is there any way i can die and then come back to life and maybe get my brain a good scrub in between. no don't say sleep that only works in certain business hours. i want a 24/7 service here. yes of course i'll pay fairly for the labor

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In 1988, ACT UP protested the FDA withholding HIV treatment due to requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

In 2024, trans activists protested promoters of an NHS-funded report requiring unethical double-blind studies of medication they already knew worked.

Wait a minute..... Large population of invertebrates? An unusual amount of disturbance? Trees that are able to survive in an environment that's mostly water?

OH SHIT

THAT'S A MANGROVE FOREST, BABYYY!!!

#what about the grasses oh this is exciting. I get to be a nerd.

So there's a very similar type of environment that does have tons of grasses. It's called a salt marsh.

But as you can see in the photo above, salt marshes don't have a ton of trees. So how do we resolve this?

Salt marshes and mangrove forests are usually mutually exclusive. Salt marshes thrive mostly in temperate areas (with notable exceptions, but still), and mangrove forests are largely tropical. However, there are a rare few places on Earth where their ranges overlap, and you get a mixed saltmarsh-mangrove biome.

Therefore I propose that this poll is currently recreating the Indian River Lagoon in central Florida.

Help it better emulate the IRL by adding more birds!

now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck

Bi women are not rehab centres for lesbians who are struggling with the patriarchy

Girl in Red just did an interview where she delved into a song she wrote about feeling gender and sexuality insecurity in her relationship with a bi woman.

The central idea is that it took (and continues to take) multiple deeply emotional conversations with her partner to begin to work through her insecurity that her partner will eventually prefer men, leave her for a man, and the fact she will never be a man. (and no, she's not struggling with gender issues or dysphoria personally, this is solely in reaction to her partner being attracted to males)

Combined with the comments under the clip, my little bi heart was shattered.

Biphobia is excused every single day and this comment section was filled with lesbians being really overtly biphobic and then cackling about the fact they were waiting for "the wave of screaming bis" to show up to 'claim biphobia'

Only.....can someone explain to me how it isn't fucking biphobia to make your partner walk you through a mental breakdown about THEIR SEXUALITY??

Genuinely explain to me how that isn't biphobic

I wouldn't date someone who hyperventilates over the thought that my hair is brown so why tf would I accept multiple deep-relationship convos about a basic fact my partner knew when they chose to date me?

Now, Girl in Red at the very least acknowledged that it wasn't cool, was 100% her problem etc, and in my opinion she has every right to explore that kind of thing in her art. But the way the comment section reacted was essentially "shut the fuck up bi women, you'll never know how insecure we are because of how you lot fuck dick and a lesbian writing a song about this is something you just can't comprehend"

There's a difference between exploring complex uncomfortable themes in a song, and deciding that it is logical and normal to treat your partner like this.

Lesbians Sort Your Shit On Your Own Time Challenge 2024

this is a niche one but instead of "they would not fuckin say that" it's "they would not fucking use American sign language".

ASL is not the only sign language. two british characters in your fanfiction would not be using ASL. England in fact has its own kind of sign language, BSL, that forms a sign family with many other sign languages around the world.

ASL isn't even the original member of its sign family, it comes from french sign language. do you know sign languages aren't related to spoken languages? that's an important one! it's not a direct 1:1 with people speaking English around the world. people in other countries don't learn ASL just in case they run into an usamerican or Canadian (who do often use it)

i know the entire world is the USA or whatever and sign languages do sometimes borrow from ASL for signs they don't have, but please be aware that there are other sign languages and families in the world that are not in fact ASL.

and on a mostly related note, a lot of media seems to only ever depict sign language in the context of mutism instead of the WAY WAY more common deafness. especially in fanworks where they don't want to have to deal with a character being more inconveniently disabled than just "can't talk", but it's still noticeable in normal media also.

going to a collection of signing characters and going "well you can't all be hearing but mute". like the ratio of deaf to mute characters would be so disproportionately innacurate it's almost insulting. past a certain point it feels like you just don't want to deal with deaf people.

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First: Sign languages are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon.[1] Sign languages are not universal and are usually not mutually intelligible,[2] although there are also similarities among different sign languages.

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Second: The number of sign languages worldwide is not precisely known. Each country generally has its own native sign language; some have more than one. The 2021 edition of Ethnologue lists 150 sign languages,[5] while the SIGN-HUB Atlas of Sign Language Structures lists over 200 and notes that there are more that have not been documented or discovered yet.[6] As of 2021, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language is the most used sign language in the world, and Ethnologue ranks it as the 151st most "spoken" language in the world.[7]

Seeing drag queens in real life gives me the exact same feeling as how the hobbits describe elves in the lord of the rings

I don't know how to describe to you if you've never been to a drag show but like seeing recordings of them is one thing & seeing them in real life is Another. Like pov you're looking up at the tallest most enchantingly beautiful ambiguously sexed person you've ever seen. She's like covered in glitter and you can smell her perfume. And you're in a room with like several of them & you begin to understand how Frodo felt in that castle

Oh to be a hobbit (short cis woman) surrounded by beautiful elves (drag queens) towering over me (in heels) at lothlorien (museum garden party).

