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We can all have a good flirt later.

@fiftysevenacademics / fiftysevenacademics.tumblr.com

         Writer. Recovering academic. Actual adult. Richardclub forever. Science. History. Eighteenth century. Assorted nerdery. Currrently into: Our Flag Means Death, What We Do in the Shadows, Good Omens, Ghosts. Occasional fanfic writer and gifmaker. Queue is filled with Doctor Who, David Tennant, or whatever I’m obsessed with at the moment.      
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Me: “You can’t ascribe human morality to non-human animals because they do not share our particular cognition and culture.”

Tumblr: “Why do you hate animism, huh? Why do you think humans are a separate species from other animals, you human supremacist?”

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Me: “You wouldn’t marry a warthog because you know that its cognition is different from human cognition, it is a different species with different abilities and emotions, and it does not share your understanding of marriage and consent and culture. It’s different from you and you know this.”

Tumblr: “Well humans don’t all speak the same language, so…”

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Of all the ridiculous arguments I’ve gotten into on Tumblr dot hell this one. This one might be. Might be the wildest.

I’M LOSING MY MIND 

“I’m trying to establish whether or not you think a sand hill crane is interchangeable with a human boyfriend”

okay so while we were moving into the new house we left the door propped open and a fat, peaceable raccoon moseyed in, looked around, climbed the water heater, curled up on the laundry room shelf and fell asleep. what do I do now

-he is asleep. he literally sat down and washed his tummy like a kitty cat and then tucked his nose into his tail and fell asleep. he is sleeping like a little angel on my laundry shelf

-the room he is in has a door to the outside but there's no way to close the room off from the rest of the house

-animal control opens 8am monday. for out of hours emergencies it says to call the cops. I'm not calling the cops on a sleepy raccoon

-I am also very sleepy

Okay I made a little trail of pieces of bread leading along the shelf and onto the water heater and onto a chair next to the water heater and across the floor and out the door and turned off the lights and made myself a nice cup of cocoa and waited and waited and waited and waited and FINALLY he peaceably ate his way out the door. sadly in my excitement I knocked over my nice cup of cocoa all over the floor but at least now there's no raccoon in my house so 🎉

You did a reverse Hansel and Gretel!

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David Tennant at Emerald City Comic Con (March 2023) answering the question: What's your favorite costume you've ever worn?

Con video source: [ tentaclecouple.com ]

Question: What's your favorite costume you've ever worn? David: Oh! That's a great question. I don't know. It's hard, isn't it? Because there's different answers to that. There's most comfortable, which is probably something I wore in Staged. [ audience laughs ] I suppose it's almost after you've finished it - that something becomes so recognizable with a character. So I suppose it would be something with the Doctor or with Crowley who wear sort of a version of the same thing. It's very nice to slip back into that when you've been away for a while. I don't know. I'm very pleased with the costume we came up with for the last version of the Doctor, I must say. I'm very pleased with that. The coat's got a lovely swish to it.

My heart goes out to Canadians who are watching the forests you love disappear in fire. I live in California, where almost all of the natural spaces I love the most have burned to the ground and aren't really coming back. You must be grieving so hard right now and I want you to know you're not alone and your grief is valid and real.

US East Coasters experiencing apocalyptic smoke for the first time: I'm sorry you have to go through that. I know how awful it is.

OTW Signal, June 2023

OTW Legal explains the fair use implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Warhol v Goldsmith in this month’s OTW Signal.  Read more at https://otw.news/3f968b

Hey @fiftysevenacademics I am fairly certain you sent an ask about this which was eaten by tumblr gremlins but here is the answer!

Thank you! I did ask and this answers my question. Thank you also for including the link to the Creative Commons discussion.