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Absolutely bonkers that I'm now one of those weirdos you hear about on Twitter

I committed to the bit so hard that I also committed misdemeanor impersonation of a government official

when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.

And with your help we can make it 100%.

Rare American W

touching the bathroom door handle and getting a "woah there! this is the endgame. are you sure there's nothing you want to do first?" pop up

elvis

being a dom is only cool if people like you. otherwise it's super embarrassing. if you're a sub you can be like "ahhh i wanna get fucked superrr hard >w<" and it's kind of endearing. if you're a dom and you say "i want to FUCK someone.. who will be mommys little KITTY today .." and no one actually wants to have sex with you, you may as well kill yourself. because there's no coming back from that

So within two days of each other, Fox News writes an article comparing aromanticism and asexuality to pedophilia, and then Matt Walsh releases a video saying asexuality is a mental illness and asexuals are tricking teenagers into having depression.

Not sure what’s going on right now over in Conservative World, but it’s a hell of wild U-turn for them to suddenly switch from “Oh no! The left is sexualizing our children!” to “Oh no! The left is asexualizing our children!”

It’s a reminder, I guess, that they’re coming for all of us. The fash and the white supremacists will not make nice distinctions between the queers when they put us up against the wall. There is no gatekeeping, no label-policing, no purity-purging and no assimilation that any of us can do that will save us. They want us dead, and while they’ll start with whoever is most vulnerable at any given time, they’ll get around to all of us eventually.

Queer solidarity means all of us because the fash are coming for all of us.

@vaspider said it best : Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot.

these are also the arguments that were used by aphobes during peak ace/aro discourse. “saying a minor can be asexual is sexualization because it implies minors are capable of sexual thoughts” was a big one. “it’s just your depression making you feel unlovable, so you feel you can’t love other people in return” was another one. it doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t have to! these arguments are based on hate, nothing more.

but all that to say this is very much not new, so don’t let them bring it back.

my favorite thing about this post is all the people who chose to use the default icon defending themselves in the notes like no stop it just put a picture up

Loving this energy

*wipes tear* they learn tumblr culture so fast . . . the spite . . . the malicious compliance of it all . . . I'm so proud

uh yeah no problem i literally live for this

Something similar happened to me with a weird crustacean I posted and I was dancing on the wind for weeks

OP can we see said caterpillar?

Imagine seeing an insect - it happens all the time, not a rare or wondrous occasion by any general sense, yet... Between 15,000 and 18,000 new species are identified each year, half of those discoveries being insects.

That spider in your home, could be unidentified, new. The flies on your windshields, fresh creations.

Years ago I found a huge grub in a friends garden. Took it home in a jar speared with a fork for breathing holes. Put it in a bowl of dirt - Moth larvae will bury underground to metamorphosize - I carefully dug into the dirt when the leaves were falling. A beautiful umber leathery cocoon sat, quietly greeting me. All winter I kept it inside, warm. Carefully moved from one room to another. Come spring, I thought they would not come out. Come summer, I was left with a casing I thought empty. One night, one breathtaking night, a moth larger than my partner's hand, or mine appeared. The Pandora Sphinx Moth was free, and she spread her wings and took to the night sky. I never knew a moth like her could exist in Colorado.

At any given moment, it's estimated there are 10 quintillion individual insects alive. Be curious! Who knows what we will discover next. There in your backyard, local park, leaflitter in the city, some new, wonderous thing lives.

heres the first ever picture of an as-of yet undescribed leaf miner moth! featuring my dog! i just took him out for his walk one day and saw something on a leaf, i didnt even know it was evidence of a bug, i thought it might be a fungus or something. i posted it to inaturalist and after identifying the host tree, a leafminer expert informed me that that tree was not a known host of anything this might be, and it was almost certainly an undescribed species of moth.

i eventually collected some more leaves that still had larvae/pupae living inside to mail to him so he could raise them to adulthood and work on classifying them

look at that!! a whole new moth!!

theres just so many bugs in the world!! you just never know!!

This is why you should upload your images of bugs (and other plants and animals) to inaturalist.org! It really does help scientists! It’s also helpful if you list those images as public domain or at the very least only require attribution to share.

I love iNaturalist and have been uploading almost daily to it for over a year now. I do want to encourage anyone using it to make use of the "obscured" location visibility option, which gives your identifications a general radius rather than specific location. It protects both you from doxxing yourself, as well as the location of any rare plants or animals you find from being poached or trafficked. (iNaturalist will automatically do this for some particularly vulnerable species) Citizen science is so so valuable to our understanding of changes in the environment. As someone with an ecology background I cannot possibly overstate how useful it is to have people providing extra data points. We were constantly brainstorming ways to get the public involved in our research projects due to how invaluable it is. So far via iNaturalist I've identified 2 newly introduced insect species in my state which weren't thought to have spread this far until I IDed them, as well as a host of as yet undescribed native species (including a new species of blue banded bee which I'm still very excited about). And this is just in one year taking pics in my own backyard.

That's without even beginning to talk about the mental health benefits to being outside and involved in the natural world around you. I normally stop shot of recommending a specific app, but since this topic came across my dash I figured I'd jump in and vouch for this one.

Gotta nip that Scott Pilgrim shit in the bud

my mom got me this little thing and im obsessed with him.... little creature..

I have been thinking. about the creature

Why are all of you reblogging this without the important context that Alan Denton is a writer on Sonic Boom?

well that’s kinda on his wife then ngl