like a mixture in a bottle, like frozen over lake

Queer. Call me Zev. I'm made of paper. I have x-ray vision but it gives me a bit of a headache. I swim in a sea of uneasiness somewhere off the coast of Australia.

[honey-andrevolution]

Hello. I haven’t logged into tumblr until 3 years. Is anyone still out there?

[urparty]

tiny brain: brooklyn nine nine isnt cop propaganda

average brain: brooklyn nine nine IS cop propaganda and that means u cant watch it

giant brain: brooklyn nine nine is absolutely cop propaganda and 1 episode about the treatment of black people by cops in no way fixes that, however i still watch and enjoy it because i am a mature person with critical thinking skills who understands that boycotting every problematic piece of media is a fruitless endeavor. especially because boycotting b99 specifically would mean sacrificing the many other great things it brings to tv, including its humor, its diversity, its strong & well-rounded female characters, its presentation of healthy friendships & relationships, its subversion of harmful stereotypes, and its constant social commentary on political issues such as transphobia, gun control, flaws in the prison system etc which other shows wouldnt DARE touch

[seashellronan]

galaxy brain: BOOOooooOOoooNE!!

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr show me the forbidden bees

[archivesandcyanide]

this is the masked bee! she has no friends and hates everyone. Sometimes when she has kids she raises them alone and doesn’t let the father come for day trips. she loves pollen but does not like waiting for it so she chews flowers open which is essentially stealing. we love her anyway.

these bees are homalictus bees! they are the rainbow gay bees. Females tend to live together in one nest and guard the entrance. one time we found 160 gay girls bunking together. They’re so irridescent and small that they might look like flies but they are really just tiny lesbians.

and this is the blue banded bee! she may look like she’s wacked out, but really she is pretty chill. she just wants to live independently (or with some friends) in a nest or burrow and look after tomatoes.

this is a cuckoo bee! she is really cool! she goes into other bee’s houses and lays eggs there, and then when the baby hatches it eats the host bees’ pollen and lays waste to the hive, murdering and eating all the other bee babies! BUT ONLY if it’s mother bee didn’t kill them all first.

[beerightsactivist]

thank u dark bee tumblr

[koiotchka]

This is the most successful thing ever!

[supernova-society-deactivated20]

this is dawson’s burrowing bee! they are one of the largest bees in australia and they burrow into the ground to make nests. males are so aggressive that they will literally fight and kill each other to get a female! and if a particularly aggressive male does not get a female he will murder all of the other males out of rage! (and sometimes the females will be casualties of these brawls - here is a video of a bee brawl where a female get decapitated. these bees are very large and kind of look like half bee half cockroach. but the females’s fuzzy white heads are pretty cute! [photo credit]

[beerightsactivist]

and dark bee tumblr comes through for us again… we are so fortunate. thank u dark bee tumblr. thank u

[silascaptor-deactivated20210107]

I’m mad that they missed the opportunity to use “les-bee-ans”

[cctinsleybaxter]

This is a tree bumblebee- they’re pretty similar to honeybees in that they have big nests with a polyandrous queen. However, these guys love to be around humans and in gardens, and are super resilient- there are now large populations in Iceland. They have a more complex social hierarchy than most bees, with multiple worker castes. If a worker gets close with the queen she can mate with a drone and lay her own eggs in with the big pile, but eat the eggs of any workers beneath her that try to do so.

This is a valley carpenter bee- the only bee that can thermoregulate and had a circulatory system complete with aortic arch. Carpenter bees are good because they are too big to get into many flowers and have to be extra hairy to get pollen. They live in raw wood in small family units of all females (mothers and daughters or sisters) and are excellent cooks and workers. Males cruise around mating with multiple females and then leave.

These are green sweat bees- they burrow in the ground and live in apartment complexes, where they all use the same entrance but then have their own separate burrows rather than one large room. Some have kids, some don’t, so someone’s always around to keep out invaders. Unlike most bees the males actually do quite a bit of pollinating and go out in groups.

[beerightsactivist]

dark bee tumblr has graced us once again with even more forbidden and secret bees we are truly blessed

[nonegenderwithleftbees]

Coming at you with another Australian native bee; tetragonula carbonaria or the sugarbag bee. They are a stingless species instead using resin to trap and entomb invaders that get into their hive as shown below (which doesn’t happen often because these bees are tiny and the entrances to their hives are also just as tiny). 

Like honey bees they are eusocial. Meaning they live in hives with a queen, drones and worker bees that create these complex hives that are completely different to honey bee hives. With honey and pollen pots built on the outside of the hive and the spiral structure in the middle made up of brood cells, where in the centre the queen sits.

[lichen-soup-scribe]

do you dare pass through the sticky traps and enter the B E E S P I R A L

[entanglingbriars]

List of sins that God will damn you for in the Hebrew Bible

none

literally none

damnation is not a concept in the Hebrew Scriptures

[emoyouth]

»Judaism has no word for sin. […] Judaism has the concept of חטא chet. Although it is sometimes conveniently but incorrectly translated as sin, chet means to ›miss the mark‹ – to be heading for the ›bull’s-eye‹ of moral and ethical behavior but to veer off course, to make a mistake. The Jewish ›bull’s-eye‹ is the proper observance of the mitzvot – the ethical and ritual commands of God. So chet means to ›transgress the mitzvot‹ , to fail to correctly or completely fulfill God’s precepts and commandments. The Hebrew word for repentance is תשובה t’shuvah, which means ›to return‹ – to come back to the path leading to the ›bull’s-eye‹ of following God’s commands.«

– Rabbi Wayne D. Dosick: Living Judaism. The Complete Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice

[chesed-universe-180]

http://www.aish.com/h/hh/gar/atonement/48954551.html? “This is the idea of teshuva. Teshuva literally means “return.” When we “do teshuva,” we examine our ways, identify those areas where we are losing ground, and “return” to our own previous state of spiritual purity. And in the process, we “return” to our connection with the Almighty as well.

