i recently found out the funniest thing about big horses recently which is that for centuries humans have sworn that the feathering on big horse’s legs has been bred in there for a reason, and the reason given is usually something to do with how it helps keep the joints warm and safe when the big horse is doing hauling work in fields.

the thing is: it doesn’t appreciably do that, because the feathers wick up water and mud, which cancels out any insulation advantage they might hypothetically confer, and also it wasn’t even put there on purpose.

the Leg Get More Hair gene is just linked to the Bones Get More Big gene. when you breed any lineage of horses to have bigger bones–not just taller, but chunkier–the leg hair just happens anyway. so every single breed of draft horse has feathered legs, and even carriage horses like friesians get feathers once they hit a certain threshold of lorge.

when you supersize your horse, mother nature throws in a free pair of booties. how cool is that?

Ahhh, what a great example of linked traits! And also shows why evolution gets so complicated

You know, when I see fictional characters who repress all their emotions, they're usually aloof and very blunt about keeping people at a distance, sometimes to an edgy degree—but what I don't see nearly enough are the emotionally repressed characters who are just…mellow.

Think about it. In real life, the person that's bottling up all their emotions is not the one that's brooding in the corner and snaps at you for trying to befriend them. More often than not, it's that friendly person in your circle who makes easy conversation with you, laughs with you, and listens and gives advice whenever you're upset. But you never see them upset, in fact they seem to have endless patience for you and everything around them—and so you call them their friend, you trust them. And only after months of telling them all your secrets do you realize…

…they've never actually told you anything about themselves.

Adding onto this: characters who are so deeply repressed that they don't even realize they're not fine, or at the very least not supposed to be fine. Characters who do tell you about a situation they're in that should be bad, but instantly laugh it off saying they can handle it (spoiler: they can, in fact, not handle it). Characters who laugh with you and listen to all your woes and much later you learn that they were actually going through something at least equally bad at the time, but they wave it off and don't want to speak of it. Characters whose main coping mechanism seems to be "don't think about it" on endless loop.

Basically, the fictional embodiment of the "this is fine" dog.

And we all freaked the fuck out when this happened

This is MegaRod vibes

AHSHDHHEDHJAJD HOW DID THIS POST BREACH CONTAINMENT WITH LESS THAN 100 NOTES???

Haters be like

“It’s totally possible to make a path that goes through every door exactly once”

Idk if I did it right

sorry!

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.

im just fucking with you i’m pretty sure this has no right answer

i concocted a solution with a 100% mortality rate

Stop being so incredibly funny on my impossible puzzle post

You can switch the tracks so the trolley will kill one person, or you can allow it to attempt the fruitless crusade of running over each person in the maze only once.

all in a days work! *passes out*

My indecisive butt, walking in and being faced with having to make a decision, immediately leaving

oOoOoooo I’m a ghost!

Fire

dude my house

What I love about tumblr is when we see a logic problem meant to be frustrating and/or unsolvable, we almost reflexively try to destroy it.

This website’s userbase is a chimp chewing through a Chinese finger trap

As someone that has grown up surrounded by beaches and done surf life saving, I know how the sea works. Lots of people dont. Every summer multiple tourists die here because they don’t respect the sea, if you’re going to the coast, here’s a thing I saw on Facebook.

wow.

reblogging for all of us that grew up in land locked states, then visit the ocean and are used to just plunging into a lake.

These are not unique to the sea btw. Rip tides are also a danger in other large bodies of water, like the Great Lakes

In honor of Disability Pride Month and neat-o disabled creator @capricorn-0mnikorn

We are so lucky to have such a meaningful and inclusive flag to celebrate our pride.

Thanks for the mention! And this is a great break-down/explanation.

