The Luminous Lupine

Your resident bioluminescent interweb lurker

[forever-memes]

Everyone this is important

[aliciavikander]

what it’s like to be a baby yoda

[friendly-animals]

(Source)

[citrus-ailuri]

OH GOSH FLUFFY

[omghotmemes]

Its all coming together

[megi-sama]

University: I have made a graduate.

Student Counsellor: You've ruined a perfectly good young adult, is what you've done. Look at it. It's got anxiety.

[the-gold-finch]

the art process

Me: *finishes drawing* 

Me: THIS IS INCREDIBLE I AM INCREDIBLE WHERE IS MY MILLION DOLLAR 

one day later

Me: it’s shit

[memesandlaughs]

[citrus-ailuri]

@amp-le this is you but with jackets

[missusruin]

Makar is a late-born celestial prince that has too much anxiety to fix the world so instead he ditches that responsibility to become a sick lute player. 

[citrus-ailuri]

Setting up some base accounts so I can organize all my affa- I mean, emails and... stuff

[startswithabang]

Advances Vs. Consequences: What Does The 21st Century Have In Store For Humanity?

“We now live in a time where the actions of a small group of people ⁠— whether through malicious or benign intentions ⁠— are capable of leading to global catastrophe. It’s not just climate change or the threat of nuclear war that hangs over us; it’s a slew of facts.

It matters that a mass extinction is occurring right now: we’re destroying this planet’s proverbial “book of life” before we’ve even read it.

It matters that computers are permeating ever-increasing facets of our life, as humanity’s recently rising electricity use (after a plateau earlier this decade) is almost entirely due to new computational uses, like cryptocurrencies and blockchain.

It matters that the population is greater than ever before, as managing and distributing the edible food and drinkable water we produce is a greater challenge than ever before.”

Do you like big, sweeping conversations that tackle the biggest existential questions facing our species today? Looking to the larger picture, of humanity’s future on Earth, scientist Martin Rees has written a book detailing the challenges facing our civilization in the 21st century, and is about to deliver a public lecture on the topic of navigating the course that could lead us into a true golden age… or to ruin.

I’ll be live-blogging the lecture with many thoughts to add, and I hope you’ll join me in enjoying it!

[tryinghuman]

This was a tutorial funded by the Patreon folks~!  They have a new one coming soon so I thought I’d put this one up for everyone. :3

[citrus-ailuri]

Good day peeps~

This account has grown cobwebs (again), but I'm going to try and make some use of it.

I'm getting a laptop sooner or later, and hopefully I'll be able to set up my workstation for music. It's been a sort of plan-in-the-dark for me to set up my own YouTube channel and produce content, just for the fun of it. I'll be using this tumblr for its promotion, and simply for other stuff.

Already I've been tinkering with something called Maestro, basically an app for sheet music. There's some stuff there I made that I could probably post here sometime.

In the meantime, I'm trying to come up with a signature name. Something that really speaks "me." I dunno, I feel like it gives me a good presence when I start putting stuff out there.

Here's one: Furrmata. A play on furry, and fermata - a musical term.

[politicalmamaduck]

Writing about a child rapist did not make Vladimir Nabokov a child rapist.

Writing about an authoritarian theocracy did not make Margaret Atwood an authoritarian theocrat.

Writing about adultery did not make Leo Tolstoy an adulterer.

Writing about a ghost did not make Toni Morrison a ghost.

Writing about a murderer did not make Fyodor Dostoevsky a murderer.

Writing about a teenage addict did not make Isabel Allende a teenage addict.

Writing about dragons and ice zombies did not make George R.R. Martin either of those things.

Writing about rich heiresses, socially awkward bachelors, and cougar widows did not make Jane Austen any of those things.

Writing about people who can control earthquakes did not make N.K. Jemisin able to control earthquakes.

Writing about your favorite characters and/or ships in situations that you choose does not make you a bad person.

It’s a shame that in this day and age these things need to be said.

[nyarnamaitar]

Or, in short: the narrator =/ the author.

[oblakom-deactivated20200302]

You know what else is a shame? This nowadays tendency of putting on the author the responsibility of teaching their readers morality.

Authors are allowed to write morally ambiguous characters.

