Lonely George – A Hawaiian Tree Snail – Has Died, Taking His Species With Him

eartharchives:

The death of George, and the resulting extinction of this species of tree snail, should serve as a wake-up call, highlighting a much larger issue in Hawaii’s forests that’s been going on for a century.

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moonxtal:

catchymemes:

This was George. He was a 9 year old Jack Russell who lived in the small town of Manaia, New Zealand. On April 29, 2007 he jumped into a losing fight with two Pit Bulls to protect two young children. According to witnesses he fought as hard as he could, but he never stood a chance and was severely mauled as the children were pulled to safety. George died from his wounds that afternoon at the vet.

The best boy

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c-s-stars:

chachkisalpaca:

officialgleamstar:

hazeldomain:

tenoko1:

darkheartinthesky:

wanderingcas:

who is old enough to be part of the fanfic.net era where we literally talked to our characters? like, had conversations with them?

cause I do. as a lonely child of 12 who had no friends, it was a favorite pasttime of mine to boot up the dial-up internet and type out imaginary conversations with ouran high school host club characters in the beginning notes before even starting the damn chapter (which was inevitably 500 words long and absolutely awful)

Modern Author’s Note on Ao3: might discuss some possible triggers, thank readers for comments, apologize for a delay in update, etc–talking to reader, essentially.

Author’s Note on FFN back in 2010: 

Author: Y’all are gonna love this cahpter!!!! [Character] not sooooo much

Character:…wh–what’s gonna happen?

Author: Don’t worry about it! ^.^

Character: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME??

Author: ;)

Character: D:

those were dark, dark days, man. Today’s Fandom Freshman are sure lucky they missed this. 

This when right alongside the detailed disclaimers to avoid lawsuits.

Don’t forget that the author was broken into at least five separate voices, ‘Inside Out’ style.

or where you would have ask blogs for your ocs except it was just in a ff.net story. basically an entire classic authors note except people would ask questions. that was my childhood.

Y'all forgot that sometimes we also appeared in the middle of the text with notes like “(author: noooo >:( character is such a b*tch!!!! character: I’M NOT!!!!)” And it was the crimgiest shit ever but we had fun doing it lmao

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unclefather:

memeboye:

Direct action

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scofflawsins:

rhaella:

why is barbie’s the nutcracker the only good film adaption of the nutcracker that has ever been made

because barbie movies slap next question

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artemis-crock:

_{yj character tropes → kaldur'ahm}

_{badass arm fold // does not like shoes // dual wielding // heroic sacrifice // i want my beloved to be happy // power tattoos // sleeves are for wimps // “the reason you suck” speech}

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nautilusopus:

nautilusopus:

nautilusopus:

nautilusopus:

nautilusopus:

i’m gonna use my hacking powers to do an all pyjama run in pokemon y

Mission parameters set.

Fuck that noise.

YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM

God this is gonna suck when I get to Frost Cavern. 

Still holding on tight to that 3DS I don’t have and couldn’t figure out how to get back. Our mom’s probably holding it hostage.

Haha I’m never going back in there in case the game notices I’m not wearing the default outfit and forces me into actual clothes again. 

Oh hey, do you want to see how it resolved the issue of not having a full render model?

The short answer is it didn’t.

Every now and then notes for this float past my dash and I’m forcibly reminded that I had to stop because I got trapped behind Nurse Joy’s counter and couldn’t figure out how to leave the Pokémon Center because the camera clipped through the floor into PokéHell.

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aokileaf:

astroboyomegafactor:

*gives u one of these*

Thank you

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sorenkingsley:

You wrote to him, you helped him. You loved him. Why that man?

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