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My two new favorite songs. No, Francesca, I will not stop listening to them.

#mollie elizabeth #music #youtube

bustrkeaton

joy’s 1K follower celebration: 💜 + Billy Crudup for @cliffbooth, @orla-mcool, & @wexler-mcgill

Billy Crudup as Will Bloom in Big Fish (2003), dir. Tim Burton.

#big fish #will bloom #billy crudup #he is very attractive here

sentrysvoid

Big Fish dir. Tim Burton | 2003

#big fish #edward x sandra #ewan mcgregor #alison lohman #romance inspiration

movie-gifs

Big Fish dir. Tim Burton | 2003

#big fish

isatpanart

Zutoph~

(I want to believe that after Zuko caught Toph in mid-air, Sokka imagined it like that when they told him about it xd)

Comms open!

#avatar the last airbender #toph beifong #zuko x toph #zuko

frostedmagnolias

Ivory Silk Evening Dress

c. 1913

Lasell Fashion Collection

costumeloverz71

Beautiful.

#edwardian costuming

kiisaes

big fan of the kid show logic where aang is virtually unrecognizable if his head arrow isn't showing.. then i thought, "what a shame that aang only wears the earthbending academy outfit for like 5 minutes".. and then i thought, "wouldn't it be funny if aang and zuko ran into each other while they both wore earth kingdom disguises"

#avatar the last airbender

hayden-christensen

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN Behind the scenes of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Light & Magic - 2x02: There Must Be a Better Way (2025)

#hayden christensen

our-queer-experience

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

the-gummy-worms-have-me

I think I found the article!

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

mikkeneko

Reading the article I see why TERFs are mad about it; it explicitly makes the distinction between gender as a social entity and sex as a biological category, and defines biological sex having multiple factors, both of which are anathema to TERF philosophy.

It also includes these fascinating paragraphs about the role of estrogen in different types of physical activity, directly debunking the widespread notion that estrogen is the weak human's hormone and only does weak human things:

Given the fitness world's persistent touting of the hormone testosterone for athletic success, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that estrogen, which females typically produce more of than males, plays an incredibly important role in athletic performance… The estrogen receptor—the protein that estrogen binds to in order to do its work—is deeply ancient. Joseph Thornton of the University of Chicago and his colleagues have estimated that it is around 1.2 billion to 600 million years old—roughly twice as old as the testosterone receptor. In addition to helping regulate the reproductive system, estrogen influences fine-motor control and memory, enhances the growth and development of neurons, and helps to prevent hardening of the arteries. Important for the purposes of this discussion, estrogen also improves fat metabolism. During exercise, estrogen seems to encourage the body to use stored fat for energy before stored carbohydrates. Fat contains more calories per gram than carbohydrates do, so it burns more slowly, which can delay fatigue during endurance activity. Not only does estrogen encourage fat burning, but it also promotes greater fat storage within muscles… which makes that fat's energy more readily available. Adiponectin, another hormone that is typically present in higher amounts in females than in males, further enhances fat metabolism while sparing carbohydrates for future use, and it protects muscle from breakdown. Anne Friedlander of Stanford University and her colleagues found that females use as much as 70 percent more fat for energy during exercise than males. Estrogen's ability to increase fat metabolism and regulate the body's response to the hormone insulin can help prevent muscle breakdown during intense exercise. Furthermore, estrogen appears to have a stabilizing effect on cell membranes that might otherwise rupture from acute stress brought on by heat and exercise. Ruptured cells release enzymes called creatine kinases, which can damage tissues… Linda Lamont of the University of Rhode Island and her colleagues, as well as Michael Riddell of York University in Canada and his colleagues, found that females experienced less muscle breakdown than males after the same bouts of exercise. Tellingly, in a separate study, Mazen J. Hamadeh of York University and his colleagues found that males supplemented with estrogen suffered less muscle breakdown during cycling than those who didn't receive estrogen supplements.

The article also talks about sexual dimorphism in different species, concluding that "Modern humans have low sexual dimorphism compared with the other great apes," and that overemphasis on averages obscures the wide dispersal of individual traits, which is what I keep saying.

aethersea

Anthropologists also look at damage on our ancestors' skeletons for clues to their behavior. Neandertals are the best-studied extinct members of the human family because we have a rich fossil record of their remains. Neandertal females and males do not differ in their trauma patterns, nor do they exhibit sex differences in pathology from repetitive actions. Their skeletons show the same patterns of wear and tear. This finding suggests that they were doing the same things, from ambush-hunting large game animals to processing hides for leather. Yes, Neandertal women were spearing woolly rhinoceroses, and Neandertal men were making clothing.

I also thought this part was cool :)

#ooh cool #human prehistory

dangermousie

This is amazing but also hella tempting to both of them, who don't have a family. (Who knows what happened to his and we all saw what happened with hers.)