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There are good things in this world still

Today, I drove out to the nature center my parents took us to as children, and donated two coolers full of mouse and quail culls to help reduce their feed bill and feed their rehab and permanent resident animals. The ladies I delivered too were really nice.

Today, I stopped at a little farm stand, and picked up some beautiful Tennessee tomatoes bigger than both my fists combined. When I sliced into the first one at home, the knife made such a good sound, and the insides were mostly flesh, not seeds. It was so full of flavor, even though I finished eating it a while ago, the pleasant memory of its taste lingers on my tongue.

Today, the Larvae figured out the entire puzzle feeder on their own, without me having to remind them they missed a spot. As a special treat, I thawed some mouse pinkies, and they were so excited that Bumblebee jumped three feet straight up to grab the one Bug had in her beak while standing on top of her perch.

Today, a few more precious quail hatched from the EVX line, which will hopefully give me a few more WTCE babies. I'm very close to my goal!

Today, Bug sat on my knee and preened her feathers while I played a game on my phone and the babies milled around eating clover before bed.

There are good things left in this world, however small. This is your opportunity to reblog this and share your good things with each other, or check the notes if you need a reminder.

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the fuck do you mean having children is irrelevant to being a dilf are you fucking stupid

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“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)

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I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

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In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them

Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.

Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.

Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.

So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"

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There has not been a single day in 2025 that I have not felt weird and bad in some capacity.

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I’ve been doing little comics in my sketchbook again and posting them on Patreon and Ghost. Enjoy!

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i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

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i hope suzanne collins kills mr beast

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it's me and my two sources on medieval strap-ons against the world

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"Vampirism is a metaphor for sexuality!" "Vampirism is a metaphor for mortality!" "Vampirism is a metaphor for power!"

WRONG!!! Vampirism is about being fat now!

Monstrousness centered around hunger and how you feed yourself

Not allowed outside without Repercussions, except when nobody can see you

Most folks would be happier if you disappeared forever, and if it's cause you starved to death, then they'll at least remember you kindly.

Whether it's a disease or you're just Like This, someone's ultimate power fantasy is curing you.

Whether it's a disease or you're just Like This, someone's greatest fear is being like you.

Romance gets messy one way or another, typically portrayed in ways including but not limited to:

"Are You Into Me Or Is This Just Your Kink?"/"I Am Desperate For Affection From Someone Normal"

"I Love You In Spite Of The Awful Thing You Are!"

"Are You Into Me Or Am I Just A Meal Ticket?"/"I Am Desperate For Affection, Yours Will Do"

"I Am Going To Manipulate You Into Being Like Me!"

"I Can Fix You! (Successful)"

"I Can Fix You! (Tragedy)"

"I Get Off On Enabling You"

Frequently portrayed as literally not feeling pain the same way Normal People do.

Bad Ones refuse to be shamed into compliance and encourage the refusal of shame in others. Always portrayed as gluttonous, even when Literally Just Not Starving.

Good Ones do starve themselves and/or radically alter their diet, and try to hide what they are. Usually poorly.

Either way, nothing changes the fact that This Is Just What You Are And Everyone Knows It

The ones who do actually hide well are portrayed as especially monstrous for their deception, especially if hiding it doesn't involve total isolation.

Clothing is typically either "oh god don't look at me" or "yeah, what are you gonna do about it?"

"Oh wow, you look great!" "Thanks, I'm dying."

I'm Done Fighting This, Fuck You, I'm Sexy Now

"Oh but equating fatness with being a monster just feeds into negative stereotypes--" shut up, people are gonna do that anyway. At least this way I get to be sexy and/or start biting people about it.

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2025 and we still don't have hairy women in movies. wild

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Keep an eye on who agrees to this; with a cast this size there are going to be a lot of actors we're all going to be very unhappy with real soon

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Scott Csoke (American, 1993) - Gay Puppy Running Away from Heterosexuality (2025)

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i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet