I know, I know, gatekeeping the outdoors, that's supposedly bad, right, but I think if you show up to do a hike and you brought a portable speaker with you to play music while you hike, I think, like hear me out, there should be a gate, and someone at the gate should keep you from doing the hike.
playing music in public should get strong social disapproval
Recorded music, anyway. Live music is different rules. If you want to lug an entire cello up a mountain you can do whatever the hell you want.
Carrying a speaker on a hike to make everyone listen to your bullshit, and simply sitting under a tree and playing a fiddle in the woods, are two activities so different they may as well not exist in the same world.
I think the critical difference is that the bringing of recorded music with you ties the space to Elsewhere, whereas the creation of live music with an instrument you brought both binds you to the space, and drags everyone who hears you play into it as well.
I think you're right.
Yeah I'll accept this into my belief system.
Was just informed by my mom that I do in fact have ADHD and the reason I thought I didn’t was because ever since I was seven whenever I got super energetic my mom would have me go chop wood so now when I’m feeling The ADHD I go chop wood and I thought it was just some sort of routine I started when I was little and wanted to blow off steam
I’d also like to point out that my sister has a really hard time staying present (I can’t remember the term because we’ve always called it Tethered at my house) and whenever she’s feeling Untethered my mom has her knead bread and make syrup because they’re repetitive and easy things to do that ground her
Now that I’m thinking about it- my brother has days where he doesn’t talk and doesn’t eat unless he’s prompted, and on those days my mom sits him down in the fish pond in the backyard and plays Mozart and because he’s so used to that being his wake up he always comes back in after like an hour rambling about random things
Oh yeah and when it rains my mom has a required hour where we all have to go outside and run around and whoever finds the most worms for the garden wins and then we go inside and my mom makes us tea and we watch Studio Ghibli movies
Wait!!! When one of us has a bad day at school we make a fire in the backyard and roast homemade sausages and my mom tells us stories until we laugh and then she tucks is in bed like we’re five again and sings us songs
Uh.... wait guys is my mom a witch raising a bunch of fae kids hold on-
“I didn’t know I had adhd because my mom gave me such an effective coping mechanism” is such a high bar to clear and she soared over it like a space-plane.
alright so during into the spider-verse's introduction to peter b. parker, we see his wedding, and he stomps on the wine glass right? this is a jewish wedding tradition, which makes this version of peter parker jewish (further confirmed in interviews -- however, i believe this is enough by itself). it's a nice nod to the jewish roots of the character.
we get to see a bunch of peter parkers throughout the spider-verse films, and none of them have any explicit religious associations like peter b. parker. except for one!
here we have gwen stacy's peter parker and aunt may, from earth-65, saying grace over a meal. from my understanding, this is generally a christian practice -- in judaism, we prefer to say short prayers before eating, and save the long, in-depth ones for afterwards. so to me, this was a clear example of the character being coded as christian. i was a little disappointed that they didn't make peter parker jewish here too, but since across the spider-verse discusses variants and the differences between instances of the same person between different universes, i interpreted this as a continued commentary on peter parker's ethnicity -- although he was initially jewish-coded and one of his two creators, stan lee, is jewish, this is often erased, especially in more modern interpretations of the character.
and then i remembered that this peter parker also literally turns into the lizard.
and y'know what? good call on that one guys.
Okay I've actually spent a half-day reading literature on this and squirting is fucking fascinating because we literally have no scientific consensus on what it is or why it happens.
We know the mechanics of how it works, mind you. There are actually two distinct phenomenon that lead to what we think of as "squirting" and "gushing." One of them is simply an expression of the Skene's gland, which is what produces vaginal fluid for lubrication during sex.
It's commonly thought to occur during orgasm, and it does, but not exclusively. We've conceptually tied it to the male orgasm, but that's really an erroneous idea. Squirting maybe has to do with intense arousal, but it also might just have to do with contraction of the right muscles at the right time. And we still don't know what makes some people's Skene's gland more prone to it while others are not.
The other, what we sometimes call "gushing," is more biomechanically complex. It's when a buildup of some kind of fluid in the urinary bladder is expelled through the urethra during sex. I say "some kind of fluid" because the science is super unclear on what it actually is.
