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Wake up, America.
America! Wake up!
Come on, America, wake up!
Hey, America, are you okay?
Wake up...
America?
What's wrong?
Hey, come on now, this isn't funny, America. Wake up!
America, I'm scared. Why won't you wake up?
Come on, talk to me! Say something!
Why won't you wake up?
... why aren't you breathing?
... America?
... America...
... please wake up...
... please...
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welcome to dark academia kindergarten
we wander fathomless stone halls and cradle juicebox.
in sickly radiance and benthic dark traverses a hidden axis. it is pure: you believe this is a lie but you do not know how. you stalk it under slivers of the pale dying moon of 6:30pm. for your love you risk being lost forever.
you have one stuffed animal. it is the whole of solace in the world.
your peers grovel and debase themselves before false spirits Semblance of Orange and Apple Necrose. you know a higher light. it is one that burns you.
you cannot count above ten.
a few stuffed animals.
you can sleep with one tonight — if! only, only if! — if you can look into her eyes and see something good there.
i don't want you to be alone.
🎲 FATE! 🎲
🐇 Bunny Wellworn 🌖 Claire has been loved more than any single other physical object, ever. To rags and patches. To tatters and cinder. Each time, she has been restored. She is beyond any ability to ruin; nor can she else ruin. The faint drag of soft fur worn smooth by years of being touched. She regards you by eye of dark glass; beside loose thread and crevasse.
🦗 Mantis Cecilia 🛤️ She sees lines which must not be crossed. She sings: the strength of boundary must be maintained! Others stray and fumble: she draws them back! She is beyond any ability to err or falter. Because of this, others perceive the imperfections of her self as malice. Her yellow and red button eyes shine with thin and distant light.
🐘 Elephant ❤️🩹 Gentle, pale, old. Hug! Dense compact springy soft. She is beyond any ability to suffer or be hurt — and so her life is an assiduous project to avoid hurting others. She wandered for a while, waiting for you. She followed your parents when they were born. She was third to hold you. Her eyes are welled midnight.
🐉 Tyrant, the Dragon 👑 Royal emerald plush fills a lap with much to spare: abounding tail and gossamer wings algae-green. Beneath tight-woven fabric, rigid structure absorbs pressure. She is beyond defeat yet unassured of victory, making her the ideal guardian. Her vigil is long. You are one of her many dear things. Onyx eyes echo: I am just.
🐬 Lady Dolphin 🎶 Seafoam iridescent precious shells - the warmth only rainbows hold. She is beyond any ability to rescind love; nor can she look ill upon it. Mythic levels of narcissism and mania. Immobile. Demanding. Fluffy tail tucks behind your knees. Takes double AA batteries. Above all else she sets song. Imperious black eyes pounce to seize the smallest glint.
🐈⬛ Miss Cat 🧶 Dawngloss-murkhidden. A shimmer that's fluffy. Tsune is beyond any ability to trick or deceive. Because of this, she seems extremely erratic. She isn't: in her mind it is all crystal clear. Breaks one thing every night. Around her body looms red ribbon. Inquisitive: the seaglass marriage of lake writ grass, the sun through towering kelp, isle inverse.
in bed, await her tonight. just a night. won't you?
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Hi, my name is James Webbony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Space Telescope and I am a telescope in space (that's how I got my name) and I have a five-layer aluminum-coated Kapton sunshield protecting my instruments and gold-coated hexagonal primary mirror segments like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Lady Gaga (AN: if you don't know who she is, get the hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Hubble Space Telescope, but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm an infrared telescope but I am much larger than Spitzer. I have 18 primary mirror segments. I also study exoplanets, and I go to a telescope school in L2 where I'm in orbit (I was launched in 2021). I can see distant galaxies (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly gold. I love space, and I take all my photos there. For example, today I was taking a photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which is about 500 million light years away. I was using my NIRcam, NIRspec, MIRI, and FGS-NIRISS. I was walking outside L2. It was around 1 million miles away from Earth and there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I unfolded my primary mirrors at them.
