Theros ⦁ any pronouns ⦁ xenoqueer ⦁ beastpunk eclectic pagan ⦁ gruul/temur ⦁ local shapeshifting satyr born to walk in the woods, forced to answer emails reptile blog pfp by @excessive-moisture header by @flickering-nightfall
any pronouns are fine, but neos are preferred (which neos? all of them. go wild. spin a wheel)
xenoqueer satyrian
beastpunk // shapeshifting satyr thing
Chronically 3-5 days deep in my dashboard with a queue of over 900
also on the fediverse, bluesky (bridged from fedi), and pillowfort (inactive)
Here are some opinions and accessibility warnings. Feel free to block or avoid following because of any of them.
Below the readmore is a list of tags (religion + alterhumanity related) you should add to your blacklist if you don’t want to see them. You should also filter any reclaimed slurs you are uncomfortable with. I don't tag those words in textposts, but will tag them if the post is only an image and thus won't be caught by a blacklist.
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list of tags you should block if you don’t want to see them:
I’m not a hellenic polytheist btw; I’m a Norse pagan who also worships/works with some deities from other pantheons. I tag things “helpol” for organization purposes only.
you should also block “#vulture culture” if you need to.
(^ stolen from my friend @.permanenteclipse and one of its many posts of screenshots from the game “Everything”. this is the only one i’m putting up otherwise this would be a mile long)
Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?
Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?
For the love of god if your native language is different from the majority language of the country you’re living in don’t raise your baby speaking the local language. Either have each parent speak to them in a different language or only speak your native language at home. The kid will be okay. Get your native language in their head. You may think you’re helping them in the long term giving them the local language but no. When they’re an adult they’ll wonder why you never taught them your language. They can and will learn the local language in school. They’ll be okay. Produce more bilingual children. They are good for society.
And also, being bilingual helps with executive function. Not all kids have to reach the same language development at the same time as everyone else, it’s okay to have your kid speaking in more complex sentences a month or so later than the “normal” kids.
I've studied the science linguistically but I'd like to put that aside. PLEASE teach your kid the native language. It can go so much deeper than "wondering why", it can create a schism-like pain when you know there's a heritage you have but all access has been cut off. Yes, ALL. If you're fortunate enough to visit the country of your native language but dont teach your kid, they will be miserable, quiet, and alone, and go through difficult phases of hating that heritage because the ladders were cut for them.
And in the United States, this starts young. I've seen teachers tell a Kazakhstani parent that she should tell her kid to speak English INSTEAD. The kid was 2 and a half. A friend's five year old told him "Dad this is America we dont speak Chinese". If you don't teach your kid your native language this country will wrest all pride and heritage from them by force. An occasional visit or two to the home country will not stop the bleeding.
The pain of not speaking the language of my heritage is something I don't wish on anyone. And that language is one of the most spoken in the world, imagine if your native language is rarer. What happens? What happens?
When you read this post in a different context than the US, everything is very confusing until you realize it's written from a US perspective where being bilingual is something almost exclusive of the children of immigrants.
There are millions and millions of us for whom our native language is very much not the majority language of our country, but at the same time is our local language (and the majority language acts as our second language).
There are endangered languages on every continent of the world because people teach their children the majority language instead of their native language so I very much doubt that this problem doesn’t exist where you are.
Finished the Fungi SAL that I’ve been working on since last year. Feels good to have it complete. The ghost fungus on the last page has glow-in-the-dark thread.
After some thought... I teach a quail care class locally, it takes roughly 2ish hours, 3 max. I've been told a few times that people are too far to come to it or they would, or asked if I would do an online one for non-locals.
So, if I were to offer an online class about quail care, would you want to attend? I would probably set it up on zoom unless I find a better group video chat method (maybe a private youtube stream or something?), and it would be free or at least low-cost.
Would you attend an interactive online class about how to care for coturnix quail?
Yes, but only if it was completely free
Yes, but only if it was less than $5
Yes, but I may have other restrictions (tell me in notes)
Species dysphoria is a lot worse than gender dysphoria, personally speaking. Like, at least with gender dysphoria, you can take HRT or get surgeries to ease it. Species? I can do absolutely nothing to become more wolf-like. I can't do anything to make people perceive me as less human. There's nothing that can ever be done about it, and it seriously takes a toll on you after a while.
i feel like when we talk about autism as a disability a lot of it is about sensory stuff (valid) but recently ive been like. damn this really is a communication disorder. so much of the stress being autistic in society causes me is related to communication. its really insane how for years of my life i thought my autism didn't really affect my social skills much. could not have been further from the truth i spend so much energy trying to make sense of how to engage with other people. and i think it's good to put this in terms of disability and not just "my brain is different" because it's not just that my brain is different! all brains are different! mine is different in a way where it makes things noticeably harder and more exhausting for me.
