The Wonder Wench

she/her, Lyme disease, 27🌈

[ame-gosh]

what if we kissed 🫣. and we were both lemons 🍋😳

[pangur-and-grim]

do you ever have someone say something that has so many layers of wrongness that your brain just hits a brick wall? I had that with this guy. he leaned over to share a fun fact with me: “did you know, scientists have answered an age old riddle: what came first, the chicken or the egg? they extracted a protein and found it was the egg.”

and I had to blink for like 20 seconds before answering. I said well, that depends on how you’re defining the question, because the ability to lay eggs predates chickens by quite a bit. but if you’re asking what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg, it would be the chicken because whatever minuscule mutation it is that theoretically makes us consider a chicken a chicken would be in the embryo inside a not-chicken egg. and then that chicken would grow up and lay a chicken egg. but the question is actually nonsense because there’s no clear line you can draw between ‘chicken’ and ‘not a chicken’, and species as a concept is actually more artificial than you think. I can use ‘ring species’ as an example to help illustrate that, if you want. so say a deer species lives on a u-shaped island with a giant impassable mountain in the center. because of gene flow, all the populations living beside eachother will be able to interbreed. but, because the populations on either side of the u have theoretically been separate for millions of years, they can’t interbreed. is it all one species? is it multiple species? where do you draw the line? is it based on external features? on genome? because even those break down under scrutiny. so you see, the chicken and the egg question is just nonsense. also what protein. what protein did the scientists discover in the egg.

and he stammered and said “I don’t know.” and then later I realized that he’d been trying to flirt with me

[pangur-and-grim]

alright, people in the replies are not understanding.

keep in mind that the chicken/egg question is fake and bullshit and stupid enough that it makes me mad just thinking about it. but, let’s pretend the gene that defines a chicken is the ability to lay a brown egg.

a not-chicken mother lays a black not-chicken egg. inside of the black egg, the embryo has a mutation. the egg hatches. the bird grows up and lays a brown egg. voila! it’s a chicken, and it’s just laid the very first chicken egg!

does that make sense now?

[pangur-and-grim]

I think the key problem in this conversation was that we were in a creative writing class, and he didn’t know that I’d studied evolutionary biology for multiple years with the intent of getting a master’s in paleontology, only to quit because paleontological work is actually super boring and involves a lot of math. he accidentally utttered my sleeper agent activation phrase.

also it’s possible that I’m not neurotypical

[enchantedbook]

The Moon Falls a Thousand Times by Naeemeh Naeemaei

[spiritofthemeadow]

secret garden

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[thecollectibles]

Art by Leah Gardner

[celebrateeachnewday]

Artist Lucia Heffernan

[transmasc-wizard]

i'm AWARE this is a stupid hill to die on, but like. trope vs theme vs cliché vs motif vs archetype MATTERS. it matters to Me and i will die on this hill no matter how much others decide it's pointless. words mean things

[transmasc-wizard]

trope: 1) the use of figurative language for artistic effect; includes allegories, analogies, hyperbole, & metaphors, among others. 2) commonly reoccurring literary devices, motifs, or clichés. Includes things like the medieval fantasy setting, the Dark Lord, enemies-to-lovers, and the Chosen One.

theme: the reoccurring idea or subject in a work of art. Death, life, rebirth, change, love, what it means to be human, the definition of family, the effects of war, etc.

cliché: an element of an artistic work that has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even becoming annoying or irritating. (Most clichés are tropes but not all tropes are clichés.)

motif: a distinctive repeating feature or idea, such as the green light in The Great Gatsby. May overlap with tropes and is often used to further explore the theme.

archetype: a constantly-recurring symbol or motif; it refers to the recurrence of characters or ideas sharing similar traits throughout various, seemingly unrelated cases in classic storytelling. E.g. rags to riches, the wise old mentor. Again may overlap with tropes, clichés, and motifs, but they're not the exact same thing.

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Handle with care

[jareckiworld]

Debra Spence — Lucky Spoons  (pastel pencils on pastlemat, 2022)

[vaspider]

Shit like this makes me scream. It’s so good. What the fuck.

[teaboot]

MOTHER FUCKING PASTELS

FUCK

[littlealienproducts]

Frog and Toad Cross Stitch Book | Noriko So | English Translation by CozyCraftCafe

[peacozy]

Oh to be a little animal living in a tree

[cair--paravel]

Dolls’ house made by Frans and Christina Bosdyk in Picton, New South Wales, 1997-2006. It is is heavily influenced by traditional 17th century Dutch dolls houses and is made to 1/10-1/12 scale, with 20 rooms and a working electrical system. The style of the building and rooms span a period from late nineteenth century to the 1950s and portrays aspects of Dutch and Australian life from that time (via).

[hualianisms]

verified ways to send aid to gaza directly

Help a Palestinian family directly:

gazafunds.com - Donate directly to a Palestinian family in urgent need of evacuation, medical attention, food, rebuilding homes/businesses etc. (Spotlights 1 verified gfm at a time so if you don't know who/where to donate to just go here and donate to the one they show you!)

Help provide tents (urgent):

The Sameer Project: Currently providing tents for displaced families in Gaza (emergency bc tents in Rafah are being burned as we speak) (paypal) (gfm)

Food, cash & essentials:

Care for Gaza: Working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash, medicine & other essentials to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Direct Aid for Gaza: also working on the ground in Gaza to distribute food, cash & other daily essential suppliess to displaced families. (paypal) (gfm)

Water:

Gaza Municipality's water project: The official Municipality of Gaza needs help rebuilding the water infrastructure in Gaza City to restore access to clean water and waste management services for the people of Gaza. (This campaign only has a couple of weeks left but it's still only at 15%!)

eSIMs (urgent):

guide to buy & send esims for gaza

crips for esims for gaza: If you don't know how to buy esims or don't have the capacity to manage them (e.g. topping up regularly), this team of volunteers are collecting funds to buy & manage gaza esims regularly

Medical Aid

Palestine Red Crescent Society: Provides emergency medical and ambulance services and humanitarian relief on the ground in Gaza e.g. rescuing and treating the wounded.

[kaijuno]

[jun-hug]

mercats, mermcats, catfish?

print! :)

[justangrymacaroni]

as a knitter, you start to notice how rare it is for characters in tv shows and movies to knit correctly. from worst to best, it ranges from:

- laughably incorrect, just flinging yarn around

- knitting the most basic scarf incredibly slowly because the actor Learned How To Do It For The Role

- old lady actresses casually knitting an intricate lace pattern while doing a monologue

- gromit from wallace and gromit

[justangrymacaroni]

1. that’s a garter stitch, which you can clearly see despite it being made of clay

2. they took the time to animate a modified continental style of knitting, including showing how his working yarn is wrapped around his pinky, and that he’s flicking with his index on his right hand

3. he only has four fingers and yet this is better than the vast majority of knitting on tv

[passionpeachy]

tangerine snail 🍊