Came to share, ended up receiving.

Love writing, love reading, love art. I fell for tumblr content and I can't get up. Agender Asexual Biromantic/ Born in 1999/ Catalan https://ko-fi.com/quimerathetraveler

[quimerathetraveler]

Encanteri de trobar les meves etiquetes

[raphalorem]

girl help the brainworms are so bad im making art of my own fic

edit: ok i should've thought of this but here's the fic

[raphalorem]

giving simon wormhole-opening powers so grace can send an instant probe once they're on erid and inflict more psychic damage on the og petrova task force

[cyprozombiegirl]

Remaking this post since I’m pretty sure it got deleted, and a lot of people found it very helpful. This is a medical diagram of before and after bottom surgery for trans femmes.

[finalgirlcock]

this shit is actually life changingly informative to girls who are on the fence abt bottom surgery or scared of getting it

[weaselle]

i like these diagrams to visualize how a sex change is not creating something that isn't there, it's just, like, moving the slider on a set of organs we have in common

[trainsgenderfoxgirl2816]

exactly its one thing in different shapes, and most of this can turned from one to the other with nothing but Hormones and a bit of Surgical intervention to help it along (since the Stem cells arent there anymore)

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[plaguedocboi]

Yeah that’s also something we’re worried about now! Obviously increased CO2 levels in the ocean are well known to cause acidity issues that can literally dissolve some animal’s shells, but this was one of the first times it’s been observed to directly impact lobster hatching rates. I’m pretty sure my boss is or was writing a paper on it because this could be a big problem in the future if they’re really this sensitive to CO2.

Hopefully the levels of CO2 out in the ocean won’t get as high as a contained indoor tank in a crowded building would, but it’s certainly something scientists should be aware of going forward and we’re trying to get the word out!

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[ortut]

Julian Hooper 1. Introduction, 2016 2. Inevitable conclusion, 2016 (Acrylic on linen)

[certified-door-posts]

certified door post

[gargotaire]

[gargotaire]

[blackshvck]

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

[depsidase]

[ghw-archive]

light of Aurora, Anastasia Trusova, acrylic, 2021

[sharrrrknight]

Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-

[mothsatemypoptarts]

Man thats one weird... submarine???

...I think you can tell I gave up on the background

[caitmayart]

Oh no I'm consumed by the Star-cross'd Space Bois

These are from Chaya's Awesome Fic When is a Seed Not a Seed Which yall should run and go start reading now now now statement

[anistarrose]

[ID from alt: picture of a person's glowing blue silhouette leaving their body, with the caption "the leftism leaving people's bodies when you tell them sex is morally neutral." End ID.]

saw too many posts that pissed me off, so here. for all your "alleged leftist saying masturbating is destroying society" needs AND all your "alleged leftist saying having sex is morally necessary to defeat fascism" needs. (please keep image description and/or alt text if you repost)

[anistarrose]

in case it wasn't a clear enough corollary, getting grossed out by sex is also morally neutral. the people who equate "having and enjoying sex" with "fighting fascism," and use "grossed out by sex" as a synonym for "policing what consenting adults do" are also not getting "sex is morally neutral" through their heads, at all. you can be grossed out by something without thinking it's morally wrong or should be illegal; you can be grossed out by sex without it saying anything about your politics. sex repulsion also doesn't need to be "cured" to make anyone a more progressive or accepting person. sometimes sex repulsion Just Is, and it doesn't mean anything other than "yeah i'd like to avoid sex personally, thanks"

the reason i made this post was because i was angry about not being able to find sex positivity posts that didn't either imply sex repulsion is fascist (way too common), or word things poorly in a way that probably wasn't malicious, but made it hard to be sure that that wasn't what they meant. you can be a proud gooner without needing to justify it by saying it's praxis or it's morally necessary, i promise

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.