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[bresilien-ami]

The Kelpie Pond ⟢ Jaimie Whitbread

𖦹・ hello! you can call me apollo or soleil.

𖦹・ 25, ⚥ he/they (eng) | ele/dele(port) and a leo

𖦹・ in here you can see my pups ♥︎ [updated]

𖦹・ only follow this blog if you’re 18+ or i’ll block you, i’ll also block empty blogs

𖦹・ i struggle with my memory, so please be patient.

𖦹・it’s important to note that If I Leave by Mitski & Fast Car by Tracey Chapman are always playing in my head

𖦹・ photos of me ( or photos that i take /gen) might be tagged as me / 𖦹・ me / ❥・ me , and i uhhhh might forget to tag them also (‘i’ll try to tag things now’ i said. like a liar)

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[aurorepeuffier]

New experiment : This time, I animated on radish slices. Obviously, no waste in the end, we ate the frames

[lingeringspirits]

well. we've finally received a notice to vacate.

[lingeringspirits]

we've been in a dire situation for months, ever since my wife lost her job this past autumn.

we've finally been served a notice to vacate.

$3,138 due by JUNE 14 2026 or else it's the streets for us.

with no income or proof of employment, we have nowhere else to go. i'm unable to work because of worsening ME/CFS and other debilitating health issues that i can't afford treatment for. jobs are refusing to hire my trans wife. if we lose our housing, it will kill us, as even this city is becoming more and more openly hostile to immigrants and trans women.

it's aapi heritage month and me/cfs awareness month, and we're going to get evicted in pride month.

i don't know what else to say. we've been begging for months.

ppal | vm | ca | ko-fi

[lingeringspirits]

may 20, 2026; 25 DAYS LEFT

$2,804 / $4,136

i have to add our base rent of $998 to the goal amount since we still do not have any confirmation of being hired and even if that happens soon, it will take multiple paychecks to catch up on our own, thus starting this harrowing cycle all over again.

however, we are now only $334 away from paying up in full to avoid eviction!! i am deeply grateful for everyone's generosity and help in keeping us safe and housed. thank you thank you thank you

[lingeringspirits]

may 23; 22 DAYS LEFT

$2,894 / $4,136

which means we're $244 away from paying in full to avoid eviction!! please let's keep this momentum, and again thank you so much for helping.

[lingeringspirits]

may 28; 17 DAYS LEFT

$3,069 / $4,136

meaning $69 (lol nice) left to pay in full to avoid eviction!!

still jobless and incomeless, with phone and internet bills (~$150) and next month's rent ($998, included in overall goal amount) coming up soon too. it's been an enormously stressful time and i'm currently dealing with a PEM flare on top of everything. x_x

we are so close and i am hoping this momentum keeps going so we can reach the goal asap and not get evicted during pride month. thank you everyone!!!!! this means so much and is literally saving both of our lives.

[lingeringspirits]

we've turned in the cashier's check to pay the $3,138 amount!!

unfortunately, we were also informed that the amount needed that was not reflected on the notice we were given, had bumped up to $3,200. we're able to avoid eviction with what we've paid, and requested a ledger for transparency. before eviction amount was paid, we owed a total of $4,204, as of this past monday. that means we're still on the treadmill of owing rent and getting hit with late fees, the owed balance has not been totally cleared.

the above mentioned bills (phone, internet, this month's rent +$10 late fee as it's unlikely we'll be able to pay before the 7th) are also still very needed. my wife's been in job limbo and it's unclear whether or not they're moving forward with onboarding. so we still need help in order to full catch up without incurring more fees.

incredibly grateful and frankly blown away by how much help we've been able to receive for this. i hope everyone is having a pleasant and safe pride month so far <3

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post

[nourishedbytime]

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[picturesinhistoryblog]

A US Air Force Lieutenant is held captive by a young North Vietnamese girl soldier, 1967

[elizabitchtaylor-deactivated202]

When my aunt was in her late 20s people used to rudely ask her “Why aren’t you married yet?” and she’d reply “Just lucky, I guess” which I think is one of the best things I have ever heard

[fairweatheralways]

[we-are-knight]

You know, I don't think I'll ever get over how that one post I made about women as knights in history, made it all the way to Reddit only for a bunch of redditors to argue that women couldn't actually be knights because:

- "the term is gendered" (it's not, and feminine equivalents were sometimes created specifically for the purpose)

- "they didn't actually do things as knights" (who didn't? The Hatchet women fought the Moors. A few other Orders had women as masters of arms. Both martial and formal examples)

...and a few other reasons that come down to "I don't like imagining my manly men in steel had women in their ranks, girls have cooties".

