anyway narcissistic abuse is both real and distinct from other forms of abuse and talking about your experiences with it is not an ableist thing to do, actually.
Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997
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It genuinely upsets me that there are people who call this animation and voice acting bad, there’s so much heart and soul on display in just this clip alone
At first glance: ‘lol this is going to be one of those hilariously cheap animations’
30 seconds in: ‘…Oh my god this is fantastic’
“WHO DARES TO INVOKE WXRTHLTL-JWLPKLZ?” “Where were you when the vowels were bein’ handed out, behind the door??”
Are there any weird weasel/weasel adjacent lil guys? Tumblr tag searching is being rude
Yes! Marbled polecats have to be the weirdest of the noodle-y mustelids. The ear puffs, the color, the patterns, the stance, the pout, the length, they have it all!
Other polecats like the Saharan and striped are also pretty wacky skunk lookalikes. Convergent evolution!
I think Malayan weasels are the funkiest literal weasels, very interesting color scheme for a critter living in the tropics.
Japanese martins look pretty similar to the Malayans, but even more vivid. Really would like to know why this coloration evolved twice!
Another tropical guy, nilgiri marten have very bold and striking colors. You look like a bee.
Tayra are not especially weasel flavored as far as mustelids go, but they always look kinda sad and concerned. One of their names in Spanish translates to ‘old man of the mountains’ and I can see why. Has an elderly vibe.
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My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.
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every time we serve chicken at work i think of this post
1. If you were wondering, you can type the numbers in the works cited into google and they appear to be medical journal articles about using medical imaging to detect and diagnose a rare form of Gastritis.
2. Please enjoy the offical powerpoint presentation of this paper at an academic conference by the original author, complete with Q&A:
zillyart32
THIS IS GOLD
oh m god please watch the video it’s some of the most contagious laughter on the planet
When I saw this cross my dash tonight, I smiled and thought “yess, the chicken chicken chicken post, I get to reblog it again and inflict it on all of the people that have followed me since last time”, and then I scrolled down more and to my utter delight there was A VIDEO, needless to say my night has been made
eliciaforever
I HAVE NOT SEEN THE CHICKEN VIDEO IN TEN DAMN YEARS HOLY SHIT
STILL FUNNY
The bell
The last question
The woman howling in laughter 90% of the time
It’s all beautiful
It’s all
So beautiful
rowantheexplorer
I love that he was absolutely 100% prepared for a question in chickenese.
Title: Self-Portrait with Death as a Fiddler
Artist: Arnold Böcklin
Date: 1872
Style: Symbolism
Genre: Portrait
I think a lot of art criticism and things that are generally taken to be dividing factors of good art vs bad art really are ultimately up to the person talking about it. A lot of the stuff agreed upon as "bad" within enthusiast communities for specific kinds of art, I personally enjoy. Like, for example, in horror, a genre often used to explore more vague themes and where ambiguity is appreciated much more than in other genres of art, it's considered cliche and detracting from the "soul" of the art sometimes if the threat in a story ultimately boils down to "there is a monster". Similarly, a lot of people grow to dislike a piece of horror art if the threat is explained, because fear of the unknown is generally considered to be more impactful and interesting. People can get frustrated when a story bogs itself down in its own lore and attempts to explain everything.
Personally, I love all those things. I love it when the spooky threat is a monster and the monster has 70000 words of lore and backstory attributed to it. I love when someone can do a dissertation on the lore of a horror franchise. I think this comes from my brain being 100% laser-focused on animals and the biology behind the animals all the time, so I like to see that stuff reflected in art. I love it when a horror monster is a cool animal that has enough lore I can probably make an accurate anatomical dissection poster of it, because that kind of stuff feels like it was made specifically to mesh with my animal-obsessed brain. My reaction to finding an animal in real life is instant curiosity about how it works, what it eats, how it behaves, how it evolved. So when I see a cool creature in a story, I react the same way, and I get a little frustrated if there's no more material for me to engage with in that regard.
I see myself as a scientist and I approach fictional worlds with much the same philosophy as I do the real world; if something interests me, I want to know everything there is about it.
Some people see that as "pulpy", but I think it's really just a matter of how we as individuals see the art in front of us. To me, stuff like that is tailor-made for how I already interact with the world. For someone else, it might be boring and detracting from the story's potential.
