there is no heterosexual explanation

lvl 29 cat mother vampire wannabe retired manic pixie dream girl

[bisexy-vampyr]

hey!

im Juno, tumblr veteran of over ten years, almost thirty so minors plz DNI

she/her

I post about whatever hyper fixation takes a hold of me, so atm it’s vampires, iwtv/tvl, and bridgerton. also super leftist so TERFs and Zionists and racists, fuck off.

im also working on writing my story more, so if yall are interested in it, lemme know!

[passengerpigeons]

do u ever think about corn sweat; and the fact that a large percent of corn grown in Illinois, iowa, etc is grown for ethanol and biofuel; and how solar power would be so many times more effective per acre than this; and how like 90+% of so many rare ecosystems in those states was drained for farm and suburbs (in many cases previously farms).

[passengerpigeons]

AND you could still have native plants around and even under the solar panels.

[passengerpigeons]

When you see what they did to the Midwest you'll want to fucking kill the corn lobbyists with your bare hands

[jadeseadragon]

Lola Álvarez, Frida Kahlo (looking in a mirror) with her Xoloitzcuintli dogs, 1944, Casa Azul, Mexico City.

[my-platonic-chemical-romance]

Been rewatching clips of season two for an AMV and I keep thinking back to when Assad said Armand respected Claudia because I genuinely think he did. Armand comes off to me as a person who might not compliment you yourself a lot but will praise you to other people.

Armand compliments her killing, remarking that it’s a shame her body is not equal to her, but still seeing the viciousness in her.

Armand praises Claudia again, telling Louis that she’s far better at blocking her thoughts than him.

The reason Armand spared Louis in the sewers scene is because he could see how much Louis loved Claudia.

I will die on the hill of the reason Armand came to hate Claudia is because he saw so much of himself in her. Armand’s whole thing in the beginning was that Claudia would go mad because of the age she was turned at(think of all the vampires he’s seen burn themselves over the centuries). But I feel like some of that was personal projection on Armand’s part. Louis described Armand as, “a boy masquerading as a gentleman.” Definitely think this is meant to clue into the fact that mentally, Armand isn’t that much older than Claudia was physically. Those two were opposite sides of the same coin.

This could even be why he made Claudia play a role that he knew would wound her so deeply. Armand was expected to stand perfectly still for hours upon when he was Amadeo posing for portraits, he had to dress up too. Except while he was posing Claudia was singing and dancing, both were performing. In Armand’s mind, life is all about waking up and doing shit you don’t want to do. If you aren’t willing to do that, then there’s no point in you ever waking up. I think Armand saw Amadeo in Claudia, and since Amadeo suffered he figures Claudia needs the same “discipline” he was given by Marius.

Amadeo and Claudia were both lost and seeking homes. Amadeo, while surrounded by nice and lavish things, really wasn’t treated any better than he was in the brothel with Marius. So when Armand saw how happy Claudia was, he tried to mold her into her own Armand. Because Amadeos don’t survive in the world, Armands do. Plus, in Armand’s mind, 20 minutes a night is nothing compared to the horrors he was put through on a daily. In Armand’s mind, he probably thought he was being lax. Marius would literally beat and whip Armand, so to him this is nothing, in five decades she’ll have a new role and she’ll be fine.

Two ways Lestat and Armand were similar is that they both saw far too much of themselves in Claudia, decided to treat Claudia the way they thought their inner child needed to be treated, and saw her as competition for Louis.

[fagotry]

So there was a big earthquake in Colombia, a magnitude of 7.4. If anyone wants to d0nate here is a g0fundm3 link, the d0nations will go directly to help black and indigenous communities of this organization. Every help counts, especially since those communities don't receive help from the State

[rosaalee]

me reading the tags people put in my notifications

[xanaxfarts]

Sabrina Brewer: ‘Capricorn’ (2004)

[pmamtraveller]

Bernadette Gervais, Metamorphosis

[devilleworship]

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

It's not as if this shit has been around SOOO LONG. We all existed JUST FINE before this shit became THE THING someone decided to shove in our face like...

[so-much-for-subtlety]

I love stuff like this when people are in so deep they can’t even recognize how batshit crazy they sound

[botanical-academia-deactivated2]

shades of green ~~

[chicalepidopterareblogs]

I honestly think the age gap makes so much sense while also adding so many layers to Nicki/Nickistat relationship and characterization: Nicki is younger because Lestat is older and their tragedy is that Nicki could never be as old as Lestat gets to be in the show.

