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This is what happens to characters when you write an AU fanfic
kansascity-elffriend
Off goes Riker, to the coffee shop.
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a wonderful family photo <3
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This might be Derek Guy's greatest masterpiece.
(The Twitter thread is probably easier to read and easier to look at the images, but I wanted to make sure it got preserved. Images are the tweets.)
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Reblogged destinationtoast
it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth
it’s tuesday i’m in the evil lab
it’s wednesday i’m in the time loop
it’s thursday i’m in the medieval torture apparatus
🌸it’s friday i’m in love🌸
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Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?
A couple highlights:
- There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It's awful for the planet, it's awful for our lungs, it's just The Worst. Goodbye and good riddance!
- Last year, EU CO2 emissions fell by 8%, and the data's not all in for this year yet but they're on track to drop even more. Yeah, you read that right - the EU may have already passed peak carbon emissions. Excuse me while I do a happy dance over here in the corner - this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!
- This may have been a bad year for abortion rights in the US, but we're an outlier - over the past 30 years, we are only one of four countries to tighten abortion restrictions, while 60 countries have made it more available. This year, France became the first country in the whole world to make abortion a constitutional right. Seven US states did so too - Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. That's right, Missouri! Shocking, huh?
- A drug to prevent HIV infections was 100% effective in trials. That. That's insane. It's not a vaccine, but it is the closest we've ever been to one.
- Deaths from tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, hit an all-time global low. Hooray for preventing a truly staggering amount of death!
- Egypt and Cabo-Verde both eliminated malaria, and 17 countries started distributing the new malaria vaccine - remember that? Remember how insanely exciting it is that was now have a vaccine for malaria? It is saving lives as we speak.
- Deforestation in the Amazon is half what it was two years ago.
- The largest dam removal project in history was completed - removing four dams from the Klamath River, thanks to decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes. A month later, there were salmon spawning in the river basin again - for the first time in a century. Nature's pretty incredible at bouncing back, if we can just give it the chance. I repeat: Largest. Dam removal. In history!
- China finished the Great Green Wall
- Prewalski's horses returned to their homeland in central Kazakhstan, where they'd been missing for 200 years!
- 22 species were removed from the endangered list - let's hear it for the Saimaa ringed seal, Scimitar oryx, Red cockaded woodpecker, Siamese crocodile, Narwhal, Arapaima, Chipola slabshell and Fat threeridge mussels, Iberian lynx, Asiatic lions, Australian saltwater crocodile, Asian antelope, Ulūlu, Southern bluefin tuna, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, Yellow-footed rock wallabies, Yangtze finless porpoise, Pookila mouse, Orange-bellied parrots, Putitor mahseer (this is a fish), Giant pandas, and Florida golden aster!
This year was deeply shitty in a lot of ways - but not all of them.
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MY complaint about ai art is that now when you google an animal half the results are not actually pictures of the animal but a blurry facsimile of what people WANT the animal to look like
My good friend @why-animals-do-the-thing is working on a project to help with this problem! Check out her animal photo repository- it's meant to be a resource for artists, scholars, and anyone who wants to know that they are 100% guaranteed to be looking at a real animal.
Reblogged dovand
wish the human body had like a crash log or something so I could pin shit down. Why am I having a sudden spike of anxiety when I’m just sitting here? Well it looks like there’s a conflict here between my medication and the better foliage mod
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"Ugh, people actually BELIEVE what Jin Guangyao said about his situation in the temple scene?"
Apologies, I'm sure it makes for a far better story if He's Just Evil, Actually and The Witch Hunt Just Picked The Wrong Guy Last Time Around; I'm sure the witch hunt in and of itself is not the problem and I was a fool for thinking Wei Wuxian's "Hey, they did the same thing to me back then" had any significance whatsoever.
#'i cant BELIEVE people think this story has nuance or depth! dont they understand that the protag is completely stagnant the whole time??'#'thats what makes it such an AMAZING story!! 😍😍 its about Good Versus Evil and how trying to create systemic change is bad!'#do you HEAR yourselves (via @labyrynth)
unfortunately.... they really, really don't.
Reblogged vermillioncrown
You've been isekai'd into a fictional setting. Spin this wheel to find out which one.
Riverdale…
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…the Archie comics version! 😃
Reblogged kaijutegu
hi i know “don’t believe everything you read on tumblr” has been said enough times at this point in the website’s tenure but i want to specifically say that there is a problem on tumblr and other social media where well-known science enthusiast accounts basically build trust as Knowing Things and then they can say anything they want about those things & everyone just believes them. this is especially a problem among ppl posting about ecology & animal science in my experience.
i’m absolutely throwing stones in my own glass house bc i almost never used to include sources on my wildlife science posts on my old blog but these days i try to make a point of it & i think others should too.
i don’t even think anyone is lying or making things up on purpose. i think they’ve just heard it from another source they consider reliable & they’re spreading incorrect or incomplete information without questioning it, to a much larger platform. about ten years ago I myself made a post repeating something a wildlife professor said to me, which turned out to be outdated info and mostly inaccurate. i trusted him as a source, but i should have looked at the data before sharing it to a wider audience. it was an important lesson!
