We have gigantic creatures in the sea which can sing for hours and have arteries so big you can crawl through them. (whales)
We have birds that fly 50,000 miles every year. From the antarctic to the arctic and back again. (arctic tern)
We have living creatures which never get old and never die naturally. (jellyfish)
We have animals which you can force through a sieve, and they can reassemble themselves. (sponges)
We have an ancient line of animals which once had 30 or more successful species, and has gone extinct down to just one single representative, and that representative has conquered the entire world (us).
We have horrors that look just like rocks and if you step on them your whole world becomes agonizing pain. (toadfish)
We have animals who hide inside other animals, and when you eat that animal, they enter your intestines and live there. (tapeworms)
We have plants which live on other plants and never touch the ground.
There's a fruit tree that grows around another tree, and eventually kills and replaces it. (strangler fig)
We have gliding lizards, marsupials, snakes, frogs, and rodents.
What the heck do you need fairies for?
One of my favorite types of publicity photos are those of animation artists with their 2D characters as if they were physically sharing the same space. Here’s a thread of some of them.
Starting with Don Bluth and his pack of adorable dinosaurs from THE LAND BEFORE TIME.
Every Canadian province and territory has a capital.
The names of those capitals come from many different sources.
Sometimes it is royalty, and sometimes it is an Indigenous name.
Here is how each capital received its name.
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These were Alysa Liu’s non-negotiable terms for coming back to figure skating:
- She chooses her own music
- She has total say over her appearance and style
- She eats whatever she wants - no more restrictive diets or coaches controlling her food intake
- Choreography is a true collaboration; she gets to add the elements and touches she loves
- She decides when training needs a pause, listening to her body instead of pushing through exhaustion
- Her father stays out of her artistic decisions. She told him, “I love you, Dad, but you're not part of this anymore.”
Alysa always skated purely for the love of it - not medals, not fame, just the pure joy of the ice.
She stepped away at 16 as a world-class talent because the pressure from the men steering her career had stripped away that joy - controlling her body, her look, her everything. She walked away to reclaim her life as a regular teenager.
Years later, she returned as a confident young woman, fully in command of her passion. She did it strictly on her terms, no compromises.
World champion at 19 in 2025. Olympic gold medalist at 20.
What a powerful comeback story for the USA Olympic champion.