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thishartominefeelz

babyanimalgifs

Bird threading pine needles through a leaf to shelter its nest

(via)

bixbythemartian

this bird is fucking sewing

To all those folk that made/make posts about God making animals through cursed and cruel means they have an anime now.

#heaven's design team #should check it out #it's exactly like the posts but an anime #it's amazing

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

oh! oh oh oh! I got commissioned to do another ‘sustainable woodland management’ post! so you’re getting: CIRCUS TREES

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

circus trees are not actually traditional or what I would call ‘woodland management’. unlike my posts on espalier & coppicing, circus trees aren’t useful so much as a horticultural novelty. they are, in fact, a living art form created by tree shaping. furthermore, they were all created by one person–Axel Erlandson.

that’s because ‘circus tree’ actually refers to trees from the Tree Circus, a 1940s tourist attraction created by Erlandson and his family. Erlandson, a Swedish immigrant and farmer, spent decades shaping trees as a hobby, before eventually deciding to display them as a roadside attraction. though often featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, changes in highway routes made it difficult for the Tree Circus to attract crowds.

The Tree Circus and its trees have changed homes several times–in the 1970s it was re-invented as a short-lived dinosaur park, before being scheduled to be bulldozed, before being granted a reprieve due to community outcry, before being granted another reprieve by real estate bankruptcy.

Eventually the trees found their current home in Gilroy Gardens, a “garden themed” theme park where the trees remain a center attraction. Perhaps the most famous is the “Basket Tree” which is admittedly…quite beautiful.

Erlandson created the Basket Tree by grafting together 6 young sycamore saplings. The tree you see above is the result of decades of growth and care.

It’s all a weird, uniquely American story–an immigrant farmer takes the (heh) fruits of a lifelong labor of love, and turns it into a struggling tourist attraction. blundering capitalism almost destroys the circus trees but community outcry (and blundering capitalism) ultimately save them–by giving them their own theme park.

I find it all bizarre & beautiful & a little bit hopeful, how there’s still room in this world for strangeness & oddities to be created and to grow. fun fact: the trees are only alive today bc of continuing care, including the efforts of a young group of activists who continually risked arrest to water & feed the trees in the late 70s.

my ko-fi

So I was waking up from a nap earlier today and I had this sort of in mind 'conversation' and well this is what happened...

Me: ugg why did I dream that Pocahontas and her bff were dating?

Internal me: because you're gay dumbass.

Me: oh.

Internal me: also the movie would be like 10x better if Pocahontas just said "fuck this shit I'm out!" to all of the shitty men in her life and went on a gay cross country canoe trip with her bff and animal pets.

Me: yeah....

#talking about the Disney movie #would be better #Pocahontas #what do yall think

darkkitty-blog1

chinesevase

My cat

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

somehow I would like fewer "Here's How Introverts Can Be More Social!" articles and more "How To Shut Up And Include Other People In The Conversation" articles

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

less "How To Be Less Introverted" and more "How To Stop Alienating Your Peers With Different Social Needs"

memeuplift

anxietyproblem

*raises hand BUT minus the good videos. Support me HERE

claireslash

@anxietyproblem shh, your videos are amazing, and you deserve more subscribers.

whitepeopletwitter

Watch "How to Steal an Election: Mail-In Ballots" on YouTube

#Youtube

Watch "Is Voter Fraud Real?" on YouTube

#Youtube

Watch "Where Do You Want to Live: Red State or Blue State?" on YouTube

#prageru #Youtube

legendary-discourse

I’m so sick of the ageism in fandom spaces.

There are teenage antis everywhere complaining about “fandom moms” and anyone 25/30+ enjoying a fandom.

These kids need to learn that adults are still people. They still have interests and hobbies.

You don’t hit an age where suddenly all your passion and enjoyment for cartoons/movies/games just vaporises, and you put on a suit and become an entirely new person with no interests outside of work and childrearing.

The ironic thing is, a lot of these teens are probably experiencing it too. I know I was at that age. People were constantly telling me I was too old to like cartoons. They said I should watch “grown up” shows and go out partying like the other people my age.

Telling adult fans they’re too old to enjoy a show, or that they should “go do their taxes” or “go have/take care of some kids” is literally no different.

Maybe they’ll finally realise when they become adults and the new crowd of youths start chasing them out. But I sincerely hope that the newer generation with have more sense than that.

We’re adults. We’re not too old to enjoy our favourite media. But we are too old to put up with your ageist bullshit.

Watch "Do We Have to Destroy the Earth to Save It?" on YouTube

#Youtube

ameliebedrawing-blog-deactivate

tofuliker

tumblr radicals are so fucking detrimental to actual feminism honestly

1minhomo1

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MY WHOLE LIFE

chughes1825

….don’t hate me for reblogging this…

your-uncle-dave

There is no lie here.

And if anyone hates you for reblogging this, it just means it’s right.

swordarmsaxelegs

I have no issue with dropping people who can’t grasp this

deactivated555-deactivated20171

Feminism is really good but super radical tumblr feminism is gross, counterproductive, and hateful

mr-reblogbutton-archived

Ya gotta love everyone guys, just love everyone equally and you’re doing it right

theindependentconservative

I hit the reblog button pretty fast.

apologieslogan

feminism: yeah!

super radical feminism: unyeah

alwaysbewoke

Anyone feel me on this?!!!! It’s especially frustrating when it looks like someone wrote something interesting and/or insightful just to lose it. FUCK!!!! Hey staff give us manual control over feed refreshing on mobile damnit!

alwaysbewoke

i made this post in 2015. fucking 5 years later WE STILL GOT THIS FUCKING PROBLEM @STAFF??!!

prostheticknowledge

Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here

johnnystompanado-deactivated201

the time is now

susaine-mcswiney-deactivated201

hell yeah

defibrinationsyndrome

ah yes, the ol rolling pin dilda

spiffymuffin

caterjunes

it’s called the purple ramjet

jolys

which end do you start with? the answer is yours to decide

grillmasterxbbq

shove a vase up your ass

lord-kitschener

not even jesus could save yall motherfuckers’ souls

fan-troll

i call it the matterhorn

poultrymancy

cackling just continues to get louder as I scroll through

darklightescape

i think this is the first time an internet community has discovered something customizable and adamantly refused to make penises

teapotsahoy

of course this is the post where tumblr is like “Seems sfw to me!”

furiousfran

I call this one the Megahorny

Just cram an entire table lamp up there

ifitaintbaroque

Me every time this post crosses my dash:

rosegardenmassacre-deactivated2

My laugh at this post is auditory evidence of just how sick I still am.

prettyyinpunk

Plate.

broadwaytheanimatedseries

I’d usually post this to my NSFW blog but this is making me laugh so unreasonably hard that I can’t fucking breathe and therefore deserves to be on my main blog