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art-of-swords:

Calendar Sword

• Dated: blade ~ about 1686; hilt ~ 16th century
• Culture: German

Source & Copyright: Royal Armouries

earthandscience:

Six amazing orchids that look like animals:

1. Monkey Face Orchid (Dracula simia) - These rare orchids only grow in the cloud forests of southeastern Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1,000-2,000 meters on the side of mountains. Smells like a ripe orange.
2. Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) - It resembles a female bumblebee visiting a pink flower to attract the attention of male bees.
3. Pink Moth Orchid (Phalaenopsis sp.) - Looks like it has a little bird’s head guarding the flower nectar. 
4. White Egret Orchid (Habenaria radiata) - The flower looks like the bird is spreading its fluffy white feathers, getting ready to take off.
5. Holy Ghost Orchid(Peristeria elata) - has a beautiful dove shaped center.
6. Flying Duck Orchid (Caleana major). It’s a small orchid, about 50 cm tall, that grows in eastern and southern Australia.

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^These are so cool!  Orchids are an amazing group of plants — they are often highly endemic and specialized; many have very specific mutualisms with insects and fungi.  Unfortunately, this high degree of specialization means they are vulnerable to extinction.

Plant genitals are pretty.

continueplease:

fearliath:

motorginger:

ishinaru:

this has been a PSA

Or you can pull that pretentious noggin out’ve your arse and just delete the comments when you reblog stuff?

This is so ridiculous it’s making me laugh a little.

People aren’t allowed to write in their own language because OP finds it annoying…? 

And dear god people express their own opinions on their blogs?! The scandal!

But seriously tumblr is a sharing site and ok some comments such as THIS^ can be irritating but it someone wants to write something like that then don’t try to censor them. It is so not alright to tell someone how to run their blog and frankly it’s awful to tell someone the have to write in English just for your benefit. If people sharing your posts is annoying you so much that you have to make a arrogant post about it then use another social site or delete the comments. People can do whatever and write whatever they on  their blogs

AMEN FEARLIATH
This is what confuses me the most about Tumblr users.  People actually act like all comments are for -the OP-

The comments I write are for my friends and (sometimes) they think I’m funny.  So… why is it that I’m constantly being told to shut up about something I’ve basically written for the dashboards I’m gonna pop up on NOT the notification you’re going to get.  >:(

WORD.

I actually got an angry message from someone for reblogging an image and deleting the insanely long thread of stupid nonsense attached to it.  Holy shit, sometimes people get the joke behind an image and don’t need it explained to them, or don’t want to read a million lines of people saying “this is literally the deepest thing ever” or “I DIES FOR 50123094812346 YEARS”?  People delete my comments all the time (because I’m stupid and say stupid things) and I am seriously not offended and I do not care at all.

(Source: kawomaeda)