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[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

like on the one hand language matters and i too sometimes find slang trends annoying and/or concerning and on the other hand sometimes women do actually make jokes and talk shit on the internet with their friends and it is not actually that deep and commentary on phenomena gets to a weird point where i’m like i don’t know how “these idiot losers on the internet using a two to four word phrase they will have moved on from in a year are basically the primary cause of patriarchal oppression” is the feminist take. like sometimes i start to think the plot has been lost.

[necrotic-nephilim]

Hey, I'm so glad you enjoyed! Your comment was so thoughtful too 😭 I loved the dissection. I'm not really someone who bases my works off their Canon dynamic a lot, so I'm glad you ended up enjoying it when I tried! All your prompts were amazing. I actually really liked another one of yours too (the time travel one), but I couldn't figure out a way to write it the way you requested. Would you mind if I took that prompt anyway? I can credit you for it, I just loved it a lot and want to take a crack at it. - @rottenapricots

hi! i *loved* your fic so dearly, the comment was the *least* i could say. i kept thinking of all the things i wanted to mention and then forgetting them so my thoughts were all of the place but i truly loved your fic so much <3 you did *such* a good job with their canon characters while still melding them beautifully to the AU!

please go ahead!!! you can take any of the prompts you want and change them if you need to, or keep them the same, honestly go wild! i'd *love* to see what you come up with for the time travel idea.

[blunderpuff]

fuck Jonathan Glazer and fuck everyone cheering him on

[byfulcrums]

What I want most in the entire world is for Sun Wukong to slowly be more included in the LMK gang

After a life-threatening event (post LBD, after the scroll, etc), MK and his friends usually share a group hug. A family hug! And Sun Wukong stays out of it, either walking away or just standing there and watching them

I want SWK to start hanging out around them a little more, either because they're stuck together due to yet another world ending event or something else, to the point where they start to warm up to him (and he starts to warm up to them) and begin to like him a little more

Honestly if we get more than 5 seasons (which please please please let them be well-done, don't let the sequel curse affect LMK too) then I'd like this to be long. Let's say, in one season he hangs out with them and they begin to at the very least tolerate him, in another season they become a little more closer and pretty much already consider him some kind of friend and then at the end of the next season he's already one of their best friends

And it has to end in yet another group hug scene! One where when Sun Wukong smiles fondly and walks away to let the family have their moments in peace, someone (let it be anyone who isn't MK, just to show how MK isn't SWK's only friend [besides the monkeys in FFM. And not counting any god or being he is friendly with because we know he doesn't see those much] anymore) calls out to him and says, “Where the fuck are you going. This is a group hug, it doesn't work if the whole group isn't in it” and he smiles (let him cry dammit) and joins in

[verosvault]

🚨🚨 SPOILER WARNINGS FOR BURROW'S END EPISODE 6!!! 🚨🚨

🚨🚨 YOU HAVE BEEN DULY WARNED!!! 🚨🚨

Idk about Y'all!! BUT I FR THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA LOSE JAYSOHN!!! WHEN I SAW THE FLASHBACKS IN THE CENTER OF THE POOL!!! I WAS LIKE "...WELP...🥲🥲🥲"

THEE ABSOLUTE SIGH OF RELIEF THAT CAME OUT OF ME WHEN EVERYONE IN THE ROOM YELLED "...14!!!!!!...."

I- I JUST ABOUT LOST IT!!! 😭😭😭✋✋✋

THESE EVIL EDITORS ARE KILLING US!!! DON'T SCARE US LIKE THAT FRRRR!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭✋✋✋✋✋

[ghoul-haunted]

OKAY you know what. I need a week to hate Brutus and just. really bury the uwu sad boy I used to write. dig that hole six feet into the ground and then extra. dismantle the whole body and figure out something new. maybe chew on the corpse a bit. and THEN we get back to all of this

[maxellminidisc]

That O'Malley excerpt made me immediately think of this one dude I used to be friends with from my old days in shoegaze tumblr who couldn't get with me despite so much unwanted "courting" and instead of just dealing with rejection like a normal person, he was like "Being 24 and dating a high school sophomore is a great idea." And then insisting he was sooo Scott Pilgrim really cements that quote for me...

[istadris]

A recurring theme of our Wildemount sandbox campaign seems to be "we're here to kill that undead creature responsible for several deaths/poisonings/holy site desacration but they greeted us politely and are chatting amiably after we kicked down their door so we're not sure how to proceed without looking like murder hobos"

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

hey if your dad yells at you it's okay just yell back but louder

[star-shuttle-scout]

I will always live peacefully in my own world in which Alex Karev did not leave Jo for Izzie Stevens, and instead started noticing signs of schizophrenia in himself and did the whole letter thing to throw everyone off and just moved back home because he thinks Jo shouldn’t have to deal with a mentally unstable spouse and have the risk of having children with the same illness. 

[thickest-slimiest-malware]

person al

how do i know if im actually nonbinary or if im just a girl faking it. i dont wanna be a girl sometimes but sometimes i do. sometimes i wanna be feminine. i dont know what nonbinary means. i will not have surgery, passing as a girl is convenient for me sometimes, just like passing is convenient for binary trans people. but it doesnt mean i wanna be a girl or that i enjoy it when its detatched from how much people respect me, i just dont wanna be disrespected sometimes and im not not a girl because what the hell even is nonbinary? but then i feel like a traitor and not a real trans person. i constantly feel like someones about to call me out on faking it. maybe i do fake it a bit and for example use only it/its instead of she/it (my actual preferred pronouns) because i feel like people wouldnt acknowledge it otherwise. i hate it here i hate it everywhere. i just wanna be myself but i dont have the courage to do it because the overlap of people who would support various aspects of me is very small and i have to lie a little bit every time i talk to someone (this also applies to things besides gender..)

but yea im not binary because i never enjoyed being a girl unless it was an opportunity to get praise from people i have to be around. i know this about myself. i dont experiance gender euphoria or dysphoria as far as i know. there are even aspects of my personality that i can make a nonbinary gender label out of, even though they might be fleeting so i usually dont.. but i should. but yeah im nonbinary

[grandalea]

One thing I will always resent (affectionate) my trans masc brothers and masc leaning enby siblings for is, that if you're on T your voice drops organically. Like, there can still be voice training required, but the voice still changes nonetheless.

