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Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as whales, larger
I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass
That's absolutely insane.
Nature red in tooth and claw ain't seen nothing yet
In case anyone was bothered by the idea of them torturing the fish, it was already dead.
i love this guy
it's interesting to compare their profiles
Oh, no, you misheard me. My dog isn't a herding breed, I said hoarding breed. Little cunt sleeps in a pile of my missing socks like smug tiny smaug and will eat me if I try to retrieve them.
I cant go to my local libary anymore because last year when I stopped by a librarian was reading a book I wrote under a pen name years ago. This book sold under 10k copies and I've literally only heard people talk about this book online *if* I went looking for it so I went up to them and tried to start a conversation like "oh hey I've heard of that book is it good?" Like hoping for some real feedback and she goes "yeah I love reading things by queer writers" and in a moment of terror I was like "oh but- hold on, I thought the author was some old hetero white guy?!" A thing I thought because I used my own dead grandpa's picture for the author pic because grandpa never had internet. I fake looked it up and was like "yeah if he was queer its not public?" And without looking up this absolute unit goes "oh the author bio is obviously fake. I'd bet my left leg the author is a west coast millennial non-binary queer who has never lived on the east coast." And then proceeded to rattle off a dozen linguistic flourishes that are specfic to the pacific northwest that are in the book and several that are nearly ubiquitous in the state where I said my pen name lives that are somehow completely absent from the book.
So you know. Got read for fifth and didn't even find out if she liked it.
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Being told what to do is great because then you know what to do
itâs not weird to find fanfiction from 2021, or 2017, or 2014 that youâve never read and actually taking your time to read it.
itâs not weird to love it and comment and leave kudos because the author will probably still see it someday and it will make them happy.
itâs not weird to like said authorâs work so much that you want to go look for other fics from them.
itâs not weird to go through the authors profile and look for other fics from the ships you like (or maybe some that youâll give a chance because you liked the author) and maybe bookmark them for later.
itâs not weird to read these other fics and like them too and comment on them because you actually like them and you want to let the author know.
itâs not weird to read fanfiction from 5, or 8, or 10 years ago and actually enjoy and engage with it because itâs perfectly normal to relate to something thatâs less than a decade old!
letâs stop treating fanfiction like theyâre instagram posts that stop being interesting in 24 hours! fanfiction is NOT social media, fanfiction is art!!! and art doesnât get old in one day, one year, or even a decade!
read fanfiction! write fanfiction! comment on fanfiction! letâs not let fanculture die people!!!!!
Not only is it not weird, it is ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED. Authors LOVE IT when people do this!!! Its not "weird" and its not "neutral" -- its a fucking DELIGHT. Feel very absolutely free to read though an author's entire back catalogue, leaving kudos and/or comments along the way; we absolutely freaking love when someone does this. There is nothing more joyful than getting a comment notification for an old fic. It will make our day, I promise.
love the trope where an authoritative side character pointedly pretends not to help the hero theyâre not supposed to be helping by saying shit like âwell I canât just let you wander around up to the THIRD FLOOR where you could just FIND THE THING YOU NEED in the FIRST ROOM ON THE LEFT. And under no circumstances should you USE THE KEY FROM UNDER THE MAT. I wish I could help you, but I CANâT. Now excuse me, I need to take this phone call for the next 37 minutes EXACTLY.â
My doctor did that for me once. I had to get an expensive brain scan and she was like âdo you smoke?â and I was like ânoâ and she was like âwell thatâs a pity because the government will pay for this expensive brain scan if you had been a smoker so - do you smoke?â đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł I was like âyesâ and sheâs like âoh wow then this scan will be freeâ
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Landback Victories in the first half of 2026
I keep an eye out for these stories. I want to keep track of good thatâs being done to keep believing we are and can be working towards real successes in human rights, redressing historic wrongs, and promoting environmental justice.
January
La Perouse Local Aboriginal Land Council was officially handed back title to a land claim after winning a court case in Sydney, Australia.
167,400 hectares (413,000 acres) of national park land was returned to a Waanyi land organizationâs control and leased back to the Australian government to continue to be operated by the Waanyi People as a park, renamed from Lawn Hill National Park to Boodjamulla National Park (Aborignal Land).
February
The Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California purchased back 10,274 acres of land in the Sierra Nevadas, to be established as the WĂ©lmeltiÊ Preserve for conservation under the tribeâs land trust.
