a wizard did it

Call me Kass! 30, lesbian, she/her. Vocaloid enthusiast. Purveyor of video games and other miscellaneous interests

[damnsparce]

Hey mutuals if Tumblr goes down remember you can find me as a 1% encounter rate in Johto’s Dark Cave

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[elwensa]

Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

[millidew]

chain of suffering

[grimmkattepus]

[aropride]

man, the other day i stumbled across a post containing the phrase "cannibal incest spiders" (yeah, yeah, shadow of a terrifying beast passing underneath your ship, xkcd 2071, i know) and someone in the notes had tagged it #spider mention. #spider mention? that's what you're gonna give a warning tag for? the spiders? nothing else in that post might be upsetting at all? nothing else to give a warning about? just the spiders? #spider mention? the spiders?

[official-cannibalism-posts]

Official Cannibalism post

[rooksunday]

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

[silvermoon424]

[blondebrainpowered]

Peanuts - March 12, 1959

By Charles Schulz

[duckdotcom]

I can be your monkey. And this can be our circus

[everythingfox]

[austimpowerz]

posts that make you feel like a crumb or perhaps a pea

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[meanpersonaart]

he don't bite

(beacause of the recent news)

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 18 July 1969, Black Panthers held a conference in Oakland alongside the predominantly white anti-racist Young Patriots Organisation and Puerto Rican street gang-turned-radical group the Young Lords. A KPIX news report described the event as an “unconventional convention” which was nevertheless “well-organised and orderly”, and explained that the Panthers’ motivation in holding it was to emphasise “class struggle” and “revolutionary unity”. The Young Patriots were a group of poor, mostly Appalachian migrants in Chicago. Although they opposed racism, they originally wore Confederate flags, which they believed were a symbol of rebellion. Leading Panther Fred Hampton played a key role in building links with them and other white working-class youth, until he was assassinated by police. In his speech, William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots, argued for armed self-defence against police brutality: "A gun on the side of a pig means two things: it means racism and it means capitalism and the gun on the side of a revolutionary, on the side of the people, means solidarity and socialism." Later, the Young Patriots abandoned the Confederate flag symbol as an irredeemable symbol of white supremacy. As former-Patriot Hy Thurman explained to Redneck Revolt: “As we grew politically and respected the Black Panthers and the Young Lords we determined that there was no place in the movement or the world for the Confederate flag. It symbolises a period of time when our Black brothers and sisters were mere property to be sold or destroyed at the white man's convenience. And that the Confederate flag was created to serve as a symbol of plantation owners to perpetuate slavocracy.” Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/black-panthers

[townslore]

siblings siblings siblings siblings

[tunarune]

something something cats

[butterflyscribbles]

Nosy👀

[laserbobcat]

Yes I did another yellow cat IN MY DEFENSE I started another cotl playthrough, playing as the goat, I skipped the beginning/tutorial and my first follower was a yellow cat! Usually I get cows, I wonder why this happened. Maybe because of the skip. AND SHE'S SCARED OF DEATH AND SACRIFICES too good not to draw fr fr

Mjorna likes to farm and refine materials. Maybe because she's the first one, and despite her being pathetic and annoying, Goat is attached to her. They try to do the murders out of her sight.

A Goat and their Moral Compass Cult Manager

[queen0fm0nsterz]

I have achieved Enlightenment

Edit: We have a sequel