one who found a name

loud one, heard the void to much, resolved to end it. fearless one, saw ghosts and walked away Singing. wandering one, got lost and never found themself... overall weirdo, sometimes science, sometimes art, or just thoughts

[aclaywrites]

Let’s be members of the nightshade family with mama!

[lutheban]

Grace goes swimming! Rocky is not thrilled.

Eridians cant "hold their breath" like humans do, their vents dont close completly so water can still get in, if they fall in water they drown and die. safe to say rocky is not a fan of when grace does it for fun xD

(i got the inspo for this from this fic: Enrichment by alatarmaia4, please check it out it is so funny)

[charlesoberonn]

"Diversity of opinion" but the opinions are "We should use a chainsaw to rescue a cat from a tree" and "We should trap more cats on the tree and then set it on fire"

[charlesoberonn]

To clarify: If those are your only options (and they often are) it's your moral imperative to choose the chainsaw.

[creepykuroneko]

Fuck this rhetoric. You are not obligated to choose the chainsaw. Go create a better solution.

[charlesoberonn]

[terminally-twentyeight]

#mybloodchainsaw

[lillie-garden]

the potion seller discourse is insane. cop walks into a chemist's lab and demands pure undiluted morphine. chemist says hey i don't make this for human consumption. cop insists repeatedly, crying, shitting himself. in no way is the potion seller in the wrong here.

[lillie-garden]

"the potion seller is an asshole who should have just given the knight the potion!"

you would not last 1 day in customer service

[redwaltz]

No, see, he's an asshole for not giving the cop the potion to kill himself with.

[lillie-garden]

See i would absolutely agree with this take but being directly responsible for killing the Knight would tarnish the Potion Seller's name across the kingdom. + the Knight is insisting he's going to die in battle anyways.

[lillie-garden]

clearly this is why your url is pretend-wizard 🙄 we don't know that the potion seller can't make potions that let knights handle stronger potions, all we know is that the potions that the potion seller does have are too strong. if he is effectively a pharmaceutical supplier, he probably would be supplying to other potion sellers lower down on the chain to sell distilled & diluted versions of his potions. but this, like everything, is simply an inference. with our limited facts at hand, i choose to side with the worker rather than the landed gentry.

[helpeverythingiscats]

I once made a potion that kills you but the undying one drank it and lived and it ruined my reptutation so now i'm forced to weave small coats for beetle grubs. i cant complain the beetles have good money but now whenever im spotted on the street the peasants mock me and call me beetleboy

[lillie-garden]

hi beetleboy LOL hows your beetles. loser

[helpeverythingiscats]

[katyusha454]

I was thinking about Project Hail Mary and I thought of this conversation that definitely happened on the way to Erid:

Grace: "It feels weird to call your planet by a name humans gave it. I know I can't pronounce the real name but can you tell me what it means?" Rocky: "Rocky will tell Grace, but first Grace must tell Rocky meaning of 'Earth'." Grace: "Well, uh, it sort of means 'ground'." Rocky: "Boring!" Grace: "Okay smart guy, what's your planet's name mean then?" Rocky: "..." Grace: "..." Rocky: "..." Rocky: "Ground."

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[batsandboba]

[str-ngeloop]

'no one radically changes their personality worldview and politics just because of a brain injury' okay well i can see how it would be comforting to think that but unfortunately thats simply not true. that type of shit happens all the time

[weirdtranssexual]

call me crazy but i think public transportation should explicitly also be for actively drunk/high people. so they don’t, you know, drive under the influence.

[weirdtranssexual]

i literally don’t care how afraid you are of drunk people. if they’re behaving well enough then there’s no reason to kick them off the bus.

if you can’t recognize it’s better for society for drunk people to have a way home that doesn’t involve them driving and potentially getting people killed then you just kind of suck actually.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

[emotional-support-husband]

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

[chekhovs-raygun]

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

[lizardlicks]

this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.

