Walking on the Wild Side

Pagan ~ Nerd ~ Introvert ~ Demisexual/romantic ~ Trying to art

[iravaid]

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On conservation and survival

[hope-for-the-planet]

This brought tears to my conservationist heart today.

The continued existence of these species is the legacy of so many people whose names we will never know--some of who never lived to see the impacts of their work.

When you count up the flaws of our species, you have to count the good things too--out of the many species throughout Earth's history that have caused the demise or endangerment of other species, we are the only one that tries to fix it out of our fascination and love for other life forms.

(Big thank you to the anonymous asker who sent this in!)

[hope-for-the-planet]

Earth Day reblog of this thing that made me cry.

And I'll add some other recent good conservation news.

•Green sea turtles are no longer endangered

•Giant pandas are no longer endangered

•Panamanian golden frogs were returned to the wild for the first time since they were wiped out by chytrid 17 years ago

•The Eastern humpback whale population has exceeded pre-whaling numbers and many other whale species are showing strong signs of recovery

•Salmon and bison have been returned to their former habitat in multiple parts of the US through dam removal, habitat restoration, and reintroduction

•The Western monarch migration was up 60% compared to last year

•Galapagos tortoises were reintroduced to Floreana for the first time in 180 years

•Attenborough's long beaked echidna was rediscovered after being though extinct for decades

•Five "lost" island bird species were documented by citizen scientist birders in 2025

Do not stand at my grave and cry. I am not there. I did not die.

[fangirltothefullest]

Also, the Condor population is at 600 as of March 2026 and potentially rising! <3

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

the king has abruptly fired 60% of his wizard staff, so he’s about to be abruptly surprised at who floated 100% of his formerly floating sky castle

[hyper-lynx]

I heard they're planning to maintain their levitation rites with autonomous constructs from now on, saying wizards are going to be totally obsolete within the season... so, ah, I'd invest in falling island insurance.

[scilas]

Preserving not-prev-but-someone-elses funny tags in this chain as well because I love both these additions actually,

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

[queerhumanbeing]

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

[freyjawriter24]

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

[amorphousbl0b]

The divisiveness of Iron Lung is deeply confusing because evidently a bunch of Gen Z YouTube kids are way more tolerant of a slow pace than many grown adults with film degrees

[urfriendlyneighborhoodbiderman]

As a Gen Z YouTube kid. The movie fully held my attention the entire time. Fuck the argument that things were happening slowly, they were interesting and that’s what counts

[pixytrixx]

[dmnkart-blog]

i have reblogged this like 10 times and am tempted to print off some copies and stick them on my wall/in my sketchpad/on my art teacher’s face

[skateboards-wheels]

[id: graffiti on a wall. it shows a drawing of someone painting something on a canvas. next to it is text that has been handwritten in all caps. It is one continuous line of text, grammar added by describer. It goes as follows: “Fuck off. I am a painter, don’t tell me what to paint. I will paint flowers if I want. I will paint dead bodies if (black bob of mistake fixing) I want. And you can all fuck off.” /end ID]

[worldisafish]

Simon and his beautiful top gill scars!!

[flygoing]

laptop overheating?? pour water on it to cool it down!

[chastittie]

i trusted you

[flygoing]

Do not trust people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people

[four-leafed-queer-gal-deactivat]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!?!?!?!

[spinji]

This is why I love indie productions so much.

[babyfinnmertens]

markiplier is acting his markipussy out of this show

[markiplier]

I haven’t opened tumblr in ages why does this have to be the first thing I see?

