Rare white ‘translucent’ lobster caught by Maine fisherman who threw it back into ocean because it was female. https://t.co/vZlXajuHfd pic.twitter.com/1trxra7kpW
— ABC News (@ABC) September 1, 2017
A pearlescent lobster was caught and released by fishermen in Maine, as is fitting. It was called back to the tides, which are controlled by the magic moon that created it. (In reality, it likely has a genetic condition known as leucism.)
- I am mildly obsessed with this crowning cosplay achievement.
Goals: This 85 year old at #DragonCon17. Cosplay for life! pic.twitter.com/jsgfdhEBnU
— Noelle K. Adams (@pfangirl) September 2, 2017
- In this Entertainment Weekly editorial, author Libba Bray recounts her experience with having Beauty Queens, her own “all-female Lord of the Flies” novel, shopped around Hollywood. When it came to this idea, Hollywood was more interested in stereotypes and “actual hair-pulling catfight[s]” than the novel’s original “exploration and examination of what it is to grow up female/female-identified in a male-dominated world. A world in which we do not make the rules. A world in which it often feels as if we will never get to share in making the rules.” But then when two dudes bring them the idea…
- Check out a gorgeous necklace of the Star Wars galaxy over at Nerdist.
- Retired botany professor Walter Judd has written a book about all the 141 different plants that appear in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, called Flora of Middle-Earth. Asked why someone would put together a book like this, Judd pointed to one of his favorite Tolkien quotes: “I am obviously much in love with plants, and above all trees, and always have been.” (via NPR)
- Indian Country Today published a beautiful article about how horse therapy has helped Native sexual assault survivors to cope with their trauma and overcome the stigma associated with reporting it.
- Down in Texas, Disney princesses and Spider-Man showed up to comfort displaced kids, while monster truck drivers helped out families and bailed out Army vehicles. Heroism is as quirky, beautiful, and varied as the people who provide it.
(Featured image via the International Space Station)
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