So if you make art, I think there's pretty much always going to be an audience for it. No matter how weird or cliche it is, or how many rules it breaks. That's why I think advice targeted towards artists that try to steer people in certain directions, like not focusing on worldbuilding too much because audiences think that's boring, or not letting your story be too long because a story worth telling should be able to be condensed at least a little bit, is perhaps doing more harm than good. A lot of the time, this kind of advice is geared towards trying to make your art as palatable to as many people as possible. But I think art that only appeals to a few thousand people tops is valuable, too. The world is better for there being a great diversity in art and its character. For every trope or quality in art you dislike, there's someone out there for whom it's the best thing in the world.
#book publishing is a nightmare for this sometimes bc ranges for Acceptable Word Count tm are very specific (and vary by genre)#and largely dependent on how expensive it is for the publisher to print and ship that book. which is a little. hm!#idk it bothers me that a story using the medium of written words can only be a certain length or it's too expensive to get read#sometimes it doesn't need fifty pages cut out. it NEVER needs to be split into two books with 100 pages worth of filler each cut IN.#acceptable *page count not word count
"whocares ita just a bug its just a bird its just a fish" ohhhh its just the miracle of life on earth . its just the beauty of biodiversity in my local area. its just millions and millions of years of tiny changes to a bucnh of little strands of amino acids and eventually all these circumstances brought us to this moment.but i only like this one kind of bugs so i want all the other ones to DIE I think their amino acids that took millenia to develop are DUMB AND WORTHLESS and who cares about them who cares I just want to have some stupid plants in my yard that wish they lived somewhere completely different so bad and I have to constantly battle to keep their sickly bodies functioning in this place they were never meant to live. because I saw it in a magazine
This post is about how total extermination on a species-wide scale for the sake of capitalist concepts of value and convenience is wanton destruction of unique and irreplaceable pieces of the one and only ecosystem we know exists for certain, which has taken millions of years to manifest as we know it.
Consumption of other individual animals, in sustainable amounts, is a feature of this ecosystem that cannot be written out. An animal being eaten to sustain another animal does not in any way diminish the value of the consumed.
This is a necessary exchange within the biosphere's self-perpetuating system. Death and consumption for the sake of survival are themselves a beautiful and irreplaceable expression of millions of years of evolution and circumstance coming together to allow us to exist in this moment and be consciously aware and able to appreciate it.
So like. Do consider sustainability! And be grateful for what you consume. But the responsible consumption of the meat of other animals as a necessary part of our diet as omnivores is a neutral act on an individual basis.
land back, bison from coast to coast
it has come to my attention that not every crafter has a designated purse project*, and i would like to invite you to weigh in on this Divide in Our Community
(for purposes of this poll we will assume that your primary craft is one that can be taken in a bag (no sewing or painting etc) and that if you are team purse project you also have couch crafts you work on at home or your primary crafting location -- the question is if you regularly carry a crafting project with you when outside your home base)
*"purse" in this case is shorthand for any bag or case you carry on your commute or travels
Where's the option for "unless my couch project is too big to fit in my pockets it's also my purse project?"
#i WAS team purse project until the pandemic now i take nothing anywhere and i lament it constantly#it's just too hard to clean wips after i go out it's not worth it#also now i only go like. grocery shopping. and there's no transit in this town so i walk everywhere with a cane so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#no time to craft in even if i did have a purse project.#i don't really like drawing in public anymore so that's out
Piraputanga jumps out of water to pick fruit off a overhanging tree in the jungle rivers of Brazil
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Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.
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Richard Siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “War Of Foxes”
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suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her………. THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!
Tumblr user @books—and-cleverness adds a quote from an interview with the author of the book:
« That was one of the first questions I asked her when we sat down: ‘Did you always know that [Prim] was going to die?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, of course, that’s the whole point.’ » (x)
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i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning
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the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end.
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Do you still believe myths
can save you? Foolish creature
Let me be clear: every version of this story
Ends with you being slaughtered.
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Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig
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if you’re dead at the end of the story were you dead from the beginning. oh emily brontë we’re really in it now
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This was always going to happen. She’s been dead from the beginning.
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Aeschylus, The Oresteia
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
also draw transmasc characters with tits and transfem characters without them sometimes its good for you. degender boobs and lack thereof now
It’s been so long since i said it but if you live with homophobic/transphobic parents no matter if you’re a minor or a young adult don’t come out <3
cherrywolowos
I don’t care if you guys do it to feel validated by other young gays, your comminity doesn’t want you putting themselves in harm’s way just to “live their truth” we want you alive
cherrywolowos
“It’s 2022 it’s not that big deal anymore!!” If your parents are biggots it matters, 2022 is not discriminatory free, if you’re able to hide it from them don’t think it twice and risk it all because your gay friends told you you weren’t really gay if you hadn’t come out
I’d honestly argue that - regardless of your age - if you would be in danger from people you live with or your well-being would be threatened, don’t come out to them. (Especially when various older people have had to move back in with parents because of the economy/COVID/etc.)
