Caught on camera for the first time in history, this is the extremely-rare Chirodectes Maculatus—a species of spotted box jelly.
Chirodectes maculatus was first described in 2005 on the basis of data — including physical inspection and video — from 1997. Still images from that sighting have been published, but (to my knowledge, anyway) the full footage hasn’t.
The above video was taken in or around December 2021, and may or may not be the same species. Lisa-ann Gershwin, who distinguished Chirodectes from genus Chiropsalmus in 2006 and helped publicize this newer sighting, has said she suspects this is indeed a new species, but there’s some debate about whether it’s possible to determine that from the footage alone. Neither Gershwin nor any other specialists have yet published on the topic. In either event, this caption is incorrect, as is a lot of popular reporting on the subject.
literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.
people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue
“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry
Jules Verne’s striking tomb in Amiens shows him breaking out from his own grave and reaching to the sky, a sign of his immortality. Sculptor Albert Roze used Verne’s own death mask to make the statue’s face.
