Too Many Pens & a Bad Memory

30something. LGBTQ, sex-positive feminist. Crazy cat lady. Sometime-Discordian. Out-of-practice CM. She/her pronouns (This blog is NSFW and will occasionally have kink-related posts and images which will all be tagged. Occasional personal blogs mixed into the fangirling and feminism. YMMV.)

[must-be-mythtaken]

[kittengrin]

@nrrdgrrl

[oh-kermie]

Oh come on

Trump saying no politician has ever been treated worse; Lincoln was literally shot in the head.

[kibblesandbitch]

the last president had his nationality questioned because of his skin color that seems like pretty bad treatment too

[xanadontit]

^^^ BY 45. LIKE, DUDE, YOU FUCKING CYBERBULLIED OUR LAST PRESIDENT.

[girlbossjodiarias]

And he said this within the context of a commencement address. I would’ve demanded a refund.

[kittengrin]

Not just any commencement address: a commencement address to a graduating class of the US Coast Guard Academy

[sonatagreen]

A tradition

In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace. The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.

[wakor-rising]

Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.

A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.

A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people. 

A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.

Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage. 

[handful-of-teeth-deactivated202]

im just looking up the rat king from the nutcracker and i love this one

[iguanamouth]

[thoodleoo]

do u ever wish you could be like. a greco-roman lady in a 19th century painting. just lounging all day, looking bored. probably got ur tiddies out. thats the life

[thoodleoo]

every neoclassical/early romantic piece of art is the dream honestly like

hang out in this rose garden with your girlfriend while she dumps flower petals on you. nice

alternatively hang out with your whole squad of nymph gfs in some water. just you and your gal pals, and this guy i guess. letting your tiddies hang out and all that

take a nap on these pillows surrounded by beautiful ancient frescoes, what’s not to love

tiddies out, nap game on, divine boyfriend, not a care in the world. these ladies have it so good

[accusativeofexclamation]

Dressed in gorgeous flowing clothes, hair game on point, sitting on warm marble by the seaside, responding ambiguously to yet another handsome suitor’s advances

h*ck yes

[biiigwinged]

I love this era so much.

Napping on outdoor furniture that somehow never gets musty, and it’s warm enough to wear a gauzy nightie.

[ndindase-deactivated20200110]

Big mood

[kaciart]

Bucky might have had a little too much to drink

[jedusaur]

why you should not dismiss research unless you rly truly mean it

Internet, I am a queer researcher of queer health and I have something to say.

A few weeks back, a study went viral about the relationship between marriage equality policy and queer teen suicide rates, and a lot of people reacted thusly: “queer mental health is better when we’re not discriminated against! BREAKING: SKY IS BLUE, WATER IS WET”

This happens a lot. People see research about a thing ~Everyone Already Knows~ and they mock it. Now I want to make two things really clear:

1. Everyone does not already know.

2. This shit can lose these projects their funding.

Did you know that media coverage is a crucial factor in funding allocation? When we submit our application for grant renewal, we have to provide a list of news articles about our research so they can decide whether the public cares enough about us to let us keep doing our work. And most research doesn’t get all that much coverage, so individual reactions can really matter. If the primary reaction to our publications is eyerolling, we legitimately might not be able to continue.

I’ve seen some frustration from people who believe this research funding would be better put to use “actually helping” the affected populations instead of–I don’t know, pinning them under microscopes or whatever it is they think we do. But funding for policy initiatives is driven by research. I know you wish politicians would listen to individual voices telling them where the problems are, but that’s honestly not a smart way to direct limited resources. We need solid evidence. And a lot of the areas that need the most attention aren’t obvious–who knew bisexual people are at a much higher risk for physical and mental health disparities than gay and lesbian people? Who would have guessed that transgender folks are more likely than any other group (including straight people) to be military veterans, but overwhelmingly don’t claim their benefits? I’m sure some people noticed these patterns, but they definitely weren’t common knowledge within the queer communities I’ve grown up around, and those findings are leading to direct action as we speak.