[lesbianchemicalplant]

comptop is a transmisogynistic dynamic that exists and is good to be aware of, but I don't think the correct response is to assume any given trans woman you encounter is in need of being Saved From Topping

what if you didn't assume what she wants, and instead listened to her as her own woman with her own particular needs and interests

please. can we please not assume out of the gate that she needs to hear the Good News about bottoming, or pathologize her if she does enjoy topping, or make assumptions about her relationships/partners

again, it's good to be aware of comptop, but I don't think this is the right course-correction to make

it's missing the "don't assume, listen to her" forest for the comptop trees

[doe-eyed-disaster]

related: as someone who exclusively enjoys bottoming for other trans women and is prone to overthinking things, there's this whole fucked up genre of thoughts that are like "am i abusing my partners by forcing them to top me?". that kind of thinking is so corrosive and ultimately it feels like it's my own internalized shit telling me that i should be topping, even though i won't enjoy it (the comp top is coming from inside the house!)

you've gotta listen to your partners. you can be sensitive to the pressures of being a trans woman but it's infantilizing to prioritize those assumptions over her actual preferences and it can warp your thinking in weird ways. if she tells you what she likes, you kinda need to trust her

[lesbianchemicalplant]

yes!! this ends up managing to pathologize topping and bottoming between trans women—any t4t topping and bottoming is rendered Comptop-ee and Comptop-er, regardless of what each trans woman actually enjoys and has communicated wanting

[treecitysessions]

What did she mean by this

[valleyg0th]

Are y’all literally this fucked in the head? Its genitals. No it’s not normal or “tame” to put your genitals in public.

[treecitysessions]

She’s in a bedroom posing for an artsy nude photo not exposing herself on the street please be for real expeditiously

[xenasaur]

> sees goth in username

> looks inside

> moral panic over art and appeals to normalcy

you could cut the irony with a knife

[xeno-mutt]

Three posts below this on that persons blog:

Seems like nudity isnt really what you have a problem with 🤔

[doomsayersrequiem]

Her 8io is her fucking four letter personality test thing and her zodiac lmao

[m0thmancore]

transphobe complaining about women expressing themselves. fork found in fork slot in silverware drawer

[mephistopheles]

"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉

[cosmogyros]

[trans-masked]

If you’re not a trans woman you need to get way more comfortable with trans women talking about issues that don’t affect you. If you’re not a trans man you need to be ok with trans men talking about their own experiences that don’t affect you. If you’re not non binary you need to stop being weird about nonbinary people talking about the poor treatment they get for being nonbinary. If you’re not intersex you need to stop inserting yourself into conversations that aren’t about you and begging to be centered. Everyone get less self centered NOW!!!!

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[broccoliseason-deactivated20210]

A close up of the Blanket Octopus during a blackwater dive with The Three P diving club , Romblon Island, Philippines. Credit: Joseph Elayani

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

[smute]

man normalisiere den Satz „Sie haben wohl ein Arschloch gefrühstückt“ als Reaktion unhöflichen Menschen gegenüber

[alterugdalf]

Spahn: Elterngeld oder Bafög können vorerst nicht erhöht werden

Die geplanten Erhöhungen bei Bafög und Elterngeld stehen auf der Kippe, fehlendes Wirtschaftswachstum setzt den Haushalt unter Druck.

Das fehlende Wachstum der letzten Jahre mache sich mehr und mehr bemerkbar, sagte Spahn. Die Kaufkraft sei seit 2019 nicht gestiegen, jeden Monat gingen 10.000 Industriejobs verloren. "Das schlägt sich nun auch in den Sozialsystemen und im Haushalt nieder. Es bleibt bei dem einfachen Grundsatz: Man kann nur so viel Geld ausgeben wie man einnimmt." Wachstum sei die Schicksalsfrage.

Sowas kannst du wirklich nur einem Volk sagen, dem man systematisch jedes basale Verständnis von Wirtschaft ausgetrieben hat.

Es ist richtig, dass die Kaufkraft seit 2019 nicht mehr gestiegen ist. Die von Union und sPD(!!!) verordnete Therapie ist nun aber, die Kaufkraft mit Karacho weiter zu senken.

Transferleistungen haben in diesem beknackten System nämlich genau diese Aufgabe: Wenn die Wirtschaft schwächelt, sollen die Menschen trotzdem in der Lage sein, zu konsumieren. Sprich: Weiterhin für Einnahmen auf der anderen Seite des Wirtschaftskreislaufs sorgen. Das verhindert, dass aus einer überschaubaren Schlechtwetterlage ein Orkan wird, dass die Krise also sich nicht verselbständigt und alles vollends kollabiert.

Stattdessen wird an genau der Stelle gekürzt, an der der Großteil der staatlichen Einnahmen entsteht: Beim Konsum. Wie dadurch die Einnahmen steigen sollen, kann auch Spahn nicht erklären.

Statt eines Grundkurs in Ökonomie würde ich ihm allerdings einen Blick ins Geschichtsbuch empfehlen. Reichskanzler Brüning stand nämlich vor einer frappierend ähnlichen Situation – und hat genau dasselbe gemacht.

Und es mit genau derselben Rhetorik gerechtfertigt.