MonaLisa

Sherlock the show is dead. Long live Sherlock fanfic! 40's Bi woman, CA. Co-parenting kids with my wife, the kids’ three Dads, and a passel of grandparents. Random posts that catch my interest include Sherlock, Sterek, POC rights and representation, progressive politics, bdsm, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, cute animals. There is no rhyme or reason to this madness.

[psychicpopsicle]

[caffeinatedcatholic]

Me on tumblr dot com

[caffeinatedcatholic]

This gets better the later in 2020 you reblog it

[whatevernatureis]

Nellie Brown. African American cowgirl. c.1880s

[mindfulwrath]

I figured out a simple guide to the alignment chart last night

Lawful: Rules matter more to me than individuals. Chaotic: Individuals matter more to me than rules.

Good: Other people’s well-being is more important than my own. Evil: My own well-being is more important than other people’s.

Neutrals: My opinion of what is more important is determined on a case-by-case basis.

So a Lawful Good character’s guiding moral philosophy might be “I follow the rules because the rules keep people safe, even if they are sometimes inconvenient or harmful to me or other individuals.” A Chaotic Evil character’s guiding moral philosophy would be like “Screw the rules and screw you.”

[dungeonqueering]

This is a very succint way of explaining a long post from a few months ago. It is also kind of how it was originally written, and is what I use. No more “Is he chaotic neutral or chaotic evil” questions.

It also makes Evil a playable alignment

[fuwaprince]

US Helplines:

Depression Hotline: [phone]

Suicide Hotline: [phone]

LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255

Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386

Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743

Eating Disorders Hotline: [phone]

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453

UK Helplines:

Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail [email protected]

Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111

Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: [email protected]

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Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: [email protected]

Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600

Drinkline: 0800 9178282

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Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight

India Self Harm Hotline: [phone]

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Kids Help Phone (Canada): 1-800-668-6868

FREE 24/7 suicide hotlines:

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[uie-deactivated20230402]

ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

[kitten--aesthetics-blog]

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

[thescientificviolist]

last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:

so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.

[scum-vullage]

keep yourselves safe!

[ripe]

rastawhiteshepherd on ig

[bantlers-old]

The guardian spirit of the land

[northray]

Heaven

[gogogadgetgolem]

This dog personally escorts people to the afterlife.

[curliestofcrowns]

Omg this is like 800 metaphors rolled into one megaphor

[parentheticalaside]

I would like everyone to know that vulture vomit is very stinky. It smells of rotting flesh and they use it to drive away predators

[delilahmidnight]

Direct action

[wbicepuppy]

hey, at least have a picture of the American vultures doing this, not eurasian/african vultures, they are very different creatures!

[kyriolex]

Apparently vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, so there is nothing ICE can do about this except politely try to shoo the birds away.

[recoveryfort]

I am so incredibly proud of you for coming so far. Here you are, December 2019, and you’re going into a whole new decade, even when you thought you wouldnt last another year! You’re going to do wonderful in 2020. Stick around; your presence will make this next decade a little brighter.

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[lovely-little-hellfire]

[hirokazukoreeda]

TOP 10 LGBT+ FILMS OF THE DECADE: Pariah (2011) dir. Dee Rees Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017) dir. Robin Campillo Disobedience (2017) dir. Sebastián Lelio A Fantastic Woman (2017) dir. Sebastián Lelio The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-Wook Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma Tangerine (2015) dir. Sean Baker The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

[everythingfox]

Not sure what this is but I love him

[duskullite]

Oh he’s baby!

[autumngracy]

A pine marten!

[badjokesbyjeff]

Trump is visiting a class in an elementary school where they are talking about words and meanings

The teacher asks Trump if he would like to lead the class in a discussion of the word “tragedy”.

So he asks the class for an example of a tragedy. One little boy stands up and offers, “if my best friend who lives on a farm is playing in a field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that’d be a tragedy.”

“Not quite”, says Mr. Trump, “that would be an accident.”

A little girl raises her hand: “if a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.”

“I’m afraid not,” explained the president. “That’s what we would call a great loss.”

The room goes silent. Trump searches the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy? “

Finally at the back of the room, little Johnny raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says, “If Air Force One, carrying you was struck by a missile and blown to smithereens; that would be a tragedy.”

