Sea animals, hopepunk, fantasy, queerness, and a bit of philosophy
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This episode broke my heart. Seeing how they could have had it so fucking nice was more painful than all the pain in the rest of the show. Seeing who Powder could have been. Fuck.
The song playing in the background when Ekko and Powder dance is called... 'Ma Meilleure Ennemie'
Which translates to...
MY BEST ENEMY.
I'M NOT OKAY š
Despite the circumstances Ekko has always loved Jinx :')
Ma meilleure ennemie is going to be in every enemies to lovers playlist
This book is a cozy cuddle to your soul. I love fantasy since I'm a child but sometimes I don't need all the violence, the fighting and the high stakes. Cozy fantasy as a genre has been a revelation! You can have all the fantasy stuff but it is about a former orc mercenary who wants to open a sweet coffee shop where people can relax and be happy and it turns to also be a lesbian romance. Fuck yes.
legends and lattes ā
When I sayĀ āfree water, free food, free shelter, free healthcare, free education for everyoneā in thatĀ āeveryoneā I even include the people I hate. Too many people get surprised at the idea that I do wish for the people I hate to have better lives.
#Marine fashion
fashion is cyclical
The most beautiful footage of strangers dancing in publicā¦ https://twitter.com/Thorayaaa/status/1660180658646568967
While cleaning out my room I found a paper that my therapist gave me some time ago to deal with obsessive and intrusive thoughts. Sorry the paper is a little crinkled and stained, but I figured Iād post it in hopes that it will help someone like it helped me.
there is a judge in Seattle who does the weekly name change hearings, and who says it's her favorite part of the week. she says she doesn't read out previous names, or ask about the reasons why people want to change them. she says it's a beautiful moment, and a celebration; a claiming of a new identity, or a reclamation of an old identity. she encourages the room to clap for folks. then she welcomes everyone up, one by one, by last name and with warmth; she shows them the court order where nobody else can see, asks them to double check the spelling, and then they're done! do they want a picture? do they want their friends and loved ones who came with them to be in it too? do they want the court order in the photo? she helps everyone pose, shakes hands and stands with them for as long as they need to take it, recruits the clerk for help taking photos of the folks who came alone. then she tells them where to go next, congratulates them, and claps along with the rest of the room.
probably three quarters of the people there were trans, and she centered their experience quietly, with love and joy.
I think I'll be thinking about her a lot this January, and for a long time after. it's good to know she's there.
#Marine life #diving #unexpected friendship #under water shrine
#hopepunk #I needed that #will be my tradition too now #happy new year
Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?
A mobular ray breaching. Filmed in the Sea of Cortez (Western Mexico). From Islands in a Desert Sea (2017).
Do you have any manta ray info you'd like to share? Or any other type of sea critter you're intrigued by? :3
Manta Ray facts!!!
Their wingspan can be up to 30 feet across and they can weigh up to two tons!
Despite their massive size, they can leap nearly 10 feet out of the water (imagine having one of those flying through the air at you)
Every manta has a unique pattern of spots on their underbelly, which has long been used to id individuals as it was considered as unique and unchanging as a fingerprint. However, new evidence suggests that the pattern can shift as the manta ages, meaning we may have been counting the same individuals more than once, overestimating their population.
They have long been hunted for their gill plates, which apparently have medicinal properties, but sadly the species are now threatened due to overharvesting and other human activity.
Mantas are high intelligent, potentially one of the smartest fish in the ocean! They are extremely curious of humans and frequently interact with divers, and can even recognize themselves in a mirror!
very fucked up that you can try insanely hard your whole life to make all the right choices and yet you canāt escape bad outcomes. like what the flip
why have i been disgraced
#hopepunk #just humans making things better
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#I cannot hate myself into a version of me I will love is so true and beautifuuul
i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.
The only way in which selling sex is exceptional as a form of work is that it involves having sex.
Sex work is not more emotionally intimate than all other forms of work. Emotionally intimacy can be involved in therapy, care work, and writing about deeply personal topics.
Sex work is not the only form of work which can involve genital contact. This happens in medical environments, care work and when giving genital piercings.
Sex work is not uniquely dangerous. Fishing, construction and underwater welding all have high fatality and injury rates.
Sex work is not more prone to trafficking than all other forms of work. People are trafficked in huge numbers in the agricultural industry and for the manufacture of textiles.
Sex work is not the only form of work which involves frequent sexual harassment. People are often sexually harassed whilst doing bar work, waiting tables and providing health care and social assistance.
Sex work is not the only type of work that is criminalized. Other types of work like busking without a license, drug dealing, con artistry and any kind of job which requires authorisation form a third party where that isn't obtained.
Stop it with the sex work exceptionalism! Treat it like other work.
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I finally made the meme I've had in my head for over a year
I have never once wished for Tolkien to still be alive as much as I do in this moment
#hopepunk #thank you
Hope, kindness, and compassion are skills. You can get better at them. Some people are naturally better or worse at them and sometimes something happens that makes them hard for you and that's okay. Just like coming back to work or a sport or other activity after an injury, you can slowly work up to it.
If you don't feel like you're a kind person, but you want to be, good news! You can be! It will just take some training just like any other skill.
A lot of people lack hope and you know what that's fair. But hope isn't this ephemeral thing the universe just gives you. It takes work to build a hopeful mindset. It's a skill.
If compassion is hard for you I'll tell you that it was once hard for me and now people tell me I'm the most compassionate person they know. Because I decided I wanted to feel compassion for everyone, even the people who hurt me, and started practicing.
They're skills and they are ESSENTIAL for living a happy life. If you want to be happy you have to be kind. If you want to feel joy without a cloud hanging over your head you need hope. And if you want to hurt less, you need compassion. I know you can do it. Good luck!
#manta rays
#manta rays are beautiful and incredible look at that
Pack of manta rays
i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.