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Commissions done for @imbrella!!! I had fun drawing these cuties 💖

Ham’s Labyrinth

You have been sentenced to wander eternally in the Fanta Labyrinth

Mutuals do this

THIS is the kind of stimulation I need in my enclosure

how what???

I’m not good with the science of this or anything (someone who knows more feel free to add) but fish can play??? Fish can play like any other animal?? People saying it couldn’t breathe, do human kids not hold their breaths to go under water for fun? It’s just the opposite. Air is water, water is air. In the same vein as a kid being thrown up and into the pool and enjoying it, the fish is playing.

okay… as someone who studies marine biology I need to clarify something:

fish are unable to hold their breaths. They literally cannot take a deep breath like mammals do.

We have lungs that can take in a specific volume of air, fish have gills that work when they are ventilated enough. There are different kinds of gills, yes. Some fish have something called ‘operculum’ which is like a cap on top of the gills, helping to protect them and increasing the water circulation through the gills. Some fish DONT have this structure and need to swim in order to be able to breathe.

But the fact that they cannot hold their breaths doesnt mean that they cannot survive without water for a while - in fact, fish can (usually) survive being without water WAY LONGER than we could survive being without air.

I cannot tell if this fish does this for fun, but it sure looks like it. But I am not a behavioural biologist, so I can’t tell for sure.

It is abundantly clear the fish is a willing participant. It’s sort of arrogant to assume animals other than humans don’t play like humans.

Im not a behavior biologist either, but I have spent a lot of time around fish and ive spent a lot of time talking to and helping people that care for fish. (Former petstore fish guy that took his job too seriously)

That fish is having fun, and fish absolutely DO have fun!

There was a regular who came into the store I worked at a lot, and he kept several varieties of chichlids, a very smart, aggressive type of fish.

He would come in and talk to me about all the drama his fish get into. The different territorial disputes they were having, who had paired off with who, who broke up (yes chichlids are like this)

But he had a jack dempsey in particular that LOVED to chase his hand around the tank, not his wife’s hand, not his friend’s hand, it HAD to be him. He said that as soon as he entered the room where this fish’s tank was kept, the fish would TEAR UP the tank decor, knocking things over and acting a fool off his shits until this dude stuck his hand in there and let the fish chase it around back and forth.

He theorized that his fish learned that if he knocked the tank decor around, his owner would obviously have to stick his hand in to fix it. So when he wants to play “chase dad’s hand” thats naturally how he knows he can get the hand to appear. He wont do this behavior for anybody but this one guy and he won’t tear up the tank anymore after he had received sufficient “play time”, usually once a day when the guy got home from work. He likened it to having a dog that wont leave you alone till you play tug o war for a bit.

I had a betta that would spend twenty minutes at a time just swimming up to the waterfall of the filter, letting it push him down to the bottom of the tank, only to swim back up and do it again, like it was a fucking slide.

Bettas are weak swimmers, and they dislike strong currents, but this guy was using the filter current like a slide. Kinda like how we don’t really like getting thrown around, but we still enjoy rollercoasters.

I also have countless stories about goldfish trying to “give hugs” (re: shove themselves into their owners hands during tank maintenance)

My betta knows how to lie and he will only beg for food in front of those he knows have not fed him yet.

There is so much evidence I’ve seen that fish are waaaay smarter and affectionate than we think. They absolutely have fun and I honestly don’t think enough studies have been done on fish brains and fish behavior in general.

And honestly, having worked in a pet store, fish are generally treated like they don’t have brains by even the fish care brands that claim expert knowledge.

Its definitely worth noting that hard scientific evidence presenting that the very opposite is true would probably lead to more robust animal welfare laws that would definitely upset the aquatics industry. Food for thought.

I think you’re absolutely right on that last point. The misconception that fish are too thoughtless to have feelings facilitates the abhorrent conditions in which they are kept and ways they are treated by the industry.

