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[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[kedreeva]

Hi I'm the anon who had too many drinks and got really emotional over your baby peafowl. I study birds recreationally (hope to keep domestic birds in the future like pigeons!) and my wine drunk ass saw a baby peafowl and almost cried. I'm sober now but I stand by pretty much all of it tbh. They are very shaped and very perfect and having met peafowl they will probably end up kind of annoying. But thats the charm of birds is it not? A little dinosaur that struts around and inconveniences us?

It works for cats, so.

But to be honest, I don't find the peafowl annoying at all. I've kept a lot of other fowl and they're annoying. Chickens are destructive and the roosters literally never shut up. Ducks and other waterfowl are messy messy messy with their water and their poop is watery and gross. Turkeys are stupid as hell and kinda mean, not to mention loud as well, the neighbor's turkeys are going off CONSTANTLY all year. Pheasant are mean as shit and flighty.

Peafowl... their call is loud, but it's actually a lower decibel than a rooster's crow, my males only call during breeding season (about 3-4 months in the late spring/early summer), they honk occasionally in alarm, but by and large, they're pretty quiet. The first year I lived here, my neighbors came to ask why I got rid of the peafowl at the end of the breeding season when the boys stopped calling. I didn't, they're just quiet when it's not breeding season.

They're not destructive of their environment. Grass and clover grows in their pens easily. They find a good dust bathing place and stick with it, they don't make a new scrape every time they want a bath. They don't waste water, even though they like to play in water.

They're smart, smart enough to learn to use some communication buttons, smart enough to let themselves out of the pen if you leave the "oh shit I locked myself in" pull string where they can reach it, smart enough to see them thinking and judging situations. Smart enough to make friends with you if you're chill.

They are very neat animals, and I have a lot of love for them.

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing I'm dealing with now is not having the MUSCLE to keep up with my body's energy. because I've had 2-3 years of being sick as hell and housebound, and everything's withered away. so now that I'm on Cosentyx, and my immune system isn't actively eating me, I can do stuff like walk to cafes and grocery shop! except I have legs that are used to just carrying me from bed to the kitchen and back.

it's going to be so amazing getting my life back, but it probably does need to happen slowly.

[vaspider]

Hi everybody.

A dog is killed in the first 5 minutes of Punisher. You don't see it, but you hear a yelp. It is a very literal "kill the homeless vet's dog."

Now you are warned.

[vaspider]

If you want to skip it, when they steal his hat, fast forward to 4:45.

It very much does pay off at the end.

[copperbadge]

I was innocently buying a soda and a Kit Kat bar from a snack shop recently when the cashier said, "Oh, a Kit Kat! That's what I named my cat!" and then launched into An Monologue.

Nobody was behind me in line, which seemed to be a good reason for her to treat me to a five minute retelling of the identification, rescue, and argument over initial custody of Kit Kat, who was so small they thought when they first heard him crying for help that he was a bird and not a kitten in a tree, and is now fifteen pounds of "pure, sculpted lardass".

And I didn't mind, precisely, I wasn't bored or anything, but around the time she was bringing me up to speed on Kit Kat's current status it occurred to me that this woman is a cashier in a store that primarily sells candy bars and beverages. People must buy Kit Kat bars from her multiple times a day. Does she do this every time there's nobody in line behind the purchaser? Did I just have that I Own Several Cats And Will Enjoy Your Cat Stories look about me? Was it the first time it occurred to her that she sold the brand of candy bar she named her cat after? Was she new to the job of selling Kit Kat bars?

The idea that every time she sees a Kit Kat bar she is gripped by the urge, Manchurian Candidate style, to retell the story of Kit Kat the Cat, elevates her from a friendly cashier to a deep enigma. Truly there is no knowing the mind of another.

[copperbadge]

IT GETS FUNNIER

I was in the same snack shop, which I'm in, like, once a month, recently. I only recognized her because I spent five minutes listening to this monologue in sincere wonder. But I did recognize her, so as I was buying a soda and a Milky Way bar (this time) I said, without thinking about how this would come across, "Hey, how's Kit Kat?"

She looked genuinely horrified and said, "What...how?"

"Oh fuck!" I blurted. "Sorry! You told me about him last time!"

This is still quite cryptic as responses go but she gave me a frankly frantic look of sudden recognition and said, "He's fine! You bought a Kit Kat! I was unmedicated!"

I did not inform her she is small town famous on Tumblr and instead just said, "Glad you're both doing well!" and we parted as confused and mortified friends.

Gosh she's fun. I hope she's there next time. I want to reenact the Spiderman Pointing meme with her.

[animentality]

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

Tumblr is the reason why I have something I call the cashier test which is, if i told this to a random cashier at the grocery store, would they think you're crazy at best or at worst would they be warranted in leaping over the counter and beating the shit out of you. Karl Marx mpreg is crazy, but not beating the shit out of you crazy. The cashier will probably talk about you to their coworkers and it might even make their day. Telling someone they're complicit in their own oppression by working a minimum wage job at a grocery store makes them warranted in leaping over the counter to beat the shit out of you.

