A.D.DAVID

my other tumblr is "ADDAVID Does Comics" Hi I'm David. I'm a cook and love food in general (especially lasagna). I like to paint, listen to music (mostly the metal genre), read books and comics, go to the movies.

[sizvideos]

[inverted-typo]

This is actually a test showing how sponges pump water through themselves for filter feeding! They simply colored the water around them so you could easily see the process.

[sixpenceee]

[phloxy-foxxy-deactivated2022062]

I love the ocean

[addavid88]

Can we please get rid of the stigma that if your S/O has a physical or mental disability that we can't get mad or irritated when the symptoms surface and the person messes up. Because I have ADD (ADHD) and sometimes my ADD pisses me off when I mes up. I get angry with myself. And to not expect my SO to get upset by something I did (or more likely didn't do in my case) is unreasonable to ask of another person.

Sure it may make me feel a little worse, but you shouldn't HAVE TO hide your feelings for another's benefit. That's not fair. People without health issues are not perfect either. At the end of the day my girl loves me and I her. We'll get over it all, together.

I feel like I have more to say, but right now my thoughts are scattered and feel like I'll just be rambling...

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

fucking mood

[catchymemes]

Astronaut tweets

[somuch4stardust]

Attempting to explain your organizational system to someone who doesn’t have adhd

[katrinageist]

When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.  

It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.  

There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.

When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.

[jumpingjacktrash]

what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.

[kelseyridge13]

There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town.  But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him.  He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.

So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.

[calamitycons]

This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about “cultural appropriation.”

[okayilubuhbye-deactivated201611]

This is an EXCELLENT explanation through example!

[figureyourlifeout-deactivated20]

This is PERFECT. I’m using this in my classroom.

[prismatic-bell]

And you also have an example of cultural appreciation at the end! Santa isn’t happy about what Jack has done, but he still offers to share something special: Snow. And we see Jack go back to the way he first appreciated it, simply walking through it and enjoying the cold and the way it looks before having a moment with Sally—which in fact IS what Christmas (in the context of the movie) is about: sharing love and joy.

[addavid88]

So I think Disneyland is ok but there's one find memory that I'll always be very fond of from 8 years ago give or take.

I was with my mom and girlfriend taking pictures with the different characters. When I was taking the picture with Eeyore my mom told me to look sad. Eeyore violently shook his head no! Then he took his hands (if you want to call them that) and pushed my mouth into a smile. My mom kept on trying to get me to frown multiple times but Eeyore wouldn't relent. Each he would put my mouth into a smile or do a dance. Eeyore, who is know for being depressed, didn't want me to be sad even for a picture.

The lesson I took away from it was then even when people are depressed, it in no way means they want you sad. Some people are all like "oh that person is such a downer" but that person doesn't want to bring you down. They don't want to be sad, much less spread the sadness to. They want you happy! And you deserve to be happy!

[addminds]

it’s the year two thousand and eighteen and we’re still having to fight with neurotypicals about whether or not our OWN mental disorder is real

like yeah, we get it richard, you don’t experience it so you suddenly believe it doesn’t exist. Contrary to popular belief, perhaps this isn’t all about you for once?? Maybe - and this is just a little theory I came up with - maybe not everyoneis exactly like you, and maybe there are things other people experience that you don’t? I know it’s wild, but I’m sure if you put your big strong neurotypical brain to it, you’ll be able to wrap your head around it :)

[adhd-family]

My friend, just today I had to explain to a grown ass adult, whose job is to supervise actual children in an actual school, that my 7 yo actually needed the crutches he was using, yes.

Like, what did the woman think the kid had them for? The pretty color? Did she think we went “oh he’s too young for an iphone, let’s buy him crutches instead”? ????

It’s less that they don’t get it and more they don’t want to, because if they believed in it it’d put them under a moral obligation to treat you better. But as long as they claim it’s fake, they have an excuse to treat you like shit.

[addminds]

Oh, wow. This story, this one right here shows how much people just TRY not to understand. And that last paragraph? The most accurate thing I’ve ever read. 10/10 reply, that gets a big A+

[humoristics]

[james-winston]

The Titanoboa, is a 48ft long snake dating from around 60-58million years ago. It had a rib cage 2ft wide, allowing it to eat whole crocodiles, and surrounding the ribcage were muscles so powerful that it could crush a rhino. Titanoboa was so big it couldn’t even spend long amounts of time on land, because the force of gravity acting on it would cause it to suffocate under its own weight.

