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EbrithilBowser

@ebrithilbowser-blog

Just somebody who likes creatures and wants the world to be a better place for everybody - he/his (they/their is also okay) https://zaubererbruderasp.deviantart.com/ This blog is not safe for arachnophobes. I respect you, but I will occasionally reblog spider pictures.

This site has been going around Twitter trans accounts quite a bit lately, so just pointing out here too that it'll do fuck all, they're exploiting trans people at a time when hrt is particularly hard to access and please don't give them your money

fuckin exploitative bullshit marketed in the worst way imaginable

literally selling laxatives as weight loss supplements

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Reddit post by Dr Will Powers

No actually, this needs to be in the body of the post.

This isn't someone looking to make a quick buck off the backs of desperate trans women.

This is someone who is gathering a hit list. This person may use your info for active swatting, but not just that, this product will kill you.

This product is outright dangerous. This dose of ashwagandha is ASTRONOMICAL. It's anxiolytic - meaning that it causes agitation and anxiety - and if you take this dose every day you'll be developing serotonin syndrome within 4-6 weeks, and an ER trip/death within 8. And if you're on medications that interact (SSRIs, antipsychotics, most kinds of opiates) or alcohol, this risk is magnified.

This person wants to KILL YOU.

Also the photo they're using for the founder is AI generated. The easiest tell is the neck tattoo seemingly merging with the collar of the shirt, and none of the locs actually having an end that connects them to the scalp.

There's a terf in the comments screeding about how this totally isn't a rightwing psyop and it's asian fetishizing trans ppl obsessed with anime doing this, so here's some irrefutable proof that it is, in fact, a right-wing dox honeypot!

If you go to any post by TheQueerQuirk on Twitter and replace the username part of the url with transaretr8ors it will redirect you to the same tweet with the new username, indicating that TheQueerQuirk's old username WAS in fact transaretr8ors. You can test this yourself.

They're also stealing images from r/transtimelines for fake reviews.

Their domain name was registered on June 2 and the address marked is a common scam address (seemingly of the Icelandic Phallological Museum).

THIS IS A HONEYPOT. THEY'RE COLLECTING ADDRESSES. YOU COULD BE SWATTED, HAVE YOUR IDENTITY STOLEN, OR AT THE VERY BEST RECEIVE A PRODUCT THAT WILL CAUSE SEROTONIN SYNDROME.

SPREAD.

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If they don't discover alien life in my lifetime I'm gonna be SO pissed. I'm not expecting little green men or anything, really I think meeting intelligent life would be kinda scary, I just want them to find some fossils on Mars or some singled-celled organisms on Europa or whatever. That would literally be so fucking cool. I'm gonna be so pissed if they don't.

The closest we've ever come to world peace was the summer of 2016 when pokemon go launched

Was it? There was a whole satanic panic about it.

Well if people call you Satanist, you're probably doing something right (Artist: Abprallen)

But to be honest, games can be a great way to bring people together, and Pokémon Go did that to an unseen amount, which was awesome. But assholes being assholes, there will always be a backlash against good things. Every time a group of people gain more rights that they should've had inthe first place, there's also an increase in violence against that group. So yeah, we probably won't have world peace anytime soon, but at least we can fight on the right side.

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I will think of this every time I sink my teeth into a peach…

go ahead, get the juice all over your face, dripping off your chin…

Actually it wouöd be awesome if there was a pussy instead of the core, but since you don't literally eat pussy, would it also be left over?

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probably a long shot but do you have any idea who the artist for this book cover is? i’m not sure what the artist signature says to be honest but i thought maybe you’d recognize it or the art style? my grandpa gave me a copy of the book as a kid and the book cover always amazed me

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Yeah, that's a 1970 cover by Steele Savage! Here's a list of his other covers. Interesting artist, although he didn't have much of a career beyond 1967-1971. My guess is that his style didn't have the level of detail that publishers were looking for after 1971. He has some really great surreal compositions and bold colors, though.

Here's a collection of his covers that I've posted in the past. His 1971 cover for Robert Heinlein’s Red Planet is one of my favorites.

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instead of calling it missionary we should call it “lobster style” (lobsters mate in the missionary position, plus it would better match the term doggy style)

Thanks to this fun and educational post about the beautiful native crustaceans of Maine I now know way more about Jordan B Peterson than I would have ever wanted

I think its fun that christian missionaries, a group of people who are well known for having a weird relationship to sex, have one of the most well known sex positions named after them.

