most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages

in this world we all have our roles

never let being a girl stop you from being a boy

never let being a boy stop you from being a girl

this site really hates people with ocd

“reblog this or you don’t support minorities!” “if you don’t reblog this then all of your followers should hate you!” “if you have a bad thought then you actually think that way and you’re a horrible person!” “you can only like ‘good’ things and if you like something ‘bad’ then you’re awful!” i am going to throttle you with my bare hands

CHAPPELL ROAN - Casual (2023) dir. Hadley Hillel with MIKA LESHA as THE SIREN

everyone thinks they're a poet these days and thank god for that

Using dissociate instead of zoning out. Describing a hobby as a hyperfixation. Saying nonverbal when you want a bit of quiet. Saying intrusive thoughts because that must mean an urge like to buy coffee or hair dye. Do you know feeling off sometimes is a sign of autism? Lying is gaslighting. Everyone I dislike is a narcissist.

when the story is just not working, but you keep writing anyway

Current mood…

Reminder that she actually wins that season, so keep your head up.

Reminder that she constantly had trouble believing that she deserved to be there and her first few could best be described as ‘not the worst’.

And she won. She stayed positive, cried when she needed to, and kept going.

Once more:

a little diary about trying to find a middle ground between being spiritual and being a schizophrenic

daily affirmations: you are isildur’s heir, not isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.

"There's no such thing as a fish because you can't define it phylogenetically without also including things that aren't fish"

Man I have bad news for you about lizards. And reptiles in general. And wasps, but I guess that depends on your opinion on wasps. And I don't think you're ready for trees.

I'm defineiely not prepared for trees but if you want an excuse to make tumblr suffer i will be the sacrifice

Trees aren't a phylum or an order or anything like that, being a tree is just a thing some plants do

It's been described as a biological strategy - you want light, an efficient way to do that is put all the bits of you that want light (that is, leaves) high up so they're not in the shadow of other things, spread out both to cover a wide area and so they're not in their own shade, because that would be a waste of leaf

So the same shape of doing this has evolved independently dozens of times - crabs have nothing on trees. But this also leads to disagreement as to what a tree even is

For example, is a palm a tree? They don't have branches, but they do have a canopy - what about how a lot of conifers don't have a canopy? Just a cone of green that comes down to the ground! If that's a tree, what's the difference between a tree and a bush?

But we can agree they're centred around a single woody trunk right, so there's a starting point - except no, in comes the quaking aspen, which is one huge organism below the surface that shoots up trunks wherever the hell it feels like it, each of which is by any casual observer's reckoning obviously a tree.

The last thing we want to do is answer any of these questions, because that's how we end up with the whole berry situation, where a tomato is a berry but a strawberry is a "fleshy receptacle"

personally i think simple words like "fish" and "tree" and "berry" should be reserved for the people, and scientists should stop redefining words that have been in use for generations. the way things are now, obnoxious people insist it's normal people who are using them wrong, rather than the folks trying to exhaustively define things based on genetic criteria. i say this as someone who likes science btw

I will join you in your soapbox to add that we got the word henge from Stonehenge, then someone made a precise technical definition of what a henge is, and Stonehenge doesn't meet that definition

Behold, a fish

Behold, not a fish

cats arent in fucking actinopterygii theyre in fucking SARCOPTERYGII like all other tetrapods. actinopterygii comprises all the ray-finned fish which is like 95% of every animal you'd consider fish, and i can live with things like sharks, hagfish and coelacanth being 'fish-like organisms' without being true Fish, theyre beautiful and special in their own way

Ah yes, sorry, a correction

Behold, also not a fish

tumblr users dni

turn up that fucking hurdy gurdy

it's 2023 and I still very much miss Dirk Gently

It's 2024 and I still very much miss Dirk Gently

🇾🇪🇵🇸 Scenes from the million-man march held yesterday in Sanaa, Yemen, in solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst the Israeli violence in Gaza.

Brian Eno and photoshop (1995)