nature documentaries should get as popular as other mainstream tv shows like game of thrones or w/e people should love them imagine coming online and people are like yoooo did u see what waxy monkey tree frog did on last nights episode

this is my enclosure

sprouting

sprouted

can i offer anyone some boobies in these trying times?

So I went to the Josh Fight

a summary:

- Two Josh Swains were in attendance. OG Josh, hailing from Arizona

- And Nebraska's own Josh Swain, from Omaha.

(feat. An Audio Engineer doing THE MOST for that sound quality)

-All the local news stations were there

- The majority of attendees were from out of state

- The two Josh Swains battled for supremacy by Rock Paper Scissors duel.

- The victor? Josh Swain, from Arizona. A crushing defeat for Josh Swain, who despite having none of Josh Swain's newfound Twitter Clout, DID have the home team advantage, as well as a Great Look.

- Following the Josh Swain Duel and coronation of the One True Josh Swain, there was an All-Josh pool noodle battle royale

- A brief list of notable Josh Variants I saw in this battle:

The rules were simple. Enter the ring and fight honorably (no headshots, no hits below the belt.) If you are hit with a pool noodle, you are dead, having fallen in glorious battle. The last Josh standing would be the winner.

The battle lasted a little over sixty seconds in total. The final victor was....

LITTLE JOSH, THE SMALLEST COMBATANT.

The crowd was going wild. The chanting for Little Josh was deafening. Truly there could have been no better outcome.

pool noodle combat was then opened to the general public, for fun rather than glory.

As for Josh Prime, he was like a very cool dude! As of last reporting, he raised $6600 dollars for the Children's Hospital and a truckload of nonperishables for the local food bank alongside the other Josh Fight attendees! He offered masks to any maskless people he met, and did his best to keep things as safe and socially distanced as he could, despite the ungodly amount of people who showed up to this random fucking field outside of Lincoln, Nebraska.

(Also for the Nebraskans: Yes he tried a Runza, and yes he says he enjoyed it.)

So anyway. Shoutout to the one and only Josh Swain.

Medication stigma absolutely was and is a real and harmful thing. “Take your meds!” is such a ubiquitous message because of the ableist messages so many people have internalized about how they “shouldn’t need” medication, that they just have to be Strong Enough or do the right thing to overcome their mental health issues. And medication genuinely does create a significant reduction in the suffering of many people.

More and more people do not realize this, and recently “anti-capitalist” people are writing articles and blogs about how psychiatry is fundamentally capitalist and how doctors are just throwing prozac at people left and right to stop them from realizing that their problems have systemic origins, and they are genuinely reading messages in the mental health community about medication and mental illness as “chemical imbalance” as capitalist bootlicking.

If you don’t know the context, I suppose “it’s a chemical imbalance in your brain!” must seem like total ignorance of how society harms people and causes much of the suffering that leads to mental illness.

But these ideas in the mental health community are so pervasive partly because even just 10-15 years ago, taking medication for mental health problems was overwhelmingly seen as “weakness” and needing medication was a character problem. It comes from the overwhelmingly prevalent ableist idea that needing “help” of any kind is bad, and that the only acceptable disabled or sick people are those who Overcome through sheer willpower and gumption or gain some sort of special gift. That’s the context people are missing.

That’s the problem. That’s what you need to be attacking. Not the people themselves who are trying to survive. That’s how capitalism harms and devalues people.

Like, I’ve had multiple close friends who have suffered from SEVERE anxiety whose parents straight up refused to get them any kind of medication because they “didn’t believe in it.” Fight for a world where everyone has healthcare and minors have a say over their own health care instead of bitching about how much you think people “need” mental health care.

Imagining a post-capitalist ideal world as one where people largely don’t need medication is ableist. Why? Because focusing on minimizing the accommodations people will need instead of meeting their needs is ableist. It’s discomfort with the idea of genuinely differing needs and abilities, with the idea of people that can’t be Fixed by putting them in the environment they’re “supposed to” be in.

An ideal society is not one where people don’t need “help.” An ideal society is one where people are helped.

I do think some (some, not all) anti-capitalists are very uncomfortable with the basic fact that there is no society that will naturally accommodate everyone. People have bought into this rosy idea of neurodivergence in particular where ADHD and autism are “adaptive” and make us more successful in The Wild where we are Supposed To live. First of all, that’s bullshit. There is no “state of nature,” and evolution doesn’t work that way.

