ellison hyde

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she/her. full of bones. also contains meat and various liquids, some of which are in tubes. the tubes have ADHD

grackle, blinking, nictitating membrane over the eye, so it looks like a prophet on any fantasy/sci fi show about to be like "you will die when the seventh goose falls silent" or whatever. Also the grackle is stunningly handsome
a bald eagle's head in profile, with a wispy white feather stuck to its nostril
river otter whuffling around on a fallen tree
woman in sunglasses holding foil sun reflector out
a great blue heron standing up totally straight with its wings lowered and curved out in front of it, sort of like cupped hands or like it's holding one of those old solar tanning reflector things in front of itself. The internet variously refers to a "flasher pose", "heraldic pose," "delta pose" and "obelisking" for thermoregulation of some kind and frankly I don't know what's correct
two cormorants sitting on old broken stumps in the water, one casual in the background, the one in the foreground doing a fucking majestic flappy pose right at you
a deer on a riverbank, stepping over a long-ago fallen tree with twisty little roots sticking up from the water. He has little fuzzy knobs, or nubs, I couldn't decide which; the beginnings of antlers
eagle flying overhead -- its body is mostly brown but peppered with bits of white all over, and its head is mostly white but peppered with small bits of brown; its tail seems like it is just starting to show bits of white
some kind of sandpiper species that appears to have dunked its entire head in the mud/sand combination it is standing on
immature male orchard oriole, his colors not particularly visible due to him being somewhat backlit by the hideous cloudless sunlight, but said sunlight pokes through the thinner parts of his throat as he yells from his branch
From Ball of Fire (1941): Gary Cooper in the foreground. He has fallen on the ground next to a book and is picking up the book in puzzlement. In the background there is a dead guy, face up, with back flat on the ground. (I mean. Possibly just "unconscious" but he got hit in the head with a wrench and has been laid out with his hands folded on his chest; I have presumed "dead")
Gary Cooper in Ball of Fire, as a professor who absolutely can't deal with the entrance of a sexy lady into his life, telling Barbara Stanwyck the following as he attempts to get her to leave: "I shall regret the absence of your keen mind..."
Barbara Stanwyck in Ball of Fire, with some sort of half-helmet bangs that are curled under so high on her head that it almost looks like a hat, then hair at the sides both combed back from her face and curled down the side and bottom but straight down the back and between. i don't really know how to describe it but it's that sort of 1940s hair styling that looks like it required 3 hours and small steam engine or something to create
a bunch of older professor-type dudes are being asked by their no-nonsense housekeeper what nonsense is going on. in the background one of these gentlemen has slapped his hands over his cheeks with his mouth in an open "ooo" in a demurely comical manner
"Ah, but what it costs me," said Mrs. Oliver darkly. "Say what you lie, it's not *natural* for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B--unless, that is, B is absolutely madly unpleasant and in that case nobody will mind whether he's been killed or not, and doesn't care in the least who's done it." "I see your problem," I said. "But if you've dealt with it successfully fifty-five times, you will manage to deal with it once again." "That's what I tell myself," said Mrs. Oliver, "over and over again, but every single time I can't believe it, and so I'm in agony."
part of end credits from the movie "Mystery Street" which list characters as "A Tattooist", "A Mortician", "An Ornithologist", "A District Attorney"
tricolored heron standing (one-footed) on a branch in a pond
a heron's foot clawed up around the stick it's standing on, which is jutting up out of the water, such that there is also a reflection of the foot
male wigeon amongst the straw-yellow marsh plantness
male pintail duck looking towards camera
a towhee on a gray day in a bush of wiggly dead twigs
male wood duck, sitting in the water, looking like if God killed the dinosaurs because he stumbled onto birds and decided yes, that's the one, that's the animal i want to fuck, and then went really hard trying to make them increasingly fuckable to Himself until it was just really unreasonable
screenshot of online generic scrabble game where the computer has played the word NUBIA, clearly acceptable
cedar waxwing with...pretty much only its belly lit by the sun. sex hair
promo image from Suddenly Susan but "Susan" has been replaced with "Freezing" and in smaller text "for literally no reason. bodies just make shit up"
Sketchy drawing of a falcon or hawk or something that just has AAAAHHHH written sort of where eye should be and drifting out of head
ink/black/white paint drawing of a sort of fake wren with several tongues jettisoning a lot of weird fog that goes around the whole bird
A battered piece of paper with a mess of lines on it that might have been a nice drawing of a bird and fog but the person drawing it obviously got completely lost somewhere and possibly impatient
A cat walking on a roof in very very dark shadows with just a bit of green lighting
image posted above with labeled areas where i think there is an eyeless maw possibly attached to little skittery feet
photo of Kelly Oubre, who plays basketball, as evidenced by the basketball in his hands, with his hair doing a perfect fwoosh thing and I don't know what the lighting is about but jesus christ
post that says "but look at yourself, consider your life"
"Also contributing to what must be a high average of error of measurement is the extreme inaccessibility of some specimens. When perched atop dusty cases at Tring and the National Museum of Ireland, or upon rickety scaffolding in Edinburgh, the urge to completion may have overwhelmed the dictates of caution. In addition, many skulls are mounted high above the floor, with the underside of the upper jaw and palate flush against the wall. Dangling a tape between skull and wall to measure the basal skull length often required a major effort in acrobatics--a skill that does not come naturally to me."
