Sorry I was late I was touching soft mossy stones

Invertebrate propagandist (she/her) I possess the knowledge of every isopod's location. 🦐 lover, jjba fan, an actual isopod, house md!!!, deltarune, and much more. i am the wizard controlling the insect mass movement, go in the ask box to suggest some locust plagues/isopod invasions targets, or reach out for a bug plague coupon.

[isopost-headquarters]

bigots of any kind I'm gonna give your location to a local isopod community and you're not gonna like what those deranged guys will do.....

if you want one free isopod/locust plague coupon please refer to my asks, I give them out to any individual who needs one to summon it upon a bigot of sorts.

[avocadobananas]

who fucking litters. why do i ever see litter. who thinks that’s okay. who. who NEEDS to throw their fast food bag out the fucking window instead of waiting until they get somewhere with a trashcan. what kinda clown behavior. get fucked.

[erisolkat]

the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight

[catsdelightful-deactivated20240]

Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.

Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!

[misslunarose]

This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!

{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}

[obi-mom-kenobi]

I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!

More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit

[obi-mom-kenobi]

[jamiegeode]

@creatingblackcharacters !!!

[homunculus-argument]

I don't even know whose job it was to teach people this, but did they just stop teaching people what a bicycle bell means?

One would think that hearing a very distinct, clearly audible, reasonably loud and rapidly approaching sound of any kind would make any reasonable mammal turn to look at the direction of the sound, just purely by instinct?? If a deer heard something nearby go DING DING DING DING DING DING at its general direction, it would at least look up to see whether the source of the sound is a threat or not? Just a quick "is that something I need to be concerned about?" type of glance.

The enshittification of pedestrians has reached the point where they have less traffic survival skills than deer.

[homunculus-argument]

How exactly does one slow down and weave around pedestrians who are blocking the entire way in a formation in which it would be impossible to pass them even on foot without elbowing one or two?

[nerdyinfluencertastemaker]

This is literally why we need bike lanes

[homunculus-argument]

The pedestrians ignoring the bike bell are on the bike lanes.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time

[daughter-of-sapph0]

tumblr having a "if your blog gets nuked*, every single image you've ever posted - including those in reblogs on other people's posts, including those that are entirely safe for work - gets permanently deleted from existence and marked with a big 'this image has been removed because it was posted by a yucky tranny' marker" policy should make anyone suspicious if not outright hateful toward staff. but i feel like 99% of people just ignore it or even laugh at it and move on.

*nuked here refers to a specific type of blog deletion. its not deactivation (where someone deletes their blog themselves) or getting terminated (where all your images and post still exist and can still be circulated). its specifically a special type of deletion with no appeal available and suspiciously often used against trans women or other minority groups. and it permanently wipes your blog and any reblog additions you ever made, replacing everything you ever posted with the big fat mature content label.

[batsquatched]

silly isopod painting / water soluble graphite sketch thing!!

love these dudes 😩 (and water soluble graphite which i'm now rediscovering my love for)

[mockva]

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

[mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[monidoll]

approximately 10-20% of mangaka need to be made to understand they can transition irl

[the-big-mood]

In 1997, local television in Kharkiv accidentally filmed one of the most iconic rave moments in history.

[ruinedchildhood]

[ladysiryna]

When Ukraine get's mentioned not in the war context! ! !

[fanficclub]

I have conflicting thoughts on Heated rivalry. It's a romantic story, yada yada, it's nice, but the question is in the context it's set in. Here are some facts:

One of the two main characters is russian.

He is a hockey player, which is famously a sport russia is good at, and which popularity, success, and masculine strong image they use for their propaganda.

Sport is a symbol of a nation's military strength - as in fascist Germany, so in russia now.

His father holds the honor of their country dear, clearly displaying russian chauvinism by being offended and shamed by their loss to Latvia - which they consider their colony.

He also has a dozen medals, ostensibly from being in the military - other invasions, we can assume.

The character at some point meets russian political officials - because as we remember, he is a hockey player, and is important to the image of a global superpower that his country wants to project.

He takes part in the 2014 Sochi Olympics as a part of the russian team - several days later russia invades Ukraine and annexes Crimea.

Anti-lgbt sentiment is mentioned, the war is glossed over.

The character goes back to russia for the summer, its military conquests and international crimes having zero effect on his life.

What I want you to think about are two things:

what all this information tells us about Ilya as a character, the things he believes in, the bigotry he was surrounded by growing up, the misconceptions that cling to him even after leaving the country, his role in whitewashing russia's image, his possible opinions on his Olympic teammates proudly wearing Z's in a couple of years and

what effect him being a sympathetic character, speaking russian, training in Moscow, having russian friends, has on the global view of russia as a country in the real world?

Is it responsible, or in any way just, to pretend that russian language carries no negative weight, while people speaking it kill, rape, and torture their way through a neighbouring country? When Ukrainian soldiers coming home from captivity have traumatic reactions to the sounds of it? When in the political arena russian officials are trying to lie their way into everyone believing that they want peace and are working towards peace - despite starting the war and breaking every single cease-fire agreement? While their soldiers leave threatening and mocking messages in russian on the walls of houses in occupied Ukrainian territories?

What does it also say about us, the Western audience, when knowing all that we coo and swoon at russian accent? at russian phrases? extending empathy to a character who does not believe that russian military is just and honorable only because he is fictional?

I understand that it is easier to believe in kindness. It is easier to look at the people in the show and to think that these characters are like us, they are kind like us. To think that real people the characters are based on are like that as well, it is easy to be positive. It is much harder to realize and internalize how cruel people can be - how cruel they are, right this moment, every day, to Ukrainians. Being ignorant of this and "choosing love and friendship" just means being complicit in the murder of Ukrainians. There is no way around it - the real kindness is knowing who is in the wrong and reacting to their crimes appropriately.

And the russian people are guilty.

[odinsblog]

Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵

1. Mount Fuji from a plane window.

2. Arc de Triomphe, Paris

3. Aerial view of Kaaba, Mecca

4. A view of the Taj Mahal that you do not usually see, highlighting the stark contrast between opulence and poverty divided by a single wall.

5. Top down view of the Statue of Liberty

6. The backside of Tutankhamun's burial mask

7. The dome of St. Peter’s Basilica seen through Rome's most famous keyhole.

8. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa

9. Photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism, captured an extraordinary drone shot of the Great Pyramid of Giza from an unusual perspective.

10. The Shanhai Pass, where the Great Wall of China meets the ocean.

for images 11 - 25, please see the source, here

[ukraine-mentioned]

context given: alexander ladanivskyy is a ukrainian photographer

[helenvaughans]

[vintage-ukraine]

Fairy tale illustration by Liudmyla Postnykh, 1989

[propalahramota]

Some context for this image: You know that basic fairy tale plot that exists in many cultures where a magical creature gets charity from a good-hearted young woman and then repays her kindness sevenfold? Well, in Ukraine, we have one where the magical creature is a talking severed head of a horse. Yeah.

[ukraine-mentioned]