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Hello, hi! In honor of World Reef Day, we invite you to take a rest from all the rainbows and feast your peepers on these weird smiley water creatures.

Behold the blubber-evidenced chub of the plesiosaur. Yes, ma’am! @alphynix​ posts paleontology art, feathers dinosaurs, and curates scientific curiosities:

Originally posted by alphynix

A sea slug detaches its head from its body (Spoiler! Nobody dies!). Turn to @todropscience​​ for all your marine science and biology needs:

Originally posted by todropscience

Swim with him! @jellygummies​ is full of the bouncy, candy-coated uncanny:

Originally posted by jellygummies

Visit @donutdrawsthings​​ for artistic renderings of other things that may or may not dance and dwell in the wet:

Originally posted by donutdrawsthings

And here are some sounds to soothe your submarine musings. Happy Tuesday, Tumblr.

Originally posted by canwehaveapooldad

Shout out to those of you who wonder out loud on the internet. (And then come home from work in the evening to a bajillion notes from people with takes you hadn’t even considered on a topic you haven’t even thought about since making a half-asleep text post ten hours ago before your first coffee of the day.) Shout out to you and only you. And to these folks who have had some thoughts worth thinking:

thank god for skin! without it we would simply be peeled limes with complicated emotions

@decaffeinated-hoe does not need caffeine to have thoughts or write them down on the internet. We’re truly blessed!

caligula was a pretty fucked up guy, but in his defense if everyone called me a nickname that meant “little boots” i’d also probably execute a few people

@thoodleoo serves delightfully acerbic hot takes on the ancient Romans.

I think women in ponds giving out swords is a fine system of governmence actually. May i have one

@swordlesbianopinions is fairly straightforward: Here is a lesbian who likes swords and wielding opinions, which she does freely and, might we add, rather well. Bravo!

‘how kafkaesque’ i say waiting in line at the taco bell. you think im talking about the alienating bureaucracy of waiting in a single file line for food premade in another state but actually im talking about the dead cockroach in the corner

@mariowiki​ likes sea creatures with lots of skin. She has been here forever and still manages to be funny, which is kind of impressive, honestly.

And here, to round us out, is an elephant seal in desperate need of a shower (if not a thought.)

Originally posted by scircih-rose-blog

It’s International Museum Day, happy International Museum Day! In honor of International Museum Day, here are some digital images of inanimate objects depicting animate objects: animal friends from discerning curators, collectors, and museums. Are you ready to marvel, to goggle, to ooooh and aaaah? Lovely. Welcome to the museum.

Originally posted by “ashmoleanmuseum

This little monkey is smiling (kinda) because it has just seen its first IRL humans in a long while at the Ashmolean Museum (@ashmoleanmuseum​).

Originally posted by thechildrensmuseum

Gamboling kittens at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (@thechildrensmuseum​).

Originally posted by cmog

A smoothly blue-blown glass bird vessel that lives at the Corning Museum of Glass (@cmog​).

Originally posted by brooklynmuseum

This blue monkey is apparently very old. And now it is in Brooklyn, courtesy of Booklyn Museum (@brooklynmuseum​).

Originally posted by philamuseum

An ox, now resident in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (@philamuseum​).

Originally posted by artfoli

Found among art history buff @artfoli​‘s finds: the earliest-known 3D likeness of a cat in Egyptian art. It’s no Etruscan boar, but woah. We’ll take it.

Potatoes are neat, right? You know what else is neat? Expanding video upload limits. So we went ahead and did that.

Here are the deets:

• Videos posted per day: 10 → 20
• Video upload size limit: 100MB → 500MB
• Single Video time limit: 5 minutes → 10 minutes
• Total Video time limit per day: 5 minutes → 60 minutes

Now you can watch all nine minutes and thirty-five seconds of a potato cooking in a microwave. Because that’s how long it takes.

🥔 Potatoes were harmed during the making of this video. 🥔

Originally posted by honeyrolls

That’s it. That’s the post. 

Here are the animals that live in your homes and have declared themselves allies. Give it up for Yuki, Toby, Mick, Rigel, Io, and Zendaya.

Hear Yuki and obey. Yuki lives on a bird blog for birds, but we assume nice humans are allowed:

Originally posted by “mind-if-i-scream

This is Toby. Toby is a cat. He lives with his human artist and supports lesbians:

Originally posted by “jubileeln

Mick the Dick is a retired rat. We don’t know how he got his name but do not be fooled. Although retired, Mick is in fact still a rat:

Originally posted by “rachiesratirementhome

These proud little piggies are called Rigel and Io. Rigel and Io have two mums, and they are pretty stoked about that:

Originally posted by thegayneapigs

Zendaya the cat knows that love is love. Her human likes MCU and writing fanfic. And Zendaya, we presume.

