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Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay
we are in truble
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
I’m not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with
But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy
Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy
It started out way too normal
Hey. Heyhey. Do me a favor real quick.
If you don't already know you have issues doing so, squat down real quick. Bend your knees all the way and touch the floor. Just make sure you can do it. Okay? For me? And then stand up all the way and make sure you can balance on one foot.
Like. You don't need to blow it into some huge thing. Just. Make sure all your bits and peices still work the way you think they do.
Can you turn your head to look behind you without twisting your shoulders? What about standing on your toes? If you sit down on the floor can you get back up without using your hands?
If there was ever a tumblr post worth sending to your mom, it's this one.
Just saying, bodies are a use it or lose it kinda thing.
okay so every time I see this post crop back up in queues and notifications I end up thinking about it. Because I made the post and even I'm still doing the thing where I read the post about maintaining range of motion in my delicate meatsuit and I nod and hmm and think yeah that's a good idea and then dont move from where I'm curled up shrimp style staring at the nightmare rectangle.
So like. Thinking real hard about moving doesn't count as moving. Major bummer. Anyways. Joints.
They have pup cups at celadon department store now
if the doctor was worth a shit pagliacci would of walked out of there with an estradiol prescription
I was about to come here and say that Capochin looks INCREDIBLY edible, but. i. i don't think i will do that, thinking about it...
[Day 497]
I could just Eat You Up!
on the wikipedia page for 17776
So...
I said I was going to post about the baby birds, so here it is, because I love them and I want to share this experience.
One day, I came home, only to find a nest outside one of my windows. I noticed that birds started nesting sometimes in March, but I certainly didn't expect one pair would do it this close. I didn't see it, either, until it was fully built. I was surprised how fast it appeared. They're very efficient.
Immediately afterwards, on 30th of March, the first egg appeared. (Let's appreciate for a moment the tragedy that this happened only one day before April 1st.)
I wasn't sure what kind of bird it was, but @the-sparrohawk, immediately identified it as a blackbird egg, which is so impressive! I had no idea what blackbird eggs looked like until then.
One by one, day by day, more eggs were added, until we were at five. On 4th April, the party was complete.
Let's say that suddenly I understood why they lay them one by one. That's a lot! I mean, I've got plenty of experience with chickens, but I guess I'd just never thought about songbirds much in this department.
I was also surprised to see the eggs "abandoned" for quite some time. I didn't know female blackbirds start sitting on them once they've popped them all out. That's exactly what happened here, as well. Once mamma was done laying them, she sat on them almost without a break for about two weeks. She only left the nest to have a little snack from time to time. I even noticed the father hanging around at times. I tried not to approach the nest too much, because I didn't want to scare them off. I only did so to snap a picture occasionally when I noticed that the parents were both gone.
Blackbirds are some of my favourite birds, so I was really excited. They sing so beautifully. I don't know how common they are elsewhere in the world, but they're quite common here. Male blackbirds are black with bright yellow beak, but females are brown with less noticeable beak, as you'll see further in the post. Blackbirds seem to often mate for life and both parents take care of the young.
But anyway, now the fun part.
Day 1
On the 15th of April, four gummy bears appeared in the nest. They were blind and naked. They weren't even strong enough to lift their heads. I wondered if the last one was going to hatch, as well.
Day 2
The following day, I discovered that the last one had escaped the eggshell prison, as well. We got five jelly beans. When mamma wasn't hunting for food, she sat on them to keep them warm. Pappa didn't sit on the nest, but he did bring food. I suppose it makes sense, considering their colouring. The female blackbird is less visible on the nest than her strikingly black-coloured male partner. Very handsome, but impractical in this case, clearly. [nods sagely]
Day 3
At this point, I gave in to temptation and ordered the cheapest IP camera I could find online so that I could watch them whenever I felt like it without bothering them - I assumed that might be the only time I might make use of it, so I didn't want to spend a lot. The quality wasn't amazing, but it did its job.
I installed the camera and hoped that the birds wouldn't be too weirded out by the new addition to their environment. Mamma didn't know what to make of it at first, but after she made sure it presented no danger, she wasn't too bothered.
Dad didn't give a flying fuck. Girl got herself a beautiful himbo. He had one mission, and that was to feed the babies, and by the gods, he was going to do it. He didn't care about any alien devices appearing out of nowhere.
One thing I discovered this way and found very amusing was that because the babies were blind and slept most of the time, mamma always poked them to wake them up for feeding. Then the little ones started sort of flailing around with open mouths. It was fun to watch.
Day 4
They were growing so fast! On the fourth day, 18th April, you could already see a little fluff and signs of wing feathers.
Day 5
They looked incredibly silly (affectionate), but they were starting to resemble birds. The sparse fluff on their heads is killing me.
Day 6
I could swear that they were growing right in front of my eyes. I could turn around for five minutes and they'd get bigger in meantime. Or so it seemed. Less than a week since hatching, they were almost filling the nest. The wing feathers had grown stronger.
Day 7
Signs of feathers started to appear on their heads and backs, too. At this point, I noticed that one of them was smaller than the rest. It was probably the one that hatched last. I named it Doomguy to send it some positive vibes, which of course did nothing. Please, don't get attached to it. I'm sorry to say that one didn't make it. I'm not going to keep it a surprise.
Day 8
Status: Skrungly. Getting floofier.
They got more lively. They begged for food more aggressively. It was funny to see how the parents sometimes looked at them with what almost seemed like confusion about the bottomless pits wiggling in front of them.
