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Muffin disclaimer

So you’ve ordered a muffin! We hope you’re up for a challenge.

Our wobbly tabby cat Bea REALLY likes muffins so there are a few things to be aware of if you have a muffin in the cat area.

- She WILL climb you to try and get your muffin - She is not very good at climbing so she will claw her way up your body - It WILL hurt - She WILL NOT give up - She may try to eat the muffin right out of your mouth - She is not allowed to eat muffins

You may pick her up / move her away if needed and if you’re really struggling, come and talk to us and we will help. No matter how much she wants to, it is still very important that you don’t let her eat any muffin as it will make her sick.

Good luck and we hope you enjoy your muffin experience!

She may look sweet and innocent but we promise you she’s not

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Bea the muffin thief has come upon my timeline again and I am obliged to reblog.

Sakura viewing at night.

Suzuka forest garden in Mie, Japan.

Scaliger Castle, Sirmione, Italy

try building it on land next time you stupid italians

^^^ try to fuck off you ignorant bitch. non sai di merda neanche se ne mangi un secchio, diocane

Whoa mama mia cunt

To all the fanfiction writers on my dash...

…or future fic writers (those who are working on something to post for the future OR working on in private) or those who have retired from fanfiction but have posted it in the past, thank you so much!

It doesn’t matter if the fic isn’t from the fandoms I don’t participate in or read, or if it’s pairings I don’t ship, or even if it’s gen fic and not shippy, thank you so much for your work!

You all have shared so much of yourself in your writing and we are blessed to have seen the work that has come from your heart. Even if you don’t think it’s your best work, or even if you don’t think it’s the best compared to others, you took the time to create this thing and share it to the world and for that you deserve all credit for making that time and courage to share it with us!

Even you authors who are working on things but haven’t posted them yet! You have made the decision to post things that are coming from your heart in the future and I will tell you SOMEONE out there will appreciate all that hard work you have put in and appreciate what you have to write. Thank you for making that decision to take that step with us.

And to you retired fic writers, thank you for sharing that work with us even if fic writing is not your speed anymore for whatever reason. Your works have been cherished by someone out there, even if that person is anonymous and did not comment, and you deserve to be acknowledged for letting us have the privilege to see that for however brief a time.

Just THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

All of you, keep doing what you love.

ALSO TO ALL THE HARD-WORKING PODFICERS OUT THERE! THANK YOU, TOO!

Thank you for mentioning the podficcers as well.

Thank you for lending your voices to make some of these works come alive for us, through your vocal efforts, through your audio processing and editing choices, and taking the time and effort out of your day to do so. You make fic accessible for people who are visually disabled, who are too busy to sit down to read but have enough time between commutes or before going to bed to listen.

To those who want to podfic but haven’t started, someone out there will for love you for wanting to read their fic out loud, and that you are willing to share a personal part of yourself to the world (aka your voice and cadence of the words). Thank you for wanting to go on this journey and allowing us to listen to it in the future.

And to the retired ones, for whatever reasons you had for retiring, thank you anyway for providing your voice and giving us joy and pleasure to hearing a work come alive. Nothing gives an author more pleasure than knowing someone loved our work so much.

You podficcers are great and some of your podfics are some of the only surviving records of fics that have been lost, and for that, a lot of us are truly grateful. But we are grateful you love fanfic as much as us and that your work is an expression of that love and appreciation.

Thank you, deeply, from the bottom of our hearts.

Writers and podficcers alike, keep doing what you love. 

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This Biology Teacher Disproved Transphobia With Science 

ALSO:

Sex redefined

“The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.”

More on anti-trans arguments as bad science

As a biologist I am reblogging this so hard.

Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.

THANK YOU!!!

people with bad taste are always like “yurr hurr The Beach is about zuko and mai and how they’re a great couple” while intellectuals know that Actually The Beach is about mining any and all of the untapped friendship potential of this striking exchange

One of the best twist moments in Avatar is when Ty Lee suddenly and dramatically turns against Azula at the Boiling Rock. Azula was completely convinced that Ty Lee would obey her without question forever, but Azula wasn’t the only one fooled. Mai is just as shocked when Ty Lee rebels as Azula is. Ty Lee’s survival instincts were so sharp that she never let anyone know what she was thinking, not Azula, not Mai, and certainly not Zuko.

Zuko really believed that Ty Lee didn’t understand who he was at all. He completely bought into the act that she’s just a puppet for Azula, who lives in her “little Ty Lee world where everything’s great all the time”. But the thing is, Ty Lee is one of the most perceptive characters in the show, and she’s excellent at keeping that on the down low, but she sees a lot more of Zuko than he thinks, and a lot of what she sees is very familiar to her.

Overshadowed by prodigious siblings?

Wanting to be acknowledged for the talents you have rather than the talents you don’t?

Kept in line by fear?

Spending your whole life bending over backwards to fit the persona the royal family has set for you?

So yeah Zuko. She knows you.

This characterization is definitely emphasized with Ty Lee’s acrobatics, flexibility, and ability to hit pressure points. There’s a level of subtlety and precision that is required for such skills. She had to know her own body to be able to bend it in such ways, and she has to know other people’s bodies to be able to disable them.

And pretty much from the moment you meet her, it’s fairly clear that there’s more to her than her lighthearted, bubbleheaded persona, long before she uses her battle skills. Look at what happens when Azula recruits her. 

