Sunshine fills the other half

Queer, fat, femme. Anishinaabe Metis. INFJ. Prone to daydreams, gardening, and naps. Legally an adult, morally a degenerate.

[nimashkawizii]

A brief compendium of posts tumblr has weirdly decided to label 'mature': A running list

chili dog gif posted by @fatmagic

foot tattoo posted by @officialwiremother

character development tags posted by @seth-whumps

drawing of a baby bird posted by @sakurabreeze

news article about racist government policies posted by @homesick-ndn

baby kittens posted by @todaysbird

public park sculpture posted by @dolphinsjukebox

a 1872 illustration of people ice skating posted by @detroitlib

guide to priest collars posted by @doing-something-unholy

blobfish wearing a hair ribbon posted by @kropotkindersurprise

the world tour cast of the musical The Phantom of the Opera posted by @roadtophantom

more kittens, just actual baby kittens posted by @todaysbird

18th century waistcoat posted by @vincentbriggs

Mannequins wearing 1920s men's swimsuits posted by @history-of-fashion

a spongebob knitting meme posted by @hardoncaulfield

Spotted Shovel-nosed Frog posted by @herpsandbirds

deconstructing plastic bags for crafting posted by @roostingwindow

an article about neurological markers of (no lie) brain maturity and adulthood posted by @demonprincex

horse grooming posted by @2022dirt

geese crossing the road posted by @thepaintedchateau

Fully clothed person playing in the snow posted by @maidenofmadness

kittens playing in a cardboard box posted by @todaysbird

positive alternative to suicide self-talk posted by @molabuddy

Nyan cat's 15th birthday posted by @prguitarman

commentary on limited fashion options for fat women posted by @ace-disgrace-on-the-case

pride flag joke using tumblr's own loading image posted by @flagellant

appreciation for a band’s whimsical campy vibe posted by @monarch-ambrosia

a repost of an advertisement TUMBLR ITSELF approved for tumblr's profit posted by @snowkissedmonsters

a shawl draped over a sofa posted by @tavina-writes

pics of a white pet rabbit posted by @chillyfeetsteak

a joke observation about cheese posted by @dreadwedge

a CBC news article about digital privacy legislation posted by @allthecanadianpolitics

crochet chicken purse posted by @yarn-chicken

a gifset of baby bats posted by @bulletcreep (deactivated)

corn on the cob posted by @hellenhighwater

antique northern lights photos posted by @not-euclidean

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

[amiguruineapig]

[lycanycteris]

[hippy-craic]

[nimashkawizii]

Reblogging this at 4am having just watched one neighbourhood cat attack and tree another neighbourhood cat, forcing it 15 feet off the ground and probably putting a dent in my fucking car roof based on the thud it made when it eventually came down and slunk off in fear.

[rob-by]

The pathologization of anger needs to be talked about. What do you mean my therapist is telling me that there’s something “chemically wrong” with me because I am still angry about my mom DYING OF COVID.

of course I’m still angry? My mom and 1.3 million other Americans are dead and you want me to shoot sunshine out of my ass about it?

[rob-by]

“But It’s been 3 years since she died, you have complex grief” yeah and she was on a ventilator for 11 days and she kept writing “I am scared” and “I don’t want to die” on a notepad over and over again. While you were still going out unmasked and unvaccinated and coughing all over each other, I was living a nightmare I couldn’t fucking wake up from. And every single day I’m reminded of it in the form of “haha wasn’t the pandemic such a wacky time haha” and “I’m not getting a booster you can’t make me 🤪 (nobody asked)” and “it’s not real they made the numbers up!!!”

“You’re not coping” Ok here’s the deal; I’ll stop feeling this anger when we have a national memorial (we don’t) or a cdc equipped to stop it from happening again (we don’t) or a population that takes a deadly disease seriously BEFORE it effects them personally (WE DON’T!)

until then, I’m pretty sure my anger is A COMPLETELY NORMAL HUMAN REACTION given the facts at hand

[rob-by]

I didn’t expect it to, but this post is taking off. I never share fundraisers but this organization is spearheading federal recognition of peer-submitted Covid memorials and bringing recognition of Covid loss to the public view by testifying to congress to combat misinformation. They do things like create funds for children orphaned by Covid too. And much more. Like. They do a lot. They’re THE Covid nonprofit imo.

