#nothing wrong with an education

[nothorses]

I keep thinking about the (relatively) new living northwest trail at the zoo in seattle & how much more exciting and interesting it felt to me than any of the exhibits about "exotic" animals. and the living desert in palm desert, and how fascinated I was by all of the local wildlife and ecology it displays when I visited as a kid.

and I kind of wonder whether "exotic" animals are really all that much more popular than local wildlife. don't people want to learn about the land they're on? isn't that the point of visiting a new place? don't you want to understand and learn about your home, if you live there?

tigers are cool etc. but I watched the brown bears at the living nw trail for like 20 uninterrupted minutes. entranced. those guys live here! they're in the woods when I hike! that's fucking cool!

[isawthismeme]

Being trans is normal, being trans is not new.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Hey, uh… I haven’t mentioned this before but if you have kids or work with kids who constantly want their feet up on desks, tables, equipment, or even on you…

They aren’t trying to spite you on purpose; they probably just need their legs up to not feel bad. Maybe they need sensory input. Maybe they have constant low-level joint pain. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with them and they’ve just been sitting with their knees bent for a long time and need to stretch out.

So don’t get mad at them; give them an appropriate alternative to put their feet on. I’ll just silently drag over another chair and transfer their feet to it from whatever they were using as a footrest. It works great!

[prince-peachie]

probably an unpopular opinion but people really should refrain from correcting artist’s artworks

[tea-earl-grey]

i do like the general concept of dot and bubble but rtd please hire Black writers, i'm begging you.

[eenedump]

Principal's Office

[ghost-proofbaby]

so... i just got off work, and can see i've missed a few things.

gonna spend the rest of my waking hours getting caught up, but just want to say a few things.

one, thank you to all the love and support. publicly and privately. it's seen and appreciated, even if i don't individually respond.

two, i hope going forward, we all carry the lesson learned from what's been happening in the fandom. i wasn't the only one who has received nasty reactions or felt exclusion to any degree, and that's really important to remember. i'm privileged to have any sort of platform to any degree on this hellsite, and i can guarantee you anything that's thrown at an account with reach like my own (no matter if sometimes i misconceive just how far that reach can be, given i didn't expect the response garnered), can be thrown just as easily if not ten times worse at smaller creators/those whose voices are getting lost in it all. i'm also privileged that thus far in my online presence, my queer experience has been entirely different from my actual life, and that's largely due to having my shit figured out, and for being a white cis woman who can wholeheartedly say she identifies as bisexual.

fandom spaces have always experienced these issues. they don't get better unless we speak up, and especially unless we listen.

uplift each other. be kind to each other. life is hard enough without this kind of stuff - if we want to see a better online space to feel safe in, we've gotta make it. there'll always be people like that anon. it's sad and shitty, but it's the human experience. the way to change it? keep the energy i saw today.

it's not just a today thing, and it's not just a "it happened to ghost so it matters" thing. it always happens, and it always matters.

keep. that. energy.

and, again just for shits and giggles and to drill it into all our brains, be kind to one another. <3

[bunnihearted]

i've also realized that there is no therapy that can fix what's broken inside of me

[taylovelinus]

it is really astonishing the amount of naked antisemitism i witness online every single day from people who i grew up with. it’s so disheartening knowing that they feel that way, that they always felt that way.

[awakefor48hours]

America: Our citizens are getting dumber! How is that possible! We have so much education!

Also America: The middle class is disappearing but that doesn't matter. At school, we'll force you to pay for food and your education. If you can't afford food then looks like you, a literal child, will just have to starve. We'll also overwork you with pointless busy work that doesn't properly prepare you for the world. We also know that school can be hostile environment to a lot of students but those students just need to suck it up and stop being gay, BIPOC, and poor. In addition to that, we're going to raise the price of college because free education is for dirty communists.

[transhitman]

JAY IS DONE. I haven't done a finished piece like this in forever and I forgot how long it takes LOL. Begging you on my hands and knees to zoom in on these.

James "Jay" "The Hammer" Hammer is an earth-genasi astral self monk (any pronouns). Their elemental heritage isn't super pronounced since they're a couple generations down from their dao ancestor. Though the opal texture on their teeth, eyes, nails, and palm of their hands was always present, the fact that their insides are multicolored only became unmissably apparent after they developed eczema as a child. It grew in severity in conjunction with her acne later on. Her body contains a supernaturally high amount of silica, which is what her wounds eventually scab over with after the normal blood coagulates. Jay is currently seeking to transcend the material form via a perfect workout routine and nutrition plan, and travels around in search of a more complete and informed worldview. That specific path to enlightenment is a bit unorthodox, but beyond that Jay is an extremely normal guy tbh.

His astral self is based on a design that appears in the music video film Beyond the Mind's Eye, except way beefier lol. As the color wheels on the mask turn, Jay's eyes change to match whichever color on the wheel is furthest to the front. I'll design the body at some point but I don't get that until way later. And I am very tired lol.

[b4kuch1n]

gonna start subjecting u lot to my rambling abt classic viet authors

[prouvaireafterdark]

I know this is gonna sound like I have a tinfoil hat on but what if the reason AMC posted the cryptic Man Rowan Met In A Bar quote is because the man she met in a bar is someone we already know from IWTV or the books??

[hwanswerland]

maybe an unpopular opinion but one thing i really truly dislike is grown men being called boys. no they are not "boys", they are grown ass men that can and should be held accountable for their actions. not some 10 year old child

[lupus-dei]

noticing O's black ring since episode One

[beanonthebed]

This is a shout out the Hardcore Pawn fandom!