Plus, some of you get these wicked af looking top surgery scars.

Meanwhile, we get honking tits, so I feel like it balances out

[trendfag]

in hindsight i do see how saying thats a lie instead of something like thats not true or just being like no i bought it contributed to the pressure cooker of the situation but i still get mad when i think about this

[dbphantom]

"all the people who like Charlotte didn't watch the show and are misogynists"

Can't believe I just had to see this take with my own eyes but that's what I get for following the main tags instead of my trusted mutuals

[mommalosthermind]

Eldest kid’s latest hobby is to lurk somewhere nearby with a frankly terrifying expression of barely suppressed mania. They’ll literally just hover and make huge eyes at me until I turn to stare back, and the absolute second I make eye contact they tell me some variation of ‘I have come up with a bonkers idea for a new wip,’ which is always hysterical, and also means the next half hour or so is going to be dedicated to things like, ‘what if Thorin and Fili and Kili had a show like Ghost Files,’ or ‘I’ve decided I’m still killing James Potter in the time travel fix it thing because that one YouTube video you showed me proves that James is a jerk so now I need to figure out what kind of animagus would snape be,’ or my personal favorite so far, ‘pfft I don’t FINISH things, I just Come Up With Things and then write like ten pages until I find a new thing—‘

Which is all an unnecessary build up to explain that I was in the middle of ranting about how sometimes I cannot brain and the words will not go so I stare into space angrily to vividly hallucinate instead

Only for my middle kid to pop up out of fucking no where to snort at me and tell me that is not a problem he has ever had, that he has almost 10k written in his story and it’s just like, so easy mom, you just write words down, c’mon— and then vanish again

Rude

[headspace-hotel]

Oh my god I'm sooooo mad right now

So. I have no business telling people not to collect wild plants/materials.

I do it all the time.

However.

The words "wildcrafted," and "foraged," even "sustainably harvested," are terrifying to see in an ad on Etsy or Instagram

There is a such thing as the honorable harvest where you ASK the plant if it is okay to take, with the intention of listening if the answer is NO. Robin Wall Kimmerer talked about this, She did not make it up, it is an ancient and basic guideline of treating the plants with respect.

Basically it is not wrong to use plants and other living things, even if this means taking their life. But you are not the main character. You have to reflect on your knowledge of the organism's life cycle and its role in the ecosystem, so you can know you are not damaging the ecosystem. You have to only take what you need and avoid depleting the population.

Mary Siisip Geniusz also talked about it in an enlightening way in her book Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do is Ask. She gave an example of a woman who was on an island and needed to use a medicinal herb to heal her injured leg or she would not survive the winter. In that situation she had to use up all of the plant that was on the island. This was permissible, even though it eliminated the local population, because she had to do it to save her life. But in return the woman had the responsibility to later return to the island and plant seeds of that plant.

And what makes me absolutely furious, is that there are a bunch of people online who have vaguely copied this philosophy of sustainability in a false and insulting way, saying "wildcrafted" or "foraged" materials to be all trendy and cool and in touch with nature, when it is actually just poaching.

If you are from a capitalistic culture the honorable harvest is very hard and unintuitive to learn to practice. I am not very good at it still. This is why it is suspicious if someone is confident that they can ethically and respectfully harvest wild materials with money involved.

So there's this lichen that is often called "reindeer moss." It looks like this:

It grows only a few millimeters a year.

This is "preserved" reindeer moss.

It is from Etsy, similar is also sold in many other online shops, many of which have the audacity to describe it as a "plant" for decorations and terrariums that needs no maintenance.

It is not maintenance-free, it is dead. It has been spray-painted a horrible shade of green. The people buying it clearly don't even know what it is. It is a popular crafting material for "fairy houses," whatever the hell those are. So is moss, also dead, spray-painted, and wild-harvested. Supposedly reindeer moss is harvested sustainably in Finland, where it is abundant, for the craft industry. However poaching of lichens and mosses is absolutely rampant.

It's even more upsetting because there's hardly any articles drawing attention to the problem. This one is from 1999. And the poaching is still going on.

There is a "moss" section on Etsy, and it is so upsetting

These mosses and lichens were collected from the wild. Most of the shops are in the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia, which are the major locations of moss and lichen poaching. There are some shops based in Appalachia selling "foraged" reindeer moss.

Reindeer moss may be abundant in Finland, but in Appalachia it should NOT be harvested to be sold on Etsy as craft supplies! Moss doesn't grow quickly. Big, healthy colonies like this took years to grow. Some of these shops have thousands of sales, all of bags and bags of moss and lichen, and thinking of how much moss and lichen that must be, I am filled with horror.

Clubmosses do not transplant well, and these ones have no roots. The buyers do not realize they have bought a dead plant because clubmoss stays green and pliable after it is dead.

This is especially awful because in Mary Siisip Geniusz's book she talked about clubmosses being poached so much for Christmas wreaths that they had almost disappeared from a lot of forests.

I don't even know if this is illegal if it's not a formally endangered species so I don't know if I can report them I'm just. really sad and angry