friend to all canines

tara - 39 - she/her

[need-him-pregnant-poll]

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 3 POLL 11

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (MAS*H)

Soundwave (Transformers)

Voting ended onMay 10

PROPAGANDA:

[Hawkeye]

"Literally begs men to impregnate him. He will not get married until someone gets him pregnant. Also he deserves a second chance."

"OK so aside from the fact that he canonically asks for it sooooo many times. HE. IS. SO. BREEDABLE. HE WOULD LOOK SO GOOD PREGNANT. OK. He needs it, I need it, we need it. ALSO, he got so close last year and I think he deserves a win."

"The show uses children and family as a symbol of stability, both directly and as an explicit absence (the orphans they take care of, Peg and Erin back home, etc). That stability is something that Hawkeye desperately needs and wants. Plus, he constantly talks about being pregnant in a way that implies he's actually thought through it more than most cis guys would."

"He NEEDS it okay! Man canonically wants to be pregnant! I swear he makes at Least one "joke" about it a season, if not more! He wants it so bad I truly think being pregnant could fix him! He made it so close last year and frankly it's a Travesty he didn't win in my opinion, so I'm hoping we can get the rest of tumblr to fully agree this time around!"

"He is a trailblazer in the field of men desperately wanting to be pregnant. He's begging for it. No man has wanted to be pregnant as much as Hawkeye has, and no man has begged for it openly on TV in the 70's as Hawkeye did. No one deserves to be pregnant more than him. Though there may be new contenders, we must honour our roots. The OG. Some of these contenders will have never made a comment about their bunkmate and best friend getting him pregnant, but Hawkeye has. More than once."

"He's the one asking for it, not me (constantly. he is constantly asking for it)."

"There are numerous moments throughout where he references being pregnant/impregnated, including: “you realize if my father sees this, you'll have to marry me,” “frankly, I think I'm pregnant,” “I could have had a third of a baby by now,” “sit down, your father and I will tell you what we did to have you,” and many more. He's begged a general to impregnate him. (“I know that you're a general and I'm just a captain, but I want to have your baby. I mean it, I want your baby! I'll kiss all your stars!”) One of the first things that he says in response to encountering a new character on the show, when asked if married, is “someone's gonna have to get me pregnant first.”

Children, especially to the characters in MASH, are the representation of life and innocence. Hawkeye, as a character, is defined by his love for life. He is a doctor with a vested interest in humanity, thrust into a war against his will, who does everything he can to preserve that life. Pregnancy is not only a joke to Hawkeye, or something said in passing as a quip or subversive statement, but a concept he treats with respect and dignity, and in the midst of such great injustice and cruelty to human life, carrying life into the world would help him fight just that little more against the war. In the words of BJ Hunnicutt, “All we see around here is death and destruction. Now, in the middle of an inferno that even Dante wouldn't buy tickets to, there's a little glimmer of life, thanks to you. That's not wonderful; that's a miracle.”"

"Just look at him."

"dude is BEGGING for it."

"It's what he would want."

"pregnancy is the opposite of war to him. It’s his escape that eliminates his usual coping mechanism of alcohol, his fantasy being so detached from his trauma that he won’t need it anymore. Instead of narrowly saving lives or failing to save lives, he’s creating it."

Hawkeye propaganda from last season

[Soundwave]

"He's a single father of five, surely there is space for another one."

"Do you SEE those hips?

He’s already got kids, he needs more. Especially to make up for the one who died.

Do you SEE that waist?

Evil. But like, I can fix him.

His husband (Megatron) left him for the Autobots and he can get pregnant as revenge."

"He already has a lot of kids but deserves more after dealing with the rest of the Decepticons stupidity and carrying their entire faction on his back. Also, specifically for the TFE version of Soundwave: look me in the eye and tell me he doesn’t look like he needs to get pregnant. There’d probably be a dozen different characters that’d fight over getting this man pregnant. It’d be funny to watch."

"He’d be good at it and I think it would bring him happiness. Plus a good chunk of the fandom likes to make it how the cassettes are made so why not?"

Soundwave propaganda from last season

[aurlworthfightingfor]

Please please vote Hawkeye. He needs this.

[need-him-pregnant-poll]

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 3 POLL 11

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (MAS*H)

Soundwave (Transformers)

Voting ended onMay 10

PROPAGANDA:

[Hawkeye]

"Literally begs men to impregnate him. He will not get married until someone gets him pregnant. Also he deserves a second chance."

