Legit idk about the rest of yall but the tagging on tumblr has gotten so atrocious nowadays, like if I search x reader you would think that there'd be mostly x reader posts and a few outliers right? Nah its legit just memes or random shit about the character that isnt relevant. Im not expecting it to be ao3 level but at this point ive started blocking everyone that posts memes under their x readers or incorrect quotes. Still doesnt help but alas, is anyone else having this same issue or?
[ID: The first is an image of Canada and Mexico with the United States edited out that reads "Oh thank god it was just a dream". The second image is an image of North America with all lands labelled with the names of the tribes living on them that reads "Oh thank god it was just a dream".]
fun behaviors to give dragons that aren't feline/canine based
cause as much as i love dragons purring and roaring i wish there was just more variety in how they would act
clacking their teeth together to show contentedness/happiness (budgies)
using tails as a defensive weapon in a whip like fashion (iguana)
twitching to express that they're not a threat to members of their species (hognose snake)
feeling calm when eyes are hooded/covered (birds of prey)
head bobbing as a threat display (anoles/bearded dragons)
flattening neck or sides to appear bigger (snakes/lizards)
mantling over food to protect it from hatchmates (birds of prey)
wiggling neck as a courting maneuver (budgies)
audibly grinding teeth as a warning (macaques)
maintained eye contact as a challenge (gorillas)
pounding wings against sides as a threat (gorillas)
slapping other dragons with their claws when their personal bubble is invaded (seals)
hoards used as a site to impress mates (birds of paradise)
snorting when undergoing heightened stress (horses)
making repeated loud noises with surroundings to establish territory (woodpeckers)
loud constant arguments with other dragons when roosting (bats)
building lairs that cause a domino effect of change in the land around them (beavers)
slapping their tails against the ground/water as a warning (beavers)
wiggling tail tip to attract prey (various animals)
wiggling tail tip as a warning (snakes)
plucking or scraping off scales as a sign of stress (parrots)
raising spines/frills as a response to danger and carrying on with their usual business as they believe they're protected (lionfish)
and im not saying canine and feline behaviors are wrong or bad to give a dragon (people wouldn't write dragons with those behaviors if they weren't fun in the first place!) but i feel for creatures that are mythological giant winged lizards that you can do more and get experimental with it. often the more unfamiliar behavior the more dragony the dragon feels
summary: there's an competitor around, and the boys will make sure to let them know who's worthy of your heart.
with: inarizaki team (atsumu, osamu, aran, suna and kita)
n/a: better bring an ice bag for kai. boy's not in a good situation.
â miya atsumu: the show off
Itâs unusual for Atsumu to feel insecure. He comprehends how handsome, talented, funny (his brother would disagree) and charming he is,which explains how he became so popular in school. Heck, he even discovered not long ago that he has a fanclub going on online. Based on those facts, itâd be foolish for some boy to try to compete with him. However, thatâs not enough to make Kai, one of your classmates, give up on you. And that surely does a good job on getting on the blondeâs nerves, but heâs not a quitter, especially with something â better yet, someone â heâs been wishing for quite a while.Â
So, Atsumu uses his best weapon against the enemy: he shows off.
Seriously, that boy looks like a peacock, displaying all of his best features and abilities whenever youâre around, making sure that Kai also gets the hint. He praises you in every opportunity he finds, helps you carry your stuff, gives you sweets and snacks, and even tries to impress you with his physique, either by carrying something heavy, or randomly stretching his body or flexing his biceps.Â
But the moment he shines is surely on his volleyball matches. This boy overflows with confidence, making the court his stage to glow, and winning not only the game but a sweet peck of your lips on his cheek, congratulating his win. He gives you a beaming smile, taking a second to cheekily wink at his opponentâs direction, before returning his gaze to the real prize. âIt was all for ya, babe.â
â miya osamu: the competitive
Osamuâs also very assured of himself, aware of his many qualities (his brother would disagree), but when he notices that someone wants what he wants, a key turns inside his brain and he becomes seriously competitive. With his grades, physique, food, even his own Ma became a victim of his impulsive behavior â he couldnât back down though, or Atsumu would be the favorite. Itâs not a surprise that youâd also be included on that list, being his crush for almost a year.Â
To prove that heâs the best, he likes to challenge his opponents first. It can be anything, he might even let the person decide, but the rules remain the same: no cheating, and whoever loses must back off immediately. He canât say he doesnât feel a certain nervousness when he does those challenges; but when he compromises with something, you better be sure he goes to win. Heâll make sure of that.
