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I'm Sam, a 25 y/o transmasc learning to work out to look the way I want to for self esteem and health

[suiheisen]

gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

[savagegood]

men’s sports have nothing on women’s sports

and this particular guy... cry harder (imagine if women's sports had the funding, visibility and accessibility men's sports are gifted):

also, noteworthy addition from @stuckinnet

[writing-prompt-s]

You are a villain famous for “killing” heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Sometimes they try to pay you.

You are posted out by the Hollywood sign tonight, sitting under the frame where the W used to be. It got burnt to a crisp during last week’s big superhero fight. A hero died right where you’re sitting. The whole area’s been closed down until Hero Force can coordinate a recovery effort. Usually it’d be done by now but no one’s willing to touch it until the ash has been completely blown away.

It’s a rule that the world must stand still when a hero dies.

“How much?”

The voice comes from behind you. The lights that illuminate the Hollywood sign are down to hide as much of the scorch marks as possible. You wouldn’t be able to see anything even if you did turn around, so you don’t.

You put some chapstick on, the glide of the balm against your wind chapped lips grounding.

“I said,” the Hero says, voice tightening, “How. Much.”

There’s the sound of gravel crunching now. They’re wearing heavy boots and the scent of fresh blood grows stronger the closer they get. Their breathing is smooth and even which means it’s not their blood.

You put the cap back on your chapstick and tuck it into your leather jacket’s inner pocket. “I don’t take money.”

“Then what do you take?” The Hero rounds the Y and comes into your line of sight. The dark hides most of their features, but you can make out a glittering gold mask and the dull shine of drying blood on their chest plate. Their breathing may be even, but their stance isn’t. They sway in place, back and forth, back and forth. Their arms wrap around their stomach. “I’ve got land. A house. You can have it.”

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[5amwakeup]

I think I'm going to restart my blog again. I've learned so much more about myself over however many years it's been since I've posted, and I want to pursue what I want to look like.

Since my last postings on here, I've left CrossFit, finished college, gotten married, and discovered that I'm gender fluid! I trend towards agender and masculine, so please use he/him pronouns.

I'm pre-t, and want to look more like a guy through working out before I make any commitment to hrt or surgery, since I'm a little hesitant to give up the option of presenting female. Also, I want to lose weight and regain the energy and confidence I once had when I was doing intense workouts like CrossFit. I'll be posting updates and photos of my journey, and any hate directed towards me will earn a hearty laugh, block, and report ❤️

Lastly, my wake up time is no longer 5 am

It's 4 am

Start Day 1 (Feb 13, 2023)

Weight: 222 lbs

(I'll post a picture soon ;)

[unovachampion]

some of the shit pokemon say in mystery dungeon is next level

[unovachampion]

some more good ones

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Gävlebocken is rolling out!

[traegorn]

[riflegarden]

today at work a man brought a pug in on a leash and that pug was so excited and happy to see me it was as if we were old friends who havent been in contact in 7 years i felt so loved in that moment

[riflegarden]

today a bassett hound came in and wagged her tail so furiously all of her loose skin started to jiggle and she was so pumped to see me i want more dogs to come into my store they make my life whole and worthwhile

[riflegarden]

I’m so glad this came back cause a golden retriever named Milly came in today who put her paws on my register counter and wanted to say hi to me and I loved her so much and I scratched her ears and she gave me that classic dopey dog smile 

[riflegarden]

yesterday a girl came in with her boyfriend and in her hand was a tiny tan colored dog that she told me was a chihuahua/pekingese mix and he had a severe underbite and one little canine tooth was poking out and his ears were like bent at the tips and i immediately commented on how amazing he was and she goes omg thanks do you wanna pet him and i was like there is literally nothing more i want to do while being on the clock right now than to pet this incredible tiny dog and he was so sweet and licked my hand and his name was spike 

