Amari

Hi! I'm Amari. Things I like: My dog, making mediocre to outright bad art, and sleeping. Sometimes I play bass and sometimes I also bring out the lyre. I am good at neither. This is not a safe space for radfems. -11/22/22-

[pacey-grey]

I made a baby blanket for a pregnant woman at work and I went back and forth about it like “is this weird? To like hand make something for someone when we’re like friendly acquaintances not like bffs. God why are you so fucking awkward.” Anyway I gave it to her and she said she loved it and in the back of my head I’m like yea she’s nice and probably just humoring the weirdo. Well she texted me a picture this weekend of a scrunchy faced newborn at the hospital wrapped in the blanket I made her. And I’m like. Wow. She loved it so much she took it with her! To the hospital! To give birth! She wrapped her newborn it! I am just so filled with love and joy right now.

People will love the things you make them. Because you thought of them and you cared.

[amarindash]

present wrapping 45% complete, heck yeah.

[i-have-no-gender-only-rage]

some info on bees and wasps 

[coolmanfromthepast]

I’ve been stung by a carpenter bee.  They’re usually pretty chill.

And dirt daubers are bros.  

[blitzkriegfritz]

It’s true you can pet Bumblebees

[midcub-deactivated20190621]

[90shouseboat]

@onenicebugperday

[onenicebugperday]

Wow! Most of this is incredibly wrong :) Let me fix it

[sacred-portal]

[cannibalchicken]

[prospitianescapee]

This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”

[cryptotheism]

Now this is a fucking post

[partywithponies]

Headcanon that in the new good future where Marty McFly never has his accident, he does become a famous musician, while still going on time travel adventures with Doc, and then when the internet comes along, people on forums and message boards start discovering and posting photos of people in the past who look eerily like famous rock star Marty McFly, and as time goes on, “Marty McFly is a time traveller” becomes one of the biggest and most long running memes on the internet.

When Doc finds out he freaks out and panicks and makes blog posts (because of COURSE Doc runs a blog) talking about how UTTERLY RIDICULOUS the idea of a time travelling rock star is, which the internet finds hilarious and only makes the meme spread more.

Marty meanwhile thinks the whole thing is the funniest thing ever and is just wheezing at every new forum or jokey article about it, and directly addresses the meme in interviews, bringing up this “crazy conspiracy” that people have, until eventually he can just say things like “well of course I am a time traveller” or “oh you like my hat? Thank you I got it in the 1910s”, and people just crack up, and Marty cracks up too because no-one realises that he’s not even lying.

[partywithponies]

When Marty starts doing this Doc’s blog posts get even more annoyed and passive aggressive, saying things like “even if time travel WAS possible, a SENSIBLE time traveller would KEEP OUT OF THE PUBLIC EYE and not just TELL EVERYONE LIVE ON TV”

Eventually a secondary meme starts up where people start joking “Doctor Emmett Brown is a time traveller himself and that’s why he’s so worked up about it” and Doc very nearly just deletes his blog and throws his computer in a skip.

[partywithponies]

@elbiotipo Then you should follow me, for mORE QUALITY BTTF HEADCANONS (or don’t, it’s up to you)

[elden-12]

OH MY GOD! THIS! THIS IS PERFECT! :D

[ripe]

[coke-hyena]

Two raccoons swimming in close circles in a pond Bc they ARE gay and in love

[starwarsgraphictee]

The moon spirit

[disfordavelifts]

Those koi look weird

[vonkarn]

love is blooming in the pond

[anderswasrightt]

don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.

i’m 35 years old. i’ve been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.

i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.

spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.

sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i’ve been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i’m growing real fuckin weary of it.

i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she’s not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?

do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.

[anderswasrightt]

“Transgendered people are demanding the right to choose our own self-definitions. The language used in this pamphlet may quickly become outdated as the gender community coalesces and organizes—a wonderful problem.” - Leslie Feinberg

So yeah, anon, “FtM” may be a slightly older term from the 2010’s and earlier, and you may not identify with it, but as Leslie Feinberg said, we are choosing our own self-definitions. That includes the outdated or unpopular self-definitions.

And besides, why wouldn’t you want a plethora of terms to be able to choose from to describe yourself? So many of us grew up without even recognizing we were trans because we didn’t have the language to describe what we were feeling, and now that we do, you’d take those words away simply because YOU don’t identify with them? You’d further limit how your community describes itself and identifies, as if we haven’t already dealt with enough suppression of identity?

Nah.

[fierceawakening]

I completely understand “I don’t want to use FTM or MTF, they don’t really capture my experience and make me kind of uncomfortable.”

I’m way less understanding of “anyone who wants to proudly mention having changed their sex characteristics is a self-hating tran.”

No. Bad. Fail. Go back to start.

[ghostowlattic]

[teaboot]

"People of Walmart" memes popping up like

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

That's a Halloween costume

That's cosplay

That's a Trans woman

That's a Trans woman

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

That's cosplay

That person is homeless

That person has a medical issue

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

Humiliation fetish

Pet play

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING AAH

Shirtless

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

That's a Trans woman

Oh that's a Very Good Look actually

That's a Halloween costume

You wouldn't care if they were skinny

Naked man

[reasonsforhope]

20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’

The man who won't rest until the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is cleaned up has successfully tested his system for doing so.

““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.

Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.

Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.

The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.

GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.

It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…

Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21

[annfryart]

Ah! You’ve found a snail hanging out on a mushroom, and they’re happy to see you! (a different color variant to that’s used on my business cards. you can buy this piece as a print here!)

[tahthetrickster]

it’s december 1 where’s the christmas tail kitten bring him to me

[tahthetrickster]

i have to do EVERYTHING around here

[fearthefuzzybear]

oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

[amarindash]

my dog loves getting packages almost as much as i do.

[amarindash]

i fumbled my painting and now theres a big thumbprint in the middle of it. omg. then i tried painting over it, but then i accidentally got a tiny speck of black paint in it on top of the blue and yeah thats how my day is going. theres also paint everywhere.

[amarindash]

oil paint takes soooo long to dry omg. acrylics and crayons only from here on out, i swear.