The process of teshuva involves the following four steps:

Step 1 - Regret. Realize the extent of the damage and feel sincere regret.

Step 2 - Cessation. Immediately stop the harmful action.

Step 3 - Confession. Articulate the mistake and ask for forgiveness.

Step 4 - Resolution. Make a firm commitment not to repeat it in the future.“

“How should we feel upon recognizing a mistake? Should we feel guilty, worthless and bad? No! “Guilt” is the negative emotion saying that “I am bad.” Whereas “regret” is the positive acknowledgement that while my essence remains pure, I have failed to live up to my potential.“

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[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

It’s a great thing that this post ended here and nothing bad happened on it

[quousque]

Learning the meanings and connotations of ancient words that we use everyday (either in translation or its descendant) is LITERALLY THE COOLEST AND MOST INTERESTING THING EVER

[japotecture]

[caveisgettingdeleted-deactivate]

Thank you clam man

[nobrainsnothanks-deactivated201]

forever reblog

[pumkinet-deactivated20171025]

thanks I needed this

[a-bold-move]

“ronald reagans grave is a gender neutral bathroom” is the most powerful sentence I’ve ever read 

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

trickle down economics

[klaw]

dont apologize for misgendering my dog if u wont apologize for misgendering me

[conceptualsolitude]

Hi, how’s it going? I need a new body! Could you help me out? Lend me the non corporeal vessel that I crave and deserve

[honey-andrevolution]

I start uni next week and I’m so so busy till then and I’ve taken so much time off but I’m having today off too because I HAVE SO MUCH TO DO *panicked breathing*

But on the plus side, I’m going to re pot my fern babies today.

[self-healing]

forgive yourself for the stagnancy that was produced from your depression

[pochowek]

sherlock girl trying to hit on me: hey ;) i noticed the thin indentations calloused into your fingertips. you a bassist? me: that? oh thats from opening pistachios

[systlin]

“Samuel Vimes distrusted the kind of person who’d take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, “Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times,” and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man’s boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he’d been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience!”

— Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

[pochowek]

i can’t read. want some? theyre good

[systlin]

actually I will take some thanks

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

I hate how the stereotype is that dolphins are good and sharks are evil, when dolphins are so smart that they have the capacity for evil but sharks are simple fish who can only be true neutral, so even if a minority of dolphins are evil there are still more evil dolphins than sharks

[rageclit-deactivated20181208]

quality marine philosophy discourse

[computervsworldarchive]

as we all know, the best vines are the ones with dogs. here’s a bunch of doggy vines!!!!!!

[ffractaa]

This made me v happy

[honey-andrevolution]

I’m having a fucking rough brain time at the moment coupled with heavy dysphoria and I don’t really know what to do. I know most of my instincts are wrong though. Bad coping mechanisms.

[goodassdog]

[kittymattress]

I am convinced this is a puppet

[dumdolly]

i am fucking crying

[tkkatherineblog]

[rippingoffrobotarms]

@fandom-hell-kid

[beachdeath]

How Fans Invented #Hannie, the Ultimate Social Media Supercouple

Hayden Summerall and Annie LeBlanc are basically Brangelina for the next generation. Except this couple started in Instagram fan-fiction first.

on a related note i read this article the other day and it scared the living shit out of me

From the age of 4, Annie LeBlanc has had every major milestone in her life documented on YouTube. Her parents are what are known as “family vloggers,” and since 2008 they have dutifully recorded every moment of her childhood along with their family’s life on their YouTube channel, Bratayley.

Fans have seen Annie throw temper tantrums, lose her first tooth, begin school, learn to ride a bike, and enter puberty. Naturally, when she began spending time with a boy for the first time at age 12, her online fanbase of nearly 20 million followers across social platforms freaked out.

the truman show except you’re a twelve year old girl and the villainous showrunners forcing you into a manipulated romance for publicity are your mom and dad

[beachdeath]

Though Annie has lived her entire life online, even her father, Billy LeBlanc, was amazed at the level of dedication teens showed to perpetuating the idea of a “Hannie” relationship.  

“Fans immediately began sending Instagram edits,” he said. “These kids are very good at Photoshop. While Annie and Hayden’s relationship has always been innocent, the fans would take the two in certain poses and photoshop them together so it looked like an authentic photo.”

Fans constructed an entire false narrative of Hayden and Annie’s life as a couple, photoshopping them out on dates together, at the movies, attending fictional parties.

“They’ve photoshopped them together at prom,” Billy said, despite the fact that neither Annie or Hayden has ever attended prom.

“You’d see these images all over Instagram, thousands of them, and you’re like, I know that didn’t happen!” he said. “In the beginning [the shipping] was driven by a lot of photos that weren’t real, but as they began hanging out with each other in real life, kids would edit photos of them together. They’d take the two sitting next to each other, for instance, and scoot them closer together.”

like imagine knowing this is happening to your twelve-year-old child and rather than recognize it as a serious invasion of privacy and a major threat to her emotional health and well-being, you sign her up to star in a tv show created solely to stoke the mania around her friendship with another twelve-year-old 

[luv2scam]

Kill the parents

[nb-tomfool]

This reads like a fucking Black Mirror episode

[flatluigi]

this reads like a black mirror episode people would make fun of for being too out there and unbelievable

[honey-andrevolution]

I have accidentally found the hannie areas of insta and it’s fucking horrifying. I learnt about the leblancs when their eldest child died and I’m just waiting for the two youngest to fucking spiral. Also Annie LeBlanc edits her photos badly to look thinner and my god it’s fucked.