Look alive, sunshine!

🇪🇪 30s

[ilovewhales]

a lot of things get on my nerves. im constantly annoyed. and i also have a deep love of humanity and the world but everything is really annoying

[heavensghost]

Words from Clarice Lispector in The Hour of the Star

[misspoetree]

A few silly reminders to stay hydrated

[insp.]

[misspoetree]

Happy Wet Pants / Wet Home Wednesday you guys, have some more:

[inspired by @burnsuncomet, @subtextsays and @glamgoblin - thank you for the tags you guys <3]

[redstonedust]

i think most people accept the idea of "you don't control who you're attracted to" in terms of being gay but imo it can go further. like if you're not attracted to men, but you happen to find a transmasc person attractive, i dont think thats inherently transphobic if you acknoweldge that your attraction is incongruent with their identity. you dont need to run yourself in circles creating qualifiers for your sexuality when we live in a world of infinite gender identites. it's not like you have an inbuilt radar that tells you whether that hot stranger at the bar is a woman or not. man who kissed a twink that turned out to be a butch lesbian that thought he was a butch lesbian. etc.

[flyin-shark]

[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[valleyhowler]

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

[readingtheentrails]

I know this is maybe not the point of the post, but this reminded me of this beautiful poem called When My Wife Is A Werewolf by Rosamund Taylor which I really adore so I thought I would share it.

This is taken from a collection of contemporary queer Irish poetry called Queering the Green, which has some truly wonderful work in it and is available from The Lifeboat Press (currently sold out but hopefully available again soon if you're interested).

[bar-codes]

heavy-handed hotpot-crossover symbolism, reporting for duty

[wifehaver103947]

Awhoahh idid not know this

[wifehaver103947]

[mammalidentifier]

Domestic pig (Sus domesticus), more specifically of the Hungarian Mangalica breed, also spelled as Mangalitsa or Mangalitza. Mangalica pigs are the only surviving breed of pig with long coats of hair and, besides blond ones like the stunning individuals above, they also come in “swallow-bellied” (darker hair on the upper portion of their bodies, lighter hair on the lower portion, not unlike a Doberman or Rottweiler) and red varieties!

[argumate]

kind of crazy that the sun is the closest thing we have to an unholy seething vortex of magical energy, a pulsating orb that is periodically ripped by screaming flares that lash us with incredible ferocity from a hundred million miles away, and we're like mmm what a nice day! 😊

[tanadrin]

one of my favorite Sun Facts is that if sound could be transmitted through the vacuum of space the intensity of sound power emitted from the sun that reached the earth would be roughly as intense a noise as a jet airplane taking off a couple hundred meters away. The Sun is really loud!

[argumate]

[tanadrin]

Another one of my favorite Sun Facts is that the actual nuclear fusion occurs in roughly the innermost 25% by radius and the actual energy output is on the order of the amount produced just by your body keeping itself warm. But the Sun is very very big and very very old so it gets very very hot despite how absurdly slow fusion is.

[lifewithchronicpain]

I love how the sun is in a constant battle between the gravity of its size trying to collapse and the power of nuclear fusion enacts an equal outward pressure to keep it stable.

I love that once it runs out of hydrogen it starts fusing helium and keeps going up the periodic table until it hits iron. Once it fuses Iron, it’s dead. It can no longer fuse in a way that outputs energy, fusing Iron eats energy. Some stars die a slow death like ours will and then collapse into white dwarfs.

I think we all love when a star is big enough it creates a blast so strong that the heavier elements on the periodic table are created including gold and silver.

And best of all the dust left behind is the building blocks for planets. Our solar system exists because of the stars that died before us. But also stars created the elements used in our body and thus:

We are all made of stardust c: 💫

[thefoundationsofdecay]

so sweets

[ihatesnapchat]

listening to a song you've already heard 100000 times but this time you notice backing vocals you never heard before

[doyou000me]

[shamebats]

The solution for low birth rates is obvious:

Invest as much money as possible in finding a way for people who were born without a uterus to get pregnant. Universal preg for all.

Politicians are just cowards. If they were serious, they would all get pregnant themselves.

[shamebats]

"Claudia Goldin said what needed to be said. Except it's not just a hot take it's backed by data. Her new research: educated women aren't opting out of motherhood because they don't want kids. They're doing the math on whether their partner will actually show up for the workload. If men can't be counted on to split the load at home, having a kid stops making sense financially, professionally, or personally. Women have been saying this in a hundred different ways for years. But sometimes when the math ain't mathing, you need a Nobel Loreate economist to break it down. The fix isn't nostalgia for the 1950s. It's dads who actually do the work. (But fwiw, universal free childcare wouldn't hurt.)"

From a TT post by @ reshmasaujani.

The Bloomberg article from the post is paywalled so here's one that isn't:

Need to boost population? Encourage dads to step up at home. — Harvard Gazette

New historical research by economist Claudia Goldin finds link between fertility rates, gender roles

[icarusplumbales]

Flow like a chart, spread like a sheet

[awakefor48hours]

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

[berkelbites]

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

[shijiujun]

OMG WHAT THE HELL THEY FINALLY RELEASED THIS CHENGYU X XIAOSHUAI SCENE FROM THE BTS FOR THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF REVENGED LOVE AIRING

“All men do in bed is lie!”

“In bed? How about on the sofa then?”

SCREECHING