sleeping in the flowers

neurodivergent n genderfluid in the hudson valley. big ol adult. white, more or less. plays too many ttrpgs. big interest in the national park service and lots of love for road trips. stay curious, stay weird, stay kind.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[red-garden]

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

[miseryshak]

oh my God new clown just dropped

[maculategiraffe]

reading the collected letters of shirley jackson and this is from a letter to her agent while she was working on the haunting of hill house

[targetedknowledge]

[daily-dose-of-insects]

These are leaf cutter ants! They harvest leaves to take back to their nest. They don’t eat the leaves but instead feed it to a fungus they tend to and eat. These guys are farmers and the leaves are fertilizer. Such fascinating little creatures!

[richieee707]

I can't take it anymore guys. That loving look Mike gives to Will's eyes, which seem to be searching for something, as Will holds his paladin's sword. I'M DONE

[rosieandthemoon]

Richard Kühnel, 1895

[plaguedocboi]

I miss my leeches for all the normal pet reasons but I also miss being able to use them as a one-hit death blow to end stupid conversations. Whenever I defend the ecological importance of parasites someone will inevitably crawl up and go “well I bet you wouldn’t feel that way if you had them” and oooooo boy let me tell you. It was so fun to hit back with “I DO” and then whip out my phone and show them 30 pictures of my fucking Worms

[plaguedocboi]

“And what about parasite-borne illnesses? You wouldn’t be defending ticks if you got a disease from them”

GUESS AGAIN MOTHERFUCKER

[plaguedocboi]

[gasterofficial]

[wovi]

[krispycl0uds]

This one resonated with me

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I know I already made a post to this effect but it's so baffling to me when someone defends the fact that headphone jacks are slowly but surely getting phased out by smartphone manufacturers with some variations of "wireless headphones are more convenient anyway" bc like. If we're talking about convenience what I like about wired headphones is that they conveniently have a single plug that makes the same damn pair of headphones universally compatible with every single audio-output-capable device I own, from my phone and my computer to my fucking gameboy and my casette player, it doesn't get any more convenient than that.

[fuglyjeans]

Have you heard about Bluetooth it's legal now

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Yeah ofc lemme just pair my bluetooth headphones to my gameboy advance and my goddamn casette player why didn't I think of that

[gravitygals]

you know what's also convenient? not having to fucking charge something, not having your phone battery drain faster is convenient.

[jaubaius]

[aeforvirra]

Aw he’s just looking for love

[oarfjsh]

are you his beautiful wife? you are not his beatiful wife? sad snooting

[lordsausage]

shoutout to the words "overmorrow" and "ereyesterday". english losing these words was stupid. "the day after tomorrow" "the day before yesterday" clunky-ass constructions. revolting. i'm bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it

[monsterboyjunction]

Saw a post and decided to fix it ^^

[weevilwoodpecker]

i always reblog pro wasp propaganda to spite my phobia

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[vickythestrange]

This happened to my good friend Maud Lilly

[man-squared]

A reminder that it's okay to use a binder if you aren't trans or don't know if you are.

You are not taking something away from anyone else. You should have autonomy over if you want a chest or not, regardless if you're trans (or specifically a trans man) and regardless if sometimes you do want a chest for whatever reason.

Take this post as permission to try binders if you have the means to.

[alandrosul]

women in stem. women in root. women in leaf.