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Help I keep buying plants from work

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For dragon alterhumans who play Minecraft..

I like minecraft. Most critters do. Y'know what would make it better? Being a dragon! I found this mod awhile back [Click Me for Curseforge Link] that allows you to play Minecraft, but as a dragon! I didn't really have high hopes but it actually is pretty cool. It's SUPER customizable and really changes how you go about the game, making actually playing the game more interesting (at least for me). It has different types of dragons with different abilities and stuff and its worth checking out, even if Minecraft isn't really your thing. Shaders and whatnot aren't included in the mod, and it's compatible with most mods I've played with. I HIGHLY reccomend playing with Create (Downgrade to 6.0.0) , ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village, Biomes O' Plenty, and JEI for a more immersive experience!!

(Pic is from the mod page)

Obligatory "Not sponsored" message. I just think the mod is cool.. Have fun dragon-ing!

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Illustration of Plesiosaurs by Zdenek Burian, 1963 - “Prehistoric Sea Monsters”

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Ahmad Nadalian, series Sand Prints

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I’m pretty sure a native transfem was bullied off tumblr BY the tme/tma crowd for not using tme/tma language and it’s so wild how these people will claim to protect trans women/fems but god forbid those trans women/fems aren’t white. They’re all racist as hell, and I’m done giving any of them the benefit of the doubt

Omg that sucks! And like, how unsurprising though.

But yeah I agree. I've been trying to see a lot of racist behavior for what it is and the nature of ranking people's oppression within an already oppressed group is just very covertly fascist shit.

It genuinely feels like wanting to wear the boot that was on your throat so you can put it on someone else's throat. And of course that won't heal anyone.

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Just gave my 5G a makeover with some Hypoestes and random lil guys. Pretty sure that's portulaca in the back.

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This is Captain Jerry. He has survived aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, and scale.

He was the biggest, leggiest jade when he was donated to the garden center and I took shears to all his branches except the one springing up diagonally on the right. That's literally all he had left when I took him home with me because everything else was infested. He was treated with neem, DE, and insecticidal soap over several weeks. After the all clear, all his healed stumps were given cytokinin paste and he was fed succulent fertilizer.

That's why he has all that bright green new growth.

Hopefully he will be big again.

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I swear this Jasmine doesn't even look real. I wanted to touch it's anthers so bad but I was shy, it's just too pristine looking.

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every morning I wake up and think of these words from philosopher cher

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Reminder that the only reason "hermaphrodite" is even used in biology is because some zoologists a couple hundred years ago were were too lazy to come up with a new term to talk about how snails reproduce, and instead opted to compare them to intersex people. (Which were, at the time, ONLY called hermaphrodites. The word intersex didn't exist yet.)

Hermaphrodite has referred to intersex people since before we knew what a gamete was.

It wouldn't fucking kill you to use cosexed/cosexual, dichogamous, monoecious, gonosimulite, or whatever else to talk about animal species that have dual reproductive function. You don't need to contribute to a slur for us staying normalized.

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The TME/TMA thing pisses me off because it's totally ignorant of the reality of the gold rule of you really can't truly clock who is trans and how they are. And better yet, didn't we all used to think it was a nono to try to identify someones agab/cagab?

It's like a dumb exorsexist colonial wish to fit people into boxes for different treatment and you can kindly get the fuck away from my native american ass with that thanks.

I take testosterone but I'm a two spirit who presents in a very mixed sort of way. I have breasts and a beard. I don't bind outside of work .

You'd think I'm TME because I'm not transfem. But I'm still perceived as one OFTEN enough to get the same treatment a trans fem would. Just because I'm not transfem doesn't negate that perception people have of me and the treatment it earns me. I'm not "exempt" from that holy shit.

I've actually had other transfems think I'm transfem so this isn't just a "stupid bigot" mistake. It's just the reality of how I present.

Like TME/TMA is not helpful, it's exorsexist and it's misguided as hell. Like I'm really at a point where if you think this is ok I'm blocking you because in my eyes, you don't think I fucking exist and you're fine with binarist colonialism.

You throw non binary people under a bus so transfems can center their trauma as being more important than everyone else's and I'm sick of this shit.

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trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

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Dancing with granite

(c) gif by riverwindphotography

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I would recommend playing around with world building resources and software. Personally I recommend Worldanvil (it does cost money but is very worth it and is for writers as well as DMs). Check out DND dungeon master resources and tools in general honestly.

Even if you aren't a DND person, organization within world building and creative tools are usually important as fuck to DMs so the tools and templates and guides meant for DMs can work well for paracosmic crafting and organization with some tweaking.

Starting with making a map and going from there helps ground everything too if you are having trouble pinning things down. It can become a reference for when you are fitting in things later.

Does anyone have any tips on how to expand or start a cohesive organized paracosm? I have detailed parapeople but the world is everchanging and I can't put down a decent world.

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Uranium Glass Saturn Lamp, New York World's Fair, 1939.

Posted by Helen Pitia