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Wsp! My name is ollie or rain, whichever you want to call me is fine. I post a mixture of activism, fandom stuff, and general funnies I see. My current fandoms are Percy Jackson (mainly HoO and ToA), Dreamwork's Trolls, and School Bus Graveyard. I have ADHD, so you’ll see quite a few posts about being neurodivergent and disability related issues. Feel free to use my ask box!!

aimseytv

repost if you like girls and/or youre secretly a goose

skops-archive-deactivated202506

he calls them chat

fruity4lifesanders

Haven't been super active so I just wanted to say....

Reblog to give your mutuals iced tea and a good book/fic.

💛 love you all my mutuals...

@passive-poet (bro it's honestly surprising how much I think about you whenever I'm chilling and see something irl I think you'd like XD. Love ya 😘

@thelastothdivine miss youuuu...answer your texts.

@waynerific miss you tooooo

@sillygoofyollie rah I keep forgetting to text you!

passive-poet

YOU JUST MADE MY DAY 🥰🥰🥰 Love ya too!

miwtual

btw if we're mutuals i automatically think ur cooler than me. doesnt matter if we have been mutuals for 2 minutes or 3 years, if we are following each other u are cooler than me by default <3

chimeramirror

"we're mutals because I like your posts and you pity me, no one could ever actually find me funny" -my silly brain

moots are one of the best things about tumblr

s1xseasonsandamov1e

youreonyourownkid

so called free thinkers when h-o-t t-o g-o you can take me hot to go

youreonyourownkid

amazing work thank you

waskitty

there’s something so… idk dystopian? seeing chappell roan doing this amazing work, raising money for palestine, speaking out against injustices, refusing to work with the white house in protest of their policies, giving drag queens a platform…. just to then see people who call themselves fans having vaguely radfemmy arguments over who is “allowed” to be at her concerts. “why would a man be there???” because he’s trans. or because he’s gay. or because he just likes her music and wanted to see her and bought a ticket like everyone else to be here. can we focus on something that actually matters rather than bullying people for sharing an interest with you. my god.

purplehalnw

I saw some people trying to argue "why is it so bad that lesbians want a safe space?". Like seriously wtf. If you want a safe space without men, go find one or make one yourselves. Stop trying to gatekeep shit that everyone has a right to enjoy and stop excluding other queer people (and just people in general) and making it seem like they're the problem.

passive-poet

these are probably the same people who think straight people shouldn’t be allowed at pride -_-

aroacemoodboard

i came out to my mom & she said i “invented” aromanticism and asexuality

so for all the aroaces out there you’re welcome 😔🙏

i’m out here doing gods work

taylynceo

y’all are so bad at ‘censoring’ spoliers for fastpass episodes like, PLEASE ADD A ‘KEEP READING.’

and I know if some sees ‘fastpass spoliers’ at the top they can scroll past it, but it’s annoying when every post doesn’t have a censor.

like this is coming from someone who literally has fastpass. most people don’t want to go spoiled so PLEASE for the love of everything, add a keep reading to your posts instead of just writing ‘fastpass spoilers’ in big bold letters.

also this is not directed at anyone this is just a general thing I’ve noticed

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

trying to decide if i'd rather be a tortoise or a turtle. on the one hand I prefer dry land, on the other hand turtles can breathe out of their cloacae so. it's tricky

quietfangirltranscription

hmm have you considered something like a snapping turtle? can live on dry land if it wants to and just go to the water for a nice splash splash

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

that'll work

willowbane

so we have these in North Carolina and they are Menaces (note the capital M) but not in the way that you would think. no. you don’t step into a pond and go “ouchie my foot, a snapping turtle bit me.” (they’re actually very friendly in water so long as you don’t bother them). no no, these fuckers LOVE scorching hot concrete. and they’re BIG.

Most commonly you’ll see one chilling in the middle of the road like a little goomba waiting to wreck your car tire. So you gotta stop and move them which involves awkwardly lugging this flailing, hissing turtle well off the road and into the forest where you pray it will stay.

Now, I know they’re called snapping turtles, and they do snap, WHICH IN ALL DUE FAIRNESS is BAD for the person moving the turtle out of the road.