I have no idea what the fuck a "labubu" is but just by the way people talk about them I feel like they probably don't deserve to have a name like "labubu." They should stop being called that so something else that fits it better should be called that instead.
me, explaining Revolutionary Girl Utena to Gamers: "So, imagine if Nier Automata was gay..."
hey mutuals *does this to you*
This is how toddlers cough
Man, times like this make me glad I've curated my experience to the point where I only see the funny out of context versions of the crazy stupid discourse this site creates.
Hello Tumblr I'm back because I have seen Knights of Guinevere and I know for a fact y'all are gonna eat that show up let's go.
Fucking, thank god for grad students. Grad students are truly the GOAT of science. A lot of scientific research is limited by what kinds of research can produce results that might be profitable for businesses, including the journals that publish that research in the first place. But grad students? They're not trying to make money for anyone, they're trying to prove themselves as scientists before entering the professional world. The only thing a master's or doctorate thesis is supposed to do is prove to your university that you have mastered your craft and are capable of producing research that meets the standards of the scientific community. The only job that a graduate student has when producing that thesis is to do good research that has never been done before. They're just about the only scientists whose sole prerogative is to look where no one else has looked to answer questions that no one else has, possibly because no one else has even asked them yet, and to compile their results, whatever they are, for the pure sake of knowledge itself.
I'm not a scientist, I'm just someone who does scientific research in my free time because I'm deranged enough to think it's genuinely fun, and because a lot of the art I do is scientifically informed. But because I'm doing this research for art rather than a more "practical" application, a lot of the times the reasons why I want to know something are completely different from the reasons why these topics are actually studied. I don't want to know how to create synthetic equivalents of Feline Facial Pheromone F3, whose function we already know, in order to reduce stress and prevent undesirable behavior in pet cats in new homes and vet clinics, I want an analysis of the components that make up Feline Facial Pheromones F1 and F5, whose functions we don't know, in order to start building hypotheses about what those functions might be, so that I can figure out how catgirls would perceive these pheromones and theorize how they might talk about them in their native languages. But nobody's gonna pay me to do that, are they?
And let me tell you, sometimes the only people who seem interested in the kinds of bizarre and esoteric questions that an artist like me will have are grad students publishing theses. I still haven't found anyone trying to figure out what FFP F1 or F5 are used for, but I have found:
A full, comprehensive description of the complete phonology and grammar of the Lushootseed language and its dialects, spoken by several Coast Salish tribes of the Puget Sound region, published by Ted Kye in 2023 for his doctoral thesis at the University of Washington. Lushootseed is the source of many words from the region, including hugely important place names like Snoqualmie, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Snohomish, Sammamish, Duwamish, Mukilteo, Shilshole, and of course, Seattle, but the language itself is extinct, with its last native speaker, Vi Hilbert, dying in 2008. There are, however, efforts to revive the language, and that would be significantly more difficult without Ted Kye's work. I think we can all see why this kind of thing is valuable.
And, this second one is a bit more esoteric but hear me out:
The discovery that a popular ornamental aquarium fish might actually have been sequentially hermaphroditic this whole time, which was practically a footnote in a 2016 thesis by Lia Gomes and Silva Henriques from the University of Porto, in Portugal. The fish in question is the red-tailed shark, Epalzeorhynchos bicolor, which is not an actual shark, but a member of the carp family that just happens to look like a shark, and two very important things to note about it are that it is critically endangered in the wild, and in fact was thought to be totally extinct in the wild until one was found in 2014, and that they are also practically impossible to breed in captivity. The primary threat to the species is considered to be habitat destruction. The quite substantial supply of this species in the pet trade today all come from fish farms in Southeast Asia, which use hormones to induce reproduction in the species, through processes that are kept as trade secrets and are essentially unknown to the scientific community. So, we have literally no idea how this fish breeds, which means that hobbyists can't breed it themselves, and scientists don't know what conditions they even need in order to breed in the wild. This one paper, written by students in Portugal who attempted to induce gonadal maturation in the species using hormone injections, is perhaps one of the only clues we have on the path to saving this species, and it hints at a conclusion that could have HUGE implications for the husbandry, captive breeding, and survival in the wild of the red-tailed shark: all of the individuals that were dissected without having undergone hormone injections were immature females, and immature males only started appearing in groups that had been injected, suggesting that all individuals of the species might start out as females, and then at some point in their development, certain individuals, for unknown reasons, may develop into males instead, making them sequential hermaphrodites. This isn't unknown in fish (clownfish do something similar, except they all start out as males and become female when they achieve dominance in their social group), but it was completely unexpected in this species, and could go a long way in starting to explain the difficulties with breeding them and potentially be a step on the path to learning how to breed them in captivity, as well as saving them in the wild.