If my my mom’s story touched you in any way, and you’re able to, I would love nothing more than to have some folks donate to their cause. They are a registered nonprofit with a platinum transparency rating. (You can write it off on your taxes!)

https://www.markedbycovid.com/

All of my love to you.

*also added as a comment for visibility.

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[nimashkawizii]

Oh, I just read about this! It's called interspecific allopreening, and the first (scientifically) documented urban case of this happening only dates back to 2022!

Interestingly, the published case happened in Texas, USA while this video was identified in the comments as being from Curitiba, Brazil, but in both cases it was Black Vultures grooming Crested Caracaras.

Here's a cute foursome!

And here's a few tidbits from the article:

interspecific allopreening has been documented before, but only in rural areas, usually in Texas and South and Central America.

The previously reported instances are always between Vultures (Black and Turkey) and Caracaras (Crested and Southern).

It looks like it's always the Vultures preening the Caracaras, and never the other way around (pillow princess comments and tags validated lol)

Despite not reciprocating, the Caracaras will sometimes initiate the preening sessions by assuming a "head-down display" toward the Vultures.

Urban planning to intentionally preserve natural greenbelts can create areas with higher bird population density than rural areas, increasing the likelihood of such interactions.

Vultures and Caracaras may interact in shared feeding spaces, with Caracaras "assuming a more dominant role within this interaction".

Preening helps remove parasites and Vultures, with their bald heads and necks, are more resistant to lice and mites, possibly leading to them being less likely to need help preening as a hygienic behaviour.

This maybe helps explain why the (bald) Vultures are always the ones helping preening the (fully feathered) Caracaras, and not vice versa?

According to the paper, "further studies are needed to determine the validity of the relationship between the species." But I think tumblr is giving these birds all the validation their relationships could ever need.

[plushefemme]

not to be a hedonist but. pleasure IS the whole point, my loves. we are made for pleasure. humans have not survived out of spite or sheer grit or simply to make more humans. we live for pleasure. the pleasure of licking the last delicious crumbs off your fingers and feeling sunlight on your skin and massaging a loved one's shoulders. we're made to fill our bellies with delicious food, to nap in soft grass, to touch each other in joy and comfort.

there is no shame or guilt in our bodies doing what they were made to do. and we are made for pleasure.

[kayla-denker]

The demonizing of hedonism, of pleasure in general, is literally christian dogma. And I hate how much of a grip it has on even supposedly secular culture.

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[chiimeramanticore]

do me a favor and reblog this and put in the tags what time it is for you and what you're currently doing/thinking about

[sleepyquietgirl]

I feel like I am taking crazy pills

[quetzalpapalotl]

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Harry Potter fans have forced a new multimillion-pound power cable between the UK and Ireland to be relocated after complaining it would desecrate the “grave” of Dobby, a fictional elf.

The character was laid to rest on Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

The £430m Greenlink interconnector, which links the National Grid to Ireland, was initially going to pass through the site of the “grave”, the project manager Simon Ludlam told the Energy Revolution podcast. Fans became aware of the plans after Ludlam pointed out where the 125-mile (200km) cable to County Wexford would go underground at Freshwater West during a BBC interview. “We did the shot, we finished, I went back to London, and they then aired it a couple of weeks later. And we got hundreds of calls, I mean, hundreds of calls.” Ludlam said he did not know who Dobby was, and became confused by the calls the company received, saying a colleague told him: “Apparently we’re going to go straight through Dobby’s grave”. “I said: ‘Dobby, who’s Dobby? I don’t know Dobby?’ I said: ‘He’s a fictitious character in a fictitious book, the whole thing is fictitious, what are you talking about?’” He said the colleague told him: “No it’s very, very serious.” The firm then enlisted planners to find a new route that avoided the supposed grave. “A lot of people were very happy about that, and the project is now going [ahead] and Dobby’s happy.” In the end, he said, “we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby’s grave”. The Bronze Age remains include urns associated with human burial.

