captured rook

Kit, 28, they/them, queer, inclusionist 

[lookcaitlin]

[vedajuno]

been mainlining mythbusters episodes while i work on art stuff and this bit where they attempt to test sneakily entering a building through the air ducts caught me deliriously off guard

[tofu-bento-box]

[Video Transcript:

[FUNKY MUSIC]

Narrator: Now remember, the aim is to make a silent entry into the secret facility.

Adam, off-screen: Jamie, are you ready?

Jamie, off-screen: Yeah, I’m ready.

Adam: Start the timer, Grant.

Grant: Timer starting in three, two, one.

Adam: Go, Jamie!

[UNIMAGINABLY LOUD BANG]

[EVERYONE LAUGHING]

Adam: Why, Thor, the god of Thunder, is trying to enter my building!

[SECOND LOUD BANG]

[ADAM CACKLING]

Tory: Somebody needs to check that air conditioner.

Transcript ends.]

[capturedrook]

https://gofund.me/12378fbd

I don't post a lot on tumblr (or even log in) much anymore, but I thought it couldn't hurt to share this here and ask that anybody inclined help out, even just by sharing it. We got hit with a real one-two punch here with our water heater taking a shit at the same time my cat got his excision, and it's become kind of expensive as fuck.

Shit, I don't even know what to tag this with. Aaaaa

[calamitys-child]

What's everyone's favourite flowers that aren't like. The normal ones. Like everyone's a fan of roses and sunflowers what's a more niche one. One you don't get in gift sets. Mine's sweet peas

[boyfrienby]

you guys Need to start seeing bugs as animals im not even joking anymore. the second u start seeing them as tiny animals the more your world opens up and the more you accept different types of life Into that world. youll begin accepting that even life you cant understand is still worth living. and itll legitimately make you a better person. fuck

[averagemorrowindenjoyer]

no.

[canonisdead]

I acknowledge they are part of the animal kingdom and I hate them and they hate me too.

I will never set the bug outside, bug comes inside my home, bug must die, they have a short lifespan anyway.

No one likes unwanted visitors. Why the heck do you think we call them 'bugs' because they bug us.

[bogleech]

This is a dumb and sad attitude and I'm tired of seeing it over and over in my notes just because I've reblogged positive posts like this one.

They aren't intruders or unwanted visitors in your home, they have no idea what your home is. How on earth could they? It's a mass of foreign materials in their path, the size of a continent to them, and an unnatural one built by unfathomable giants.

They don't hate you, and almost none of them DO anything that can "bug" you. There are tens of thousands of groups of them and the groups that might harm you can be counted on one hand.

In my decades of existence I have never killed anything but ticks, fleas, mosquitoes in the process of biting me, a single bedbug at a doctor's office, a German cockroach infestation (the only really problematic roaches) and a couple ant colonies, in particular the ant colony that got into the insects I keep as pets and ate a hunch of them. I know I'd also have to kill lice and dry wood termites in my home but I haven't met them yet.

And that's it. Almost nothing else messes with people or people things, unless you're a gardener, but if I were a gardener a much longer list would also be allies in fighting the "pests" or pollinators my plants need.

Nothing happens if you leave all the other ones alone. They aren't going to climb into your bed and suck your blood if they're a cricket or a beetle. A lacewing or a crane fly isnt interested in your food. Nothing "must die" just because you aesthetically dislike how it looks or moves in your presence, which is stupid anyway, because they're all either beautiful or adorable or just rad and awesome looking. And outside RARE clinical phobia, the hatred of a natural organism is always a choice. Why would you choose to hate anything at all for no practical reason? Most people who believe they're phobic of spiders or insects or reptiles really aren't; they just hopped onto a bandwagon at some point that they didn't question. As soon as they do begin to question it the fear begins to fade.

You should want to like everything in nature because everything in nature is at the very least like a fun little character just trying to get by, and never did anything to anybody.

