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[meggydolaon]

Dearest mutuals, treasured followers, and esteemed guests. Kindly like this post if you wish to be involved in tag games and similar sillies.

[thebellekeys]

europeans be like “omg north americans are so racist it’s horrible” and then elect fascists

[thebellekeys]

I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.

[dailymanners]

A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.

Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.

[barishal]

Additional readings:

Greece suspends asylum applications for migrants from North Africa by Laura Gozzi (BBC).

Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers by Helena Smith (The Guardian).

Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (BBC).

Bill on Detention Centres for Asylum Seekers Published by Jelena Ćirić (Iceland Review).

Italy sends 40 rejected asylum seekers to Albania by Karl Sexton (DW).

Record number of migrants, refugees reached Canary Islands by sea in 2024 (Al Jazeera).

Portuguese government announces major migrant expulsion plan by ANSA (InfoMigrants).

[dailymanners]

This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.

Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.

[dailymanners]

This post made racists angry enough to harass me over it, which all that's going to do is make me bring this post back and reblog it more.

[todaysbird]

Today i saw these pigeons drinking from a fountain wich i find very cute :)

soooo cute, awww 🥺💕

[alex-fictus]

Light the Dark Desert

While Dimetrodons don't have any evidence of parental care, they're my go to sketch if I'm trying to draw something that isn't a dinosaur, so we'll go with it for this little trio.

[snailwishes]

Bird cards are in the Shop! www.tori-hirsh.com/snailwishes

Thanks so much to everyone who was interested in these :) I design, cut, and fold every card. Every purchase does come with an issue of The Shell Chronicle (shop updates written in the pov of Sheldon F. Periwinkle the snail).

[kosmogrl]

[youneedone2]

Brookesia Micra- One of the world’ smallest chameleons by Alfonso Lucifredi

Lokobe, Nosy Be, Madagascar 

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Your very educational answer to the 'may a donkey fuck your wife' legal document crossed my path again and I have a follow-up question, if that's all right?

What's 'l.p.h.' appearing after 'Pharoah' in all instances? (Is it like the 'p.b.u.h.' that accompanies 'Mohammed' when referring to the founder of Islam? Is it pronounceable?)

l.p.h is exactly what p.b.u.h. is. It's shorthand for 'life, prosperity, health', which comes from translating the Egyptian shorthand 𓋹𓍑𓋴 ꜥnḫ wḏꜢ snb/ankh wedja seneb (these are three words written in their shortest form as three single signs), and follows the name of the King in New Kingdom documents/monuments (mostly post Amarna period). It's part of the formal address of a King** that the Egyptians use to wish good health upon the king in all spoken and written utterances. It even exists in legal oaths taken before trial where they swear an oath to 'the lord l.p.h' not to have spoken falsehood. Egyptian hieroglyphs are both a writing script and an art form, and the Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs themselves were a gift from the gods, so therefore every word or image written down is imbued with Heka (divine power, most commonly referred in GenPop books as 'magic' but that term is no longer used). With every word or image being imbued with Heka, it meant that words were powerful and had the ability to manifest if a person was not careful. This is why Osiris is always referred to as 'the weary one' rather than 'this guy is dead' because they believed words literally had the power to make that a reality. Images were the same, which is why tomb paintings are full of offerings, so that if none are left, the heka in the images would be enough to sustain the deceased when no one visited their tomb anymore. L.p.h. is basically the same as someone toasting the king of England and then saying 'long may he reign'. It's a little shorthand that just wishes the Egyptian King has a long life that they believed was loaded with the power to do just that.

Most Egyptologists will just say the English letters or ꜥnḫ wḏꜢ snb/ankh, wedja, seneb when referring to it.

**I'm using 'king' rather than 'Pharaoh' because while pr-aA 'great house' is a title that existed throughout Egyptian history, it wasn't used to denote the king as his first title after 'nsw' (king) until roughly the end of the Amarna period. Akhenaten begins to use it, though not that much, then subsequent kings use it a bit more, and finally Ramesses II uses it a lot and it rises to common usage.

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[taraxippos]

[pikaole]

Me and mom learned new English word.

[pikaole]

Wow…This is probably the most famous posts on my Tumblr lol. 

This is what I drew after this situation 👇

[possumcollege]

[shalpilot]

i’m so thirsty… won’t you use /water to water me?

[belzrgr]

/water

[shalpilot]

oh…. why thank you!!

[sm2k99]

the for you page thinks I'm a gnome

[homunculus-argument]

If Ratatouille mechanics were real, there would be a whole market of businesses offering the services of operating rats to people who want them, and it'd be like how bees produce honey. People in the rat business would be so exhausted of having to explain over and over again that no, the rats aren't being exploited. If the rats didn't like how they're being treated, they would simply not return. There's no goddamn way to force a rat to be so passionate about playing the saxophone that they'll figure out how to puppeteer a human to do it for them. All that the business does is finding a way to put that specific rat in the hair of someone who's about to go on stage.

[terrie01]

The rats 100% think the businesses are being run for their benefit and worry about the humans being exploited.

[homunculus-argument]

A rat manager who is a rat and deals on their end of the deal is exhausted of having to explain over and over again that look, an average fully grown adult human being is like 200 times your weight, their hands are very fast and they can throw things better than you want to imagine. If one of them things didn't want you in their hair, you're not going to stay there for long. You'd be yote out the window in two seconds flat.

[synf3ll-moved]

take figures out of their boxes btw. sew patches on your favorite jacket. go to bed with your favorite plushes. wear the pants you usually save for special occasions. draw something cool on your wall. put a sticker on your laptop. dye your hair and pierce your lips. glass is meant to break, metal is meant to rust. items are meant to be used. that's how the world knows that somebody loved them.

[halibellecter]

When my aunt died of covid, we had to clean out a lot of stuff that she was saving. Foods she was going to try, she was a great chef, spices she'd never opened or only used sparingly, lotions and bath things she hadn't used. After she died I started making a point of using things up: the good vanilla that has to be imported, that we finally found more of, we'd used barely an ounce before she passed away. Even though we love it. I just got my family new bottles of it for Christmas because we used one up. We enjoyed that happiness. Sometimes I still get the impulse to wait for something special, or awful, to save nice things for celebration or comfort. The phrase that always echoes in my mind is "use the good vanilla". And I have been (burning the candles, squirting the body wash, dissolving the bath bombs, putting the saffron in things). And it's been great. Use the good vanilla.

[thememedaddy]

[jetix]

‘White Cat with Gemstones’ by Joseph Jones Oil and acrylic on linen, 2026

[stout-stoat]

PAINTING

[teaboot]

PAINTING

[delinquentbookworm]

one time I went over to a friend's house and their housemate was making paper in the living room, and we saw this big tub full of water they were using to dissolve old scrap paper into a slurry, and everyone was immediately like "oh, you need scrap paper?" and started turning out their jacket pockets and producing expired coupons and bus tickets and crumpled receipts and old shopping lists and whatever else they'd been carrying round with them for no good reason, and passing it all to the paper-making housemate to make sure it was suitable before it got torn up and dropped into the tub, while people took turns stirring the slurry with a big wooden stick. it was strangely ritualistic, like presenting an offering to some kind of temple elder for inspection before placing it in a watery shrine to be devoured and reformed. pulp for the pulp god.