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Lover of Dragons and Birds

@arcalika / arcalika.tumblr.com

Arc|Artist|Writer|She/her. I don't know what I'm doing anymore.
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Reblogged stardragons
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dawg you can NOT be putting nothing but doomsayer news on my timeline. i know its good to be informed but there's a difference between knowing about the situation and making informed decisions and being pelted with heavy rocks and sticks and knives

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Reblogged savior-of-the-dreaming-dragons
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There are two types of writers:

1. 'It's fiction, it doesn't need to make sense!'

2. 'I didn't account for the rotation of the planet and how that affects the constalations while my characters stargazed at different times of year, I have failed as a writer, and this entire thing is trash'

#usually the first one except my brain keeps nagging#'i am literally a biologist i should at least TRY to make the dragons' biology make sense'#and then i go 'fuck that actually in my lore dragons did not evolve naturally they were magically designed into being'#'that's why they're weird as fuck and i do this on purpose. because it's my story and i can.'
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Reblogged vynive
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I would not say that lawn mowers and brush cutters don't have a place in the world, but I would say that if every lawn mower and similar machinery vanished from existence tomorrow, we would suddenly notice a multitude of obvious practical uses for plots of land that were not consciously considered to be "land" at all, but rather just "space" separating two constructed things.

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Like not to sound overly radical and idealistic, but maybe we don't have to use fossil-fuel-burning heavy machinery to maintain countless acres of unused land in a state scalped and exterminated of native plant life. maybe we can, like, limit our use of the pollution machine that makes land useless and barren.

maybe all the brilliant scientists of our highly advanced technological society can think of something we could possibly do with land other than "make it useless and barren using the pollution machine." Maybe somewhere in the world, someone is brilliant and visionary enough to imagine a society where "making it useless and barren using the pollution machine" is a slightly less common use of land resources

I don't know. I just think that we could figure something out if we tried really, really, really hard

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area used for drainage? put wetland plants in them instead of trying to grade out a giant funnel that dumps water into a drain pipe as quickly as possible. it'll absorb excess floodwater and filter out pollutants. if it's the southeast USA, PUT RIVER CANE OH MY GOD IT'S PERFECT. Arundinaria gigantea, you can look it up. Rushes. Cattails. Horsetails. Sedges.

roadside or other area that needs to be kept relatively low? short native grasses and flowers. there's a billion of them.

Awkward leftover land next to a building? trees. if there's plumbing or power lines to worry about? more native grasses and flowers. pollinator gardens. Or grow fiber plants that can be harvested yearly and turned into fabric/baskets/mats/whatever. If the soil doesn't have anything toxic in it, you could grow food plants. Grow sunflowers, they're allelopathic and keep the weeds down. Walking paths. Solar panels. Walking paths with solar panels. Put solar panels above your parking lot while you're at it. Did i mention Arundinaria gigantea.

flowers...fruit trees...native sedges...infinite possibilities

#one thing i admit i do like about texas is that they love to put bluebonnets(the state flower) in the highway medians#it's a small native wildflower that grows in well-drained soils. and it's lovely in the spring#anyway they should do shit like that in more places hmmm
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Reblogged needsmorebirds
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ngl for lot of my life i thought parents sitting their kids down and telling them how babies are made was just a thing they made up for comedies on tv so now im curious how common it actually is.

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I pieced together what sex was and then confronted my dad about it asking him if this is indeed what sex was and he was like “yeah” and I said “gross” and he said “you’ll feel different when you’re older” but I turned out asexual so 🤷🏼‍♂️

But yeah anyways my dad didn’t have the talk with me I had the talk with him

#didn't really have a Talk#just learned about anatomy and physiology mostly on my own from reading science books#(that were kid friendly and obv did not go into much detail on stuff like genitals)#but when i was like 10 my mom just handed me a short book on menstruation and was like “read it”#and then we never spoke of it again until my first period
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Reblogged corvidares
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Non online people: I love Harry Potter! I use Chat GPT to write my emails ;) Come find me on X, I'll send you my ai-generated spotify playlist! I'm thinking about buying some cryptocurrencies, do you know which ones are good? Me taking 500 points of psychic damage trying not to turn into a unskippable cutscene: Haha, conversations are so fun.

#throwback to that one time i was just trying to make casual small talk with someone#and i asked what her dream job is and she said “police officer” bruh...#i love small talk (: (:
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Reblogged needsmorebirds
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#my childhood crt was so fucking huge(the screen was like 3 feet by 5 feet)#and we had our tv room upstairs#so when it was time to replace it with a modern tv we needed to like. call up our most physically fit extended family#just to help us be able to move that thing down. and on top of that we had a pulley system#to make sure it was under control while being moved down the stairs#anyway the pulleys were attached to the stair railing#and that's why the railing pole at the top of the stairs is now disconnected from the ground#the tv was not to be fucked with
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Reblogged needsmorebirds
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I love birding so much. I found someone who knew the location of a bird species I’ve been after for 4 years and she sent me the exact coordinates (an abandoned farm in the middle of nowhere) and I instantly found one. Nothing gives me more dopamine than someone saying ‘go to this location and you’ll find the beast you seek’ and it’s there

#like the time i was birding with my dad in montana and some guy is just like#“hey wanna come over to our place we have a family of trumpeter swans”#and then we just go to this guy's yard and sure enough there's a pond with 5 swans just chilling#i cannot emphasize enough that this was just some random guy who saw us birding. we did not know him at all.
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