[antbandddd]

if you hate bugs for no reason i will block you idc, same with any animal

[cathartidae]

ⓘ You can Bite your Friends.

[cathartidae]

ⓘ reblog to fuckign BITE your mutuals

[satyriconmp3]

utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

[byjove]

There was a TikTok post about an advertisement for “blood-making pills for weak women” someone found in a newspaper from the 1890s and everybody seemed to think it was just an example of the weird misogyny of the day and age but no. Anemia was a massive public health concern. It always has been through history but part of the reason we have this idea of old timey women thought history being physical weak, chronically cold and pale and fainting is because they often they were. Anemia was also a massive problem for men in that day but even now it disproportionally affects people who menstruate. So tonics full of stimulants and “healthful vitamins” were marketed at young women in pages upon pages of advertisements in every newspaper. People generally felt like shit all the time back then.

[judiops]

I've seen old folk remedies for anemia, particularly cooking with cast iron and putting rusty nails in an apple, leaving them in overnight, then removing the nails and eating the rust-infused apple.

It was A Whole Thing.

[byjove]

What’s interesting is that that would have worked better than a lot of the ‘medicines’ being hawked during that time. To this day, adding a small chunk of iron to a cooking pot with a mild acid is being used to prevent iron deficient anemia.

[byjove]

Yep! Absolutely. It was a much more pervasive and deadly problem throughout history because of a lack of dietary variety and medical science not completely understanding the needs of the human body. Now it is less common because many foods are fortified with additional minerals and multivitamins are inexpensive and widely available.

[kick-a-long]

people forget but before enriched flour people DIED like all the time of pellagra. a literal vitamin deficiency. people also died of tooth decay... until antibiotics and floriated water. people died and were paralyzed for life because they swam in the summer, or just drank water, or ate out at a restaurant of polio and cholera and typhoid until vaccines and effective health codes. it was expected that like a third of all kids born would die from things the MMR vaccine prevents.

learning about the history of public health is SO important to understanding why scary chemicals are WAY less scary than life without them.

[wolfnanaki]

So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

[anarchistmemedistro]

there’s an essay to be written on how the settler-colonial logic of extermination for native wildlife and for native peoples are two parts of the same project

[animalcrossingmemes]

[bidoofcrossing]

kissy kissy

[busty-gumshoe]

asexuals are queer pass it on

[busty-gumshoe]

wow yall are still arguing in these notes huh

anyway asexuals are still queer, keep passing

[beggars-opera]

#asexuals are ultimate queer#most people can accept that humans are sexually attracted to somebody gender regardless#but say you aren’t interested in sex at all and they brick like a cheap burner phone

@colorfauna inspired

[weepingwidar]

Scott Fraser (American, 1957) - Crab Cake (2019)

[souperluminal]

05.29 - Rift

[parsleysagerosemarytimemachine]

Hey, since Crunchyroll has removed Utena from its catalog just in time for Pride month, here's your reminder that the whole series is free to watch on Youtube! (Thanks to Nozomi Entertainment for being good about keeping up their official hosting.)

Revolutionary Girl Utena (Sub) and (Dub)

Now's a great time to watch a classic queer anime that's shaped the entire genre!

Some warnings below the cut, because it's also tragic and you might not want to go in unaware... It's so worth it though!

Warnings for: assault/abuse, domestic partner violence, sexual assault, homophobia, rape, incest, grooming, pedophilia, suicide, unreality, impalement

If any of these would be a major problem for you, I'd recommend looking up a more specific spoiler/trigger list. Utena is a great show, and is very much bringing all of it up to show how horrible and damaging it can be, but also, it can be a lot for that same reason. :)

[cronchy-baguette]

maru in all her rat glory

[liefdesbriefjes]

they don’t tell you this but you can take steps to improve your life all the time. even when you’re feeling absolutely miserable. even when it doesn’t pay off immediately. do you guys know about this

[ghostinthebathroom]

I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.