Aromantic Ache

you can try to rationalize away all the aro ache and guilt over rejecting someone or something you do not want, but it will still be there because it's been conditioned into us to be there. we've been told we're not normal– and that's fine, if they are their own idea of normal, id rather not be that– but of course that can't get rid of the instinctual wish to disappear and crawl into a hole whenever they look at you with that fucking face of sorrow, even if you know it's not your fault

aro life is a guilt trip, and amatonormativity is the god damn plane we were shoved into, flying across the ocean with no place to land

it's incredibly hard to get rid of that mentality. wishing you could change yourself only feels more disgusting and apologizing for your own identity only fuels your self hatred

I am comfortable with being hated by others, but never by my own mind. I won't cater anymore to amatonormativity, I'm doing my best to get rid of the guilt.

Be careful princess  🌸

I just love that multiple people not only though “the black one is a princess and those are her bodyguards” but also came to the conclusion “they’re also, obviously, samurai.”

Miles “Who’s Morales?” Morales

Glad we’re in agreement

"It's ok to disappoint people." has got to be MOST powerful, life changing advice I have ever heard.

Let it feel bad.

it becomes better with practice. we're supposed to build tolerance for discomfort.

The first time you play with fire you burn your hand... but eventually you can melt rocks forge iron and arm yourself with a sword.

I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.

dude.

$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.

This is huge. Sharing for my US friendos.

Hospitals like to hide these policies under a lot of successive links in obscure places, so if you don't see anything right away, keep looking! Get friends to help! Make it a scavenger hunt. A game where you're assassins sent to slit capitalism's throat

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

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Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

me: [accidentally makes a high pitched squeal noise] awh man that was so feminine

the anti dysphoria angel that lives inside my ceiling: NOTHING ONE DOES IS INHERENTLY FEMININE OR MASCULINE UNLESS YOU DECIDE THAT IT IS SO. BY GENDERING MINISCULE AND ULTIMATELY UNIMPORTANT TRAITS YOU ARE CAUSING YOURSELF UNJUST SUFFERING. IT WILL BE ALRIGHT. I LOVE YOU

me: [tearfully]o okokokkoaaokaoakay

One thing that Firefox can’t do is allow me to access my telehealth therapy appointments. Three different platforms now have rejected my use of Firefox. I use Safari instead bc that’s what works and at least it isn’t chrome, but for folks who rightfully use Firefox, be aware that many, if not all, telehealth platforms will not work on Firefox (something about the encryption/security not being up to their standard, I believe; if there are hacks that Firefox gurus know to bypass this, please share with the class?).

Any reason the developers of those sites give that is not 'we're too lazy to check compatibility so we're blocking Firefox' is false.

Wear a fake mustache and pretend to be Chrome.

happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only

Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal

Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only

aint it crazy how many people realize they're queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????

I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone's lives improves.

Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger

[ Image Description: A series of 5 screenshots from Reddit r/lgbt u/CountryMamaLynn

First Screenshot

Title: My son came out NEED ADVICE

"If this post seems a little messy its because I'm typing this out quick.

Yall This is a new account I made just now because i need to vent and I'm not sure where else to post this and my family follow my real account.

My son 15 just came out yesterday as gay to my husband and my husband kicked him out well I was at work! I got a painiced phone call from my baby telling me everything and let me tell yall I was pissed I left work early and drove over to my house where I saw my baby boy sitting on the curb with his clothes and shit all across the damn lawn and a screaming as if now soon to be ex husband who is not the man I thought I married!!! I gave that bastard a piece of my mind and told him that if he cant be a man and support his son then he can kiss my ass and find someone else to pay his bills. I shoved my boys stuff in the back of my truck and went to hotel that I'm in right now cause my parents cant pick us up till Monday so we can stay with them. I don't know much about this whole gay this so what can I do to make my kid fell excepted???

