Happy birthday to the tallest member of Shipwrecked! Without him plots would meander, jokes would falter, and no one would ever use slack. We love you, @seanpersaud! Have an amazing day. Anyone can wear the mask. 🕷
B. lutosa is certified bibby, which is like baby but in uh, lichen talk. This squamulose lichen has rounded, deeply-fissured scales which can be scattered or closely clumped together. It is white or pale gray in color, and covered in farinose pruina. The apothecia are flat, with a dark reddish-brown rim and a dark disc often dusted with pruina. B. lutosa often starts its little lichen life out as a lichenicolous fungus growing on cyanolichens, but it can also colonize soil and calciferous rock surfaces. It grows in temperate coastal regions and arid juniper scrubland in the Northern Hemisphere and Namibia. A precious lil bibby. I love them.
“Hobbits give presents to other people on their own birthdays. Not very expensive ones, as a rule, and not so lavishly as on this occasion; but it was not a bad system.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book I, Chapter 1, “A Long-Expected Party”
Do you remember the grocery store, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon, and the Red Sox will be at Fenway; and the cafes will be putting tables on the sidewalk; and they’ll be cleaning out the boathouses on the Charles; and eating takeout from the Armenian grocery store. Do you remember the taste of takeout?
Skylar Brandt was supposed to debut as Aurora today but since the season was canceled she debuted her own Rose Adagio.
Ok this is SO COOL because the Rose Adagio is a partnered dance–Aurora does exactly what’s shown in the video, but with the prince there rotating her and holding her waist, both for the attitude balance and the pirouettes. That wobbling you see while she turns? That’s not because she’s off balance (you could literally never do this without absolutely pinpoint perfect balance), that’s from the subtle movement of her foot to rotate herself. She is all the way en pointe, rotating sheerly by veeeery slightly adjusting her foot. You may be looking at this going “I don’t know much about ballet, but this looks pretty amazing.” I know ballet, and let me tell you, this is 100%, absolutely, INSANELY difficult, impressive, and fucking radical. Amazing doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I’ve literally never seen this done before. I’m no expert, but I love me some ballet.
