stuff i liked

stuff i like and thought you'd like too personal posts may not be peer-reviewed or edited for publication all posts are the opinion of someone except those that aren't

[thatsthat24]

It's Totally NOT the Reason ⚔️ (feat. Aryan Simhadri)

[tlirsgender]

My hot take about ghosts is that they're only scary if they're mad at you. White christians are scared of dead people cause they're the ones killing them

[tlirsgender]

"I'm being haunted by vengeful spirits" and why are the spirits vengeful? 🤨 victim blaming much

[tlirsgender]

Me and the girls are hangin out with our ancestors they're chill as fuck maybe if all the ghosts you know have a problem with you you should look inward

[catasters]

[kayla-denker]

"A rising tide lifts all boats."

You fight for the rights of racialized trans women first and foremost, because they are the most marginalized out of all of us. That's the only way you get rights protected for white trans women, for non-binary people, for trans men, and yes even for cis women.

You cannot guarantee any of our rights if you try to deny the rights of racialized trans women. And I don't mean that as purely a moral statement, I mean you physically cannot do it. If you make allowances for one marginalized group to continue being oppressed, then you've left the door wide open for all of us to continue being oppressed. And the fascists will walk right through that door with ease every single time. Just look how they carved out exceptions to deny trans women bodily autonomy, which then led directly to abortion rights being overturned.

When the most threatened of us is left undefended we're all in danger.

[kissmetenderkissmehard]

"sorry, I'll shut up now."

"no, keep going."

– a love story

[dozydawn]

[lew-basnight]

Look I know this is a scientific publication but you don’t understand— we need to include milk and cookies in the photo. We have to. Otherwise the science suffers

[gemini-enthusiast]

Hilariously funny that they let the guy known for wandering off without warning to look at birds was allowed to do this

[songofsaraneth]

#famously few birds in space#probably the safest place to take him

[skellydun]

hey good luck today with whatever u got going on. u got this. and i hope something really nice happens to u today. u deserve it. 

[paleoart]

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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[paleoart]

Recent updates to this series: Glyptodon and Thylacine!

[paleoart]

OK SO a frozen baby Homotherium mummy has been found in Siberian permafrost and everybody is going nuts (including me). I had to make another installmente for this series with a figurine that has long been debated to either depict either a lion or Homotherium; Despite anatomical details pointing to the latter, there was no record of surviving Homotherium from the time the figurine was dated to have been made, so it was mostly believed to have been a cave lion. However, the frozen cub closes that temporal gap and makes it more likely that this was in fact the subject of the sculpture. So even though it’s not a painting, here it is brought to life.

[paleoart]

Two new updates:

A remake of the first ever piece I did for the series, the Megaloceros, given that although the piece of cave art I chose is often labeled as being that species, a more critical look to the antlers in particular makes me think it’s a red deer instead. I picked a more agreed-upon depiction of Megaloceros and also took the opportunity to make it a little more anatomically accurate.

Also, birb

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sunderedstar]

[omghotmemes]

It’s water over the bridge

[phoenix]

A bridge over troubled highways.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[unpredictablestuff]

Great, my enchanted sword just got snatched by a couple of secret service agents (whatever that is), who spent the whole time arguing over a baked potato while they completely ignored me. What am I, invisible? For their sakes, I hope they never get together.

[despazito]

When you hear Halifax do you think

Halifax, England

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Remaining time: 13 hours 17 minutes

[despazito]

the human mind cannot commit more than one halifax to memory

[mumblesplash]

it's such bs that the whole guilt-ridden stoic self-sacrificing martyr thing doesn't work outside of fiction. repressing all your emotions and neglecting your physical wellbeing should make you god's most tragically beautiful morally unassailable little soldier of righteousness but all it does is give you bad skin and gastrointestinal problems

[unpredictablestuff]

getting it done pre-haste with a bit more ado

[insomniac-arrest]

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of plastics is collapsing

[insomniac-arrest]

Our age of information is collapsing! *remembers generative AI, nods to self* our age of information is collapsing.