#Direct Indirect

[creaturefeaturecommando]

32 years old and fawning over a character who’s a canon child groomer. Stay far away from me.

[astralproxxy]

Hiiii!!! It's me again <3 The person you keep stalking you fucking creep.

I meant what I said ❤️ I don't regret a thing. You deserve what you got.

[independent-fics]

Now, you can take that as a gift, or you can take it as a curse. And that's up to you.

Eliot Spencer and Parker Doing the Things Others Won’t

Leverage (2008-2012)

04x01 The Long Way Down Job

05x09 The Rundown Job

[smoked-salmon-official]

idw transformers makes me fucking emotional bc. megatron made overlord this way. he made tarn this way. and he made starscream this way.

oh my fucking god im gonna explode

[reasonsforhope]

"When politicians unveil a new national park or wilderness area, it’s often accompanied by debates about what effect it will have on the livelihoods of people living nearby. In some places, it can be welcomed as a boon, attracting tourists and their dollars. In others, it’s booed as a job killer, squelching the chance for new mining, grazing, logging or other industries.

As nations promise to nearly double the amount of protected land on the planet, from 17% to 30% of the Earth’s surface, these debates are likely to happen more often. Now there is new evidence that it’s possible to have both land protections and a growing economy. But it’s not guaranteed. “Achieving both aims is more common than we previously expected,” said Binbin Li, an environmental scientist at Duke Kunshan University, a Chinese institution affiliated with Duke University. “But that balance depends on socioeconomic conditions near a protected area.”

It can be hard to tease out causal links between two things as complex as the changing condition of a landscape and the economy of a nearby city. Did a town flourish because of a nearby national park, or because an increase in remote work enabled people to move there? Did another town collapse because a forest reserve contributed to the demise of a sawmill, or was it part of a bigger downturn in the timber industry?

To try to clarify the effects, Li and colleagues at Duke University and Shandong University in China compared the fates of “twin” towns and cities, as well as comparable patches of land. They identified more than 10,000 protected areas in countries around the globe, then examined how economic activity changed in nearby settlements between 2013 and 2020, compared to similar settlements more than 20 kilometers from any protected land. They also matched the protected area to similar nearby unprotected areas, to see if they fared differently.

The scientists used satellite images to track changes on the landscape, such as forest turning to farmland. They also tracked changes in the amount of nighttime artificial light as a surrogate for economic activity.

The satellite images revealed that in many cases, more trees and grasslands stayed standing and the lights shown more brightly at the same time. In about half the protected areas, there was simultaneous progress in both conservation and economic development, the scientists reported on June 20 in Current Biology.

Land protection was broadly successful at reducing the loss of forest and grasslands – more than 90% of the protected areas either lost no natural land cover, or less than their unprotected twins, the researchers found. At the same time, 60% of neighboring communities had as much or more of an increase in nightlights than places further from protected land...

Land protection and economic growth went hand in hand most easily in wealthier countries, around smaller protected areas, and in places with some of the infrastructure critical for economic development, such as roads. In places without these features the ecological fate of the land and the economic fortune of nearby towns was more likely to diverge or decline together the researchers found.

“Conservation does not happen in a silo,” said co-author Stuart Pimm, a Duke University ecologist. “We must consider local development alongside biodiversity conservation to know where and how to protect areas to benefit both the environment and humans.” ...

The results underscore the ways in which poverty and environmental degradation can be bound together. If poverty isn’t dealt with, creating protected areas could set the stage for both loss of biodiversity and economic development, the researchers warned. The flip side is that with careful planning, conservation could help set nearby towns on a path out of poverty. As an example, the scientists pointed to Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park, which has become a hub for ecotourism on the country’s Pacific coast.

“We need to get to a win-win outcome more often, especially in the most biodiverse regions that can ill-afford losing out on economic development or biodiversity,” said Li. “We cannot address biodiversity loss without addressing local development issues.”

-via Anthropocene Magazine, June 26, 2024

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

idk if it's the social anxiety or a touch of the 'tism or what but I do not understand how people know when someone is flirting with them. Like I will pretty much only get it if someone straight up tells me "I think you're hot" or something similarly direct because otherwise how do you know they're not just being friendly??

Even compliments like "oh you look really hot!" or "you look cute/handsome in that" or whatever do not come across as flirting to me because it could just be someone giving a platonic compliment? Like the implication is different from someone saying "I think you're hot/cute"

even worse if you're just chatting with someone at the bar or whatever. Idk how you're supposed to tell if they're flirting or just being friendly.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Los Chicos Peleandoooooo

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[ghurab-alzilal]

*After defeating Trigon's minions in the mandatory fun *

Damian: Wow! Your family is truly shitty. You should probably get a new one.

Raven: Yeah, well, that's impossible.

Damian, under his breath : You could always start a new one with me.

Raven: What?

Damian: What?

[creaturefeaturecommando]

“You don’t have the capacity to argue with me”

No I just watched the show and there’s 3 instances of said character grooming kids and if you can’t see that then oh well. I’m going back to posting about whatever I post about because genuinely I don’t care anymore. You and your friend can continue to stalk my blog and seethe

[yanxioustrikas]

many years after the events of “altered ego,” hiram and his family went on vacation and stayed at hotel shangri-la-la (yes, that hotel from rookie season). one day, hiram found a worn-out business card on a bulletin board. It belonged to an individual named “yunita saechèse”.

