Or so they say.
A whatever blog, most of the time. Unofficial Taylor Swift blog, because I love her but I am a unorganized mess.
25 years old Chilean. Feminist and prochoice. She/Her. Ace/Aro.
so the cah pride pack has options for buying it “with glitter" and “without glitter” and knowing cards against humanity they just tip like 3 tablespoons of fucking glitter into the pack of cards and send it out
Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.
It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green! Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.)
Check out this diagram from ResearchGate. It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic. (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.) See how orange and green look to them?
Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.
It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra. Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo. These aren’t animals with great color vision. They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not. Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it. Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light. They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing. That’s way more useful if you’re prey. Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red. This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light. Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.
We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.
I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.
Not to mention, in general the forests tigers live in go through dry seasons, turning much of the brush pale gold, so orange is actually not a bad choice.
(photo by Art Wolfe)
But either way, the main point of tiger camouflage isn’t blending in via it’s coloration, it’s actually a combination of disruptive coloration and countershading. Disruptive coloration uses boldly contrasting colors to break up the shape of an animal’s outline, as shown in this image by Hugh Cott:
It’s much harder to resolve the movement of a tiger as “TIGER!!” compared to grass or branches swaying in the wind this way.
In addition, countershading is another camouflage strategy the tiger employs. It’s darker-colored on its back and lighter-colored on its belly. This is because when light falls on objects, it illuminates their top halves, while shadow falls on and darkens the lower half. Animals with the same top and bottom colors will therefore stand out from the background, because of the shadows cast on their legs and belly. Countershading helps to ‘flatten’ the silhouette of an animal by disguising these shadows. If that confuses you, check out this figure by Ian Alexander:
Both these strategies work whether the foliage is green or brown, because the tiger’s camouflage doesn’t need to be perfect- just confusing enough to let it get close.
Sex Trafficking in Atlanta relies heavy in the real estate arena. They post these banging ass condos and lofts for like $350 a month (especially for “female” students) and give you just a phone number to set up a “tour”. Be safe y'all.
Also in the job market!!! People are such easy targets because the job market is such trash here.
Y’all be safe out there!
I know how uncomfortable I am meeting people I meet online; most likely if I’m selling or buying something. I can’t even imagine how uncomfortable it is for women to do this.
Boost to raise awareness for trafficking in ATL and nationwide. They‘re preying on Black women spec. because we’re struggling more. 😡
And less likely to be covered on the news.
I live in Atlanta and currently looking for a place as my lease it up. But I’ve come across so much shady shit. Someone wanted to show me a house at night, no thanks. I had to block him after he kept texting me about meeting.
Also be on the look out for women too, a lot of times they present women to make you feel more comfortable meeting and doing things that aren’t the norm. Always be on the look out. Do a google search on the place to see what the history is like.
I always tell someone where I’m going, send all info I have. The place I’m looking at, who I am meeting, phone number.
would taylor have hugged me for 5 minutes if i tried it
Okay so story time. When I met Taylor the first hug I gave her when I entered the curtained room I like didn’t even register and right before we took our pic I literally was like “wait did I get my hug?” all worried and Taylor just did a cute little laugh and was like yeah! And pulled me in for the picture. But she gave me another hug after and I used all my strength to stay in the moment 100% and soak in Taylor’s love and I remembered the quote about how she said she never pulls away from a hug first because she doesn’t know how much the other person needs it, so I tested it out and I just didn’t end the hug and neither did she 😭 she literally hugged me until I let go first and let me tell you that wasn’t a normal length hug but it put all my broken pieces back together and it was magical and beautiful and wow Taylor just is full of so much love and kindness 😭😭😭❤️💕👸🏼
WHAT THE HELL
That quote is one of my favorites! She never lets go first because she doesn’t know how much the other person needs that hug….that just makes me so emotional right now…Taylor has no clue..
Honestly how do you respond to JK Rowling saying she wants to meet you? How do you respond to Taylor Swift saying she wants to meet you? Did they just point at each other and mutually pass out?
