Corgi of the Moon

Biracial. Cisgender. Woman. Pronouns: she/her. Master of Social Work. Unitarian Universalist. Demi/grey- (bi)sexual. Social Justice Druid. Expect Sailor Moon, Corgis, other shows, feminism, pretty things, nerdy things.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

Just so everyone's aware I will be taking cheap shots at the diet and wellness industry for the entire month of January. Maybe longer. I have set my banner on this hill and somebody's gonna die on it but it won't be me. You keep your resolutions. I'll be going on a rampage.

Eat well, live better, do not allow your nourishment to be dictated by self loathing and psudoscience.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I love how I said I was gonna take cheap shots, and thus far it's all been fairly dense scientific communication. There are a lot of high index citations going around and that's great. But I do feel the need to reassert the aggro part of my new year's resolution.

I threatened orbital ion cannon treatment to whoever's decided to clown on me while I bitch about the diet and wellness industries and I fucking meant it. It goes like this, you're either a rube who's been conned, which makes you stupid AND wrong. or you know you're full of shit and have decided to lie about it anyway which is worse actually.

[miles-obriens-endless-torment]

The trifecta of Guys

[ceasarslegion]

In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"

[ceasarslegion]

You actually sound like more of a racist dickhead when your response to being offered something is to say "no im not allowed to do that, Im white"

[animentality]

[knitmeapony]

Not to mention, they aren't just fine. Thousands of people have post covid complications, including immune system resets that cause them to get sick in other ways, long covid symptoms like fatigue, memory loss, organ damage, and a ton of other things we don't fully understand yet,

And even if they personally got lucky and got a mild case of covid or two, there's every chance that they passed it on to other people and killed or harmed other people.

[thememedaddy]

[kat2107]

Let me tell you a story.

I am an archeologist. I specialize in a somewhat obscure but by no means boring or meaningless Neolithic culture in Germany.

It has a Wikipedia page. A well curated, surprisingly extensive Wiki page that encapsulates all the important information about the culture, including literature references for further research.

One day, we asked Chat GPT about this culture. W were curious which details it would get wrong.

ALL OF THEM, except for the fact that it's a culture in present day Germany.

It didn't even get the chronological time frame wrong and called it a celtic culture.

When we told it it's wrong, it came at us with made up literature sources. Literally made up. It took two well known German archeologist who weren't even active at the same time, added a year - both were already dead - and sold that as source.

And it LITERALLY would only have had to quote Wikipedia to get everything right.

THAT is how unbelievably shitty and wrong all those AIs are.

They are making shit up. They are not sourcing information, they're just slapping words together by their most like relative occurance.

Do not trust ChatGPT or any other so-called AI ever.

[future-crab]

So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:

Absolutely iconic.

[creekfiend]

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar

[storm-of-feathers]

we don't credit rebecca sugar enough for making the episode with the first gay wedding in a kids show extremely plot relevant so it could not be skipped or cut.

[emeraldspiral]

#rebecca sugar has gone on record saying that they knew from the beginning they wanted ruby and sapphire and they put every inch of planning#in to make sure that the studio could not take them out. sugar has said they’d compromised on hundreds of things they’d wanted for steven#so that they had the bargaining power specifically to keep ruby and sapphire’s relationship#and a number of ‘filler’ episodes were created just to establish counter-arguments that might come up when they pitched the wedding episode#the one that comes to mind is the episode about steven and connie getting lost in rose’s room steven’s central conflict about liking their#fave book series’ romantic ending was later weaponised when producer’s were like ‘oh but steven’s a boy he won’t be too interested in them#getting married’ sugar was able to be like ‘no. in this episode it’s established he loves romance and specifically weddings. and in these#episodes it’s shown how much steven cares about ruby and sapphire and their relationship and happiness. you cannot convince me this is not#good and necessary plot development#and they wrapped it up in the season finale and the big climactic point of the diamonds finally coming to attack earth to make the#episode integral to the series no skipping it without confusion. and had ruby wear a wedding dress because international censors took#advantage of her design to give her a masculine va#and sugar made certain that everybody knew This was a queer love story that an entire town supported and admired and that any child watchin#it at home would know they are not alone and that that support is waiting for them out there somewhere#sugar sacrificed the wider story they wanted to tell for that and it was a horrible decision to be given but they made the right choice

[as-intimidating-as-a-butterfly]

“I mean what did you think, really? That a show about nerds and outcasts was gonna have a well-written queer romance? That, in the end, queer love could help save the world?”

