Texan in Looziana

Lughán | they/them | Bi | Autistic and tired

[pangur-and-grim]

I am commissioning the spider images. this is your last chance to escape

[pangur-and-grim]

my refs are so bad

[pangur-and-grim]

BUT THE FINAL ART IS SO GOOD

(this was done by notsoappropro, as promotional art for The Ignoble Invasion of Prince Proculo)

[pangur-and-grim]

I've had people asking for the best place to pre-order! for the USA, it's probably Barnes and Noble. if you're located elsewhere, these are the best links.

and for Australia and New Zealand/Aotearoa, pre-orders will open later in the summer!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[chestnutmareenergy]

Pond horsey

[horsesarecreatures]

Chip used to escape into the pine barrens and go in ponds to eat yellow pond lilies. This brings back memories.

[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

[pangur-and-grim]

little guy missed his jump

[merulo-pretzel-date]

[pangur-and-grim]

this is what happens when I don’t wake up on schedule

[hedjblogr]

[jareckiworld]

David Kanietakeron Fadden — Onkwehonwe Gothic (acrylic on canvas, 2016)

[viralfrog]

[fallingtowers]

"grackle" really is a perfect name for a bird. knocked it out of the park w/ that one

[fuzzbby]

Noriko Takeda.

[creekfiend]

I have a theory that people who say they're "afraid of clowns" largely are not, in the sense of actually having a phobia, and what they mean is "clowns creep me out," and what they mean by THAT is "clowns make me uncomfortable, because they dress and speak and move and act in ways that I do not necessarily expect or have a social script for so they make me feel wrong-footed and self conscious and confused because the interaction and behavior does not make sense to me,"

and honestly the way that I feel about THAT is, "ok, so now imagine that you live in clown world and everyone you encounter is clowns and all the institutions you are forced to navigate are clown institutions run by clowns. that is life as an autistic person"

anthropologist on Mpars/the only human in Clown World. pick your analogy

[cruel-hiraeth]

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

[prof-grace-aspen]

And by the way it doesn’t matter if you claim your community is “pro” something if the main actual behavior of the group is hating the thing labeled as the enemy of the thing you are “in support” of.

As an example, a lot of groups claim to be “pro-women”, when in reality they are actually anti-trans. Their goal is not to uplift women, it’s to harass and criminalize trans people.

So inspect the groups you’re in. Ignore the name of the movement. What are the people in your group actually DOING?

[justshushu]

[pangur-and-grim]

see her loud

[pangur-and-grim]

now see her quiet

[certified-cervid]

now see her bowling pins

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

[uwontrememberme]

everything will probably be fine but i have to get really anxious just in case

[mysterycat-official]

I lowkey hate when programs talk to me in a friendly way. "don't worry, nearly there!" Shut up. It should say "loading 64.3% completed. Do not turn off device" and absolutely nothing else. You arent my friend you are computer. Act like it

[pangur-and-grim]

sweet boy who loves me