[whumpster-fire]

Now in handy infographic form for Tumblr users:

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

OP, who the hell would seriously claim that a minimum-wage worker is "complicit in their own oppression" by working that minimum-wage job?

That's such a complete misunderstanding of socialist theory that I find my gob smacked and my flabber gasted.

[vaspider]

So many people. So, so many people

[quastions-i-dont-ask-on-main]

"Why there isn't more trans men in history, contributing to queer advancements?" damn I wonder why people who were previously women that were forced into marriages and into being property either of their fathers or husbands would have a hard time coming out as a trans man. Truly a mystery. Oh wait you're also telling me people that lived their whole lives as men but were outed after they died are actually lesbians that did that to scape sexism? That's so cool. What more are you wrong about.

[midnight-fox-boy]

It's like people forget that a lack of women's rights directly contributed to the majority of trans men being closeted or literally having 0 ability to be themselves.

It's almost like women's rights issues impact everyone.

It's almost like misogyny doesn't stop targeting trans men just because they come out and/or identify as men

The historic trans men we do have clear documentation of, either are STILL having their identities erased, or the history of those who weren't erased is shoved to the sidelines.

And to be fair, It *is* understandable that historically, trans women existing was a big deal. It was showing people that "wow men would throw their rights away??". It's much harder to ignore than someone who's just seen as a "crazy woman" aka hysterical.

But we should do our best to highlight the history we do have, trans men existing and being themselves is just as important as the trans people who advocated back in the day. Existing as yourself is always an achievement.

[boogedyboogedyboo]

[netherworldpost]

(Opens a pumpkin shaped locker and sighs at the picture as I am replenished)

I can do these tasks

I can find the courage or strength needed to attend the things before me

I believe in the autumnal tree with the silly bats hanging from string and their happy, silly, goofy smiles

And they believe in me

[asphodel-asphodel]

What mean? What mean, made peace? It means... I know I'm not going home. I know why. And it's okay.

[marithlizard]

What is this from? It looks interesting but completely unfamiliar.

[vaspider]

I am genuinely shocked that someone could be following me and not recognize Project Hail Mary. :p

[animentality]

I sometimes think about the letter KA Applegate posted for her fans who were disappointed by the ending of her series, and while I understand simply not liking how a story ends, I really respect her reasoning.

Like you can dislike the ending, that's fine.

But her reasoning is very interesting to read. And I really enjoy the framing of the anti war message.

[chromatographic]

I think about this letter often.

When Animorphs ended, it was May of 2001, the summer before I entered high school (9th grade). This letter came out in August, and made it clear that this story was written over the course of half a decade not simply to entertain children, but to emphasize a simple message for us:

War is a terrible thing, with terrible prices, on every side.

August 2001.

I think about this often. Every time I see an image of that September. Every time I hear about the Wars - plural! - that the Republican Party and George W. Bush pushed us into after.

There is a reason why I think the media property that Animorphs is most comparable to is M*A*S*H.

"War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse."

[jabberding0]

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

[nepharim-tree]

[frediyerushalmi]

Okay, but the runs in her stockings! She starts out with beautiful, clearly new stockings, and then over the course of the video they get shredded, then there's a close up on a scrape on her leg that looks like it's from a wire - oh there's themes there!

[spinetacks]

get them 🗣️

[canipleasehavefood]

[teaboot]

I will forever maintain that genuine fortune-telling and psychic medium junk is a load of bull, but as a person who owns tarot decks and regularly uses them as a tool for self-reflection I also have to admit that it does kind of work for that and it's very very funny when it does

Once I laid out some cards before I left the house and couldn't figure out an interpretation of the symbolism that made sense outside of "stop focusing and pay attention", which was of course absurd, so I was puzzling over that all the way to my bus stop and was so distracted the whole time that I walked face-first into a massive fucking spiderweb

[teaboot]

It always hits so good

[pipistrellus]

One time I brought one of my rocks with me on a plane to touch to calm me down during the flight, but it fell out of my pocket on my way back to the bathroom and then as soon as i realized this they actually announced “did anyone lose…… . A rock” over the loudspeaker system.

When I went up to claim it the plane man, clearly unable to throw off the shackles of his training in the procedure of asking for people’s full names and birthdates when they come to claim wallets, said “wait no, first tell me what color it is so I know it’s really yours”

He seemed to realize this was stupid directly after saying it and kind of smiled like to make it a joke but the joke was on him bc I Described the fucking rock to him for like 30 solid seconds

…anyway. that was an interaction I had once

[creekfiend]

Ship just asked me to describe the rock to them so they could search the house for it and then went and found it for me. Ten years later. here is the rock:

that’s true love babey

[paxamericana]

breakfast for dinner is so good. but if you start doing it regularly it becomes just another meal.

which it is.