this fic is gonna be so good when i [checks notes] start writing it

oh!! you must always write, you must always create, you must keep trying. it is one of the most important things you will do, creating things. it is an outlet and a reason for being. i am in my 30s and i am sure there are people who wish i would stop writing, but unfortunately for those people, i can’t. i just have to keep making things, like a directive from my soul. imposter syndrome may never go away but you will grow more confident as you create things, as long as you do it because you enjoy it. if you enjoy it, then that is the most important thing. and you are creating, so you are living. just keep falling in love with what you create. everything else – skills, talent, all that is secondary. the important part is doing it.

Stiles telling Scott "you're the hot girl" and walking off and Isaac walking into frame and Scott being like "I'm the hot girl" and Isaac, who has no fucking clue what the fuck is going on, just responding with "yes. you are." was such an important moment in television history actually

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World's oldest aquarium fish 'Methuselah' could be decades older than we originally thought, DNA clock reveals

A new study has found that the famous Australian lungfish Methuselah, who first arrived in the U.S. in 1938, could be up to 101 years old.

The world's oldest aquarium fish, a lungfish named Methuselah, may actually be decades older than researchers originally thought and may even be over 100 years old, a new study finds.

Methuselah is a female Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) that resides at Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, California. She first arrived at the aquarium in 1938 after being sent to the U.S. along with more than 200 other fish from Fiji and Australia. 

Aquarium staff have never been sure how old Methuselah is, but until now the best guess was that she is 84 years old, which makes her the oldest known fish in captivity. (In the Bible, Methuselah was a man who reputedly lived to be 969 years old.)...

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World's oldest aquarium fish 'Methuselah' could be decades older than we originally thought, DNA clock reveals | Live Science

For millennia, the tribe ensured the safe travel of the Chinook upstream to colder waters, so the fish could reproduce. They’d light fires at night along the river, as well as physically carry fish in baskets on foot if there were obstacles along the way.

Then came the Shasta Dam. Up until the 1930s, many Winnemem Wintu lived on the lands surrounding the McCloud River without legally owning it. Congress passed the Central Valley Project Indian Lands Acquisition Act to take whatever allotment lands tribal members owned in advance of the dam’s construction.

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The tribe dedicated themselves in 2016 to restoring the winter-run Chinook salmon population through a 300-mile prayer journey, working on new passage plans for the fish that avoid the dam, and collaborating with the Māori peoples and biologists of New Zealand, home to the genetic descendants of the Chinook salmon. In May 2022, the Winnemem Wintu signed a co-stewardship agreement with NOAA Fisheries to scale up their efforts. The tribe also deposited 40,000 eggs in the McCloud River from California state hatcheries last year.

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“Our purpose is to restore the land the way it’s supposed to be, which means control burns, native plants, all the waterways totally restored,” said Michael Preston, the executive director of Sawalmem and son of Chief Caleen Sisk. “And just make it an example of what the land is supposed to look like.”

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It’s apt that the tribe now will have parts of their ancestral lands, just as the Chinook salmon return. Ecologically, as the salmon return with the management from the Winnemem Wintu, black bears, deer, and black spiders will return in greater numbers to the river.

“We’re working so hard to bring them back here, to their original waters and home, to give them their land back,” Marine Sisk said. “It’s going to bring all of these animals that’ve been struggling to survive in a world without salmon. Salmon don’t just feed — they clean the rivers. We’ll be bringing a whole ecosystem back to health.”