I see autistic people sometimes act like this is just a problem for us because we live in a neurotypical world, right? but my friends, my social circle is pretty much chock full of other neurodivergent people, and I am still constantly dealing with communication frustration. even with other autistic people. even with other autistic people I like.
my brain gets a little rigid sometimes, and sometimes that means I miss interpretations of sentences... and sometimes, the interpretation that I missed is the only interpretation to occur to the other person I'm trying to communicate with. Which is more common if you're both autistic! Both of us are being reasonable, but... small miscommunications still happen. which is frustrating. you can learn to account for them, like triple-checking meanings when it's important or talking about why interpretation problems happen, but it's still a little layer of difficulty-grit that is always getting caught in my skin.
friend is trying to sell her car bc shes moving to a state with vehicle inspections and her prius lives in defiance of god. anyway so shes cleaning it out at my apartment complex bc we have dumpsters and her roommate forgot to pay the trash bill. i will be liveblogging my experience watching her do this and you will understand why i refuse to help her
guys theres a pile of chicken bones down there from wingstop im so scared
AND i hear "hey dude can i use ur washing machine real quick" and she pulls out a pair of pants from, i shit you not, 1940 and theyre moldified into a SOLID. those pants survived a war and couldnt last a year in her fucking shitbox istfg
i swear to god im not exaggerating here. anyway heres an incomplete list of everything we found inside:
-axe (stolen)
-earrings made out of dentures
-flavored condoms
-a quilt
-hello kitty sweater (stolen from a DIFFERENT ex-friend with a felony charge)
-deer spine
-baseball sized wad of human hair
-""sex apron""
-uranium glass plate
-pile of non-uranium non-car glass
-rollerblades
-complete phantom of the opera cd set
-magic the gathering cards mold-ified into a brick
-lego millennium falcon
-a CUTLASS??? (for "self defense")
-the back bumper of the car
-an entire fucking ant colony
and finally, perhaps the most disturbing,
-a pack of vanilla wax melts, inexplicably unmelted and intact despite sitting inside this terrarium-with-a-prius-wrapped-around-it in 100 degree heat for god knows how long
i must stress: before today she DID NOT KNOW about the ant colony in there . she thought ants just really liked to climb inside anytime the car was parked.
bringing this post back bc i found a video of her offering me the phantom cd set and i said no because the box was coated in a syrupy mat of human hair and she was confused because "we know whos hair it is" ???? as if the origin of the hair was the only fucking holdup
No idea where the ask went but basically I was given a suggestion to make itty versions of the slugcats like I did the iterators. Thing is slugpups already exist so I never really saw a point
My doctor wants me to reign in my cholesterol and sugar a bit (not super restrictive, just a 'salad instead of potato chips' kind of level) and I've been doing that for a few months now but my stomach. Is not big enough for this. I can eat a meat pie or two and stop feeling hungry and that's fine. But they're high in cholesterol so I'm eating stuff like salads and soups instead. Do you have any idea how much salad equals one meat pie? It won't fit! I can't fit that much carrot and cucumber in my body!
When I first started this the easiest method to reduce cholesterol seemed to be to dramatically reduce animal products, but that's simply not possible from a calorie perspective. I don't know how vegans are fucking alive. I'm holding on by a sprinkling of milk, eggs and cheese in everything it'll go in. I had sausage stew last night and feeling full after just one meal because of the sausages felt like a miracle. I am eating so much rice and oatmeal because it's the only way to get enough calories inside me before my stomach is like "whoah there pardner, I have a physical size limit". I wanted to reduce carbs too but it's just not calorically feasible to cut out more than I already did for cholesterol reasons (which was admittedly a lot, I used to be super into meat pies and instant noodles).
I used to not eat breakfast because I'm not hungry in the mornings. Now I have to because it's the only way to get enough food in me. I can see why our ancestors got big into hunting and breeding grains, vegetables are fucking nothing.
Aside from hunger I am feeling loads better, though.
AFAIK, most advice about eating vegan or eating "healthy" or eating more fibre is based on the assumption that people are logistically-able AND willing-to-prioritize eating 3-4 meals per day.
also If you need to eat breakfast but don't Like MAKING breakfast, you could Look into this?
💬 0 🔁 2 ❤️ 1 · Millet Porridge · So. I have a Mini Slow Cooker. 1,4 Liters, meant to make food for two people. That is the first and only
Though considering you mentioned eating oatmeal, and owning a microwave, and making oatmeal in the microwave, that may Not be the most effective way for you to get a reasonably-high-calorie breakfast...
I normally just do overnight oats with apple slices and nuts, because the #1 factor in convincing me to eat in the morning is setting it up so I don't have to put together a meal in the morning. But I've been slacking lately because apples are out of season (expensive) and I haven't found a suitable replacement that isn't Horrible Texture.
The very concept of vegetables is fake and stupid. It is so unclear and includes so many things with totally different nutrient profiles.
Green and leafy vegetables, such as celery and spinach and all those guys, provide lots of water, micro-nutrients, and fiber, but almost no energy. They give hydration and feed your gut microbiome and make your little guys happy, which is good for your body, but they are not good at the "providing energy to live" thing.
You need staple foods. Starchy root vegetables and legumes are your friends. I proselytize people about lentils on a regular basis, because my god, I LOVE lentils. But there are lots of options.
Everywhere there is grain, there is also grain's friend, the humble bean. Legumes are important staple foods in cultures throughout the world.
Your body doesn't want "vegetable." Vegetable is made up. I hate the concept of vegetables, it has destroyed so much understanding of food. Your body wants carbohydrates, proteins, fats. Carbs and fats are not the enemy, they are friends. Seeds, nuts, grains, legumes, and starchy roots provide nourishment.
You may find that the whole "discrete meals at certain times" thing doesn't work for you. I do a lot of aimless grazing on seed- and nut- based snacks (I have a bag of pepitas and a bag of raw pecans sitting here at my desk right now). I can't eat very much at once and I've always been that way, so I just kind of eat a little bit at a time throughout the day, mostly.
Median plurality is the biggest game changer of my life so far. Like fully shackles off and by that I mean I'm allowed to not really like my own self-professed favorite artist sometimes. I don't have to listen to them if I'm not the guy who listens to them. My god
