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
This is so important though: "You're gonna get in trouble for that" reveals so much. He was planning on nobody doing anything, not because nobody stands up to him, or nobody objecting to what he says. He expects good people to be goody-two-shoes rules followers, and he expects the rules to protect him no matter what he does.
Important lesson to learn from this standing up to fascists means getting into good trouble. Get into trouble if it's worth it. Fascists will never expect it.
you deadass mob them and hit them until the casual violence cant keep happening. you do this or you allow fascism into your community.
if your fist cannot find them you hit them in every other possible way.
their unchallenged public existence as barely-masked neonazis is the fragile victory they are trying to maintain. they believe a general taboo against conflict will protect them. they will win unless an element in the room stands up and hits them.
Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.
Look, it's simple. If a person has to actively work to make money, they're not "the rich" and they're not the problem. A surgeon making $200k a year still stops making money if they stop showing up to do surgery, because they're still selling their labor. The radical discrepancies in how we value different skills are certainly a problem, but the guy who makes money when he doesn't even get out of bed is the one making money on the value of other people's labor.
alright I'm almost finished Project Hail Mary, and I have to say, I don't get why people are shipping the guy with Markiplier when he's already in a perfectly healthy queer-platonic relationship with the alien spider made of rocks
do it while the ground falls out from under you; do it while everything you loved goes up in smoke; do it while the dream of your future is still burning embers around you; build anew on the hot ashes of everything you worked for; keep going, keep loving, keep living, even as all you want is to turn back (there is no turning back; it is gone already); do it through grief, which feels like fear in the body
The tag I have seen most often on this post is "I needed to hear this," and I am so, so grateful to have said something that was needed. These words came out of the depths of my own grief, and I am so grateful to have made this small connection with others in the midst of it. Grief is isolating and indescribable, but none of us are alone.
That said, these tags were what I needed to hear:
we're all gonna make it
it's okay if you can't see how yet. you don't have to believe in better. for now it is enough to just keep going, and eventually the path will emerge. you are not alone. you are not lost in the woods forever. keep going. I love you.