"OK so aside from the fact that he canonically asks for it sooooo many times. HE. IS. SO. BREEDABLE. HE WOULD LOOK SO GOOD PREGNANT. OK. He needs it, I need it, we need it. ALSO, he got so close last year and I think he deserves a win."

"The show uses children and family as a symbol of stability, both directly and as an explicit absence (the orphans they take care of, Peg and Erin back home, etc). That stability is something that Hawkeye desperately needs and wants. Plus, he constantly talks about being pregnant in a way that implies he's actually thought through it more than most cis guys would."

"He NEEDS it okay! Man canonically wants to be pregnant! I swear he makes at Least one "joke" about it a season, if not more! He wants it so bad I truly think being pregnant could fix him! He made it so close last year and frankly it's a Travesty he didn't win in my opinion, so I'm hoping we can get the rest of tumblr to fully agree this time around!"

"He is a trailblazer in the field of men desperately wanting to be pregnant. He's begging for it. No man has wanted to be pregnant as much as Hawkeye has, and no man has begged for it openly on TV in the 70's as Hawkeye did. No one deserves to be pregnant more than him. Though there may be new contenders, we must honour our roots. The OG. Some of these contenders will have never made a comment about their bunkmate and best friend getting him pregnant, but Hawkeye has. More than once."

"He's the one asking for it, not me (constantly. he is constantly asking for it)."

"There are numerous moments throughout where he references being pregnant/impregnated, including: “you realize if my father sees this, you'll have to marry me,” “frankly, I think I'm pregnant,” “I could have had a third of a baby by now,” “sit down, your father and I will tell you what we did to have you,” and many more. He's begged a general to impregnate him. (“I know that you're a general and I'm just a captain, but I want to have your baby. I mean it, I want your baby! I'll kiss all your stars!”) One of the first things that he says in response to encountering a new character on the show, when asked if married, is “someone's gonna have to get me pregnant first.”

Children, especially to the characters in MASH, are the representation of life and innocence. Hawkeye, as a character, is defined by his love for life. He is a doctor with a vested interest in humanity, thrust into a war against his will, who does everything he can to preserve that life. Pregnancy is not only a joke to Hawkeye, or something said in passing as a quip or subversive statement, but a concept he treats with respect and dignity, and in the midst of such great injustice and cruelty to human life, carrying life into the world would help him fight just that little more against the war. In the words of BJ Hunnicutt, “All we see around here is death and destruction. Now, in the middle of an inferno that even Dante wouldn't buy tickets to, there's a little glimmer of life, thanks to you. That's not wonderful; that's a miracle.”"

"Just look at him."

"dude is BEGGING for it."

"It's what he would want."

"pregnancy is the opposite of war to him. It’s his escape that eliminates his usual coping mechanism of alcohol, his fantasy being so detached from his trauma that he won’t need it anymore. Instead of narrowly saving lives or failing to save lives, he’s creating it."

Hawkeye propaganda from last season

[Soundwave]

"He's a single father of five, surely there is space for another one."

"Do you SEE those hips?

He’s already got kids, he needs more. Especially to make up for the one who died.

Do you SEE that waist?

Evil. But like, I can fix him.

His husband (Megatron) left him for the Autobots and he can get pregnant as revenge."

"He already has a lot of kids but deserves more after dealing with the rest of the Decepticons stupidity and carrying their entire faction on his back. Also, specifically for the TFE version of Soundwave: look me in the eye and tell me he doesn’t look like he needs to get pregnant. There’d probably be a dozen different characters that’d fight over getting this man pregnant. It’d be funny to watch."

"He’d be good at it and I think it would bring him happiness. Plus a good chunk of the fandom likes to make it how the cassettes are made so why not?"

Soundwave propaganda from last season

[aurlworthfightingfor]

Please please vote Hawkeye. He needs this.

[dduane]

Over on Bluesky...

Via Fiona Tribe: "Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term 'dark matter' which is impressive, but he also coined the term 'spherical bastard' to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more."

