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When you get this, please respond with five things that make you happy! Then send it to the last ten people in your notifications (anonymously). You never know who might benefit from spreading positivity. ♡

Bugs! 🐜🪳🐝🪲

My cool roommate and their bunny ❤️

Nature walks, nature photography

My siblings and partner and close friends ❤️❤️❤️🫶🏻❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

my blorbos and special interests lol

Plus an extra: the absolutely weird-wonderful culture at my college

These are just some things I thought of :)

there is no minimum amount of suffering before you are allowed to want to alleviate it

Here’s my two cents

Song recs from nomination form below the cut

Ace Attorney: Allegro 2007, Guilty Love, When Something Smells..., Objection 2004, Turnabout Sisters (Trials and Tribulations), The Fragrance of Dark Coffee, Pursuit - Cornered 2001, Turnabout Sisters Ballad, Phoenix Wright - Objection! 2001, Cross-Examination - Moderato 2001, Cross-Examination - Allegro 2001, A Prosecutor Reborn, Ryutaro Objection theme

Fire Emblem: Twilight of the Gods, Four Hounds, God Shattering Star (all versions), Corridors of the Tempest (all versions), Between Heaven and Earth (all versions), The Long Road (all versions), Indomitable Will (all versions), The Forgotten, The Edge of Dawn, Fodlan Winds, As Swift as Wind, Blue Skies and a Battle, Tearing Through Heaven, Roar of Dominion, Dwellings of the Ancient Gods, Paths That Will Never Cross, The Spirit Dais, Golden Deer and Crescent Moon, The Leader's Path, A Dark Sign, Those Who Sow Darkness, Shambhala, The Apex of the World

As an autistic person, I didn’t have this experience, because I not only have had a loving and unusually accepting family all my life, I’ve had a friend group almost entirely made up of fellow neurodivergent people. But some of my autistic friends have had this experience. I try to reassure them that someone will love them for who they are, that for some friendships, there aren’t any lines at which their friends will get sick of them. I will never get sick of someone for being “too autistic” and cut them out of my life. At times, I may get sick of a certain behavior and need a break from that particular thing, but I will come back, and there are others, autistic and not, who are the same way. I want everyone reading this to know: there are people who would love you as you are, even if you haven’t met them yet. And if you feel alone, feel free to message me; I may be just a stranger on the internet, but if I can help someone by listening and being there and being the friendly oddball I am, I’d be glad to.

In honor of the winning bugs of the Hemipteran bug race! In first place we have the loud and proud cicada, in second we have the springy and spirited leafhopper, and in third we have the threateningly named assassin bug! Here are close-ups of the bugs with their medals!

Thank you to everyone who voted! ❤️❤️❤️

Bug race, but it’s true bugs only

Cicada (photo by Shannon Potter on Unsplash)

Leafhopper (photo by Mariusz Dabrowski on Unsplash)

Stink bug (photo by Erik Karits on Unsplash)

Wheel bug (photo by Steven Van Elk on Unsplash)

Assassin bug (photo by Gustavo Fernando Durán on Flickr)

maybe i would like flies with that (ukbeetlemania on tiktok)

Butterflies are basically just a subgroup of moths. I think we as a society need to appreciate moths more.

btw we as a society need to redeem the reputation of moths. Butterflies are seen as beautiful and beneficial and a normal thing to like, but moths are gross and creepy and ugly???

It's so dumb! Moths can be beautiful and colorful like butterflies can be and they are important pollinators! They visit flowers that bees ignore! Moths are a way larger and more diverse group than butterflies anyway!!

Okay, so I don’t really have anything about my OCs on tumblr at the moment but I figured I’d reblog this because one, I would like to reassure anyone who might want to message me but is scared of being annoying that they don’t have to worry about that and I will probably appreciate it if someone wants to talk with me and two, my friends who know me in person know that I can and will rant about my OCs to the point where I’m being annoying /lh

Hey, can y’all rb this if it’s okay to send you messages asking about your ocs, cause on god I wanna interact with y’all but I am terrified of being annoying lol

Vote @system-bracket

We love Systems here :)

@alloacefolkscompetition the best of the best alloromantic ace mfs fighting!!!! woo!!!

@system-bracket awesome people with DID/OSDD going against each other to see who is supreme!!

WIP from drawing a bee beetle awhile back. (...Somehow I like going back to look at WIPs more than finished pieces, idk why 🤷)

Anyway I think we can all agree that bee beetles are Very Good beetles, yes? Yes.

