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zzz ... stan poison ivy. he/they/she soft genderfluid autistic demi-aro/ace, lesbian, parent to a cute 10 years old Bunny and to a 1 year old black kitty

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I’ve hear about how having cats makes you immune to hauntings, ghosts, spooky midnight noises etc but. for years I’ve been dealing with a panic response to unexpected nighttime noises, major enough that the adrenaline can keep me from falling back asleep for hours.

A few weeks of living with a cat and my brain’s been reprogrammed. last night at 4am the furry little shitmuppet broke a vase & I only woke up long enough to call her a rat bastard & roll over back to sleep

[phinarei]

Oh shit. This totally made me realize that it must have been my cat that killed my fear of the dark. I used to be intensely scared of walking into dark spaces. Hated any area where I had to turn a light off before I could turn another one on.

Enter my mostly black demon who likes to jump out of dark spaces at me.

Now I can just walk through dark rooms with no anxiety. I’m now used to the darkness taking physical form and jumping at me. At this point if a monster did jump out of the darkness I’d instinctively reach for the cat treats to offer it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

holy crap what other fears do cats make you immune to?

I’m no longer scared to dangle my foot over the bed bc of demons with sharp claws & glowing eyes, i’m scared to dangle my foot over the bed bc of one specific small furry demon with sharp claws & glowing eyes

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#fuck off beelzebub my cat has dibs

[so-i-did-this-thing]

My cats are legit part of my grounding strategy for when I have sleep hallucinations. As part of my sleep paralysis, I “see” corpses in the bed next to me on a frequent basis, or shadow men lurking in the doorway; if there is a cat blissfully, softly snoring at the foot of the bed, I know I am safe, despite what my brain is trying to conjure.

[notsafevorework]

the sound of my door opening slowly, but theres no one there. my cat. somethings clawing at the walls, glass or window screens, cats. somethings fucking licking my toe in the middle of the night, my fucking cat again. nothing can hurt me its all cat

[vicshush]

Unearthly noise? Cat.

Movement out of the corner of your eye? Cat.

Objects moved? Cat.

Inexplicable smells? Cat.

Corpses (small)? Cat.

Ectoplasm right in middle of the room, which you won’t notice till you step in it? Cat.

[jenroses]

Do cats make the ghosts go away? Nah. They just make you stop being scared.

[the-haiku-bot]

Do cats make the ghosts

go away? Nah. They just make

you stop being scared.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[somanyfandomsonly1username]

My cats got rid of my fear, not because I assume every noise I hear is from them, but rather if my OCD is telling me not to look outside because someones out their waiting for me to see them so they can kill me, I know they aren’t actually there because my cats aren’t reacting.

Until they do some stupid shit like staring at my vent for 2-3 hours without moving at all for seemingly no reason what so ever

[sp0re-speaks]

[sentientsky]

repeating this to myself forever and ever

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

Ce putain de mémoire

[hersurvival]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

weighted blanket's not enough i need to be compressed by a hydraulic press

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this website gets me

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[thecryptkeeper]

sundays are like oh you did laundry great do you ever think about how youre gonna die. also work is tomorrow.

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

Fucking real and looking at sky like you have an eternity to live but also less than 3 minutes before you go to work but no realy

[naga-noia]

as a person under the agender/nonbinary umbrella I actually think the recently increased focus on a nonbinary person’s agab is insanely fucking uncomfortable and blatantly exorsexist. Stop trying to sort NB people into boxes of amab vs afab, transfem vs transmasc, tma vs tme, etc etc. It is not praxis or activism to keep attempting to binarize people whose entire identities are built around the fact that they DO NOT ADHERE to a binary. You are just being a fucking tar pit #sorry

[supermariosunshine2002]

tma and tme are to describe one's relationship to transmisogyny. it's similar to describing a relationship to anti-blackness by "creating a binary" of black and non-black (which includes white people, latino people, asian people, etc). tme includes anyone who is not transfeminized (such as cis men, cis women, trans men, etc). just because there are two categories of something doesn't mean you're getting forced into a gender binary. ignoring your relationship to transmisogyny by refusing to understand what tme/tma means is exactly the same as ignoring your relationship to anti-blackness by saying "i dont see color", because sure, you can ignore that there's a structural & systemic issue regarding a specific demographic, but it doesn't mean its not there!