There are only a small handful of studies with wildly conflicting results, and none of them have been replicated. A couple say it's largely urine. One says its a mix of urine and vaginal fluid. A couple say it's vaginal fluid only, or vaginal fluid with trace amounts of urine that only come from flushing the bladder and urinary tract.
But between small sample sizes, sampling biases toward white women, and biased interpretation (read as: patriarchal medicine), they all have major internal issues that make drawing broad conclusions totally impossible. And while we do know for sure the biomechanics of how it works--that is, where the fluid comes from a where it goes--we don't actually know how it gets there in the first place.
And, like squirting from the Skene's gland, we've conceptually tied it to the male orgasm in a way that isn't actually correct. Some surveys suggest that people who gush only do so during orgasm, but a lot of people report doing it after orgasm or even just during a state of high arousal or vigorous activity. And again, the surveys themselves are fairly biased in a way that many academic surveys are: they skew white, wealthy and western.
I say all of this in part because especially in the kink community there are a lot of misconceptions about it, and a lot of people--especially men--who are absolutely certain of their opinion about vaginas they do not have. I've put this kind of thing elsewhere on the internet and been barraged with comments about how so-called "female ejaculate" is 100% piss and people who don't like watersports but do like squirting/gushing are hypocrites.
And don't get it twisted: if piss play and/or squirting is your thing, go nuts. This isn't about kinkshaming. It's about pointing out one of the particularly misogynistic and pervasive ways kinky men use their kinks to spread misinformation and police the bodies of others.
It's also just another example of how medical science is biased against people with vaginas, especially non-white people with vaginas. Anyone who tells you they know what squirting and gushing are is wrong, because medical science doesn't entirely know. Also, anyone who makes fun of you for being a squirter or a gusher is a fucking loser.'
Some good stuff here⬆️⬆️
This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats
Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was
Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.
Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool
Masai giraffes look cool af
The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!
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Masai Giraffe:
Reticulated Giraffe:
A horse that, if even mildly inconvenienced, violently explodes, leaving only 4 smoking hooves behind. It’s respawns from its hooves whenever you look away.
Emotional extremes horseshoe theory where both ends are a long walk
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No means No, even if it's a big name author with tons of lawyers behind them. When they say "please don't show me fan fic," that's enough, and, if they give more detail about why, you don't get to judge whether you think they're telling the truth or not
To clarify: I saw a post where someone said they didn't believe that Big Name Authors were genuinely afraid of being sued, but that instead they were just snobs who hated fanfic and thought saying "oh no I could get sued" was more polite than sharing their true feelings
Another author shared a detailed, eloquent explanation of what a bad take that was, and all of the points were 100% valid
but
No Means No
and I was just so baffled that the OP was more willing to spin a tale of authors all agreeing to the same lie about not wanting to get sued so they could hide their disdain for their fans, than just respecting the requests not to do it
Authors who hate fanfic are not afraid to say so.
Authors who love fanfic are not afraid to say so.
We are not collectively in the business of lying for free. We get paid for that. So no, we're not running a mass conspiracy to lie to you about our feelings.
Pride month vest project, a patch a day #14: All Pride is Kink to Bigots
In my experience, horror fans are by and large lovely people with a very healthy relationship to their genre of choice, but sometimes they fuck up and say something that in their ears sounds very affirmative of the movie of discussion and to everyone else sounds like the most sinister shit.
I mean the line that I think of first is “A kid dies in this movie.”
Which I suspect to horror fans is shorthand for “The director of this movie subverts horror tropes (wherein kids are usually immune to the monster/slasher/source of terror) to make something that is deliberately shocking. Seeing a child character die in this story is not a happy thing or a good thing, but for a horror story emphasizes that nobody is immune to the source of the terror, which makes the horror more serious and scarier.”
And to everybody else just sounds like “Oh this movie’s great! A kid dies in it!”
I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"
TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE
Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.
Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version
Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.
To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 
For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.
You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them
I don't know what to do with this information, but here.
Tetsuya Nomura Designing Humans: The Most Anime Animes To Ever Anime
Tetsuya Nomura Designing Monsters: He is just... a littol creacher. Just a weird little guy.
Reminder yet again that the creator of so many overdesigned anime boys also created this little fucker: