Tenuousness

Header image is Shore Pattern by Alfred J. Casson. Profile picture is Mushroom Medley with Agaric by Jill Bliss.

[ottoillustrates]

today i just (remembers to maintain privacy online) did something really cool. you have to trust me

[stonedrunkwizard]

Another week's worth of bird people.

[geopsych]

It's magical how you can be walking on the road and just hear the sounds of vehicles and of town birds like robins and catbirds and house finches, and then you make that turn onto the trail going down into the woods and in a few steps it's quiet, dark and cool and you start hearing notes of wood thrushes, vireos and wood peewees, woodpeckers and great crested flycatchers as if you've stepped into another world. I love that.

And somewhere deep in the woods like a cave, a scarlet tanager singing.

[poetrylesbian]

good news everyone

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[lianedegrenade]

people really do have such short memories about lots of things but specifically gay sex was a crime in much of the usa less than 25 years ago like i remember it and gay marriage wasn’t legalized until 11 years ago and i was a grown woman waiting to get my hair cut when i found out. on a beautiful june day!!!

[silverbridge-harbor]

A juvenile bug isn't called a larva until it reaches the surface. While it's still underground it's called a margma

[northerlyy]

Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata), female, taken May 23, 2026, in Georgia, US

A beautiful green damselfly perched in the sunlight, staring into my soul, daring me to try to get closer. This species is one of those ones that you have to let come to you instead of the other way around. They have a very large personal space bubble and are very sensitive to movement, but, if you sit still long enough near a sunlit perch, they'll fly right up! I ignored my own advice for this shot, and this lady was on high alert. It ended up making a cute photo, and I left her to it after so she didn't have to leave the area she was in because of me. I can't say the same for others!

[inatungulates]

Blainville's beaked whale Mesoplodon densirostris

Observed by nickgarrick, CC BY-NC

[palaeoplushies]

Arapaima gigas plushies! Now in LARGE (90cm/35inch). I would, eventually, like to do a 3m long one but that's gonna be a project for another day. I also have a few smaller beanie ones up for grabs too!

Find 'em here: https://www.palaeoplushies.com/shop

[kaijuerotica]

save me, rice mixed with some bullshit

[ukulelehitter-deactivated202603]

its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic

[creditednature]

Snowy Egret, Coyote Hills Regional Park Fremont, CA - Rudy578 on Flickr

[suzirya]

I love abortions and birth control and voluntary surgeries and HRT and non-procreative sex 🙂

[queeranarchism]

Let me settle the 'is it fetishism and is it bad?' debate once and for all:

Being attracted to any kind of body is normal. Fat bodies. Trans bodies. Disabled bodies. All normal. Being extra attracted to a specific kind of body is normal too. Totally normal to have a type.

Not unlearning the societal stigma attached to those kinds of bodies, the people who inhabit those bodies, and the people who fuck them, to the point where you do any of the following:

Only want to date/fuck the person in secret.

Reduce the person to the feature that you desire and ignore the rest of who they are as a person.

Expect the person to be a walking porn fantasy instead of a real person with their own sexual preferences and boundaries.

Would no longer love the person if the stigmatized aspect of their body changed.

Consider yourself superior to the person, think the person should be 'grateful' that you love their body, etc.

See the person as a temporary adventure while planning to eventually settle down with someone whose body isn't stigmatized.

Is bad and harmful and you shouldn't be dating anyone until you've worked on your shit, because this makes you a very terrible partner. This doesn't mean you are a bad person with bad-fetishist-desires who can only desire people badly, it means you need to unlearn societal stigma so you can be a better partner to the people you desire.

Thank you for coming to me ted talk.

[mmurrs]

I wish I could go back to talk to my younger self for many reasons but the most recent is telling teen me in my goth phase that I would get to grow up to study blood-red carnivorous plant flowers by collecting nectar from their ovaries.

(Sarracenia purpurea)

[myfootyrthroat]

Putting a bloody lace handkerchief in my back pocket to indicate that I'm into Victorian tuberculosis roleplay.

[earhartsease]

conspicuous consumption

[myfootyrthroat]

Goddamnit.