[naga-noia]

nigga did your white ass really just come onto a black person’s post to try and lecture them about not knowing their own relationship to antiblackness

number one check yourself. Number two comparing TMA/TME to anti-Blackness is a false dichotomy and I need white queer people to stop trying to compare themselves to Black people every single chance they get. oh my god

The two are NOT similar. If you really wanna play the game of equating race and gender, then the equivalent to “Black and nonblack” would be transfem/trans woman and non-transfem/trans woman, not TMA/TME. I can assure you that NO black person is going around saying “antiblack racism affected vs antiblack racism exempt.” Because That Is Stupid.

EVERYONE is affected by antiblackness, because of how deeply it’s ingrained into our entire societal structure. You cannot write off specific demographics as not being affected by certain forms of oppression or discrimination, because the nature of living in a white supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy is that ALL of these systems are INTRINSICALLY connected with each other, and affect EVERYONE to some degree. There are countless historical examples of antiblack legislation directly impacting poor communities of other racial groups- including white people. There are primary targets of discrimination, obviously, but nobody is truly “exempt” from any sort of oppressive system unless they are at the VERY top of the damn food chain.

In the same vein, the intersection of transphobia and misogyny is ALSO deeply ingrained into our society. And because of that, nobody is truly “transmisogyny-exempt.” Even people who aren’t the primary targets are still directly impacted and negatively affected by transmisogynistic systems. I find TMA/TME to be useless in terms of categorization because it directly posits that everyone who gets sorted into the latter group just doesn’t experience any oppression or discrimination derived from transmisogynistic bases at all, which is ridiculous, because that happens All the time.

A trans man or enby who’s mistaken for a trans woman and is assaulted for it, a cis man who’s belittled and attacked on the basis of being Too Feminine, a cis woman who’s publicly shamed, derided, and transvestigated for having testosterone levels that are “too high,” are all examples of non-transfem/trans woman groups being negatively affected on the basis of transmisogyny.

Poor white people being affected by legislation meant to target and attack Black populations and the massive trend of colorism throughout Asian communities are examples of nonblack groups being negatively affected on the basis of antiblackness.

You cannot sort people by what oppression they do and do not face, and attempts to do so are inherently exclusionary and are bound to lead back into denying people of their lived experiences, just because they don’t line up perfectly into these specific categories of “this genre of person goes through this” vs “this genre of person doesn’t go through that.”

I believe that TMA/TME was coined with the best intentions, but the problem is that it’s a clumsy dichotomy and the way a lot of people tend to use it ends up leading back into the same issues of being binary (“amab trans people experience this, afab trans people don’t experience that”) and then THAT leads back into a whole heaping mess in and of itself

Talking about the way transfeminized people are targeted by transmisogyny is not a bad thing in and of itself! But like, you can just say transfem/non-transfem- or even just “transfeminized” to describe the position oppressors will often place people into in order to enact transmisogynistic violence against them- instead of directly trying to state what different groups of people Do And Don’t Experience. you can say “primary targets of transmisogyny” without directly implying that certain groups are exempt from it all together.