I get that it can be frustrating to feel like your identity is being reduced to facts and figures for the benefit of red tape. But trust me, the researchers aren’t your enemy here. Most of us are queer too. All of us are just as frustrated by this crap as you are. We are doing our best, and I swear to you this work really is making a difference. Please don’t sabotage it.

[tvatemybrain]

I’m reblogging this because it only has 9 notes, and it should really, REALLY have a lot more.

[sidereanuncia-blog-deactivated2]

Also, given the current US administration’s plan to stop collecting data on LGBTQ identities as part of the census, we are in need of accurate, useful data now more than ever.

[downtroddendeity]

Plus the ability to cite peer-reviewed evidence of these sorts of things and quantify the extent of “obvious” effects can be pretty important to researchers who are working in adjacent fields that don’t produce the sorts of headline soundbites that get mocked on social media.

And often headlines and summaries are misleading and reductive- a study about wage gaps across a variety of demographics might get headlined “Women Still Make Less Than Men, New Study Shows” when the bulk of the paper is about the intersection of race and gender identity, and I’ve seen people on Tumblr mocking a study about the flavor compounds in food across the Indian subcontinent, conducted by Indian scientists at an Indian university, as “LOL white people don’t know how to cook.”

[rubyetc]

gimme answers

[angelrecipe-deactivated20180602]

people who complain about dinosaurs “not being scary anymore” because its been discovered they have feathers and are closely related to/ancestors of birds are so bizarre like

its not about how scary they are, they are/were real life animals and what matters is learning more about them, not how well they fit into your science fiction horror film lol

can you imagine a 13 foot chicken running at you with full intent to eat you??? thats fucking terrifying holy shit

[roachpatrol]

peacocks are synonymous with vain, frivolous beauty and they will attack cars. they will attack you while you try to get to your car. they’re like six feet of useless feathers and they will destroy you. imagine if they were carnivorous and had functional spurs. 

a t-rex could look like a gay disco ball and i guarantee that you would fucking book it if it had a problem with you

[thepioden]

listen

listen

have you ever met a swan

if anything the birdier they get the scarier they are

[dreverybodyilovedies]

Australia literally fought a war against giant birds AND FUCKING LOST

[hyena-butts]

@kidwithheadphones

[arumine-kaoru]

Overheard in the student lounge:

“Oh man, I can’t deal with birds ‘cause they’re dinosaurs and sometimes it’s like they get this glint in their eyes and they remember.”

“Have you ever interacted with a goose? ‘Cause those things are dicks.”

[niamhermind]

If chickens were still the size of a T-Rex we’d all be dead. No question.

[camwyn]

Feathered creatures that give some serious lie to the idea that feathered dinosaurs ain’t scary:

This is a bearded vulture, or lammergeier. It’s four feet long and has a nine foot wingspan and it eats bones.

This is a shoebill stork. It dropped the duck without biting down shortly after the picture was taken, but if it had decided not to-

… it could have been the end of the road for that duck.

This is the last thing a fish sees before a macaroni penguin eats it.

This is a secretary bird in the act of demonstrating to Lord Voldemort that he came to the wrong neighborhood, ese.

This is a goose.

This is a vulture.

This is a cassowary on the attack. 

Be glad I couldn’t find the actual gif of a pelican swallowing a fish, because it’s freakin’ Lovecraftian in its HEADS SHOULD NOT BEND THAT WAY factor. You’ll have to settle for the idea of a feathered dinosaur suddenly going GLORP and devouring its victims whole just like this lady here.

Steven Spielberg didn’t create these. These are the feet of an emu.

And this is what happens when a swan (this one is named Asboy; his father was Mr. Asbo, the first swan in the UK to get named after an anti-social behavior order in ‘honor’ of his tendency to attack boaters) decides it doesn’t like you. I should probably note that this one attacked a cow.

Respect the feathered dinosaur, yo.

[dduane]

Terrifying. The last two illustrate why you did not fuck around with the Children of Lir.

