Eldritch Lesbian

Hey, I'm Novel, any pronouns, 30s

[ellewantsrevenge]

aadam jacobs's archive

[headspace-hotel]

For your reading pleasure: an iNaturalist forum thread about how dandelion taxonomy is so fucked up that no researcher wants to even touch it

[yellbug]

FUCK EM UP SEDGE QUEEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brightstarflower]

[teaboot]

*nods* just like queers

[salamanding]

my fursona as a slimegirl because i wish I was one

[cutecipher]

science has always been political. what gets studied. what doesnt. who gets to do the studying. on and on and on.

[cutecipher]

scientists on this post: yuuuup 👍

people who aren't scientists: um actually ☝️

[expressions-of-nature]

by Young Man

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

[veronica-rich]

Just say Republican voters love cruelty and can’t see 15 minutes past the end of their nose. Just say it. That’s all you really need to say about any of this.

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Republican voters (all voters, really) have been subject to a decades-long propaganda campaign that has infiltrated every single piece of modern media we consume, from radio to Twitter to podcasts to news channels to TV shows.

This decades-long propaganda campaign has simultaneously degraded our education system, encouraged people to be more low trust and tribalist, and—importantly—has been better at telling voters how it will “help” them than liberals or leftists.

It’s true that simple lies are easier to process than complicated policy decisions. And emotional behavior is something shared by all voters, not just Republicans.

What I want to challenge every liberal, socialist, communist, or generally-left-of-center voter to consider: the world and government you want requires a high trust environment to function, while the world and government conservatives want thrives on low-trust environments. Is America currently a high social trust or low social trust environment? Does the way you think and talk about other people—even when they are wrong—encourage a high trust or low trust environment?

And, in the end, how do we repair social trust so that the world we want can come to fruition?

[cipheramnesia]

If I was a wasp, I'd sting you. If I was a venomous snake, I'd bite you. If I was a lion, I'd maul you. If I was a swamp, I'd poison you. If I was a mountain, I'd fall and crush you. If I was the ocean, I'd drown you. If I was a cat, I'd never let you touch me. If I was a dog, I'd run away. If I was a horse, I'd never let you break me. If I was a farm, I wouldn't grow for you. If I was a fire, I'd burn out without warming you. If I was a home, I would fall apart around you.

If I was harmless and small, and easy to hold, you would love me. If I was a worm you could put me in the soft earth and I would be helpless in your care. Of course you could love me, but could you love me if I stung you, bit you, pulled against you, hid and didn't understand you but wasn't harmless or helpless at all?

Could you love something for what it is, when that means you can't touch it or show kindness, maybe even never be near it, and it might never, ever love you back? Is it okay to exist and not belong to anyone, to not be useful to anyone, to be dangerous or poisonous or a failure but a part of the world all the same?

[gallusrostromegalus]

I know this is a metaphor, but if you take it kind of literally, there is an answer to this.

We build wildlife preserves. Often explicitly for the protection of animals and ecosystems that can and have killed humans.

Whenever a whale gets stranded on a beach, CROWDS show up ad risk getting bludgeoned to death trying to get it back into the water.

Every Zoo has a reptile house full of venomous snakes and a team of humans dedicated to giving them the best quality of life possible.

There are volunteer beekeepers who will travel for miles and miles and hours and hours to relocate an entire hive.

There are people who rehabilitate dangerous dogs and horses

There are people who restore structurally unsound houses

There are people who study the way that fire burns so it can rejoin the ecosystem and not be smothered on sight.

Every day, millions of people get up and devote themselves to things that can and will kill them by their nature. Things they can't touch or show kindness to. Things they can't go near. Things that are wholly incapable of loving them back.

And they do it because they love them.

Everything dangerous, everything poisonous, everything 'useless'- absolutely everything has someone, often many thousands of people, who loves them exactly as they are, without expectation that their affection will be returned.

It is alright for anything, even you, to not belong to anyone, to not be useful, to be frightening and dangerous and not adhere to any standard of success. It's all alright. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

A lot of people genuinely believe that permanent disability isn't a thing that happens to good people who work hard and make responsible choices. A lot of people genuinely think that we get the life we work for and deserve. And this is definitely part of the explanation for why ableism is so prevalent

[godcon]

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[golzybladedee]

My Father, My Universe

[opheliathegrey]

[apolloendymion]

thinking again about vampirism as disability

[apolloendymion]

what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn't go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn't see the sun. what if you couldn't go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn't eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn't eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones' quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren't met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they're doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.

[crreature]

portraits of butches of color pt 2. via butchisnotadirtyword

[photophoros]

For a friend's birthday. Their fursona

[prokopetz]

The real problem with "taking things literally" as a diagnostic criterion for autism is that sometimes that means "thing A is part of category B if any part of A satisfies any possible interpretation of B", and sometimes it means "thing A is part of category B only if every part of A satisfies every possible interpretation of B", and sometimes even you don't know which way you're going to be today.

[prokopetz]

@cassie-queenbitchoftheuniverse replied:

the most autistic response to this question is "Well I don't ALWAYS take things literally, so I'll say that I don't"

Well, no; sometimes the most autistic response can also be "I don't know exactly what they mean by 'often', and if I recall doing something once it's possible I've also done it other times I don't recall, so to be on the safe side I'll say 'yes' for everything I've ever done even once", which is the actual point I'm making here.

[cazort]

I appreciate this post and reply so much, as the type of neurodivergent person who picks apart all possible meanings like this.

I've always thought the whole "takes things literally" concept is problematic but have never seen this aspect of why it's problematic articulated until now.

[smolpocketmonstercoffee]

If you have to go "youre going to have to elaborate on what you mean", there's a good chance the answer is yes even if you're not taking things literally. Neurotupicals are generally known for allowing wiggle room and generalizations and autistics need the specifics because we have to think of the situation 20 ways to sunday to make sure we dont get burntout before we even agree

[prokopetz]

Again, no. Autism can look like needing endless clarification before you can comfortably answer a question. It can also look like seizing on the first interpretation that happens to pop into your head and actively resisting clarification by simply rejecting any new information which doesn't support that first-glance interpretation – and critically, it can look like both of these things for the same person at different times.

[runby2]

very specific situation that happens to me and my partners a lot

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's important to remember that "neurotypical" just means "still able to cope with society's demands and expectations well enough to avoid being psychiatrized". It doesn't refer to some idealized super human who doesn't have any problems, doesn't struggle with anything, never does anything weird and who thrives under the status quo.