Second, some illnesses, disabilities and traits are not adaptive. Period. Neurodivergence may not have helped early man to survive. It may have been a liability for us in The Wild. We still have value. That is the POINT.

Also, frankly, even if no one would need Prozac without capitalism, something that makes people suffer less is still an okay and good thing. If you have a problem understanding this, why do you even care about creating a better world?

newsflash: you can be anti-capitalist, anti-psychiatry, and still be pro-medication. in fact you should be.

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"it's that fuckin chocolate guy again!!" I say, already knowing I'm gonna reblog

My Godddd

W I T C H C R A F T

this man wants to see me dismembered:

We released a raven once who immediately went "What? The free rood and warm room are finished? Oooh Nooooo, My Wing Is Broken Again, Thank God You People Were Here To Help!" and walked right back into the crate.

“Oh please please designate me unreleasable and let me be an ambassador animal! I will only cuss and bite people... sometimes.”

Bonus:

The way this makes me wanna cry...

Genuinely, I beat myself up for having a non productive day. We take so much for granted.

don’t choke on the boot !

due to increased productivity, they produced the same amount of work in 25 hours as the normal 40 hours week, but capitalists still complain because they weren’t “passionate” enough anymore

“passion for the work” = enslavement of mind, body, & soul. anything less than total enslavement will never be enough for them.

CHOKE ON THE BOOT

vampire stake to the heart wont work if your tits are big enough

Yeah, you just catch it

Nah nah nah, deflects it. Stake? Just bounces right off. Done. Back to doing hot girl shit.

Then I just use a spear instead.

you are trying so hard to kill a vampire with big bazongas and for what. why would you do that to the ecosystem

things are going to be difficult. But you

are going to be difficulter

thats the spirit!!!!! be a problem to your problems!!!!!!!!! mark your territory! !!!!!!!

So I found the letter that the Animorphs author and trans ally K. A. Applegate wrote after the series ended and I’m FLOORED

I mean

You want something even crazier? Animorphs ended in May 2001.  She didn’t know what was coming, but damn if she didn’t give her readers a much needed dose of reality about the horrors of war right before we were really going to need it.

If you enjoy easily-digestible sci fi, and can get your hands on the animorphs books, I really recommend it. They’re fucking great and thoughtful in a lot of ways you might not have picked up on as a kid. I’ve read the first dozen or so books over the last couple of years and they’ve literally changed the way I look at the world.

Not to butt in since the series came along when I was in high school and thus a bit after my time, but I am a librarian and as such I am ALL ABOUT matching people to the books they need in whatever format is available.. You can download the entire series. It’s free.

Applegate’s statement on the piracy subject is quoted from an AMA here for those that have moral issues with it. for those that don’t want to click, she says: “We do not take them down. Or ask for them to be taken down. I think once the books are available to buy—paper or e—it would be nice if people who could afford it would buy. (our kids have very expensive tastes. You know: food and whatnot.) But for years they’ve been unavailable except by ‘pirated’ means. These men and women kept the series alive. They kept the books available. So no, we did NOT take these books down.”

Go forth, and read.

Oh hey. The Animorphs books just keep getting more and more relevant to our present circumstances:

Why Animorphs is Frighteningly Relevant in Contemporary Trumpian America 

I don't think some people understand that true joy in any relationship (romantic or whatever the fuck I have going on) is when you say or share a thing that makes your partner sigh and then stare off in the middle distance as they regret ever having met you

And I can hear some of you saying that's some heterosexual nonsense but NO

NO

This is UNIVERSAL

And it's not genuine hate or regret at like being with you. They still love you and shit it's just you said or sent them something SO CURSED that they just are filled with Regret

And then you cackle like the horrible little gremlin you are and scuttle off to find more things so you can respond to their eventual retaliation

And that is what love is

“I love you” is all nice and good, but nothing compares to “I love you, but shut the fuck up”

but thats just my onion

Man, those moments before I realised this was about Fullmetal Alchemist and not the Lion King.

Got all the way to “three dimensional character” before realizing this was not a body positivity post

your dad has a certain.. gnc quoi

I like these but the name makes me feel like I’m about to get yelled at

what the fuck is happening with your keyboard bro

shout out to mentally ill guys. to bipolar guys, to guys with psychosis, on the schizoaffective spectrum, who dissociate, who have did or ddnos, who have paranoia or hallucinations. you are not evil, or scary, or wrong and you are deserving of love