ME, attempting to explain the relative sizes of mushroom fruiting bodies to STEPKID: Okay, so imagine that the vast bulk of a tree was underground but it occasionally grew a hat for sex. STEPKID: ……. ME: *shrug* STEPKID: Makes…sense…? ME: I missed my calling as a science communicator.

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The rain kind of put a damper on Halloween this year, but my husband did make a Cerberus costume for our tiny dog.

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My parents are legends.

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you’re being really mean about parasites, person who lives in range for a potential yellow fever infection

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tumblr discourse cycles always end up landing on like the most over simplified versions of things… it’s going through like a protect bugs wave whixh is great but it occasionally turns into Americans/canadians browbeating people who live in areas with tropical diseases about not liking mosquitoes

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