Photo taken by m.aquarium_love
This is Hama-Chan getting all dressed up!
Doesn’t she look cute?
She lives at Kyoto Aquarium in Japan. ( ᵔꈊᵔ )
It’s always crazy to me when someone writes a fanfic about two middle aged guys who are completely up to date with the current chronically online lgbtq discourse and enthusiastic users of the most niche micro labels. Like no offense but I know old homos and this ain’t it
First rule of reincarnation is to have insane sex with the guy who killed you last time
A1-A2: man, there’re so many words I need to know in order to say literally anything
B1-B2: wow, what I know is enough now
C1-C2: man, there’re so many weirdly specific words I need to know in order to describe these weirdly specific things I’ve only seen once in my life. Also I forgot how to say ceiling.
Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
Pleasure affects our metabolic pathways; it’s a facet of the complex gut-brain connection. If you’re eating foods you don’t like because you think it’s healthy, it’s not actually doing your body much good (it’s also unsustainable, we’re pleasure-seeking creatures). Eat food you enjoy, it’s a win-win.
Jen Caywood (American, based Bellingham, WA, USA), Photography