#purbita is amazing

[pjo-tsc-trc-otherthingstoo]

Hi this reminds me of you

Hiiiii

Idk how u make these but I love this 🥺

I lobh u bestie 💖

#i made cupcakes today too #they're a little burnt but that's ok 😌 #purbita is amazing

[v1olentdelights]

PRETTYY theme 🥺

Thank you!!😘😘 💗💗

#purbita 💓 #jae is amazing

[youngreckless]

AASHI CONGRATS 🥳🥳🥳 1K is a biiig number and you deserve all of them for being so wonderful, kind, and talented.

So I couldn't see the emoji on my phone lol, but can I have a name playlist? (My name's Purbita obviously alfksjfjfjjhk)

and a 🦋? (Ethereal core and the word is forgetful 🤭)

THANK YOU BABY 🥺😭💞 you're amazing, ily 🥺💗💗 @our-insentient-touches

🪐 — here's your playlist!!! 🥺

P — Photograph by Ed Sheeran

U — Udd Gaye by Ritviz

R — Raatan Lambiyaan (Asees Kaur & Jubin Nautiyal) from Shershaah

B — Baarishein by Anuv Jain

I — illicit affairs by Taylor Swift

T — The Good Side by Troye Sivan

A — Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey

🦋 — and here is your moodboard ✨🥰

#hope you like them both 🥺 #1k celebration #purbita <33

[still-theyearningstays]

honestly one of my main motivations to write rn is to send it to you after i finish it and getting to know your thoughts on it

purbita. how dare you make me cry.

y'all are so amazing. and i've been such a bad friend lately.

#purbita

[langorion]

Reminder that you are one of my favourite people on earth and that I think you're extremely talented and your wallpapers and edits are stunning. ;)

*melts into a puddle of tears* ily so much purbita. you are one of my most favourite people on earth. and your talent is amazing. your OCs, your writing, your world-building. SO GOOD. AMAZING. MIND BLOWING. NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

#purbita the light of my life #🥺

[gabtapia]

aaahhh I love your theme 🤩

Aww thank you so much Purbita 💙 I'm glad you like it!! , I love yours the color is amazing 😍

#purbita ✨ #asks

[ofsandstonebodies]

PURBITA CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 🥺💗💗🎉💕✨ this is AMAZING! 💗 you deserve this and SO much more 💘

for your celebration, can i please have 🛤️ +

Thank you so mach Aashi 😭🥺

Okay so I am giving you 4 songs for this picture because I couldn't choose amongst then and also because these are some of my favourite songs:

#asks answered #spotify #song recs #purbita got 200

[fishing-exposed]

@mollycule__: Very honored to take @hahabita on her first fly fishing trip. I’ve never seen so many trout before! Just zoom in on the center of the pic where Purbita’s doing an amazing cast 😱 She also spotted a bald eagle! https://t.co/quFFmh9PXD

#baffinbay #baffin bay #baffin_bay #Baffin Bay #baffin bay rod and gun #BaffinBayRodandGun #Baf

[kristablogs]

There was only ever one true Ferris Wheel, and we blew it up

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.'s wheel. (Public Domain/)

What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show.

FACT: The Ferris Wheel has a shockingly sad (and short) origin story

By Rachel Feltman

The story of the world’s first and only Ferris Wheel starts as so many great stories do: With Americans desperately trying to outdo the French.

When Paris hosted the World’s Fair in 1889, entrepreneurs and engineers spent more than two years and about $1.5 million building a tower around 1,000 feet high—the Eiffel Tower, to be exact. It spent 41 years as the tallest man-made structure in the world, at which time it was just barely surpassed by the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.

So when Americans started prepping to host the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which opened in 1893, they were still smarting from France’s big success and needed a comparable spectacle.

Enter George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., born in Pennsylvania to the Galesburgh Gales. His family moved out to Nevada, but he wound up back in Pittsburgh and founded a company that tested and inspected the metals used on railroads and bridges. When a call went out for Exposition proposals in 1891, Ferris responded with a plan he said would “out-Eiffel Eiffel.” His concept? A very, very big wheel.

Now, Ferris did not invent the concept of putting people on a wheel and spinning them around. We know “pleasure wheels” existed as early as the 1600s in Europe and Asia, but these were small enough for people to crank by hand (and looked totally ridiculous).

According to many New Jersey publications, Ferris stole the idea for the modern wheel from William Somers, who put up three pleasure wheels in Atlantic City in the early 1890s. Ferris rode those wheels and definitely got his inspiration from Somers, but those attractions were only 50 feet high.

What Ferris wound up building—after spending some time convincing the World Fair committee it could be done, raising $400,000 for construction costs, and paying for the required safety tests himself—was a wheel 246 feet high. It was a feat of engineering in every sense of the word. When it was complete, it could hold more than 2,000 passengers at once for each 20-minute ride (which only included two rotations, but thrilled visitors nonetheless).

