Taking on the Multiverse

Jin, 25, they/them Dogs, fandoms, and sprinkles.

[everyday-cutephoto]

[themoonontheirwings]

Makeup by Mimi Choi

[girlbossvicvega]

sympathy for lassiter comes with age because it isn’t until you’ve held a steady job for a while that you begin to fully conceptualize just how annoying shawn spencer would be as a coworker

[transpigeon]

STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

[spirit-of-science]

sleep study

ADHD medication

DBT

[headedoutleft]

vitamin D

go outside for an hour and observe birds

eat a snack

[trackerkitsune]

drink water

[ineffable-writer]

Maybe do these in reverse order

[loulooser]

Can’t wait to not sleep at all on September 11th

[spinostarz]

i know ur from the uk(?) but reading this as an american is really really funny

[loulooser]

why 😭 it’s about twenty one pilots???? Their new album is out sep 12th????

[jarsjam]

THERE'S TWENTY ONE THIS TIME???

[autisticinfovore]

We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

Sign the Petition

Defend the Internet Archive

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

[goatexx]

This is current- it was posted on 8/25/2025

[timeloopfemme]

always remember to hold ur theythem close and cherish them forever and ever

[arlospace]

Ya think Hextech Jesus could turn some water into wine?

Comic commission written by @beastalchemistva. There's a dub too!

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s crazy that countries on the edge of the Sahara desert are reversing desertification by just digging half circles

[what-even-is-thiss]

The ground in these places is too compact for water to soak in during wet season which leads to flooding but digging these holes gives the water a place to stop and soak in. And they’re pushing back the desert with this. By just digging holes.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The new plants also help even more water soak into the ground which reduces flooding even more.

These places also give people places to grow food and graze animals like people are turning completely dry compact desert into a refuge for wildlife and plants and solving regional food insecurity just by digging holes.

[elierlick]

Trans women protesting outside Scottish Parliament.

I love it when trans women protest topless. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it shows the glaring contradictions of labeling trans women as legally male. It helps their cause either way.

[only-tiktoks]

[lesbiannieism]

everybody do the weenus

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the weenus is a dance

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everybody is a genius

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who knows it in advance

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[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

"women can wear pants now. they can dress masc and it's fine"

body hair is seen as disgusting and wrong and sick and "too masc" on a woman still. Did we just forget that? not wearing makeup as a woman can prevent you from getting hired. this is absolutely ridiculous

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I didn't think that you'd have to calmly explain to other trans people that regular misogyny still exists and is a serious problem

[eva-does-their-best-deactivated]

My ex was forced to depilate by her mother, and the people at the beauty place who did the wax depilation were apparently mad at me for not caring about whether or not she had body hair.

It very much is still a problem.

[vaspider]

In 2013, before I came out, before I was on T, when I had only the kind of hair on my face that gamer bros complain about re: girl characters, I had a (young) woman at the nail salon point at my face and tell me I needed to wax my whole face, or at least my upper lip and chin.

She didn't work there. She just felt like randomly telling another (presumed) woman that the completely transparent, shortest physically possible hair on my cheeks was Too Much.

I got more than one Official Talking To at Wachovia/Wells Fargo bc my suits were too masculine in cut, my haircut was too masculine (and had i considered getting highlights?), and I didn't wear, or didn't wear enough, makeup. These were all framed as Coaching, as an attempt to help me present myself in a way that would help me to advance my career (and as someone gently telling me that these things were currently very much in the way of my career).

So... yeah.

[robotheory]

I'm so sorry if this is derailing, but can I also just point out how annoying the whole "women can wear pants! it's acceptable for them to dress masc!" notion is too?

Women are allowed to wear women's pants. They not "allowed to dress masc". Women can wear suits only if they're suits for women. Women can wear pants only if they're pants for women. If a woman wears a baggy flannel it must be over a low cut tank top or tied around her waist or only be on a very feminine woman. Women are still passed over for jobs for not wearing makeup, or their jobs come into jeopardy for not wearing makeup or simply existing as they are, and also if their hair is short and unfeminine.

Ask any woman who is actually masculine just how much she is allowed to be masculine or go about her life without scrutiny and I imagine most of them will tell you the idea that "women are allowed to be masc" is an utter joke.

[spacelazarwolf]

1000000% yes to this addition. i wore pants all the time before i transitioned, i dressed “masc” i even occasionally wore an item or two of clothing from the men’s department. but there was a complete and utter 180 in the way ppl treated me when i went from “masc” clothes to men’s clothes. i was not a cute tomboy anymore. i was a dyke, tranny, woman stepping out of my place, and a lot of ppl tried to punish me for it.

[gay-mormon-wizard]

today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

[lets-burn-down-the-post-office]

“I’ve been at the devil’s sacrament so long I forgot he wasn’t god” is getting added to the tumblr line book

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

I have been alerted by various folks

[buck3t-barnes]

Belly rubs for Lucky :)

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

Just Ally coming right for me personally with their reasons for going to therapy.

[bogleech]

Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

[bogleech]

A lot of people ask "could they just not be itchy though?" and I regret to inform that isn't actually their doing, there's no evolutionary advantage to making you itchy. That's your own body detecting the intrusion of another creature's saliva into your skin, where it doesn't belong, and reacting with histamines.

If you've ever been bit hard enough by a cat, dog or even human you may notice a similar effect!

[kyanve]

I remember having a conversation with someone about my hummingbird banding volunteering and how the data went toward support for conservation efforts among other things.

They were all for that, and loved hummingbirds and supported it!

And made a quip about how the only thing they wanted to see extinct were mosquitoes and small biting insects/fruit flies.

40 to 60% of a hummingbird’s diet, and their main source of other nutrients, is small, soft bodied insects.

Including mosquitoes and fruit flies.

They had a massive struggle not wanting to accept that no fruit flies and mosquitoes = no hummingbirds.

[headspace-hotel]

Bluebirds also eat tons of mosquitoes!

[bogleech]

I've also added this on other big threads about this topic but I should add it here: Being INCREDIBLY OBNOXIOUS to larger animals, even when they aren't spreading any pathogens (and again, most mosquitoes don't!) actually is another vital purpose. Ecosystems need biting and stinging things to keep big, stompy, hungry beasts from getting too cozy. Mammals are the most resource-hogging animals in almost any biome but parasites can inhibit their growth a little (a good thing), discourage them from spending as much time in the same area or ward them away from whole areas to begin with. Mosquitoes in particular breed in filthy, stagnant bacteria-rich water. You know what leaves behind conditions like that? ANIMALS! Animals eating all the plants, wallowing in the mud and shitting everywhere! A herd of ungulates can turn a lush and healthy marsh into just a cesspit if nothing stops them. But it's mosquitoes that find a cesspit an appealing nursery. And then you get a cloud of mosquitoes so dense that the ungulates move on! There used to be a great BBC documentary that actually showed "mosquito season" driving a mass migration of African megafauna but the shittified search engines right now are only showing me articles about mosquito control no matter how I try to find this again, gee thanks, maybe someone else can find it? So while the "mosquitoes are bad" all the big animals leave for months. Months of the plants growing back, months of the water clearing up until it's drinkable again (and the mosquito larvae themselves are filter feeders!), months of the mosquitoes becoming food for tiny birds and lizards and arachnids and amphibians, and the beautiful wetland is back again strong enough to survive the repeat of that cycle the next year. Everything you hate in nature - the ticks, the territorial wasps, the stinging plants - are pretty much nature's immune system. Obviously this doesn't mean the big mammals are "bad" either. The cycles of destruction are themselves also something ecosystems come to rely on as a regulatory force :)