Black Cats & Banana Cream Pie

Nothin much to see here, just other people’s content and rambling tags

[tongue-twists]

anyone seen or heard saying "bringing politics into [activity/hobby] which has always been apolitical" should be hit in the face with the flat end of a shovel

[draconym]

[draconym]

great work everyone hit the bathhouse

[yms1]

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

[noah-wyles]

[librarycards]

please i need him to die on 4th of july gaudy as fuck 'america 250' celebration that would be the funniest thing ever i wouldn't even bitch about the fireworks. i wouldn't even do that.

[hope-for-the-planet]

Green sea turtle no longer Endangered

These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.

Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.

After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.

For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.

Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.

[universeleads]

He works at greggs

[sapphling]

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

[thegreatyin]

"how can m/f ships be good-" first of all through the power of bisexuality anything is possible so write that down. second of all if we start othering ships based on gender and nothing else we're no better than the opposition. third of all you need to watch more addams family

[thecottageinthedark]

there's nothing intrinsically More Interesting or More Genuine or More Functional about queer relationships.

the difference here is that queer people, in general, are more strongly incentivised to try stuff that's outside the tiny little box of shit that's acceptable to society. and that little box has all kinds of stupid shit in it about relationships. stuff that's hard to see at first because we all grew up in that box and it looked normal.

queer people need to step out of that box at least a bit just to have sex or romance at all. straight people don't.

but, and this is a big but, that doesn't mean that all straight people ever have stayed in the box re how they do sex and romance. there's always gonna be some who realise that they can leave and that outside is better.

and that's a good thing and we should encourage it.

also, m/f relationships are not necessarily straight. bisexuality is a thing. asexuality is a thing. aromanticism is a thing. trans people are a thing.

some people would have led with that but i wanted to make a different point. there's too much snobbery in queer spaces on this site, and not only is it obnoxious, it's got knock-on effects that are actually pretty bad for queer people. exalting our relationships as intrinsically special and holy denies the experiences of people who have been in or still are in shitty queer relationships, whether those are abusive or dysfunctional and unsatisfying in other ways. exalting non-m/f relationships specifically contributes to biphobia and aphobia, and often to a kind of anti-masculinity that is tied in with transandrophobia.

(and yeah I know the original post was talking about fictional ships but those are just the tip of the iceberg here.)

[jennaflare]

oh wonderful i will get some mileage out of this as a new reaction image

[2well2water]

no one cares that you shave your legs because of sensory issues shut the fuck up forever

[2well2water]

really galling amount of people misinterpreting this post so i'd like to clarify. i'm saying that when discussions about patriarchal beauty standards and the way women are heavily shamed and coerced into eschewing their own natural state of being (hairy) are occurring, it is unhelpful (AT BEST) to interrupt and say that the reason YOU remove the hair from your body is because of sensory issues. that's not what we're talking about. stop asking for validation for doing something that society at large wants you to do. stop derailing the conversation because you feel uncomfortable about being made aware that you, for whatever reason it is, adhere to harmful, unfair and ridiculous beauty standards. you're stepping into the middle of an important conversation that needs to be had and making it all about you. shut the fuck up forever.

[2well2water]

also quite frankly i think a lot less people would experience sensory issues if they let their hair grow out so that it isn't bristly and rough and irritating. and i cannot help but wonder why these sensory issues aren't as predominant in men. maybe you're uncomfortable with the hair on your body because you've been taught to be uncomfortable with it. just a thought.

[rootingformephistopheles]

I feel it would be good to have a word that's like not ragebait but shamebait, where you can read a post and just go 'ah, this person just wants me to feel ashamed of myself and is not engaging with the issue in a constructive or useful way. I do not have to participate in this actually' and like. move on with your day

[penny-anna]

the thing w there being potatoes in lord of the things is that there ARE actually at least 2 built in explanations for it:

1: they don't have potatoes; the references to potatoes in the Shire were added by Tolkien-the-translator as part of a wider localisation. when Sam mentions potatoes he's actually talking about some other vegetable

2: given that Middle Earth was historically ruled over by the Numenoreans who come from a lost kingdom on the other side of the western ocean, it could be that Numenor was in or had contact with ancient America and brought potatoes back with them

2 is kind of a stretch tho interesting to contemplate; 1 however on some level i think is the correct answer. the Shire's resemblance to England is 100% canonically a localisation thing. The Shire is England bcos it's the main characters' home and the intended audience of the book was English people.

the decision to incorporate post-colombian exchange plants like potatoes and tobacco isn't innocuous but it was a purposeful decision with reasoning behind it beyond 'they have potatoes because I said so'.

[penny-anna]

lord of the rings adaptation where Sam is talking about how much he loves potatoes while holding a vegetable that is visibly not a potato, a la pokemon characters talking about jelly donuts while eating rice balls

[penny-anna]

just bringing this back for no particular reason to clarify:

the point i was gesturing at in the OP is that sometimes in LOTR Tolkien did stuff For A Reason (in this case a bad, racist reason) and subsequent fantasy authors picked it up and ran with it without thinking through the implications so now it's just a Thing in fantasy literature even tho most writers aren't trying to do the specific thing Tolkien was doing (create a world that's evocative of mid 20th century England) so in addition to be vaguely racist its also kind of incoherent.

[goldcrescent]

lmfao I just saw zohran doing the inaugural swim in a full suit and tie, the schtick genuinely gets funnier the more he does it. My only complaint is should have worn swim trunks OVER the suit

[goldcrescent]

Can you guess which of these people is the mayor

[honeybeeofficial]

wishing all outdoor workers, delivery drivers, people who have to walk to work, bus riders, etc a very Don't die in this heat

[honeybeeofficial]

AND HOMELESS PEOPLE!!!!!!

[aliquid-de-magis]

it's time for Big Eye Staring with Spatula!

[chamomile-dove]

some friendship dynamics i doodled that i love a lot because im a certified FRIENDSHIP LOVER from the board of FRIENDIRECTORS on planet PLATONIC

[mangonetics]

you can't make adaptations of video games because either they're made by people who didn't play the game in which case it's a bad adaptation and it sucks or it's made by people who did play the game in which case it's made by gamers and therefore also sucks