Here’s the new 24 hour comic I drew this year! This one is called THE KING’S FOREST. cw: blood, violence
theres one right answer and then one REALLY wrong answer :)
Anonymous asked:
soxy i'm sorry but what the fuck does "crab rangoon is a food thats an animal" supposed to mean
i bet u feel so stupid rn. theyre grazing
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congrats to jessie and james, the co-winners of the pokemon human character tournament!!!
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
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And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
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Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
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Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.
We were raised on these stories of fighting back against oppression, but then the people who wrote them or read them to us act shocked we turned out ready to fight facism even while being anti-social.
There are many reasons why women’s history is so often elided or erased in our education. But one of those reasons is that so MANY of the women who made history, did so for reasons that challenged existing structures of power…and usually in accessible, related ways that modern day institutions feared students learning from.
ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit's back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.
you understand
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humanizations of websites have returned. nature is healing, capitalism is the virus
YES NATURE IS HEALING, MEMES AND ART IS FUTURE FUCK CAPITALISM
Which is to say, I'm having too much fun right now :D Reddit refugees, please feel like home, reblog and comment on stuff, be unhinged, support the weirdly creative and positive community and don't make a mess in the house!
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Y'know, some people do have a strong crying response to stress, and they might cry (even against their own will) when faced with an upsetting situation and that doesnt mean they are “gaslighting” or “manipulating” you.
There are people who use crying as a manipulation tactic? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean that every person that cries during a heated argument is trying to get under your skin. They have their own emotions and issues, and frankly, not everything other people do is a personal attack on you.
People who use crying as a manipulation tactic are actually counting on you coddling them so they can redirect or avoid the conversation, meanwhile people who can’t control that they cry when they’re upset often struggle to be taken seriously because of their tears and find the coddling frustrating.
In either case, the best response is to ask if they need a moment to collect themself. If they say yes, agree to a time when you will continue the conversation and hold them to it. If they say no, continue on with the conversation exactly as if they were not crying.
Stg many conversations would be much easier if people would LISTEN when I say “yes I know I’m crying, please ignore it.”
I’m so god damn tired of not just leftists, but even left-leaning people holding absolutely unrealistic, all-but-impossible positions which have no acknowledgement of any nuance whatsoever and then calling anyone who tries to give a dose of reality a shill or a bootlicker. Honestly, it’s not even enlightened to hold some of these positions because you just reveal yourself to have no grasp of incredibly complex issues. If this sounds vague, it’s because it can apply to how people online react to many different issues.
It’s always like, “X system is evil and it shouldn’t exist!”
Ok but it does. Do you have any suggestions for what people are supposed to do right here, right now? It’s really easy to sit back and make internet posts about how a system shouldn’t exist but it’s harder to do just about anything else.
God. This. Fuck. Like…leftists/left-leaning people who spout this shit exhaust me because like, I work in social services? And like…I’m on the ground in the system as it is? I work in homeless services? I worked in mental health? And, uh, okay? You can absolutely say the system as it is is broken and shouldnt exist and I will fucking agree with you but it’s never followed up with “but the system is flawed but here’s some practical things to do right now” and when ever practical things are proposed - things like “maybe change this one thing - like make more mental health services available for free? maybe change that one thing - make more ebt available?” its always jumping onto “this feeds into the oppressive system! this is perpetuation of poverty! mental health systems as they exist are colonizers!” and I’m just like…okay Friere fucking get out there in your community and practice some true fucking generosity because the false charity you’re criticizing isn’t going to dismantle itself. Fuck.
Besides, “Revolution” “Trash the system” rarely if ever brings lasting change … Usully it brings a period of instability and unrest where things are even worse and then everyone goes back to the way things where becasue no one has a better idea …
Speaking of better ideas, may I introduce you to Housing First
Housing First is a policy that offers permanent housing as quickly as possible to homeless people, and other supportive services afterward. Begun in 1988 to address the needs of homeless families with children in Los Angeles, California, Housing First was popularized in the following decades and became government policy in the United States and various other countries.
Housing First is an alternative to a system of emergency shelter/transitional housing progressions. Rather than moving homeless individuals through different “levels” of housing, whereby each level moves them closer to “independent housing” (for example: from the streets to a public shelter, and from a public shelter to a transitional housing program, and from there to their own apartment in the community), Housing First moves the homeless individual or household immediately from the streets or homeless shelters into their own accommodation.
Housing First approaches are based on the concept that a homeless individual or household’s first and primary need is to obtain stable housing, and that other issues that may affect the household can and should be addressed once housing is obtained. In contrast, many other programs operate from a model of “housing readiness” — that is, that an individual or household must address other issues that may have led to the episode of homelessness prior to entering housing.
I havent commented on most of these but - again - social worker. And literally no one who actually works with the homeless and knows it exists believes that any system but Housing First is going to make any fucking impact. I’m posting this from my last ever shift at a homeless shelter that did its best to work by the Housing First model. And it WORKS. Okay? I’ve seen it work. I’ve been at a non-congregate shelter for the whole fucking pandemic and instead of putting people in bunkbeds in an open room, we gave them hotel rooms with doors that lock and their own showers and tv and 3 meals a day. And the number of people I watched - in person, first hand - get employed, ease up on their substance use, find permanent housing? MASSIVE. More than I’ve ever seen in any other social services site I’ve worked. And that was JUST giving people a room of their own to go and be safe for the night and food that was THEIRS. People’s entire appearances changed when they knew - KNEW - they’d be safe for the night, when they had an address they could get their mail delivered to, when they could access wifi on their phones instead of using what little pay-as-you-go data they had. But the amount of fights I personally had with clients railing against curfew rules, mask protocol, social distancing, and drug policies? Tremendous. Some of them written, some physical, mostly verbal and often so loud and so angry - which the clients have every right to be cuz the situation does suck for them. BUT. To some degree it always boiled back down to that “why isn’t this perfect NOW?” element - although again, living in the situation gives them a lot more excuse to ask those questions and raise those complaints than anyone on the outside looking in. Doesn’t change the fact that the reason’s the same.
