nymphfairyprincess

111 | the dawn will come

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

If I expanded my heart and soul into everything they desire to be, it would shatter my bones and rip my skin.

[‎ ‎ ‎ ⊹ ོ @sighswoon]

I LOVE whenever the opportunity comes to do this. Take advantage of it. You’re not like that all the time. It has to take a really specific period of desperation to do this. Enjoy it

[wife-ally @dudeimnormal]

just read this part last night 👍

[ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag]

Ursula K. Le Guin

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

@EadyIOfficialX @cherrygrl24 @evilshayla women created men.

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

wtf this was so hard can I start taking writing seriously already

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

God will have to take me by force, grip my neck and drag me to the heavens, because I don’t stop destroying myself.

[Jay Springett @thejaymo]

@emergentvibe @mykola @visakanv

[sarah @tradepartty]

My bf will be like let me put something on tv and it’s a YouTube video of a guy deep frying action figures and then he’ll start touching my boobs

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Nobody tells you exclusion wounds make you unintentionally callous toward others’ positive feelings about you since you’ve never learned to believe on an intuitive level that a person might actually be hurt by your absence or lack of affection. Example: ghosting like it’s nothing

[cav empty @cavempty_]

when i get anxious for no reason i know it’s because my parallel in another dimension is engaging in a skirmish of some sort. i channel my energy in these moments to give him the fortitude to be victorious

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

I can tell what kind of person you are if you don’t bless strangers when they sneeze
(I sneezed in the gym and the only two bees here did not bless)

[Palantir Neurodivergence Fellow 👊🪂🇵🇸 @FungibleWorker]

It’s uncanny how hard it is to make anyone else truly understand the specific desperation of your individual life but also that there’s almost nothing unique about it and we inevitably spend most of our time communicating exactly this

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

Just found out recycling isn’t real, my life is a lie. My calling to heal the earth grows stronger, but how tf do we start?

[Kadott @Kadotttt]

I once read somewhere that after an especially exhausting life,some souls choose to reincarnate as a tree spending a century just resting. I haven't looked at trees the same since then

[Genie @lettersfromjuno]

Remember who you are, weird girl

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

Currently watching The Big Lebowski for the first time, I’d recommend a joint before during and after this lol

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

God will have to take me by force, grip my neck and drag me to the heavens, because I don’t stop destroying myself.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

Ok I thought season 5 was out already GUESS NOT and also apparently it’s the last season OK AHAHA why must everything I love end

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

The Boys is for the supernatural fans and Bobby saying idjit again is making me emotional ugh

[nymphfairyprincess @orngchiken]

I’m in season 4 no spoilers