And the reason I say this is because recently, Wikipedia updated their page on "Knight", specifically adding a section about women with the title of knighthood, and what function they performed. And I know: "Wikipedia is not an academic source"--but every academic institution will accept the sources and articles used to back up wikipages, which confirm what has been said.

Knights were sometimes women. 🤷

[we-are-knight]

I saw this and needed to answer.

The gendered versions of 'knight' come from Romance languages, and literally just change the word to fit the gender of the subject (within a binary). So it isn't like English, where a female knight has always been a 'Dame', but, using Spain as an example, the word for Knight in Spanish is 'Cabellero'. This is the default masculine.

The feminine word for Knight? 'Cabellera'.

Similarly in French: "Chevalier" becomes "Chevaliére".

In Italian, "Cavaliere" becomes "Cavaliera".

Outside of Romance languages, "knight" is just a title for a social rank, so even the English Dame is by default a knight by rank, but may not have the title (although not impossible).

So it's not a silly infantilisation, than using a word for the knightly class and gendering it in a binary, which means we can actually tell that, yes, women as knights existed, enough that the feminine form of the word pops up now and then, so we know it existed.

[jv]

ooh, where one could read that original post??

Just a note about translations and ... well, patriarchal bullshit.

When you say "Hatchet women fought the Moors" I was like "hey, that seems to be part of my local history, how have I never heard about it?", and when I googled it ... I actually have heard about it, it's the Orden del Hacha from Catalonia (Orde de l'Atxa in the original Catalan). But ... there's something odd going on. Why the fuck in English they have translated like "Order or the hatchet"? You know, in Spanish and Catalan there's no really a difference between "Axe" and "Hatchet": There's a single word for them, "Hacha/Atxa". But in English, there's a difference. A Hatchet is a hand axe, pretty much the smallest one you can think of:

So It's pretty remarkable that whoever translated the name of the order to english first decided to use "Hatchet" and not "Axe". I'm pretty sure if this was a order of men warriors the name would have been pretty different. Specially when THIS was their coat of arms:

So dear academic-who-translated-this-first: Does that look like a hatchet to you, motherfucker?!?!?

[we-are-knight]

Important inclusion I was not aware of, thank you very much friend. :)

[heroineimages]

I’m going to be chuckling over ‘Does this look like a hatchet to you, motherfucker?!?!?” for the rest of the day.

[obsob]

spell caster >:3

✶print shop!! ✶

[pigswithwings]

If you don't feel interested in romance, don't often have crushes, or dislike the idea of romance in general, I have news for you: Rare Sierra Nevada Red Fox Spotted In Southern Sierra Area For First Time In Nearly A Century

[karvina]

swerving to avoid a dust speck in the middle of the highway and the guy behind me honks but when he runs into it his car is completely blasted apart

[newportmommy]

Man I hate ebegging but times r tough as a newly single mother escaping an abusive relationship left with absolutely nothing, please Venmo shailee999 if you can help, even a few bucks would count 🤧

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[muzzlesbian]

While often different in practice, cissexism, transphobia, and homophobia are all rooted in oppositional sexism, which is the belief that female and male are rigid, mutually exclusive categories, each possessing a unique and nonoverlapping set of attributes, aptitudes, abilities, and desires. Oppositional sexists attempt to punish or dismiss those of us who fall outside of gender or sexual norms because our existence threatens the idea that women and men are “opposite” sexes.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl

[mshkshh]

the adventures of teddy bear and porcelain puppy in the land of unbrewed tea