Investigating the Stars

Working through an unworshipped god and figuring out the nature of the self 28 They/Them Ɐ

[howlinginsolitude]

Stuck Somewhere Between a Dream and a Memory

- Nox - 30 - They/Them - Wolf Therian - Canine shaped Psychopomp - Beast of Burden Concepthearted

Now that the big important box is out of the way, I'm Nox! I'm 28 and nonbinary and primarily use They/Them pronouns, but you can also use bite/bites neos for me as well if you're feeling spicy. I am a Wolf Therian (specifically a Northwestern Wolf) and also a Canine shaped psychopomp of some variety that I'm still trying to figure out. This is my side blog, I interact from @awolvenjournal. I also probably won't follow you back if you're a minor and follow me because I'm 30. That being said if you are 18+ then my dms are open and feel free to chat any time. The writings I do on my psychopompic identity and working with an unworshipped pantheon can be found at @xpostmortem-pupx

INTERESTS:

Art! I love digital art and I hope to get better at it as time goes on

Writing! Especially poetry, I'm working on a collection called DogSongs now

Mythology! I'm super interested in various Germanic Mythologies and historical Wolf Cults

Science! I am a bit of a nerd when it comes to natural sciences so please talk about them with me

Linguistics! I love how language evolves too, especially in Germanic language families

I'm not afraid to block people if you're being shitty.

I think that's all for right now, I don't have any tags that I use currently besides the normal ones, so I'll just update if it changes.

Last update: 3/22/25

[great-and-small]

Saddest thing ever is reading an academic paper about a threatened or declining species where you can tell the author is really trying to come up with ways the animal could hypothetically be useful to humans in a desperate attempt to get someone to care. Nobody gives a shit about the animals that “don’t affect” us and it seriously breaks my heart

[great-and-small]

“No I can’t come out tonight I’m sobbing about this entomologist’s heartfelt plea for someone to care about an endangered moth”

[bogleech]

This is how I learn there's a moth whose tiny caterpillars live exclusively off the old shells of dead tortoises.

[thepastisaroadmap]

[Image description: text from a section titled On Being Endangered: An Afterthought that says:

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

End image description]

[headspace-hotel]

because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing

[rackiera]

I was so inspired by this I made it into a piece of art for a final in one of my courses for storytelling in conservation

[a-book-of-creatures]

[mossworm]

I used to work for two of the authors, Mark and Nancy Deyrup. They are true naturalists, interested in everything that lives, and wonderful human beings. They still live in central Florida where the tortoise shell moth lives, and have dedicated their whole lives to documenting the Florida scrub ecosystem and educating the public. I don't know if their names reach outside of entomology, but they are beloved figures here.

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[fairycosmos]

good morning to the beaten and the damned only

[beansfrombeans]

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[deathtokillian]

Well keep it going

[tribblefarmer]

The Artemis II images are making me emotional for a lot of reasons but one of them is:

[morayofsunshine]

interview with the masquerade

[morayofsunshine]

vampire: the vampire

[drakensberg-blog]

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

[poupon]

how dare you say we piss on the poor

[abyssaldyke]

It's spring now which means the kids in my city have started drawing hopscotches on the sidewalk and as a rule I do every hopscotch I see because 1. Use it or lose it (ability to scotch) and 2. If a child got down on the hardscrabble streets of Boston Massachusetts to draw a scotch the least I can do is use it, but in doing the hopscotches, I've learned that about 50% of them are the typical 8-10 step scotch and the other 50% are. Somewhat avant-garde. And of course I'm not vetting the entire scotch before I start it so sometimes it's like haha 8 steps woo! Childlike whimsy! And sometimes they're 20 steps or 30 or they've got a section with three squares instead of two where you have to do a little Charleston to step on all three, or, memorably, FORTY one foot squares. A full BLOCK of jumping on one foot but I'm no quitter so once I've started Jigsaw Junior's fuckin hopscotch gauntlet I'm there til the end just a daily pot smoker in her thirties jumping kasa-obake style through an affluent suburb while some little proto-kennedy watches from his bedroom window rubbing his sadistic little third grade hands together and cackling. It's amazing. I love spring.

[halondrus]

[cutecipher]

can you put that thing on a leash?

[halondrus]

ok

[dogpuppy]

I wish I could have heard you sing this… I bet you have a beautiful voice

[dogpuppy]

I wish I could have heard you sing this… I bet you have a beautiful voice

[gloomywabbit]

Gastly

I wanna try and draw every first evolution ghost types.

[7sea5]

↑ Doodles of some different genres of snake pictures

Honorable mentions ↓

[trek-tracks]

When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

[trek-tracks]

Any educator who doesn't feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase "Unused York City."

[maniculum]

A lecturer at Middlesex University in 2014, Chris Sadler, coined the term "Rogetism" for these. Perhaps the best:

Source.

[vigilantsycamore]

I'm trying to hide my plagiarism but the clapping of my sinister buttocks keeps alerting the lecturer

[sandmandaddy69]

[rubykgrant]

yeah, you can go piss, girl... bit it'll cost ya

[thesweetiepienovels]

“No one is coming to save you.” I disagree ! I believe many people made up of many small moments come to save pieces of you , even if just briefly. The mentor who believed in you . The friend who said they’re proud of you. The family member that makes you laugh . The random person who held the door for you out of nothing but kindness. The teacher who took extra time to help you understand. The person who smiled at you when you walked into a store. The little kid who looks up to you. The person who randomly complimented you. Being “saved” isn’t about being whisked away and all your hardships gone, it’s about the people and things that remind you life is not all hardships, it is kindness, love, gentleness, softness, care, thoughtfulness. It is many moments made up of your lifetime that keeps you going and showing you the world is still beautiful, and will always be. Despite.