Authors are allowed to write downright despicable characters - and guess what they are even allowed to make despicable characters charismatic and likeble and the protagonists of their stories if they wish - because absolute monsters exist only under the bed.

It is not up to the author to spoonfeed the readers about morality and Yes I know this character did a bad thing and I am going going to show it in the story and make other characters call them out of it and– Bullshit.

The authors should be able to write what they want without having thousands of people jumping and their throats claiming to know them, their ideas and their morality based on what they write.

It’s not up to the author to teach you about what is right and what is wrong.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

° on Twitter

“I'm 18, gay & Mu*lim from Pa*istan, today my family found about my sexuality via my diary. My life is in threat & my uncles will k*

Please read this thread, we need to spread it so it reaches more people and maybe someone will be able to help!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Space Is Not That Cool When The Ocean Is Already Full of Weird Shit

[feniczoroark]

Does the Ocean have GIANT SPINNING BALLS THAT EMITE RADIATION?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no, but it has this thing!

[raymondcest]

Don’t forget about this other thing!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and these things!

[frogtrenchcoat]

i really like this thing!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I love the holographic special editions!

[giraffeandahalf]

Seeing is believing…unless the creatures are see-through. 

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

these are literally just plastic bags

[jedthewolfdog]

does anyone ever do the opposite of dissociate?? where youre just suddenly and uncomfortably aware of your situation and reality 

[jedthewolfdog]

more to the point why do i get that feeling when im sitting on top of my kitchen table watching a velveeta mac and cheese pack spin in the microwave for three and a half minutes and im just like I Exist I Am Here And Theres Nothing I Can Do About It 

[jedthewolfdog]

okay this one wins, everyone can stop reblogging this now 

[lesbian-octoling]

Hey, real quick rant:

Don’t be mean to people who ask questions.

I hate it when i see someone asking ‘so wait, if a trans woman like women, is she gay or straight?’ and suddenly a dozen people jump on their ass for being ignorant or transphobic or whatnot- when all they had to do was answer the question. All you had to is go ‘She’s gay!’, and the person would go ‘oh, cool!’ and now they know. They just had a positive interaction with trans folks. 

But if you belittle them, now they’ve learned they’re punished for asking. They’re punished for wanting to know, for wanting to learn, and for coming directly to the people who live that life instead of just going to google. And they come away not having learned anything except that those people were dicks to them.

Everyone is clueless at some point. When I was 10, I was homophobic. I was a kid, raised around homophobic parents in a homophobic country. But one day i decided hey, i want to learn, and i found some gay friends and I asked them some questions.

Do you think i’d be here; if they had told me that i was an ignorant fuck, that i should pull my head out of my ass, that I shouldn’t have asked those things?

It was thanks to them that I learned and grew as a person, because even though i was a stupid homophobic kid with some admittedly stupid questions, they answered them, because everybody starts clueless.

It doesnt matter how young or old or who they are either- everyone starts somewhere. And lord knows, I’ve had some people ask me some stupid questions. My government teacher came to me yesterday and asked me that exact question i mentioned above, and I answered it. He’s a 40-something year old dude. He’s trying to learn.

My little brother is 9, and asked me once if being gay meant that I wanted to kiss every girl i met. Was it a stupid question by my standards? yes. Did I answer it like it was any other normal question? Also yes.

Insulting people who are trying to learn is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever encountered. It can literally mean the difference between someone becoming part of the community or trying to take us down. We judge that; we control how we educate. 

Do yourself a favor and educate. Everyone starts somewhere, and it’s our job to help them along, not tear them down.

[existentialistqueer]

so important! please take the time to answer the questions of people who genuinely want to educate themselves

[westernskynaida]

Literally this. And this goes for things besides LGBT+ education

I am basically a trainer at my job. Which means I have to help new hires. New hires…they ask questions that for me (and many others) feel may be stupid questions. For someone who has been here for…oh, 3 days? They’re not stupid questions.

I get so frustrated with the statement from new hires of “I’m sorry I ask so many questions but…” my response is always “ask all the questions you need/want. The more you ask here the less you’ll ask out in the actual job”

Sorry to kind of hijack your post but I’ve been really needing to get this off my chest