BUT.

THEY HAVE CLAWS.

Remember when I said “flailing”?

Yeah, it’s easy to avoid the beak but it is NOT easy to avoid those feet. they will fuck you up with their sword-feet.

So, my advice, as a North Carolinian, on moving snapping turtles off roads: Let someone else do it :)

And hey! If i wanted to be a turtle, i’d pick this one! no one’s messing with me!

no one.

snazzy-hats-and-adhd

Beautiful.

@willowbane are these things of a size where a snow shovel might be a useful implement of hazard-removal? I assume it'd have to be a real heavy-duty one, not one of the flimsy little collapsible popsicle sticks that are what most people have stashed in the back seat footwell somewhere...

willowbane

*ahem*

To answer your question, here is the following:

i did some research and the research says… maybe???

while this would probably work better from a safety standpoint…

…no one in North Carolina keeps a snow shovel in their vehicle (we're southern, please forgive us). also, snapping turtles are still kinda squishy, at least their legs are, so i would be concerned about cutting the turtle while scooping it since decent snow shovels are usually made of metal and are pretty sharp.

Instead, here is a helpful guide on how to pick up a snapping turtle:

So. You have encountered a turtle…

…and it is filled with the burning rage of a thousand suns because, dear god, you, mortal flesh pod, have decided to move it from its Sunny Spot™️

Question is, how does one go about doing this?

Well, friend, first you approach the turtle from BEHIND (to avoid the beak, chase after it, etc, etc)

You’ve made it this far so now you’re going to want to pick this bad boy up.

In order to avoid walking away from this looking like you just fought with a rotating sphere of knives, pick up the turtle towards the back of its shell but in front of the hind legs:

Then, you’re going to pick the turtle up and lug it across the road in the direction it was facing/walking. They know where they’re going, they have turtle instincts. Trust the turtle instincts.

Now, it is important that you’re only picking this turtle up a few inches off the ground because 1) they are very heavy and if you drop it, you only want it falling a few inches and 2) there’s just less flailing if they can see the ground.

after awkwardly shuffle-walking to the curb, set the turtle down (gently) and watch it waddle into the undergrowth!

You did it!

artemistakenidentity

Thank you for the helpful guide! This is almost completely right except for one very important thing: if you absolutely have to pick up the turtle, please make sure you do so by gripping the underside of the shell and support the body as well. As you note, snapping turtles are squishy and heavy and just gripping the top shell can put undue stress on the joints where the bottom shell joins and it can separate causing damage and pain.

Also pro tip: keep heavy leather work gloves in your car and use them. It won't stop them from biting (they can bite your finger clean off) but it will help protect against the claws and give you more confidence in your grip.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

i'm STILL not over

activityenjoyer

Hello, another North Carolinian here, and I’m strongly advising you not to pick up a snapping turtle at all.

These beautiful babes are extremely flexible, more so than you’d expect for something that, well, looks like that. And even if you’re reasonably certain they can’t reach you where you’ve grabbed them, it’s kind of a hard gamble because they can and will take off a finger or two. On top of that, they tend to carry salmonella and other bacteria on their skin, so that’s a concern as well.

My MO was to harass them with sticks until they moved. North Carolinians don’t carry snow shovels, but I literally kept a decent sized and sturdy stick in the back of my car that I called the Turtle Stick whose only purpose was moving snappers off the road.

You’ve got a few options for how to implement the Turtle Stick.

1) poke and tap them on the rear end, back of the shell, and legs until they get fed up with you and scoot off the road. This may take patience, because these beautiful ladies and fellas are stubborn as all get out. Obviously don’t hurt them, just aim to be obnoxious.

2) if the turtle is feeling really aggro you can sometimes get them to bite down on the stick and drag them off the road. I treat this as a last resort because I feel bad about dragging them on asphalt, but it still beats the hell out of getting smushed by a Toyota Tacoma.

Of course don’t forget traffic control. If you hear someone coming make sure you wave and get their attention to ensure they don’t space out and smush both of you.

I’m not going to claim to be a turtle expert, but I am the child of a wildlife biologist and he approves this method, so take it as you will.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

Turtle Stick™