have higher rates of short-winged adults when they live in groups. Less need for wings when you don't have to go anywhere to find a mate!

Unrestrained shrummer(shrimp summer) fun

Also up on my INPRNT!

There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

Florida Banded Water Snake (Nerodia fasciata pictiventris), family Colubridae, northern FL, USA

photograph by Dick Bartlett

happy wednesday

beating you over the head never forget the service ac crispin did for us when she made jack canonically into dominant women she was a hero for that