And since Kaiâs dumber than he looks like, it wasnât a hard task to make the boy fall into his trap. After all, Osamu has a secret skill that most boys his age don't think it's important to get.
 âI know what you're trying with ______.â Osamu counters, having found the boy alone in the locker room after PE. Kai rolls his eyes at him, finishing drying his hair. âAnd whatâre you gonna do about it ? I ainât afraid of you, Miya.â
âReally?â He approaches his adversary, starting to size him with an unwavering stare. âThen ya must know she loves some homemade cookies. âwas thinkinâ of baking her some this week.â He gives him the best smirk he has. âYou're not afraid of that, are ya?â
â aran ojiro: the intimidator
Aran is a lovely boy. Seriously, he has such good manners, so friendly and respectful with others, that you wish all the boys could have the same attitude. He knows that, and thatâs just his personality; what he noticed though, is that many guys get intimidated by him, mostly because of his size and tone of voice. It was weird to acknowledge that in the beginning, but now he enjoys the respect he gained from that.
When he realized that some nidiot was trying to win you over, he thought: why not use that, then?
Donât misunderstand, Aran doesnât approve of bullying at all, and he would lift a hand to someone if it wasnât necessary. But maybe, you know, a simple warning might convince the boy to give up. It doesnât hurt trying.
âHey, Kai!â Aran finds the boy eating at a table in the cafeteria, and without waiting to be invited, he sits down right next to him, placing his chair very close his. âHow'ya doing man? Good? Great, listen up.â He puts one huge hand on the boyâs back, while giving him a too-friendly smile. âI like _____. But I saw you trying to ask her out yesterday. You see, itâs really hard to date a girl if someone elseâs on the way, so can you do me a favor? Stay away from her.â Low and clear, Aranâs voice sends chills over the poor boyâs body. Then he grins, smacking Kaiâs back like long-time friends. âThanks, bud!â
â suna rintaro: the cunning
Sunaâs really clever. He knows how to be patient enough to turn any situation in his favor: for example, winning you over. He doesnât know how long it will take, or how many steps and casualties his plan might have, but everything he does is solemnly meant to make you fall in love with him, little by little.It doesnât matter if a stone called Kai gets in the way: he knows how to handle it.
No man is perfect, so all he needed to do was find a flaw in his opponent. It could be the most silly thing, but if it made Kaiâs reputation fall just a tad, itâd become a jewel in Sunaâs hands.
And after a few days of observing his opponent, Suna found out that dear Kai is a womanizer. Heck, he didn't even try to hide the fact that heâs been hitting on almost all of the girls in his class, which made Suna very pleased, being able to record him charming a girl in good sound and details.With all the evidence, Suna makes his master move, revealing the whole truth to you.
âItâs okay, ______.â And there he is, cradling you in his arms and caressing your hair gently, comforting you after you saw the video. âThereâs a lot of guys like him here. But donât worry, Iâll make sure that none of them come your way, if you let meâ His smile grows when he receives your grateful words, feeling you melt into his arms like you meant to do. âYouâre welcome, sweetheart. Iâll always be here for you.â
â kita shinsuke: the modest
Shinsukeâs so secure. It doesnât matter if the guy whoâs trying to win you over is the most popular, handsome, or intelligent man in the country. No one can change the fact that Kita knows you, the true you, and he knows that youâre perfect for each other, even with the differences that some might point out. You have what he admires, and he surely has admirable traits to convince you.Â
So all he does is treat you normally. Except that Kitaâs normal is a very high level of manners and care that many boys in high school donât even dream of having, including his opponent.Â
After all, it is rare to find a boy whoâll willingly bring you your favorite warm drink before class on the cold days, or help you study on the library so you can do well on tests, or walk with you to the bus stop on the way home just to make sure that youâre safe, or even send texts and paper notes reaffirming how special and capable you are.
And you found Shinsuke, who does all of that, and so much more just to see you well. Is there really anyone who can compete with him? He doesnât think so.
immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand
jessica rabbit is literally a sex symbol though she can't be asexual?
she is in romo with a rabbit because he makes her laugh and aside from using her looks to get things out of people she literally never once shows interest in anything or anyone sexually through the entire movie and is clearly appalled when anyone makes advances towards her like there is canonical evidence that jessica rabbit from the classic motion picture who framed rogger rabbit is an asexual character Â
Iâve always remembered the line âIâm not bad, Iâm just drawn that wayâ as Jessicaâs admission that while sexualized, she isnât inherently a sexual entity.