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For years there wasn’t any higher quality animated gif of buzzwole’s idle animation and now there is but I only found it on smogon and it also reveals that its bubble effect might be on a different animation loop than its body!

It's really beutiful to look at

The story of Karpadude

So I caught this Magikarp in my Leaf Green Edition, which I called Karpadude (because Magikarp in German is called Karpador). This his her:

I went on to Route 12 to have hear measured, because I know due to the different system of calculation, her size is going to change in Gen VIII, and I wanted to document that.

111,6 cm, that’s really not bad. For the Americans, that’s about 3′7″. According to the Pokédex, the average Magikarp is 90 cm or 2′11″, so she’s pretty big.

Next thing I did was sending her over to my SoulSilver edition.

There she is!

She looks pretty happy to be three years in the future. Now, let’s travel to Jotho, where she met some Pokémon that are stuck in my Gen IV games with no way to ever travel to newer games.

So we travelled to the Lake of Rage to see if her measurements have changed.

Looks like she likes the weather here.

And her size hasn’t changed a bit over the course of the last three in-game years.

To round up her trip to Jotho, she won the Pokéthlon. Really not bad for a beginner.

Next, she travelled through my White 2 edition, where she also met a bunch of Pokémon that are probably stuck in this game forever.

Same on her visit to Hoenn in Alpha Sapphire.

Over in Alola, we finally were able to make some really cool photos using in-game methods.

Next, she travelled back in time to the ancient Hisui region.

Looks like she has shrunk. She’s now only 88 cm, which is 2′11″, so pretty average for a Magikarp. Which is a shame, looks like she won’t repeat her records.

Looks pretty small compared to an Alpha Magikarp.

We also took some fun photos together in Hisui before travelling back to the future.

Only to take more photos in Hisui, which she doesn’t look so thrilled about.

So that was the story of how my Magikarp travelled from Gen III to Gen IX, only to have to pose for a photo on top of its Gen I sprite.

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Not posting this as a reblog because I don't want to screw with somebody else's notes, but the whole "theological implications of Tolkien's orcs" business has some interesting history behind it.

In brief, a big part of why the Lord of the Rings Extended Universe™ is so cagey about what orcs are and where they come from is that later in his life, Tolkien came to believe that orcs as he'd depicted them were problematic – albeit not because of, you know, all the grotesque racial caricature.

Rather, he'd come to the conclusion that the idea of an inherently evil sapient species – a species that's incapable of seeking salvation – was incompatible with Christian ethics. Basically, it's one of those "used the wrong formula and got the right answer" situations.

In his notes and letters, Tolkien played around with several potential solutions to this problem. (Though contrary to the assertions of certain self-proclaimed Tolkien scholars, there's no evidence that he ever seriously planned to re-write his previous works to incorporate these ideas.) In one proposal, orcs are incarnated demons, and "killing" them simply returns them to their naturally immaterial state; in another, orcs are a sort of fleshy automaton remotely operated by the will of Sauron, essentially anticipating the idea of drone warfare.

Of course, this is all just historical trivia; any criticism of The Lord of the Rings must be directed at the books that were actually published, not the books we imagine might have been published if Tolkien had spent a few more years thinking through the implications of what he was writing. However, the direction of his thoughts on the matter is striking for two reasons:

  1. Tolkien's orc conundrum is very nearly word for the word the problem that many contemporary fantasy authors are grappling with fifty years later. They want epic battles with morally clean heroes, and they're running up against exactly the same difficulty that Tolkien himself did – i.e., that describing a human-like species who are ontologically okay to kill is an impossible task.
  2. After all the work he put into solving this impossible problem, one of Tolkien's proposals was literally just "what if they're not really killing the orcs, they're just sending them to the Shadow Realm?"

To be honest, I like the solution of most lter fantasy works, that orks are just as vapable of good and evil as other species, they just have a pretty different culture, much better.

Anonymous asked:

As a fellow trans person, do you by chance have an up to date map of "safe states" in the US? bc as someone who lives in florida and is getting Very Concerned about my health and safety, i can't seem to find any that are more recent, and i don't trust trying to google that shit rn.

As of May 19 2023

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