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not gonna lie, that scene where Ambrosius yells about how he is going mad and then it turns out it was just his inner dialog and pretends to be fine slaps pretty hard
Bringing country back 😌
Nature is healing
I often go out in the dark and wait for light on the horizon. Today is kind of like that.
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.
*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
nimona stopping a spinning saw with her arm and not seeming to get hurt foreshadows the way her shapeshifting powers allow her to heal quickly in this essay i will-
nimona stopping a spinning saw with her arm and not seeming to get hurt foreshadows the way her shapeshifting powers allow her to heal quickly in this essay i will-
Being at the Nimona premiere was like being at a concert, the crowd was overjoyed and the crew was really hyping us up too! Watch it when it comes out it was So! Much! Fun!
Being at the Nimona premiere was like being at a concert, the crowd was overjoyed and the crew was really hyping us up too! Watch it when it comes out it was So! Much! Fun!
I’m glad I was able to finish a ✨💜Lumity💜✨ piece😭❤ baby gays
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Any time I see someone imploring young queer people to "remember your history" I just think, how are they supposed to remember it if no one's teaching it to them?
And like, yeah, kids can self-educate queer history, but do they know to? Like, if they don't know there's a queer history, how are they supposed to educate themselves?
When I joined Tumblr at age 16, I didn't know anything about the AIDS crisis in the US. From what I'd been taught in school, AIDS was a thing people in Africa had, not Americans, and I went to a pretty liberal school. Tumblr was the first place I even encountered the idea that there was a history to being queer I could learn. I literally did not know another queer person (who was out, at least) until I went to college two years later.
I don't want to prescribe how older queer people should react when a teenager tries to talk over them or is ignorant of or whatever about queer history, because I'm still relatively young and didn't live through past events like older queers did. But I also remember being a teenager who had no idea how much I didn't know because I did not meet queer people to learn from until I happened to randomly stumble across posts on Tumblr alluding to a history I did not know existed. It's not like my school was teaching me anything about queer history. And a lot of teenagers think they're hot shit and often don't understand how much their modern experience is not at all universal. I probably stepped on a few toes, and I have long tried to listen to what others have to say before speaking my thoughts.
The point I'm trying to get at is that while I understand and sympathize with older queers being upset with young queers for speaking over them, I also understand and sympathize with teenagers who are often ignorant for reasons that are not their fault. Especially when it comes to something like queer history, when queer communities have faced systematic efforts to prevent people from learning about them in the first place.
I'm not asking older queer people to take on the effort to educate younger queer people in queer history, since whether older queer people have an obligation to teach their younger counterparts is a complicated issue with no clear answer. But I don't think that imploring young people to remember a history they don't know exists is going to help solve anything.
"cringe culture" is being very directed at trans youth in a time when being an openly trans young person is also genuinely dangerous in a number of places. every time you open your mouth to say something like "queer people are fine, but neopronouns…", know that you’re being transphobic. or "i’m gay but i’m not like, weird" or "i’m trans but these teenagers are giving us a bad rep lol"… just remember that bigots don’t care how "normal" you are, they don’t care whether or not you dye your hair or if you have a pronoun pin or any of that shit. they hate all of us. they want you to make it normalised to hate on trans people. they want you to see trans ppl as different to you. they want you to think that trans kids are not smart or old enough to see what’s best for them. conservatives don’t need you to be an outright bigot too, they just need you to not do anything about them having their health care taken away. they need you to be too embarrassed to tell off your friend when they say those trans people are freaky. they need you to be comfortable with bullying - because that’s what it is, harassment and bullying - some random transgender teenager on tiktok. they need you to double that energy against neurodivergent trans people, disabled trans people, and trans POC (particularly those whose gender is related to their culture). all of this helps in establishing the concept that transness is a choice, is a phase, is a mental illness, is weird, is predatory, is pathetic, is backwards, is childish, is ridiculous, is "other" - so that dehumanisation is acceptable. don’t fall into this trap. you don’t need to think that every trans person is cool and fun and your best friend. you just need to remember to stick up for your community. unite with your trans siblings. protect trans kids. the well-being of trans people is more important than being seen as cool.
loving the hype for nimona the movie so far bc i just saw it and it’s fucking incredible!! but also i’m hearing a lot abt the queer metaphor (obviously, bc it’s the center of the movie) but not a lot abt how ambrosius and ballister are both asian, and how ballister himself was targeted bc he’s lower class. like that’s also a part of the narrative abt monsters and villainy
loving the hype for nimona the movie so far bc i just saw it and it’s fucking incredible!! but also i’m hearing a lot abt the queer metaphor (obviously, bc it’s the center of the movie) but not a lot abt how ambrosius and ballister are both asian, and how ballister himself was targeted bc he’s lower class. like that’s also a part of the narrative abt monsters and villainy
So Nimona just came out today on Netflix and I cannot reccomend it enough, PLEASE watch it if you like fun action, beautiful animation, and a story that hits harder than you'd probably want it to. 100/10 genuinely my new favorite movie
So Nimona just came out today on Netflix and I cannot reccomend it enough, PLEASE watch it if you like fun action, beautiful animation, and a story that hits harder than you'd probably want it to. 100/10 genuinely my new favorite movie