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A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.

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Be honest: Have you ever loved reading fanfiction for a pairing you don't actually know, without any intention to ever read or watch the actual source material?

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So I watched Kpop Demon Hunters and that stupid tiger is my son now. That is my child and I love him.

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help him :(

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I very much recommend going into the notes, they are absolutely chock full of good things.

I think it's easy to get lost in the bad things going on in the world, and close to home. But the bad things are often acute. They flash in the pan, which is bright and can be scary, it's easy to be distracted by it. But ultimately, there are always people working to clean up, and prevent it from happening again. There's always people working to improve things overall, and people researching how to do that. It just takes time, and it's not flashy, it's just work.

But it's worth noticing. It's worth talking about. It's worth sharing and doing and trying and hoping. It's worth it.

why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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Rings my fucking bell, like a perennial fucking plague maiden:

Center harm, not disgust!

When in doubt (and when not in doubt, just swept by problems bigger than you and assured by someone that they know the answer, so don't think right now, just Do!), center harm.

Focus on what specific harm you're reducing with your actions. Make sure it's tangible and concrete. If your actions are minimizing hypothetical harm at the cost of real, tangible harm on others, 9 out 10 times you're on the wrong fucking side, being weaponized by propaganda.

If a conversation revolves around disgust as a driver for action, you're being radicalized. If a call to action depends on your emotional response, you're being manipulated. I'm sorry, this isn't the 90s anymore, social media has eroded the web of respectability of the pre internet society. The primary axis for misinformation to spread in this day and age is emotional response: half the things you believe are true and share as such are not based on fact, expert opinion or personal research. Social media has conditioned us (all of us! You and me and most dangerously of all, the idiots we put in power) that if something feels true, it probably is.

But do you know for sure it is? Do you think it's true because you have first hand experience or actual time spent on reputable sources learning it to be fact? Or just because it aligns with your worldview and it would be nice for you if it were true?

Are you taking action because you're angry and a group of fellow angry folk invited you to join them? Do you have a plan or is this just catharsis? Are you aware of the consequences of your actions or are you drunk on rage and focused only on the immediate future?

Center harm. Center specific actions and their consequences.

Discomfort is not harm. Disgust is not harm. Hypothetical paranoia is not harm.

The reactionary pipeline is real and your self-image as a progressive is not actually enough to save you from falling down the hole. Radicalization is not hinged on politics alone. Saying you're a leftist is worthless if your thought process and actions themselves are indistinguishable from qanon losers. Conspiratorial thought has literally no politics inherently, and your insistence it does is pure lack of critical thought on display.

Center harm, not feelings, not politics, not group think.

Center harm, and remember that individual actions cannot dismantle systemic structures on their own, so anyone who calls for individual action at the cost of community structures is not actually trying to change anything, and instead actively suppressing efforts to make anything better in any way.

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You’ve said that turkey babies are fine in an incubator but dumb with their mothers. How so?

They like to die by doing things like running in front of their mothers and stopping, and their mothers love to help them die, by doing stuff like also stopping to look around for the screaming child they are standing on until it stops. Getting into water they can't get out of. Passing their head through any gap in wire or wood or anything and getting stuck and strangling themselves. Flying into things. Eating inedible shit they find on the ground, like bits of metal, or garbage the wind blows in. eating that extremely poisonous insect that tastes bad (blister beetles). ways I cannot even conceive of until it happens.

they cannot get stepped on, stuck in/on stuff, drown, eat weird shit, or fly far enough to get hurt if they are in a brooder. They would have to try SO HARD to die in a brooder. And they're not inclined to it, unlike coturnix quail who actively seek death. Turkeys are just. stupid as hell.

This applies to DOMESTIC turkeys, as we have bred them to be stupid as hell. Wild ones must certainly be smarter or more prolific to continue to survive.

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Sopping wet creature successfully protected her children from a sudden thunderstorm. I wasn't home, or I would have brought them in, but she must have not been close enough to the coop to get in before the downpour started. Rather than risk her kids getting wet and chilling, she chose to stay put over them and get wet, herself.

I know it's hormones, and I know it's instinct, and I know it's been done billions and billions of times by billions and billions of birds because evolution has made them that way.

But really, what is love except the experience of hormones/brain chemicals and the instinct to protect those you care for, even when it means you are inconvenienced? What is love, if not the universe spending millions of years crafting your very genes into patterns that tell you to lend your wings to covering those in need to protect them?

or maybe it's just how momentarily excited you get to take a little bite out of the critters bouncing around in front of you, and how you don't, because they're your children.

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If you haven’t changed your url in years tell me why as someone in your same boat it’s for science

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“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

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Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

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what you need to understand is that textile work is basically the closest i have seen to Real Magic and the reason old ladies in quilting spaces are either the grumpiest or the most whacky cheerful people you'll ever meet is because they're basically wizards who have studied the ancient crafts too long

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the horrors persist but my friends write beautiful fanfic

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Losing my mind at this poor girl in Argentina who found a kitten on the side of the road and adopted it only to find out it was a freaking jaguarundi. Look at that fucking thing. That's a whole ass kiddy cat

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It’s definitely not “do whatever you want bc nobody cares” it’s somewhere between “people don’t care as much as you think they do” and “if you want to truly do what you want you have to not care about how much other people care”

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K-Pop Demon Hunters + music 🎶

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Genuine friendly summer reminder for my fellow fat people.

We have more body than skinny people so we also contain more water and therefore need to drink more. 2 Litres is something skinny people need to drink we need more. I aim for 4 litres a day.

While any waterbased liquid is good try to not drink all 4 litres in coke or soda. I absolutley do recommend sport drinks or similar things. Fat people like us, or at least me, sweat a lot in this heat even without sport. Refill those electrolytes. Your body will thank you.

My go to drink at home is a 2 litre jug of water with just enough store bought raspberry or orange syrup that it has a taste thats not water.

Please stay hydrated in this heat and take care of your body. Its the only one you have.

(If you clown on fat people in tags/replies/comments I will hunt you for sport)