Chronically ill little creachure

I'm here, I'm queer, joint pain moderate to severe. I can't walk unassisted. I still run better than society at large.

[sarafangirlart]

Zeus whenever Hera leaves him

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[ailurinae]

[wizardjail]

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

[cruxiu]

A visual physics lesson at 80 km/h.

Enthusiasts launched a man from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the car was traveling.

The experiment spectacularly showed how relative speed works

[the-haiku-bot]

The experiment

spectacularly showed how

relative speed works

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

[piratea02]

Would that thing "moving" backwards feel like getting hit by a truck?

[hmantegazzi]

Not so much, but only because it needs to accelerate first, so it's not a sudden change from relative zero to relative 80 km/h, and because the person riding it is located and in contact with the ejector seat in a way that reduces the impact of the acceleration.

[ralfmaximus]

Mythbusters did it more safely, with a soccer ball.

[almyranpine]

really good tiktok

[yugsly]

Drew how I imagine the surgery I'm getting soon will go

[yugsly]

The hospital called a couple days ago like "hey we still have your organ do you want it?" Apparently it was just in the back of one of their fridges. And now it's in a mason jar on my coffee table. Lol

[sarafangirlart]

While not accurate, this is actually a tasteful and interesting way to give Hera agency in breastfeeding Heracles, it doesn’t go against any of these figures characterization in mythology.

[useless-chaotic-bitch]

Chapter 2 of Mother and Son is out!

Here is a little summary and the link to it!

***

“Oh, of course.” she says, a sharp, humorless sound breaking from her. “Of course he isn’t. How could he be? Not when your other children were so—what? So perfect?”

Zeus flinches, just slightly.

It is enough.

“You’ve had sons before.” she continues, her voice rising, emotion breaking fully through now. “Strong ones. Whole ones. Ones you did not have to prepare for.”

“Hera—”

“So what is this?” she demands, the question breaking free fully now, raw and unfiltered. “A mistake? An inconvenience? Something that doesn’t fit cleanly into the image you prefer?”

***

Or:

Careful distance between them builds. Hera spirals even more. The tension between them finally bursts into an argument. Hidden thoughts are discussed at last, to a degree but still.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[perfect-jerry-blossom]

i genuinely can't fucking deal with the larger internet anymore holy shit what the fuck are you people TALKING about. i am at my limit with this stupid bullshit. who the fuck cares if a man is hired to draw medical diagrams for young girls jesus christ we're pearl clutching about medical illustrations now? next you're gonna tell me male pediatricians shouldn't advise parents on their kids' vulva issues? male surgeons shouldn't be in the room when performing a procedure where a woman's breasts or vulva might be exposed? male researchers shouldn't conduct gynecological medical research? sure. better for men to live in ignorance and NEVER ally themselves with us to expand access to sexual education and reproductive healthcare i fucking guess. Twenty thousand likes. i hate it here KILL ME

[perfect-jerry-blossom]

THIS is the post that got me my first ever anon hate. i'd like to thank the academy tbh

also not related but can ppl on this post being like "yeah STOP being mean to men!!" pls stop cuz that's not the point of what i was saying 💀 i'm not mad bc someone was mean to a man i'm mad bc feminism is being hijacked by bioessentialist conservative Christian moralist bullshit where the goal seems to be the complete and total segregation of women from men instead of like, the material improvement of women's lives. i don't care if some intsta commenter is mean to men i care that feminism is culturally turning into Nu Conservatism

[pointlesscandies]

| Life in Smokey Blue

An important thing to try and remember

[the-big-mood]

Brazil Dog Dance (2016)

[sycamorality]

"why is the character like that" >look inside character >it's the author's subconscious attempt to love themself

[sycamorality]

this is meant positively by the way. sometimes you love the character so much you end up putting a piece of yourself in it to learn how it is to love yourself without realising and thats ok.

[suchprettypieces]

Truly, I believe this.

[arsenicapplecore]

Obsessed with these two but also so many others.

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[aralintheobsessive]

getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?

[valtsv]

this is like basic foundational misogyny 101 but the fact that it's almost unconsciously ingrained to consider trousers a more "practical" alternative to skirts across the majority of human cultures does make me feel a little kicked in the head. this isn't even anything against pants, or denying that sometimes they are the best suited garment for purpose, it's just that skirts are nearly always unfairly compared as the a frivolous option, even though they're functionally not dissimilar at all. they're comfortable, capable of being tailored to suit a variety of purposes both aesthetic and functional, and simply what some people prefer. and yet, because they're so strongly tied to women and femininity, they're derided. a long skirt is an impediment; shortening a skirt is a sexual act. throughout history humans of all demographics have worn skirts and skirt-like clothing for a variety of purposes, but to wear a skirt in our enlightened modern age is a heavily gendered and politically loaded notion. and we just tolerate living like this. fucking unreal.

[valtsv]

🚬 yeah.

[thoodleoo]

oh so when other people call a baby "cute enough to eat" it's sweet and charming. but when i, cronus,

[chase-solidago]

thinking about what is and what isn't allowed in frame with reference ecosystems in prairie restoration

[ariel-s-awesome]

Explanation from OP in the replies

restoration ecology tends to want to restore to a past state of an ecosystem, but magically that past state never involved people! Harvest, reciprocity, etc are all ignored because we pretend there's such a thing as prairie without people. Turns out, that imagined prairie never existed, there were always people here and there should people involved in restored prairie too!