Azula used blatant intimidation tactics to get Ty Lee to comply, ordering the net to be set on fire and all the animals released (which, for the record, would not only have endangered Ty Lee but the circus creatures themselves–I bet Ty Lee was attached to them, and that would’ve been a double threat in itself). Ty Lee is visibly terrified, but instead of calling her out or letting Azula see that she was intimidated, she says this:

Instead of endangering herself by pointing out that Azula crossed a line, Ty Lee falls back on her talk of “the universe” and “auras,” talk that canonically gets her indulged or dismissed but never taken seriously. 

She knows that Azula’s dangerous. There’s no way she doesn’t know that Azula is threatening her. But if she can keep Azula from realizing she knows that, she’s a little safer. 

Because she’s one of maybe two people Azula never considered as potential enemies–even (especially, but that’s another thread) Ozai is a threat in her mind, but Mai and Ty Lee are the closest thing Azula has to trusted friends, right up until their betrayal. 

Ty Lee’s spent a lifetime cultivating a personality that not only allows her to stands out among her siblings–it protects her from being treated as a threat. When you’re friends with Azula, that is an essential facade to maintain.  and she does it consistently enough that no one ever sees through it.

All of the Fire Nation kids are so messed up. Zuko’s just the one who gets in the most trouble, because he’s the only one who doesn’t have a mask.

Amazing discussion and there’s one more thing to add to it, specifically in the context of the episode with The Beach.

Azula gets jealous of the male attention that Ty Lee is getting. It’s not the same as being a threat, but it does put Ty Lee in a dangerous position because she has something Azula wants. It doesn’t take much for Azula to turn dangerous and threatening when there’s something she wants and perceives an obstacle in the way, and Ty Lee knows this. And with just a few words, a compliment to Azula, she sets her at ease and makes herself seem vapid (“just laugh at whatever they say even if it’s not funny”) while giving advice. Which means Azula can take or leave her advice but won’t perceive Ty Lee as a real threat to the attention she craves because Ty Lee is getting attention for “being vapid” and not because she’s naturally beautiful and charming.

Its a simple, efficient, and incredible manipulation of a very dangerous and volatile person. Again the agility and flexibility, and no wonder Azula didn’t see her betrayal coming. Every time Ty Lee has entered even the possibility of being a threat to Azula in any realm, she’s immediately flipped the situation to put Azula seemingly back in control and put herself back into a nonthreatening role. Right up until her betrayal.

“I’m sorry, your majesty,” Donald Duck said, looking at the elegant swirling of the throne room’s the cornices, the jewel-bright tiles beneath his flippers. Anywhere but into the king’s cold eyes. “You must know the pope won’t grant you the divorce you seek.”

Finally, unwillingly, he did look up to see King Mickey’s face contorted with a terrible fury. “Then I shall found my own Church,” the king said. “And grant my own divorce.”

“What of your compassion?” Donald’s voice cracked and it was a moment before he could go on. “It is not meet that you abandon your wife when she most needs you. If she truly is insane - ”

“It is my compassion that keeps me from ordering her beheaded,” the king said bitterly. “I fear that you have misunderstood me, my old friend. I did not say she was insane.” 

Rising from his throne, King Mickey paced across the throne room to stare out at the peaceful green grounds of Disney Castle. He was not seeing them, Donald was sure, but some other, darker vista, conjured by his imagination.

“I said, ‘the queen is fucking Goofy’.”

Art

If you follow me, you’ll for sure be tired of hearing this, but I can’t help it. If we let them, Texas leadership will let the media narrative be “oopsie, that storm sure caused a state of emergency that Texas couldn’t withstand 🤷‍♀️😅”

The truth is:

1. ERCOT chose profits and cost cutting over properly winterizing our grid. A similar (much less devastating) thing happened in 2011 and they rolled the dice betting on profits over people. The freak storm this week came and the people lost the bet.

2. Because the grid got TAXED by the extreme cold weather, it couldn’t keep up having not been winterized. So millions of people lost power in said extremely cold weather. Without the heat in their homes to help keep the environment warmer, pipes froze and burst all in residences over the state. Also, those of us with heat were dripping our faucets to try to keep our pipes from freezing too (many did anyway.)

3. This led to a handful of days where we used 250% of the normal water consumption level (according to Austin Water at least, most of it wastes by main breaks.) So that critically depleted our potable water supply and then water was shut off to many locations to help manage the supply. Everywhere, a boil notice went into effect bc the water that is available is not fully clean.

ERCOT answers to Governor Abbott exclusively. It is a direct line from Abbott->ERCOT->Power outages->Broken pipes->Humanitarian crisis.

The storm? Unavoidable. The humanitarian crisis that immediately followed? CAUSED. BY. THE. TEXAS. GOVERNMENT.

Folks, friends, y’all…. esk*mo is a slur. I understand a lot of people don’t know that, I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I’ve been seeing it in fics. Wanna write “esk*mo kisses”? Just say “nuzzled noses” or something.

I’m not here to call anybody out, it’s been in multiple fics, I’m not vague posting. This is just a psa. 👍🏻

If you could help me spread awareness about this by reblogging, I’d really appreciate it.

I’ve had this post on insta saved for sometime ❤️

In anticipation of the upcoming episode.