a dragon lover who scribbles

|| scribbler || || they/them pronouns make me happy, but if you know me personally (irl or online), I don't really care 💚 || stargate sideblog @yourlocalsg1simp || fanfic writer and occasional editor on IG also at yourlocalsg1simp ||

[absolutegibberishandnumbers]

jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

[space-puppy]

Teal'c & Jonas textposts because I love them

[dark-lunasri]

These two cross stitches took me so long to do. I adapted the patterns from their in game portraits from the original FFVII and stitched them on 40 count light blue linen (I think) over the course of several years. When I finally finished I found holo style vinyl and cut out the fire/lifestream wigglies up the sides and both the buster sword for Cloud and Cerberus for Vincent. All framed in some fun little frames. Horray for finally finishing a project that I've wanted to get done since 2014 ^w^;;;; or there abouts. Video is for appreciation of the holographic cutouts. To give you an idea of scale, Cloud's eye can pretty much fit on my thumbnail.

[runraerun]

This but make it domestic Spirk:

[eldar-of-zemlya]

Maaan, this Ernest Chiriacka illustration has been in my K/S inspiration folder for over a year now!! Thank you for making this post—this was the push I needed to finally make it happen xD

✨ Full size on AO3 ✨

[unamccormack]

Friends you know what’s needed

[clowniconography]

wait ok this is actually one that has caused some contention before when I've talked to people about it. reblog and tag whether or not you check the weather prediction every day before going out

[justastartrekkie]

you're gonna pretend the lines are clean

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[ouroborosorder]

my friends and I have created a game we call Quipposting, where you play quiplash but you roll a wheel full of character archetypes, and whatever it lands on, you all answer as if you are like, a wizard or cowboy. This legitimately makes quiplash go from a fun enough game to an S+ tier absolute unabashed banger

[ouroborosorder]

the best characters are Mafia Goon, Cyberpunk Hacker, Castle Guard, Sewer Rat, 16th Century Peasant, and Alien Poorly Pretending to be Human

[clamberingcat]

OP we desperately need examples

[ouroborosorder]

these are all from mafia goonposting but I think it’s my absolute favorite one of all time so I have a lot of pictures from it. Turn on some jazz and wait until people start talking in the accent and you’ll make Magic

[kanzaart]

Aroace Grace in Space supremacy🧡💛🤍🩵💙

[nymph1e]

On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

[tlirsgender]

One of my really strongly held star trek opinions is that the Vulcan sociocultural situation loses its juice when you make it less Nuanced. People have this tendency to either lean too hard into the Future Space Utopia thing OR they're like "boooo vulcans suck" and it's like No no ☝️ they're doing both. They're on some other shit entirely. A Whole Planet can contain both oppressive traditionalist shit & unfathomable scientific progress. They got world peace before they got gay marriage. Yknow? The thing about Vulcans is they have different priorities & the state of their world reflects these values. And it's so interesting to dig your fingers into if you'll stop being a reductive little space xenophobe for a second. Like first of all talking about Vulcan Society doesn't necessarily reflect the beliefs of Every Single Individual Vulcan like a lot of people love implying,

[tlirsgender]

I LOVE busting out some space sociology but everybody's doing it wrong. Vulcans' biggest issue is not the emotion thing you're just being weird about people who are different from you. Vulcan issues get way crazier than that if you just, like, think about the implications of everything else going on here

[tundra-un1verse]

I didn't feel like drawing anything specific so I sketched today some of the girls from star wars <333

Drawing star wars characters brings me so much joy ngl

[daily-ronance]

i actually need to be sedated

i dont know why im so obsessed with this picture

i just am

[feministtalks]

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

Yes to all of this, but I'm also pro-Laura who just does not want kids and wants to have sex

[thornendless2498]

I'M PRO EVERY GODDAMN TRANS MAN AND INTERSEX MAN THAT DEALS WITH THIS SHIT TOO. IT IS NOT JUST WOMEN.

IT IS NOT JUST WOMEN.

IT IS NOT JUST WOMEN.

IT IS NOT JUST WOMEN.

Stop leaving us out of discussions on reproductive rights.

[l-art-stuff-l]

nonbinary people as well

[hope-for-the-planet]

Hi Hope,

I'm an ecologist. As you can imagine, that's not exactly a very fun profession to be in right now. Every day I have to deal with multiple different crises on multiple fronts- coral reef bleaching, extinctions, habitat destruction on unprecedented scales, and governments that don't really seem to be giving a single shit about any of it.

Do you have any advice for staying resilient and optimistic about the future?

Hi Anonymous Ecologist,

First, I can't express how much I resonate with the way you are feeling. My educational background and career have all been in either biology/ecology or closely adjacent work—and I currently work with a lot of folks doing ecology research.

Here are some other posts I’ve made about this topic that might also be helpful to you. (X) (X)

When I was freshly graduated with my ecology degree, I had a long period where I couldn’t look at a beautiful landscape or endangered animal without prematurely grieving its loss. How much longer until this forest is clear cut or degraded beyond recognition? Will this species be to my kids what the thylacine was to me? I saw only the damage, the invasive species, found flaws in any news of progress. I believed the conservation and environmental work was worth doing for its own sake, but deep down I often did not truly believe it would ever be enough to slow or push back the tide of destruction.