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

I’m so glad they aren’t around

[vitressence-deactivated20150307]

omg me too. I’m scared enough of 26 ft long anacondas. I’m so happy Megalodons, those giant sharks, aren’t alive either

[laurdlannister-kingslayer]

Praise natural selection

[poppypicklesticks-blog]

I remember watching Walking with Beasts or something similar, or some British tv show about evolution

The subject was something like a 12 foot long water scorpion

I was so startled by its sudden appearance and narration that I yelped: “12 fucking feet?!?!  I’m fucking glad it’s extinct!” 

[silvermoon424]

Dude, prehistory was home to some fucking TERRIFYING creatures. For some reason, everything back then was enormous and scary. Extinction doesn’t always have to be a bad thing!

And Poppy, what you saw was an arthropod known as Pterygotus (it was actually featured in Walking With Monsters). Not only was it as big (or maybe even bigger) than your average human, it had a stinger the size of a lightbulb. REALLY glad that bugger isn’t around anymore.

Also, Megalodon deserves to be mention again, because just hearing its name makes me want to never be submerged in water ever again.

[sashayed]

GOD, I HATE THIS POST. HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT SHIT ISN’T STILL AROUND? LURKING? EVOLVING? WE DON’T. WE DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT DOWN THERE. THE OCEAN IS A PRIMEVAL HELLSCAPE NIGHTMARE AND WE ALL JUST DIP OUR STUPID FRAGILE UNPROTECTED FETUS BODIES AROUND THE EDGES OF IT LIKE THAT’S NORMAL. FUCK THE OCEAN.

[honey-andrevolution]

this is so relevant to my interests 

[siphersaysstuff]

It wasn’t just the predators. North Carolina was once home to giant ground sloths…

THAT IS A GODDAMNED LEAF-EATING SLOTH.

We’ve got a skeleton of one of these fuckers at the museum downtown, and man, just being NEAR it is unsettling.

[anneriawings]

DON’T FORGET PREHISTORIC WHALES, SOME OF THOSE FUCKERS WERE TERRIFYING

AMBULOCETUS WAS AMPHIBIOUS AND PRETTY BADASS

BASILOSAURUS WAS THIS GIANT REPTILIAN CETACEAN THAT PROBABLY SWAM LIKE A DUMB EEL BECAUSE OF ITS TINY FLUKES BUT THIS FUCKER WAS 60 FEET LONG AND AT THE TOP OF THE MARINE FOOD CHAIN

AND THEN THERE’S MY FAVORITE, ZYGOPHYSETER, WHICH WAS THIS HUGE EARLY SPERM WHALE THAT ATE SHARKS AND OTHER WHALES

IT WAS NOTHING BUT TEETH

[gallizfrey]

The reason why the animals in the prehistoric times were so big was because there was much more oxygen in the atmosphere if I recall correctly. Because there was so much oxygen and so few carbon gasses, life on earth was able to grow to terrifying lengths and heights, don’t forget how giant the bugs were.

[shabbytigers]

I have never seen so much prime nope in a single post

[ororomunroedontpullout]

Also important to note that megalodon is theorized to still be alive,possibly living in the darkest depths of the ocean. They haven’t found signs of its extinction

[king-of-the-edge]

scientists: “we haven’t seen a megalodon in quite some time now, let’s just hope it’s exstinct”

[aninactivebloggfgfgf]

This whole post is my JAM not gonna lie I am fascinated by massive prehistoric animals

[universal-horror]

The Mummy (1932) Cinema marquee

[acegengar]

Vampire Princess Miyu- Narumi Kakinouchi.

[sixpenceee]

A video of a sun dog. Sun dogs or phantom suns, are when there is a pair of bright spots on either side on the Sun. This happens when light interacts with ice crystals in the atmosphere, much like a sun halo. Sun dogs are best seen and are most conspicuous when the Sun is low. (Source)

More bizarre world posts here: sixpenceee.com/tagged/world

[addavid88]

I'll be the first to admit that the market is overly oversaturated with Deadpool merch. But I'm love this pop that @kitty_loves_god got me

[addavid88]

I'll be the first to admit that the market is overly oversaturated with Deadpool merch. But I'm love this pop that @kitty_loves_god got me

[lord-kitschener]

[punkconcert]

John Mulaney, a true ADHD icon

[bampajangs-deactivated20191208]

@in-oceanum

[addavid88]

Sometimes A.D.D. is the way to be