A Harbor in the Tempest

Linus Twenty-Four. She/Her Pronouns. Usually Accepting Prompts. From Mississippi. Feminist Killjoy; Queer.

[notmusa]

jesus god

[notmusa]

[vamp1rate]

sometimes i really love inaturalist

[sideiest-blog-around]

Oh this is great

[astra-the-dragon]

more highlights:

[Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, USA]

[Knight Anole, Anolis equestris, USA]

[yet-to-be-identified fly, Phaoniinae, England]

[Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, USA]

you, too, can contribute to the project! :3

[femmchantress]

I don’t care if Monday’s yuck

Tuesday, Wednesday tread through muck

Thursday maybe eat a duck

It’s Friday, Flat as Fuck

[sentimentalslut]

what people dont get about divorces is the Whole Thing About Dogs

[sentimentalslut]

i have written custody plans for labrador retrievers more complex than i have for children. i went to four years of undergrad, three years of law school, and sat for the bar exam to write up custody exchange provisions for dogs with hyphonated last names

[sentimentalslut]

my clients are paying $295 an hour for me to go to court and litigate who makes veterinary decisions for Chuckles the Goldfish and theres literally nothing i can do to stop them

[sentimentalslut]

framing these tags and hanging them up in my office to remind me that it can always be worse

[electricpurrs]

i think this is the funniest possible image that could be used to illustrate this subject

[girlnextvore]

[petite-guignol]

OK FUN FACT i also thought this picture was hilarious when i encountered it a few months ago, so i was curious how it ended up on wikipedia

it turns out the uploader is in fact the woman in the photo (she's uploaded a few other pictures of herself to other articles) and she ran an extremely web 1.0 site on the topic of bondage

this was apparently a long-standing fantasy of hers and she in fact did an entire video plus accompanying photoshoot about it, which was run in a bondage magazine in the 90s and did in fact take place on an abandoned train track. they committed to the bit hard enough that there's even a shot of the sinister villain looming over her with a big document labeled DEED and a pen

the best part is that according to this page, there were two "villains" involved (the woman's two partners, apparently), and the other one was dressed as a gorilla. sadly there are no images of the gorilla kidnapper because that sounds like. even funnier.

anyway i thought this whole thing was kinda cute, lol

[zeqoo69]

[galileosballs]

It's so strange that - at least in North America - the style of living in which you have your own room but only a partial kitchen, but the building has a large communal eating area in which a paid professional makes food at scale on a fixed schedule every day (with a few options, but nothing made to order) is only available to a) college students, b) prisoners, and c) people in long-term care homes.

Not everyone would want to live like that, of course, but I'll bet you that a lot of people would. It's a great living situation for single people, young people just starting out, and people who are in a city on a temporary basis. Cooking at scale is significantly more time- and cost-efficient than each individual cooking or getting takeout. Cleaning kitchen facilities scales similarly well. Employ a few people who know what they're doing and are paid well to do it, and they'll keep that kitchen running safely, efficiently, and cleanly in a way that a few hundred pressed-for-time 20-somethings never could. And a lot of people simply do not care enough about what they eat to want anything else.

Moreover, not putting a full kitchen in each unit means that the units can be smaller without cutting into living space, cheaper to build, and safer. Lots of people who live alone don't cook a lot, since cooking for one is not very time-efficient, which means that for all those people the kitchen is practically just dead space. You could replace its function with a microwave and a minifridge, and if you do, you've given that person a whole extra room.

And the thing is, this style of living does exist in North America. You just can't voluntarily get it unless you go to college. Why? Because we have - for some reason - decided that this globally-not-uncommon way of living is somehow beneath the dignity of an adult. We should change that.

[starfieldcanvas]

This used to be a thing in North America too. They were called boarding houses. But we don't have them any more for a lot of reasons, some good (we stopped letting people put a bunch of discriminatory and moral controls on their boarders) and some bad (iirc boarding houses became associated with badly-behaved lower class types and got NIMBY'd out of existence). I have only a vague awareness of why they disappeared here, but if you're wondering why we don't have private-room-shared-professional-kitchen in this part of the world anymore that's where I'd start my research.

[moosefeels]

term for this is also SRO (single room occupancy); a lot of them were made illegal in the 70's-80's via changing to zoning ordinances but their removal was a multi-agency project; in a similar way that trailers are rebranded as "tiny homes," you see them crop up sometimes under the name "microapartment"

[cheesenames]

if we can set aside attachment discourse for a moment (please) i think the jedi marriage prohibition makes sense in a “please don’t enter a complex legal, financial, social, and in some cases religious contract, the specifics of which vary wildly depending on planet and culture” way. the single jedi with a law degree does not have time to draft everyone’s prenups to prevent the whole order from getting sued

[the-fallen-blue]

#we could create so many interesting new problems if we ignore romance and make it about contracts generally#jedi prohibition on getting a loan. jedi prohibition on signing a waiver before bungee jumping. etc

"Qui-Gon didn't try to buy Anakin or the engine because there wasn't anyone in town who offered a credit exchange service" wrong. Qui-Gon gambled for Anakin under the table because after dealing with the Cyrkon Delinquency of 24850, Master Olobi, Esq, has personally promised to hang by the the toes from the highest tower of the Temple for one week any Jedi who generates any trackable legal transaction or obligation between the Order and the Hutts.

[sandmandaddy69]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

this could be us

[moosefeels]

gofundme for a family in venezuela who is struggling following the june 2026 earthquake

[dogposts]

some dogs are smart and. well. others are happy

[parkchanwoohoo]

It is so fucking funny to me how easily scandalized some people are wym callout post for a cannibalism kink. Grow up. This is the nothingburger leagues and you're throwing up in the stands

[anomalocaris-in-da-clurb]

It’s actually the peopleburger leagues

[parkchanwoohoo]

Blocking for being funnier than me

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[kingfucko]

i dont care if monday sucks... tuesday cost me sixty bucks... wednesday thursday give no fucks. it's friday im a duck

[maxknightley]

so many games on steam next fest look like Homestar Runner bits

[maxknightley]

Prisan Brevker: Prepare For Ruthless Bouncing

[bgm05]

[guooey]

New bunny just dropped (prairie chicken)