She also has an Etsy shop where she sells beautiful prints of minimal marine art. Her pieces depict the unique scale patterns of different sharks and include information on each shark type with every order.
Melissa’s Twitter said she is using the proceeds to study in Antarctica!
It’s a baby Jacana. They use those ridiculous stick-figur toes to evenly distribute their weight as they walk around on waterlillies and stuff. Like snowshoes, but for swamps.
Here’s an adult:
Another really interesting thing about Jacanas is that it’s the dad who does all the child rearing while mom goes off to lay more eggs. Amd their really good dads too! Plus look at how they Cary their babies around!:
All aboard the dadbus
It awesome and wholesome, but the baby legs make dad look like some alien arthropod monstrosity wearing a feather suit.
@elodieunderglass fantastic terrible thing with legs. with just so many legs.
Almost all of Indiana is terrible, but I really don’t think Carmel gets enough derision. Fucking Carmel! Tacky, overpriced, full of rich people, and littered with shitty statues. I hate it!
There are statues all over the sidewalks downtown, but they’re not cool statues. They’re not commemorating important historical figures, they’re not creative artistic pieces, they’re not interactive. They’re just unsettling, obtrusive, and garishly-painted statues of random civilians who look like residents of Pleasantville, like “old woman with grocery bag”:
or “white cop poised to jokingly slap your ass for a photo”:
and “corporate shill taking up bench space to keep homeless people from sleeping on it”:
They’re always in the way, they never move when you say “excuse me”, you’re constantly mistaking them for real people, and they’re UGLY. They’re so UGLY!
Dear Carmel, scrap them all and hire living statues. Mimes. I will forgive you cursed city for its crimes if you become the mime hotspot of Indiana.
Hey my hometown has one of those weird cop statues
like… the same one
SLAPPING ASSES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
I used to live in Carmel, Indiana, and my driver’s ed teacher told me he liked to dress up as a fisherman on the weekend, and sit on an empty bench near these with his rod and tackle box, and hold perfectly still. He liked scaring people when they came up to take a picture of the “new statue”.
Your driver’s ed teacher was an entrepreneur and I think this should be how we take down Carmel, Indiana. We descend upon the town en masse as a plague of living statues.
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