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[studiokhara]

pinned post bc i cannot edit my tumblr bio on mobile. i am 28 :)

[studiokhara]

i am 29 :)

[studiokhara]

i am 30 :)

[byjove]

One thing that pisses me off is people seeing fish in aquariums (the establishments, not home aquariums) and being like “It’s so sad because the ocean is so big and the tank is so small and they’ll never know freedom blah blah blah-“ I’m not talking about sharks and marine mammals here but the majority of fish are not at all bothered by being in an aquarium instead of the open ocean. Like, I personally would love to be a little clown fish in one of those big reef tanks. Fed regularly. Whole team of people monitoring my health and well-being. No predators. Medicated if I show signs of illness. Aquarium fish have cushy gigs in comparison to their wild companions.

[byjove]

I saw someone say this about a blue lobster that was wild caught and brought to an aquarium. Like dude. It’s a lobster. They’re solitary sedentary creatures. They live in little crevices and they don’t move from them often. They abhor other creatures. Also, this lobster is distinctly bad at being a lobster because it is bright neon blue. I don’t think he’s yearning for the open sea. He’s probably yearning for his next mussel. Which is, coincidentally, the same thing he’d be doing if he wasn’t in an aquarium.

[queerscout]

Once when I worked at an aquarium in the Pacific North West a visitor stopped me to talk about how sad she was to see all these animals in tanks. (This is surprisingly common from visitors.) She mentioned the sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) in particular. They were her favorite, and she used to see them all the time while diving locally and suddenly there were none, but we had them and that just didn't seem right.

We ended up having a lengthy conversation about how a disease, sea star wasting syndrome (SSWS), decimated the wild populations of that species and many sea stars a few years prior and how that aquarium was actually one of the few in the country exhibiting Pycnopodia that didn't lose their entire population to the disease. We talked about some of the research that was happening to help protect them and she started to feel a little better. She wanted to feel like it was okay for her to visit the aquarium and that she wasn't just staring at caged animals.

Pycnopodia are now listed as critically endangered. They are a keystone species in their environment and SSWS is estimated to have killed 90% of the wild population. Without them, the shores of the entire west coast have changed. Now, ten years later, that same aquarium was the first to establish a successful treatment for the disease. Before that, most aquariums had the protocol to remove symptomatic animal and generally had to euthanize them because nothing could be done. Within a matter of days, they were completely melted. Now, there is a treatment. It's not a cure, but there's hope that something can be done. That same aquarium is also part of efforts to work towards reintroducing Pycnopodia to the wild to help restore the ecosystems.

People have started to understand that zoos work in conservation and education, but aquariums do, too. We talk about the California condor and black footed ferret as success stories and Panamanian golden frogs and rhinos as works in progress, but aquariums are doing that same kind of work! There are coral conservation labs, efforts to reintroduce wild animals and remove invasives (looking at you, Florida), housing of non-releasable marine mammals, research into new medical procedures and treatments, and breeding of endangered species. The fish (and inverts!) in aquariums have an easy life, and might even be part of something so much bigger.

This is your permission to feel good about visiting reputable aquariums! Enjoy looking at the pretty, and not so pretty, fish (and inverts! please give the little sea bugs some love), and know that your admission is helping to keep them healthy and well cared for, and might even lead to something that can change the world.

[folly-of-alexandria]

A Few Transmisogynistic Things I've seen in the last two years:

One of the "Former TERF" Transmascs who came up with Transandrophobia theory has dropped the former part, detransitioned, and is also now an avowed Nazi. Followers of the ideology claim that this is a non-issue on how they view the ideology.

Two separate transmascs and one cis woman "ally" made videos lolcowing "acceptable target" transfems.

One of the most prominent serial harassers of Trans women on this site was outed as a Kiwifarms user and fully bought into the Pizza-gate conspiracy. Many people who participated in the campaigns they ran are saying "Well I'm certain they were right about the ones I harassed."

Tumblr Staff's Rate of banning trans women reached a mass so noticeable that it made news. Tumblr claims that this was in error, but has continued to ban at the same rate, and hopes everyone forgets that they were previously sued (and settled) for anti-LGBTQ bias in its moderation, confessed to having moderators taking bribes to ban targeted users, and its own CEO stalked a trans woman across multiple social media sites.

Men (both cis and trans) unironically state with their full chest that the basic assertions of transfeminism are Misandry and harass trans women about this.