I used to have a lovely tank, I think it was 50 gallons, and among other things I kept glass catfish. All the research at the time said they were hard to keep in captivity and prone to refusing to eat and starving themselves, and that they did not live long in captivity. But I was fascinated and had to try it. It took me about three days to realize none of the literature said a word about them being nocturnal. I started feeding them at night right before bed, and had zero problems getting them to eat, saw they were incredibly active as soon as the lights went off (I have exceptional night vision) and I kept them in excellent health for years. Exponentially beyond their captive life expectancy.

I think the commercial pet fish trade is abysmal in terms of actual working knowledge of fish.

Fish Intelligence (a link at which you will also learn there is a fish called the bony-eared assfish) has been studied on a pretty broad scale, actually and there’s a lot of scientific evidence to suggest that they are very smart creatures.

What’s so bad about periods

At first I was like “no don’t reblog it’ll weird people out” then I was like “oh right that’s the point”

You also lose iron during menstruation. I actually passed out because of that yesterday.

Also shout out to all trans, gender-fluid or genderless people with menstruation out there! Periods don’t make you female. Only you define your gender!

Actually there is a good chance that is not the lack of iron making you pass out but instead drops on blood pressure!

I found this out recently. I’ve always been told my fainting/dizzy spells during my period were iron related but I did some research and because I have a history of low blood pressure and fainting related to it (in times of a restricted diet and pregnancy) it’s far more likely that’s the reason I’m fainting

A lot of other AFAB people report the same

I ended up in the hospital due to severe blood loss and needed transfusions to recover

Not to mention the dip in your immune system when you lose that much blood, just because of all the white blood cells pouring out along with the rest of it. 

Or the fact that a lot of the painful/severe symptoms associated with periods are actually due to medical problems that need to be addressed, but people don’t know this because no one wants to talk about it and associate most of the symptoms with a fictional version of PMS

And even if you do talk about them, even to doctors, you’re not believed most the time.

The way he stuffs them in his mouth 💀

Mood

Bakugou Katsuki: Rising

hey what’s up how’s everybody’s weekend going it’s 11am here and i just had to hear my nana use the word ‘precum’ incorrectly in a room full of like 40 people how y’all doin today

it’s rly important to my nana to stay ‘hip and cool’ so she parrots a lot of the slang she hears us use. so last thanksgiving i was trying to put ketchup on smthn and i forgot to shake the bottle and got that gross watery bit first and went “oh no the ketchup precum” and my nana overheard and asked what that meant, and instead of telling my sweet 70 y/o nana what precum meant, i told her it was just a silly word for the unmixed liquid that comes out of squeeze bottles

anyways, cut to today where we’re having a  birthday lunch for my cousin and she goes to put mustard on smthn and gets the watery shit and sighs to herself “mustard precum” in her sweet lil welsh accent and every single person who knew what it meant and overheard took 30pts of psychic damage and sat there for a minute like

How to surreptitiously stretch within reach of kisses

@o-ishiii

daniel radcliffe calling out j.k. rowling on her bullshit is big dick energy

One thing I have not seen mentioned in light of this statement, perhaps because it's just well known or perhaps because it's been forgotten, is that Radcliffe has dealt with this before. About 10 years ago his friendship with a trans musician named Our Lady J became known to the tabloids. They immediately published sensational articles calling her a transvestite and a drag queen (she was not), and speculating about the nature of their relationship. He responded to insinuating questions by simply being aggressively positive about what a great musician and good friend she was. They did at least one interview together for a queer magazine. This at a time when trans people were even more marginalized than now, and when he as an actor was finishing Harry Potter and under a lot of pressure to ~manage his image~ as he transitioned to an adult career.

TL;DR - Radcliffe has a record of not just saying nice things, but supporting trans people in his life.

Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

“You’d be surprised”, said Xaldien, who just lost four followers and received a lovely “men can’t be raped” anon shortly after reblogging this the first time.

Yowch, disgusting.

If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.

Always reblog this

If you Dont reblog this if u see it then i cant call u my friend

IF ANYONE TELLS ME THAT MEN CAN’T BE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND RAPE, I AM SICKENED BY THEIR MERE PRESENCE ON MY BLOG.

If you disagree with me, unfollow my blog, block me and never look at my blog again.