But Ferris didn’t live long enough to successfully brand the concept of a massive pleasure wheel, so the many iterations of his great invention weren’t truly his. Find out more about his tragic tale—and the explosive fate of his one true wheel—on this week’s episode of Weirdest Thing.

FACT: Animals of different species sometimes form friendships to hunt (and cuddle)

By Purbita Saha

Earlier this year, a video of a coyote and an American badger frolicking together in the Santa Cruz mountains stunned the internet. While Disney+ was presumably shopping the rights for a 10-part series about the pair, biologists pointed out that similar relationships have been documented many times in science, and for even longer in Navajo and Hopi storytelling.

But the friendship between the species isn’t just cute. It’s a tale of survival: In certain seasons and habitats, badgers and coyotes will tag team to trap squirrels, groundhogs, and other prey in their burrows. Between the badger’s digging power and the coyote’s quick feet, the two can crank up their hunting success rate by 9 percent. If all goes well, the partners might rendezvous multiple times—rounding out their feasts with some nuzzling to celebrate the end of a day’s hard work.

So, maybe it’s fair to say that the relationship isn’t just built on survival. Behavior ecologist Jennifer Campbell-Smith wrote an eye-opening reaction in High Country News that urges viewers to see collaborative hunting as an example of complex social behavior among animals. It’s something to consider—and study—in other surprising friendships in nature:

<b>Dolphins and whales blitz fish together.</b> A <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mms.12065">17-year-long study</a> off the northeast coast of New Zealand found that pods of false killer whales and common bottlenose dolphins often mingle and forage together.

<b>Grouper recruit eels to prowl coral reefs.</b> Swiss scientists snorkeling in the Red Sea <a href="https://www.livescience.com/9415-amazing-species-cooperate-hunt.html">observed the flabby fish leading morays to prey</a> hiding out in nooks, sometimes using a "headstand" as a signal. The biologists think this is the first record of cooperative hunting in fish.

<b>Birds and humans team up to find treats in the forest.</b> The <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/meet-greater-honeyguide-bird-understands-humans">Yao community in Mozambique follows greater honeyguides</a> to giant, wild bee hives—and has likely been doing so for centuries. They’ve even created a specific rolling call that beckons the birds: <a href="https://www.audubon.org/sites/default/files/brrrhm.mp3"><i>brrr-hm</i></a><i>.</i>

FACT: You can totally hypnotize a chicken

By Jessica Boddy

The inspiration for this fact struck the last time I was home visiting family in the Chicago suburbs. We were reminiscing about the very first time our dog Zeke caught a possum. After marching around the yard with the beast in his mouth for quite some time, my dad finally caught him by the collar and made him drop his prey. The possum was apparently dead—frozen, stiff and drooling. Dad went inside to bring Zeke in and grab a shovel, but by the time he returned to dispose of the possum it had vanished. We thought it was dead, but it was just playing possum.

It turns out that “playing dead” is extremely useful in a survival situation, since a predator doesn’t usually want to eat something it hasn’t killed personally. It could be riddled with some disease. And it’s not just possums that take advantage of this instinct. The behavior is something called apparent death, and TONS of species use it as a defense mechanism—plenty of amphibians, iguanas, sharks, pigeons, chickens, butterflies, beetles, ants, bees, stick bugs... the list goes on.

Humans have found ways to induce this state in animals over the last few hundred years. And when they do that, they like to call it hypnosis. Adam Savage, Ernest Hemingway, Werner Herzog, and even Al Gore are all noted chicken hypnotizers. Like magic, the chickens just freeze solid for 30 minutes at a time (sometimes longer). How do the chicken hypnotists do it? Listen to this week’s episode to find out!

If you like The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, please subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts. You can also join in the weirdness in our Facebook group and bedeck yourself in Weirdo merchandise from our Threadless shop.

[pjo-tsc-trc-otherthingstoo]

Lizzie how are you todayy (~￣³￣)~

Hey Purbi 👋👋

Doing great, listening to Sour and pairing songs with tsc ships, the usual

Thank you for asking how I'm doing you're so sweet 🥺 I hope you're having a great day too

Btw were y'all serious when you said let's get Will Herondale trending bc I'm down

#purbita is amazing

[scootoaster]

There was only ever one true Ferris Wheel, and we blew it up

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.'s wheel. (Public Domain/)

What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if you listen to PopSci’s hit podcast. The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week hits Apple, Anchor, and everywhere else you listen to podcasts every-other Wednesday morning. It’s your new favorite source for the strangest science-adjacent facts, figures, and Wikipedia spirals the editors of Popular Science can muster. If you like the stories in this post, we guarantee you’ll love the show.

