a sneaky loaf

20s | he/they | i like horses at the moment | also on pillowfort under the same username in case tumblr goes tits up

[ilikewritingandspeedcore]

EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????

IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN

IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"

AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS

LIKE READ THIS SHIT

WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE

[rhyperographer]

I went to find the article. It's fascinating.

[digital-magus]

In retrospect, consider the number 1 thing every grade-schooler knows about plants is they take in light, the idea they might be able to see should not wreck my shit as hard as it does

[jv]

Something it always pissed me off is when foreign people on the internet talk about my country like if it was a stars wars planet: Spain is scorching sun, wine, flamenco, etc.

So since I come from the rainier-than-London Asturias and now live in the "colder than Paris in winter" Madrid, I get pissed by this absurd generalizations.

But then... I realize I do the same thing with other countries. UK is rainy. Norway is cold. Greece is hot and dry.

So, folks, help me learn. Is your country weather more or less well described by whatever the stereotype is? Does that represent just a part of your country or is actually a good picture of the entire thing?

[uboat53]

There is no description I've ever heard of the United States that actually matches the whole. If you're lucky, you'll match about a quarter to a third of it.

I live in California, so it's more likely that what people have heard matches where I live, and, even then, it barely reaches half at the best of times.

[jv]

yeah, in the US I would apply this more at a state level. Is it all Minnesota cold as balls? is it Washington rainy all around? because in Spain is the opposite, you can get from california weather to Minnesota weather to Seattle weather in a 7-8 hours car trip.

(ok, maybe not really Minnesota, I don't think there's any place in europe you can get that, really, without going to the north of norway or so)

[hapalopus]

I don't think people outside of Denmark really consider the weather here (it's roughly like the weather in the UK), but! people think that because Denmark is part of Scandinavia it must have mountains and deep fjords. It does not. Denmark looks like this

The tallest hill in Denmark is about 190 meters. My country is almost as flat as the Netherlands.

[funny-tik-toks]

[casperxp]

I want more aromantic characters who are not also asexual !!! I want more characters who 100 percent want to get it on but just don’t feel any romantic feelings for anyone. I want more aromantic characters with “friends with benefits” except it’s literally just that. That’s their best friend and sometimes they let them fuck. More aromantic characters please !!!!

[roughribo]

I want to share something someone told me when I first started out as a dom because it was kind of a lightbulb moment for me as an emotional sadist. At the time I was doing aftercare but I didn't understand what psychologically recovering from a scene really meant. Then someone put it into dom terms and it just sort of clicked. So I thought I'd share in case anyone else needs to hear it.

As a degrader and a sadist it's so hot that some subs will be as pathetic as you want them to be... so don't fuck around with their emotions outside of that, that sub is already literally playing with and altering their emotions for your benefit and pleasure. You're overstressing the emotion muscle if you do and rest is essential to any healthy exercise.

You're not giving their feelings any time to rest and recover if you cause emotional distress outside of playtime and you're not giving them the safety and security to play with their emotions again. If you consistently play with humiliation, degradation, or other forms of psychological sadism, you need to be aware of this and plan accordingly.

Avoid big talks or heavy topics immediately after, and do things that will lift your partner's mood in the days following an intense scene even if their mood doesn't need a lift. While you can't see it, by doing that, you've essentially put an emotional ice pack on a sore muscle.

For physical injuries lift the area affected so it can circulate and heal better. For emotional ones it's the same process, lift their mood so positive feelings can circulate and help the recovery along.

[roughribo]

A little addendum I think bears mentioning since this post has been blowing up my notes lately:

It's easy for doms to understand that some subs are turned on by embarrassment, shame, humiliation, degradation, objectification, etc. That is an easier concept to grasp. But I think that's a bit of a simplified way of putting it and a more accurate way to explain what's going on is that some subs experience embarrassment, shame, humiliation, degradation, objectification, etc from their dom and are turned on by it.

I think putting the emphasis back on the painful emotion the submissive is putting themselves through is such an important distinction that needs to be made more often. Sometimes the fact that the sub is still experiencing these very powerful negative emotions during sex or scenes (for your benefit by the way, doms) gets lost in translation when someone says "it makes me horny when you humiliate me."

But they're NOT just horny when you humiliate them, they're still also humiliated. And for those of you saying "well duh, of course" please just trust me when I say, as a dom myself who went through learning this and has helped so many other doms learn this, that most doms are absolutely not making this connection at all and that's why my post above has been reblogged a bunch of times by both doms and subs.

As a dom, what we are incorrectly assuming is that the input is 'humiliation' and the output is 'horny' based on what we see and how our sub reacts when we play like this. We are not registering that they are also still humiliated because in the moment they're acting horny. It's an easy logical error to make due to faulty observations and this mistake isn't just limited to male doms in my experience. A lot of folks from all walks of life don't quite grasp this at first. And once you do grasp this you can give better aftercare.

The reality is that the output is both horny and humiliation and your aftercare as a dom better contain ways to treat the emotional pain you inflicted on your sub. In this case, reassurance (I'm so proud of you/of how much you took for me) and positive affirmations (you make me so happy, you're so beautiful/smart) are a hell of a drug for making sure their psyche stays intact and recovers properly.