[la-vallett1]

I suspected that a dinosaur could have been feathered after I heard that a T-Rex is the chickens’ ancestor.

[dezzoi-deactivated20240303]

For those who think dinos aren’t cool because they’re feathered…whatever, mutherfuckers.  Evolution doesn’t give two shits what you think is cool or not.

[varanusindicus]

You showed a cassowary on the attack, but forgot to show what exactly it’s attacking with. Their feet are nearly identical to the Emu’s, except for one minor, teeny tiny detail: A five-inch claw for killing motherfuckers, raptor-style.

[bonesofthepast]

This is like the “fuck birds master post” and I love it because Honestly, Fuck. Birds.

[antrodemus]

Just a note : 

T. rex is not in any way a direct ancestor of chickens. They’re both nested under Coelurosauria and Theropoda, but that’s it. Chickens are closer related to things like oviraptorosaurs, dromaeosaurids, and alvarezsaurids (Well,all birds in general are).

But anyway, to add on to this post :

This is Aquila audax, aka the Australian Wede-Tailed Eagle. It’s one of the largest Eagles in the world alongside the Golden Eagle and Philippine Eagles with a wingspan of over 2.8 meters. 

You seem, the Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle ain’t your typical, run-of the mill bird of prey, Oh no. 

This son of a bitch is metal as fuck

The diet of the American Bald Eagle consists mainly of fish. The Golden Eagle and Harpy Eagle will generally attack mostly small mammals, as with other eagles.

The Australian Wedge-Tailed Eagle? 

This fucker will attack and prey on animals as large as Emus, bandicoots, small sheep, fucking Koalas, Frill-necked lizards, FUCKING FERAL CATS, FOXES, WALLABIES, GOATS, AND KANGAROOS. 

BUT THAT’S NOT THE END OF IT

IT ATTACKS FUCKING SURVEILLANCE DRONES AS WELL

AND THERE ARE ALSO CONFIRMED CASES OF WEDGE-TAILED EAGLES ATTACKING HANGLIDERS AND PARACHUTES

THIS FUCKING EAGLE DUDE

IT’S METAL AS FUCK

I BET IT EATS ROCKS AND SHITS ASSAULT RIFLE ROUNDS TOO 

[thegentlemangamer-deactivated20]

“Heard you was TALKIN SHIIIIIIIIIIIT”

[cwnerd12]

birds are fucking metal

[bekkathyst]

Look at this giant beauty! 😍 I’m currently trying to decide if I should have a jewelry or crystal shop update this week. Hmmm…

www.bekkathyst.com

[bekkathyst]

I see your chain chomp replies and tags, and I just want you guys to know I 1000000% approve

[iguanamouth]

munch

[whatbigotspost]

dogs-of-peace said: 

I am regularly disgusted by what I see in my Facebook feed.

____

Ah yes. I had to listen to an “inspirational speaker” whose main message was “exercise and just stop taking pills!!!” a few weeks ago through a work event. Yay. Lovely. 

[mintykiwi]

fixed it

[albelrosatandiviklorne-deactiva]

Perfect

[kimmywithay]

fuck you I’m gonna eat a mountain too

[ahsadler]

self care is washing down your meds with an entire mountain then fistfighting god in a target parking lot

[rikzpt-deactivated20191229]

an mountains*. Get it right guys

[cwnerd12]

never not reblog

[wagstaff]

if you’re sad just remember teddy genuinely thought bob’s full name was in fact “bob burger”

[kittengrin]

@nrrdgrrl

[fandomsandfeminism]

[falling-inside-me]

She really does look like Kusanagi.

[iguanamouth]

withoutmyguiltandmyhair submitted: i drew this for u. hope it brightens your day

Every Night This Foul Apparition Manifests in My Apartment, Smashes All My Mason Jars, and Then Leaves

[arya-assassin]

Why do you keep buying mason jars?

[iguanamouth]

I Dont Get A Lot Of Visitors

[antique-royals]

1860s

[garbage1995]

lms to run up that hill

reblog to make a deal w/ god