But the thing is, I was wrong. Not just philosophically, but my belief that everything was just circling the drain and not enough people cared to make any meaningful progress was demonstrably, factually wrong. Things have gotten better and they can continue to get better in the future, even though it doesn't always feel that way.

Here are some tips that have helped get me out of that hopeless place:

1. Consciously look for and give attention to the good news. Yes, there is damage and backsliding and grief, but I also have stories come across my feed ever day of dam removal, rewilding and reintroductions, species being spotted in places they were previously wiped out for decades, ecosystems bouncing back after receiving protections, grassroots restoration efforts, the list goes on. It’s easy to have a knee jerk “it’s not enough” or “what about X, Y, Z?”, but you do really need to stop and actually feel the hope, joy, and pride when progress is made instead of immediately moving on to the next crisis—no one can live in crisis mode forever without burning out. “Things are a long way from where they need to be” and “we are making progress” are two thoughts that can both be true at the same time.

2. Zoom out and look at the bigger picture. It often takes a lot longer to fix things than break them, and I think that can sometimes make ecological work feel like banging your head against a wall with nothing to show for it. But much like the starlight we see now can be hundreds of years (or much more!) old, in many cases we are just now seeing the major payoffs from decades of previous conservation work. Many of the known and unknown heroes who quietly, patiently did that work did not live to see the full extent of their impact. The light from the work we are doing now—the work you are doing now—may not be visible yet but it’s coming and it will be so bright when it gets here. Just because you’re not seeing it right away doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

3. Look back at historic environment wins. Remember that we used to spray DDT on children at picnics because of how “safe” society considered it. We fought and won against acid rain and chemicals burning a hole in the ozone layer. “Save the Whales” was a pejorative for “naive, unrealistic environmentalist” fifty years ago and now many whale populations are headed towards or even exceeding per-commercial-whaling numbers. Even within my own lifetime, it wasn’t all that long ago that I had never seen an electric car and renewable energy was considered impractically expensive—now I see many electric cars every day and solar is the cheapest energy on Earth. There are species that were fully on life support when I was born that are now surviving and repopulating without human intervention. Things have looked insurmountably bad before and they have gotten better—and the progress we have made today looks a lot more encouraging when you look back at where we started.

4. Tell yourself hopeful stories. I’m sure this one is going to make some people raise their eyebrows because it sounds a bit cheesy, but it really does help to imagine the world you are working towards instead of just what you are fighting against. This used to make me super uncomfortable, it felt almost wrong or painful to imagine things actually getting that much better. But it gets easier. Imagine the cheering and celebration when we close the last coal plant. Imagine a little girl many generations in the future, about to snorkel a coral reef, with her dive instructor telling the story of all the people and all the work it took for that reef to still exist. I used to imagine how special a day it would be when it was finally safe to release frog species decimated by chytrid back into the wild—but it turns out we are already working on that decades earlier than I would have expected!

5. Recognize that hope is a more effective psychological strategy for progress than cynicism. Research has found that our society tends to view cynicism as a more rational and even sometimes more moral worldview, but the opposite is true. Cynics actually perform worse on cognitive and social tasks and they are less likely to vote, protest, or take positive action. Hope for Cynics by Jamil Zaki is a really excellent book about this. Sometimes on bad days I have to remind myself that hope is a strategy and to act as if my actions will make a difference even if I'm not really feeling it that day--if you act that way long enough your brain will start to believe it.

6. Speaking of books, I personally find it really helpful to read books by smart and qualified people who work in the interface between climate/environmental science and psychology/hope. I’ve been meaning to make a post with my ever growing book list, but Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie and A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety by Sarah Ray are two excellent ones off the top of my head.

I really hope this is helpful to you. And from the bottom of my heart, thank you for the work that you do. I can almost guarantee it is having a bigger impact than you know. <3

[mayasaura]

Deeply irritating to me tho that in a book about "the world coming together" and making sacrifices and all that where one of the worst sacrifices was paving the sahara desert, there are. no African characters. At all. The guy in charge of the sahara desert thing is kiwi. Pākehā even.

[mayasaura]

And like, I'm not saying the narrative needs to shake its head so we all know it doesn't condone the destruction of Africa's ecology. It's not about morality, or moral framing, or whatever.

I just wish the loss of the Sahara had been treated as a tragedy and a sacrifice, the way nuking Antarctica was, and that the sacrifice was Africa's to make.

The scenes with LeClerc are fantastic scenes, but why does the French climatologist who pulled the trigger on the penguins get to be tragic and conflicted, while the African governments who collectively sacrificed their own continent to fuel the Hail Mary are written off as easily managed short-sighted opportunists, and never have a representative appear on page?

[chazchaschad]

I do not have a "side blog”, I do not “schedule posts”. I torture my followers with random bullshit and if that doesn’t work I KILL MYSELF