a world without trans people has never existed and never will

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NOT TO BRAG OR ANYTHING BUT JOHN FUCKING DARNIELLE MR. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS HIMSELF JUST SHARED THIS ON BSKY AND SAID IT WAS GREAT AND LOVELY WORK. WHAT IF I DIED

there was a disney show called austin and ally that was about some dumb shit i dont even remember i think they were lifeguards who were also pop stars or something and the main girl (ally) had two love interest boys named austin and dallas and there was a bit where they were like sneaking into her diary to find out which one she liked more and she had written "theres nothing better than a boy named after a city in texas" and i still think thats an extremely funny bit. i think about it frequently. boys named after cities in texas. if you need a name for an incidental character in something you can just pick a city in texas there are plenty of them

the most famous boy named after a city in texas of course being everyons favorite cousin throckmorton

no matter how often it happens its always a little jarring to realize that someone is like completely bag of rocks stupid

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

Reminder: you can't be the whole wall against stopping fascism by yourself. Nobody can. But you damn sure can be a brick.

There's a lot of good comments and tags in the notes, but this one is very important, I feel like it deserves some emphasis.

Part of how authoritarianism works is telling you that you can't stop it. And you can't stop it by yourself. But it wants to stop the train of thought there and let you fall into despair.

You need to remember the next part: you don't have to stop it by yourself.

You're not alone. Take care of your community and let your community take care of you. Supporting each other is so vital.

There is no secret or some hidden knowledge that Jedi were created under the heavy influence of Japanese samurai culture. Space warriors, servants of the government and state. And I had a thought “What if make designs more eastern influenced and still GFFA ’ There is result.

I'm convinced mama dragons carry their babies around in their mouth for protection, like how crocodiles do...

Settle round and hear about MsLoftis, the Star Trek Quilter

I don’t know this person, I just hang out in r/quilting and she's like... like REALLY into her fandom. I respect the fuck out of it.

She's also an AMAZING quilter, but first and foremost she's a Star Trek person.

She does hand-quilting Klingon text. She does a LOT of Klingon content, honestly, it's amazing.

Sometimes it's an otherwise classical quilt, but with a sudden STAR TREK in it.

Baby blanket? I hope your baby likes STAR TREK

This one has a SPACE BATTLE with TINY KLINGON WARBIRDS fighting the BORG! FUCK THAT'S COOL! And it's cozy too???

There's occasionally other fandoms, like BSG

But her first quilt, in the 90s, was Star Trek, and with Star Trek she's remained.

This isn't even all of them. There are SO many. And like... I laugh because it's always like ANOTHER STAR TREK QUILT??? HOW DOES SHE FIND THE TIME??!? but I also admire her devotion and also she is an exceptionally good quilter, fucking LOOK at the detail on some of these! Look at where she started some 30 years ago!

This lady is living her fandom in a way that I fucking admire, and I just want everyone to admire her with me.

Marsha Loftis is also on tumblr!! You can find her and her incredible art at @quilt-giving

She also has her own website: https://marshaloftis.com/

I appreciate everyone’s appreciation for my Love of quilting sci-fi especially my Star Trek quilts. Thank you muchly. I am on multiple social media websites as MSLoftis (Tumblr, Bluesky, Mastodon, threads and Spoutible) and my blog marshaloftis.com

Unstated meanings conveyed through context! That’s my shit!

Adding this one

Swords are arguably the most popular fantasy weapon, but why is that?

Patreon - everything else

To anyone who follows me, I don't care about nor trust Colossal Biosciences anymore (The people behind the "Wooly Mice"). They have proven themselves to be headline-chasing grifters after this latest stunt. They are claiming to have de-extincted *Aenocyon dirus*, aka the Dire Wolf, by editing just 20 genes from the the DNA of a Grey Wolf (*Canis lupus*) to make this thing:

If it wasn't clear from their scientific names, Grey Wolves and Dire Wolves aren't remotely related to one another aside from being Canids, despite what pop culture like Game of Thrones would have you believe. If they did look like each other, it would have had to be via convergent evolution, as they only shared a common ancestor over 5 million years ago.

This distinction, however, isn't found in the publicized articles about this so-called resurrected Dire Wolf and makes their claim that they brought the Dire Wolf back by simply editing *20* genes from the genome of a Grey Wolf laughable. A Dire Wolf would have shared more in common genetically with a Maned Wolf (*Chrysocyon brachyurus*) or Bush Dog (*Speothos venaticus*) than it would with a Grey Wolf.

Bottom line, don't fall for whatever this company is trying to tell you. If the Dire Wolf were to be brought back, it wouldn't be via something like this, and certainly wouldn't *look* like this. If you want an idea as to how a real Dire Wolf would look like in life, here is some fantastic paleoart by artist Mauricio Antón:

Addendum: I seem to have partially miscalculated Dire Wolf genetics. They were not closer to Maned Wolves or Bush Dogs, but they were still not closely related to Grey Wolves. They were basal members of Canini, related to canids like Jackals (genus Lupulella) but distinct from them. I am sorry for this misinformation in my attempt to correct other misinformation. My main point, however, is still correct.

Yeah, I saw this and my immediate thought was "these people don't know what they're doing". My second thought was, "these people know what they're doing is a scam". Either way, I've always been very suspicious of Colossal's, well, colossal claims, and now it's clear they're full of shit

i'm gonna let you in on a secret. if you are an artist, even casually, nobody on earth can actually stop you from giving a big fluffy bunny its own little wind-up car to putter around in. they might try, but there's literally nothing they can do about it. so just keep that in mind i guess

I love how here on tumblr dot website we regularly cast the greatest curse we can muster on each other by pointing our long creepy fingers and intoning "10,000 notes" in a voice that carries the winds of the mountain with it.

I might have made an error here

AVOCATTO

May I offer you an origin form Giratina + Cosmog + a hint of Lunala fusion?

sex isn't sexy unless it's a little bit gross. have you forgotten that you are a divine ape? plastic smooth skin, plucked hair, painted faces, scripted reactions, scrubbed til only the smell of perfumed soap remains, proportions that are conflictingly cookiecutter yet unattainable, none of this is even a little bit interesting.

you can laugh at napoleon's "home in three days, don't bathe" letter to his wife, but there's more sexuality in that one line then there is in the entirety of the hypersexualized but painfully unsexy internet.

What are your thoughts on musk?

i hope he dies