I write for myself
*checks AO3 every few hours to see if I got any new kudos, comments or subscriptions*
"Just because you're screaming into the void doesn't mean your heart isn't aching for an answer."
I think maybe I missed the birds and the bees talk after all, I don’t remember this part
that’s the Hawks & Hornets discussion, the more advanced version that covers kinks.
You were the caretaker for the mythical beasts of the royal family. Yesterday they decided to replace you with some incompetent noble, before kicking you out of the castle. You then spent the night in a nearby forest. However today you were awakened by the beasts who chose to follow you.
I’m not good with people.
I never have been. I’ve tried, but I’ve never been good with people. I’m always saying the wrong thing, and usually I don’t know what the wrong thing was until a lot later, until I’m thinking about what I said. In the town I grew up in, I was known for being simple.
I don’t think I am, but I understand why they think that- I’m not good at making the words in my head match the words I say.
But I am good with animals. Always have been. Lots of people are, I’m not special, or anything. Mam taught me.
Animals speak their own language, and it’s a lot simpler to figure out. They’re not people, they don’t understand us. A lot of people who are bad at animals expect that. They think an animal should understand them perfectly. They think animals have human impulses, human urges, a human understanding of the world.
And they don’t.
Did you know that peafowl are born with a full set of flight feathers? It only takes them 3-4 days to remove the sheaths and put a little length on them, and then they are capable of flight!
It's very obnoxious!
glad that came through in text
PERFECT BIRD
She continues to be perfect
For reference, it was 6 months between the first photo and the third photo. She was still a juvenile. She'll be a sub adult a year from now. She'll (hopefully, if nothing untoward happens) live 20+ years. She's not even done growing. Peafowl are big.
Anyway here's a middle photo.
Compared to her now in the same chair
This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!
my girlfriend has been talking about this since ancestry kits became A Thing
Lil Nas X did a cover of Jolene and Dolly Parton responded to it on twitter
Image descriptions under the cut
From Dolly’s insta:
I feel like it gets a bit lost, with how readily we meme his songs online, but Lil Nas X really does have a beautiful country singing voice. He might have the best voice for soulful, impassioned, male country vocals since Johnny Cash, and this cover really shows that off.
Saw a video today that looked like more clickbait about the supposed downfall of Critical Role, and I thought it was going to be like, “and in conclusion, that major character death was planned, actually, as a publicity stunt because Bells Hells aren’t as popular as Mighty Nein and Vox Machina were.”
BUT it was actually, “hey, so you can’t measure their current Twitch stream views against the numbers they made before they split the stream between Twitch and YouTube, nor can you measure it against their views during Covid, because duh, Covid. Plus with it being pre recorded, there’s less of a reason to catch the livestream, when you can just wait and watch the VOD. They’re fine, don’t listen to clickbait weirdos.”
I was pleasantly surprised.
most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it
He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system
meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes
they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode
it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.
the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down
Brennan Lee Mulligan is enrichment for Sam Reich
it's a very efficient system
Kind of a dog heaven is squirrel hell situation
finally a video you can unmute
For the first time in Saint Louis Zoo history, a cheetah has given birth to 8 cheetah cubs .
Awww look at their faces! I want to cuddle them!!
But I wont.
[…] When a person fails to begin a project that they care about, it’s typically due to either a) anxiety about their attempts not being “good enough” or b) confusion about what the first steps of the task are. Not laziness. In fact, procrastination is more likely when the task is meaningful and the individual cares about doing it well.
I’ve been yelling this for years
Hi yall, author of the piece here. Medium instituted a pay wall so here is a link to access it for free:
there's a massive cadre of people on here who can best be described by the phrase "be gay do war crimes"
this is not intended to be a funny quirky joke meme phrase it's a description of american or otherwise western gays with deeply imperialist and racist tendencies, you do not want to say you're this person
Genuinely can you shut the fuck up. do you hear yourself rn
@clarissa39 are you sure you kicked the racism and imperialism? Cause it sure doesn't fucking seem like it
Yeah you're right, it's an ongoing process to correct my attitudes and it's going to take a lot of time and effort but is very much the right thing to do. What I mean here is what I have done and been complicit in in the past doesn't go away because I'm getting better and trying to correct my past errors.
Also because I was involved in the YPG in Syria as an irregular, so an illegal combatant...you know, a war criminal
Like very literally this is why I joke about it.
you could've led with that last part and saved everyone a lot of trouble but it is admittedly very funny that you didn't
the child model they got to pose with this Wild Republic tarantula plush is having SUCH a great time. I hope they let him keep it.
I feel uneasy
these pictures are so loose and lacking in detail that it’s making my brain force images onto them that aren’t actually there
is that wrinkly kong
ok these are all quite certainly this exact picture of wrinkly kong. why
Are you an advocate for censorship?
is this because i said not to use the r slur
this? is this what you're referring to? yeah i think calling other people slurs is bad
reminder that the people this slur refers to, people with intellectual disabilities, are still campaigning to REDUCE/end its usage, not "reclaim" it. the r word used to be a medical diagnosis--it was never a 'nice' term and it was always used for ableist, and generally eugenicist, ends--and it is still included in several state laws, so self advocates with intellectual disabilities have been passing laws around the country to get this word out of laws. under no circumstance does it make sense to "reclaim" this term, especially if you are not affected by the ableism that people with intellectual disabilities face.
[Image description: Two Tweets by @ feIidaen that say: the reemergence of the r slur in common internet lexicon drives me up the fucking wall / everyone got a little to excited about reclaiming fruit and now it’s seen as perfectly acceptable to use derogatory terms with absolutely atrocious history as insults against other people even in the most progressive spaces. stop doing that. End description]
another required reminder for people, because bigots love to forget. Reclaiming is slur does not mean you get to use it as a slur. If you are using it as an insult, you're not reclaiming it, you are literally just calling people slurs.
(What we have in mind for now are black dragons, with low density silver glitter, silver enamel, so that the pride flag pops)
Some people have asked me if I can publish my mapmaking tools. So I developed a software. 🙂
Here is the result:
Intriguing!
