i do art.
i rarely post completed art online for a variety of reasons, but I’m a ceramicist and fine artist.
i do ecology.
i merge landscaping with native ecosystems and have worked to restore midwest floodplains and prairie ecosystems! ask me about the many benefits of plants that are acclimated to their environment.
i do herpetology.
I have 7 snakes - Octavia, Klavier, Sandwich, Bacon, Tulip, Petrichor, and Maranta. I've also got 7 crested geckos – Gizarmaluke, Vyv, Dino, Kuja, Chadley, Ramuh, and Wedge. Snakes were intentional, I happened into the geckos.
i love a whole lot of other things.
transfeminism, amphibians, arthropods, cambrian and ediacaran fauna, giant isopods, final fantasy 9 and 7, and my dog doppio!
go find a plant and give it a kiss for me.
common tags to blacklist under the readmore
broadly: if bugs n snake talk aren't your thing, this probably isn't the follow for you. i used to be more religious with tags but now i'm just here to curate a happy page of things for me to look at and have a silly littel grin from time to time. :) i tag some things for friends and to weed out for myself later:
spiders - tagged as spiders
nonspider bugs / arthropods - usually tagged as skittery bits.
uspol - united states bullshit.
fuck landlords tag - anticapitalist nonsense
transphobia - yeah i tag that shit
long post - ask about 2012-15 tumblr if u really gotta know why
feel free to ask if you need somethin tagged and i'll do my best to tag it with very few exceptions. i have a separate snake/herp blog and body weirds blog, and once in a blue moon a bird blog.
heads up that i have a very low tolerance for egregious discourse. if i get a lick of something fishy happening anon goes off and i block liberally. mostly have to put this here bc of Ye Olde Hair Loss Post which people still dig up and get terfy on sometimes. trans ndrophob a truthers and other tra sp obic smellin' content generally earns you a block. godspeed
the online identity and gimmick-ifying of autism is so odd. I'm diagnosed with autism and yet I barely identify with any stuff I see about it anymore. It feels like autism is being rebranded as the Silly Guy Disorder that gives you smart and beautiful hyperspecific interests. it's not that I mind silly jokes or being lighthearted about being autistic- but when the entire social movement is based around marketing us this way, I just can't help but feel isolated from it. it feels like I'm not the right kind of autistic. I'm not marketable and digestible to common audiences, and therefore I am discarded by the movement in the name of progress and acceptance. it feels foul.
It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere
i think people are starting to confuse class analysis with bioessentialism. like... no not all men do this, but Men as a constructed social class do do this. that's still okay to say. that is regular material analysis of the world around us.
TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.
There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!
The Weather Channel's AQI is broken (apparently the entire planet is hazardous to breathe right now, oops) but the scale only goes up to 500 so I am in tears at how the little indicator loads in upon a refresh.
Pottery sounds terrifying to me. Every post I see is like "Here's this awesome art I made!! Pray for me that it survives The Kiln™ :')" I don't think I could cope with making art that could quite easily blow up and I have no way of controlling that. You guys are true heroes.
