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I mean ,remember why it's like that:

'The 1901 Dorland’s Medical Dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “abnormal or perverted appetite toward the opposite sex.” More than two decades later, in 1923, Merriam Webster’s dictionary similarly defined it as “morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex.” It wasn’t until 1934 that heterosexuality was graced with the meaning we’re familiar with today: “manifestation of sexual passion for one of the opposite sex; normal sexuality.”'

Article here.

One time my dad and I got into an argument cause he said it was unprofessional for a man to wear a skirt to work because a man would only want to wear women’s clothing if it was a sexual fetish and at the time I just thought it was stupid but in hindsight I think I learned something deeply personal about my dad

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Xena Warrior Princess fandom right now

Happy 30th anniversary!!

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Getting ready for the next shot

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Botanical [ 8 colors ]

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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We've known for decades now that the mycorrhizal network of fungal mycelium and plant roots is absolutely integral to the health of an ecosystem, both above and below the surface of the ground. Soil health depends on the work of decomposers breaking decaying matter down into its organic components, and on the addition of nitrogen by bacteria nestled in the roots of nitrogen-fixing plants. Plants, for their part, rely on their fungal partners to free up nutrients that would otherwise be inaccessible to them, and in return they give the fungi sugars created through photosynthesis.

This study, then, may seem like a redundancy to what we already know. However, it's important because it outlines the need for both ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular soil fungi, which connect with their plant partners in different ways, and the unique ways each fungal group benefits their local ecosystem. Moreover, it creates a concrete set of data we can point to when arguing that soil health and overall ecosystem biodiversity are necessary not only for habitat restoration, but climate resiliency.

The study also points out a particular methodology for inoculating a landscape with native mycorrhizal fungi. Maybe we won't see volunteer inoculation parties the way we have native planting parties, but if we have more information on how to correctly and effectively reintroduce native fungi to a damaged ecosystem, we may be able to boost the overall effects of habitat restoration.

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We need to do what we can to protect the Internet Archive. Here is a petition that you can sign.

This petition alone might not be enough, but everything we can throw at this counts.

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I do find it weird and funny that tumblr has this like ingrained anti vegan sentiment. You are the social justice website! Consider the research!

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Please please please let's buy, save, share them. We need to digitalise these after they're gone. Contact me and we'll do it!

Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...

Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.

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Xena is a fanfiction-format show.

I said what I said.

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Friendly reminder:

harry potter fans in 2025

Art by @staxdeadempress

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Happy Easter

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tell me something cool

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This is the last part of my series about making my first book, You Are a Sacred Place.

Read parts 1–5

Order You Are a Sacred Place

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Favorite "humans being human" history posts, please

I've seen the collections of favorite tumblr fiction posts; now I'd like to see what your favorite "humans being human" historical posts are. (Because sometimes it is Nice to be reminded that compassion is not something easy for us to lose; we laugh at the same bad jokes; there are entire fossil records of our kindness.)

Here are my favorites-- add on yours.

The story of the RMS Carpathia, with a follow-up (aka one of if not the best pieces of short nonfiction historical writing in the modern age and one that reduces me to tears every goddamn reread)

Bronze-age grave of teenage gamer girl lovingly buried with her sheep ankle bone collection

The 1st-2nd century CE Roman tombstone with a bar joke that reads like a Dril tweet

And even earlier: A 4500-1900 BCE Sumerian bar joke

"Please know that there's an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that's beautiful to you"

Reconstructing Otzi's shoes

The Paleolithic grandmother and the child's fingerprint

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons

Ice-age children played in megafauna-footprint puddles

There once was a little boy who loved ducks

The oldest human burial found in Africa is a toddler; they made a pillow for his head

Henry Kenelm Beste's father loved him very much

"A Timeline of Humanity"

"I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them."

"I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today. It's right-handed. I am right-handed"

A 3rd century dog carved on a marble tomb; a 1st century dog lovingly described and named for posterity

Patrice, a 1st-2nd century dog, was dearly loved

And: we found a Paleolithic dog, buried with its bone

Humanity, unified across time by everyday experiences

The Golden Record sent into space in the 1970s

Ancient Egypt had archaeologists

Egyptian figurine of a woman waiting for her bread to finish baking

The graffiti of Pompeii

Ancient Greek tourist graffiti at the tomb of Ramses V

Hidden messages on circuit boards

The earliest examples of someone chewing on the end of their pencils

"im having feelings about the uffington white horse again"

The vast relatability of Medieval marginalia (and cats peeing on things)

Potoooooooo

What our ancient ancestors would think, seeing us prosper

Engage with older art; it keeps you from forgetting their humanity

"They were just like you and me. They write don't forget eggs, and wondered if their neighbors secretly hated them or if they are reading into it too much. They loved and were loved and they wondered. They wondered about you."

"Why do you study history" web-weaving

And ending on a high note: Ea-nasir and his shitty copper

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unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire