The ᕼOᑭᒪᗴᔕᔕ OTAKU

𝙰𝚌𝚎/𝔸𝕣𝕠, 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦/Tᕼᗴᗰ/ⒹⓊⒹⒺ/🄱🅁🄾/ ᧁꪊ᥅ꪶ/ℭ𝔯𝔶𝔭𝔱𝔦𝔡

[anymal28]

!!!!OKAY, AO3 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!!!!

GUYS PLEASE LISTEN UP, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO WRITE!!!

Okay. So just so you're all aware, the "charcter/character" and "character & character" mean two different things!

"Character/character" is associated with a romantic/sexual relationship!

"Character & Character" is associated as like just platonic friends or family!

(I'm not discriminating anyone who reads or writes these, they're just examples) But here's some examples:

The "/" means romantic and/or sexual

The "&" means family, as in brothers and father & sons (in this scenario, it just means platonic friends and/or family in others)

Please know this before putting tags. I've had a couple times where I would either skip a fic because of the "/" and it would turn out to be a "&", if that makes sense, or I'd read one assuming the author made a mistake and it would turn out to not be a mistake, that's on me tho.

( @louisapennyfeather2021 fact check me cause I'm like 98% sure I'm correct about this but I need the security)

[queerpyracy]

i must once again criticize the girlbossification of mary shelley

[queerpyracy]

just ran across someone very distressed to learn about the racism in frankenstein and this is what ignoring the orientalism of safie's narrative and the casual mention that clerval wants to help the english colonize india in favor of a flattened narrative about mary shelley's #feminism because she wrote a pivotal novel will get you!! it gets you people who forget that mary was an upper class english woman in the 19th century

[queerpyracy]

since this has breached containment let me be extremely clear that i am not canceling long dead author mary shelley or her book which forms a fundamental cornerstone of my personality i am saying forcing historical figures into two dimensional Feminist Icon status is bad and leads people to have unrealistic ideas of those figures and their work. people who are grown ups can read work with problematique ideas without catching moral cooties

[microtonal]

just something terrible about the fact that there really aren’t kids websites anymore and now there aren’t adult websites either. kids don’t have neopets or club penguin or anything else like that to go on now where there could be appropriate moderation for their age, and so now you have 9 year olds on tik tok and instagram seeing content that’s not appropriate for them, and the adults on these platforms get censored to death because “think of the children” that shouldn’t even be there in the first place. kids would not give a shit about these things if they had their own spaces to go. but now everyone loses and you have an algorithm that shows pro-ED videos and thirst traps to preteen girls and bans adults for saying “my grandma died yesterday” instead of “my grandma un4l!v3d.” makes me freak out a little bit

[andiamburdenedwithgloriousfeels]

Do you ever start bullshitting a paper, and then look over it halfway through and think, ’…Wait a minute, I could be onto something here.’

[imguiltyofthis]

this is the definition of college.

[comic-canary]

Literally I was writing a paper on Asian salt water crocodiles, like a simple about them paper for a college class, and I started noticing some inconsistencies in the scientific papers I was sourcing and I accidentally discovered that the crocodile has been misdiagnosed as least concerned on the endangered species list when they should be classified as endangered and now my professor is having me write a formal report to the international Red List to have them reclassified and all I wanted to do was write this paper on an animal I thought was cool and now I’m considered an expert on this species…

[waluwadjet2-deactivated20180727]

this is how it works half of esteemed biologists trip and fall into their specialty while pursuing something else. one lecturer i just went to started as a biochemist researching antibiotics and discovered that crocodiles change colors based on environment and now he has 30+ crocs in his yard for research purposes and he’s just like… “wait… i’m a chemist…”

[polywoggiest]

How did so many people end up with crocodiles on accident?????

[flagellant]

This is actually just what happens to you in the conservationist life. I’m supposed to be a specialist in ornithology but a gig job up in Washington lied to me and instead of doing pelagic census I was shoved behind a desk to interpret data for a giant oyster farm client locally.

This is how I might have accidentally discovered a link between oyster farms and increasing populations of local zebra mussels. I just wanted to go look at fucking shearwaters and petrels but no I was tripped into goddamned molluscs.

[levitatingfrog-deactivated20240]

Aww!! It’s my little babygirl! My beloved!! *I point to the most insufferable man you’ve ever seen*

[sandersstudies]

Ancient humans got to bite a lot more than modern humans do and I think that explains my insatiable appetite to bite.

[sandersstudies]

Ancient humans literally worked leather and reeds and even wood with their teeth so frequently that if they lived to old age they would often have their teeth worn down to stumps. They had to chew their food a lot more forcefully too, because wild game and plants are stringier and harder than most domesticated animals and vegetables.

So now I, their creation, want nothing more than to chew on a piece of plastic like a horrid little cat. Everyone with chewing stims is RIGHT.

[marzipanandminutiae]

on the flip side of that Toxic Skincare Obsession post: I’m tired of seeing sun protection presented as another frivolous, unnecessary product of the patriarchy

“I’m going to sit in the sun with wine and enjoy it and fuck anti-aging products like SPF!” I mean yes normalize and celebrate people- especially women -not looking 22 forever but also

Skin Cancer Is Bad Maybe?

[headspace-hotel]

People in the notes say “Why didn’t people in Times Past get skin cancer?”

They did, but their “sunscreen” was, depending on culture, Big Hats and sunbonnets and parasols and long sleeves and robes and fabrics and clay and paint and mud and pigments

[legsdemandias]

This hack will save your teeth: there are no “right” and “wrong” times to brush your teeth.

