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  • myvoicemyright

    Acid attack survivors in India model new clothing range for powerful photoshoot

    Survivors of acid attacks in India have become the face of a new clothing range designed by a woman who had acid thrown in her face while she was asleep four years ago.Delhi-based designer Rupa and her friends Rita, Sonam, Laxmi and Chanchal modelled the clothes from her new range, Rupa Designs, for photographer Rahul Saharan.

    Rupa suffered extensive injuries when her stepmother threw acid in her face while she was sleeping in 2008.

    She was allegedly left without any medical aid for six hours before her uncle found her and transported her to hospital, where she underwent eleven operations and spent three months being cared for.

  • amberrosehairline

    this is so powerful

  • redsuelo

    Bless them and their beautiful spirits

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  • hohokev

    why do jellyfish only sting when theres physical contact

    why doesnt the electricity just surge throughout the entire ocean

    why dont jellyfish rule the world

  • astro-stoner

    Fun fact!  Jellyfish don’t use electricity to sting you.  Whenever they feel pressure against their tentacles, it causes its cells to rapidly send out these stingers into your skin that then release its venom.  Like this:

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  • space-tart

    #science tumblr to save the day from inaccuracies

  • molotovriot

    #THAT’S WORSE

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    a message from Anonymous:
    Do all snakes have that kind of iridescent sheen to them? I've rarely seen them in real life, but a while back I went to a Pride festival and someone brought their snake (a red-tailed boa, I think? Didn't quite catch the name in all the noise) and it was just the prettiest thing. So soft and docile, with a more rainbowy cover than Noodle in your icon.

  • I’m going to say that if this person was at Pride and the least bit clever, they probably brought some kind of Rainbow Boa.

    But some degree of iridescence is actually a common quality in many of species of snakes with unkeeled scales. Even Noodle can have some rainbows bouncing off her back after a shed.

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    Sunbeam Snakes are probably the hallmark of serpentine iridescence. (Image source)

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    White-lipped Python. (Image source)

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    Bismarck Ringed Python. (Image source)

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    Boelen’s Python. (Image source)

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    Corn Isle BCI. (Image source)

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    Axanthic Scrub Python. (Image source)

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    Even this Iridescent Litter-skink is getting in on the action. (Image source)

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    And of course, the Brazillian Rainbow Boa. (Image source)

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    Close up shot of BRB scales. (Image source)

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    #so fuckin cool
    Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.
    Anne Lamott  (via seulray)
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