You know those "write badly!" posts that sometimes makes the rounds to encourage all you lovely writers that it's okay that not everything is a masterpiece?

Yeah, those.

I just want all you authors out there not feeling good enough to know that i just decided to reread one of the worst fics I've ever read. Because it's one of the best fics I've ever read.

The plot is simplistic at best. The language is horrible. The pacing is nowhere to be found behind all the "and then!!!" the author peppers their writing like a carbonara with.

But

The characters. The insights into their motivations is fucking master thesis level. I cry just thinking about the way the author predicted where canon was headed years ago. And the way they Preemptively fixed all the ooc-ness the mangaka is now struggling to wrap up.

It's been living in my head rent-free for years and i wouldn't want it any other way. Just with slightly less "and then!!"

So yes, write badly.

In three years time some sucker will come back for seconds because they loved it for all the things you Did manage to do right.

Basically every writer, every artist in every discipline, has good and bad things about their work. The good things about what you can create will never exist if you don't allow yourself to be kind of bad

Urban Fantasy concept: Minotaur as an emergent phenomenon. Any sufficiently labyrinthine structure, left unattended for long enough, has a chance of generating a minotaur, if the area is properly “primed” by any kind of mass “sacrificial” death; from there the minotaur self-perpetuates by murdering Urbex practitioners, health inspectors, and dumb teens looking for a hangout. 

Premodern Minotaurs were generated at human sacrifice sites and perpetuated themselves due to, you know, already existing at human sacrifice central. Contemporary Minotaurs are generated at the sites of major industrial accidents resulting from negligence, such as the triangle shirtwaist fire, mine collapses, and the Chernobyl meltdown.

i hate to be that guy, but the idea that gender, sex, and sexuality are ontologically pure concepts that can be rigidly defined if we simply police our language enough (our english language, because of course) is—i cannot stress this enough—a total waste of time. you may as well spend your afternoons teaching a brick how to swim

we haven't had a true tumblr sexyman in years. Sans was like the last one. I can still see his weird glowing goo ghost dick when I close my eyes. that kind of absolute derangement just doesn't happen anymore. some people just liking Astarion and Senshi a lot is not the same. a true tumblr sexyman makes this website absolutely unusable

oh my god it was the porn ban. the porn ban killed the tumblr sexyman. the horny can't fester and multiply like it used to. the sexymen are killed in their infancy

‘Herons Catch’ pencils on paper. Limited prints available in my shop🌾

I'm saving this image to my phone. I don't know for what purpose, but something tells me the fate of myself and this image is entwined.

you know i don’t think we often talk about how difficult it actually is to suddenly realize that a belief you thought was good and moral and correct was actually really fucking toxic. how you have to look at something and go ‘oh shit, oh i fucked up. oh this is going to take probably years at minimum to deprogram from my brain because of all the little ways this shit pervaded the rest of my beliefs’

so. to all the people picking up all the pieces of a recently shattered world-view and trying to figure out what is safe to keep and what has to be thrown away and started over

to all the people having to relearn how to even listen to other people

to all the people putting in the work to do better while struggling with the guilt that comes from finding out you were the asshole

i’m proud of y’all.

it’s hard to admit being wrong and even harder to change in the aftermath. just keep doing the best you can and just know that the effort is appreciated. everyone can change. everyone can do better. keep fighting.

it's so befuddling to me when people use "freak" as an insult, like. to me it;s a term of endearment almost. most of my favorite ppl are freaks and weirdos <3

What the hell are we doing here

living life to the fullest, how about you?

“But the people affected by these issues can’t just turn them off! Why should you get to decide you’re not going to look at that stuff while on the internet?”

Because I can’t take on the world. If I try to focus on every single issue out there, then I’m going to burn out and not have anything to offer.

The amount of asks I get telling me I have an obligation to use my platform to share info about so many issues is a lot.

I pick a couple things I’m passionate about to focus on because then I can give these things 100% of my focus. It doesn’t mean I don’t care about other things. It means I don’t have the mental capacity to take on everything.

For me, these things are what my blogs are about.

So, a reminder to all of you. It’s okay if you can’t take on the world. Please don’t burn yourself out by trying to take on everything. It’s okay to disconnect. Just because some can’t doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to take care of your mental health.

And also, if you actually want to make a difference and change things, you will be able to do so much more if you just ... pick one or maybe two and focus on that. If you try and pay attention to every crisis in the world, you will have zero time and energy to address any of them in a serious way.

Taking on every problem in the world is terrible for your mental health ... and it's terrible for actually changing anything.

Pick one or two, and trust that others will pick up the ones you can't.