Yeah I guess I did. I really did.

[justcatposts]

My 11-month male cat lets my foster kittens nurse on him.

(Source)

[nitewrighter]

[frankierohugejorts]

im sorry these are the funniest tags ive ever seen

[genderhexed]

Sometimes your partner asks you to do a project where you watch and discuss the 18 films Adam Sandler has both written and starred in during his tenure from 1989-2025 and you go a little insane because of it but you also Weird Al some mountain goats lyrics to celebrate finishing and doing the final tier list stream.

anyway, this one's for you, Sand In Unloveable Sand: Into the Sandlerverse. what a wild throughline of 2025. s/o to our loyal fans and especially Oak for the batshit idea because it did break us but it was also pretty fun.

Oh also here's our final tier list for anyone curious:

We will not be taking any notes, these were ranked with definitive highly subjective science and bisexual autistic taste.

[pangur-and-grim]

also omg want some sad news 😞 so in my family there’s like…..a genetic history of going totally white-haired in your twenties. and guess what finally struck me this year

[pangur-and-grim]

what is thilf??? Them I’d Like To Fuck? 

[pangur-and-grim]

what’s a Thranduil?? is this gen z slang?

[pangur-and-grim]

NOOOO NOT THE NICHOLAS CAGE ELF

[pangur-and-grim]

for a solid half second I forgot hair dye was a thing & thought you were saying I could kill myself if I didnt like grey hair

[pangur-and-grim]

ive been informed that the man above is not Nicholas Cage, but in my defence they both have eyebrows

[deepfriedanon]

Are you suggesting most people don’t have eyebrows?

[pangur-and-grim]

please you have to understand

[blanketforcas]

whatever i was gonna say can't possibly be funnier than the mere existence of this draft

[theconcealedweapon]

[missmemorielle]

when i saw this shot i also immediately knew i had to draw this scene as well! <3 (it's a big drawing so zoom in for details <: )

[foolish-mother-ive-already-falln]

STOP SCROLLING!!!

THAT WAS NOT A SCREENSHOT YOU JUST SAW!

THAT WAS A PAINTING!!!

LOOK AGAIN!!!

[fiercestpurpose]

“I very proudly entered the forestry school as an 18-year-old and telling them that the reason that I wanted to study botany was because I wanted to know why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together. These are these amazing displays of this bright, chrome yellow and deep purple of New England aster, and they look stunning together. And the two plants so often intermingle rather than living apart from one another, and I wanted to know why that was. I thought that surely in the order and the harmony of the universe, there would be an explanation for why they looked so beautiful together. And I was told that that was not science, that if I was interested in beauty, I should go to art school. Which was really demoralizing as a freshman, but I came to understand that question wasn’t going to be answered by science, that science, as a way of knowing, explicitly sets aside our emotions, our aesthetic reactions to things. We have to analyze them as if they were just pure material, and not matter and spirit together. And, yes, as it turns out, there’s a very good biophysical explanation for why those plants grow together, so it’s a matter of aesthetics and it’s a matter of ecology. Those complimentary colors of purple and gold together, being opposites on the color wheel, they’re so vivid, they actually attract far more pollinators than if those two grew apart from one another. So each of those plants benefits by combining its beauty with the beauty of the other. And that’s a question that science can address, certainly, as well as artists. And I just think that “Why is the world so beautiful?” is a question that we all ought to be embracing.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The Intelligence of Plants”, from the podcast On Being with Krista Tippett (via peatbogbodyhasmoved)

[noctiscorvus]

Googled it and you know what, it is beautiful:

[floralprintsharks]

[ID: a photograph of purple asters growing amidst bright yellow goldenrod flowers. End ID]

[my-dailydreams]