Well done, you

3 seconds into dungeon meshi and they’re already living my dream. i love eating things I ought not in unfamiliar ecosystems

one time in undergrad we went to this big farm & greenhouse where they were cultivating rare & endangered plants and during the tour the botanist let us all taste a leaf off of a particular plant & I was like oh some of these are edible!

so we got to the next plant and when he took questions I asked if it was also edible and he said “I mean. It’s not poisonous, but I’m sure it won’t taste good.” I asked if I could try it anyway and it seemed like he was just perplexed enough to indulge me so he gave me one leaf. It was terrible.

At the next plant he offered me a leaf before I asked and he wanted to know what it tasted like

For the rest of the tour he gave me a leaf from each non-poisonous plant and I told him how they all tasted (mostly like nothing at all but some unspeakably terrible) and that’s how I ate several dozen rare & endangered leaves.

So anyway. I’m a fan of this blonde guy already. I think we’d be friends

i was so fucking sad when i was 14 and now when i fold my laundry or see a pool of moonlight on the floor of my bedroom i know that miracles exist. i see love in everything. love sees everything in me too

I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.

@bovineblogger

i get so emotional about this piece... we have been assisting cattle with birth and making sure theyre ok forever and ever. peace and love

the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

posts that sum up the potential of humanity

I HATE

I HATE IT

Hey sorry. Your boyfriend knows exactly what he wants and who he wants to be. He knows exactly why he walks and talks like a machine. He's now becoming his own self-fulfilled prophecy. Yeah sorry.

Oh no! 😱

Continue Reading.

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"goddess" "matriarchy" "female wisdom" girl your civic rights

“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The comments are giving me psychic damage. Human knowledge of the natural world are not instinctual, but observational. It's not innate. It's knowledge, painstainkingly acquired and passed on by generations of people. It's not vibe based, it's not gender based, and to pretend traditional or mystic knowledge cannot be merged with science is ridiculous

(there are some genetic traits such as taste which help us distinguish the useful from the dangerous, but human knowledge is more complicated and sometimes contradictory to biological instinct. Kids who had Chinese meds will know 🤢)

& those genetic traits didn't come from our innate bond to nature or some shit like that. They came from humans eating poison and dying, and over time humans who recognized and disliked the taste of poison had a better chance of staying alive. And they're not even effective enough on their own. If we weren't taught by our elders to be careful which plants we eat and to pay attention to those tastes, most of us would still die.

SOUP! SEASON! 🍲🧡🍜

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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.

Happy earth day

we dont even get 9/11 off of work. like i guess you were never THAT sad about it

you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

get creatured idiot

oh thank fuck i thought i was never gonna get creatured