yellow fly of the dismal swamp

they/she, 29, bi, a fan of fantasy and art and science. knitting is my current brain worm. pwhl liveblogging WILL happen allez victoire. runs on a queue - if I've liked your art the reblog will be coming later! known also as harleylecter/Harley. GNU Terry Pratchett

[inatungulates]

Cavendish's dik-dik Madoqua cavendishi

Observed by mchoisy, CC BY-NC

[artssie]

Night and Her Daughter Sleep (1902) by Mary Lizzie Macomber

[thisismylaststraw]

[faun-grove]

fine. ogle if you must 🙄

[aflo]

Attempting to locate a new Greek restaraunt using my gyroscope

[lavendersayshi]

Get yourself someone who looks at you the way Marie-Philip Poulin looks at Laura Stacey

[transand]

we need less “trans women/men should be allowed in women’s/men’s spaces” and more “gender segregated spaces are inherently sexist and transphobic, and we should replace them with gender neutral spaces”

[lost-gp]

party roque!!!

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[anattmar]

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[sweetpea67]

While I was searching for Mary pictures for that other reblog, I got the idea to post some images of the Virgin Mary in different cultures.

^Mary appearing to St. Juan Diego Cuāuhtlahtoātzin on the Hill of Tepeyac. She spoke to him in his first language, Nahuatl. This image was created by a miracle on Juan Diego’s tilmahtli.

^Our Lady of Akita, a statue of Mary just outside of Akita, Japan, associated with an apparition in 1973.

^Icon written by St. Yūḥana ad-Dimashqī (John of Damascus; born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn), in 8th-century Israel.

^Our Lady of Aparecida, the patroness of Brazil. According to legend, it was found by three fishermen in the River Paraíba near Guaratinguetá. Despite entanglement with European colonialism, the statue became very important for many Afro-Brazilian Catholics.

^Mural of Mary and Jesus in the Church of Our Lady St. Mary of Zion, which belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church located in Axum, Ethiopia.

[holespoles]

Yutaka Murakami's "Foreign Books and a Kitten"

村上ゆたか「洋書と子猫」

[cheaphalloweencostume]

people love to pretend rap is THE misogyny genre and that for some mysterious reason, it’s the ONLY genre defined by its misogyny. and, in fact, it’s PRAXIS to hate rap and never listen to it. how very interesting! i wonder what that reason could be! can any of YOU imagine what that reason may be? 🤔

[cheaphalloweencostume]

lol saw someone saying this, went to their profile, terf. fork found in kitchen. clockwork

[owenthetokencishet]

So-called "free thinkers" when their friend has to pee

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[b0nkcreat]

eyes emoji was the perfect invention for nosy people. like 👀 whats going on over here 👀👀 i just wanna know #LetMeKnow 👀👀👀

[miseria-fortes-viros]

some of you are saying enemies to lovers when you mean rivals to lovers and some of you are saying enemies to lovers when you mean enemies with benefits. but these are all distinct categories