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wolves/peri/lee/teej/open to nicknames | 18 | the queer anarchist your parents warned you about | proud fairy | ve/vir/vis xe/xem/xyrs fae/faer/faers thon/thons ae/aem/aers (or he/they if you're boring)

hey. i'm lee or finch. here's my carrd. i accidentally deleted my blog.

Things I Believe:

  • transmasc people who experience misogyny experience it in a transphobic way. and i know transmisandry is a problematic word and transmisogyny is a different thing but it is a thing that happens and i'm tired of arguing about it
  • bi/pan discourse is Very Stupid. can't we just all get along
  • israel has just as much right to exist as every other ethnostate. which is to say it Doesn't Really but it's Weird To Me that nobody ever says other ethnostates shouldn't exist even when they also commit atrocities
  • this is not to say that the israeli government is good at all! it sucks real bad! that doesn't differentiate it from turkey or saudi arabia or yemen or china or any other ethnostate!

Things I Like:

  • leverage
  • mcelroys (including travis fuck you)
  • d&d
  • the witcher
  • buffy the vampire slayer
  • the amazing devil (stream ruin lol)
  • starkid (e.g. hatchetfield, jeff blim, jeff blim's range, jeff blim's gender, etc.)
  • honestly i like snl.
  • i'm GOING to watch the gay pirate show and the gay baseball show i PROMISE

Things I Don't Like:

  • misinformation (unless it's clear and/or funny)
  • terfs! if i reblog something from a terf Tell Me
  • discrimination in general.
  • offending people! if i say something that bugs you Tell Me. I Am Not Joking. I Am Extremely Open To Criticism.
  • people who try to control other people
  • if your interpretation of your religion commands you to convert other people. fuck off
  • i'm queer (genderqueer and otherwise) so uh if you have a problem with that don't be on this blog
  • if you have a problem with self-reflection Get Off My Blog (unless your problem is ocd/intrusive thoughts/etc.)
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tiktaalic

European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard

Americans: it’s true I do do this.

American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)

Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?

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elizabisme

since u were talking about the minotaur, maybe this could interest u: Trapped in the Labyrinth: The Minotaur as Trans and Disabled - Johannes Evans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9rKd3uMsc&list=WL&index=131

I haven't watched it yet so i don't if its interesting or not though :/

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ohhhh adding it to my to watch list!!! thank you!!!

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if you are ever out here w the take "society LOVES feminine men and masculine women what about the poor feminine women and masculine men" I need u to know you have entirely submersed yourself in niche online communities and have lost touch w the very real world we live in and you owe every masculine woman and feminine man $100

I’ve never learned a more unsurprising thing about north america in my life

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briearesea

The funniest part for me was telling my family about this and them not believing it despite it actually being a pretty well documented fact. Yet even after showing them multiple sources, they choose not to believe that the pledge of allegiance started as a flag selling, marketing campaign. Not only that but they refuse to admit that making little kids recite a Christian nationalist oath full of words they dont understand every morning is in fact indoctrination in the most real possible way.

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briearesea

Just to clarify. The family I’m talking to here are those #resist tagging, pussy hat wearing, dont criticize Pelosi in front of them liberals.

sometimes the tragedy is fun! sometimes the fact that there will be no happy ending is fun! sometimes it is really neat that one character is stuck in the past at the expense of the present and the other is going scorched earth towards the future and they’ll never be on the same page ever again! i like that.

Anonymous asked:

I don't understand. Are cats not a part of nature? Wouldn't letting them be outside be the natural thing to do, letting nature do its thing even if birds are killed? They are animals, it doesn't seem right to me to lock them in a house for the majority of the time. They probably want to be free, they're supposed to be outside like other animals

Cats (Felix catus) are a domesticated variety of the African Wildcat (Felis lybica). This process occurred c. 10,000 years ago. The cats which reside in our homes are different from their wild ancestors on a genetic level which effects their temperament. They also have decreased cranial volume.

All this to say that domestic cats are, in fact, not a part of nature, in fact they are classified among the top 100 worst invasive species by the Global Invasive Species Database. This is why their presence, and predation, in the environment is so devastating.

As of 2016 cats were implicated in the extinction of 63 species, this is 26% of total distinctions attributed to invasive mammalian predators. That's 40 species of bird, 21 species of mammals, and 2 species of reptiles. They are considered a threat to the continued existence of 420 species.

I don't even know how to begin to describe the impact domestic cats have on the environment so here's a huge list of various studies across the globe.

Do you believe that dogs should be allowed to free-range, to come and go as they please wherever they please? What about ferrets? Rabbits? If you've answered "No" to any of these, then why are cats exempt from the basic rules of courtesy other domesticated species are held to?

The idea that "cats want to be free" is an example of anthropomorphizing, or ascribing human emotions to animals. Cats do not have a concept of "freedom," they do not yearn for something they don't understand.

That being said, controlled time outdoors can be a good form of enrichment for some cats - this means on a harness and leash accompanied by a person, or in a secure enclosure like a catio. However while some cats may enjoy this others have no interest in, or are actively avoidant of, the outdoors and shouldn't be forced.

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t4t4t

Yeah I kinda side eyed that a little before reblogging, this is mostly a survey of facts, I doubt OP has the same opinion on civilization as we do. Maybe, maybe not. I have my qualms on domestication, sure, I'm sure some cats get lonely and are confused by the lack of friends of their kind even if other multifaceted multifarious relationships are possible. Moving beyond domestication in both humans and more than humans might require that explicit engagement with ecological enrichment...