[riflegarden]

yesterday these people came in and put a blanket into one of our shopping baskets and it started to move and i was like omg whats in there and they set it down on the counter and the blanket kept moving and the suspense was so good like is it gonna be a cat is it gonna be a ferret maybe a lizard and then the smallest chihuahua ive ever seen in my life popped her little head out and licked my finger and i died 

[riflegarden]

A baby german shepherd named Jonathan came in tonight and since i was on the sales floor and not behind a counter i say to the owner omg can i pet this angel and they were like yeah of course and i crouched down and Jonathan ran into my arms and almost tripped over his puppy feet it was 12/10

[riflegarden]

TODAY a german shepherd named london grabbed one of our lanterns off the shelf and was carrying it around and the owner was like, “london no, we’re not getting that” and gave him the merchandise she was buying instead and he carried it to me and dropped it on the counter at my register and i could have cried 

[riflegarden]

I want everyone to know both London and Jonathan (Jonnie) came in the other day on the same day. Jonnie is much larger since the last time I saw him but still sweet and still acts like a pup, he barked at something in our footwear department. London still likes to carry things and put his paws up on my register to say hello, he carried the insoles his owner bought out the door for her. Also thanks for the notes, it’s nice to see so many people appreciate dogs on here. Another reminder, I see a lot of dogs because I work in a sporting goods store in a strip mall next door to a Petco and we absolutely allow dogs in our store. I live in a mountain town in Colorado and dogs are common here because there are lots of fun outdoor stuff to do with them. 

[riflegarden]

A sheltie in a Petco shopping cart came in yesterday and her name was Sadie and she was so excited to say hi that she jumped out of the cart, onto my register counter, but she missed and Mufasa’d her way to the floor, but she was okay. The owner just let her sit on the counter and she was very well behaved and she gently smelled every item I scanned and also my hand. She was obsessed with her neck being scratched. 

[riflegarden]

today a black lab name paxton came in off leash and he jiggled his way into our back room because the door was open and i yelled He Is Employed! and told his owner that we’d be happy to hire him and then eventually he made his way up to the front by himself and into the register area behind the counter and now he’s my new manager 

[riflegarden]

my boss sent me this picture she took from the window at work today after i left. its not a dog, but it is a goat wearing a cowboy hat. 

[riflegarden]

today a 12 week old dichromatic pitbull puppy named Spot was so tired that he was splayed out on our tile flooring, all four legs sticking out while his people tried on shoes. i asked to pet him and he wagged his tail and rolled over so i could scratch his belly

[riflegarden]

Today my boss found a lost little Australian shepherd puppy without a collar running around the parking lot and caught her and brought her in the store and I played with her on my lunch break and she was so cute and so sweet and was probably no older than like 9 weeks. Eventually her people came and claimed her. Her name is Panda and she’s in the process of being trained as a service dog for an elderly veteran with one leg.

[riflegarden]

today a bengal kitten named strider came in and he licked my finger. hes not a dog but hes is very important 

[arteacactus]

This has cured my depression

[insanity-keeps-things-fun]

This post justifies the entire existence of the internet.

[normal-horoscopes]

Someone outside my apartment is using a weedwacker at midnight. They are in the parking lot. There is no grass in the parking lot.

[normal-horoscopes]

They are wacking SOMETHING but it is not weeds. I can distinctly hear the weedwacker being applied to another object, but I cannot see the operator.

[normal-horoscopes]

There was a loud grinding noise. The wacking has stopped. There was a pause for about two seconds followed by just

"shiiiit bro"

[doomydain]

A flail-axe?

By @jacobwitzling on TikTok

[kedreeva]

Someone in the replies went on a long lecture that ultimately asked what makes this any better than a normal double sided axe with a handle and the answer is: because it looks cool and is rare. I've seen a lot of people chopping wood with a normal axe and it's pretty alright (sometimes it's very good). I've chopped wood with a normal axe and I hated it, but if I can chop wood with a normal axe most people can do that. But I've only seen one person chop wood with a flail axe, and it looked cool, and I certainly couldn't do that, and I don't think many other people could do that either.

