bracken is brackish

hi I'm bracken! I'm a 28yo autistic queerdo and wolf therian and my pronouns are ve/ver/vis. I like ecology so much I got a degree in it. the only thing the degree has really done for me is put me in a lifetime of debt. mostly reblogs here but occasionally I post art or text posts that I delete within minutes. I reblog mildly adult/horny stuff sometimes jsyk.

[tragicburnout]

i feel like there is a sleep in me that needs to be slept but each time i sleep i don't sleep that sleep

[freakoutgirl]

simple asks to help bolster ask culture again

Do you like me

[thejuicingmachine]

welcome to furry porn website! i see you are transgender. can i interest you in: intersex slur, different intersex slur, slur for trans women, slur for trans people, another intersex slur, intersex = trans, crossdressing, genderswap, futa, or femboy? :) or we could invent a new slur for you!

[hemipenal-system]

drags you kicking and screaming in front of the peer review board

[ivyroseiris]

Reminder that Canada is fucking evil

Canada continuing genocide against Indigenous Peoples, international tribunal finds | CBC News

An international tribunal has ruled that the Government of Canada’s current policies constitute an ongoing genocide against Indigenous Peopl

[eudaimmonia]

“this reminds me of you” ok kiss me then

[secondquarrel]

so venezuela has become a usamerican colony. like that happened and everything carried on like normal

[secondquarrel]

like i know venezuela is going through a huge humanitarian crisis right now and their political regime is low in the list of priorities when tallinmg about it obviously it's just it shocked me to read trump congratulating his secretary of energy on how well he's running what used to be a sovereign country until a few months back you know

[ralfmaximus]

He wants to do that to Canada, Cuba, and Greenland too and is simply shocked that it hasn't happened yet.

[dandeliont3aandsageleaves]

Hey so it's worse then that

Does anybody remember when back in January Trump kidnapped the Venezuelan president? Well the American government proceeded to place someone else in charge and is directing them via text message. They are telling him who to appoint into office and allowing US businesses into the country.

They are "not looking to instate democratic elections at this time."

Is Venezuela a Colony Now? A Sovereign State? Modern Empires Rule in Ambiguity.

Occupation is a hassle. Large countries have many new ways to control small ones.

[heavensghost]

I love with my teeth

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[amiya-shirou]

actually the way society hates both perverts and asexuals is kinda funny. Real "Anyone who thinks about sex more than I do is a porn-addicted degenerate and anyone who thinks about sex less than I do is a loser weirdo or a puritan" energy

[silly-sneevleton]

USE MY NEOPRONOUNS IT'S NOT THAT HARD!!!!!! (it/its, chomp/chomps, thing/things by the way!! Thank you ^_^)

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

I love it when traumatised characters are hard to love. I love it when it when they're vicious and cruel and unfair to people who care about them. I love it when they respond violently to gentle hands and take their hurt out on others.

and I love it when they are loved and cared for anyways

[dogsandphilosophers]

Can anyone recommend some entry level behaviours? Thinking of getting into being

[memorycycle]

dont take bird noises for granted

[memorycycle]

next time ur outside and you hear birds just think about how awesome that is and how much it would suck if they were gone

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[cyprozombiegirl]

new version cause tumblr staff hate trans women

[genderkoolaid]

#tumblr staff sure do hate trans women but if you make a post containing the word “vagina” containing a cartoon of a vagina#i'm not where you're making shocked pikachu face about it getting flagged

it's barely depicting the vulva (the external hole is visible in ONE panel, from a distance, and otherwise you are only seeing the internal organs), and its clearly health information. calling it a "cartoon of a vagina" is kind of obscuring the specific context of it being a very tame medical diagram showing how to do something that many people do every month starting from middle school.

tumblr's definition of "mature":

What is considered Mature Content? Content not suitable for all ages, including text, images, audio, and videos containing nudity, sexual themes, strong language, or mature subject matter is considered mature. Posts that contain mature content must have a Content Label applied, and it is your responsibility to label your content appropriately. [...] What counts as sexually explicit? Visual depictions of sexually explicit acts or content with an overt focus on genitalia are not allowed on Tumblr. This includes sexual intercourse, masturbation, sexual interactions with toys, and content involving bodily fluids. We also don’t allow content where aroused genitalia is visible or the primary focus, even if partially covered or beneath clothing.

tumblr's official age requirement is 13+ and plenty of 13 year olds use tampons. so there's no reason to me that image isn't suitable for all ages (13 year olds should not be protected from basic sex ed), it isn't sexually explicit, it doesn't even have an "overt focus on genitalia" despite being about genitalia, and the actual post is also just about nonsexually caring for a neovagina. "mature" is very clearly a label meant for erotic content, not non-erotic sexual education.

given there is softcore porn on this website that doesn't get flagged, but a photo of a fat Black woman's clothed back gets flagged, i don't think this is "shocked pikachu face" i think its being rightfully upset at tumblr censoring queer sex ed, again.

[markscherz]

do you ever go "froggy!!! :D"

Honestly no, I keep it pretty cool around even the most exhilarating fro—

hey how did that get in he—

okay okay I lied apparently I can get pretty hyped when the occasion/frog is fitting. Still, I'm not sure I ever say 'froggy'. Usually I loudly exclaim which species it is, say 'HELLO FRIEND', or make an assortment of excitement sounds while I run to go and catch it.

[bedupolker]

❗️❗️FILTHY WOMAN ALERT❗️❗️

[e-the-village-cryptid]

growing up with a psychologist for a mother was so funny because my sister and i would be like “mo-om why do we have to go to bed now” and she would respond with a long explanation of the research on the effects of sleep on the brain and body followed by another explanation on permissive vs. authoritarian vs. authoritative parenting styles, with citations

[e-the-village-cryptid]

this was actually really good in some instances though because i started having insomnia and intrusive thoughts very young and when little me was like “mom i don’t like the thoughts in my head but i can’t make them go away and i can’t sleep” she replied with “oh honey. active thought suppression never works. in fact, wegner et al. (1987) tested this when they told a bunch of people to talk about whatever they wanted, and they told half of them to try not to think about a white bear. people thought more about the white bear when they were trying not to think about it! but when they told the people to think about a red car whenever thoughts of the white bear came to mind, the people had a much easier time not thinking about the white bear. so you see, you can’t force the thoughts out of your mind. you just have to let them pass through, and pick something else that you want to focus on”

and so ever since i was a very little kid i knew how to deal with intrusive thoughts, I’ve had them my whole life but never developed ocd or senses of shame about them cause my mom did her phd on thought suppression and she knows what’s up