[lithominium]

Markiplier is acting his markipussy out in this movie

[basileater]

ive always been willing to die on the hill of cis women being able to beat cis men in sports so nobody will ever ever make me concerned about trans women in womens sports even if i was delusional enough to believe that was a comparable situation. do i think a cis woman could beat a trans woman in fucking pickleball or whatever? Buddy I think a cis woman could beat a cis male bodybuilder in sports. You will not get me

[basileater]

many people in these notes are revealing how they truly don't believe afab people are capable of beating amab people at Any sports due to their fragile bird bones delicate skin and and trying to make it seem like i'm feeding afab people to lions in the coliseum. you people are not only wrong but more importantly you are Stupidt

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[tanadrin]

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

[kawaiimunism]

I reblogged this like 9 times kinda jokingly, but software should be able to run on older and less powerful hardware, and consume less power on newer hardware. Like, this is a real problem imo

[subrosadraco]

[angremlin-deactivated20250312]

I completely agree with this but I do need you to understand that the image above is 32 times the size of the lunar mission’s memory

[rowanoke]

This is what the image looked like compressed to 4 kb

[dirtgemini]

ok as promised a screenshot analysis of bagginshield/kiliel parallels in bofa (and dos)

for dos, the infamous boot-stops-important-thing-from-falling-and-being-lost-forever parallel

another for dos; tauriel says ‘i’m going to save him’ and the scene changes directly to thorin running into the mountain to save bilbo (thank you anon for the suggestion!)

a cross-movie parallel; incredibly similar dialogue, followed by a scene in which the owner of the thing in their hand explains it to the opposite character, and gains their adoration

related

these shots are exactly the same

we go most of the rest of the movie without interaction between tauriel and kili so the next time we get a parallel is when tauriel and bilbo are staring up at ravenhill in horror, having realized thorin and kili are up there and are going to be slaughtered. this could just be a normal 'oh no they’ll die’ obligatory reaction but for the fact that these two characters are the only ones who get the shots. bilbo is also talking specifically about thorin when we see him, and when he starts talking about fili and kili the camera switches to tauriel

this one is hard to get screenshots of, but i took some anyway just to represent the scenes - thorin and kili must be warned of their peril. bilbo tells gandalf he’s going to go up there himself, and gandalf protests, telling him they will see him and kill him - directly following this scene, thranduil is leaving, planning on letting the dwarves die, and when tauriel protests, saying he must help, he turns to belittling her experiences out of his own bitterness. in the end both bilbo and tauriel go up, opposing interference/emotional manipulation from authority figures

hand-holding. it’s difficult to see bilbo and thorin’s hands when the scene is not in motion (and because it’s halfway cropped out) but it’s definitely happening

a literal kissing shot with thorin and bilbo, later consummated by tauriel and kili

dying looking at each other, same placement

curled around dead partner

while mourning, the mentor figure comes along to comfort them. same placement. these scenes also take place directly after one another, bilbo-tauriel-bilbo, a stark indication that these incidents are directly related and should come across the same way

this is all i could remember, let me know if i missed something so i can add on ;0

[patientno7]

my humor 2016

[patientno7]

happy 3 year anniversary of wheeze man

[rubinaito-inactive]

Finally, the original has crossed my dash.

[lavena]

@strangezeroz welcome to tumblr where the app decides when you can be gifted with the sight of og memes, you cannot look for these yourself via the search engine, you won’t find them, you have to wait to be gifted them

[miss-nerd-alert]

For those of you who might be new here, Tumblr has no algorithm, legendary memes are brought to your dash by mutuals like pet cats bringing you dead birds.

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[catmask]

this also goes for aesthetic or -core titles. 'y2k tank top' is going to get you resellers and fast fashion brands advertising to people looking to meet a current trend. 'thin strap crop tank top' is going to get you a diverse group of results and not upcharge you to hell and back

additionally, shop second hand when you can, second hand and thrift sites typically organize clothes by the cut and color. theyll be more affordable than a depop seller curating you a style to sell you

[daftpatience]

useful terminology for different kinds of clothing shapes :)

[cutabello]

here are more terms! these are all from enérie. it is a really good blog that has lots of fashion terminology and it's a good mix of menswear and womenswear! they also have a book as well compiling all their diagrams. you could also look into getting a visual fashion dictionary for terms as well!

[the-reconciliation-of-all-things]

how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

[importantandunavoidable]

there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first

[peanutworm]

These tags are poetry to me