Troglodytus Asteroidea

I live in a cave on a rock in space. Stay tuned for details.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i am delighted to inform you that wild bears seeking out and swinging on hammocks is in fact a fairly common occurrence!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

thanks to @fandomislife03 for this extremely important information:

#as somebody born and raised in black bear country this is accurate #theyre also fond of backyard playgrounds

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

UPDATE: they also do this with backyard swimming pools

(and yes, same applies to kiddie pools)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh 10/10 tags:

#The mama bear we have around here in the summer knows what she's doing#she stretches out in the sun under the fruit trees#and sends her cubs up the trees to throw fruit down to her

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Bears are Non-Human People

[asteroidtroglodyte]

“We are descended from the Witches you couldn’t burn!”

It’s a nice sentiment, I like the energy, I do. That said, I am actually descended from a “Salem Witch,” and my Ancestor, Mary Isham Towne, was not burnt at the stake, she was hanged by the neck until dead. We’re not savages y’know.

Furthermore, Mary Isham Towne was a churchgoing, god-fearing woman, who just so happened to be a widow who owned a piece of land that the local judge wanted to purchase, but which she refused to sell, and which he set out to acquire pretty much immediately after he sentenced her execution.

So, y’know.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

My Grandmother on the other side was a practitioner of Women’s Reproductive Health for two decades in NYC, through the 70s & 80s. She and I had many illuminating conversations over the years about the ways in which Women are mistreated and what can be done to address it.

Her own mother had nearly bled out on their kitchen floor, once, when she was just a girl.

Great-Grandmother had had a brief affair, you see, and although she had ended it and reconciled with her husband, a bastard grew within her. Certain moralizing individuals might say that she should create an entire person as a punishment for a temporary transgression, but she was more humanitarian than that, and she had sought a then-illegal abortion. The practitioner had been more of the witchy type, and was untrained in proper medicine, and it very nearly killed Nana.

Grandmother never forgot.

And neither will I.

***

There is only one way for us to truly be a Civilized people, and it is by enshrining material protections for all citizens in law. The possession of a penis cannot be a prerequisite for the ownership of property, or a bank account, or indeed of your own body.

Protections for Women to decide about their own lives, from the ability to own a business, to the freedom to get a private and professionally performed abortion, must be enshrined in law, and enforced by those responsible for such.

I am descended from the Witches Who Were Hanged, and their ghosts whisper to me: that this fight is far from over, and far more important than many give it credit for, and that we cannot let our guard down for even one generation, lest the likes of Peter Thiel and Donald Trump send us back into a Dark Age.

Learn your history. Fight for your Sisters.

[animentality]

I sometimes think about the letter KA Applegate posted for her fans who were disappointed by the ending of her series, and while I understand simply not liking how a story ends, I really respect her reasoning.

Like you can dislike the ending, that's fine.

But her reasoning is very interesting to read. And I really enjoy the framing of the anti war message.

[spiribia]

the charm of the great chain of things is that you'll see reptile keeper circles recommending isopods as a cleanup crew in your enclosures and then you'll go look into isopods and there is a whole separate community where their main event is the isopods themselves and pet isopod care and they recommend also keeping springtails as a cleanup crew for the isopods and you look into springtails and there is a whole separate community where their main event is the springtails and they're posting photos of springtails and going They're soooooo cuuuute

[hapalopus]

I had to go look at r/springtail after reading this, and I'm so glad I did

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I love when Humans get in touch with their roots

[campodefiori9]

Tufted Titmouse in a fairy pose ,from the previous winter. Tupelo meadow ,Central park.

[sayitasyoucan]

My Valentine Cards

[3000s]

they hate each other.

[barin-mclegg]

hey bestie you forgot the poll

[3000s]

oh sorry

would you kill and eat these animals?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 3, 2024

[barin-mclegg]

I was talking to prev, asshole. The fucking critter-creature-beast poll blog? That person? Don't be a fucking dickhead.

[3000s]

sorry for being silly on my post it wont happen again

[3000s]

would you kill and eat @barin-mclegg?

yes

no

Voting ended onOct 9, 2024

[sandersstudies]

Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.

And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.

[3liza]

this is such a beautiful post it doesn't need my dumb addition, but i can't fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I'm only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.

at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we're not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child

so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world's oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any "useful" items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios' grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we've all been the same for 30,000 years.

[bobdylanyaoi]

introducing the concept of "cloth movies" and "wire movies" where cloth movies might be flashy or make you feel good or entertained but have no substance or interesting themes and wire movies where its a hard or boring watch but will challenge you as a viewer and will make you think about yourself and the world in a way you hadn't before

[asteroidtroglodyte]

“Spectacle” vs “Art House”

[evilwizard]

okay im gonna hypnotize you with my ruby amulet now DONT BE WEIRD ABOUT IT. im doing this to make you betray the king. IT IS NOT A SEX THING

[violet-hady]

I think the fact that you immediately thought about clarifying it’s not a sex thing kinda makes it sound like it is a sex thing.

[evilwizard]

FOOL. i would be using my sex amulet for that

[quark-art]

had to draw this

[9e978e]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

That’s one way to stop an AI update I guess

[shadow-wizard-moneygang]

Do you see those two weevlis Doctor? Which would you choose?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Neither: there’s not a scrap of difference between them; they’re both the same species of Curculio

[shadow-wizard-moneygang]

If you, had to choose. If you were forced to choose. If there were no other responses

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Well then, if you’re going to push me:

I would choose the right-hand weevil;

it has significant advantage in both length and breadth.

[feyosha]

There, I have you! You're completely dished!

Do you not know, that in his majesty’s service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Damn it all

[decodering]

Redditors design worst volume sliders possible

Some of these are genius! ( see reddit / via )

[decodering]

Well, this post went a bit nuts.

[xxxtictacion]

That last one honestly belongs in hell

[official-lucifers-child]

ALL OF THESE HAVE ME WHEEZING AND CACKLING SO MUCH

[ha-nice-joke]

All found in the comments but not found in master post, you’re welcome :).

[c0m13-sl4y3r]

PLEASE I LOVE THESE

[feyosha]

EXTRA TURBO HELL

[thenightalliecat]

Afro goth

[battythevampirebat]

Svn.die

[lordsmaf]

I will forever respect Animorphs for tricking kids who are just really into animals to read a book series by going “Hey you, you daydream about what it’s like to be a dolphin or a bird or a wolf? Have I got a book for you!” and then slowly radicalizing them with 50+ books of “There are no winners in war. Whatever ‘victory’ you perceive comes at the cost of sacrificing your own morals and killing the part of you that is human. In the end you will resort to murder, torture and war crimes and the knowledge of what you have done will haunt you for as long as you live.”

[banannafan]

So the amazing thing is that after the release of the last book, the author K. A. Applegate was interviewed and asked about why she wrote such a super dark ending for the series. She responded (I’m paraphrasing here, I read this when I was like 11) “This is what happens when kids are forced into war. There are no fairytale endings for them. And if that upsets you, then go to the polls and vote to prevent this from happening to real children.”

I got to ask her about that rebuttal years later at a book signing event for her newer One and Only series. She laughed and said that her publisher had no idea she would say that, and if they knew they probably would not have let her do so. But she genuinely meant what she said and was proud it left an impression that lasted 20+ years.

Support authors with real morals, guys. It’s not hard.

[desert-love]

[possumancer-co]

Candy Raver

Completed ych for zipmins!