Sometimes I see straight women posting and I'm like hmmm okay I can see why some straight men are driven insane without necessarily being like Andrew Tate psychos
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The feminine trait of *checks notes* wanting to stay hydrated
... And you hid it in the tags ?
We have GOT to keep making fun of cis women who act like this. It’s the only way we can move forward
served my duty as an autistic artist and made a bunch of autism creature reaction images
Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today
fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one
There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.
And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.
I could write an entire essay about this.
What the fuck does a planet in retrograde even mean
idk but i wish they'd fucking NOT
I know this is a bit, but in case anyone was wondering...
In this context retrograde is when two planets orbiting the same sun pass each other at their closest. The faster planet passes the slower one, and (to observers on the faster planet) the slower planet seems to move backwards across the sky briefly. Retrograde.
Ignoring the complicated definition of what an exotic pet actually is (because a bearded dragon is not domesticated and in the veterinary world a rabbit is considered an exotic animal) anyone that ever tells you that any kind of wild animal makes a good pet is pretty much a dead give away for a bad owner. You can provide proper enrichment, diet, and husbandry for an animal and enjoy its presence in your home but tbh if you’re properly taking care of these animals you know without a doubt that they do not make a good pet for the majority of people. Just because YOU can properly house and care for a coati does not mean they are blanket statement good pet.
I like to think I have provided a pretty darn good retirement home for my elderly rescue sugar glider but I absolutely would never recommend one as a pet. Can it be done right? Sure. But I would never say they make good pets, because I know that their care is very complicated and not a good fit for the majority of owners. It’s ok to say that an animal is a good pet for you, but no responsible owner would ever go around saying that a hyacinth macaw is a great pet for just anyone. A responsible owner is honest about how difficult their animal’s care is and how much research, time, and money must be dedicated to properly house and care for these animals. They also know that people tend to get these animals without doing their research, and often source them from less than reputable places. If they own these animals responsibly, it means they care about educating people on what proper ownership actually entails and will actively discourage people from impulse buying one or not doing their research. That’s what responsible exotic pet ownership is. Full stop.
For once, I beg of you all on tumblr dot com to understand nuance. I really hope that I don’t have to explain that we’re talking about things like foxes, monkeys, servals, etc and not leopard geckos, hamsters, hedgehogs and the like (though those have their own issues of course).
[ID: text "Important Starfleet Maneuvers" Attached image is four panels as quadrants showing the Stargazer at warp, Riker sitting down, Voyager crashing into the time travel villain's space lab, and Pike hugging Una. Text on each "Picard maneuver: warp trickery" "Riker maneuver: Chair" "Janeway maneuver: hit it with the ship lol" and "Pike maneuver: Unabashedly care for the people in your life"]
Sisko maneuver: Living with it.
i don't want a career, i want to do crafts
While I understand this is probably venting, I have some thoughts I wish to share.
If you don't want a career, you want to craft, maybe look into the trades. I've started working as an elevator mechanic recently and, holy shit it's changed my life.
Like, seriously. While the work is tiring, it's deeply satisfying too. To me, very similar to getting a pattern in crochet or sewing figured out. It involves using your hands, using your brain in a similar way crafting does, and it can also pay incredibly well (meaning you can use your left over pay from making things in your day job to making things just cause you want to with your evenings and weekends).
With fewer and fewer people going into trades, there's more and more demand, making it easier to get in. My province is currently paying eligible students to become trade workers, so you can see if you have a similar program where you live. (if there are any Quebecers here interested, check out Operation Main D'oeuvre and call your local Emploi Québec office for information).
And for Mentally ill people, I've found construction insanely helpful for managing my conditions. Like, regular exercice helps the management of so many conditions, right? But I've always hated exercise for the sake of exercise. But now my work has me moving every day, making my depression and ADHD way easier to manage. Nothing like beating a recalcitrant rail support into place to help work off the nervous energy creates by anxiety either. I've been struggling with my mental health for well over a decade and I do not have words to describe how good it feels to wake up and have no dread about the work I have to do today. I might be tired and grumpy, but even then, there's no soul crushing dread.
I've also found it empowering and it helps me with my crafting (it teaches precision and gives you a really good eye for measurements, depending on the trade). It gives you financial power as well as power over your space (I've changed all the switches in my apartment for dimmers, easy peasy).
So yeah, TLDR, don't want a career, want to craft? Maybe manual trades are the route for you. I know they were for me
Computer repair was easily the best most fulfilling work I ever did. Just me and a little puzzle I knew how to solve.
if you have autism please look into welding. you get earplugs and gloves and a cozy helmet. you do the same shit the same way every day. you are surrounded by the weirdest and most dysfunctional men ever invented and you don’t have to respect any of them. you go to your little horse stall and glue bits together until it’s time to go home. it’s exhausting and sometimes painful work but i have worked retail and i have sucked dick for money and i can say with my whole chest that welding is significantly less stressful in terms of time, effort, pain, and dealing-with-people.
if you have ADHD i do have to warn you that welding gets boring after awhile and you are discouraged from making little bugs out of scraps. you can do it anyway. but you have to hide them from your boss.
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