[commiefaggoth]

so embarrassing to watch yourself become obsessed with a character that feels tailor made for you specifically to become obsessed with. feels like i fell into a trap made just for me. like damn they got me. those are all the things i like and go crazy for

[dduane]

(credit: Science Tube)

[sushiisiu]

hey mary take a sick ass photo of us

[teaboot]

I hope you don’t mind that Im only answering this part of your question, but it was a lot to reflect on and unpack.

I think the best way I can describe it is like…. You know how when you do a puzzle, and most people start with the border and work their way inwards?

I think that most people are just the border of a puzzle.

I can look at a crowd and kind of guess whose finished picture is a landscape, or a bunch of balloons, or a classical painting. The colours and shapes give an impression that makes everybody a tiny bit different.

But then like… a LOT of people are puzzles of, say, a field of white flowers. And I can only see the border, so I have to think of like… which borders have more flowers or more grass, more grass or more sky, etc, and whatever is in the middle isn’t even put together yet.

But if someone’s border has, say, something fluorescent yellow in the top left- that makes them easier to differentiate from all the other field-of-white-flowers puzzles. I can remember that. And then later if the bottom half of the puzzle is covered, I can still see the big spot of neon yellow at the top, and remember that no other field-of-white-flowers have that.

And then like…. The more I see them, or the more unique features the have like tattoos or scars or birthmarks or whatever, unique proportions or deformities or injuries or gaits- the more pieces are filled in. So I can retain more parts of the picture in my head

So now instead of just being another border of a puzzle of a field of white flowers, YOU are a windmill in a field of white flowers, or a castle in á valley of white flowers, or a mix of white and red flowers.

And if I see someone often enough for long enough, I get so many pieces in their ten-thousand-piece puzzle that even with a few gaps, I still know exactly who they are, and can still pick them out of a crowd. Because I’ve filled in enough of the picture to know what it is

Like

Like. These aren’t literal. I can SEE your whole face in front of me. I could draw your portrait while I looked at you.

But until I’ve been in consistent contact with you over several years, the first two sketches are how you exist in my head

And from what I’ve heard from other people with face blindness, it’s not even the same for everyone

Does this make sense?

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Prosopagnosia

The current research holds that it’s due to an atypical Fusiform Gyrus, which is a little structure in the back of the brain that, in “normal” folks, lights up specifically in response to human faces.

So. Basically. Face Blindness is what we call it when folks do not have the additional, specifically face-detecting hardware in their brain, and have to rely on the Object-Recognition hardware.

Granted, this is an area of active study, and more details may emerge with more research. We’ll see

[teaboot]

😭 I was born with a fork where my screwdriver should be and I’m unforking screws better than you've ever seen it done

[krispy-pawz]

what is this show even about

[leonardcohenofficial]

stephen sondheim writing merrily we roll along 🤝 alan alda writing goodbye farewell and amen “he flies off to california/i discuss him with my shrink”

[bnq]

happy forever, everybody

[art-emys]

Recently Extinct Birds Pt 2

Great Auk ( Pinguinus impennis)

Extinct in 1844 with the last pair killed and their eggs destroyed 💔

[omgthatdress]

Never forget that AIDS was genocide carried out by inaction and indifference.

If the world governments had done something when AIDS was just appearing, they could have saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives, but they didn't, because is was "the gay disease."

[thelatecaptainpierce]

[mylittleredgirl]

literally

[need-him-pregnant-poll]

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 2 POLL 21

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (M*A*S*H)

Gilgamesh (The Epic of Gilgamesh)

Voting ended onApr 8

PROPAGANDA:

[Hawkeye]

"Literally begs men to impregnate him. He will not get married until someone gets him pregnant. Also he deserves a second chance."

"OK so aside from the fact that he canonically asks for it sooooo many times. HE. IS. SO. BREEDABLE. HE WOULD LOOK SO GOOD PREGNANT. OK. He needs it, I need it, we need it. ALSO, he got so close last year and I think he deserves a win."

"The show uses children and family as a symbol of stability, both directly and as an explicit absence (the orphans they take care of, Peg and Erin back home, etc). That stability is something that Hawkeye desperately needs and wants. Plus, he constantly talks about being pregnant in a way that implies he's actually thought through it more than most cis guys would."

"He NEEDS it okay! Man canonically wants to be pregnant! I swear he makes at Least one "joke" about it a season, if not more! He wants it so bad I truly think being pregnant could fix him! He made it so close last year and frankly it's a Travesty he didn't win in my opinion, so I'm hoping we can get the rest of tumblr to fully agree this time around!"

