echos in the hollow

Call me Hollow, they/them, Queer and Genderfucked, Exmormon, this blog is run by an adult and may contain adult topics

[cryptid-amalgamation]

Side Blog List

I’ve decided to make a post to list my side blogs if people want to see them :)

@bodyistired is my blog about disability and medical shit

@somesortofblog is my primarily exmormon and ex-religious blog, it also has some nsfw topics and discussions

@spiralingwatcher was originally for The Magnus Archives, though I also post Mechanisms, and other horror podcast content

@wandering-the-disc is for anything to do with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld or other Terry Pratchett stuff

@wovenivy is for any interesting yarn and fiber arts stuff

@echoingart is for re blogging cool art and art advice/tutorials etc

[captaincrusher]

Me filtering out kinks I don’t like on AO3. 

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[officialboredom]

First test flight of a flying car by Mazda partially a success

[tuulikki]

I feel like the Arizona license plate should take some place in our analysis of whatever in the goddam fuck we’re looking at here

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Much like Springfield before it, Seattle is one of the few major cities in the world with a monorail. That, combined with a more conventional light rail system, makes Seattle the rare U.S. city with two different types of train for public transportation. On Tuesday night, the rail system briefly had a third: a Mazda CX-5.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71483251/mazda-driver-seattle-pulls-into-elevated-train-station-on-tracks/

[nicky999doors]

[drizzledrawings]

Happy pride!!!

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[crazy-pages]

If a system needs to be abused for poor people to get the help they need, I don't think poor people are the problem.

[slothful-rabbit]

I laughed so fucking hard at this

[potatochipship]

[the-semicolonoscopy]

“What the fuck do you think freedom means, Earl?” is right up there with “Harold, they’re lesbians.”

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Reblogging for pride month.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Bringing this one back again for pride month.

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

what is this genre of photos called

[fyodior]

a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

sometimes the reason is this

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy

[wizardpotions]

You all need to understand that autonomy and especially bodily autonomy NEEDS to include being allowed to do things that are bad for you. True bodily autonomy includes being allowed to do things that are risky, drugs, cosmetic procedures and the like. Bodily autonomy needs to include being allowed to get high or smoke or get a BBL. The important part is education about the risks

[draconym]

Sorry, my what? My pronouns? Oh, yeah I'm between genders at the moment. No, it's cool, I quit my last gender a little while ago because it really wasn't working out. I don't know if I even have a dream gender anymore.

[draconym]

Oh yeah, it did come with benefits, but they weren't really worth it. The culture was really toxic. To be honest I think I'd prefer a part-time gender so I can just be self-described in my spare time.

[draconym]

I mean, in a perfect world we wouldn't need gender, you know? We could just voluntarily be perceived as much as we're able, as much as makes us feel fulfilled. Having a full-time gender shouldn't be a prerequisite for food, shelter, and healthcare.

[tiny-forests]

moss mfriday #3: Glacier Mice

[image credit]

That's right - it's glacier mice. One of my favorite things maybe on the entire planet. Let's talk about these freaky fuzzy little rats!!

Glacier mice are balls of moss that live in large herds like this in a few select glaciers. They are moss all the way through, with a center consisting of dead moss matter, implying that they begin as small growths of moss and simply accumulate over time, like snowballs. However, their outside surface is alive and well on all sides. Glacier mice have been observed, through tagging and tracking, to roll across the glacier like a majestic herd of wildebeest, exposing all of their sides to the sunlight. They trundle along at a pace of about 2.5 cm per day. That's 30 feet in a year! They're really schmovin'! Certainly further than most mosses can claim to travel.

What's really exciting, though, is that they all move in the same direction, and we're not sure why or how. Scientists experimented to try and attribute their coordinated behavior to wind, sunlight, and the direction that their grazing ground slopes, but to no avail. They speed up, slow down, and change direction in unison, based on some mysterious moss code that we haven't cracked yet.

Cross-section of a glacier mouse. Note the dead moss matter inside, and the short gametophytes on the outside, adapted to harsh winds and sunlight. [image credit]

We have figured out how they roll, though - while the moss ball sits on the ice, it insulates the ice directly underneath it, protecting it from melting. This forms a little pillar of ice that the moss eventually rolls off of. The insulating power of glacier mice also gives it the wonderful ability to host all kinds of microorganisms that otherwise wouldn't survive the glacier's harsh conditions, and their ability to move makes it possible for microorganisms to spread from one habitable spot to another. They're like a bunch of little tardigrade passenger ships, braving the dangerous glacier to go where no water bear has gone before!!