Originally posted by “yes-i-am-happyaspie

Hello Tumblr, and welcome to the first installment of a new little series we’re calling Last Week On Tumblr, where we’ll review some of the Stuff That Went On in this here bluescape.

• Friday wrapped up another @bigweekon Tumblr. In dulcet tones, we reflected on things coming to an end—the thirteenth Doctor’s reign, BuzzFeed Unsolved, and any confusion over Lil Nas X’s unrivaled supremacy.
• K-pop band EVERGLOW stopped by @kpop to chat about their newest comeback. ICYMI.
• Over on @cozy, the Domestic At-Home Non-Sporting Community Event, D-A-N-C-E for short, is in full swing. Last week, we watched with bated breath as Terry and Barry reported on the first two disciplines, Napping and Drinking Water. More to come this week.
• @entertainment announced a Rebel Robin podcast Q&A with @thelaurenshippen—send in your questions!
• And finally, Tuesday gave us some wisdom and a rotating plant. Thank you, Tuesday. Just what we’ve always wanted.

That’s all for this week’s recap of last week. Stay cool, dry, or simply defiant of any oppressive weather situations near you. And remember:

Originally posted by staff

Hello! Happy solstice. What’s this, you ask? Well, it’s a Tuesday. It’s also the end of one of Algy’s adventures in Patadragonia. Who’s Algy? Algy is a friend-shaped accidental adventurer. In this particular part of his story, he helps a dragon with some mad dance moves join the circus. In Patadragonia. (Sound on for total immersion.)

On the morning of the solstice…

…in the faraway land of Patadragonia, dawn broke with a beautiful deep pink glow over the mountains, and ethereal mists shimmered up from the frosty plains. Algy was still dozing after his long, sleepless night under the full moon when suddenly he heard a most extraordinary sound, and at the same time, he felt the special cherry blossom which he had brought all the way from the magical Easter island begin to vibrate and sparkle on the cold, bare rock behind him…

There was no doubt about it: the moment had arrived…Algy knew that his little dragon friend was about to realize its lifelong dream at last, and although he was sure that he would miss the funny wee creature, he could not have been happier for his very special friend, especially as he felt certain that—so long as he kept the magical cherry blossom safe—they would be bound to meet again in adventures yet to come…

[The circus band is playing the “National Emblem March,” composed in 1902 by Edwin Eugene Bagley, in a version created by Algy’s assistants.]

Need more context? Take this cherry blossom back to the beginning or the very beginning. And if you just want to listen to the sounds of Scottish seas, then this one’s for you.

Well, well, well. We really are stretching the concept of what a Tuesday can be. This Not-Tuesday, we’re still recovering from Saturday and all its sweaty glory (you know the one). So here’s a floaty flamenco of “montero,” courtesy of our friend SuperKnova.

Like what you’re hearing? Check out SuperKnova’s own music on her Tumblr, or swing by her site. Like what you’ve been seeing? Scroll here for more Lil Nas X. Like what we’ve done with the day? Come back on Tuesdays (no, really) to find out what’s next.

Happy Tuesday, Thursday.

52 years after two men called Neil and Edwin took a walk on the moon, MacKenzie Scott’s ex husband is not standing or sitting or swimming anywhere on this earth, but is instead hovering somewhere Above. For everyone else with your feet on the ground, here are some space-themed blogs to help you disappear into dreams of starry silence. 

@the-wolf-and-moon​​​ is a collection of art the universe makes behind the scenes while we’re all going about our dwindling days and tiny tasks. Here you can see the Cat’s Paw Nebula, otherwise known as NGC 6334. Birthplace of gigantic stars and cubic tons of trouble, probably, this finally proves who really runs all universes, known and unknown.

Originally posted by the-wolf-and-moon

@startrekdesign​ grew from a personal quarantine project by a long-time Trekkie and new-time collector of design objects featured in the show. Think of it as home interiors, if ‘home’ were a big ol’ spacecraft fictitiously hurtling through time and space.

Originally posted by startrekdesign

@mystarypi-astronomy​​ takes pictures of space! With a telescope! From the earth! And tells us what we’re looking at so that what at first glance looks like a black squiggle in golden glitter becomes the Snake Nebula, a whole world of knowable and unknowable worlds! Tttthhhpectacular! 

Originally posted by mystarypi-astronomy

And lastly, @thevisualdon​​ is back with a spacey moment for our digital age, a neon-dreamed, glitter-pixelled nostalgia for obsolescent futures. Come on in. The sky’s the sea, and the water’s warm.

Originally posted by thevisualdon