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[ymutate]

Helen Whitaker, England

" Sycamore Seed "

Glass , copper and brass

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[joyandotherstories]

Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world

[wyn-sketch-o-vyn]

I imagine grace is whispering something like "Let me take this burden off of you." While they're slow dancing in the mental health node.

[jeffcross5000]

[jenjen4280]

This made me smile. Maybe you need a smile today too.

[galacticsabc]

Grace flipping his shit, statement.

Bonus:

[lazuelazuli]

@imadoctornotanescalator

[imadoctornotanescalator]

@lazuelazuli LMAO I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!!! Canonical Star Trek fan Ryland Grace would flip out if he got to meet Picard (as would I, as would I)

[edna-mode-the-3rd]

THE CROSSOVER WE NEED

[adultlikers]

[porksweats]

e me a mail

[fortooate]

make the attachment a pic of a snail

[jumpingjacktrash]

give me two gifs

of critters in clover

[nuclearcarrots]

then photoshop them on the CLIIIIIIIFFS OF DOVER

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.

[specialagentartemis]

Sometimes I'm like "Ryland Grace is important #representation for those of us whose dissertations are kind of stupid and bad" and while I am mostly joking, I'm serious when I say it's actually really important to me that he was not proven right. His theories about non-water-based life did not pan out and were never vindicated. ("The Goldilocks Zone is for Idiots" is also clearly in support of this argument, it's not a standalone argument about life in extreme temperature ranges, it immediately registered to me as part of the "you are being limited by your reliance on imagining water-based life" argument, Eridians living at superheated ammonia temperatures does not really "prove him right".) Like obviously you can't prove a negative, of course - there's no way to know if there is or isn't some other non-water-based life out there - but he was not proven right. He was not vindicated in the Eyes of Science. And he keeps discovering cool new things anyway. You live and you learn and you're not always right and That's Fine. Your life is what you make it. You don't have to be married to the One Big Idea you had in grad school. And sometimes you're not right the first time but that doesn't have to be the end of it all for you. Sulking about it does not make you happy or fulfilled, exploring new things makes you happy and fulfilled. And there are always new things to learn. Moving on, exploring new things and being open to new experiences, that's the way to live.

[somekindofdosti]

In which Ram is hangry, and Bheem yells at clouds.

Chapter Two on AO3

[morally-earl-gray]

mfs be like "are you single or taken" and like technically im single but that implies that im availible, which i most definitely am not so yes im taken. im taken by me. you cant have me.

[wackywest]

brought them to the beach because why not?

[tauri91]

[echogracebeloved]

*Ahem*

RamBheem still do it better ;-p

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[somekindofdosti]

Just noticed the little detail of one of the background artists playing with her skirt in sync with Ram taking off his jacket.

That's cute, lol.

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[somekindofdosti]

In which Ram is hangry, and Bheem yells at clouds.

Chapter One on AO3

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Babies!!

[somekindofdosti]

Babies!!

Also feat. pathetic crybaby Ram!

[flightsofwonder]

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

[flightsofwonder]

why does this have 85K notes

[randomslasher]

because we reblogged it instead of cleaning our [x]

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[untimelytophat]

@crabussy

[crabussy]

as someone in the field of ecological conservation, I can promise without a shadow of a doubt that people DO care. SO MANY people care.

I have to race to sign up to volunteer trips because even with dozens of spots available, people rush to devote their unpaid free time to helping the environment. these trips often fill up within hours. people care.

you will see a lot of bad news because that is the kind of news that people pay the most attention to. I know this more than you'd think from my optimism- not only do I live somewhere facing some of the most extreme ecological issues on the planet, I also spend my time studying the Bad Stuff every single day.

to see all of this firsthand and stay hopeful is proof enough that there IS hope. I promise there is good news, brilliant news, all the time. it's just less visible. but it's no less important or impactful.