At last. Alas,

fen. they/them. late 20s. queer

[soundoftheirwings]

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

[maldemer]

i hope you live a long and happy life

[mousegirlheart]

um actually there's nothing wrong with letting cats be outdoor pets. your cat is depressed locked inside forever. it's animal abuse. let it outside. more cats should be let outside more often. especially overnight.

[onenicebugperday]

Yellow leatherleaf slug, Vaginulus taunaisii, Veronicellidae

Photographed in Brazil by rogerriodias

[bestiolin]

maarten inghels

[animate-mush]

@sherbertilluminated there's a line somewhere in Ursula Vernon's Digger that goes something like "it is difficult to be metaphysical around the truly geologically minded"

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[blushiscool]

Grape Earrings at Yuhan Wang’s MA Central Saint Martins graduate collection

[ambidisastrous]

People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.

CEOs and politicians, every time: Well i just saw it go right twice in a row which means the normal system which you say works 90% of the time actually works 100% of the time. We’re cutting the team down to one person pulling 18 hour shifts without breaks

[cipheramnesia]

If they even wait to see if it works once, it's lucky. If they care whether it works, it's astonishing. If they know how it works, it's fiction.

[pierogiy]

Caught Up On My Stories BTW. Handling It

[vultures-nest]

im studying histology and i just like the little guys that work so hard to keep our organisms up and running

[spiny-ant]

My favorite thing about bugs is there will always be one you've never seen before

[amuseoffyre]

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

[snototter]

A pair of Coleman's shrimp (Pereclimenes colemani) in Batangas, Phillippines

by Robin Gwen Agarwal

[rambrandt-the-painter]

I keep thinking about harpies

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Humpback whales singing off the leeward coast of O’ahu

(sound on 🔉)

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

<— to answer these tags on main, since it’s a fun question, our guide lowered a hydrophone and so my phone is leaning on the railing right next to the hydrophone

[hawkpartys]

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) observation by eleggua

happy pride

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.