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fireflies lighting up a rural Pennsylvania field at dusk

As a european i sometimes forget furefkied are actually real and not american folklore/cryptids. Like you’ve got friendly little bugs that glow in the dark….. b r uh

in case europeans were worried: we love them very much! even tho they’re clumsy and slow and sometimes bump into you, no one swats fireflies here, or takes them for granted. even grownups sometimes reach out in the summer and gently catch a firefly for a minute before letting it go.

By “reach out” that’s meant quite literally–you just kinda. Stick your hand in their flight path and they land on you and will sit on your hand for a bit. Sometimes if you’re just walking or standing outside while they’re active you have to shoo them off you because they’ll just. Sit on you.

They’re harmless and very pretty and it’s always a treat to see because they’re out for a relatively short time each year.

and on the sixth day god created the gas station convenience store refrigerated beverage section

I've got a wonderful feeling (that's ripe for being wrong)

do it scared do it weird do it alone. holy trinity

nsfw = nosfewatu

UPTOWN GIRLS (2003) dir. Boaz Yakin

"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

some more outside drawings! I went to LA for a while

daily clicks for palestine

donate to feed refugees in rafah

spreadsheet of gofundmes to evacuate families

fundraiser for esims for gaza

orgs to donate to

12 Palestinians have drowned in the sea in north Gaza while trying to get to airdropped aid.

Do you understand how desperate someone has to be for them to run into the water to get a damaged box of god knows what?

What could have been going through their minds when they jumped into the water? Their children's faces when they come home with a few cans of food? The promise of the family eating together?

I honestly can't even fathom what other levels of cruelty Palestinians are supposed to endure before anything tangible is done about this genocide, of which this engineered mass starvation is only one part.

The harvest mouse (German: Zwergmaus, dwarf mouse) is the smallest mouse species living in Germany, with adult individuals weighing only about 4 grams. Its habitat are areas with dense and high herbaceous vegetation. In the summer, they don't dig holes, but they sleep in ball-shaped coccoons woven from grass blades hung up high in the vegetation. They have a prehensile tail, which they use as a "fifth limb" for climbing.

— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing