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little miss auditory processing disorder would like you to repeat what you just said then immediately respond to you before you finish

clowngirlcreampie

when she asks you to treat her like a plushie so you pour milk onto her and suck it back out and she's sopping wet all the time and you throw her at the wall and she makes a loud thud

analog-delight

Headcanons have kind of ruined media literacy tbh. If you aren't engaging with the actual content of something, what's the fucking point?

analog-delight

The things that are shown to you in a book/movie/comic/tv show/etc. are there for a reason.

analog-delight

Is your precious headcanon actually engaging with the work in a meaningful way, or are you just doing baseless wish fulfillment?

steampunktomboy

Alice I love you like a niece but pasta being good on it's own is an insane take to me... You need a sauce to make it good. Rice you can just rat with a spoon

auntie i think you might not be putting enough salt in your pasta water

rice on its own is bland enough to be gross to me

steampunktomboy

also my girlfriend agrees that pasta is good on its own

#how good plain pasta is does depend on its shape but not that much

Alice I love you like a niece but pasta being good on it's own is an insane take to me... You need a sauce to make it good. Rice you can just rat with a spoon

auntie i think you might not be putting enough salt in your pasta water

rice on its own is bland enough to be gross to me

girlballs-archive

the princess would like to add you on discord and rarely speak to you

dragon-in-a-fez

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

dragon-in-a-fez

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

emotional-support-husband

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

dragon-in-a-fez

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

chekhovs-raygun

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

lizardlicks

this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.

my-life-is-a-sidequest

rice is...

the best carb

neither the best nor the worst carb

the worst carb

Voting ended onMar 1

nuclearkatkitty

as an Asian, Who the foxtrot are all those 66.7% of rice agnosts?

my-life-is-a-sidequest

White people, who haven't seen the light yet

#i would say rice is the most versatile carb #since most things that go well with potatoes and most things that go well with pasta #also go well with rice #so i'd say it is the best carb overall #however it does have some distinct disadvantages #for example: it is not good when eaten on its own #which pasta is

athena-the-undestructible

Normal people would celebrate today as Phoenix gets hit by a car day

I am celebrating Trucy's panties get stolen day

tofu-rebecca

seeing "protect the action figures" as a response to "Protect the dolls" is maybe the most insulting thing I've ever seen, to both trans men and trans women.

tofu-rebecca

First of all, the term "protect them dolls" exists because trans women, and especially trans women of color, are killed disproportionally. you are literally "all lives matter"-ing this. Secondly, can we stop this stupid fucking trend of giving gay/trans men the worse version of something that already exists for women?

tofu-rebecca

I still remember having to explain to a lesbian that the term sapphic comes from a real poet who was a lesbian and had droves of love poems about women and is so influential her home is what lesbians are named after and "acheillian" comes from a guy from a story who might've fucked his friend.

tofu-rebecca

"The mlm flag is only so ugly because its the lesbian flag but with boy colors" ok well that's lame as fuck actually