to summarize: you have the moral backbone of a flatworm if your response every time harry potter comes up is to make it about your inability to give up a book
tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website
@teaboot's tags because Yes:
Actually yeah that should be in the post. Hell yeah
transfem final challenge: don't develop romantic feelings for another transfem one william miles (1.6 william kilometers) away
That poor pest control guy did not know what he was getting into, but given the state of my yard i feel like he should have known what he was getting into.
He was going door to door offering to spray the base of the house for pests for a discount rate because one of our neighbors signed up for pest control and he walked down my driveway (covered in spiderwebs), up onto my front porch (covered in spiderwebs), and knocked on my door (covered in spiderwebs) and said "hi, I'm John from the bug company, would you be interested in a discount service because it seems like you may have a spider problem."
And I said, "oh, no, I'm sorry, I won't be spraying for spiders, I like them. I want to encourage them."
And he gave me kind of a weird look and was like "why?" And I was honest and said that they were my pest control, they take care of my mosquitoes and and and flies, and then I kind of laughed and said that I should stop because I know way too much about spiders and if he let me go I'd talk his ear off.
And then he made his fatal mistake and asked what I knew about spiders, and if I knew what kinds of webs he'd walked past to get on the porch and what spiders were in my yard.
So then he got to hear my thoughts on brown vs black widows and why I wished there were as many black widows as there used to be but I had a big beautiful one under my patio table right now and even if I prefer black widows because they aren't invasive the same way that brown widows are i still like the brown widows and i had a lovely one who lived in my patio chair from August until the firestorm in January and she was so good and kept eating cockroaches and had made five big egg sacks and how I was so proud of her and I used to have a lot more orb weavers but their numbers never recovered after the tropical storm last year but I had a cute one on the shed that I took a picture of yesterday and of course there are tons of wolf spiders and jumping spiders and cellar spiders if you wanted to count them too and some false widows but I hadn't seen any of them this year and, well, yeah, anyway they're not actually dangerous mostly and widows want nothing to do with you but a bite wasn't pleasant but much better than a recluse bite but I almost never see recluses around here but i wouldn't, would I, because they're not called brown gregarious spiders, oh and there are black footed yellow sack spiders around and you don't want those to bite you but their little toes are so cute and I'm sorry, sorry, sorry like I said I can go off about spiders, but also I don't want to spray because I've got so many pollinators, I've got a whole wisteria vine full of carpenter bees, actually i saw a male valley carpenter bee last week, did you know they're golden and fuzzy? He was so cool! But, yes, sorry, I won't be spraying but thank you for asking, and I'm sorry I was the crazy spider lady at you!
Extremely adorable fuzzy little creature:
A large friend:
Look, this is basically a kitten:
A goth icon.
Strong, independent women that I don't want to fuck with.
They are delightful and they eat actual pests, I love them.
I had almost this exact conversation with the door-to-door pest control guy last summer, but about the wasps. He was outright confused when I told him that not only was he not welcome in my yard, I'd just put out some fried chicken crumbs for my paper wasps to make sure they built their hives on my property because nothing in his truck made better crop pest control than a hungry nest of Red Paper Wasps, except maybe Ichneumons but have to get rid of the lawn before those will move in-
"Red Paper wasps? Those are very dangerous! They're very aggressive!" he sputters.
"Really? They seem to be quite placid." I indicated the Fine-backed Red Paper Wasp nest about 16 inches above his head under the eaves.
He stared.
I picked up a crumb of KFC from the porch shelf with my finger and held it up. One of the ladies investigated, then landed and sat on my finger and munched happily for a few seconds before returning to the nest.
"Would you like to see the common paper wasps? They've got a great nest going on the side of the garage."
"I'm. I'm good." He said, and left.
NICOS!
CRT-TV Drums. The sound is produced by catching static electricity from a CRT with the hands and sending electrical signals through the body to a guitar amplifier📺
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ブラウン管ドラム。ブラウン管テレビの静電気を手でキャッチして身体を通して電気信号をギターアンプに送ることで音を鳴らす📺
Played by Ei Wada
Created by Ei Wada x Rinichi Washimi x Nicos Orchest-Lab
NEW SINGLE / VIDEO ALBUM
the Minecraft movie should have been an animated no-dialogue ghibli-style-environmentalist movie about Steve experiencing the environment recovering via the game’s update progression
in my mind, the respawn mechanic is a real thing Steve has to deal with. he dies, and is faced with a void and the option to continue & try again or give up — and we watch him through every reaction (scared and confused the first time, mad the next, dismissive and exasperated w a specific mob the time after) as he chooses to keep going every time
by the end, after more than a few close calls, he beats the ender dragon and brings its head back home. places it proudly on a pedestal, hangs up his armor and sword, goes to step outside to view everything he’s built…….and is immediately blown up by a creeper
in the void again, annoyed but laughing — even after beating the mightiest of beasts he’s not untouchable. looks at the quit button like an old friend. maybe one day he’ll see what’s next. but not today
he hits respawn instead. cut to black, credits roll
I’ve seen many interpretations of how the Minecraft movie could have gone, and this is definitely my favourite. And while the one that we got is certainly quite bad overall, one of the choices that I respect about it the most is that it is called “A Minecraft Movie.” Not “THE Minecraft Movie.” That was a conscious choice made by someone on the creative team to stress that it should not be viewed as the definitive film adaption of the game. And I would think that’s a choice that had to be fought for, as I’m sure that the folks at Warner Bros. wanted their $150 million star-studded live action film to be the first thing that comes to people’s minds when they thought of what a Minecraft movie would be. But I, like many other fans of the game, think it deserves something better, or at least something different. Minecraft is a sandbox game, its film adaptions shouldn’t be limited to a single bad one.
Unfortunately, this is not an opinion shared by Warner Bros (and likely not by Microsoft either), so getting the rights to make a film adaption of the game that may be nigh impossible.
Regardless, I still do have some respect for whoever chose to name the film the way they did. Their desire to not close off the opportunity of making more than just one franchise of poorly done cash grab movies, if not shared by the higher authorities, was felt, and appreciated.
Maybe someday it’ll be possible to create the film you hoped for, and if that day comes, I hope I’ll be there to help!
Commission for @jovianwishes
Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'
Groove-Billed Ani
Hoatzin
Pheasant Coucal
The trumpeter hornbill (and really all hornbill species) are one of my favourite examples of this:
Look at that beak! And their calls are just exquisite :3
Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor
trans actual uk - trans led and run advocacy, education and empowerment organisation
fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes
gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org
mermaids - supports trans youth
akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity
loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england
not a phase - for trans adults
The only type of male character who wouldn't be better as a woman is probably the ones who were explicitly created to show the faults in patriarchal thinking but then I imagine female walter white having an angry staredown with female gus fring and I get so h