This Town

Lara, 🇵🇹|| Fandoms have ruined my life. Please tell me if you need me to tag anything Sideblog

[cloudytelltales]

7 years on tumblr

[zagreus]

We’re no strangers to loss You know the pattern, and so do I…

[zagreus]

[now-exiting-fuckability-deactiv]

GenZ kids seem to think they're solving sexism, but all I see is more gender baggage, higher beauty standards, more objectification, more sexualization of young girls, and more pseudo-woke language for men to use to ignore the lived realities of women.

[rawdoggingcardinals]

Being able to name several different flavours of monster off the top of my head and what they taste like/why i like them is neither a blessing nor a curse but at least 2 of my 4 friends cant name one so i think im winning (derogatory)

[rawdoggingcardinals]

@wayfaringpanda This is my favourite purely bc it reminded me i had the opposite experience where someone in a gc said "The only monsters i care about are the kind i can fuck" and me, somehow thinking they were talking abt monster energy (genuinely cannot stress enough how i sincerely thought they were talking abt monster cans), sent a pic of my current can of monster saying "I mean its got a girth on it" and unintentionally floored the entire chat

[xgh0ulx]

If a trans masc tells u it’s “that time of the month” he means this

[ballisticmarking]

[yugiohlesbians]

this made me laugh so hard i thought i was goinh to throw up. the animators didn’t care enough i fucking guess

[yugiohlesbians]

[botanyshitposts]

Apparently one of thoes giant lilypads at kew is an undiscovered species but nobody noticed

THE PLANTS CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS DUDE OH MY GOD THEY CANT JUST KEEP DOING THIS TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[botanyshitposts]

side note, the guy in the photo and the guy who led the team that grew/described this absolute Unit is named Carlos Magdelena, hes a horticulturalist at the KEW who specializes in lily pads and is also known for being the guy who figured out how to grow the smallest lily pad species on earth, Nymphaea thermarum, from seed. it’s a species that’s now extinct in the wild and was brought to the KEW to keep it from all-out extinction, which it had an INCREDIBLY close brush with like, multiple times (it was native only to a single tiny hot spring in Rwanda that got drained from agricultural use).

here’s a picture of him holding it on top of the largest water lily in the world at the time of this photo, Victoria amazonica, which we now know is actually the second largest next to this new one, which is a close relative!

he also wrote a book of some of his stories of saving plants from extinction at the KEW called ‘the plant messiah’, which includes the story of N. thermarum. really cool non-academic read about rare plants and conservation, i need to reread it sometime!

[untexting]

Isn’t it weird how we basically have an endless mental conversation with ourselves?

[capstellium]

i hate twitter bc every time a new season of stranger things comes out everyone is on there like “winona ryder in the 90’s tho😍” like bitch.... winona ryder is hot now. im so tired of cowardice. accept milfs into your heart or perish

[goingtothebes]

manic pixie dream senior citizen

[ecthecat]

[catceleste]

question for any entomologists out there: if bumblebees were of a comparable size to, say, a kitten, would they enjoy resting in my lap while i gently comb their fuzz with a barbie brush? i know that i would enjoy that but i hope they would as well.

[bluecanarry]

hi! as an entomologist who specializes in bumble bees— my answer is probably yes! many, if not all insects groom themselves as a way to keep clean and to keep their senses sharp, but in societies of insects (specifically bees) we see them groom each other, and colonies of bees who have more allogrooming are typically stronger and healthier! these bees who groom others are integral to the colony, and we see grooming in other social insects like termites as well, specifically in relation to the queen. you might have more luck with a flea comb than a barbie brush, just to really mimic the feeling of them and others grooming it, but i like to think they would enjoy being cleaned and pampered :)

[beardedmrbean]

According to the people on reddit, these are 'burrowing owls' and it's beyond likely that the dark tunnel of doom leads to their new home.

so this is just kinda how it be for them

There were also several references to "the claw"

[mysharona1987]

The only two men on the planet who seem to be proud that they are bad lovers and will never stop reminding everyone of the fact.

[anexperimentallife]

[suriel]

this reply in the comments tho

[thatdisasterauthor]

This did not go where I expected from the first tweet and now I am laughing so hard I am crying.

[phasewashere-deactivated2025021]

fuck you i like my men tragic and unstable

[hedgehog-moss]

I’ve noticed lately that it’s often Americans who leave tags like “I don’t even care if it’s made up” on posts I make that are not particularly unbelievable, but are pretty specific to my way of life or corner of the world (like the one about the cheese vendor). It reminds me of that tweet that was circulating, that said Americans have a “medieval peasant scale of worldview”—I mean, if you don’t want to be perceived this way by the rest of the world maybe don’t go around social media saying that if a cultural concept or way of life sounds unfamiliar it must be made up?

It’s the imbalance that’s annoying, because like—when I mentioned having no mobile network around here I had people giving me info about Verizon to fix my problem. I post some rural pic and someone says it must be somewhere in the Midwest because the Southwest doesn’t look like this. My post about my postwoman has thousands of Americans assuming it’s about the USPS. On my post about my architect there’s someone saying “it’s because architecture is an impacted major” and other irrelevant stuff about how architecture is taught in the US. This kind of thing happens so so so often and I’m expected to be familiar with the concepts of Verizon and the Midwest and impacted majors and the USPS and meanwhile I make a post about my daily life and Americans in the notes are debating like “dunno if real. it sounds made up”

Going online for the rest of the world means having to keep in mind an insane amount of hyperspecific trivia about American culture while going online for Americans means having to keep in mind that the rest of the world really exists I guess