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I always feel somehow insulted on the guy's behalf when people ascribe every single sign of personality g1deon ever exhibits to pyrrha peeking through. he is a fairly inscrutable character seen through harrow's eyes (she is also, understandably, distracted by the fact that he keeps trying to murder her lol), but credit him with at least a little bit of interiority and depth of character, huh. there must have been something there for pyrrha to have loved and trusted him so much. him saluting harrow for almost turning him inside out at dinner makes perfect sense seen in context with the way he hilariously and casually is like 'sorry about this whole thing btw, this wasn't my idea' the last time he tries to kill her, and it being pyrrha instead only opens questions of how augustine at least wouldn't have noticed the changing eye colour (HUGE risk for pyrrha to take for no good reason, if so). g1deon clearly has a kind of deep respect for a worthy opponent, as we also see with wake, and there are several times when the dios apate disaster trio are being. well, themselves, where it's noted that g1deon looks at harrow as if in quiet solidarity (even if it just freaks her out fhdssdfa). this poor guy has been sure he's losing his mind for ten thousand years and when he found out he'd apparently been fucking The one person he shouldn't during his blackouts he just. he just went with it? for a while??? it seems????? listen I'm saying this guy has got layers and he provably has Weird ideas about the capacity for coexistence between cameraderie, respect and attempted murder

idk. he's not the most charismatic presence in the books, I know, but I feel bad about the idea of denying him basic humanity and depth. and if nothing else will convince people, HOW could you disrespect pyrrha like this by assuming she was once upon a time ready to give her whole soul to a guy who's genuinely thoroughly boring and swagless

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I started with succulents like everyone else but tbh orchids are rapidly becoming my plant blorbos. Everyone takes care of them wrong and it's not your FAULT because the care instructions that come with them are!! Incorrect!!! If you do what they say then your orchid will die!!!! If you give them the right environment they're SO easy. They're such easy plants to grow. They have been UNFAIRLY SLANDERED by a MISINFORMATION campaign. They don't deserve this.

I am also firmly on the orchid bus

Love these pretty babies. It's not their fault they're misunderstood.

I'm grabbing your shoulders and looking deeply and homoerotically into your eyes. Listen to me. Listen. It Is Not Your Fault. They sell orchids in these shitty little plastic pots and fill them with water and stick them in heavier ceramic pots with ANY drainage holes. And then the fucking care sheet tells you to water these TROPICAL PLANTS with ICE CUBES. Of course they're going to die.

Orchids are a special type of plant called an epiphyte. You know those little air plants that are all the rage now?

I'm talking these babies. You can do cool things with them like this:

And this:

(link to the Etsy shop btw. These look cool. Though honestly you can probably find some art miniatures and do this yourself without much effort)

They don't have roots, so you can do whatever you want with them. You can put them in a globe or put them on a statue or just leave them on a table, they don't care. They're super low maintenance and easy to keep alive. All you have to do is dunk them in water once a week.

That's an orchid. An orchid is an air plant. In the wild, they grow on trees. Their roots are designed to anchor them to trees, not to dig into the soil. They NEED air. The moment they get waterlogged, which they will in those shitty little pots that you buy them in, they're going to rot, and eventually the whole plant will die. They can't have ANY sitting water. None. They need pots with drainage holes that are elevated so air can reach them from the top and bottom. This is what I mean by elevated btw:

Put something at the bottom of the pot that creates an air gap between it and the surface. Make sure it has gaps so air can flow through. Put a plate at the bottom to catch water when you water your orchid, every 2 weeks or whenever you remember. I have solved all your orchid woes.

And don't water them with fucking ice cubes. I'm going to find whoever invented the ice cube advice and fight them with my fists. These are tropical plants. They don't know what ice is. They're not evolved to deal with below freezing temperatures. If you water them with ice cubes you're just going to give your orchid frostbite, and it will die. No ice cubes.

ALSO if your orchid is in a pot, make sure you use orchid bark, not soil, as its potting medium. Though, honestly, you don't even need a pot. Like:

Look at them, just chilling. THIS is how they grow in the wild:

I think that's a different species of orchid than the phalaenopsis orchid we grow in cultivation, but the point still stands. That ^ is their natural habitat.

You can see the roots are just hanging out in the open. This is why air is so important to them. Air is more important than water. I'm like ?? 90% sure orchids can absorb ambient water through the air, but I'm not 100% sure so don't quote me on that. I did forget to water my orchids for 2 months once and they were fine, so. 🤷‍♀️ As long as they have enough air flow, they're more like succulents in terms of care. You water when you remember to, and just forget about them the rest of the time.