March
Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center (Haudenosaunee) bought back 600 acres of land in New York with the support of the Nature Conservancy, to manage as conservation land and an Indigenous youth camp.
A chapel and grounds in Kansas City, Kansas was returned to the Kansas Delaware Tribe by the Great Plains United Methodist Conference, along with $325,000 raised to support repairs to be building.
656 acres of land was transferred by a nature conservation organization to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in California, who plan to continue operating it as conservation lands and a wildlife preserve and open space recreation.
April
an update to one of last yearâs: Nuchatlaht First Nation won their court case and were declared the title holders to 210 square km (51,800 acres) of cedar forested land on Vancouver Island.
The Colfax-Todd Valley Consolidated Tribe had 308 acres of forest land returned in California, with financial support from and a conservation easement co-held by the Placer Land Trust.
May
The Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa had 3,400 acres of forested land formally returned to them by the State of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.
A church property was transferred to the Indigenous Protector Movement by Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, to be used as a new headquarters for the IPM in their work as a multi-tribal Indigenous advocacy group.
The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania received three privately-owned land parcels through purchase, fundraising, and donation, and are restoring land previously used as an illegal dumping ground.
June
Boise Valley tribes (Shoshone-Paiute and Shoshone-Bannock, I think?) were deeded 3 acres of land by a private homeowner in Idaho pledging the land to be a gift back to the tribes after his death.
An Oregon Lutheran church returned its property to local tribes as a gift to the Native American Youth and Family Center which they plan to use for elderly housing for the local Native community.
Aboriginal Traditional Owners in far north Queensland, represented by the Bubu Nubuun Aboriginal Corporation, were returned 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of land to be jointly managed with the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.
These are the ones I know about. There are also updates to older Native land title stories, like Niweskokâs work towards Wabenaki food sovereignty on the land they reclaimed in the last few years, and more complex but still positive opportunities happening like the Wotjobaluk Nations signing a Land Use Activity Agreement to ensure Traditional Owner rights pf comment and input on public land use in the state of Victoria.
A lot of stuff is many places is really bad right now from a human rights, environmental justice, and ecosystem conservation perspective, but there are positive developments happening too. And as always, I encourage people (esp. in the US, Canada, Australia, and NZ/Aotearoa) to see if thereâs any organization in your life or your area through which you have the ability to help, through donations of money or land or time.
there are a NUMBER of folktale Woman-Creatures like selkies who exist to make the inherently coercive nature of heterosexual marriage explicit and to externalize male anxiety about how if your wife had actual autonomy she very well might disappear and you might never fucking hear from her again
which is a FASCINATING category of Woman-Creature imo
someone said it's also a cautionary tale about mistreating your wife and I think that's spot on especially for other related types of stories e.g. the crane wife. like I think these stories are very much Husband Anxiety Stories. the Woman-Creatures are black boxes whose interior experience it is impossible to know and who have strange and often seemingly arbitrary rules that you must follow or else they will disappear. idk. like. that's why I think that any empowering-to-women-ness qualities of these stories is incidental. I think they're externalized anxiety about coercive societal heterosexuality and the inability to truly Know one's wife in such circumstances.
you also see a variant of this formula a lot (generally at the more literary end of the fairy tale space) where it's not a creature you capture, but a magical lady who picks you for seemingly arbitrary reasons, bettering your fortune enormously with her magic and wealth and second-hand status.
and then, for reasons usually at least slightly less arbitrary, fucks off again.
the husbandly anxiety here is more about not having access to coercion as an option.
oooo yes absolutely!
was just talking to Story about this and he told me about one folktale where a guy meets a beautiful woman at a lake and she brings a bountiful dowry of like one million fat cows and such and she is of course a fairy so she's like "my one requirement in our bargain is that if you strike me three times I will leave" and in many versions of the story the husband doesn't ""actually"" strike her -- each time it's something like, one 'strike' involves her forgetting her gloves inside and he walks out and taps her on the shoulder with her gloves, but she tells him that counts as striking her. this sort of thing. which is TRANSPARENTLY like "whoa wouldn't it be fucked up if your wife could enforce consequences for behavior she said was harmful, even if according to your cultural norms it was fine, and you didn't see it as a big deal?" like... lol. what if women could actually be the ones who decided whether or not any given action their husbands took against them was harmful? IMAGINE... PREDEY SCARY....