EDIT I took y'alls advice I pay for the house so that mother fucker will be out in a few days and my son will be back in his home. I bought my son a bunch of pride stuff! Apparently hes had a boyfriend for around 7 months now and I'm getting to meet him over facetime tomorrow and I'm so excited!!!! I'm doing everything I can to make him feel loved. Out of everything that's happened the most heart breaking thing was my son saying 'I'm sorry I'm crying mom I just need to be strong' I told him that he doesn't need to be strong he needs to be loved and that I'll do anything I can to make him feel that way. God this is the hardest thing in my life"

Second Screenshot

Title: Meeting my baby boys bf tomorrow!!!!!!

"I'm sooo excited y'all, were meeting over facetime and I'm so happy I'm knitting my son a rainbow blanket and aaaaaa its turning out perfect!!!"

Third Screenshot

Title: (smiley face emoji) get fucked mark

The meme of the blonde woman screaming and pointing her finger next to the picture of a white cat sitting at a dinner table. The meme is edited so that the cat is wearing a rainbow hat and rainbow cap.

Caption under the screaming blonde woman: "My ex husband trying to kick out my son for being gay"

Caption under cat: "My son and I kicking him out cause I own the house"

Fourth Screenshot

Title: Update yall Mark's reaction (read the previous posts if you're confused)

"(Incase you dont know this is the after math of me kicking out my now ex husband after he tried to kick out my baby boy for being gay while I was at work."

I call him and very 'Kindly reminded' him who owns the house and pays the bills and he was screaming about how 'You need me woman, you cant just kick me out whore' and asked to meet in person. So I did but I don't trust him so I brought my adorable camo baseball bat just in case things went south so we met up in front of the house and he was hooting and hollering about how 'I was already screwing a different woman so I dont need you!' And obviously this upset me but then I remembered that I dont have to put up with this crap so I told him it's time to haul ass before i make him and he started crying like a baby begging me to let him stay and saying 'youll never find another man like me' and I told him that is the whole point of my leaving him. So he finally left after hours crying like a bitch and now my son and I have lots of extra space!"

Fifth Screenshot

Title: HAY Y'ALL Mama Lynn update

"I was talking to my son who if you haven't seen my other posts came out recently, and found out I might not just be a straight ally!

I assumed all straight ladys were also just as attracted to other ladys as they were men and I never really thought about it till now but turns out I might be bi??? Is that the right word?? Thanks for all the love n support!!"

Additional Description of meme under the original post of screenshots:

Meme of a well dressed woman holding a cupcake in a fancy parlor room with the caption: "Good for her"

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Happy Pride everyone, but especially to Mama Lynn and her baby boy!

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i think more characters should have canes actually. theyre cool. theyre sexy. they can have swords in them. they come in any color u want.

alright I’m rbing to add onto this bc it’s getting way more attention than I ever expected and people seem to be more likely to check the rbs than the replies. plus I want people to be able to rb this version.

the point of this post is not swords. it is not how well someone can fight w a cane. the point is I want to see more disabled representation and I want to see characters who use canes and I want them to use them correctly and I want them to be just as fleshed out and interesting as their abled counterparts.

my cane user friend and I were talking abt sword canes just before I made the post so I tossed it in. I collect blades—knives, daggers, swords—and I’m also a disabled cane user who collects fancy canes. so I think combining the two is cool. I don’t even think they’d be good for self defense, I just think they’re a fun thing to show off to friends!

but this post has always, first and foremost, been abt mobility aids. this is abt being a young cane user who doesn’t see rep. I’d love to see highschool dramas where a character uses a cane but it’s not used to make u pity them, it’s just a regular part of their life. I wanna see fantasy cane users where the animal head handle speaks. I wanna see sci-fi cane users and cane users in romances and cane users in main roles.

I know abt canne de combat and bartitsu and the other fighting styles u can use a cane for. that’s never been what this post is abt. I just want to see myself in media.

everyone who rbs this version gets a kiss on the forehead

everyone who rbs any version that makes my post entirely abt weapons while ignoring the mobility aid part owes me a kofi bc ik for sure there’s enough of yall for me to afford crutches