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Hi :) Lilly Queer/Polyam INFP-T 27 Current Obsessions Overwatch, Critical Role, D&D, & WoW

[kosmogrl]

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[zigxortega]

[zac--efren]

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

[scientiablr]

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

[thatfriendlyanon]

@painless-and-colourful

[reptiliannastyboy]

despite her efforts to evade me, i have finally filmed my cat playing my harp

[reptiliannastyboy]

Is a tiny cat playing a harp blasé to you people?? You don't even have time to give her a little like for her recital 🥺?

[important-animal-images]

[nocylipcowa]

Here's Your Certainly Not a Porn Bot Tumblr Description Generator

possible results include: stabbing, cannibalism, frogs, blogging from Mariana Trench and being god 💖

please tag what you got!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

this is how I look when you are nice to me btw

(image from piyo_kaeru)

[seeyoulaterallig8r-deactivated2]

its of utmost importance you have sound on while watching this

[augustdementhe]

If you can’t make use of the sound, please imagine the soft snuffles of a hand vacuum that’s capable of love.

[lacefuneral]

i love it, sniff animal

[lacefuneral]

sniff animal saturday

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

There’s also some very subtle slurping!

This is Tilli, an aardvark at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, WA. I looked up the video source, and here’s what the zoo’s Twitter post from October 2021 says:

“Tilli the aardvark has her amazing sniffer going while she inspects keeper Brynn’s homegrown, 53-pound Cinderella pumpkin! Tilli’s care team punctured holes in the giant pumpkin and filled with yogurt for a special Zoo Boo treat.”

So when she looks like she’s sniffing super hard at the pumpkin with her nose flat against it, she’s probably sticking her tongue into a hole to get to the food. Aardvarks are insectivores and have tongues very similar to (although not as extreme as) anteaters. Here’s a video of Tilli engaging with a puzzle feeder so you can see her tongue (best clip is 0:40), as well as a keeper sharing a bunch more info about her.

And because I love these buddies, here’s another aardvark tongue video of two at the Omaha Zoo learning to get treats out of a maze puzzle feeder. (The good part starts around 1:15 - it takes them a bit to figure it out).

But also, I just want to give a shout-out to the keeper who brought their home-grown giant pumpkin in for Tilli in the first video. Whatever else you might think about the zoo industry, it’s a certain fact that zookeepers adore their animals and spoil them whenever they can.

[lilylilium]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a Croissant (🥐).

[zuccnini]

Lifelong Swamp Friends. 

[everythingdragonage]

The biggest, baddest, toughest mercenary in all of Thedas. (x)

[anxietyproblem]

[lilylilium]

Reblog to give the person you reblogged this from a Croissant (🥐).

[everythingdragonage]

« The only choice left is how spitefully we end this. »

[angemonn]

Tumblr in December 2022 be like

[william-snekspeare]

[scubakite]

Merry Christmas!!

[theroseinthedarkness]

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY, SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON! (Released on May 24th, 2002)

dir. Kelly Asbury & Lorna Cook

[e-the-village-cryptid]

my first reading in my African history class this year is about why using “tribe” to refer to ethnic groups stems from a racist desire to make African conflicts sound primitive or stemming from a desire to pretend that these are just ancient conflicts that have always existed. great article and I also feel like I’m vicariously experiencing the bullshittery that this author has been subjected to from people they’ve tried to talk to about this. like the article remains extremely professional but you can just hear in the tone that they’re talking through gritted teeth, you can practically see the customer service smile

[ID: a screenshot from a section of the article titled “But why not use ‘tribe’? Answers to common arguments.” Under the bullet point for the argument “Africans talk about themselves in terms of tribes” is written, “Commonly when Africans learn English they are taught that tribe is the term that English-speakers will recognize. But what underlying meaning in their own languages are Africans translating when they say tribe? Take the word isizwe in Zulu. In English, writers often refer to the Zulu tribe, whereas in Zulu the word for the Zulu as a group would be isizwe. Often Zulu-speakers will use the English word tribe because that’s what they think English speakers expect, or what they were taught in school. Yet Zulu linguists say that a better translation of isizwe is nation or people.” /end ID] 

translation: “ ‘Oh ho ho but some Africans themselves say tribe!’ You dipshit. You fucking donkey. When someone has a word that means “nation” or “people” in their own language but then when they learn English YOU TELL THEM IT TRANSLATES TO “TRIBE” then THAT WILL BE THE WORD THEY USE. Maybe if you LISTENED TO THE LINGUISTS OF THAT GROUP you’d have more accurate information. Asshole.”

each point is repeated over and over with like five different examples because you just know there are dipshits out there who will keep arguing.

to the anonymous author of this article for the Africa Policy Information Center I hope you have a good day every day and experience fewer people being assholes about this, your patience is actually legendary

[e-the-village-cryptid]

[ID: The author’s response to the argument “Avoiding the term tribe is just political correctness.” It reads “No, it isn’t. Avoiding the term tribe is saying that ideas matter. If the term tribe accurately conveyed and clarified truths better than other words, even if they were hard and unpleasant truths, we should use it. But the term tribe is vague, contradictory and confusing, not clarifying. For the most part it does not convey truths but myths, stereotypes and prejudices. When it does express truths, there are other words which express the same truths more clearly, without the additional distortions. Given a choice between words that express truths clearly and precisely, and words which convey partial truths murkily and distortedly, we should choose the former over the latter. That means choosing nation, people, community, chiefdom, kingroup, village or another appropriate word over tribe, when writing or talking about Africa. The question is not political correctness but empirical accuracy and intellectual honesty.” /end ID]

[e-the-village-cryptid]

quick note my bad the authors are not actually anonymous they were just listed in the fine print at the end of the article rather than under the title: “The main text of this paper was drafted by Chris Lowe (Boston University). The final version also reflects contributions from Tunde Brimah (University of Denver), Pearl Alice Marsh (APIC), William Minter (APIC), and Monde Muyangwa (National Summit on Africa).”