You can see the video here where an asshole with a "My pronouns are find/Jesus" shirt asks if this guy supports LGBTQ rights or economic stability, and this king up here^ just keeps repeating, "Why can't you have both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't have to pick one. I refuse the question." Conservatives have absolutely nothing but whataboutism, and when people don't play their game, they have no comeback. Good on this guy for refusing to go along with the bullshit question

I think people are just joking around, but the thing is that a lot of people will fall into the right's "DEBATE ME BRO" trap and wind up in heated arguments, and people lose sight that sometimes it really is a lot more effective at shutting down their arguments to just not engage at all

.. I feel like another big reason this is a thing/joke/question at all is the implication that this guy doesn't """look like""" someone who would support queer rights or refuse to debate conservatives and like

We can agree that's a shitty conclusion to leap to from appearances, right? Yeah? 😕

I mean, I just loved this guy absolutely refusing to entertain the bullshit question, and I would've gotten a kick out of this video regardless of his appearance because of how casual and amused he was about the whole thing. One of the people in the screenshots above said this:

So I don't think everyone was making fun of his appearance

One of the classes psych nurses take while prepping for the art of conversation therapy deals in some detail with how to ensure that conversation is useful by (if necessary) demonstrating to the person you're conversing with that some tactics are inherently invalid and will not be supported.

The splendidly noncooperative gent up there is demonstrating one such technique. One of our instructors said to us, "One weapon that toxically argumentative people like to use on you—usually to prevent any really fruitful conversation—is based in the idea that each time you refuse to accept their statement or argument, you have to do it in different words, or for different reasons. Who made that up? You don't have to."

I remember a lot of us in that class looking at each in shocked realization, as none of us had ever really taken that particular tactic apart before. "It's perfectly legit to just give such a person the same answer over and over again," our instructor said. "Or to flatly refuse their gambit without giving a reason. Their tactic is based around trying to force you to give them fresh material by which they can get their hooks into you—prove you wrong, or suck you in. But nothing says you have to give them what they want. So don't. Also, just saying the same thing over and over will often get them to reveal where they're vulnerable."

(And it can sure as hell get them frustrated. When used clinically, this is the proof-by-action of the old animation writers' cliche, "Let's get them angry and maybe they'll make a mistake.")

...This approach is also part of some assertiveness-training courses. I seem to remember having run across it in Manuel Smith's When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, which is about as close as you can get to an AT course in a single book. ...There I think it's referred to as "assertive persistence", and there's a specific technique called Broken Record that's almost too enjoyable once you have an excuse to get into it with somebody. :)

I lost the post on my dash where this would have been a fun addition but these are the krill that blue whales eat! Some people think krill are like nearly microscopic or something but they are very decently sized shrimps

Lots of notes pondering this but I have definitely seen educational materials calling them "microscopic," and sometimes "microscopic plankton," and I think those sources are misunderstanding what it means that krill are, in fact, a type of plankton.

The thing is, "plankton" does not refer to the size. At all. "Plankton" refers to any living thing that is naturally carried by ocean currents more than it actively chooses where to go.

This deadly man o war with 10 meter tentacles is plankton. It doesn't swim at all and just floats idly.

This giant colonial pyrosome is plankton, such a weak swimmer that it can "steer" a little bit it can't fight against a current.

Being capable of bursts of speed but usually just drifting the MOLA MOLA is a plankton. Sometimes the term "megaplankton" is tossed around for clarification.

Obviously, large plankton are outnumbered by microscopic plankton trillions to one and the microscopic plankton are what feeds the sponges and corals and mussels and baby fish (who are also plankton) as the basis of the whole food web, so when plankton is being discussed, biologists are just statistically more likely to be talking about the tiniest kind is all.

Sometimes they specify "microscopic plankton" but the average person just thinks this is to clarify what they assumed was the basic definition of plankton. I've seen the very phrase laughed at for being "redundant!"

So krill are plankton, and the significance of that gets lost in translation so easily, even a professional might mistakenly call them "microscopic plankton" when they have to write, say, a page in a children's book or an informational museum plaque about whales, which isn't the kind of thing you feel pressured to do long hours of research for, but it is where way more people are going to hear about any of these things.

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

>:)c

May I present to you, nationalclothing.org?

It doesn't have everything, but it's still my first source when researching traditional clothing from other cultures.

There's also this resource on historical fashion: Claire’s Historical Fashion Reference & Resources

another addition as far as physical media goes there is the encyclopedia of national dress (that i still need to buy myself bc this kind of thing is super important to my sort of fantasy designing) but yes i do agree i wish there was EVEN MORE documentation on this

ffs ....

Additions from my husband: Bakers wear loafers and Zookeepers wear Crocs

Excellent additions.

Angels wear wingtips.

A lumberjack wears Timberlands.

Ice skaters wear slippers

Addition from my mom: delivery drivers wear vans

VERY good addition!

Achilles wears heels.

this is an extremely good joke format

I wish I knew how to play chess

I needed this.

no fucking way

the aliens are going to have questions about our world that absolutely no one will ever be able to answer

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