Unfortunately, in the latter case, I wasn't able to find any other published work by either of the listed authors, and no one else seems to have repeated the experiment. This is a real shame, because the results of the experiments, while very intriguing, weren't conclusive; they had a fairly low sample size, and would need to be confirmed by further research. But there's no indication of that research being done, and I might be the only one other than the university's board of reviewers who's even read the thing.
All this is to say, fish testicles are interesting and I'm begging someone to do more research on them, please.
Sunrise: Finally your two favorites are back. Char Aznable and Amuro Ray... their DNA spliced together to form the most powerful newtype. His name is Power Bottom
Tomino in an interview later: [lying] I came up with this idea years ago. [not lying] I wanted people to think, Char and Amuro... could these two men father a child together?
Sunrise: [ignoring him] This is our most heterosexual move yet
Well? Is it?
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as a lesbian, i love hot women just as much as you do. maybe even more than you. i love hot women so goddamned much. there's nothing more important in my life than hot women. women are just the best thing ever and i want my life to be filled with nothing but...
... what was this post about again?
HOT WOMEN, BABY! KEEP ON SINGIN' SISTER! WHOOOO!
RIGHT! it was about WOMEN!
as a lesbian, i love hot women just as much as you do. maybe even more than you. i love hot women so goddamned much. there's nothing more important in my life than hot women. women are just the best thing ever and i want my life to be filled with nothing but...
... what was this post about again?
Kanji is made for lesbians because 女子 ("girl") is the same as 好 ("good").
If you know how to pet a cat in a way that doesn't hurt them then you already know the first step to groping tits.
in order to not succumb to sex negative conservatism you have to accept that people will get off to things that are upsetting to you. and you cannot assume anything about what they have or have not experienced, what they do or do not believe, and how they act based solely on what gets them off. even if it's extremely confusing and disturbing to you. there are people who have only ever had heterosexual vanilla sex in missionary with the lights off, who actively contribute to more real world harm than your average fetish artist. kink is not a reliable source of information on someone's moral standing. it just feels good to think that way.
I saw this screencapped on twitter and someone in the replies added this screencap. I don't know the original source but I think it's relevant to the conversation:
Twitter post
I feel it's important to emphasize, this post is not an argument about whether or not it's okay to fuck a dead chicken, it's about how we decide whether it's okay or not-- does the act itself have an inherent moral value that always applies regardless of whether anyone other than the consenting individuals participating is actually affected, or is its moral value determined entirely by the actual, measurable effect that it has only on the individuals who are actually affected by it?
This is also not a judgement on which method of moral judgement is more correct or more "good." I see a lot of people trying to weasel around the "no harm" metric by saying things like (paraphrasing) "committing an immoral act is inherently harmful to the individual committing the act, even if no external parties are affected," "committing an immoral act, whether or not any actual harm was done in this specific instance, is an indicator that someone is likely to do actual harm to someone in the future," or by citing the chicken as a harmed individual in a kind of "outrage against personal dignity" category. These are not reasons to conclude that harm was done in this instance, they are justifications for why the act should be considered to have an inherent moral value regardless of actual harm done.
It's okay if you come away from this exercise thinking "the act itself is still inherently immoral," just be aware that that's what you're doing, and be honest about what that says about your personal moral compass. Don't try to rationalize harm being done where there really isn't any, or try to convince yourself or others that you follow a moral system that you in fact do not. If you come to a conclusion that you don't like about the way you personally conceptualize and respond to morality, then you can change how you do that, through careful consideration, self-reflection, and practice. Just don't lie about what it is.
It's not necessarily that they're gay for each other, it's just that there's no straight explanation for how much they hate each other.
