the sun will rise

im just vibing. also i like bugs. (seriously, i love insects. there are tons of them on this blog.)

[imjustadorito]

wherever you are, whoever you are, i hope you'll have a chance to be happy.

[thegreatamericangame]

Mayano type drawings.

[nessochist]

Kandy G. Lopez R ² - Roscoe and Reggie 2024 Yarn and acrylic paint on hook mesh

Orlando Museum of Art’s 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art

[punkitt-is-here]

Baby vultures :)

dude......FUCK yes.....................

[mooruri]

[herpsandbirds]

a tragic tale; in florida my father and i heard a distinctive call that sounded like *tick* weeooweeoo... he informed me that this bird, the widow of chuck-will, was why he got into birding and downloaded merlin for the rest of our trip, the humble chuck-will's widows taunted us with their calls from varying distances, some sounding like they were just out of sight... we never saw them, but perhaps one day we shall

Chuck-Will’s-Widow (Antrostomus carolinensis), family Caprimulgidae, order Caprimulgiformes, FL, USA

This nightjar is named for its call, which sounds as if it’s saying “Chuck Will’s Widow”.

photograph by Steve Klett

Florida, USA - photograph by Jay Paredes

Florida, USA - photograph by Tim Peach

NC, USA - photographs by Dick Daniels

East TX, USA - photograph by Tony Castro

[youngadultread]

“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions. Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time. In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows: “The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.” In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts.”

—

PBS: Language as Prejudice - Myth #6: Women Talk Too Much (via misandry-mermaid)

Every EVERY women’s studies class I’ve been in has had this problem and failed to address it. 

(via iamayoungfeminist)

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

[miaislying]

Hey OP? What the FUCK does this mean?

[personsonable-deactivated201908]

decay exists as an extant form of life

[miaislying]

That’s a terrifying answer, have a nice day

[haystarlight]

THE ORIGINAL?!?!!!!!!!!;!!!!!!!!???

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

On my dash!??!

Please hold

[lumpatronics]

SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him

[thetenderpassion]

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Post by Jim Campbell ( @/JustJimWillDo ); transcript follows.]

I honestly didn’t know that I was supposed to follow a service dog in a vest if it approached me by itself.

I do now.

So do you.

The world is a slightly better place. Well done us.

[prinnay]

[ PrismColor ]

[cripplecharacters]

Hello. Is there a list of anything that you want to see more in mute/non-speaking fictional characters? Are there any tropes/stereotypes that i need to be wary of? Thanks!

Hi!

We would love to see:

All sorts of AAC methods (high tech, low tech, and no tech)

Disabilities other than "functionally abled but magically just can't speak", like cerebral palsy, autism, intellectual disability, language processing disorders, situational mutism, apraxia, etc.

On that note, if your character can't speak because their tongue got cut out, which seems to be the major reason to have a nonspeaking character in fiction, that will affect their quality of life in a lot of ways other than being unable to speak. Commit to actually portraying that, please. Or just pick another reason they don't speak!

Fewer characters who are hearing and use sign language. Not that it never happens, but it makes up the vast majority of sign language representation in fiction and pop culture, despite being a very small percentage of actual signers in real life.

If you want a signing character, please consider making a Deaf character! (Think about how easy it is if you already have a character translating what your signing character is saying: just have them interpret spoken language too. You're now like 3/4 of the way to having solid Deaf representation.)

Nonverbal characters who are physically capable of making noise, like grunting, laughing, squealing, etc. even though they can't actually speak. These sounds can be communicative or non-communicative.

Or using echolalia, accidental mouth words, or other non-communicative speech in the case of autistic or intellectually disabled characters!