I mean hell, literally, her line before is âYou donât know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.â, to which Eddie responds; âYou donât know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.â
I think thatâs pretty damning evidence to her asexuality. The whole plot point with Jessica is how everyone is either convinced sheâs sleeping with every human and toon around, or why does she stay faithful to Roger.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit does a great job at satirizing Hollywood/American culture and ideals when it comes to appearances. It also does a great job at hiding some really well thought out challenges to how we look at others in plain sight.
I completely believe that Jessica Rabbit is an asexual romantic (hetero/bi/pan/etc not sure, and to be honest, I donât know if that part is important, as sheâs married to the toon she loves).
Just wondering why you hate Israel so much. Do you not think Israel has the right to exist?
Youâre wondering why I hate a settler-colonial state that is ethnically cleansing a group of people through violence and a racist legal system? Would you like me to apologize for not being ethically/morally bankrupt? Would you like to ask me why Iâm against war crimes and human right violations too?
"Does Israel have the right to exist?â is an intentionally vague and tricky question. The full question is:
âDoes Israel have the right to exist at the cost of Palestinian livesâ and the answer is NO
Israel does not have the right to ethnic cleansing, settler-colonial displacement, discriminatory legislation, human rights violations, and war crimes.
Every person on this planet is one accident away from becoming disabled. Every person on this planet will become disabled if they live long enough. You are not an exception. Neither are your loved ones.
If you feel like disability rights arenât relevant to you, remember that the only thing standing between you and being disabled is time.Â
Women should NOT be forced to feed their babies in a bathroom, all because we live in a misogynistic, porn-warped society thatâs been brainwashed to believe that female breasts used for anything other than male pleasure is âindecentâ. Support public breast feeding and end the porn culture.
No. Iâm eating. I donât wanna see you hang out your goddamn tits while I have food. My kids donât wanna see it. Itâs not some misogynistic ideal, itâs fucking public indecency. Can I take my cock out under the table and feed my wife/girlfriend?
No?
Fuck you
i genuinely cannot believe that you just compared a blowjob to breastfeeding oh my fucking godÂ
getting a blowjob is a sexual thing and it also does not âfeedâ anyone whereas breastfeeding is literally not even a sexual thing a baby is having food that they need to live like itâs nowhere near on the same level as getting a blowjob omg
if you are uncomfortable seeing a woman breastfeeding then that is your problem because you have oversexualised breasts so much that you canât even stand seeing them being used for their actual purpose and also youâre an idiot
go eat your dinner in a public bathroom, you trash bag
1.) Breasts as sexual fetishes is a (largely Western) cultural construction. Yes, itâs a fetish â anything you are sexually attracted to that is not the genitals of an adult is a fetish, or paraphilia. My professors have met non-Westerners who think our men are âlike babiesâ because they are attracted to breasts.
Breasts â genitals. Scientifically, they are considered secondary sexual characteristics â same category as facial hair. They can be sexual in a sexual context, just as necks and feet can be. But their primary purpose is reproductive.
2.) Breastmilk is not a âbodily fluid.â It is FOOD.
It is not categorized by the CDC as a biohazard, and so no you donât need to freak out if your coworker wants to store her milk right next to your Lunchables.
MOREOVER,
Breastmilk is not just protein and vitamins. It is a living, dynamic substance that BUILDS HUMANS.
It has hundreds of ingredients (<â actually that list needs to be updated because theyâve discovered more already).
There is a lab at the University of Washington St. Louis, where they have written all of the ingredients of human milk on the wall â They have run out of room on that wall. Among those ingredients:
The exact ratio of protein-sugars-fats that human infants need (cowâs milk doesnât even come close)
Antibodies to pathogens in the babyâs environment (synthesized by the mother within hours of coming into contact with a given pathogen) and other immune factors
Stem cells. FUCKING STEM CELLS. (They used glow-in-the-dark mice to find out what they do!)
Hormones (support growth and regulate behavior)
peptides
Self-digesting fats (what the whaaat)
Growth factors
water, vitamins, minerals, carbs, etc.
prolly other awesome shit we donât even know about yet because weâve barely scratched the surface of this research!
