weirddreamsandtea
Any pronouns. Capricorn. Not a minor. Chaotic Good// Sapphic with a love of tea, gardens, plants, books, embroidery, and bugs
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Tumblr, do your thing. I need someone to appreciate my cat
is anyone else also doing ultimately fine + dying of stress + it’s not that bad + if i don’t wake up tomorrow hotter and better at every hobby its fucking over for me
![Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate) OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE • Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge. • Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard. • Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.” • Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish). • Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work. • Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science. • Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her. (OP: Matthew Gardner)](https://64.media.tumblr.com/62252d2e0b47b6782fbd6ef350407812/5bd09b4ca294947e-d3/s500x750/58ae690a544239d5a7cdf38d6193c1e114d908a1.jpg)
Forest Tent Caterpillar (blue) and White Marked Tussock Caterpillar (red)
Malacosoma disstria (blue)
Orgyia leucostigma (red)
Some caterpillars I found while walking in the park! There were dozens of these babies everywhere 🐛
Hierodula salomonis, aka, the “Jade Mantis”
other social media websites im on are like. hawk tuah girl and mr beast are collabing for a festables event. and tumblr is like. here are my top 10 favorite ants
it’s mothman’s birthday everyone say happy birthday mothman 🥳🎉
casual survey: reblog if you want to kiss a girl right now
“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams
Centopéia pernas de hortelã (Mint Leg Centipede) limpando e cuidando de seus bebês! (Scolopendra sp. Vietnã)
Please tell me I’m not the only that eats the whole apple. Like all of it, the core included. Just the whole juicy thang. Crunch crunch crunch *bites core in half* crunch crunch crucnch
It’s so weird to think about how long I’ve been on tumblr now. Like I joined when I was a minor. And now I’m several years older and an adult?? Crazy
Look at him <3
Bonus hiking trail pic:
It was a good day with lots of wildflowers 😌
faggot fall is almost upon us! like and reblog if you want a faggot upon you
candle embroidery :) first time embroidering on black fabric, it looks much cooler
i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you
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This is totally random, but I got my wisdom teeth removed almost a week ago and so far I’ve had oral thrush and an infection. The two are probably related. This sucks
When you understand that kids and teenagers being salty about literary symbolic analysis comes from a very real place of annoyance and frustration at some teachers for being over-bearing and pretentious in their projecting of symbolism onto every facet of a story but you also understand that literary analysis and critical thinking in regards to symbolism is extremely important and deserves to be not only taught in schools, but actively used by writers when examining their own work to see if they might have used symbolism unintentionally and to make sure that they are using symbolism effectively:
Rainbow Katydids by Arthur Anker and Bernard DuPont
things to say to bugs when science finally unlocks the secrets of human-bug communication:
im not hurting you i am taking you to a safe place
do you eat weird crumbs cause i found some im willing to share
you can bite me if you want but id rather be no-bite friends
i like your big colorful eyes, very stylish
please dont crawl into my sleeves
(sings a duet with a cricket)