FACT: The Ferris Wheel has a shockingly sad (and short) origin story

By Rachel Feltman

The story of the world’s first and only Ferris Wheel starts as so many great stories do: With Americans desperately trying to outdo the French.

When Paris hosted the World’s Fair in 1889, entrepreneurs and engineers spent more than two years and about $1.5 million building a tower around 1,000 feet high—the Eiffel Tower, to be exact. It spent 41 years as the tallest man-made structure in the world, at which time it was just barely surpassed by the Chrysler Building in Manhattan.

So when Americans started prepping to host the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which opened in 1893, they were still smarting from France’s big success and needed a comparable spectacle.

Enter George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., born in Pennsylvania to the Galesburgh Gales. His family moved out to Nevada, but he wound up back in Pittsburgh and founded a company that tested and inspected the metals used on railroads and bridges. When a call went out for Exposition proposals in 1891, Ferris responded with a plan he said would “out-Eiffel Eiffel.” His concept? A very, very big wheel.

Now, Ferris did not invent the concept of putting people on a wheel and spinning them around. We know “pleasure wheels” existed as early as the 1600s in Europe and Asia, but these were small enough for people to crank by hand (and looked totally ridiculous).

According to many New Jersey publications, Ferris stole the idea for the modern wheel from William Somers, who put up three pleasure wheels in Atlantic City in the early 1890s. Ferris rode those wheels and definitely got his inspiration from Somers, but those attractions were only 50 feet high.

What Ferris wound up building—after spending some time convincing the World Fair committee it could be done, raising $400,000 for construction costs, and paying for the required safety tests himself—was a wheel 246 feet high. It was a feat of engineering in every sense of the word. When it was complete, it could hold more than 2,000 passengers at once for each 20-minute ride (which only included two rotations, but thrilled visitors nonetheless).

But Ferris didn’t live long enough to successfully brand the concept of a massive pleasure wheel, so the many iterations of his great invention weren’t truly his. Find out more about his tragic tale—and the explosive fate of his one true wheel—on this week’s episode of Weirdest Thing.

FACT: Animals of different species sometimes form friendships to hunt (and cuddle)

By Purbita Saha

Earlier this year, a video of a coyote and an American badger frolicking together in the Santa Cruz mountains stunned the internet. While Disney+ was presumably shopping the rights for a 10-part series about the pair, biologists pointed out that similar relationships have been documented many times in science, and for even longer in Navajo and Hopi storytelling.

But the friendship between the species isn’t just cute. It’s a tale of survival: In certain seasons and habitats, badgers and coyotes will tag team to trap squirrels, groundhogs, and other prey in their burrows. Between the badger’s digging power and the coyote’s quick feet, the two can crank up their hunting success rate by 9 percent. If all goes well, the partners might rendezvous multiple times—rounding out their feasts with some nuzzling to celebrate the end of a day’s hard work.

So, maybe it’s fair to say that the relationship isn’t just built on survival. Behavior ecologist Jennifer Campbell-Smith wrote an eye-opening reaction in High Country News that urges viewers to see collaborative hunting as an example of complex social behavior among animals. It’s something to consider—and study—in other surprising friendships in nature:

<b>Dolphins and whales blitz fish together.</b> A <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mms.12065">17-year-long study</a> off the northeast coast of New Zealand found that pods of false killer whales and common bottlenose dolphins often mingle and forage together.

<b>Grouper recruit eels to prowl coral reefs.</b> Swiss scientists snorkeling in the Red Sea <a href="https://www.livescience.com/9415-amazing-species-cooperate-hunt.html">observed the flabby fish leading morays to prey</a> hiding out in nooks, sometimes using a "headstand" as a signal. The biologists think this is the first record of cooperative hunting in fish.

<b>Birds and humans team up to find treats in the forest.</b> The <a href="https://www.audubon.org/news/meet-greater-honeyguide-bird-understands-humans">Yao community in Mozambique follows greater honeyguides</a> to giant, wild bee hives—and has likely been doing so for centuries. They’ve even created a specific rolling call that beckons the birds: <a href="https://www.audubon.org/sites/default/files/brrrhm.mp3"><i>brrr-hm</i></a><i>.</i>

FACT: You can totally hypnotize a chicken

By Jessica Boddy

The inspiration for this fact struck the last time I was home visiting family in the Chicago suburbs. We were reminiscing about the very first time our dog Zeke caught a possum. After marching around the yard with the beast in his mouth for quite some time, my dad finally caught him by the collar and made him drop his prey. The possum was apparently dead—frozen, stiff and drooling. Dad went inside to bring Zeke in and grab a shovel, but by the time he returned to dispose of the possum it had vanished. We thought it was dead, but it was just playing possum.

