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hi everyone. i know these blogs have been dead for... a while but i’m thinking of bringing them back soon! THAT BEING SAID...

i just want to say i have grown and changed a lot in the few years i’ve been away from these blogs. rereading these blogs truly made me cringe at times because of the way i’ve handled very sensitive topics, promoted ideas i no longer hold, or in some cases, was saying things through the characters that may have even been actively harmful.

a large part of this was because i wanted to make their experiences with mental illness authentic and a lot of times mental illness can be this really ugly thing gnawing inside of you trying to get out. it makes you internalize a lot of negative beliefs. another part of it was due to the fact that i was having a really rough time in my own mental health journey and kind of letting it out through the characters was one of my ways of coping with all the troubles in my personal life and the world at large. so i wanted to apologize for anything that was unnecessarily edgy, hurtful, or in bad taste.

these blogs are still very personal to me, though, and the way i just kind of. stopped posting always felt like unfinished business to me. so it’s possible these blogs may start posting again sometime before the end of the summer. i don’t expect any future posts to be nearly as frequent or depressing as they have been in the past, since i’ve mostly played out the “plot” i had in mind, but i think it would be fun to continue with general asks and shenanigans. thanks to all my lovely followers for coming along with me on this blog’s journey!

-love, banana (your mod/author!)

from now on we’re calling all the stem folk ‘students of the unhallowed arts’, just like mary shelley wanted us to do

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finally, I get the gothic recognition I deserve as a scientist

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jaubaius

A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.

Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food.

i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!!

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