A rainbow furby with the body of a serpent
"The beauty of Women they place in their fatness, juxta illud Italicum, Dio mi faccia grassa, to mi faro bella. God make me fat, and I'le make my self beautiful. Their painting is no better than that of our Chimneys in the Summer, viz. Red Oaker and Spanish White. They paint or stain their teeth black, upon the same design that our Ladies wear black patches: Or it may be that both being spoil'd by mercurial painting, they make a vertue of necessity, and cry up that for an Ornament which is a Deformity. Low foreheads and long eyes are in fashion here; to which purpose they strain them up to and under their Tyres, that they can ill shut them, as our Ladies lift up their hands to their heads. They have a secret amonst them to stain the very balls of their eyes black. Narrow Feet and slender Wasts are alike ugly in the sight"
Someone's post: "Went on a date with a guy I really like. I dressed nice, did my hair, gave him an extensive 30 minute lecture on coelacanths, yet I haven't heard from him. The only thing I can think of is perhaps I did not provide enough information on coelacanths?? Fish people pls advise"
"raking leaves is miserable until you try this one simple trick"
email titled "A seagull mugged me this weekend" with summary "And yes...it stole my Oink."
lines from abstract of an article: "This study reports a case of a human body skeletonized in less than 24 hours by ichthyofauna following an accidental fall into the Amazon River. Only cartilaginous structures of the nose and ears, the male genitalia, and the feet and hands of the individual remained."
Screenshot of text that says "This article is about dentistry and oral sex."
photo of some people sitting on remains of roman public toilets
photo of public roman toilets that shows the gutter running in front of the toilets
a rough diagram explaining a possible theory of how the sponge stick was used to bypass dick and balls when wiping
scene from Grace & Frankie in which Grace (Jane Fonda), Frankie (Lily Tomlin) and fictional pop singer Kareena G (Nicole Richie) are recording themselves yelling "Eat shit Kristen Bell"
charlie brown falling dramatically after lucy yanks the football away from him yet again because he's a FOOL a HOPELESS FOOL
cedar waxwing sitting in a crusty autumn-form tulip poplar tree
conversation under cop slide video person a: do we know why it's like that person b: According to the wiki page someone actually sent scientists to try and figure out why person c: And?! person d: They never made it out... person e: Some say they're still sliding
header text that says "What should I do if I encounter fish disease?"
The Isabella tiger moth can be found in many cold and temperate regions. The banded woolly bear larva emerges from the egg in the fall and overwinters in its caterpillar form, by allowing most of its mass to freeze solid. First its heart stops beating, then its gut freezes, then its blood, followed by the rest of the body. It survives being frozen by producing a cryoprotectant in its tissues. 5] This freezing occurs outside of body cells, but not within. In the spring, it thaws.
A room with a small tv, a table lamp, and what appears to be heavy blood spatter and dripping and handprints and bloody blood everywhere except, curiously, the TV and lamp. The TV appears to be showing a film about buttocks
screenshot from quoted article that says: In court documents, UC lawyers argued that releasing the settlement proposal would create an untenable "fishbowl" inviting "every member of the entire public to express each one's views on every settlement," creating an "uncontrollable public fray" impeding negotiations.
screenshot of a footnote from a paper I'm reading that says "3. The fart does not appear to have been mentioned in the Bible."
Abstract from an article comparing the force needed to stab a human chest vs various types of fruit, which ends with "Results show that force needed to penetrate the skin and allow for an 8-cm blade penetration into the chest is similar to the force required to insert a steak knife for a 6-cm distance into a cantaloupe. In addition, the force needed to penetrate the cartilage is most similar to stabbing a watermelon to 6 cm with a butcher knife. However, the forces required to penetrate the bone are greater than those required to penetrate any fruit with any type of blade."
excerpt from the encyclopedia of meat sciences that reads "The major constraints to the use of hot boning have been the slippage of one muscle relative to another within a primal cut, which is considered visually less appealing, and the extra shortening of excised muscles subjected to rapid chilling. Aging is effective when muscle shortens by less than 20% (but reduces if shortening is greater), so hot boning and aging is feasible if temperatures are controlled.
a subsection from a chapter in a meat science work entitled "Electrical Stimulation and Hot Boning" which has really specific meat science connotations that are not at all what you would imagine out of context
a rather large turtle and a cormorant sit on the same rock, looking, I think somewhat awkwardly, in one another's direction
three common mergansers on a rock with their heads tucked, one sort of after the other, in a bit of a vertical fashion, as the rock goes upwards picturesquely out of the river
osprey taking off from maple tree branch. the photographic quality is far, far better than it should be
damselflies forming a heard shape with their long abdomen bits as they...couple, you know, fornicationly
two green herons having a kinetic disagreement