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Dipped In Sunlight

Feeling the last slivers of sunlight before the evening is over~

Art Print | RedBubble Shop

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nobody talks about what a positive influence blaster and jazz would be on the aerialbots. they teach them a very important lesson: playing your music loud enough to vibrate the entire ark is not technically illegal or treason, but it makes people yell at you so it scratches the itch

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truth emerging from the well

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me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish

people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk

result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish

conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.

Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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old man what ARE you doing?

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franciscus and augustus

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gus gus

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I drew a cutie Blades on the bus ride home today

(ﾉﾟ▽ﾟ)ﾉ

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Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra), family Salamandridae, Lower Saxony, Germany

Poisonous.

photograph by Markus Bartels

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this is soooo my niche but i go crazy every time i see anyone try and seriously criticize the romances in 12 without ever mentioning the agency of the female characters as the core problem.

because that IS the problem with every single relationship in the show.

like you can make all the points about poor writing you want, keep bringing up that karai and leo are related, talk about donnie not taking a hint, that mikey's affections arent even returned etc etc, but if you ignore that the main issue with every single relationship is the misogyny of the writers you're not even saying anything!

the women's feelings dont matter in any romance INCLUDING raph and mona lisa's, because every part of their romance revolves around mona choosing raph over herself and her people.

every one of these romances wouldnt be as poorly written if the women involved were being treated as whole people and not just accessories to their male love interests.

it doesnt matter to the show if karai is related to leo by blood or not, cuz the show never bothers to ask HER how SHE feels about that OR how she feels about leo! it doesnt matter if renet likes or doesnt like mikey cuz the writers only throw her in to that so mikey has someone (esp since he's crushing on karais gf before this). and it SUPER doesnt matter if april ever liked donnie back cuz despite it being the inciting incident of the show they neeeeeever let you know what she actually thinks about donnie! because they DONT care!

literally that is why the only healthy relationship we see grow over the show is bebop and rocksteady AND IM NOT KIDDING! ITS A JOKE BUT ITS NOT BECAUSE BOTH OF THOSE MALE CHARACTERS WE UNDERSTAND THE DESIRES OF MORE THAN ANY WOMAN IN THE SHOW!!!

like its so funny cuz people use it as proof of like "oh you shouldnt do turtle romance" and its like THATS NOT EVEN THE PROBLEM! THE PROBLEM IS THEY NEED TO WRITE THE FEMALE CHARACTERS WITH SOME LIKE.... IDK. DESIRES OF THEIR OWN?!?!?!? SOME AGENCY???

sorry. just you know.... if you DONT bring up the misogyny as the core issue youre not actually talking about the real problem. you havent analyzed anything.

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Bunny Chronicles Part 2

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All of the Prehistoric Pride guys in one collective post to celebrate pride month. Choose your fighter and have an awesome time :D

More suggestions are always welcome, I sadly was not able to cover everyone, but I will do more of these in the future!

I am going to add more and more to the collection as I get them done :D

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A year ago I made some silly Trigun fanart that brought all the bigots out of the woodworks, so I told them that everything I draw is gay, including Space Cat. And now he has a boyfriend, welcome Rainbow Cat! 🌈

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half baked morning rant

I do want to make it clear that the reason I talk about HRT and its biological effects so much is not because HRT or medicalization defines your gender.

Its because, for me personally, the interface of my biology education and my transition was mostly centered around figuring out what sex hormones do. I learned about basic biology principles like DNA organization, gene regulation, cell biology, and physiology in high school and undergrad. Taking that understanding and extending it to the mechanisms that hormones use to change gene regulation, and by extension, the rest of your body broadly, was something I did as my understanding became more complete in later undergrad and grad school. It was the key to me starting my own transition.

Why?

Because it was the first time I realized that the "basic biology" arguments of transphobes were complete and utter bullshit. From that point, it was a cascade. As in, wait, if dynamic changes in gene expression are considered "biological" to them, and I know that isn't true, then why am I believing anything they say about anything else? When they talk about gametes, and try to include infertile cis people in their definitions of biological sex by talking about what gamete you're "intended" to make, what do they even mean? Why does my current gene expression not define that "intent"? And wait, back up, why is the brain suddenly not considered part of our biology? Why are neurological differences suddenly not "biological"? Why can we say someone's thinking patterns aren't "biological"?

Backing up even further, why does any of this matter more than psychological gender, or sociological gender? If the way we navigate society is gendered, that affects a lot of our lives, and we're just throwing that away?

Basically, being educated about how deep the biological changes of HRT really go was the first domino to fall when I worked through my internalized transphobia.

This is one of many reasons why I hate, hate HATE the concession that uninformed allies and even many trans people themselves give: "well NO ONE is saying that you can change your biological sex, sex and gender are completely unrelated, sex is binary and gender isn't!!!!!"

Well. I am saying that you can change your "biological" sex, I am saying that biological sex isn't binary, and I am saying that misunderstanding of those points has set back transgender advocacy. It makes medical decisions surrounding us less informed, it poisons conversations about how we interact with society, and it makes trans people feel like their gender and sex are less "real" than cis people's.

Not to mention the horrific way it discards intersex people from the conversation entirely.

Recently, I've seen this point enter the mainstream a little, by using intersex people and variation of sex in other species as a "counterargument" to "binary biological sex" thinking. It still doesn't sit right with me. One, because it uses intersex people as a prop for trans advocacy while not actually addressing the needs of either group. And two, because it completely disregards that your current biology and physiology is not 100% predestined from birth, and using people who were "born this way" as a prop does absolutely nothing to increase people's acceptance of trans people who change their biology later in life.

Ugh. This got away from me but yeah. That's my sipping coffee ramble for this morning. If anyone wants to add comment or correct me on discourse here, please do. Especially if you're intersex- this is all the observations of a perisex trans woman.

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hi. plane

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It’s the season of mushroom🍂