THAT is my issue at hand when it comes to TMA/TME. It is an awkward framework to describe oppression, because oppression doesn’t work like that in reality

[i-am-a-fish]

I think if we all start posting nipples at once they won't be able to stop all of us. and by they I don't just mean tumblr staff I'm referring to the entire world. I think the nipple is a very destigmatizable body part and I expect/demand it to be a normal thing within my lifetime. the fear of nipples is so weird and archaic, it's a body part dude

[horsefigureoftheday]

Nova's tips for beating the heatwave:

1. Check that you have good access to shade trees, a shelter custom made to fit you and all your friends, and plenty of good airflow

2. Find the hottest, sunniest, and least windy part of you pasture and lay down

3. Make sure you look as much as possible like you have died of heatstroke

4. Get your friends in on it

[zooming-glass]

Dragons are winged quadrupeds, with a pair of wings directly above their forelegs

While we often look to creatures like birds and bats to inspire their wing anatomy, perhaps it would make sense to look at animals that actually have this wing-over-leg anatomy:

Insects have their wings and legs on the same segment, with the wings usually directly above the legs

Their wings (at least in larger and more primitive insects) are powered by muscles in the middle of their thorax, with an inner pair of muscles to pull the wing up and an outer pair of muscles to provide the downstroke

This could be adapted onto a draconic form by treating the dragon's tetrapodal ribcage as an insectoid thorax. The wings could be usual avioid wings, but with pterosaur-like shoulders that are jointed with the spine. The humerus extends beyond the capitellum and into the thoracic cavity through a 'gap' between the usual foreleg-shoulder muscles. Inside the ribcage are the inner flight muscles, which span from the inside of the sternum to the inner ends of the humerus. The outer flight muscles, which provide the actual downstroke, would be attached to the ribs (from inside the ribcage) at their proximal end and to the extrathoracic part of the humerus distally; the tendon for these muscles would go through the same 'gap' as the humeral extension. There could also be a few control muscles within the ribcage to allow for the wings to be controlled/folded/etc.

This anatomy would allow for a realistic musculoskeletal explanation for the usual 'quadruped with wings plopped on the back' type of dragon, which is quite nice

There are of course some issues to solve; namely, the thoracic organs. The heart would probably fit nearer the top of the ribcage behind the inner flight muscles and real insects already have their gullet running through their thorax, but the lungs would be a real problem. Most advanced tetrapods have pretty large lungs, and the few that don't have other respiratory organs that are pretty large themselves. Furthermore it'd be hard to have proper breathing structures right next to the flight muscles like that

There are some reasonable ways to get around this, though:-

If you're doing a full insect-dragon, it'd make sense to give them an insectoid tracheal system too

If it has a snake-like neck, then it could have a full serpentine lung in that neck. Perhaps you could also have a lung in the tail, connected to the anus/cloaca like how some turtles have gills in their rear

Otherwise, the best solution would be some variety of fish gills in the throat that are adapted for air-breathing (e.g. lower surface area, more support)

Or just magically air-pumping bird lungs or something in the spare space of the ribcage; it's a dragon after all

[radiation]

What shall i draw with my tools

[radiation]

Pharrell

[mimihime]

It Mightt Seem Crazy What Im Bout To Say..

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

I cant go to university, anxiety so bad that i might need my powerful purple power

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

Anxiety task : bad drawing to prove to my sick system that i can survive even if not everything is in order

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

I cant go to university, anxiety so bad that i might need my powerful purple power

[sillylittlespam]

a llama?? HE’S SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

Un lama ?! Mais il devrait être mort !

[deinonychian]

when you’re a dragon every problem looks like a car

[elainiisms]

non sexual intimacy!!!! bathing together, washing each other, playing with each other's hair, kissing every inch of their body, writing love letters on their back with your finger, connecting their moles and freckles to create constellations on their skin, running your hands up and down their thighs, ugh just expressing physical love without it having to be about sex!!!!

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

Louder plz

[timberlakelove-blog-blog]

[maydaytrippe]

last day to reblog

[kim-kardassian-blog]

you now you want to.

Gonna have to wait a whole year if you miss this.

[paulwalkersdogwalker]

Fine

[pegazzz-the-good-peasant]

I love fucking May but i dont like people who are born in May. They may not come to your cat birthday or worse maybe they maygth not bring cake. They are so insufferable, they may be such troublesome. And they also can be named May. Wich i found to be a pretty name maybe a human born in May may be named May.