Cinder | They/Them | Demisexual and demiromantic | Personal blog so don’t expect any form of consistency
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Currently looking through all of the RA books I can find to verify the direction Crowley faces while at his desk in Castle Araluen it’s so I can be correct as to whether he looks round or up at someone entering his office
“we should breed and ask our offspring what they think” has quickly become my favorite way to respond to someone disagreeing with me
The early years for me but I think that might just be because I’ve read it more recently. I think it’s shorter so it’s just more consistently good and also most of my favourite characters are in there but I love the depth that Rangers Apprentice goes into about things it’s just so nice :). And I haven’t really started reading much of RR so can’t really give thoughts on it yet
I have a question for the RA fandom:
What is your favourite series?
The early years
Rangers apprentice
The royal ranger
I'm very curious :)
I just think that it’d be pretty neat if snakes had like the tooth fairy but for their shed and they got like a really small mouse or a bit of meat inside their shed that their parent sneakily stashed in there while they weren’t looking and then they find it and get all excited, I just think that’s be neat and like cute and stuff so yeah
ok I just saw this and I love leopards so I’m legally required to info dump about leopards. DISCLAIMER: mostly I’m talking about African leopards as I’m not very familiar with the other subspecies but they are all fairly similar just the comparisons will be different.
Okay here we go:
- leopards claws are specialised in a way that allows them to climb trees facing both forwards and backwards
- leopards are one of the strongest mammals for their size and are capable of carrying around 3-4 times their own body weight vertically up trees
- leopards carry and hang their prey in trees in order to protect it from lions and hyenas
- like all big cats (and most African wildlife) a leopards coat is designed to help it blend in with its environment
- they need this camouflage as leopards hunt in a very similar way to, say, cheetahs. They will stalk their prey and get close enough to them that they won’t have to waste energy running them down
- how they differ to cheetahs is that, unlike a cheetah who will run the last distance to their prey, a leopard will often jump it - from a crouched start they can leap 6 meters (20ft) horizontally and 3 meters (10ft) vertically
- while a leopard will often flee from a large pack of hyenas or a pride of lions they are in fact one of the most capable of the big (African) cats in terms of fighting. A lion will usually only use its front claws and teeth to fight, a cheetah is just all around terrible at fighting a target that isn’t running away, whereas a leopard is know to fight with all four claws plus teeth at the same time - and due to rotting animal flesh on their teeth and claws leopard wounds will often become infected quickly and fatally.
- a leopards favourite type of meat baboon but they are opportunists and will go for just about anything, including fish
- There are currently 9 subspecies of leopards recognised by the AWF, these are: African, Indian, Javan, Amur, Arabian, North Chinese, Indochinese, Persian/Caucasian, and Sri Lankan
- Leopards coats differ from leopard to leopard, similar to wild dogs
- Leopards, unlike the other African big cats, basically cannot be made to be your friend :(. this is because of their solitary and opportunistic life and their brain is hardwired to see anything that isn’t a leopard as potential food. Leopard cubs do not have this tendency though so they can seem all sweet but one day they will turn against you
- they are extremely solitary animals, the most solitary of the African big cats, and have very wide hunting ranges that they, well, hunt in. These ranges are often marked by claw marks or urine
- male leopards are significantly bigger than female and have far bigger ranges that often meet with several female ranges
- leopard cubs first eat meet at about 6-7 weeks old but don’t stop suckling until about 2-3 months, they will stay with the mother for about 2 years. The father does not help the mother raise the children
- leopard hunt during the night hours in order to catch their prey off guard and aid their camouflage as baboons have very good eyesight (which is similar to humans in that they can see colour, but equivalent to a 8x zoom magnifier if a pair of binoculars). However, leopards can also be seen active during the day
- a leopards can make purring and meowing sounds like a house cat but their main call is often compared to that of a saw cutting through wood
- leopards often reach speeds of up to 56km/h (35mph) but when hungry can reach 64km/h (40mph) - slow compared to other big cats.
- leopards like most felines have retractable claws to help them move more quietly. Notably cheetahs do not have these because they are way too specialised for running really fast
- leopards are cool
- they are my favourite animal
- cheetahs are way too specialised for their own good
Yeah so I was just sorting through my family’s bookshelves and found this book on tying ties and Jesus these guys have some strong feelings on tie tying
“Aggravated to malice”, like what you just gonna fuckin murder someone cause they tightened their tie wrong??
I hate executive dysfunction
"Cartoons are for little kids, adults shouldn't--"
BITCH WHO DO YOU THINK MADE THE GODDAMN CARTOON
It's my little brother's birthday, so we're at the pool with a couple of his (guy) friends, as well as two of the friends' dad
Another friend joined us last-minute bc she was already here. She's closest to my sibling who didn't come, but she's also good friends with the rest of us, and our families have also been friends for ages.
The dad of the other two friends asked why she was spending so much time with us, and said she "must be sweet on someone"
1. no
2. have you ever heard of friends
3. boys and girls can be friends
4. unless you're saying your boys only like to hang out with my brothers bc they're sweet on them?
5. she already has a boyfriend
Just *aroace angy* stop that!!! friends are a thing that can exist independently of crushes or fancying people or whatever you wanna call it! a girl doesn't have to fancy a boy to want to hang out with him and his friends, maybe, just MAYBE, she actually likes him AS A FRIEND!!!