[legsdemandias]

It gets in your head that you brush after eating when you wake up and when you go to sleep. Yeah that’s all well and good, but those are times that don’t have a lot of motivation and control…So just…brush your teeth at a different time. 

You go to the bathroom in the middle of the day and are like “I should brush my teeth” DO IT!!!! Don’t listen to the other half of that sentence that says “shit but it’s not the right time” 

I don’t care if you’re about to eat, or get coffee, or whatever. 

If you are there and you want to…do it. 

[legsdemandias]

Honestly this hack will solve most of problems. Just stop assigning meaningless “right” and “wrong” to tasks and start saying “I can pretty much do whatever I want whenever I want and society and its expectations don’t really matter to me”. 

If there’s no barrier in the first place you don’t have to get over it. 

[worldwithoutmiracles]

huge ADHD hack. if you can get over the “all or nothing”, moralizing, judging aspect of every action you “should” take, you’ll discover you can get more done than you expect.

I’m a big fan of the 2 PM shower. spend a whole morning feeling lazy and guilty, then just decide to start the day over again, even if it is lunchtime.

you can always begin again. any hour, any moment can be the beginning. you can choose that. the clock doesn’t run you, you run the clock

[bontxt-deactivated20151125]

how do draw good

fill 14 sketch book

bad stuff is good stuff bc you made stuff

do you like sparkle???? draw sparkle

draw what make your heart do the smiley emote

member to drink lotsa agua or else bad time

d ont stress friend all is well

your art is hot like potato crisps

don’t let anyone piss on your good mood amigo

if they do

eat

them

[consultingcriminal-deactivated2]

this fucking post

i finally found it

in the name of the Lord

[ohsalome]

[snowkissedmonsters]

I think people no longer understand that "viewer discretion is advised" does not mean "vaguely bad content ahead," it means View At Your Own Discretion. As in, if you see the content going in a direction that is unsuitable for you in any way, it is your responsibility to stop viewing. Don't blame creators for your failure to listen to your own warning signs. Nobody is forcing you to finish the episode, the chapter, the sentence. That's all you.

[fortysomethingwolfbird]

The Sandman + Twitter III

[guerrillatech]

[hug-your-face]

Okay but

[altospaceangel]

Most effective pesticide: Philadelphians

[modordracena]

Dude, I really relate to this character.

Which one? The non-human who struggles to fit in with humans or the human character who feels less than human for some reason?

Yeah, that one.

What are you going to do with that information?

Oh I’m gonna make it my entire personality for the rest of my life.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

[kainoliero]

You blink back. It’s only polite to return the greeting of the Big Night Cat.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

I meant for this to be all spooky and ominous, but fuck it, this is way better. I love the Big Night Cat. She is beautiful. I support her.

[midnightmart]

hand slipped so heres a gif

[shitpostsorcerer]

Reblog to respect the Big Night Cat

[bogleech]

“Oh that animal doesn’t LIKE you it just TOLERATES you” …..So? If that’s the most a non-social organism can feel towards you isn’t that just as special an honor as whatever it is you think affection means??

[pixeltheleopardgecko]

“This creature with no natural social instincts outside of mating allows me to freely interact with it, while causing it little stress” is fucking DOPE AS SHIT

[weaselle]

also… are you SURE? like, we’re still finding out so much about animals. Wolverines fathers, who we thought were not involved in caring for kits, turn out to travel around and collect all their kits from multiple mothers and take the whole group out on camping trips. Some spiders have tiny frog pets (!) or group up to communally raise their young. Wild sharks, crocodiles, and snakes have formed strong, documented relationships with people. 

this man Gilberto (Chito) Shedden nursed this crocodile back to health after it was shot in the eye, and they were best friends for the rest of the crocodile’s life.

this python came in out of the wild as a baby snake and curled up next to the family’s infant, Oun Sam­bat (or Oeun Sambat?) and they were inseparable for 12 years

Cristina Zenato removes hooks from sharks and they let her stick her hand down their throat to do it and they even bring other sharks who need help to see her.

It’s a relationship that goes beyond a single helpful interaction. For example one of the sharks that would show up when she first started swimming with them was a shark she called Foggy Eye who really didn’t like to be touched. One day, Foggy Eye showed up with a hook in her mouth that Cristina Zenato removed, and ever after, Foggy Eye cuddles when she visits, putting her head in Cristina’s lap and enjoying some petting

 We don’t know SO much. Some wolf spiders will adopt unrelated orphaned spiderlings and raise them. We recently discovered that the ant-mimicking jumping spider (below) produces “milk” and suckles its young until they are nearly fully grown.

SO. Don’t assume we know all about what creatures do or feel or whether or not they form social connections or bond with others.

[fierceawakening]

Stuff like this is why I honestly think… not that really simple, nuance-flattening ideas like “speciesism” are correct, but that… we do need to be humble when tempted to base how we understand our moral duties to other beings on how much their behavior or even their neurology resembles ours.

[stonecrop]

I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

[made-of-love-and-stars]

THIS.

[tr4shpandaa]

Don’t forget kids, jewelweed is a natural counteragent to poison ivy rashes but it won’t do shit against whooping cough

[dovewithscales]

Mint for nausea, valerian and chamomile for sleep, antibiotics for fucking infections.

[just-mythyk]

educational and salty. i like it.