My coworker said that they reminded her of carnivorous plants, and honestly, I see it.
I almost forgot to mention that the parents were flying back and forth with food every few minutes. And by every few minutes, I mean every 10 - 20 minutes. All day. Mamma occasionally sat on them and also during the night to keep them warm, but as they were growing more feathery, she did it less and less. Childcare is pretty intense when you're a blackbird.
Day 9
Optical sensors online! The nest was packed. Mischief ensued. They started to get more active, but still kept to the nest. They were grooming and stretching and used their little leggys for scratching. They also looked like a bunch of balding disgruntled old men. Hungy, eepy, pissed off.
I was still hoping at this point that the smallest one was going to make it, even though it was growing and developing much slower than the rest. It was clear that it was either sickly or unable to compete for food with its stronger siblings or both. I was terribly tempted to go buy some worms and try to feed it myself, but I was worried I could endanger the whole nest by messing with it. If a nest is disrupted, baby birds can leave it prematurely. Or they could panic and fall off. I didn't want to risk scaring off the parents, either. I tried to educate myself on what could be done, but found nothing useful. It felt bad, but I decided not to interfere and let nature do its thing.
Day 10
Look at that, they look like birds! Incredibly silly birds (affectionate), but birds. They were getting properly feathery.
Day 11
They basically wouldn't sit still any more, but they slept cuddled together at night. Mamma wouldn't sit on them any more, either, since they could keep each other warm and also had grown feathers enough.
At some point, dad flew in with snacks while I was standing right there. Startled the shit out of me. I always tried to give them space and only approached occasionally to snap a few higher quality pictures, maybe make a short video. This time he surprised me, though, so we met.
Fortunately, he was completely unbothered.
Day 12
Look at my little chickens. They grow up so fast. They still look ridiculous.
The feeding time started getting almost a little scary.
I wonder if they could eat their parents.
Day 13
The little one was gone. It either died overnight or during the morning. It passed in the nest and the parents cleaned it up. It's sad, but at least the rest of them was all right. We got four healthy, lively baby birds almost ready to fly. They were very restless at this point, frequently grooming, stretching their wings and even trying them out.
The other siblings look a little unimpressed, I've got to say.
Day 14
During my lunch break, I noticed through the IP camera app that three of the babies had left the nest. Sadly, I missed that. One of them was more hesitant, though. I rushed home after work, hoping to see them still somewhere around.
Fortunately, when I arrived, they were still nearby, screaming for food. Blackbird parents feed their young for about two weeks after they leave the nest. So, I just followed the hungry yelling and found all three, while the last one was still gathering courage:
They'd just left the nest and suddenly some of them were up in the trees? Unbelievable! (They didn't make this sort of unholy noise in the nest, by the way. They were making cute little peeps, kind of like little chickens.)
The last one left the nest a few hours later than its siblings. It just needed a little more time. Eventually, it got ready, left me a little parting gift (💩) and fluttered off the windowsill.
I was so happy for them and that I got to experience all this.
And that was pretty much the last day I saw them. This area has a lot of grass, trees, a park nearby, etc., so there are a lot of places for them to live. Since they left the nest, I thought I could hear them at times (then again, lots of birds in this area), and I'm pretty sure I've seen their parents around, but yeah... now they're somewhere out there. I hope they're doing well. ❤️
It is genuinely so infuriating that Wikipedia's official policy is to misgender anyone who uses neopronouns
this is, without a doubt, the funniest headline and photo combo i’ve ever seen
We need an alternative to doesthedogdie cause they’ve started fucking paywalling warnings that include timestamps for triggering moments.
Like what the fuck
I just checked and
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I recommend Unconsenting Media. Not as comprehensive as DoesTheDogDie, but if sexual assault is a trigger for you, it’s a good resource
rbing again real quick--i and other(s?) have noted in other rbs that this is almost never done. it's for very few properties, and it's only for timestamped warnings that are done in-house, not by users.
there are still timestamps available for warnings on those same triggers for those same properties. just bc there's a paywall on something doesn't mean other comments and timestamps can't be posted or read for free on that property or that trigger.
see here:
i don't have an account and haven't paid for anything on the site, so all of those comments are what i'm seeing for free.
i had to search and search to find anything that had paywalls, and had to resort to looking at The Substance, as referenced here. i've been using the site regularly since the op posted and have never organically encountered a paywall on anything, including on very popular properties.
i don't see any reason to stop using the site--everything is still available for free. they just have added another way for some ppl to choose to pay some $ (in addition to ads), since this is a completely free service, and no website is free to maintain.
as an example, someone with the money could pay to see the timestamps, and then leave a free comment with the same timestamps for others if they wanted to.
I've seen this post on my dash a few times now and I want to boost this specific addition. I've emailed the owner of the site to get clarification on this, and I was told the motivation behind this. He wanted to start paying some people to memorize all 200+ triggers on the site, sit down and watch popular movies/shows to thoroughly analyze whenever any trigger pops up, and note down timestamps and details of them. Ads unfortunately do not cover this (they probably only cover the site's base upkeep), so the subscription service is specifically to pay these people. Community comments have never been paywalled and are still accessible.
He thanked me for my feedback when I expressed confusion and concern about the paywalled comments being mixed in with the free comments, and has since updated the site to make them clearly distinct, along with a preview of what the paid comments look like:
He was very transparent about it all and very kind. He also said this was his mistake and is trying to clear it up. Please continue to use DoesTheDogDie.com, it is an excellent resource and there is nothing else like it!