Who you are is not what you've been

31. She/they. Small fish in a big pond. Anaplastology nerd, part time wheelchair user and ballet baby

[werewolf-transgenderism]

breaking news! new beautiful photo of the best species of frog in the world just dropped

cochranella euknemos, 📸 nuqui_herping on instagram

[werewolf-transgenderism]

for everyone in the notes lamenting that this guy is poisonous: they are not! they're just pretty :) since they're a glass frog, their major defense mechanism is being translucent and hiding their blood while they sleep so they look extra translucent and blend in with leaves <3

[mckitterick]

[lonesomelavenderbones]

Sorry, go back: they do what with their blood while they sleep?

[maddieinmanhattan]

Hide it! Slurp it deep into their liver (which is mirrored, like a fish belly). They use the liver to hold about 90% of the red blood cells, letting the clear blood plasma flow during the sleep cycle. When they wake up they let the red blood cells back out and become more visible!

[local-lesbian-tree-demon]

you guys really need to drink water. not me though i am exempt

[paradoxial-cunt]

[bog-goblin]

[bog-goblin]

[i-am-a-fish]

[deceasedcardinal]

[blupeeblep]

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[brucesterling]

[preserving-tiktok]

[maddieinmanhattan]

Yall ever been fucked so thoroughly you start picking out nursery decor? Just me? Cool, cool, cool.

Anyway, look at these lil felt mobiles

[ultramarinsten]

Some embroidery I did on a linen project.

I am really proud of it, now you have to look at it 👍

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[chaifootsteps]

#Please little bird

[meriwetherwrites]

I love that the modern-day tumblr post equivalent of chain emails only requires me to reblog a relatively pleasant image instead of forward an email to a bunch of my friends and family members to quell my raging anxiety.

[nightguardmod]

It’s a win win. I get a bit of hope, you get a cute birb photo

[the-haiku-bot]

It’s a win win. I

get a bit of hope, you get

a cute birb photo

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[yesornopolls]

Do you shorten the noodles when you cook long pasta (spaghetti, capellini, etc)?

Do you shorten the noodles when you cook long pasta (spaghetti, capellini, etc)?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJan 12

[maddieinmanhattan]

Nice try, officer. I’m not confessing to a crime on hellsite-dot-com. You’ll print that and take me to pasta gaol.

[moniquill]

[michellepsychologist]

The holidays can be stressful

[anexperimentallife]

[labelleizzy]

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

[mihai-florescu]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Except, critically, at bedtime.

[findersfeeders]

Ravings and urges get miscoded over time. Let’s say you’re thirsty, and you live in a strawberry field. Strawberries contain some water and a bunch of sugar so, over time, you may start to crave strawberries when you are thirsty because you get a reward and some relief in shorter time from the need starting than the trek to the stream. This can happen for every need: sleep, food, whatever.

Trevor Noah has a great tip, that when he craves ice cream at night he breaks it down into parts: I want something cold, I want something sweet. He drinks a glass of cold water then waits to see if he still has the ice cream craving. Usually he doesn’t.

So listening to your body isn’t “follow every urge” but “decompose the urge to discover the underlying need.”

If you always feel like getting cozy in bed you may be: cold, dehydrated, and/or malnourished (maybe a need for high calories that are bioaccessible…not processed).

If you do not feel tired at bedtime you may: need to eat dinner earlier because your body is still digesting, need to exercise or go outside more during the day, get the fuck off your screen for an hour so your brain can enter sleep mode.

Hope this helps someone.

P.S. notice i said nothing about neurodivergence. Not that it’s not a likelihood but the over-pathologization of behaviors prevents us from taking simple actions to improve our wellbeing. Also, these tips are pretty accessible and applicable to most brain variations.

[brightlotusmoon]

[estera-shirin]

Absolutely devastating news from Australia that at least 11 people were killed in an antisemitic attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. One of those who was murdered, Alex Kleytman z”l, was a Holocaust survivor. His wife, also a Holocaust survivor, saw as he was shot. I cannot imagine the grief and pain she and many others are feeling.

My heart is with all the victims and their loved ones, as well as the broader Jewish community in Australia. May the memories of the victims be a blessing.

We deserve to be able to congregate and observe Jewish holidays without fear of violence, in Australia and globally.

[meangirlnurse]

i just said something slightly bleak and my girlfriend answered, with her actual mouth, "my sympies for your unforchies"

[teathattast]