[pleuvoire]

one time this japanese fujoshi i follow on twitter posted "the bottom should have a bigger dick so that you can watch it bounce while they get fucked and the top should have a smaller dick so that it can go in easier. uke dicks should be big and decorative and seme dicks should be average size and functional" and honestly her mind

[pleuvoire]

ok fine reblogs are back on go wild

[ferricsailor]

no you dont masaru

[coughloop]

My boss is making me work even though theres discord channels to read like morning paper?

[mycoins]

i will come kill him with my demon blade

[coughloop]

Sometimes I worry you like the demon blade more than you like me

[pjackk]

For real my friend Tyler trying to get his mouth fucked tonight hmu if U intrested hes 29 and not very handsome at all and he gives bad head

[pjackk]

Hws high key ugly as fuck and needs his throat busted in urgenlty

[creatingblackcharacters]

thank you for the time to read this.

hey, I have a combo of a question , asking for recommendations and found something that might be good as a counter argument for those assuming that sinners has an enemies to lovers plot that fans wanna see.

so there is the tumblr post that explains the appeal of enemies to lovers thing and in your case, argues you about being write about there being no such thing in sinners. I am having to put a space so that you can see the post.

tumblr.com/ruchi-writes/821795066725236736/i-see-that-saltcherry-and-i-have-the-exact-same

the questions is this, is there any good pieces of Black/African focused erotica by a Black / African person? bonus if there is queer/LGBTQ stuff or the human in a monster romance is a Black person. and said creators of above bonuses are Black people themselves.

the problem is that there is only 3 of them I can list off.

No One Dies Yet Book by Kobby Ben Ben

Samuel R. Delany's Equinox [I have not read Equinox, but I have read Return to Nevèrÿon series]

Montero Thorne's Liar Liar Croco Spider from itch io

it is borderline impossible to find them. and I can't blame them. why because its almost like there is consequences to projecting sexual insecurities onto a group of people that are not good at all. like I can't blame anyone who might have had to see an ugly belly to sexuality by others actions.

no wonder Black people look at white queer people with rightfully earned trust issues, like I can't blame anyone, especially with the understandable existence of book “The Delectable Negro” had to be made.

also note, if there are any flaws or criticism for the above titles that someone has, please comment as well as recommend any of the things I'm looking for, Please I wanna see anything that I might not know. because is is annoying hard to find that kind of stuff with what I was looking for. I hate how I feel like I only know these and don't have enough of these things.

I am able to find plenty of queer african stuff, like whats published from MaThoko’s Books / GALA Queer Archive (GALA) : https://

africanbookscollective

.com/publishers/mathokos-books-south-africa/

like seriously, can anyone following your blog please suggest to me anything like the above? heck, you can even post something you made, I don't care. it could be a website. like seriously, thank you for the time to read this.

🤣 you said "Food! Water! ATMOSPHERE!!!!"

@chilewithcarnage @momoboyds @niggatycricket y'all got any recs?

[narcissene]

affirmations:

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

- i CAN do this anymore

[childishrage]

we have a very healthy victim/abuser relationship, actually, thanks for asking

[were--ralph]

Mitch McConnell will die two weeks from today (8/31/23)

[official-josh]

[were--ralph]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

buy her a bag of chips... and fuck her in it!!!

[turing-tested]

Sorry am on lsd. Shouldn't have told you 2 eat a sandwich. That is your decision not mine. Sorry

this ask is so awesome. my favorite part is I can't find the other ask they're apologizing for.

[atmodeforce]

The B-52s creepypasta youtube thumbnail

[atmodeforce]

[meatsound]

when i grow up i wanna be the guy designing magazine covers in vampire the masquerade

[abysta]

i think it's really disingenuous to judge black sails characters (silver) by their betrayals because this is literally all they do the entire series, betray each other and anticipate betrayals and act accordingly in order to achieve their goals. so the thing that's killing me isn't really a breach of trust that was done by most of them in the end - it's how unbelievably wrong they all are. silver didn't just betray flint and madi, he decided he knew how to make them happy, and he was wrong. max didn't just betray nassau (and im NOT even touching on what she did to anne), she thought she was securing its' future, and she was wrong. eleanor didn't just betray vane or flint or her husband or the pirates. rogers didn't just betray eleanor. they all followed their own fears and delusions into submission, into forcing their loved ones into submission, all for a mirage of safety, and they didn't even end up safe. because you can't stay safe when your life depends on an empire's whim, and you willingly gave up your power to say no.

[urcadelima]