Mod Rock and mod Sasza

[rainbow-banana-slug]

already said a bit, but different reasons for nonverbal nonspeaking (if 24/7) & mute! like because physical / anatomical difference, neurological, motor speech, language, cognitive / intellectual, neurodevelopmental, etc! ALS, tracheotomy & not candidate for speech valve, cerebral palsy, craniofacial differences, apraxia & various presentations of nonverbal nonspeaking autism & intellectual disability & rarer developmental conditions, & more! echoing on please no “basically nondisabled except Just Can’t Speak”

nonverbal nonspeaking characters with other nonverbal nonspeaking friends! who nonverbal nonspeaking bc similar disability but similar n different experiences ! different disability (maybe VASTLY different disability) but also with similar experiences!!

AAC learning curve! most people won’t be able pick up any AAC & be instantly fluent in it. this may be possible for people w already good cognitive & language & motor abilities & already literate n using spelling / typing based AAC, but that not majority of AAC users, & especially not if we talk abt symbol based AAC, which person just described will still take a long while to learn to comfortably use & see as own voice. and, plus, lots of disability that cause people to need AAC, often also impact AAC use, like intellectual / cognitive abilities, language abilities, motor abilities, visual, illiterate or learning to read learning language, etc.

wider variety of high tech AAC! text based & symbol based, but also like switches! scanning! eyegaze / eye tracking! head tracking! etc!

characters where cannot communicate independently or AAC not perfect fix! need communication partners, need partner explain what they communicating to others, need them explain things to self, need prompting, need modeling, etc. or cannot make grammatically correct sentences with good social back n forth exchange no matter communication method. or cannot communicate with language at all. or AAC too slow to use n get frustrated n refuse to use, etc.

in general more realistic details of nonverbal nonspeaking experiences! AAC taking time, not being perfectly understood, charging device, other symptoms of disability that also cause nonverbal nonspeaking, etc. like AHA can still communicate with my mouth full take that!!! but alas can’t when hands dirty or full or occupied (if use direct access via fingers) n can only vaguely gesture n noise. or eye gaze AAC struggling under bright sun or low light, etc.

^ & especially nonverbal nonspeaking joy! AAC joy!

& intersectionabilities! like a nonverbal nonspeaking character who come out as trans by change their voice on AAC ;)

accidentally made it half abt AAC, but also: nonverbal nonspeaking experiences beyond AAC!!!!!

- nonverbal (24/7) AAC user

[unwell-radio-transmissions]

have been mention with 'language processing disorders' & other intellectual/congitive/neurological disability points what are said above. But Radio want talk more about because is own experience.

is not rude for have nonverbal characters what communicate different even when use AAC.

can see here from how Radio type is not use all 'good grammar' english and is okay.

same with have nonverbal character also have problems understand language. Need short sentences, slower talking, simple language.

also (for nonverbal bc autism) echolalia what is communicative & not communicative. Sometimes Radio say (with mouth voice) echolalia because want say something. (Point @ friend cat & say 'buh-buh' because want 2 say 'look your cat is over there.' But sometimes say 'pockit' because reach into pocket for something and say on accident/not mean to.)

also also not unrealistic for language ability change in short time (hours/days), especially if have disability what makes symptoms up & down.

is not rude for describe characters like this & is real for many people experiences :) (smiley face).

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.

And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.

And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.

[doomhamster]

This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!

[clownlores]

Angels are everywhere we made them

[mosshopper]

Small bug illustrations from a scrapped bug zine that would have been about taking time to appreciate the small creatures around us.

Monochrome drawings because I'd wanted it to be a photocopy zine folks could just print and fold themselves.

[waspdaily]

Today's wasp of the day is Ropalidia saussurei!

Credits: photo 1, photo 2

Most other wasps that have green on them are not a true green, and instead only appear green due to what is called "structural color"— the micro-make up and surface of the scales reflect light to make it appear that color as opposed to true pigment, which is a chemical mix that results in the color. This is why so many green wasps (and birds for that matter) have a metallic sheen to them, as the angle the light hits at will also effect the perceived color.

There are only a handful of wasp species with true green pigment, the majority of which can only be found in Madagascar.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[valtsv]

getting sniffed by an animal is for them what petting is for us. when a beast can't stop going sniffsniffsniffsniffsniffsniff at you it's like their version of cuteness aggression.