Rowena's Reblogs

Just lots of stuff

[everyday-cutephoto]

[monamoni]

🔥Bloody-belly comb jelly with glowing prey inside

Video: MBARI

Many of the deep-sea animals the bloody-belly comb jelly preys upon can bioluminesce, or create their own light. The translucent predator needs to conceal its stomach—or risk its most recent meal lighting it up from the inside out and alerting potential predators to its whereabouts. Red is nearly invisible in the deep sea, so the vibrant crimson that gives this comb jelly its name is actually helping it hide from its predators. The blood-red stomach disguises the glowing prey inside.

Bloody-belly comb jellies are ctenophores, not true jellies. Like other comb jellies, they navigate through the water by beating their shimmering, hair-like cilia.

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[cheaphalloweencostume]

also we have GOT to collectively come to terms with the fact that me or any other stranger online disliking or even making fun of something you like is not saying “no fun allowed” “no one can ever enjoy this” you have simply got to grow a spine and be able to like the shit you like. you don’t even have to defend it! like 90% of the media i really enjoy is divisive and half my friends actively hate it. i really don’t give a fuck though because i like it. you can write whatever you want! you’re allowed! even if it’s MY least favorite genre or style of writing and i have active distaste for it!

[thememedaddy]

[roycohn]

happy donna sheridan unprotected sex day (1/3), everybody!!!

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.

[ruinedchildhood]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Reblog to save a duck

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

Quack quack

[ijustgotherebro]

It’s getting to be that time of year where more people are going outside to parks and stuff so i thought it would a good idea to reblog this again

[theofficialvincenzo]

Once I was feeding some ducks from a bag of birdseed I brought with me, and this woman next to me looked so confused and asked what I was feeding them

When I said it was birdseed she just went “oh- can they actually eat that? Is that safe?”

I didnt know how to respond like, at all, so I just pointed at the duck and said “bird”

She then had a look on her face like a new groove was just forcibly carved in her brain and said softly “oh my fucking god”

[puppygirllaika]

so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.

[puppygirllaika]

"frequent use of action-result sentences. bullet points all start with action verbs. no career gaps." girl what the fuck are you talking about. that's just resume writing advice being followed. i just did what i was told. it's a fucking resume. you're supposed to do all that stuff. what the fuck do you mean it looks ai generated and wouldn't pass basic detection systems?????????? for following the resume writing rules????????????

[puppygirllaika]

wishing every AI bro and ceo a very [REDACTED]

[byjove]

A large part of the reason families were bigger in the past was because marital rape was not considered rape and birth control/abortion methods were ineffective, dangerous and/or illegal. We can dance around this and act like our great great great grandmothers just loveddddd being mamas so much that they decided out of their own free will to have 11 children. We can pretend that they DECIDED to have big families because it was a financially advantageous decision so they could have more labor around the farm. But a lot of children in the past were fundamentally unwanted and not conceived out of love, children were not a choice women got to make. We need to admit that and stop pretending historical women were inherently more maternal because they were impregnated at the age of 15 and kept having babies until they were 40. That did not make them loving mothers, it did not make them ‘the divine feminine’ and it sure did not make them happy.

[daciancatamite]

"you couldnt make seinfeld today" you couldve made seinfeld in 45 B.C.

[daciancatamite]

kramer: *barges in* *crowd cheering* jerry! caesar just made himself dictator perpetuo!

[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)

[tlbodine]

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

[flagellant]

[dogpuppy]

He is my princess diana

[mrspizzle]

I’m actually fucking dying

[3rd-r8-watrbendr]

[fitnessadvicethatfitsinyourlife]

“Fitness” “anti-fatphobia” the math ain’t mathing chief

Are you encouraging people to be “healthy” or do you think everyone is beautiful the way they are?

Everyone knows fitness is a fatphobic tool of facism

I'm gonna link this ask where I've addressed all of this before and I'm also going to explain all the points of faulty logic here:

It you think fitness and fatness are mutually exclusive, congratulations, you have internalized a very fatphobic myth. Building muscle, improving flexibility and endurance, consuming more nutrients, prioritizing hydration and quality rest are fitness habits that can improve our quality of life. They have nothing to do with our weight and any person at any size could pursue these habits, without pursuing weight loss.

I do not care what you look like. I am not concerned with beauty, that is subjective to begin with. Only you get to decide if you're beautiful and it has absolutely nothing to do with your fitness level.

I am concerned with demystifying fitness and making it accessible to anyone who wants to pursue it. I want to decouple fitness from vanity.

Having a strong core is valuable. Having visibly defined ab muscles is not. I want to shift the zeitgeist so that fitness is not seen as a tool of aesthetic modification, but as a tool of functionality.

I am chronically ill. I will never be "healthy" but pursuing fitness has improved my chronic pain dramatically, improved my balance (which is a big deal given than I am dyspraxic) helps regulate my mental state, and so, so much more. It also helped me gain weight, despite the fact that my Crohn's disease makes putting on weight extremely hard for me.

The truth is fascists would love if we all abandoned fitness. They would love to rule over a weak populace that has no ability to fight back. But fitness isn't their tool.

They've done everything they can to poison the well around fitness and make it as inaccessible to the working class as possible. I want to undo all of that. I want fitness to be a tool of the people as it originally was.

Please destroy the idea that being fit means pursuing thinness. It does not. Please also remember that fitness is just a hobby. You don't have to pursue it if you don't want to. Lots of hobbies provide benefits but that doesn't mean it's a moral imperative that you pursue them.

It's just an option. One that's currently shrouded in myths that I want to destroy. That's what I'm here for. To teach people, who want to learn, how to pursue fitness, not weight loss, in ways that accommodate their level, their interests, and their goals. And I'm here to remind people like you that when you position fitness as antithetical to fatness, you are perpetuating fatphobia, not fighting it.

You can be thin and unfit. You can be fat and fit. Weight has literally nothing to do with it at all.

[thefaultinourchickennuggets]

the bad thing about having unhealthy habits due to mental illness, is when you DO do something healthy style you can't brag about about it because then people will then know you've been doing it yucky style all along. Like you can't brag you changed your sheets or brushed your teeth because then ppl will be like oh did you not brush your teeth regularly before? Thats yucky disgusting! So you just gotta keep it to yourself. And be proud alone, I suppose.

[nymphpriestessvalkyrie]

No romance is “forced love,” that is not a thing.

But so many of the most beloved romance tropes are some kind of version of “forced PROXIMITY.”

Fated mates

Marriage of convenience

Fake dating

Best friend’s sibling

Only one bed

Snowed in

Accidental pregnancy

The story is “stick two characters in an inescapable situation together and watch as they fall in love despite and because of it.” The whole POINT of the book is to watch what happens BECAUSE two people had to figure out a way of coexisting.

The set up is not the ending. But the set up is enjoyed by the audience. We like the tension. We like drama. We don’t want “they met, nothing happened, they fell in love, the end.”

Fated mates is just a magical “forced to work on a group project together and they must pass the class.” The love between mates is NEVER forced. It is always the thing that develops because the bond forces them into proximity. Mates always choose each other.

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

"well you see when I copied that passage word for word it was an honest mistake due to my bad memory" is not a new excuse btw

From The Cassandra Clare Plagiarism Debacle, Part V

nor is "but I thought citing it as 'inspiration' would be enough!"

From The Cassandra Clare Plagiarism Debacle, Part XI

[ferallentil]

applies to all fandoms in the present too