to know, water

the world is big and scary and i am just a little guy.

[april]

This... is a Tumblr post.

Dear god.

There's more.

No!

[midknighttalks]

You did not read my request!

Does is say you want to pin the post?

Yes!

[transhuman-priestess]

"It's okay to enjoy happy endings!" My friend that's 99% of mass media. You don't need affirmation, you own the book store.

[transhuman-priestess]

There's a fascinating complex at work here that I do not have the words or knowledge to fully describe, but where people feel this pathological need to justify liking mass-market fiction. You don't need to, everyone likes it. That's why it sells.

But for some reasonm people feel this need to frame themselves as a victimized minority of fiction-enjoyers. I don't get it. Why?

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[midknighttalks]

sucks how you have to allow yourself to be miserable and also allow yourself to be joyful and you can't just choose one of them you have to choose both and also every other emotion or you've missed the point of being alive and i hate it

[crimethinc]

To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.

As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.

We honor her memory and oppose the war.

[tennoseihai]

something i like about pyra and mythra and how they handle their trauma is that pyra is very explicitly the trauma response who was created to deal with everything mythta couldn’t handle. like, mythra says outloud that she wanted to “leave everything to pyra.” so the assumption would be that pyra would be either much more capable at processing the trauma or would at least be much better at concealing it from other people, but it’s totally the opposite.

after her outburst in chapter 4, mythra pretty much never talks about or alludes to her issues, at least not explicitly. it’s still there, but she’s able to pretty effectively hide it until it’s all out in the open during chapter 7. meanwhile pyra is constantly Trying to hold it in and maintain the nice polite softgirl front, but it really doesn’t take much for her depression to get pretty openly displayed. like one would note that it only takes a little prompting for pyra to more or less tell corrine she wants to die. while she isn’t usually that obvious about it, it’s still pyra who starts lamenting the agony of memory just from hearing vandham’s explanation of blades, it’s still pyra who bursts into tears at the mention of addam, etc. try as she might to keep it a secret, pyra really just cannot hide how badly she’s doing.

i just think it’s very cool/agonizing that pyra was supposed to basically be mythra’s trauma buffer who could handle it all for her, but she absolutely cannot handle it. i think it’s, like, an unintended result of her also being a representation of mythra’s insecurities over her own personality. mythta creates the softgirl she could never be, but she also needed that softgirl to tank unreal levels of emotional turmoil for her, and well. pyra is simply too sensitive a soul to do that without the cracks constantly showing. it’s awesome dude this shit is so messy and sad

[depsidase]

[yellowtrinity]

i finished another tales game u know what that means: skit portrait redraws!!!

static version below:

[jay-rayart]

FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[foeofcolor]

Only day you can rb this

[foeofcolor]

This post is like a fucking rosetta stone I've had the same theme song tagged in at least 6 languages so far

[foxpost-generator]

it fucken WIMDY

[foxpost-generator]

At some point will I be banned for the crime of becoming a girl. Then wimdy shall be no more.

[foxpost-generator]

@voidmenace thank you! I forget to mention it much. I have been a girl for 17 months now, it’s the best and most clearly correct decision I have ever made.

[foxpost-generator]

I really need a feminised edit of Wimdy Fox but… I don’t think foxes have any visible secondary sex characteristics. Hmm.

[small-witch-big-hat]

[foxpost-generator]

oh fuck yes

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[dajo42]

it’s been ten years

[geniusoflove]

its been 12 years

[shivshivshivvyyy]

13 years

[pinkthinkspalistineshouldbefree]

14 years

[momperlman-deactivated20251022]

15 years

[dammmithardison]

16 years

[thswrtchdthng]

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

[l-art-stuff-l]

Loss is now legally an adult

[escuerzoresucitado]

[churlsgonewild]

[gaysie]

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

[gayagendaofficial]

actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs

[gaysie]

Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid, can only infect cells expressing a certain protein called ACE2

ACE2 is expressed widely in nasal cavity epithelial cells but not in olfactory sensory neurons. 

Seo et al. (2021) studied potential nasal targets for SARS-CoV-2 using golden hamsters as a model organism (commonly used as a proxy for humans in virology studies)

They found ACE2 expression in the main olfactory bulb epithelium (MOE, your “normal” nose organ) as well as the vomeronasal organ (VNO)

Several cell types in the VNO were able to be infected and they also found significant inflammatory activity (macrophage activation, apoptotic cells, etc) 

The specifics of how covid actually causes dysosmia are not known for sure but epithelial damage by local inflammatory immune responses likely plays a role, especially because sensory neurons themselves are not affected (Bilinska, & Butowt, 2020). Therefore I would suggest a potential similar effect of VNO dysfunction as we see in the main olfactory bulb

From Seo et al.: “Considering the function of the VNO, infection and subsequent pathologic changes may affect the behavior of Syrian hamsters”

If it stands to reason that omegaverse individuals have functioning VNOs similar to members of the animal kingdom, then it is more than reasonable to conclude that covid may cause them to lose not only their main olfactory function, but also their VNO function as well

 References: (1) (2)

In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.

[mahalidael]

OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist