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Beck, 21, she/her. College student and disaster human. Sometimes I post my own thoughts but most of the time I’m just pressing the reblog button 20x every time I log on.

He tried to fake sleep and laughed when she caught him

Things I love about this:

  • In my bebbeh experience, i’ve noticed that even though bebbehs can’t speak, they understand a TON of words.
  • Although he’s only a few months old, he already understands the concept of Deception.
  • He’s also formed a sense of humor. In his own limited way, this bebbeh has just told his first joke.

Also while we’re here I want everyone to appreciate that This

This wild, wonderful, beautifully animated and heartfelt queer story started here

Here, on tumblr, by an art student who was wrestling with his identity, mental health, and religious trauma

Tell your stories, kids, you never know how many people will thank you for it

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Pizza VS Flower with bee on it VS Bisexuality VS Wind turbine

For anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, he used a list of things from Wikidata, pared it down to about 8000 things that most people would have heard of, and made a website where people voted for the best option in randomly selected pairs of things.

Pizza was voted the 9th best thing, making it the best food. Bees weren't in the top 10 best things, but they won 77% of matchups to be selected as the best creature, followed by emperor penguins and hedgehogs. Bisexuality didn't place in the top 10 either, but it won 73% of matchups compared to heterosexuality winning only 45%. (Orgasms were the highest ranked sexual thing, and were miraculously ranked at number 69.) I think the windmill is supposed to stand for electricity, which was the second place winner. And the winner of "best thing" was sleep.

i think if we’re going to have conversations about consent we should talk about how consenting to something doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be a good experience, and having a bad experience doesn’t necessarily mean someone violated your consent. this can apply to a lot of situations but the two i’m thinking of right now are sex and transition.

you’re getting it on with someone. you enthusiastically consent to having sex with them. afterward, you feel a little weird about it. maybe even distressed. maybe they did something you didn’t enjoy and in the moment you just didn’t say anything. maybe you just realized after the fact that you were not in a good headspace for sex and now your mental health is declining. that doesn’t inherently mean the person you had sex with violated your consent. sometimes it just means you need to take a break from sex or work on communicating your needs or boundaries better during sex.

and with transition, i feel like this is something that gets consistently overlooked but like. there will never be zero detransitioners. there will always be people who decide that actually transition wasn’t right for them. they could have had the best most thorough doctors in the world who did everything by the book and got full informed consent at every step. and some people are still going to decide they don’t like the changes and wish they hadn’t transitioned. that doesn’t mean that the doctors violated their consent, and that doesn’t mean that transition shouldn’t be available to anyone. it just means that we need to have more resources available for folks who detransition.

regret does not automatically mean someone did something wrong. regret is simply one possible result of having bodily autonomy, and i think we need to get more comfortable with that.

Hello person with ADHD, you will have to sit through a 5-hour wildlife documentary about fish, if you can’t keep your eyes on the screen and try to entertain yourself with something else, you will be thrown into a piranha tank. good luck

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jokes on you I fuckin love wildlife documentaries about fish. God I hope there’s an arowana or perhaps carp

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infact from my vast experience watching wildlife documentaries about fish I can tell you that piranhas are mostly scavengers and that there is not a single recorded case of a piranha frenzy killing anyone. Give me these fish

I hope you find peace of mind when making decisions, knowing that you did what you could. I hope you rest tonight. I hope you wake up with less pain tomorrow, with less fatigue. I hope you feel loved and that something comforting happens to you soon. I hope you know that even if you can't do everything like you wished you could, you still can do some things to soothe your own pain, to achieve some of your dreams, to recover a little. Your efforts should be rewarded, and if the world fails to recognize your worth, please don't forget to recognize it for yourself, to be grateful that you are still trying, still alive, still managing. Every little thing you do matters because you are still here, and that in itself is a victory. I hope you feel calm enough tonight to take a long nap and get plenty of rest, confident that you did what you had to so you could survive the day. Now, please, allow yourself to rest. You don't have to earn it, you just deserve it. Thank you for making it through today, celebrate it by letting yourself rest.

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