"He is a trailblazer in the field of men desperately wanting to be pregnant. He's begging for it. No man has wanted to be pregnant as much as Hawkeye has, and no man has begged for it openly on TV in the 70's as Hawkeye did. No one deserves to be pregnant more than him. Though there may be new contenders, we must honour our roots. The OG. Some of these contenders will have never made a comment about their bunkmate and best friend getting him pregnant, but Hawkeye has. More than once."

"He's the one asking for it, not me (constantly. he is constantly asking for it)."

"There are numerous moments throughout where he references being pregnant/impregnated, including: “you realize if my father sees this, you'll have to marry me,” “frankly, I think I'm pregnant,” “I could have had a third of a baby by now,” “sit down, your father and I will tell you what we did to have you,” and many more. He's begged a general to impregnate him. (“I know that you're a general and I'm just a captain, but I want to have your baby. I mean it, I want your baby! I'll kiss all your stars!”) One of the first things that he says in response to encountering a new character on the show, when asked if married, is “someone's gonna have to get me pregnant first.”

Children, especially to the characters in MASH, are the representation of life and innocence. Hawkeye, as a character, is defined by his love for life. He is a doctor with a vested interest in humanity, thrust into a war against his will, who does everything he can to preserve that life. Pregnancy is not only a joke to Hawkeye, or something said in passing as a quip or subversive statement, but a concept he treats with respect and dignity, and in the midst of such great injustice and cruelty to human life, carrying life into the world would help him fight just that little more against the war. In the words of BJ Hunnicutt, “All we see around here is death and destruction. Now, in the middle of an inferno that even Dante wouldn't buy tickets to, there's a little glimmer of life, thanks to you. That's not wonderful; that's a miracle.”"

"Just look at him."

"dude is BEGGING for it."

"It's what he would want."

"pregnancy is the opposite of war to him. It’s his escape that eliminates his usual coping mechanism of alcohol, his fantasy being so detached from his trauma that he won’t need it anymore. Instead of narrowly saving lives or failing to save lives, he’s creating it."

Hawkeye propaganda from last season

[Gilgamesh]

""how a beast and a god together learned to be human". Wrong! Should have been mpreg to make them learn how to be human."

"Enkidu and Gilgamesh, the original yaoi. Hear me out.

Gilgamesh is a great and terrible warrior king. As punishment for raping brides on their wedding night, the gods create Enkidu, to be his equal in battle and punish him for his cruelty. How poetic then, for Enkidu to leave him with child as part of his punishment. Gilgamesh has to endure the pain of childbirth over and over until it is equal to the suffering he inflicted upon the brides.

Then Gilgamesh becomes friends with Enkidu and they travel together. Even gravid, he is still fierce. Together they vanquish Humbaba, the guardian of the Cedar forest.

His growing belly reflects his growing devotion to Enkidu. He daydreams about how the two of them will teach their children to be fierce warriors with no equal.

So when the goddess Ishtar propositions him, of course he turns her down. In her anger, she asks her father to send the Bull of Heaven after him.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu manage to vanquish the bull without supernatural assistance. However in doing so, they incur the wrath of all the gods. The gods strike down Enkidu with illness. Gilgamesh is by his side as he does.

The extra twist of the knife is that Gilgamesh will never get to raise his children with Enkidu. He goes into labour alone.

And he endures suffering equal to that he'd caused."

[questionableadvice]

Historical medical poster collection, c. 1946-1950. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

[possumcollege]

[teabree-shark]

Made a thing for this

[rarebritney]

lesbian couple on their wedding day after 72 years together, photographed by Thomas Greyer

[reasonsforhope]

When I was born, there was not a single country in the world where they could have gotten married.

In the year 2000, there was not a single country in the world where they could have gotten married.

The first country to legalize same sex marriage was the Netherlands in 2001.

Now, in 2026, there are thirty-eight countries with same-sex marriage, with another two on average being added every year (x). Including three of the most populous countries in the world (the US, Brazil, and Mexico, x).

Altogether, over a billion people now live somewhere that same-sex marriage is legal. Twenty-five years ago, that number was zero.

Things are hard right now, but in so many ways they are so much better than they have been for a very, very long time.

Never lose hope, never kill yourself, love wins.

[rylandsgrace]

I feel seen