Nicki needed to be at least young enough to have been to Paris to study violin right before meeting Lestat, despite the tragedy of it beeing already too late for him to learn it properly. Having already been to Paris it wouldn't have made sense for Nicki as a character to return to Auvergne and stay there until 30 like Lestat did. Auvergne was oppressive for both Nicki and Lestat but Nicki would have ended it all drastically and much sooner, had he been forced to stay.

Nicki doesn't endure like Lestat does, he's trop fragile. But when they meet in Paris he also says this:

Because underneath his fragility there is also rebellion and defiance and an eagerness to upset those who wrong him, in this case his dad. Imagine how foundational this must have been for Lestat. Societal rules expect Lestat to teach younger Nicki to be a man, but Nicki subverts those expectations and becomes a mentor to Lestat by teaching him that initimacy wasn't the violent monstrousity that had been inflicted upon him for all his formative years, but something joyful and liberating. By candlelight Nicki teaches Lestat how to kiss again.

The very core of the Nickistat dynamic that Anne Rice wrote is not them being childhood friends as many people claim, but Nicki being an inspiration to Lestat for resistance and disobedience, and that's pretty much still in the show despite Nicki's youth, or rather because of it. The show managed to convey it with a combination of one of the most erotic lines in recent television history and the sheer power of Sam and Jospeh fiery on-screen chemistry.

[todropscience]

UNMASKING THE BLUEBOTTLE REVEALING FOUR DISTINCT SPECIES THROUGH GLOBAL CITIZEN SCIENCE

For over two centuries, the Portuguese man o’ war (Physalia spp) was considered a single, cosmopolitan species, drifting across the world’s oceans and stinging unsuspecting swimmers. But new genomic research has overturned this long-held view, revealing that Physalia is not one species, but at least four: P. physalis, P. megalista, P. utriculus, and a newly described species, P. minuta. Researchers sequenced the genomes of 151 specimens from around the globe and found strong reproductive isolation between genetic lineages, even when their distributions overlap. This evidence aligns with historical descriptions from the 18th and 19th centuries, which proposed several species that were later dismissed due to limited data.

Crucially, the study integrated over 4,000 photographs from iNaturalist, using citizen science to match distinct morphologies with genetic lineages. These images, contributed by amateur naturalists, swimmers, and lifeguards, allowed researchers to confirm physical differences that earlier taxonomists could not consistently observe due to preservation challenges. The result is a rare success story in which modern genomics, historical records, and participatory science come together to clarify the taxonomy of one of the ocean’s most recognisable creatures.

The discovery not only rewrites the story of Physalia but also challenges assumptions about biodiversity in the open ocean, reminding us that even the most visible marine life can hold hidden complexity, and that everyone, from sailors of the past to today’s citizen scientists, has a role to play in uncovering it.

Reference: Church et al., 2025. Population genomics of a sailing siphonophore reveals genetic structure in the open ocean. Current Biology.

[phaeton-flier]

So many little ways that hatred of some underclass — immigrants, the homeless, the young — requires making things worse for everyone so those in the under class don't get anything nice either. Whole smorgasbord of shooting yourself in the foot out of spite

[phaeton-flier]

have to keep ourselves poorer just to keep brown people out. can't have public bathrooms because the homeless might use them. have to play high-pitched noise to keep teens away. we are letting the cruelest people among us make our lives worse so they can be hateful

[carefulzombie]

the main character is very punchable but i will admit i did snort at him witnessing a mother put a living frog in her child’s mouth to ‘cure her throat ache’ and when asked if she could help him his response was “considering you’re all raving mad probably not” then walking right back out

[carefulzombie]

the people of summerisle seem remarkably patient with this man loudly calling them some form of godless heathens every few minutes but that’s likely because they know they’re going to get to burn him alive later

[robin-therobber]

katara is in her belly #pregnant

[sublimehoneybear]

Help a Disabled Trans Gal Survive And Keep Her Home?

Still in dire straits due to my disability and being unhireable as an out trans woman in the south, the last fundraiser went just far enough to keep me in housing, but I'm still on a knife's edge and need help both getting food and making rent next month. I probably should've posted this sooner, but... I already feel bad having to ask to begin with. And, I can't wait to never have to make one of these fucking posts again.

I need ~$300 to be able to keep my home and not be totally food insecure.

$0/$300

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