Incredible documentary filmmaking.

What in the actual fuck????

Nah man that's a northern bobwhite

I love Bruce

@emilybeemartin

Not to be That Pedantic Ranger but the only places in the NPS that are *verifiably* haunted are the 1970s government housing trailers

So most national parks bring in rangers on a seasonal basis--- we're hired in late spring and fired in the fall. These rangers need places to live while we're working these 4-5 month stints, so parks typically provide some kind of housing. At best, these are bleak modular builds or dormitories that you share with other rangers. You bring a strand of Christmas lights and a house plant and just make the best of it.

At their worst, they are mid-century nightmares that are actively trying to kill you. They should have been condemned in the '90s, but there's no money to replace them because most maintenance funds are only earmarked for infrastructure used by the public. Every unit I've ever lived in comes with a warning about lead and arsenic in the pipes, and there's always a cursory checkbox like, "I have been told my water is poisoned" that you sort of wearily tick off. Some have basements that you're not allowed to go in because there's no secondary escape. In Glacier my neighbor found a straight-up dead raven on her hot water heater. This past summer another colleague found a hand-drawn pentagram in his basement with a single, unopened can of Coors Lite in the middle. Food burns because your oven temperature is no longer calibrated. Linoleum sheds when you vacuum it. Most of them list or slope in strange ways, and there are always closets that you just know not to open (see my previous hashtag about the hole in the sub-floor). They always have pest problems. This summer I was dozing on my couch and a mouse ran *over my forehead.* Sometimes you hear cracker shots from law enforcement as they try to haze the bears away.

But you put up with it all, because ultimately you love your job and it's all kind of part of it, you know? Crappy housing has been part of park ranger life since its inception. You're part of a legacy. Hundreds of other rangers have spilled grease on that carpet inexplicably installed in your kitchen. Their spirits linger in those liminal spaces behind the refrigerator, quietly whispering, "don't turn on the oven vent--it has pine martens."

Felt very seen at the nursery the other day

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i think i just had a regular human experience

like it has to be the amulet

It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

From the archives. Some yellow fish I embroidered on a beret.

together forever :)

what if we were little bugs holding hands encased in amber forever and ever :))))

prints available here :p

RIP the multiple mites who didn't agree to be a part of this but too bad suckers

Wait..............wait this was a drawing. OP I didn't notice that this was your drawing even after the phrase "prints available." I was that caught up in the details and they're details no one usually draws. I thought these were just actual fossils.

i hate when people call me on the phone like this is for my mom only....

oh come on man youre just being paranoid no ones ever died from anything

Personal Comic, not sure if there are those who understand what I portray. To those who do, I wish you the best of luck .

I'm about to wii sports resort to violence

I'm about to have a wii fit