“heh, a photographer named yunita saechèse… that’s quite on brand.”

looking at the photo of this mystery photographer, hiram thought to himself…

“wow how do i achieve this hairstyle??”

…so he got himself said hairstyle when he and his family flew back home, two weeks later.

anyways, yunita saechèse hairstyle was so fascinating to me that i put it on my oc hiram just for fun

p.s. — i know that hiram’s bangs are like the ‘flipped’ from yunita’s original bangs, but that’s because his ‘longer’ chunk of bangs is on the right side (viewer’s right, hiram’s left)

[fabuloustrash05]

If you think about it, Goku is pretty much the reason all the Dragon Ball couples met and are together.

And I find it funny but also sweet.

[irregodless]

so the continuation of snowgrave is interesting

noelle says the night before kris visited her and kiiiind of but not really? apologized for the snowgrave route. at least we can assume kris is remorseful for that because when we resume control and reassert our dominance over her they fuck up a trash can in a rage

noelle is also excited that kriss old deadpan voice was back. meaning that kris never used to emote and any enthusiasm that we make them exhibit is not their true reaction. even the nice friendly pacifist things though thats not too new information

i didnt talk to catti yet but in a pacifist route she resents kris for becoming friends with susie which. is a pretty extreme reaction. in fact everyone has a pretty extreme reaction to her that doesnt seem. entirely justified. catti also puts a hex on kris (jockington neutralizes kt with the power of SPORTS) and mentions their past of studying the occult together

we also know that kris has like. monster dysphoria. they wanted to be like their adopted momster family even having a horn headband like we see in tennas flashback. its possible since humans couldnt do magic as well as monsters kris studied it with catti to try and find a way to cast magic as a human

i wonder if the human soul we play as isnt like. a demonic possession they conjured. but i also wonder if kris wasnt born without a soul. the idea of a deadpan voice aligns with how we usually depict a "soulless" person

at the same time kris ALWAYS returns the soul to their body which means that kris NEEDS it to some extent. whether thats that they cant survive without a soul for extended periods of time or because they need us the player to do their bidding and play into their plans

maybe kris needs a bustling dark castletown to achieve their goals. maybe this time playing the pacifist is playing into the goals of the villain

[telekitnetic-art]

Had a train of thought that's been following me since the issue where the gravekeeper and the planet of memorials got introduced..

I don't remember Rodimus' plaque ever getting shown off (although I like to speedread so I very well could have missed it)

What if we did get to see it, and it was absolutely swarmed with those flowers? Not enough to rival Megatron's, but by all means a much, much larger quantity then everyone else's.

Cause, yknow.... Nyon.

[juney-blues]

the anarchist position isn't a principled stance against unjustifiable hierarchies, it's just a lawless state where everyone sits around doing whatever they want and there is no more infrastructure or manufacturing of anything. when left to their own devices, people famously just completely lose all motivation to do anything, and dismantling the state, the entity that enforces law through violence, would be akin to loading up a game of The Sims and just leaving it running idly with no input, the titular sims wandering around aimlessly until they starve.

without a central authority maintaining law and order through threat of violence, society completely collapses! no one has ever or will ever do anything for anyone without the implict threat of jackbooted thugs shooting them in the head if they don't. there is no conceivable mode of society where this *isn't* the case.

"how would this part of society be run without a small group of people exerting their unquestionable will over a large group of people?" is a question you need to constantly ask to remind anarchists that their worldview just doesn't make sense!

if you can't *make* someone do something, then there's just no way to get them to do it!

asking nicely? using convincing arguments to persuade? just accepting "no" for an answer? (because if someone just doesn't wanna do something, they're probably being lazy, there's never any good reason for them to not wanna do it) all entirely unheard of. How will we govern if we are all equal?!?!

[master-missysversion]

I was thinking about the masters outfits earlier and I never realised how much missys style still effects the master.

I realised this while comparing the saxon masters outfit to the spy masters, because they are very different. Then I realised, both Missy and Dhawan!Master are total outliers from the rest of the masters

The master typically wears all black, and only occasionally wears more extravagant, colourful outfits

Yana/The war master was a bit different, and big finish actually seems to give him quite a lot of variation in his outfits

But then going back to simm master, it's mostly black again, with just a pop of colour. Mainly red, which I think is a good choice for him, but also a little bit of green, which I find interesting, I suppose it matches the war master outfit above.

Then we have MISSY! She wears almost entirely purple. Sometimes darker, sometimes more vibrant, but pretty much always purple

And then the spy master (Dhawan!master) also wears purple, but he's also introduced some blue, and what i think is actually red but it often looks orange

He had a couple outfit changes but this was his primary outfit. Its so much closer to missy than to any of the other masters. I like that. I like the idea of expressing characters through outfits and so the choice to have him be closer to missy in that respect fascinates me

[pomniegranate]

Maybe I should add a new tag saying "YOU CAN REBLOG FROM ME, PLEASE REBLOG FROM ME" because I love notifications and knowing my followers liked something I reblogged enough to like and reblog it too.

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