[apolladay]

im curious about peoples usage of drafts. i have 29 rn and that feels like a lot but...

how many tumblr drafts do you have right now

none

less than 5

less than 10

less than 20

less than 50

less than 100

less than 200

less than 400

less than 600

less than 1000

less than 2000

2000 or more

Remaining time: 4 days 1 minute

[sreegs]

i had to double check this and i remembered that @memories is still functioning. it was an april fools blog in 2019 where tumblr made a fake "memories" feature (like facebook memories) but it made up posts that you never posted. it had to be contained in a blog for it to work so the blog is still there. its posts are unique to your account's information (mostly tags you post with)

anyways this post will tell you your regdate when you look at it.

my fucking blog is 18 years old. my blog can vote

[sreegs]

if you are a MINOR RIGHT NOW you are younger than my tumblr will someone PLEASE run me over with a steamroller feet first

[leupagus]

by Resonant

I haven’t read this essay in… twelve years? I think? But someone (ETA: that someone was @whetherwoman who deserves the credit) linked it today and rereading it was a) a treat and b) honestly really helpful. If you, like me, want to write smut but often find it difficult, this essay may help a LOT.

[leupagus]

Reblogging this as I periodically do because it’s still relevant (especially with so many new writers coming into fandom spaces who are SO ENTHUSIASTIC but maybe need some pointers?) and because I myself need the reminder. Wherever you are, Res, I hope you’re doing great.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/have-your-say-advancing-ai-transparency-canada

Federal Gov. has a survey and comment period open now for AI transparency and "building trust in AI"

From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada  

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[thefairytaler]

My wife pointed out to me the other day that apparently most people were literally only taught how to say Sorry and not how to Apologize or even that they are different things so here.

If all you ever do is step 1, not only did you not apologize, but people will rightfully stop believing you and start getting pissed or hurt.

[yourtryhard]

[scrubbinn]

Please start that project you're thinking about. Post it anywhere you can. Let people see the art you can bring to the world. Please, I want to see it. Just type that first word. I believe in you!

[polutropos-puppyboy]

i have for a while been using stepping on somebody's toes as a metaphor for misgendering. and i genuinely think that it's kind of a good one.

[polutropos-puppyboy]

if you keep stepping on somebody's toes for a long time at minimum they're probably going to start really hating you and at maximum you might cause them lasting damage.

if you do it on purpose you're a dick. if it's on accident but you keep doing it that person is still going to be mad at you because you don't care enough to try not to step on their toes

[polutropos-puppyboy]

if you give a grovelling begging apology after accidentally stepping on somebody's toes one time you're going to make the whole thing awkward, but not giving a quick "sorry" before moving on is still kind of rude.

[nimashkawizii]

Back when I worked in a hospital one of my main tasks was transporting patients throughout the building. Usually by myself but sometimes with a coworker if the patient had a lot of equipment, or with a nurse if they needed continuous monitoring.

One time I was transporting a patient who had a continuous monitor connected by long wires to a computer that rolled on a separate cart. The hallway was a little narrow, so the nurse wanted to push the cart behind the wheelchair. That way she wouldn’t have to squeeze past things or through narrower doorways like she would if we walked side by side.

The first time she ran into the back of my heel it hurt, but she apologized and promised to pay more attention. Everyone makes mistakes, so fine, we carried on. The second time she ran into my heel it really bit into my Achilles tendon, and she apologized profusely. She was so sorry, how embarrassing, promised me it really wouldn’t happen again. And it wouldn’t, because I decided that no matter how apologetic she was, however good her intentions were, there wasn’t going to be a third time.

I insisted on re-adjusting, moved the cart to the side of the wheelchair where I could keep an eye on her, and if she needed to pay an extra bit of attention to not knocking posters off the wall or barking her shoulder on a hand sanitizer dispenser, well that was her look out.

So if you keep accidentally misgendering a trans person, even if you feel really bad about it, even if you apologize to the moon and back, you still don’t get to be upset if eventually they move you to a place in their life where you can do less damage.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Apparently some people still need to hear this so: using an 'ai checker' is still using ai. If you are feeding someone's fic to one of these checkers, you will still not be sure their fic is ai because they are not 100% accurate, but you can be 100% sure that you are using ai. For fic. Furthermore you are doing the work of an ai scraper for them. You are, personally, feeding the machine. There is no actual excuse for using an ai checker on fanfic as a hobby. YOU are the problem.

If you think a fic is ai, mute it and move on. That's it. That's all you do.

[ahsoka-in-a-hood]

Um. Yikes