These ingredients change hour-to-hour according to the babyâs needs. It will even add more water on hot/dry days. Fuck, breastmilk kills cancer in a petri dish.
Breastmilk. is. not. a. bodily. fluid. It. is. liquid. gold.
3.) When you tell a woman to go to the bathroom to breastfeed, you are perpetuating the notion that it is dirty and shameful and needs to be hidden away. This idea is the biggest barrier to achieving breastfeeding goals in the United States. Because women feel ashamed, they often stay isolated at home when they should be spending time out and about with friends and family and having, like, a life. This isolation can contribute to postpartum depression.
From the Surgeon Generalâs Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding:
Women may find themselves excluded from social interactions when they are breastfeeding because others are reluctant to be in the same room while they breastfeed. For many women, the feeling of embarrassment restricts their activities and is cited as a reason for choosing to feed supplementary formula or to give up breastfeeding altogether.
And since we have this culture of shame and privacy surrounding breastfeeding, young girls and women donât see it enough to learn what is normal/not and how to do it, so they often give up when they run into problems because they donât realize thereâs an easy fix.
Moreover, an infant needs to be integrated into society in order to develop properly. He/she needs to see faces and hear voices. Isolating them â or throwing a blanket over their head â takes this important component of their development away. It also often annoys them because they are understimulated.
4.) YOU NEED TO SEE IT. Thatâs right, YOU. Even if you are a dude. Maybe you arenât a parent, but you probably have loved ones who are. Or you might become one yourself someday. And if you are American chances are you have no idea how breastfeeding actually works, because you never fucking see it. Itâs messy and complicated, and hard. It used to be a part of everyday life, because there werenât any alternatives â So we learned how to do it by being around it all the time, NBD. The whole sexualization/modesty thing surrounding breasts wasnât a thing until like the mid-20th century. Check out this 1871 drawing of a woman breastfeeding IN FUCKING CHURCH:
Sheâs covered head to toe, in accordance with modesty standards of the time â except for her breast, about which the people around her give zero fucks.
More from the Surgeon General:
In American culture, breasts have often been regarded primarily as sexual objects, while their nurturing function has been downplayed. Although focusing on the sexuality of female breasts is common in the mass media, visual images of breastfeeding are rare, and a mother may never have seen a woman breastfeeding.
Mothers need to see it. Future mothers need to see it. Future fathers need to see it. Family members need to see it. Everybody needs to see it. SO THEY FUCKING GET USED TO IT.
So, no, Iâm not gonna go to the bathroom to feed my kid. If you donât want to see it, then DONâT. FUCKING. LOOK.
Breastfeeding is literally the way humans evolved to feed babies. It should not be seen as something sexual or compared to anything sexual, and far more accommodations should be made for breastfeeding than currently exist.Â
Some companies/locations are adding breastfeeding rooms for their employees who are breastfeeding, but then their coworkers use them for naps, personal calls, or workspaces, then tell the people who actually need the space for its intended function to wait until theyâre done with it, which is painful for the people affected by their inconsideracy. (if the link insertion doesnât work bc tumblr is a dumpster fire here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/09/men-using-lactation-rooms-breastfeeding-at-work )Â
In the US, it was normal until the mid 20th century, when, during the 1950s (because of course it was the 1950s) baby formula became popular and advertising campaigns convinced the US public that breastfeeding was primitive, poison for the baby, and that baby formula was far healthier (my grandmother remembers this information being spread about and told me about this herself).Â
So I'll cut to the chase on this since a lot of people are dying, drowning, and screaming for help in Cagayan and Isabela, Philippines. A lot of them have also been stranded and are standing on their rooftops as we speak.
I'm here to post a collection of donation drives that I've gathered online. If we can't help them physically, we can at least make sure they have monetary assistance, food and clothing once they're evacuated.
This is how Cagayan looks, from recent photos (not mine)
TW: screams and shouts for help
HOW TO HELP
DONATION DRIVES
Please feel free to add on this post for any other ways to help.
For context:
The Philippines has been hit by three consecutive typhoons this month alone: Quinta, Rolly (Goni internationally) and Ulysses. It's been hitting nearly the same areas, which has made them even more vulnerable now that they're still recovering from the previous typhoons. Our mountain ranges couldn't shield us from this due to heavy quarrying and deforestation.
That said, these aren't the only places in need of assistance. But these are the places in urgent need of help. And we're trying to do as best as we can with what little we have.
I'll update this post from time to time for full transparency.