Also because a flail axe is MUCH more effective at causing me to go away than a normal axe. If I saw someone on the opposing team wielding this in a battle, I would simply leave. I would be finished with that battle. The person using this thing is either skilled and in control enough with it to be effective or mad enough to think they are (and let's face it the latter is more likely), and either one of those is too dangerous for me. No thank you! I will be stabbed with a normal sword at a later date.

[docwsb]

[askarkham]

It’s like someone went crazy with a label maker and I love it.

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

How can you forget this gem??

[goodzillo-deactivated20220127]

People always act like the old Batman show being corny was a product of its time but you’re never going to get me to believe this wasn’t a deliberate artistic choice

[sumrallmind]

I wouldn’t mind living in a world where everything was clearly labeled.

[ysabelmystic]

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.

[martianaviator]

Purgatory

[sharper-and-bigger]

The Garden of Death

Watercolor and gouache by Hugo Simberg, 1896

[aeroknot]

there are many young merfolk out there, so i felt the desire to create a badass elder for mermay :) she’s as much derived from as she is dedicated to the vuvalini of MMFR– i also sincerely hope she brings joy to my mutuals older than me who always delight and inspire me, and to all older women in fandom, really, who i continuously thought of while working on her

i hope it’s obvious but just in case: she’s beluga / inuit. and yes, a name and backstory eventually developed! haha

[aeroknot]

oh y’all this is my first non-fanart piece to break 1k notes and i’m SO excited it’s enthusiasm for this design in particular! thank you; i’m so relieved and encouraged by the warm responses 🙏🏻💙

[ariestaurus21]

i ADORE this merfolk lady. Because she has a beluga tail, she is of my people. I come from the frigid waters of the Saguenay river, where the Belugas live. I am of her tribe. She is my Elder. My great grandmother many times removed.

[aeroknot]

this is making some rounds again so i need to reiterate: thank you so much to every first nations commenter. your feedback of feeling respectfully represented and excited is my measure of genuine success for this piece.

[wildlifepsas]

Please do not interfere with nature!

For the last few years we have received quite a few calls from people that scared a hawk or snake away from what it was eating.

These calls always go something like, “I save a ___ from a hawk that was trying to eat it”, which means these people know what they stopped. These people then want us to save what the hawk was trying to eat. We’ve gotten in anything from a turtle with three legs already removed by the hawk, to small song birds to bunnies and the outcome is almost always the same….death, though more slowly and painfully than it would have been had people not interfered.

I want to remind you all, when a hawk captures its prey, it typically crushes it at least to a point. A snake will do the same. This means that the internal injuries are typically such that nobody could possibly save the animal. The most humane thing would have been to leave hawk or snake to its meal and NOT interfere.

Also, hawks are only successful in about 1 in 10 hunts. Meaning you don’t know how long that hawk or that hawk’s babies have been without food and now will go without food even longer.

Hawks have to eat and feed their young as well. It isn’t really fair for a human to decide what a proper meal may be.

We realize this may not be the most pleasant thing for you to watch, so we suggest you turn away. Chasing them away from a meal only does two things; 1. whatever they were trying to eat will now suffer until it dies, when dying would have been much faster had it been left, and 2. it leaves the hawk without a meal, meaning it is going to now go kill something that it wouldn’t have if the person hadn’t interfered.

Please, respect nature and let her do what she is supposed to do!

~CLAWS, Inc.

[lesbx]

sorry to keep posting screenshots from reddit but i dunno this just seems very funny to me this combined with the subreddit it was posted in. this is just where we’re at as a planet. for all we know there might’ve been an ancient malevolent demon recently released from its spirit prison. well that sucks

[eleni-anz]

Ummm byee

[snumblesaurus]

So I kind of hate that Putin is trying to restrict the flow of information into Russia so that he can control the narrative, so for my Russian friends, here is my guide on