basically idc how many times popular content creators on here or any other site/app have been correct about other things in other posts. you should still make a habit of asking yourself “what’s the source?” even when it’s a blog you like & trust. bc let me tell ya, i have seen some doozies lately
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Dashing Youth | Qixuan ✘ Yuji: 爱随风起
Qixuan. You're right. We grew up together, of couese I know that you won't betray the Young Lady. But did you think that I would betray you? -Episode 27
Reblogged eirenical
Not to go "if you have ADHD just go for a run" or anything, but I am so serious if you have ADHD you should regularly go outside, no headphones no phone no nothing and just stand and observe for a while until you've had enough. Not until you get bored, until you've had enough. Drink your coffee without watching tiktok. Have a bath without music. Turn down the volume in your headphones. I cannot overstate how much learning to be bored is cruicial with ADHD. Life is not just about pleasure, no matter what your dysregulated dopamine system thinks, and when you teach your brain to be okay with being bored, then boring tasks stop feeling like torture. By letting yourself be bored you are yoinking your system out of the high/low binary and allow for the highs to feel like actual highs and not just anything that isn't low. I am so serious go literally touch grass. Listen to the sounds in your flat. Stimulate your body the way it was designed. It lowers anxiety and makes you feel like you're real and best of all it's completely free
I really wish more ADHD mental health care told you WHY things like this matter to our quality of life.
The Hyperactivity in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is NOT about being physically hyperactive, it's about having a "hyperactive central nervous system" because it's a form of inheritable dysautonomia. The problem with disautonomia, especially the ADHD kind, is that it makes boredom flag to your nervous system as a THREAT, triggering hyperactive and maladaptive central nervous system processes like fight or flight.
But dysautonomia kills you that way. Literally, part of the reason our average life spand increase on stimulents is that it helps manage risk-taking impulsivity that can get us killed by accident, but the other part is that stimulents can regulate a hyperactive CNS such that it is functionally (while impacted by the stimulent) NOT dysregulated anymore. And PHYSIOLOGICALLY that is essential because the physical outcomes of dysautonomia can reduce your life span by YEARS if not decades through self-perpetuating hypervigelence, endocrine disruption, and adrenal fatigue.
So when the ADHD brain goes stimulation-seeking and a doctor tells you to practice mindfulness, it feels like being told "hey go stand in a functioning boiler until you can stop thinking" rather than WHAT IT IS which is the process of re-teaching your body what is and isn't safe.
Standing outside making mindful, non-interpretive/moralized observation of the world helps your brain and body re-acclimate to the idea that absence of that frantic "busy" feeling isn't a threat or a risk to your safety, and gradually reduces the level of distress that just hanging out somewhere triggers for you.
Learning WHY this stuff was being suggested and understanding what it was actually supposed to do went a long way towards changing my relationship with my ADHD. I am FAR more functional now, far less prone to shame spirals and rejection sensitivity, hell, I can **sit physically still for near on an hour at a time** now without feeling like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.
So yeah. Go outside. Let the world narrow around you and take deep breaths until it stops feeling claustrophobic or like you need to climb walls. Learn how to let little sensations become big ones like the way the heat of the sun on your skin starts as a gentle warming and be omes a unique collection of sensory moments depending on how it lands on you. Listen for sounds under sounds and let them fade in and out as you move your focus from one sound to the next. Enjoy. Move on. Rinse and repeat.
When you no longer feel like the world is actively killing you, it's a lot easier to navigate it.
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Here's a mastiff completing the agility trial at a dog show.
The excited cheers of the crowd as this drool monster begrudgingly jumps, has made my 2025 already.
@shrimpsisbugs exact opposite to that borderpap
i could cry
Honestly i love how this shows how completely different dog breeds can be. Like, you can take a papillion over that course at warp 9 but this guy isn't built for that speed! He's taking his time! Hes got a lot of bulk to move!
This has tanker relay energy. Do people know about tanker relays outside my home county?
I was on the track & field team in high school as a thrower. Shot put, javelin, and discus. All required lots of muscle and a low center of gravity. Track & field includes throwers, sprinters, jumpers, pole vaulters, and distance runners. Each of these events requires VASTLY different strengths and skills, and therefore extremely varied body types.
It was rare for someone to do multiple of those things because we were all minmaxing our bodies so much based on our event: the distance runners were elfin, the sprinters were lean and muscular, the jumpers were lanky. The throwers? We were tanks. The sprinters can’t get through our workouts, and we can’t get through theirs: it’s just science.
If a meet was running ahead of schedule, or if we really needed a tie breaker and there were no official events left, we would do something called a Tanker Relay. It’s a simple 4x100m relay race, which is already part of the meet…except the throwers do the running.
This mastiff doing an agility course is exactly what that looks like. Look at that guy. You know he’s perfectly designed and built for something, and you know for SURE that this ain’t it. And the crowd during a tanker relay acts JUST like this. People get wild cheering for these tanks moving as fast as we can, slower than you can imagine a sprint ever being. It’s maybe mildly self-deprecating, but the bottom line is that it shows off just how specialized we are and (for me) that being super good at one thing sometimes means you CAN’T be good at something else.