@onewakingworld submitted: Hi! I found this little friend today in Northwestern Pennsylvania. He had a stinger but he was very calm - hitchhiked on my bag for a while before I even noticed he was there. I’m not great with measurements but my guesstimate is about ¾ inch long.
A very cute ichneumon wasp, I love her. And she’s definitely a female! Males don’t have stingers :) Her curly antennae are so adorable I may weep
Cephonodes hylas, the coffee bee hawkmoth, pellucid hawk moth or coffee clearwing, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1771. A widely distributed moth, it is found in the Near East, Middle East, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia.
It has transparent wings and a stout body like a bumble bee. Its wingspan
of 1-2″/45–73 mm. Its marginal borders are very narrow and black. Abdomen
varies in color from yellow to green. Nominate subspecies has bright
reddish 3rd and 4th abdominal segments. Larva have two color forms,
green and blackish.
Photo of the Day – The Pink-throated Twinspot (Hypargos margaritatus) is one of Southern Africa’s most desirable endemic species, and it’s easy to see why. This is a gorgeous species! Unfortunately for eager birders, this species is not an easy one to find… On top of its restricted range, it is also quite secretive. But the challenge makes actually seeing the bird all the more special.
This photo was taken by Rich Lindie in South Africa
Use this day to learn, prosper and grow wiser! I wouldn’t be where I am today without the support, love and sacrifices made from the generations before me! I am forever grateful! We can’t change the past, but we can change our actions now for a better future for all!
Do you ever get painfully specific memories of places…. i have poor visual imagination and don’t remember peoples faces or particular objects very clearly. But places are different i can still remember all the rooms in all my exes houses and all the places i used to work and go to school & in my memories I’m there alone. & then when my mind is wandering sometimes they’ll rise up in my throat and suddenly I’m on the corner across the street from the cvs on the walk from the woodley park zoo metro stop to adams morgan and because of what happened or the way things are now it always feels like I’ll never be there ever again
if an archaeologist says an artifact was probably forĀ āritual purposesā it meansĀ āi have no fuckin clueā
but if they say it was forĀ āfertility ritualsā they meanĀ āi know exactly what it was for but i dont want to sayĀ āancient dildoāā
Back in the day I worked at a certain very famous and very high caste art museum in the US as a junior curator. Part of my job was to catalog the objects in the museum database. This includes details like provenance, measurements, and a visual description of what the object looked like.
Like I said, the museum was a pretty snotty institution. Itās got a LOT of objects itās way famous for possessing, but nobody knew about the absolutely massive collection of Moche erotic pottery it had because the curators were totally embarrassed by this stuff.
Some examples:
Pretty hot shit, right? They never, ever put any of this stuff on public view or published it in any catalogues but - we legit had like several hundred pieces of Moche ceramics in theĀ ādirty potsā category. Anyway, I was left alone to just do my job with regard to the database for several years, ok? And I figured, well, theseāre accessioned objects in the museumās collection - better get down to bidness.Ā
I catalogued every goddamn bestiality, necrophiliac, cocksucking, buttfucking, detached penis, and giant vulva drinking cup in that collection. Iād be like,Ā
A drinking vessel in form of a standing man wearing a tunic and cap. He holds an oversized erection in his hands and stares into the distance (note I did not say ālike heās hella-constipatedā). The vessel has a hole at both the tip of the penis as well as around the rim of the figureās head, thus forcing the drinker to drink only from the penis or risk spilling wine all over themselves from the top of the vessel. Red and orange slip covers the surface of the piece.
Pretty straightforward, right? Apparently the deep seated fear of these objects that the curators exhibited was meant to spread to me as well, but - no one ever gave me that memo, because I guess Midwesterners reproduce asexually. When the curators understood that I had catalogued all of these objects in addition to the other, non-sexy pieces in the collection, they were apparently livid, but knew they had no legs to stand on in terms of getting pissed at me for it.Ā
I visited the museumās online public access database a few years back and - every single description I wrote of these pieces has been totally neutered to say something like Male figural vase.Ā
Long story short? Just call a dildo a fucking dildo. Itās all gonna be ok, I swear.
This is absolutely the MOST unusual reblog I have ever tagged with what is probably my second-favorite tag, ātalk to me about your work.ā
My mom is learning to play acnh and she keeps saying worrying things like “what’s up with this dead duck” (gulliver) and “I can’t stop taking out my knife” (axe)