When the 80’s does a Victorian reproduction blouse it turns out like this and happens to be my favorite vintage find. Today’s affaire for some hand sewing of a couple things I’m beyond excited about 🥀
y’all wanna hear some buckwild facts about shrews?
-most eat their body weight or more of food per day. they are technically omnivores but lean towards carnivorous and WILL hunt and kill things larger than themselves
-they can have 10 litters of babies per year, and can live up to 3 years which is wild for a mammal that size
-the smallest species has a heart rate exceeding 1500 beats a minute, faster than a hummingbird
-they are not rodents! they’re related to hedgehogs and moles and instead of gnawing rodent teeth they have SHARP FANGS
-they occasionally keep live snails or bugs in their burrows to have fresh food during the winter
-speaking of winter, they don’t hibernate but instead SHRINK, BONES AND ALL, to a smaller and easier-to-maintain size
so last night i dreamt that werner herzog produced this documentary called ‘one week as snail’, and legit it was just herzog following a single snail around this little town, commenting on everything it did and coming up with this detailed philosophy of a snail. he didn’t give it a name because he believed snails had no concept of such things. and then it was like: ‘here this snail eats a bit of cabbage, not knowing its source or the people who picked it. this snail does not understand the supply and demand chain. it does what it wants, oblivious to the suffering of others.’
