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  • biggaybunny

  • The inherent conflict of being alive is that your cells just love water. Great stuff for cells. Excellent for transporting things around in, really helps counteract gravity and make that 3rd dimension fully accessible. You as an organism however, want atmosphere. It's got all those awesome gases, like oxygen. Those gases are great! But they're not very good at getting in the water. Lots more of them outside the water.

    Now some organisms went ahead and said "well, our cells want to be in the water, we're made of cells, we're staying in the water". And I respect that! Gotta respect that. Lots of 'em stick to the surface, get a little bit of the good gases, but keep themselves nice and watered up (wet) to keep their cells happy. Some make do with whatever cool gases have managed to dissolve into the water, thanks to a process known as "churning that shit up" that happens on the water's surface. Doesn't work out great for them, but you know, they made their decision and they committed to it. You gotta respect that.

    Now some organisms, especially a lot of old ones, were afraid of commitment. They hung out at the water's edge, breathing all the gases and shit, but still needed to make sure they could stay wet. Like, their plan was to leave the water, but stay wet. Not a great move, if you ask me. Usually it works, but only until it doesn't. You ever seen dried up moss? Ask it how it's "stay wet but not in water" plan went. It can't answer you. It fucked up. That's what you get for not committing.

    Now trees though, trees had the other idea. Trees and some other plants were like, no problem. I'm gonna take my water with me and never ever let it go. They developed specialized cells and shit. They got whole layers dedicated to keeping the water the fuck in. They got other cells dedicated to hunting down any water in a square fuckometer and taking it for themselves. That's hustle. That's a game plan. Some plants got so good at it they saw these dry-ass stretches of land that saw rain less often than you saw your mother smile as a child and were like "okay but is the amount of water not literally zero? Yeah? We're good."

    The moving orgisms tried to copy trees, naturally. Making hard outer layers to trap the water in for their cells. But it was pretty weak. They kept going on about needing holes for the moisture to leave, and wet surfaces for their eyeballs. Then some of us got stupid and decided maybe we only needed like a half-decent layer protecting our water. "Semi-permeable" they marketed it as. Oh it's fine they said. We'll live somewhere wet, they said. Yeah how'd that work out for that moss again.

    And now I get a headache if I go like 3 hours without drinking a glass of water. I should've been a pine tree.

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  • sent by Anonymous

    Sheer curiosity here but wood you also apply the "there is nothing inherently wrong and unethical with having a sexual fantasy" to things like pedophilia and zoophilia as well?

  • answered by valtsv

    i mean yeah. thought crimes aren’t real. the people abusing kids or animals aren’t doing it because they enjoyed petplay or ageplay or reading erotica about werewolves and writing underage yaoi too much, however distasteful you may find those activities (and hey, i don’t love them either, some of them disgust me, but i also recognise that they aren’t inherently dangerous and harmful). anyone who’s arrived at that point is a result of both personal choices and systematic failures to be aware of and notice the risk and intervene to try to meaningfully prevent it, and trying to dismiss these abuses as aberrations with no root cause beyond that Some People Are Just Sick/Enjoy Being Evil only serves to allow them to continue to proliferate unseen. the majority of children and animals who experience this kind of abuse will experience it at the hands of their primary caregivers, who already feel entitled to the sense of ownership of their bodies and selves that enables them to consider this an acceptable extension of that. not because someone called their partner “mommy” or “daddy” in bed or jacked off while imagining being pinned down by a minotaur or dragon or something and liked it.

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  • kelpforestdwellers

  • remember: don't chase the pain. if you're lucky enough to have access to an adequate supply of painkillers, use them early. if your pain is episodic, not continuous, hit the pain as soon as you notice it and your chances of avoiding a bad episode improve.

    if you wait around to see if it gets 'bad enough' for painkillers, you're more likely to end up in a lot of pain that's difficult to control.

    the tricky part is, if you do it right, it feels like you did it wrong. because if you catch the pain early before it gets bad, it often feels like 'it never got that bad so maybe i didn't need the medication.'

    but it didn't get that bad BECAUSE of the medication! you did it right. it's okay to use the tools at your disposal. fuck the stigma.

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  • desolationlesbian

  • Using QR codes to link things in circumstances where it would be inconvenient to laboriously type in a url by hand are all well and good, practical, I see it. But now I get emails like "Here's our event! Scan the qr code to register!" with a jpeg of a flyer and no url in the email or on the image. Oh you want me to...hold up my phone to a computer screen to scan a jpeg email attachment to get to a website? Instead of you just linking it to me, in the email you have already sent me, that I am already looking at on my computer? That's what you want me to do? Are you sure?

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