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World Guide to Mammals, 1976. Illustrated by Peter Barrett.

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also like, idk how to tell y'all this but…

dehumanizing *anyone* is bad. it doesn’t matter if they’re “the oppressor” or they have societal power over you. if you get to a point where you look at *anyone* and you don’t see a human being with thoughts and feelings and internal motivations, if you get to a point where you look at an individual person and see

“the oppressor” or someone that you feel 100% completely comfortable doing violence against without hesitation or consideration…

that’s actually bad. Social justice is not and should never be about trying to figure out who it’s okay to do violence against. Nor is it about “flipping the tables”.

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this is your sign to not become catholic ☺️

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From My Little Book of Timber Wolves, written by Hope Irvin Marston and illustrated by Maria Magdalena Brown. 1997.

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WIP + photobashed reference i’ve been using

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the thing that strikes me about this latest wave of anti-trans hate and legislation in the U.S. is that it feels like it's *kind of* about trans people but really about a fear fundamental to all conservatives that a day will one day come when they will no longer be able to completely control their children

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Deer at the Brook, Jim Arnosky, 1986.

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it’s genuinely so funny and pathetic that exclusionists have stolen the term inclusionist and dubbed actual inclusionists as “radinclus”

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Imagine thinking being a system, which is FROM OSDDID, is something you can just choose to be. That is DISGUSTINGLY abelist. You're nearly 30. You should know better.

"imagine thinking being transgender, which is FROM DYSPHORIA, is something you can just choose to be. that is DISGUSTINGLY transphobic" ⬅️ sry but this is how you sound to me

just because an identity is often associated with a negative phenomenon doesn't make that negative phenomenon a requirement for identification and frankly it's bigoted to assume that your experiences should be the baseline for whether or not someone is allowed to identify in a way that makes them feel most comfortable

no matter how angry you get about endogenic systems, no matter how wronged you feel by tulpamancers, they will continue to exist and identify how they please. you can either be a kind person and respect what they tell you about their identity or i guess you can stay mad about it if you think being a miserable gatekeeper is more fun

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[kisses a gay man in a lesbian way]  It’s called solidarity babes

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Lmfaooo I was talking to this 19 year old at work last night and he mentioned the movie Blades of Glory and I was like "oh I remember seeing that in theaters" and he says "you saw it in THEATERS???" and then he's like "oh God I'm so sorry that sounded so mean" like no dude you're literally right the fact that I'm 28 is fucked up time is fucked up I agree entirely

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Favorite books and/or book series'?

ooohh i wish i had a good answer for you but i really need to start reading more again! especially fiction, almost everything i have read in the last half a decade or so excluding fanworks has been nonfiction

as a teenager though i did of course love stories about animals, like i loooved watership down.. i wanted to learn lapine for so long lol. i also liked science fiction.. the type that kinda fucks with your head and has you feeling that ominous pit in your stomach at the end. The Last Question, All Summer in a Day, and The Veldt are a few that stick out in my memory. would love to write something myself someday that combines these themes.. animal fiction with a fucked up scifi/psychological horror vibe

i've got some stuff on my shelf i've been meaning to read, maybe i'll pick one up today... feeling torn between starting either Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel or Jennie by Paul Gallico, hmm...

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I'm done being manipulated into thinking anyone anyone ANYONE at all deserves endless punishment and isolation even when they're doing their best to make things right and live peacefully and act in good faith. Your personal choice to not associate with certain people is yours and YOURS ALONE. No more shaming people who are able to offer forgiveness to those who genuinely seek rehabilitation. I've had enough with leftists who act like they've totally shed Christianity's toxic cultural influence when they're still playing God by trying to be the arbiter of who's eligible for eternal damnation every fucking day. The answer to "who deserves hell" is NOBODY, EVER.

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When u make an OC a lesbian and u try to invent a new character to be the love of their life but then that character ends up being a dude...oopsieee

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Slow down Tiger