[sometimesanequine]

[horsefigureoftheday]

It's so crazy that a horse can be >20 hh and a human can be nowhere near close to that, and the horse will dutifully follow the human around

[slysourdough]

i feel unenriched currently

[chiyo-mihama]

its ok

[fatpunk]

where is transgender flag "I'M TOO FAT FOR THIS HEAT"

[fatpunk]

FOUND IT

[fatpunk]

it's that time of the year again folks

[ryanthedemiguy]

Get 100% cotton and/or linen clothes. I'm not joking. I am super sensitive to texture and it only bothers me putting them on and taking them off. They can't go in the dryer so it's a bit annoying, but seriously. I'm so much less overheated and so much more comfortable.

[headspace-hotel]

Linen is a game changer. Cotton isn't the best if you live in a very humid place because it hangs onto moisture.

I discovered a while back that most of my clothing related sensory issues were caused by poor ability to regulate my body temperature caused by polyester (which is plastic). Eliminated all of the polyester stuff from my wardrobe. now i am devoted to the ways of wool and linen

[headspace-hotel]

A really big, wide-brimmed hat also helps.

[canichangemyblogname]

This June, I need Gen Z queers to understand that some people are closeted.

[canichangemyblogname]

I am saying this as a Gen Z queer, before y’all get your guns out to fucking shoot me.

But I need y’all to understand that if someone doesn’t give you their government name in a queer space, it’s not because they’re “mysterious,” and you do not have permission to take it upon yourself to figure out their “real identity” and go digging for them online like a private investigator. First, that’s creepy and a violation of privacy and reasonable boundaries. Second, some of us keep our private and professional lives very separate because we need to keep food on the fucking table and a roof over our heads, and our private life could jeopardize that.

[canichangemyblogname]

“Why won’t you tell me about your parents?” “Why can’t I know your real name?” “Where do you work?”

1.) Not all our parents would bake us a fucking cake when we come out. Some of us are closeted. Surely you understand this? You also do not need to know my parent’s names or occupations; we are both adults. I do not need nor want to mix you and my private life with my parents and my public life.

2.) Trans people do not owe you their dead name or government name

3.) I’m not telling you for the sake of job security. I am a government fucking caseworker working amidst a fucking lavender panic!

“There’s no way you’re a different person outside this; you’re still you at your core. What harm is there—”

No, I am a completely different person. A different person with a different personality and different interests and a different name and presentation. I am a completely different person because I keep this life and my public life private to avoid fracturing 90% of my interpersonal relationships and 100% of my professional ones.

“You’re not out? But you’re so confident.”

See— that’s part of the issue. Y’all assume someone is in the closet because they hate themselves or lack self-identity. Some of us know exactly who we are, but need to prioritize financial stability or else our entire life gets exponentially harder immediately.

[canichangemyblogname]

You meet queer people over the age of 40 and one of the first/earliest questions is “who knows?”

I need y’all to start bringing that energy. Because it’s not always safe for someone to be out and not everyone is safe to be out around.

There is a misnomer that “the closet” inherently means “doesn’t know they’re queer” and not “isn’t out widely and publicly.” “Outness” is often a patchwork.

[the-scottish-costume-guy]

Even if someone who isnt out does share any life details with you, you keep those to yourself. You tread carefully and assume others dont know until told otherwise. And sometimes you lie and help keep that closet door shut. It is ok to feel super weird about it if someone comes out to you as trans but tells you to only use their preferred name and pronouns privately just the two of you. It's fine to feel uncomfortable when people ask you if a gay person has an opposite gendered partner. It is so valid to feel weird and bad deadnaming someone even though they requested it. It stops being valid if you do anything other than they asked. Feel your feelings, and keep them to yourself - someone else's identity isn't about you.

[antiqueanimals]

Lives of Game Animals, Volume 3. 1927. Written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Internet Archive

[amber-tortoiseshell]

"With genetic test results back from U.C. Davis Laboratories of toe-hair samples from each side of his body, I am excited to share that this sheep

🌟 IS INDEED a CHIMERA 🌟

His black mouflon side is a genetically different individual from his black gray side. The lab ran the test twice just to be sure!

Oh but wait, THERE IS MORE!

He is ALSO a she!

The black mouflon side is male.

The black gray side is female!

What I can tell you beyond these test results, is that this beautiful creature successfully bred four solid patterned ewes this winter that produced a total of 9 lambs, of which all were either solid pattern or mouflon pattern; 5 rams and 4 ewes. "

Source: Grand Valley Icelandics

[king-the-pathetic]

Initially I thought the zig zag between light and dark along the spine was just the lighting but no! That's the split in coat colours!

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you so much @draconym ! Look at those differences!

[papermonkeyism]

Realized I didn't have many drawings of Xaranthras and master Teoth (I should probably call the boss man by his actual name instead of "piebald bastard" sometime...) interacting, so in honor of reaching my goal of getting their ArtFight references done in time, decided to doodle one!

Was supposed to be just a sketch, but it turned out a bit messy so I inked it to clean up, and then oh, hey, I did have my watercolors here somewhere, and oops, a full color art.

Well, in my defense, the scenery here is rather inspiration friendly!

[papermonkeyism]

I totally did not forget Xaranthras's jaw marking, haha.

...

You saw nothing.

[twerklina]

[super-affection]

[thethirdromana]

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

[queer-crows-nightmare]

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.