Why bother arguing in support of trans people if you’re not trans?
very simple concept called believing in human rights
What's the old joke from when people asked this about gay rights?
"I support animal rights, too, and I'm not a fucking alpaca"
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this poem is so bkdk im crying
nostalgic trio
Silly sketchy thing
//While we're on the topic of characters' ages -- can you explain your reasoning behind why Maka is 12 at the beginning of NOT? From the information I've been given, NOT takes place a year before SE, and Black Star is supposedly 13 back then (going off what he said to Tsubaki when they went to face Masamune), and he was supposed to have been brought to the DWMA a year before Maka was born (which places her at 12 during SE and 11 during NOT). So tell me if I missed something along the way. XD
All this timeline talk is making me cross-eyed, ilikescythes. ;)
Black Star tells Tsubaki that the Star Clan was eliminated 13 years ago, so it depends on how technical we are about how old he was when his family was killed (was he less than a year old, hence would be 13 years by Chapter 7, or was he slightly older than a year, hence would be closer to 14 years old?).
Also, we have to figure out specific birthdays: it is rare for a student in the same grade to be exactly 365 days older than someone else—when we say something is a year older, we usually mean that they are older by six or more months.
For example, if Maka was born in, say, January 1996 and Black Star was born in June 1996, then from January to May 2009 Maka will be 13 years old, but from June 2009 to December 2009 Black Star is now “a year” older.
(Plus there is still the problem of how anyone knows Black Star’s exact date of birth: unless one of his parents left behind a birth certificate for Sid to find upon killing Black Star’s parents, the ninja’s “birthday” is possibly a day that Sid just picked on his own, perhaps the day he, Spirit, and Stein discovered the infant.)
This problem necessitates a canonical timeline from Okubo. I’m going to try something for the heck of it (Year 0 is the fight between Maka and Blair). Feel free to ignore my off-the-mark timeline nonsense.
"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We're not fast and don't have a lot of natural weaponry but we're bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
THE WRITER AND ACTOR’S STRIKES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PAUSED THE PRODUCTION OF 4 MARVEL MOVIES!!!! thank you striking creatives.
this is so nostalgic. tumblr rolls out something terrible. everyone complains. it breaks several people's dashboards. for some reason it only rolls out to a few people at a time with seemingly no warning. the community collectively and immediately searches for a browser extension that undoes the change. i know we've all gotten burnt out on all social media sucking but this is genuinely The tumblr experience. everyone who hasn't gotten it already gets an achievement. welcome to the club
actually, im glad this post got notes
everybody in the notes going "but THIS TIME it's an objectively terrible choice/a bigger deal/a cash grab!!": first time in the clown car huh
For reference,
Soul eater official art redraw
Very tense living situation happening here
CROMA WEEK BEGINS!!!! I AM RELEASING MY CREATIONS INTO THE WILD!!!! this is based off of my College AU fic that i'm writing (and will hopefully maybe be posting in its entirety by the end of the summer, it's probably gonna be about 100k words ♥️)
they are schlumped, maybe they stayed up too late writing a paper, maybe they partied too hard (with their friends downstairs in the house, they don't go to big university parties), maybe they're just sleepy af. that's up to you to decide.
i had a lot of fun w/ this piece!!! still trying to figure out exactly how i like to do shading sooooo there will be experimentation all throughout this week
I’ve seen a few ~aesthetic~ photos of rock stacks in rivers recently and this is just a reminder that you are destroying habitat when you move rocks around in rivers and streams.
In addition to dragonfly nymphs, rocky river beds are home to lots of other larval invertebrates like damselflies, mayflies, water beetles, caddisflies, stoneflies, and a bunch of dipterans. Not to mention lots of fish and amphibians!
Plus large scale rock stacking can change the flow of a stream and lead to increased erosion.
Anyway dragonfly for admiration:
Calico pennant by nbdragonflyguy
Everything is something’s habitat. You might as well not go outside for fear of stepping on some larval beetle.
This is hugely missing the point. The idea is to enjoy what’s left of our natural spaces while having as little an impact as possible. It’s not difficult to avoid intentionally destroying habitat. I recommend looking into the Leave No Trace principle which is very important for conservation. Cynicism doesn’t help anything.
You can read more about Leave No Trace here.
A few rock stacks here and there wouldn’t have much of an impact alone. But in parks that see thousands or even millions of visitors each year, when you have people like you saying, “sure, literal scientists and park rangers are telling me not to do this, but surely that doesn’t apply to ME,” the effect is huge. Please attempt to see the bigger picture. You are not so special that YOU get to ignore the rules and continue intentionally destroying habitat even after you’ve been told it’s harmful.
Benthic invertebrates in streams are a CRITICAL part of a lot of food webs — because they are so diverse, they have a lot of feeding strategies that move calories up the food web and nutrients into the ecosystem around them. Some consume oil-rich diatom films, a critical source of essential fatty acids throughout the food web, some shred leaves and twigs into tiny bits that decompose more easily, allowing streams to remain clear and flowing, some filter out particulates from the water making it clearer, some are predators, concentrating nutrients — and they do this as larvae, and then the adults fly out of the stream, bringing the nutrients and calories from the stream to the surrounding landscape. The whole ecosystem is richer because of the diversity of benthic macroinvertebrates — which is why it’s important to preserve their habitat, though this is more “maintain dissolved oxygen levels by protecting temperature and limiting sedimentation” and “have a mixture of shaded and unshaded stream reaches” day to day. I do think “Don’t destroy the physical habitat for art projects” is an easy action to take but like. It’s fine to do that OUT of the creek? Build the stacks of rocks on ridge tops, where they aren’t habitat for stressed critical species? (caveat: I am in western North America and I have limited understanding of other parts of the world.)