Homophobic parents paying for college? Hang in there and get your degree. Setting up your awesome new life and living on your own will be a whole lot easier if you can avoid having to deal with student loans.
you do not owe anyone a truth they will hurt you for.
I agree with this. I made the mistake of coming out repeatedly and an adult and as a teen and it only resulted in abuse. I thought I owed my family honesty and they repaid me with mistreatment and years of trauma I’m still hearing from 15 years later.
If you wont be safe, wait.
Unicorn rests in a garden in collage!!! I saw the tapestry irl a couple weeks ago and I was obsessed w it 🦄🌷
For the record, NBs/transmascs who feel like this includes them are welcome to respond (I am also NB/transmasc).
I'm just curious about how common it is for one's caregivers to lose their collective shit about someone else's haircut because they are wedded to traditionally gendered hairstyles. (I suppose knowing the age demographics of respondents might also be useful info to add in the tags.)
#told my mom i wanted to get a specific short (masc) haircut and she was like 'great!'#she took me to get it cut and then spent the appt haranguing me and the hairdresser into a short haircut that was WAY more feminine than#the long hair i came in with and proceeded to spend the next six months telling me how preciouscuteadorablegirly it was#yes i did spend a lot of hours thinking about murder at that time why do you ask#anyway my hair is long by choice now and we haven't spoken in years. peace and love etc
By Patrick Barkham
The Guardian
May 27, 2023
York groundsel was a cheerful yellow flower that slipped into global extinction in 1991, thanks to overzealous application of weedkiller in the city of its name.
But now the urban plant has been bought back to life in the first ever de-extinction in Britain, and is flowering again in York.
The species of groundsel was only ever found around the city and only evolved into its own species in the past century after non-native Oxford ragwort hybridised with native groundsel.
York groundsel, Senecio eboracensis, was discovered growing in the car park of York railway station in 1979 and was the first new species to have evolved in Britain for 50 years, thriving on railway sidings and derelict land.
But the new plant’s success was short-lived, as urban land was tidied up and chemicals applied to remove flowers dismissed as “weeds”.
It was last seen in the wild in 1991. Fortunately, researchers kept three small plants in pots on a windowsill in the University of York. These short-lived annual plants soon died, but they produced a precarious pinch of seed, which was lodged at Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank.
Andrew Shaw of the Rare British Plants Nursery had a vision to bring the species back to life, but when tests were carried out on some privately held seeds very few germinated successfully.
So Natural England, the government’s conservation watchdog, quickly authorised a de-extinction attempt via its species recovery programme, which has funded the revival of the most threatened native species for 30 years.
“The Millennium Seed Bank said the seed was getting near the end of its lifespan and so we thought we would only have one more chance of resurrecting it,” said Alex Prendergast, a vascular plant senior specialist for Natural England.
Natural England paid for a polytunnel at the Rare British Plants Nursery in Wales, where 100 of the tiny seeds were planted. To the botanists’ surprise, 98 of the seeds germinated successfully. The polytunnel rapidly filled with a thousand York groundsel plants.
In February six grams of seed – potentially thousands of plants – were sown into special plots around York on council and Network Rail land.
This week, the first plants in the wild for 32 years began to flower, bringing colour to the streets and railway sidings of York.
This de-extinction is likely to be a one-off in this country because York groundsel is the only globally extinct British plant that still persists in seed form and so could be revived.
But Prendergast said the de-extinction showed the value of the Millennium Seed Bank – to which plenty of York groundsel seed has now been returned – and there were a number of good reasons for bringing the species back to life.
“It’s a smiley, happy-looking yellow daisy and it’s a species that we’ve got international responsibility for,” he said.
“It only lives in York, and it only ever lived in York. It’s a good tool to talk to people about the importance of urban biodiversity and I hope it will capture people’s imagination.
“It’s also got an important value as a pollinator and nectar plant in the area because it flowers almost every month of the year.”
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white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy
If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.
here are some places to get native/indigenous goods and merch online if you can’t find something local or if physical access is an obstacle:
https://sweetgrasstradingco.com/ https://nativeharvest.com/ https://byellowtail.com/ https://www.salishstyle.com/ https://trickstercompany.com/ https://hutxh.com/ https://www.thentvs.com/ https://urbannativeera.com/ https://www.oxdxclothing.com/ https://kotahbear.com/ https://www.totemdesignhouse.com/ https://ginewusa.com/ https://eighthgeneration.com/
and the only native-owned comic shop in the world: https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/