garage dog fanart

Fishy

gh. i dislike the cold

uncropped version under the break

Forms of Light

(c) riverwindphotography, January 2026

Aloe gerstneri

Jardín de Cactus, Lanzarote, Islas Canarias, España

Aloe gerstneri is a rare and localized aloe species native to central Africa, particularly Zimbabwe and parts of Mozambique, where it grows on rocky hillsides and grassland slopes. It forms a compact to medium-sized rosette of thick, grey-green to bluish leaves often marked with subtle spotting and armed with small marginal teeth. The species produces tall, branched inflorescences bearing tubular flowers that range from pinkish to coral-red, attracting pollinators such as birds and insects. Adapted to seasonal drought and well-drained soils, Aloe gerstneri is valued in botanical collections for its restrained elegance, distinctive coloration, and conservation interest due to its limited natural distribution.

Throwback to one of our earliest encounters with a deep-sea gulper eel 📹️😍

One of the first times we were lucky enough to observe a whiptail gulper eel (Saccopharynx lavenbergi) was this 1993 sighting at 880 meters (2,887 feet) deep in Monterey Canyon. MBARI researchers were exploring the midwater—the vast expanse of open water between the surface and the canyon floor—using the remotely operated vehicle Ventana when this fascinating fish gave us a rare display of that massive mouth. They were so enamored by this quintessential deep-sea dweller that we decided to feature one in our logo! In nearly four decades of deep-sea diving, we’ve only seen this species 18 times.

Food is scarce in the deep sea. An oversized mouth helps a gulper eel swallow any available morsel of food—big or small. Scientists think the glowing tip of this eel’s sinewy body might act as a luminescent lure to attract unsuspecting prey. When a curious fish comes to investigate, gulp, Saccopharynx snags dinner. 

MBARI’s advanced underwater robots have filmed thousands of hours of deep-sea video. The team in MBARI’s Video Lab combs through this trove of footage to identify and label the animals and objects we observe as our scientists and engineers conduct their research. The team has gone deep into the vault to find some of their favorite moments in MBARI’s history of ocean exploration. We hope you enjoy exploring them as much as we have!

We gotta come together

right now

…over me?

Crassula alstonii, quarter for scale. South Africa, 2025

Back to tiny sea pottery chips (about 20mm) and touching grass. Oil painting on pottery.

Available

Late December I was struck by this mental image of a softly smiling Fox feeding birds, specifically Eurasian bullfinches. I think you can guess why I associated him with these particular birds. 🤣

The awesome @cacodaemonia was able to bring alive this vision, so here's Fox, enjoying a soft time with two cute lil' birds.

The one his shoulder is a female bullfinch and the one perched on his hand is a male.

Ahh thanks so much for the commission! And like I said, I'm so glad you like it 🥹 The birds were soooo fun to draw, especially because I don't get to draw animals much! <333

Cheltenham Bold Italic

saying “i want him” about the character but not in a romantic or sexual way . i just Require him i need to Obtain him

i want this man in my inventory

Okay kids buckle up for the INSANE story I just heard from my little brother

**As a disclaimer my brother is a cis straight dude who only dates the most basic white girls you can find. He's very emotionally aware but doesn't linger on his emotions, just processes them and moves on (this is wild to me)**

He calls me on my break just to say hi, that he’s driving back to Denver from visiting his girlfriend, to which I respond “didn’t you break up with your girlfriend (of like a month) last month” and to which he says “yeah I have a new girlfriend, we’ve been together four weeks but I went up to spend the weekend and meet her friends” and I’m like ok great this is already ridiculous

So we’re chatting and I’m teasing him about how he doesn’t sleep with people on first dates and he says that he’s changed his policy, it’s just that he won’t have sex with them if he’d rather be doing something else, so I joke that I’ve had that where I’d rather be watching the show Chernobyl (true) and he says “yeah or watching a movie with my housemate” and I say hey bud that’s kind of gay and he says yeah I actually had a weird gay moment last night

And I go oh???? And he goes yeah, I was at the bar with the girlfriend and some of her friends and one of them was a guy and we were hitting it off, doing a little flirting as you do with your bros at the bar~

And then my cis straight brother goes on to explain that sometimes when you’re out with the homies and you’re having a good time and the vibes are right you just give em a little kiss, like just a kiss on the mouth between bros, “no tongue or anything like that but just to express that you’re close and having a good time”

I’m like “My dude that’s not a thing” and he’s like “between confident straight men it is” and I’m like “NO IT’S NOT"

So there we’ve got my brother having casual queerplatonic relationships with his homies at the bar, and he’s telling me this and I’m obviously speechless, so he goes on and he’s like “so because this guy and I were hitting it off I go in for a little kiss and he fucking swerves me” and I’m like yes my guy but because my brother is actually very good with respecting boundaries he was like “ok man great communication, won’t do it again"

BUT

Apparently my brother and the dude and my brother's GIRLFRIEND who has been there the WHOLE TIME go outside (I assume to have a cigarette but he didn’t tell me that part) and the guy turns to my brother and is like “man I should have kissed you when you offered it” and my brother is like “cool good shit man” like in the most bro way possible and then the guy grabs his face between his hands and just PLANTS a big one on his mouth

And THEN the guy panics and shoves him down on the ground!! And my brother has the normal reaction to being shoved on the ground unexpectedly which is to say “what the FUCK” and the girlfriend says “what the FUCK” and the guy goes “what the FUCK” and leaves

And my brother ended the story there and was musing on it like "this guy obviously has some complexes to work through about his sexuality, no confident straight man kisses another confident straight man and then panics and runs away”

Which took me out at the KNEES lol

And that, dear readers, is the batshit story my brother told me!

OH MY GOD AND

AND

I told my coworker this and they were like I’m actually shipping him and his roommate and I was like HUH because I hadn't considered that and then later my brother sent me a photo of his housemate wearing sexy handcuffs

nice

#WILD#this is so validating for fic writers everywhere#your blorbo Can In Fact Be that oblivious

love the prev tags