It’s not perfect or even better than what we are doing NOW because this is what we were allowed to fucking do. “This” is what we were ABLE to accomplish with the money and staff and medical emergency and policy available. And people are gonna throw “institution” at it, and be right, but we also got literal hundreds of people into housing and gave them a safe place to be while we did so. Why isn’t that progress good enough for RIGHT NOW some leftists? I’m not saying stop pushing. Never ever ever EVER stop pushing. Utah utilizes Housing First and - fucking shocker - has the lost homelessness rate of any state in the union. Finland is the only country that is utilizing Housing First on a national scale and - guess what - it’s also the only country where Homelessness is falling. In the last 20 years they’ve cut the number of people dealing with homelessnes IN HALF. Probably because Housing First reports a 80% retention rate - meaning only 20% of people who use the Housing First model become homeless again. Basically if 10 people are homeless and all of them are given Housing First apartments? Only 2 of them become homeless again. Substance use and mental health issues are reduced by FOURTY FUCKING PERCENT. My point here is that there are, actually, practical things that work and I know because I HAVE LITERALLY SEEN THEM WORK. Housing First? Works. Needle exchanges? Work. Food pantries? Work. Municipal community resource building of arts and recreation? Work. Restorative and pretrial-intervention justice systems? Work. THEY ALL FUCKING WORK. LESS PEOPLE SUFFER WHEN THESE ARE AVAILABLE. And if we leftists could stop - for a fucking second - dreaming glorious dreams of revolution and start fighting even half as hard for the in-system solutions that PRODUCE RESULTS NOW then maybe, just maybe, we could have enough people with their feet underneath them to actually, you know, make some of those radical fucking changes we want so badly. Anyway yeah - tonights my last night at this position and after a pandemic year in social(homeless specific) service? I needed to go off on this topicthread - just one last time.
But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it.
But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables.
When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades.
Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them.
The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.
Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.
Like, last year I watched no fewer than twenty-nine monarch caterpillars grow up on my milkweed and fly away as butterflies. I watched swallowtails and moths grow. There are hummingbirds fighting over flowers now.
I did that. Me. You can do the same.
Is this post about making a garden or beating depression
As someone with clinically diagnosed anxiety and depression;
Yes.
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i have so many of these. this isnt even a quarter of them
How do you undo if you accidentally click “missing community label” on something?
This app UI is Not Good >:|
Learning about plants has made my biopunk novel much more complicated like damn now I have to think about all the species and stuff
Generically vague settings are ruined for me forever. do y'all have any idea how specific the plant life in an area gets???
*Stares at the plants in novel set in fictional place with suspicion and criticism*
actually, i wanna talk about nature tropes in fantasy/otherwise "speculative" media because fiction has these stock tropes about nature that are so universal throughout everything from books to video games, and it turns out that they have nothing to do with reality
For starters, did y'all know that (with the exception of one species) cacti are ONLY native to the Americas, and deserts on all other continents have NO CACTI?
Does that mean that Africa, in similar situations, mostly has spiky shrubs (without those water-consuming green things called leaves) and yams-like storage roots?
Or are there further concepts?
What does Australia do?
I know about succulents, and that they're also fairly common in the Alps (I don't know if they're native there, but the local name, "Hauswurz" - literally "house root" or "home root" - indicates as much).
Which aren't deserts in the narrower sense, but also not exactly known for rich flora, due to the altitude, low amount of topsoil, and cold.
Have you reached a level that permits you to see patterns that shape plant life in an area? It sounds a bit like you're in an area of frequent enlightenment...
Well the thing about plants is that they are much, MUCH weirder than animals are about radically altering and reshuffling their basic body forms and plans over the course of evolution, even within the same genus.
If you saw this plant, what would you assume its closest relatives are?
If you answered "violets," good job! This is Viola atropurpurea, from the same genus as your common backyard violets.
This is weird. Can we talk about how weird this is? This is like if tigers and lions shared the genus Panthera with some kind of tiny aquatic salamander-like thing.
Cacti are a specific plant family. Succulent plants have convergently evolved approximately a billion times and come from (almost) every corner of the plant family tree. The universality of cacti as the iconic Desert Plant has much to do with the average person not knowing the great variety of desert adapted plants, and mentally categorizing unrelated succulent plants as cacti because "cactus" is the closest word they have.
Desert plants are weird y'all. A ton of them look like weird mushroom- or barrel-like bulges and tubes. Like, just look at this thing.
This is called "Sand Food" and it's edible
This is Yareta and there are no photos of it that are like "Yeah that is a normal, real thing." (It's not moss! It's a flowering plant!)
desert plants are literally so cool you guys
i haven't done much research, but there's this plant (Welwitschia Mirabilis) that looks like this, consists of two leaves that split over time (YES, it is TWO leaves), has survived millions of years in the DESERT, and most impressivly, is the only plant left in it's entire genus.
oh, and did i mention it probably emerged during the mezozoic? at minimum 66 millions years ago?
the more i research the more i love this thing, it's an amazing desert plant and is super underated
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ibis decided to break my file for 15 hours of work without the possibility of recovery, I'm in seventh heaven
theres a house in my attic (part two)