If you want to debate about this or send anon’s about this, I will reply but your actions have consequences.

Out of 19000+ followers I have, only one of you actually reblogged about this issue, yet a lot of you have reblogged and liked a picture by playboy about catcalling and that how men should never do it.

Additionally, I have received abuse in my ask box (which I will be answering when I can) and threats. In particular death threats and rape threats.

I can see the real problem here already. Male domestic violence and rape is just invisible in our society because we don’t want to talk about this because it just damages the status quo of this fucking website.

I’m a male victim of child sexual abuse. We matter. Please, reblog this.

Please never forget male victims are real and it can happen to everyone/anyone

Make sure the romance is there on both sides people

Screw people who don’t believe in male rape.

🌹✊

This post always makes me feel some type of way when it comes up.

Never shut your eyes to male abuse and rape…♥♥♥

This. Fucking this. Thank you.

If you don’t think men can be rape victims leave and don’t come back thanks :)

if you unfollow me because of this shit, kindly fuck you.

I try not to reblog too much serious stuff, but my new book is partly about male abuse survivors so…

By all fucking means, unfollow me and flood my inbox if you think men are immune. 🤘✨💖

I mostly just blog and reblog about Fandom stuff, cause if I wanted serious topics I wouldn’t come to tumblr, but I can’t ignore something like this. Male victims absolutely exist and people who honestly believe they don’t, and aren’t just trolling, are sick.

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

she is WHAT? sickening

I’m not even kidding I teared up a lil

mom

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen

where can I meet this guy’s wife

How do these loser redit men get these incredibly talented and fascinating women lmao

THIS MAN’S GIRLFRIEND MADE HER OWN LOOM TO WEAVE PERIOD ACCURATE FABRIC AND HER ASSHOLE BOYFRIEND DIDN’T EVEN BOTHER TO LEARN THE NAME OF THE CLOTHES SHE WAS MAKING WITH IT HOLY SHIT I AM LIVID

bro this guy doesn’t want her telling her friends about her sick fucking hobby? her CRAFT? this guy is complaining that he MADE a loom? he’s upset that she “had” him “help” make it???? his wife hand wove and dyed a piece of historically accurate SILK garment and he was EMBARRASSED???????? he didn’t want their FRIENDS to know????????????? FUCKK OUTT OF HERE

Please pay attention to this

The ICE is THIS >< near of poisoning the detained immigrants with HDQ Neutral. It’s a highly harmful disinfectant if inhaled or swallowed. It is sprayed many times every day, almost every 15 minutes, which makes a total of about 96 times. None of the poeple that are detained there are given mask or glasses to protect them. Also, women have been getting raped and no one bats an eye, and more children’s have gone “mysteriously missing”. They like to pretend we don’t know that they go to child sex trafficking circles. They are using the disinfectant as a chemical weapon towards innocent people, they have been abusing them, raping them and killing them. This all happens behind closed door, thinking we are not going to find it out. Here it is a petition to help the people who are being slowly killed by this harmful chemical:

As a Jew, I have been worried about ICE for a while now. I started noticing scary similarities to the holocaust around the time when the news was covering children being separated from their parents- over a year ago. The parallels have only gotten clearer. People are being raped, gassed, tortured, and killed in there, with little hope of escape or help.

Some scary similarities to the concentration camps if the holocaust-

Gassing people

Separating parents and children

Overcrowding

Poor hygiene

Poor food

Restricting outside access into the centers

Trump administration spreading propaganda against immigrants that is incredibly similar to antisemetic propaganda from nazi Germany

Please, please talk about this. Spread this. Let others know what’s happening to these innocent people. Tell your representatives that you will not allow this to continue. We need to abolish ICE. We need to save these people and find these children before they are killed outright. It is already too late for many of them. People have died. People have been traumatized and scarred for life. But it is in our power to help them, and we must. So please, don’t let this go unnoticed. Don’t be complicit. It doesn’t take long to hit reblog, and it could save lives.

Never Again Action is a wonderful organization dedicated to this cause- consider helping them out!

𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗳𝗳𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝗳𝗹𝘂-