Pfft

In which I don't know what I'm doing, so nothing's new.

[catchymemes]

[mannersmademan]

“…This needs to stop.”

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Robert Downey Jr. would mug him for this suit.

[star-anise]

People are so mad at this post for calling militant veganism “a vestige of colonialism” but it’s totally correct

Settler colonialism is literally the idea that you can come into a place and totally destroy all the indigenous knowledges about the land and how to live there, and replace it with your lofty intellectual ideal of What Everyone Everywhere Should Eat.

The point of the post is that what kind of food local farmers produce should be informed by the land they live on and what makes sense to grow there. Farmers should make decisions based on what is environmentally sustainable and ecologically sound. 

So if you’re farming land that is naturally suited to producing rich, lush vegetation, by all means! Grow plants! Grow fruits and vegetables! 

But if you’re somewhere that is hilly, arid, with scant, rocky, or saline soil, it makes more sense to farm livestock. In those places, producing meat is the ecologically sound choice.

Oddly enough, a farmer’s choice of what to grow, much like a person’s choice of what to eat, is incredibly complex and idiosyncratic and informed by so many variables that NO one-size-fits-all solution could possibly work!

But militant vegans take agricultural analyses that work in California and nowhere else, and ignore the role of water and irrigation to boot, and then claim they know what EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD should eat.

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Those analyses don't even work anywhere in California beyond the Big Valley. It's a huge state with a variety of sub ecosystems. Agriculture in the Valley produces massive amounts of food, but artificially, since the Valley doesn't have enough water resources without draining the aquifers. Much of California is naturally semi-arid and better suited to raising goats than water hogs like tomatos and corn or rice.

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The Hangman of Wolves - Kindle edition by S. J. Briggs. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Hangman of Wolves.

Two words.

Ambiguous Werewolves

That. That's how I characterized this book while writing it. That there? That is my book. That I've spent two years on.

Two years. So, you'll understand, it might be another day or two before I get the paperback format up for print on demand.

SUMMARY TEASER

Bat Bellamy expects life in tiny, backwoods Maddox Mill to bore him, until a chance encounter with an enigmatic girl sets him digging into the mystery of the missing Schaeffer family and a dead pack of wolves. When he discovers the girl's body hanging from a tree, he becomes obsessed with finding her killer and with her secretive brother, Rowan.

Small towns have secrets. Maddox Mill may have more than most. From the history-obsessed wife of the mayor to the town's Lady Bountiful to an ex-cop who wrecked his career on the shoals of the Schaeffer disappearances, no one wants to talk to Bat. Not about the town's founder and his obsession with killing wolves, not about the present-day murder, and never about the howling in the woods at night. Not even the new chief of police, his own mother.

When Rowan finally trusts him with one truth, Bat thinks he has everything figured out, only to discover just how wrong he can be.

There are monsters in Rowan Schaeffer's past that still hunt him – and they aren't in the woods.

I do not have the spoons to find an agent and hope for a publisher, so for now it's a Kindle book. Or forever.

If you like m/m romance, you might like this book. If you like mysteries, you might enjoy it. If you enjoy werewolves in books, you might find this one interesting.

The Hangman of Wolves

Oh, hey, I've never linked my fannish persona with this account. If you like fanfic of auburnnothenna, you might like my original fiction!

There, ugh, I hate self-promotion. I am always baffled at the idea that anyone follows this tumblr, but hey, since you do... Maybe you need a little reading matter? Or you could spread the word around to someone who might like it?

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[holyrights-deactivated20211021]

give her one

[holyrights-deactivated20211021]

give her a cheeto.

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Now I want both.

[huariqueje]

New Year’s Eve Fox Fires at the Changing Tree, Oji  -    Utagawa (Ando) Hiroshige , 1857.