It turns out that “playing dead” is extremely useful in a survival situation, since a predator doesn’t usually want to eat something it hasn’t killed personally. It could be riddled with some disease. And it’s not just possums that take advantage of this instinct. The behavior is something called apparent death, and TONS of species use it as a defense mechanism—plenty of amphibians, iguanas, sharks, pigeons, chickens, butterflies, beetles, ants, bees, stick bugs... the list goes on.

Humans have found ways to induce this state in animals over the last few hundred years. And when they do that, they like to call it hypnosis. Adam Savage, Ernest Hemingway, Werner Herzog, and even Al Gore are all noted chicken hypnotizers. Like magic, the chickens just freeze solid for 30 minutes at a time (sometimes longer). How do the chicken hypnotists do it? Listen to this week’s episode to find out!

If you like The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, please subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts. You can also join in the weirdness in our Facebook group and bedeck yourself in Weirdo merchandise from our Threadless shop.

[pjo-tsc-trc-otherthingstoo]

I'm chinna call you Lizzie from now on. 🥺

Purbita 🥺🥺🥺

Do it, sorry for just now responding I haven't really been on [tumblr] today and I logged in to see 11 mentions and a handful asks and I just kinda logged out again. 😅

#purbita is amazing #no i dont take criticism #im just stating facts #😌😌🤗🤗🤗

[pjo-tsc-trc-otherthingstoo]

"No should wished to be sent early to the endless gloom of our underworld. Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead." GAVE ME CHILLS

YES PURBITA

YOU'RE READING TSOA

Spam me bestie I want to know what your reading 🥺

#purbita is amazing #purbi reads tsoa #there #i made you a tag #now you HAVE to spam me 🥺 #lol jk

[v1olentdelights]

I literally forgot the top half of this! Wow, okay. Well Thank you to everyone who has put up with my buffonary. I love you all so much!! This really means the world to me! This celebration will be open from Jun 27th to June 30th! Please request as much as you would like. I will also be carrying on with regular requests, so if you have something you would like to request out of the celebration feel free to do so!

✨ - cym (cast your mutuals) give me anything, characters, colors, seasons, food. Whatever!!

⚡ - fic review/edit, send this and a fic/edit you wrote/made and I will rate it! (I will not be leaving anything bad because that is mean) also it can be a blog in general!

🎇 - ships! Send in a few facts about yourself and I will give you a ship, and a small explanation/story thing, not long. You can do it from almost any fandom. If I don’t know it then I will let you know I can’t do it. 

🌑 - kmk (kiss, marry, kill) you mix match from fandoms here! 

🌟- mood board, send in a character and something (ex: swimming with Sirius Black in the Black Lake) and I will make a mood board

🔆 - for a random fact about me (we can exchange weird facts ~ or regular facts about ourselves!)

💫 - A note from a character, please provide which character you want this from, what name you would like to be recognized as (or nickname) and the type of letter you want (encouraging, loving, breakup?)

🌻 - I will tell you something that I really love about you, and maybe what my first impression of you was! (moots only)

🤩 - Send in someone you would ship me with!!

I just want to thank a few special people, though I love you all!! (Please keep in mind that this is not a mutual list, and again I love all of you, I just wanted to write some special thank you-s)

☀️ - send this in and I will shuffle one of my playlists and give you a song!

@untowardflower: Mara, you have been such an amazing friend. You have helped me when I struggled through a bunch of stuff, and even without all that. You have such a kind heart, and amazing personality! My life really wouldn’t be the same with out you!

@midgardianweasley: You have literally always been so kind to me and I just really love you. And also your writing is amazing!! 

@willothewhisper: You have be amazing and so sweet. I know we haven’t been moots super long but you have checked in on me often and make it so hard to feel alone. <3 

 @wannabe-warlock: Ahhhh Purbita!! You are so amazing!! You brought me into the NoQuack family and I felt so loved, and then you were the first follower on here after everything! You are just so amazing! I love you!

@just-a-smol-spoon: Hiiiiii Jae!! I feel like our conversations are usually very... weird but also fun! I feel like we are the friends that don’t talk very often, but when we do it is like we never stopped!

@el-imaskingforyourlefthand​: We also don’t talk a whole lot, but I just... I don’t know how to describe it but you make me feel happy!! :)

@horrorxweasley: Rachel! Hi! I keep saying this about everyone but truly you are amazing (mighty fine taste- Ben Barnes and Will Poulter) You were one of the first people I followed when I began on Tumblr. You work was so inspiring and your page is so homey.. I just love it and you!

#graces60 #cym #kmk #letters #ships #moodboard #fic review #facts #idk what else lol #riverdale #jatp #julie and the phantoms #narnia #supernatural #spn #marvel #mcu #the maze runners #tmr #harry potter #the marauders #doctor who #fandom writing #celebration!

[pjo-tsc-trc-otherthingstoo]

LIZ YOU ARE SO CUTE UWU

PURBITA, MY OLDER SIS, 🥺👉👈

You're amazing too