bettsplendens:

zookeeperproblems:

montereybayaquarium:

May your Monday be motivated like these baby sting rays attempting to scale their window

*your Monday, whatever it may be

For anyone curious, this is a very common behavior among stingrays in aquariums. Stingrays normally flutter along the bottom of the water, and they rarely, if ever, encounter steep walls. When it finds the side of the tank, a stingray in an aquarium simply keeps going as though the tank wall is the bottom of the tank. This is why you see rays in touch tanks coming up to the surface and sticking out a little bit- they’re programmed for “swim along solid surface”. It’s not going to do them any harm, it’s not stressful, it’s just what they do. 

In other words, these lil guys, who do not have swim bladders to keep them still in the water, are probably pretty confused as to why they keep sliding along the ground. They can’t just hover in place like most fish do. 

rainbowbarnacle:

curlicuecal:

“but AO3 *wants* writers on their platform, writers are providing a service for them, that’s how they get content.”

no, they are PROVIDING you a platform. for your content. as a service to you.

please, please, please learn how the internet works.

the companies that WANT you on the platform are the companies that are SELLING YOU TO ADVERTISERS.

*Facebook* wants you on their platform. *Tumblr* wants you on their platform. *FF.net* wants you on their platform. You are Facebook’s product. Facebook is not a service to you. It is an incentive for you to give them eyes and data to sell. And the second your eyes and data stop being profitable they will toss you under the bus.

That’s why fans made AO3. So we had a space that was ours, that wasn’t profiting off of us, so we wouldn’t get sold out.

luxury-loki:

Us before TTDW in 2013: This might be Tom’s last Marvel film 😦

Tom: yeah 😦

Loki: *reveals he’s still alive at the end in a dramatic twist*

Tom:

Us in April 2018: Is Loki going to die in Infinity War?

Tom: Everything is fine 🙂

Loki: *dies in infinity war*

Tom:

Us: Okay it’s finally time we accept that Loki is dead. We will probably never see him in anything Marvel again and we have to except that.

Tom: Yes but all good things come to end, I still have the memories 🙂

Marvel: *confirms new Loki series starring Tom Hiddleston*

Tom: