Le temps d'apprendre à vivre, il est déjà trop tard

Art & Whatever Else. they or he I guess French, avatar by Greer Stothers

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Martin Drolling (French, 1752-1817), La fille de l'artiste copiant un dessin (The Artist's Daughter copying a Drawing), oil, undated.

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ramiel

[zedtron774]

Kawanabe Kyosai, White Heron in the Rain, colour woodblock print, Japan, 1880

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Kiang Equus kiang

Observed by migi30, CC BY-NC

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It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

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Wild water buffalo Bubalus arnee

Observed by chitrashanker, CC BY-NC

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Margay (Leopardus wiedii), family Felidae, mother and kitten, Costa Rica

photograph by Kenneth Martinez

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Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), males, family Phasianidae, order Galliformes, Yunnan, China

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Wild Safari Saga

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Just saw a bird get a worm at 8:06pm.

Never let the morning people say it can't be done

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[nadiacreek]

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

[elodieunderglass]

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

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creature

[rajingdragon]

Hehe funny red booby bird

(Though I am genuinely enamored by their wing shape. Magnificent really is the word here)

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I'll see you later alligator

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dogs dogs dogs

[wolfythewitch]

My piece for the Sing O Muse zine! Its coming out in July so keep an eye out for the tag :]

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The main reason I’m pushing for people to stop using the term ‘pedophile’ and instead use the term ‘child sexual abusers’, is because since all discussions of child sexual abuse focus on this idea of an evil person who is just out to get kids because they are sexual attracted to them, it makes it hard for kids who where sexually assaulted by people who don’t fit that description to realize they were sexually assaulted.

It didn’t register for me until recently that my experiences of being forced to strip naked multiple times at the mental hospital to be ‘checked’ when I was 14 was sexual assault, because the people who did it were nurses/doctors who clearly didn’t find me sexually attractive but instead used it as a form of humiliation and control towards children they deemed as ‘unruly’ and ‘uncooperative’ (ie. children who asked to be treated like people). I thought only people who fit into this idea of a child attracted pedo could be child sexual abusers, so I thought my experience didn’t count.

Stepping away from the idea that there is a pedophile boggieman and instead highlighting that anyone can be a child sexual abuser will help more people realize that their experiences are sexual assault.

[mousidy]

my stepfather would openly sexually harass me and my siblings at dinner while also loving the fantasy of killing pedophiles. whether he personally found our abuse sexually gratifying was frankly irrelevant to whether it traumatized us. whether he would be considered a pedophile or not doesn't change that he committed sexual abuse of children

I think in his mind there was a type of horrible person out there who does horrible things, and because he didn't think of himself as fitting that category, his actions could not be judged