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Dusk || 20 || ae/aer || agender || icon made by (IG: Minn.owo) agender side blog: genderless-gibberish autistic side blog: aspie-changeling disability side blog: first-time-spoonie

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Growing up autistic was kinda like growing up surrounded by mind-readers who

were bad at reading your mind specifically, and kept mistranslating your thoughts and getting pissed at you for stuff you weren't actually thinking

constantly punished you for not also being a mind-reader

to the point you grew up thinking you were evil for not having superpowers like everyone else

[thebass232]

Okay either your posts about autism need to stop being so relatable or I need to go see a doctor

[creepish]

would you collect rocks with me. be honest

[rodentmancy]

“ever notice how all nonbinary people are afab?” no but i have noticed how every single amab nonbinary person ive come across is either forcibly labeled as a trans woman or a cis guy who just Loudly Gay 

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

“Ever notice how anyone with facial hair gets politely but insistently shown the door in all those ‘women and NB’ spaces?”

(Which also comes with a fun side of “oh it’s okay, we pretty much think of you as a woman anyway” for all the trans dudes and AFAB enbies. When I say that a lot of pop SJ is basically radfem ideology with the most glaringly transphobic parts filed off, it’s this sort of thing I’m talking about.)

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[augustdementhe]

COOL. 

[varkarrus-deactivated20200511]

just the other day, one of my friends mentioned this book, “Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History,” which apparently has a (tongue in cheek) chapter that argues that Cows are actually Fish.

[arijandro]

yo psa you aren’t obligated to stick around for people who make you feel like shit

ollie the fuck off like the fabulous star child you are

[6thlovelanguage-deactivated2020]

dark green is a nice color. underrated

[wuvbuggy-deactivated20221018]

dont care didnt ask plus your pessimistic outlook on life is exhausting

[wuvbuggy-deactivated20221018]

"we all die" "love is pointless" "its never gonna get better" yeah ok bitch maybe!!!! i dont care tho im still gonna love with my entire heart and live every day like its my last!!!

[fecktrecool-deactivated20220314]

Cool post but I have depression

[wuvbuggy-deactivated20221018]

so do i man. not an excuse to bring other people down.

[roboco-san]

my personal curse is the knowledge that I function best with rigid structure and strict routine but am almost totally incapable of independently establishing or maintaining that structure and routine

[curlyfried]

Don’t forget this special feature: at the same time hating when people tell you what to do

[transpocsuggestion]

what a beautiful day to remember that trans people of color exist and deserve better

[sassystarlightcollection-deacti]

trans people of color exist and deserve better!!!!

[thewolfofthestars]

Hey it’s Black History Month!

TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR EXIST AND DESERVE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fanghusband-remade]

allow me to slip into something more comfortable.... *turns into a bat and hits the window*

[primordial-fungus-monolith]

Some people can't work, if your leftism doesn't explicitly allow for this then your leftism is shit

[primordial-fungus-monolith]

This was a controversial one huh?

[trueka]

i dont hear much abt asian zodiacs??? anyways im year of the dragon how bout yall

[shmreduplication]

I found out recently there’s an elemental component too, every sign is connected to every  element on a 60-year cycle

[furbearingbrick]

metal rooster

[72eli]

[patema-introverted]

[mapsontheweb]

US Elevation.

by @cstats1

[ginger-ale-official]

man the Appalachian mountains really aren’t shit huh

[archosaur-automaton]

The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.

[beabaseball]

I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians…

They said “before dinosaurs,” but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.

There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.

That’s because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn’t evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.

The mountains aren’t older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.

[loved-the-stars-too-fondly-deac]

‘older than bones’ has such horrifying energy i wish never to have read it

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

you literally have to laugh or else you’ll cry when you see parts of a syllabus that are like “i know we’re living in really hard times! :( it’s important to take care of yourself! :( this environment is SO tough right now! :(” and then like immediately after it it says “late work will not be permitted you are expected to be in class every session”

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

trans people deserve to be a little vain as healing for the years some of us spent feeling like shit about ourselves

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

#trans people deserve to be the vainest motherfuckers#as soon as I can buy clothes I like the look of its over for everyone#im gonna wear the ugliest stuff and be delighted

LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE :D

[moiracolleenodell]

I remember my mom talking about a former trans student twirling her skirt and watching her reflection in a store front. I was like, “well, she’s got a lot of twirling to make up for.”

[jackironsides]

Also you cannot understand how euphoric it is to finally see yourself in the mirror, after years of seeing a stranger. A lot of my ‘vanity’ is less ‘look how much of a handsome motherfucker I am’ and more ‘look how much I look like myself. look at me existing’.

(Some of it’s revelling in my handsomeness. Trans people are just attractive af. *shrug*)

[setheverman]

what’s the mood for february?

[computerr]

[theplantqueer]

[ID: a dramatic goth draped gracefully on an overhead luggage rack on some form of public transport.]