How to get around internet censorship and maintain internet privacy

This will be an extremely long post 😅

Priorities

Download the Tor Browser

This will hopefully help you access the internet regardless of Russian government bans. It’s a little slow, but better than nothing. It hides your IP address from the internet, so it’s kind of like using a VPN. A very basic summary of how Tor works: your internet traffic is routed through several “nodes”. The Entry Node, can see your IP address but has no idea what data you’re sending, and this goes through several middle nodes, until it reaches the Exit Node. The Exit Node can see what data you’re sending, but it can’t see your IP address so it doesn’t know WHO sent it. That’s why it’s a good idea to do nothing identifying when using the Tor Browser, like writing personal information. Here’s a blog post with more detailed information about the Tor Browser.

Get a VPN

VPNs are often used to get around government internet restrictions. Russia will probably not be able to do much about it. However, not all VPNs are created equal. Nearly all of the free VPNs are a scam that turn around and sell your data, so free VPNs are not secure. The only exception to this is ProtonVPN which has a free tier, but it’s very slow. Basically the only good VPN is one you pay for. When choosing a VPN, be aware of where the company is based, because if a VPN company is based in the USA, it will have to comply USA privacy laws. So choose a VPN based in a country that has good privacy laws. A great one is Mullvad VPN, which is based in Sweden. But for the purposes of Russia, just making sure your VPN is not Russian or in a country sympathetic to Russia is probably good enough.

Alternative Front-Ends A frontend is the the part of a website which the user interacts with directly. To browse the contents of websites, you usually have to visit them. However, many people have made alternative privacy-respecting frontends to popular websites that allow you to see the site’s content without actually visiting the website. This helps avoid tracking, data-collection, and even countries’ attempts to ban websites. Twitter is banned in Russia right now, but using all an alternative frontend to Twitter works (according to my Russian friend).

Google Translate

Lingva Translate / Instances

SimplyTranslate / Instances

some instances allow you to choose to translate with several other services (such as DeepL)

Imgur

Rimgo / Instances

Instagram

Bibliogram / Instances

Medium

Scribe / Instance

Reddit

Libreddit / Instances

Teddit / Instances

TikTok

ProxiTok / Instance

Twitter

Nitter / Instances

Wikipedia

Wikiless / Instances

YouTube

Invidious / Instances

Piped / Instances

YouTube Music

Beatbump / Instance

If anyone knows of one of these for Tumblr please let me know. I found this site called Tumgir but it looks sketchy and unlike the rest of the ones I listed, it’s not open-source. So visit with caution, but I’m mentioning it because it might be better than nothing.

There are also these browser extensions that automatically redirect site links to the available alternatives:

Mozilla Firefox

LibRedirect - Redirects YouTube, YT Music, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Imgur, Reddit, Wikipedia, Medium, etc.

Google Chrome

Privacy Redirect - Redirects Google Maps, Google Search, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, Youtube.

iPhone (iOS 15+) Safari

Privacy Redirect - Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Google Translate, Google maps, Google Search, Medium

Android

UntrackMe - Google Maps, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube

Messaging / Communication

Matrix is a federated and decentralized End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE) messaging with many platforms, the most popular of which is Element. It’s like Discord, but worse. It’s getting better over time though! You can even use a a throwaway email to sign-up.

If you’re Russian you likely already know about Telegram, but MAKE SURE you’re aware that only Secret Chats are End-to-End Encrypted. So don’t say anything that would get you in trouble outside of a Secret Chat.

End Notes

China is way better at internet censorship. They’ve had years to build the infrastructure to control the flow of information online. And yet, the Chinese people still manage to “climb the wall” and find ways around this. Russia is new to this game and doesn’t have the resources China does. So I really doubt it’ll be that hard to get around their attempts to block websites. Have faith! And feel free to DM me for more info cause this post just scratches the surface for things you can do tbh.

[nuderefsarebest]

[thydungeongal]

Don't mind me just looking for inspiration for my swords and sandals campaign

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

Testicles, son of Bophedes, the demigod who was invincible in all but his genitals. Thus was the tragedy of Bophedes’ Nuts.