Japanese,  1797 - 1858

Woodblock 

[bookgeekgrrl]

I feel very strongly that if historical romance can give women a happy ending, it can give queer people a happy ending. M/f historical romance doesn’t tie itself in knots over the likelihood of the rake having syphilis, the terrible dentistry, the lice, the prolapsed uterus after multiple pregnancies, the prospect of death in childbed, or the horrifying legal discrimination against married women. We don’t close the book on the wedding scene reflecting that the heroine can now be legally raped, has just lost all her property to her husband…and would be vanishingly unlikely to obtain a divorce. Historical romance readers aren’t stupid; we know this stuff, but we choose to believe our heroine will be one of the lucky ones. And I don’t see why we can’t extend that happy glow to other stories, too. If women’s lives don’t have to be blighted by social oppression in romance, neither do those of people of color or queer people. Moreover, human nature doesn’t change. A lot of what we read about LGBT people in history is appalling because the rec­ords we have are the legal documents, the newspaper reports, the accounts of people who were victimized. We don’t generally have the hidden stories of the people who lived under the radar…. But we know…people we’d now call gay, bi, trans have always existed and [that] as a matter of statistics plenty of them must have lived and died without ever coming to the law’s attention. Which is not to hand-wave the horrors of the past but only to say that horror isn’t the only story, and it’s not an acceptable reason to deny marginalized people their happy-ever-after.

KJ Charles (Library Journal interview)  (via bookgeekgrrl)

I have got to start reading Charles' books.

[rewiredotnews]

Never-poor people see a long list of community resource contact numbers and think ‘Wow, so much help available to those in need!’ Poor people see that list and think ‘How many wrong numbers and ‘no we don’t take Medicaid’ calls am I gonna have to make to confirm my suspicion that there is no help available, just agencies that look like help?’

Angie Jackson  (via thatdiabolicalfeminist)

^ THIS ^ THANK GOODNESS SOMEONE SAID IT

(via poopsapiens)

Reblog forever.

[thetrippytrip]

epic thread

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His mouth said no, but his eyes said 'stab me'.

[just-shower-thoughts]

We must thank our internal organs for the fact that they are not itching

[figuringoutlifenstuffs]

One fear

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I have a new curse to fling at people!

May all your internal organs itch!

Just imagine. *shudders*

Thank you, internal organs. Except my vagina. You don't get a pass.

[copperbadge]

During WWII, Norman Rockwell did a series of illustrations following Army private Willie Gillis through WWII, though he was never depicted in combat. 

This is one of the later illos in the series, Double Trouble for Willie Gillis, but I think it’s fairly plain that Private Gillis is not really what’s on their minds. 

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It's just a story about a couple of hoes.

[sdzoo]

We’ve added 4 pounds of fuzz to our Nursery and she’s basically in charge. 🐾This little cub came to us from another facility after her 5 siblings were outcompeting her for food. 🐆 Now, this cheerful cheetah is chillin’ at the Safari Park.

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I feel like it is entirely possible that my tumblr could become nothing but reblogs of cheetahs.

[fearfultemper]

do u ever see a theory and ur like ‘nah the writers aren’t that clever’

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Pretty much every time I read meta.

[witcheshaven]

Magical pies ✨ by karinprieffboschek

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These are just so beautiful.

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Fan fic writers...

Reblog if you’ve ever had an idea for a fic that you like so much, that you wish someone else would write it so you could enjoy it as a reader.

[oneshoeshort-deactivated2021060]

Y’all have no idea how fucking true this is for me.

[kdfrqqg]

All the time!

[all-alone-he-turns-to-stone]

*groan* yeah me too…

[ryleigh-jae]

*raises hand* Yep

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All.THE.TIME.

[onlinegrapes]

To completely unmake an Avenger, one must possess only eyeliner and the skills of an intramural league dodgeball player

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The magic of the raccoon eye. Think what Bucky and Hela could achieve if they ever hooked up with Rocket.

[huariqueje]

The Forest   -     Jan Håfström, 1967-68

Swedish, b. 1937-

Acrylic on canvas , 235.5 x 160.5 cm

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Jan Håfström - The Forest

Something about it reminds me of John Jude Palencar's covers. This is more vibrant and rich with color though.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

i just feel like you guys should see this thread about foxes

[elodieunderglass]

For some reason, when biologists want to describe “the assemblage of morphological features shared among many members of a phylum-level group” we say bauplan. Which is German for “body plan.” But even if you don’t speak German you say “bauplan” anyway. So this is a very hilarious Social Media Discourse from someone who has forgotten that the word “bauplan” is an instant giveaway that you are actually a biologist and that makes it fantastic it’s like when robots try to pretend that they’re human but better

[asymbina]

omg love

[fozmeadows]

#yes good

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Bauplan