Bug race, but it’s true bugs only

Cicada (photo by Shannon Potter on Unsplash)

Leafhopper (photo by Mariusz Dabrowski on Unsplash)

Stink bug (photo by Erik Karits on Unsplash)

Wheel bug (photo by Steven Van Elk on Unsplash)

Assassin bug (photo by Gustavo Fernando Durán on Flickr)

Number five hits hard

adhd + music moods: 

listening to the same song on repeat for 72 hours straight

requires absolutely no sound. complete silence only. if anyone so much as breathes…

NEED ALL THE NOISE. MUSIC AT FULL BLAST. The external volume has to be loud enough to drown out the internal volume so I can hear the one productive thought. I SAID THE EXT-

music has to be just loud enough that i can hear it, but quiet enough so i forget it’s on and i don’t get distracted by changing the song 

too late. i am now changing the song every .2 seconds. hits shuffle. hits shuffle. hits skip. switches playlist. creates a new playlist that is a slight variation of an already existing playlist. it’s been 5 hours.

Hug your local bug! (Metaphorically as they are small)

made some blinkies [here]

Which System is Better?

Round 1; Battle 22

dandelion facts:

Stories about dandelions can be found in folklore almost worldwide!

Dandelions have a diuretic effect (they make you pee,) which is reflected in some of their common names (piss-a-bed)

most North American dandelions reproduce asexually by apomixis, creating loads of identical daughters!

Since they reproduce asexually, these dandelions don't need to be pollinated, even though they produce lots of pollen and nectar. The dandelions that pop up in a lawn feed pollinators without receiving any benefit for themselves.

Dandelion seeds can sprout at any temperature between 0 and 36 degrees Celsius!

Dandelions can regenerate themselves from just a piece of their taproot!

dandelions have a near worldwide distribution and were introduced to North America as a food crop!

Dandelions grow bigger and produce more viable seeds in conditions of higher carbon dioxide, suggesting that human-caused carbon emissions are good news for the dandelions!

Dandelions have been shown to pass epigenetic changes to their DNA caused by stress to their offspring.

CW: antisemitism, pale of settlement, pogroms, genocide, cultural erasure

I don't think goyim can really conceive of how much Jews actually hold back in our criticism of antisemitism in media, and when you hear us it is often because we see a dangerous message that you don't... Yet.

I have a complicated relationship with Tim Burton's rendition of The Corpse Bride. I love it as a beautiful piece of stop motion art, but it isn't what it should have been, he took a Jewish story from the Pale and with intention stripped it of its Jewish origins. This alone is incredibly antisemitic. The criticism you will hear has probably been "this is a Jewish story, it should have retained its Jewish elements" but have you heard why we feel strongly about this story?

The story of the corpse bride is incredibly important to me and was born from Jewish trauma and Christian violence. Mobs would routinely attack Jewish weddings, they would murder brides and they would bury them in unmarked graves by the roadside still in their wedding clothes, they reasoned that without Jewish wives there are no Jewish mother's. Jews are intrinsic to the story.

It is antisemitism to take our story, about our pain, at the hands of non-jews and strip it for "useful" parts, in fact it is heartbreaking every time.

We are often forced to pick our battles and fighting a battle over a movie that has already been released by a director with a cult following is not worth it, you only hear us speak up in numbers when the antisemitism may lead to another century of violence, because raising our voice means picking a fight, because so many of you already see our pain as inconvenient and it is exhausting to never be heard.

-anyone can reblog

Respect the weeds. Appreciate the odd little spaces. And laugh at life :)

Street Artist Transforms Ordinary Public Places Into Funny Installations 

michael-pederson miguel-marquez

Reblog and put why dudebros would call you ‘forced diversity’ and ‘totally unrealistic’ if you were a fictional character in the tags

Billionaire Mark Cuban Opens Online Pharmacy To Provide Affordable Generic Drugs

The company was launched out of stealth last year.

The fact that Mark Cuban can do this is just further proof of how much capatalism is f*cking people over.

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban launched an online pharmacy Thursday that offers more than 100 generic drugs at an affordable price with a goal of being “radically transparent” in its price negotiations with drug companies. 

For example, the leukemia drug imatinib is priced at $47 a month on MCCPDC compared to the $9,657 retail price.

The online pharmacy’s prices for generics factor in a 15% margin on top of actual manufacturer prices and a $3 pharmacist fee, the statement said. 

In my biology lab classes:

Look at this cool living stuff! Today we’re dissecting flowers! What do you mean you won’t pipet by mouth? Yeah, wash your hands, don’t spill the microbes.

Would you like to taste this edible fungus? Or this edible plant?

In my chemistry lab classes:

So this is the concentrated acid and this other chemical will give you cancer and this one is highly flammable and might explode….

Always wear safety glasses and gloves and clothes that cover your body (in case you spill something corrosive or toxic) but aren’t too tight (so you can get them off fast in the event of Dangerous Chemical Spill) or too loose (so they won’t drag and catch on fire). NEVER EVER PIPET BY MOUTH OR TASTE ANYTHING OR EVEN SMELL ANYTHING BECAUSE DOING THAT MIGHT KILL YOU. Fires happen in the lab, let’s hope we don’t have any this semester!

Just me and my 3 favorite characters, having issues….

Just me and my 3 favorite characters, having issues….