*sigh* some older people are just. a lil annoying with their ideas of romance and what it means when a boy and girl are friends and all
writing romance is even more wild it’s like I don’t know why the hell these words go together but they sure as heck seem to make people cry
being loveless and being able to enjoy romance in fiction is so fucking wild
its like, i have no concept of what love even is, i fundamentally cannot understand it, but you can be damn sure i’ll cry my eyes out during the lesbian wedding in the video game i like
Whenever I see aro/ace discourses and whether they belong in LGBTQ+ spaces, my initial thought is always the same:
Who are you to decide?
What none tells you about being on aromantic and/or asexual spectrum is how isolating it is. You feel lonely. And it's constant. Lonliness because of identity isn't always overwhelming, but it's present somewhere deep down. You feel lonely not because of lack of sexual/romantic attraction but because of society and amatonormativity.
When I was in elementary school, all my friends had crushes. I never understood that because even if I liked someone, it was always in platonic way. They insisted I couldn't possibly not like anyone and I felt forced to fake a crush. In middle school people started dating each other and I comforted myself with "I'm too young for that, time will come". By the high school I already knew something was "wrong" with me, I wasn't like the others. People began having sex not because they were expected to do that but because they actually wanted to. That was such shock to me, I thought media was exaggerating with passion and attraction but apparently all those things happen irl too. Hence I realized I was "the weird one". I forced myself to have same experiences but it felt more like obligation to me than something I trully wanted. I felt dirty after being touched, it repulsed me. I felt like something is broken within me for not enjoying sex. I could never fall in love. People called me coldhearted, they thought something was wrong with me. Few therapist tried to "fix" me, even set me up on dates. I internalized all of that and began seeing myself as "not normal".
Now that I'm older and know there's nothing wrong with me or being aroace, I still can't shake years and years of "I'm not normal" I experienced. It still haunts me. I hear someone talking about their sexual experiences and part of me still feels "not normal" when seeing how "normal" people live. I feel lonely. Parents insist I must find a partner one day. They don't believe i don't experience romantic attraction towards other people. Outside of aspec communities online, I don't experience any support. When I step outside, I still feel like something is wrong with me. Intentionally or not, society still makes me feel like an outsider. It's because of amatonormativity that roots too deep.
There's nothing wrong with people being romantic or sexual, far from that - but vast majority of cishet folks out there expect me to act same as them. Mere thought of someone looking at me as sexual being makes me cringe. I never felt romantic attraction towards anyone. I don't want to be in a relationship - I'm different from the "rest". It's lonely. Felling of isolation became association to me as part of identity. I don't even form closer platonic bonds because inevitable question of my romantic/sex life would inevitably come. For the longest time I felt like I needed to censor that part of myself. I assimilate with surroundings and hope noone finds out my "little secret".
If we as society educated kids more about LGBTQ+ stuff, then maybe this chronic feeling of isolation in aspec communities would diminish in few generations. However what I can say is that from very early age I experienced romantic/sexual attraction very different from what is considered "standard" - and that is why I relate to LGBT experiences innumerous times more than I will to "standard' heterosexual heteroromantic ones.
So stranger on the internet, who are you to swept all my complicated feelings and experiences regarding sexuality under rug because they can't fit in your narrow definition of how romantic and sexual attraction should be.
Why does unliking posts have to be so hard (emotionally that is)
My tags are specifically for my mad rambling
Why is this heat so hot 😩
fired for killing customers again
Just passed a group of teenage girls walking downtown.... wearing cargo pants and platform crocs.... nature really is healing......
Pjo fandom about every character
it's time to validate will's trauma. he has it too. he was a 12 year old boy who lost both of his brothers and was thrust into a leadership role during two wars, and y'all still act like he's the perfect sunshine boy who's constantly happy go lucky
due to budget cuts preschool will no longer teach about the color green
You give a knight a phone with the tumblr app installed and he makes an account and immediately follows the urls king.tumblr.com and queen.tumblr.com and then he accidentally drops the phone in a muddy creek
:)
Being compared to a pjo character is like the best compliment anyone could receive. Like if anyone compared me to Annabeth chase I’d have to marry them on the spot.
reblog to remove 1 hair from joe bidens body
deep-sea giant isopods group chat
iceopod_drip: who up scavenging the sea floor for nutrients⁉️⁉️ hmu if u can hang 🤙
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mostsexualmotherfucker: SO over the current food shortage in the gulf of mexico rn 🙏
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pass-the-detritus: Anyone else get pissed when you get compared to pill bugs? Stereotypes are so restricting… plus, pill bugs don’t even have pleopods! Smh
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DeadWhale joined the group.
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My ex took my orb when we broke up. She never even scried with it, so I think she’s just using it to put under her dress and pretend to be pregnant so she gets better seats on the bus and subway. That was the same thing I was gonna do, but it’s not fair
RRVerse ask game
general courtesy is to send an ask to the person you rb from
1. which character do you think would either be your best friend or fucking hate you irl
2. which character looks the coolest?
3. who would you like to see more fanart/fic of?
4. what couple/relationship/character inspires you to create content
5. whose powers would you want to have?
7. which two characters that have never/barely interacted would be best friends or dating in your mind if given the circumstances?
8. specific headcanon for a character?
9. what do you think [a character] would do after all their adventures end?
just found a file with all of my yr5-7 poetry and I’m starting to wonder why I didn’t read lose I was aroace sooner cause only one of them is about love which I only wrote bc I was told I had to
and even it’s just barely qualifies as a love poem, as in the word ‘love’ could just be replaced with ‘friendship’ and it’d make just as much sense