so earlier this week i found out about this site, and i just love it so much so far! u can put any names u go by on it and like how much u like them, along with pronouns, and a variety of terms to refer to you or terms of endearment - like yes u can use this, it’s okay to use this, it’s not okay to use this, or u can use this in a joking manner. u can add custom terms, and for the pronouns, it works for any neos as long as you know the 5 forms (ex: they/them/their/theirs/themself)! and if someone clicks on the pronouns you have it’ll show them how to use them, like giving example sentences and all! u can also add flags for gender and sexuality and shit!

they also have a part where u can support the site and creators at the bottom on kofi and paypal!

I meant to make this meme ages ago when pride month was still on but yeah gé (pronounced gay) is the Irish for a goose.

IT’S FINALLY PRIDE MONTH, TIME TO REBLOG THIS AGAIN.

I drew this image as a reminder to be worn during Pride month!

This is it

See also autism See also Ehlers Danlos syndrome & Fibromyalgia It’s amazing how much more visible things become when you accept that they exist.

A repost of a repost but I had to see this so you do too.

Likewise Gilligan’s Island.

@beardbot

i love the quiet de-gendering of animal crossing. you can change your gender at any time and it does pretty much nothing. it’s not even called gender, it’s just called style. the villager dialogue boxes arent color-coded blue and pink anymore. shopkeepers dont comment if you buy the “wrong” gender of clothing like they did before. your character’s pronouns are rarely used, maybe not used at all? it’s great

apparently the singular they is used whenever a pronoun is needed! thank you animal crossing for defeating gender

THIS JUST MADE ME SO HAPPY

Awwwww

IT SUMMONS MAIL EVERYONE TRY IT

HOLY FUCKING COW.

OKAY IT’S TRUE

WHAT

???

I THOUGHT IT WAS A JOKE

WHAT HOW

This doesn’t work

I stand corrected oh dear lord

Um guys

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

@sanid1

If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?

Ghostpuppers!

They’re supposed to eat their lunch w/o getting caught lol

Why can’t American shows be this great

Girl with the glasses is a real one

the science building in my university has PERIODIC TABLES

if two people sat at that table for a romantic dinner they would be carbon dating

There sure would be a lot of chemistry

Sodium

Not to critique evolution, but I would think orange and black stripes wouldn’t be as good for camouflage in a forest as, say, green and black would.

It turns out a lot of animals can’t see the difference between orange and green!  Elephants, for instance, have dichromatic vision (two types of cones, rather than three like most humans.) 

Check out this diagram from ResearchGate.  It deals with the color vision of horses, who are also generally dichromatic.  (I think, though I’m not sure, that zebras would have the same color vision as horses.)  See how orange and green look to them?

Not to critique evolution but I think prey animals should be better at telling when their predator is dressed like a traffic cone.

It doesn’t matter what zebras see, because tigers are not native to Africa and do not naturally hunt zebra.  Tigers are Asian and mostly hunt animals like deer, elk, and buffalo.  These aren’t animals with great color vision.  They don’t need to have it because they don’t eat fruit and so don’t need to know when the berry is ripe vs when it’s not.  Good color vision is too expensive to have if you don’t need it.  Deer put their vision stats in a wide field of vision that is sensitive to motion, low light capabilities, and possibly seeing UV light.  They don’t have great color and lack a lot of acuity, but have a great sense of smell and good hearing.  That’s way more useful if you’re prey.  Deer see well in the blue end of the color spectrum and less well in the red.  This makes sense because deer are most active in the dawn and dusk periods, when there is more blue in the light.  Tigers are taking advantage of deer eyesight by being orange.

We see tigers are being obviously colored because tigers are fruit colored to our tree ape brains.

I don’t know what the best part of this is: implying that deer chose their attributes on a character sheet, or the fact that we get to see tiger colors because they look like a snack.

Not to mention, in general the forests tigers live in go through dry seasons, turning much of the brush pale gold, so orange is actually not a bad choice.

(photo by Art Wolfe)

But either way, the main point of tiger camouflage isn’t blending in via it’s coloration, it’s actually a combination of disruptive coloration and countershading. Disruptive coloration uses boldly contrasting colors to break up the shape of an animal’s outline, as shown in this image by Hugh Cott:

It’s much harder to resolve the movement of a tiger as “TIGER!!” compared to grass or branches swaying in the wind this way.

In addition, countershading is another camouflage strategy the tiger employs. It’s darker-colored on its back and lighter-colored on its belly. This is because when light falls on objects, it illuminates their top halves, while shadow falls on and darkens the lower half. Animals with the same top and bottom colors will therefore stand out from the background, because of the shadows cast on their legs and belly. Countershading helps to ‘flatten’ the silhouette of an animal by disguising these shadows. If that confuses you, check out this figure by Ian Alexander:

Both these strategies work whether the foliage is green or brown, because the tiger’s camouflage doesn’t need to be perfect- just confusing enough to let it get close.

Evenly-shaded cylindrical animal.

Things come along like this that make the internet so special, I AM IN FUCKING TEARS

IT’S BACK

i want this on my blog at least once every 6 months until the day i die

I had a dream about Bob Ross, the Mob Boss. 

Someone was late on their payment and was dragged into this dark room with a single cracked and somehow swinging lightbulb, and they were crying and pleading and saying they just made a mistake!

And looming from the shadows, holding a tire iron, was Bob Ross. 

“There’s no such thing as mistakes. Just happy little accidents.”

oh my god