welcome to my internet corner. this is a museum of my brain that i’ve been curating for well over a decade.
this is a safe space for all Black women and femmes. this blog is intentionally curated with weird, nerdy, and alternative Black folks in mind. we deserve space everywhere in the world and on this site and i will continue to make it.
as stated, i’m a Black bisexual nonbinary femme. auDHD and cptsd having hot girl with mentally ill tendencies. i am perpetually on my socialist anti-capitalist bullshit i fear!
i stand with all oppressed people across the globe. free congo, free yemen, free sudan, free palestine in this lifetime.
this blog oscillates between my own personal posting, lots of art, silly shit that makes me laugh, history, fandom etc.
i love Anthony Bourdain and Star Trek they are frequent flyers on this blog…
my tags:
steph talks - diary
radio steph - music i’m listening to
art - self explanatory, often untagged bc i post so much
film - movies i love and my watchlist
green 💚 - favorite color. if i was a color i would be green
words - poetry, quotes, literature that makes me feel seen
face tag/me/mine - if ur trying to get a good look at me
i do be fandom posting:
Star Trek (TOS and DS9 mostly), ATLA, Fallout Tv Show, Killing Eve, Duster, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and many others
Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.
(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)
L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)
The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a
In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.
“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”
call me crazy but I think it'd be easier if surgeons learned how to operate on fat bodies instead of expecting every single fat person to lose weight before getting surgery