Remember: Other people’s pain does not negate your own, even if their pain is “worse.” The reverse is also true: your pain doesn’t negate anyone else’s. While in some cases it might be upsetting to hear other people complain about “problems” that seem minor to you, saying things like “you haven’t really been hurt” is counterproductive; if a person says in good faith that something is painful to them or a struggle for them, it is. Comparing issues based on who has it worst usually leads to more hurt.

The queer community is full of hurt people.

This can lead to a knee-jerk reaction when we hear someone else say "I am hurt". We look at them and say "shut up, you're not as hurt as me because you have X privilege".

This leads to femme afab queers being told "you can pass and hide as cishet, you're not as hurt as queer women who look queer, you're just complying with the patriarchy's ideals for beauty, you're hurting the queer community, you're anti feminist."

It leads to masc afab people, whether trans men or nonbinary or genderqueer etc, being told everything from "you're not as hurt, you can pass as a cis man" to "you have no desire to transition, you still look like a girl, shut up".

It leads to trans amab people who are nonbinary or genderqueer or agender etc, who still dress or look "masculine", being told that they are "unsafe" for queer spaces, that they don't belong at a "women and nonbinary meeting", that they are "basically just cis men trying to escape accountability".

It leads to asexuals being told "you don't even feel sexual attraction, the thing we're ostracized for! how could you possibly be oppressed? You're just straight and a prude" and aromantics being told "you're just straight and like casual sex, get over yourself" and both being told "you're just a cishet who wants to steal resources".

I have heard every single kind of queer person say "I have been harmed and ostracized by the queer community". Lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and mspec people, trans people, aroace people - every single one of us has expressed feeling ostracized by our own community.

On the plus side, this means you're not alone. Your group isn't the only one facing this. You have allies!! Other queer people who have gone through what you've gone through!

We need queer unity. We need to stop attacking each other. If you feel the urge to say "shut up, my group has been hurt MORE", go take a walk. Remember that every single one of us has been hurt.

Don’t get your “Nyeh heh heh” and your “Nya ha ha” confused!

I love the disturbing implications/undertone of this cutesy little piece- is the cat dead? Undead? Have the innocent-looking flowers speedily absorbed the part of the cat’s body that is in the soil? Do the flowers lure their victims into being buried, lull them to sleep, then eat them? Alternatively, is the cat like a plant, and will regrow if you bury its bones in suitable soil? Or does the soil have some sort of property that makes everything but the bones transparent? Cube cat has become the source of some increasingly strange ideas

Cube cat

Sharing this to help them out

Please read and reblog

Hey I'm Hollow. I'm a disabled trans/nonbinary young adult. I need help and mostly have no way to get it so I'm asking you all to please help me get my foot in the door so 2023 can be the year things get better. My health isn't very good and for me to qualify for assistance they want doctor proof so I have to pay out of pocket to see a doctor for now. I am also a month behind on my rent due to my inability to have a job and need help catching up. I will have help covering things soon I just need to catch up first. This amount covers the bear minimum to pay my overdue bills so I'm safe and housed and to get me in to see a doctor so I can get moving towards government help.

We've made a paypal pool and here's my ko-fi if you want to help but the pool is no longer open. We appreciate any help we can get. Sharing helps out a ton. Thank you to anyone and everyone who spares us the thought.

paypal.com

Medical and Rent!

My health isn't very good and for me to qualify for assistance they want doctor proof so I have to pay out of pocket to see a doctor for now

My summer, 2021

Inspired by this tweet

The idea that being gay, transgender, or Queer in any way is “unnatural” is such a crappy excuse for bigotry. As OP said, modern medicine is “unnatural.” Taking care of the sick and injured is “unnatural,” in that in a “natural,” “survival of the fittest” situation, these people would be left to die. Having permanent homes is different from the “natural” human state. Ear piercings are highly unnatural and purely cosmetic, yet in western society they are accepted without anyone batting an eye. I could go on, but the point is that unnatural doesn’t mean bad. And by the way: homosexual behavior *is* natural- it is found in many, many animals besides humans. So is being intersex, and, though I haven’t researched this, I would think that animals that behave in a way typical of the opposite sex are probably common or at least out there. In conclusion, fuck anti-queer bigotry and all the crappy excuses people use to justify it.

i mean. medical technology is all about stopping "natural" things from happening to our bodies. from external diseases to internal parts of our bodies not working the way we need them to (our brains, our organs, our immune systems), medicine is all about interfering with things that have naturally gone wrong in our bodies--and that for the first time in history, we might have a way to fix. and that's not even getting into cosmetic stuff--the billion dollar industries to remove acne and body hair for instance. natural things that happen to our bodies, that we have decided are unpleasant and that we have the right to change. and that's fine, because these are our bodies, and we have a right to change them, natural or not.

so stop pretending that depriving trans kids of puberty blockers and other medical care is okay, because growing irreversible secondary sex characteristics that they do not want is "natural"