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@salticid​ you’re amazing and I love ur cryptic spambot convo I hope u like this!!

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i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

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Chapter Update!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/75499/spookshifted/chapter/1567041/ch-9-peanut-gallery https://www.scribblehub.com/read/856622-spookshifted/chapter/1040604/

Story Summary: It's a weird as fudge sci-fi fantasy post-post-post-post-apocalypse thousands of years in the far future! Mutants, magic and mayhem are on the menu. Three ex-humans, now monsters, (a candy ghost bound to the land, a more-than-stellar slime, and a predatory plant) learn to deal with their new lives, strange bodies, and murderous needs together while navigating through a whimsical, yet dangerous, world.

#superhero #oc #cryptid #fic #gender bender #queer fiction #queer books #superheroes #sci fi #transgender #post apocalypse #post apocalyptic #magic #sci fi and fantasy #soft scifi #webnovel #serial novel #monsters #transformed into a monster #writing #secret organization #transformation #evil organization #monster tf #eldritch #dungeons #cosmic horror #horror #psychological #psychics

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what’s the best frog

Today's best frog is Feihyla kajau!

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What a looker!

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im trying to understand something, when you go outside and see an animal, does your brain immediately go to identifying said animal and skip the dopamine? i feel like this might come off as rude, so sorry in advance.

They happen at the same time. The best part is, if I know what it is I get a dopamine boost of 'yeah, I know that one, I'm so good', and if I don't know it, I get a dopamine boost of 'ooh what's that‽' Win-Win if you ask me.

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Anyone else ever think about how Good Omens and/or Discworld literally rewired your brain and altered its chemistry or is that just me?

Because four years ago before starting Discworld I was fucking miserable and I felt hopeless. I had cut off my last high school friend because they’d wronged me deeply and we’d outgrown each other, and I’d just finished college so I stopped seeing my college/adult friends except for a couple times a year, and after being surrounded by people for so long I was alone and still am. I had given up reading long before that because no author really “spoke” to me, and then I found Terry recommended EVERYWHERE on the fantasy subreddit so I gave him a shot and his aphorisms and witty humor and outlook on the world and people helped me almost as much as my actual therapist. Instead of lingering on hatred and betrayals and my own BPD and PTSD-related thoughts, I began to see the world in shades of grey and work through my own trauma. Before this I only saw “good” and “evil” people and one wrong move pushed you from the good column into the evil column in my eyes. I still struggle with it in moments of direct pain, but before him it was my whole world-view. I was literally so full of anger almost every minute of my life that my chest hurt until discovering Discworld.

Truly crazy how a piece of fiction can help you so much. Especially from an angry man who somehow maintained a sense of optimism.

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“My favourite thing was a bunch of people made a giant sign that said “How am I going to be an octopus about this?” and held it up during Pompeii at all the right times and it distracted me enough to sing “octopus” instead by accident.”

— Dan Smith [x] (via bastillewtf)

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somebody: so what do u like to do for fun? :)

me, very used to being mocked for my interests: ha ha, i dunno, i don’t do anything. Ever

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*Knock Knock*

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You know what? Fuck you.

*unshrinkies your dinks*

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i invented a machine that transcribes the inner thoughts of oysters and it turns out the first oyster i tested it on was thinking like "beautiful human woman riding a bike i am the bike i am the bike"and i tested it on more oysters and it was all "delicious sediment" "my mucous membrane itchy" "i wish to digest particles" so i guess that one guy was just real horny

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Punctelia borreri

Blinking speckleback lichen

This foliose lichen grows in rounded rosettes up to 10 cm in diameter. It has rounded, contiguous lobes which grow closely attached to the substrate. The upper surface is gray-green to place gray in color, and speckled with white, punctiform pseudocyphellae. It produces granular soredia out of those pseudocyphellae and out of capitate soralia. The lower surface is black toward the center and brown toward the lobe margins, with simple, black rhizines. It only very rarely produces apothecia which are bowl-shaped, and have a red-brown disc. P. borrei typically grows on the bark of deciduous trees in mild-temperate and humid climates. It is considered cosmopolitan as it is found pretty much all over. Also, here is a super cute historical drawing of it done in 1808 by Dawson Turner for its original description:

Future tattoo idea maybe?

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Tumblr is really interesting because you can say something like thursday is duck with a top hat day, and half the website will reblog it

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who's on first characters ranked by how plausibly you can respell their names to look like real names