Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af
How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club
Botswana Metal aesthetic is something I never knew I needed until it was shown to me.
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Can you imagine the heat?? Badass af
How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club
Botswana Metal aesthetic is something I never knew I needed until it was shown to me.
we should talk more about cities that are vampires. cities that are cold and wet and sink into your bones and stay there. cities that are hungry and want to live. dead cities that dont know they're dead and suck the life force of their people to maintain the delusion. cities with harbors that are actually mouths; one-way entries. cities that are devastatingly lonely and see consumption as love
These people blocked me on both Twitter and Tumblr, and then someone used a burner account to go off on me on Twitter. This person insisted that I was singlehandedly responsible for the project falling.
I made one comment, and it was this:
No clue how my single comment did this. But okay.
A vampire story without blood is like baking bread without heat, wtf are they on?
Since you seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything, would you happen to have some favourite dinosaur-era plants? I'm getting a tattoo of a (feathered) raptor and want to surround it with era-appropriate plant life!
I'm a big fan of cycads, personally, and they're even still around today!
nothing can kill these things.
They're also ludicrously toxic in just about every way you can think of! They've got carcinogens, teratogens, neurotoxins - these are plants that survived through sheer spite.
role models
When youāve spent millions of years being munched on by the biggest land animals ever to exist, it leaves you a bit bitter.
New insult unlocked:
Are you part of the cycas genus? Because you are toxic in all kinds of fucked up ways
long-tailed minivet (Pericrocotus ethologus)
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Omar Ziyadeh, āNobody Can Identify Their Own Remains, and I Am Unable to Identify My Ownā (tr. from Arabic by Alice S. Yousef) [IDād]
White-rumped shama (Native to densely vegetated habitats in India/South East Asia
Being an adult means sharing space with assholes. There's gonna be shit you need to do, and the only way to get it is by working with one or more huge assholes. They're not evil. They're not gonna hurt you. Usually they're not even bad people, they're just assholes. And you gotta know how to share space with em.
Thinking about the dichotomy of "I feel uncomfortable/triggered in the presence of x/y/z environments I would like to be someplace without that" that I constantly see online and when I tell my therapist I really get uncomfortable when people raise their voices around me even if they aren't actually mad and her response of "you can only control your own reactions and emotions, it's not really fair to police others on how they should exist in your presence" and honestly it sucks to hear but she's right.. it's good to have people be conscientious of what triggers you but really it's up to us to do the hard work of building that emotional resilience. The idea of people around me having to be hypervigilant of what they say and do lest I start getting dysregulated does not sound fun at all, I want people to feel comfortable being themselves around me and that means training my dumb lizard brain to chill tf out. Living in a constant state of avoidance sucks ass for everyone involved.
doesnāt this make you feel absolutely wild
Whoever conserved that textile has my respect.
@funereal-disease youāve probably seen this but
He told me I belong in a churchyard He told me I could walk away but I wouldn't get far Tell me how do people know what is hurt, what is love? He told me I belong in a churchyard
I know exactly how this bear feels
Mood
THE X FILES 4.05 : THE FIELD WHERE I DIED
kinda obsessed with these, clearly beginner, rings on Etsy being marketed as garnet when i'd bet money that they are glass
the metal work is. certainly better than what i've ever made, so i don't want to speak to harshly. but uh. um.
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