“Fantastic!” exclaimed Mr. Trump. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”

“Well’, said little Johnny, “because it sure as hell wouldn’t be a great loss and probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”

[t51bpowerarmor]

[closet-keys]

[id: tweet by buffalocialism reading “if you have so many prisoners that you have to deny them the right to vote because they would significantly impact election results, the main substantive problem is that you live in a police state”]

[tactical-necromancy]

[everythingfox]

“Two couples who didn’t know each other were walking through Pike Place Market (Seattle) when their dogs stopped and ran toward each other. Turns out they’re sisters from the same litter in Russia. They shared a plane a year earlier but hadn’t seen each other since. Now they have regular play dates.”

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[monalisa72]

This is some serious Black Beauty shit

[wolveswolves]

Two female Arctic wolves nursing pups together. As a behaviour it’s very rare and it’s the first time it has ever been filmed. [x] 

[wlwkara]

[naamahdarling]

wlw wolves … LESBIAN wolves

[appropriately-inappropriate]

We also know the wolves aren’t sisters or packmates who could, arguably, have developed the bond and co-parented due to familial bonds.

We’re expressly told that Black Spot joined the pack from elsewhere, which means that not only did she join the pack willingly, she left her own to do it. Female wolves don’t generally do that.

Also, that’s canine pair behaviour; wolves do tend to pair off like that, so…

LESBIAN WOLVES

[thegoodvybe]

[anxietyproblem]

[wolfinthethorns]

Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.

[findingfeather]

This is one of those areas where like on the one hand as a chronic moderate-severe depressive this shit hits me hard and on the other I’m watching people technically more mentally healthy than me struggle with the vast pointless mess of existence for the first time and it’s a trip.

Some tips from the inside, in case they help:

- life has always been pointless. Or rather, we have always been unable to control the relative point-fulness of life. The factors involved in opening the possibilities of who can have a large scale impact where are so insanely complex that they can at best only be pieced together imperfectly in retrospect

- the only thing that has changed is your awareness of this fact. No, seriously. The sun will eventually swallow the planet; at any moment without our knowledge or control the sun could flare in weird ways that will kill us all; etc. There was geopolitical and socioeconomic fuckery as bad or worse going on before: you just didn’t see it. Promise.

- you do what you can with what you have. You do what’s in front of you. Humanity has survived all of this before; it may survive it again. It may not. You can only do what you can: take what lessons exist from the past and apply them.

- sometimes it is just that bad and they are totally out to get you. The question is, what do you do about it?

- almost without exception in human history the answer has been “build community; support the one you have; reach out to connect MORE and to make the world more kind and less hateful than before.”

- recognize you’re trying to tackle god-level problems with a brain originally meant for keeping small proto-fish from being eaten. Treat that part of your brain like a very anxious toddler or rescue pitbull. Give it small measurable victories and successes even if you have to make them up. Make sure it’s fed and watered and has enough rest. Medicate it if you have to - there’s nothing wrong with that. The opposite, in fact.

We are hairless plains apes living in a thin skin of atmosphere between spinning liquid superheated death and the void of absolute cold, sustained by the radiation of a supermassive explosion that will kill us at the slightest excuse. We have always been unlikely and implausible and probably doomed which means every moment we are able to live, thrive and help others do so is an incredible victory. Don’t quit now. ❤️

[placeofunderstanding]

Holy fuck I needed this

[archatlas]

Architecture Students Reimagine Harry Potter 

Students of a 12 day course at the Melbourne School of Design were not sorted into houses, but they were assigned Gringotts Bank, Grimmauld Place, the Shrieking Shack and other fan favorites in the Harry Potter universe. their Harry Potter architecture models were laser cut from cardboard (ten house points), hand-modeled (forty house points), constructed in very little time (fifty points), and remind us of the truest magic of all (teamwork).

Students at the Melbourne School of Design had very few spells to work with in order to cast these gorgeously film-accurate 3D models. Students were given 1.0 mm and 0.6 mm boxboard to create their models from. They used trace paper — for windows and diffused lights — and LED lights and motors connected to Arduinos.