Just An Ant Adapting

baking | acrobatics | math | goth professional in two but not good in any of that but that doesn't stop me

[adaptingant]

you know what they say

[thecomicsvault]

[misanthropemom]

Unstated meanings conveyed through context! That’s my shit!

[sandersstudies]

Got sad today because two sixth grade students shared some inside joke that was so funny they collapsed against each other in giggles and I was hit with a massive wave of “I’ll never be young again.”

[sandersstudies]

Got happy today because one of those same sixth graders (they’re seventh graders now) approached me after seeing me have a irrepressible giggle with a friend and said “you and [my friend] are just like me and [his friend], you can’t stop laughing.”

[sandersstudies]

This is genuinely so important. If the only people a kid can look up to are serious and authoritative 100% of the time, kids start to assume that they have to abandon whimsy, imagination, and silliness to grow up and to be taken seriously. Don’t do it. Stay silly.

[soup-mother]

Step back everyone. This post requires the delicate touch of an annoying gimmick blog

[sometimesanequine]

on it boss!

[horsefigureoftheday]

Breyer #712325 Josiah

[anditwentlikethis]

when they film american celebrities on the stands and neither me or the commentators know who they are but I can loudly say "who tf is that" while they sit in silence

[thecomicsvault]

[misanthropemom]

Unstated meanings conveyed through context! That’s my shit!

[wisedreamdelusion]

don't fucking eat alone give me piece ii love pizza with grease

[pris-cas]

Lesson #21 sleep walking!

(In the book it’s mentioned that Rocky has five hearts btw!)

FYI there will be fewer post for a while, terribly sorry 💔💔

First Lesson Previous lesson

Thank you to everyone who had the idea and recommended it to me!

Thank you to my amazing beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@the-asexual-winter

@stelosia

[thecraftyninjacat]

just spent twenty minutes scrolling the tag and giggling

@justcakethanks

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[atrusovaartist]

I always thought Reddit was a place where people could share things they created.A few days ago I posted one of my original paintings. People loved it. We had wonderful conversations about art, emotions, and how everyone saw something different in the same sunset.

About two hours later I was permanently banned from r/MadeMeSmile for “self-promotion.”

I accepted that different communities have different rules.But then something even stranger happened.Soon afterward, a moderator from r/pics started going through my account. Not just the new post—many of my older painting posts disappeared as well. One after another. Then I was permanently banned there too.

Maybe it was the same moderator. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know.

What surprised me wasn’t even the ban itself. It was realizing how much power individual moderators have over what millions of people are allowed to see. One decision can erase years of posts from a community and instantly cut off your ability to participate, even if those posts had been happily sitting there for months or years.I’m not saying moderators shouldn’t have rules. Communities need moderation.But it does make you wonder where the line is between protecting a community and allowing a single interpretation of the rules to completely reshape what people can share.

The funny part?

I wasn’t advertising anything in those posts. I wasn’t posting prices or asking anyone to buy anything. I was simply sharing my original paintings because I enjoy discussing art with strangers from around the world.

Anyway…

Here’s the painting that apparently caused all the trouble. 🎨

[emeraldspiral]

[queercanelady]

how it is apparently

[catmask]

by the way. it never is too late to decide you want to be happy. the woman who helped me get hormones didnt start hers until she was 70, and i met her at 73, beautiful and smiling - and told me that the last three years of her life had been her favorite. your favorites might be ahead of you too. why not hang around and find out?

[fluffysheeps]

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈

[emotargaryen]

one of the tweets of all time to me

[pangur-and-grim]

my nephew is explaining to me that the crew who will fly his airplane tomorrow are spending the whole day squeezing all the farts out of their systems so that they won’t fart on the airplane and make it a fart plane. learning a lot about how our world works.