Glacier mice have been found to consist of several moss species, most of which must reproduce asexually in order to survive in the dry climate. They've been observed to live for at least six years, but are projected to live much, much longer. I love them. So much. I hope they know that I love them!! I LOVE THEM!!!!

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[ospreyonthemoon]

Oh.... the glacier mice...

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

what is this genre of photos called

[madamejadex]

Please remember that Pride is important because someone tonight still believes they’re better off dead than being themselves.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I am just a little bit obsessed with the overlap between aromanticism and polyamory, I think. it's so awesome and fascinating to me

[productofaritual]

Wait can u elaborate actually I'm curious

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

kinda like. when the line between friendship and romance gets blurry and starts to dissolve, like in platonic or queer-platonic partnerships), sometimes the line between a friend group and a polycule can get blurry too

[aro-thoughts]

Yes 👏 my favourite. I like to think of it as "why is it normal to have more than one friend but frowned upon to have more than 1 romantic partner?" And I love to blur the lines of friendship and romance cuz of that and then take it in all sorts of directions

[lgbtqiatext]

[kiwimintlime]

not aromantic but I believe in their beliefs.

"there's no platonic explanation for this" try harder bucko

[kiwimintlime]

love is a beautiful wonderful multifaceted nebulous thing that shouldn't be reduced to the strict bounds of Tier One: Romance and Tier Two: Friends. get weird with it. love your friends deeply, wildly, passionately and platonically. cowards

[soup-mother]

probably should have seen it coming I guess but it's pretty fucking annoying everyone saw a conversation about "people don't understand how difficult it is clothes shopping as a trans woman" and proceeded to show just how much they don't understand it by assuming it's only about sizing and not the constant societal surveillance and inability to use the change rooms and fear of being kicked out of the story and unwillingness even for friends to recognise that there's barriers in your way and try and help you.

even people trying to commiserate with me complaining about the dumb responses assumed that it was just about sizing. and phrased it all like "you're so seen and valid". fucking christ.

wow it's almost like people don't understand how challenging it is clothes shopping even years into transition as a trans woman! who could have guessed??????

[soup-mother]

Not the strongest comparison here but

"It's incredibly difficult and challenging using public bathrooms as a transgender woman and it should be obvious why if you have paid attention to anything ever"

"Girl I feel you, welcome to womanhood. sometimes the seats are gross or someone's left something on the floor, we all experience this, you're so valid for this"

(meanwhile I'm lucky if I'm not immediately stopped upon entering)

with clothes it's like ok cool but you might notice that you are wearing womens clothes from the clothes store that you bought and were able to try on before buying and weren't called a pervert and/or pedophile over it. meanwhile I am not. so maybe this is not actually "something all women experience" or just about sizing yes?

[ribstongrowback]

hope this isn't derailing but i think that this is heavily shaped by this condescending attitude people have about trans women's womanhood. they treat us like little girls discovering every aspect of being a woman instead of understanding us as adults who can have fully formed and informed opinions and analysis about our lived experience.

folks assume we have everything to learn about being women, because the idea that they would have anything to learn from us about it or about being a trans woman is simply too ridiculous to even cross their mind.

[talestobetold]

my first time in a dress was immediately followed by the shop employees telling me off for using the women's changing rooms

it's been nine years since then. every time i hear there's a young girl in a different stall of the changing rooms or bathroom i'm in, i become extremely aware of myself. if my friends ask a question, can i answer with my (deep) voice? if someone sees my unshaven ankles under the stall door, what will they think? what happens if i step out as the same time as the girl and her mom?

it's been a while since someone has directly hidden their child from me because they clocked that i'm a trans woman. but that has happened and i'm not likely to forget it. it takes very little for a trans woman simply living a woman's life to become seen as a hostile invader with intent to assault a child, and for the room to immediately side against her.

when i was used to going to the bathroom as a group, it was not mostly because that's the cute girlhood thing to do. it was to have cis women who could vouch for my womanhood and defend me rhetorically or physically if needed. i do not think they quite understood. that era is in the past now but the problems are never far in my life and very present in many others.

my problems are not your problems. i do not need your welcome to womanhood. i need safety.