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Formerly cerulean-beekeeper

@exuberantocean / exuberantocean.tumblr.com

You can call me Bee.  I'm 20,000 bees in a trenchcoat trying to pass as a human.  I crochet. I garden and keep chickens. Fandoms include Doctor Who, Good Omens, Leverage, Due South, Loki, Moon Knight, Stargate Atlantis and so many more (too many more)
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Toxic Puritan Work Ethic?

I've been laying in bed with what is likely the flu, periodically feeling guilty for not doing more. Like, I feel guilt that I should work from home, I should clean up around the house, I should tackle a project. Let's call this illness guilt and in your somehow guilty for not doing more despite your illness. Note this is different than being bored or restless, you're also feeling guilt and/or shame.

I've also been doubting whether I'm really that sick and if I'm just blowing this out of proportion (I have a fever of 102.2F/39C.) Let's call it illness imposter syndrome and define it as the sense that your not really ill or ill enough to deserve rest. Both of these should also apply to injury!

It got me to wondering, are we American's significantly different than the rest of the world on this? So...a poll! Please reblog for a bigger sample size! I'm really curious if we're different than the rest of the world on this.

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kuntniss

Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw

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froody

I hate when people say “I’m against abortion except for if the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother” every single pregnancy threatens the life of the pregnant person. We’ve gotten too far removed from that, taken for granted that pregnancy is safe. It is not. Pregnancy and puerperal complications have been a fairly common cause of death throughout history. Even now, maternal mortality is on the rise in the US, the maternal mortality rate varies wildly across the states and it is disproportionately higher for Black women. Being pregnant is getting more dangerous, not less dangerous.

Certified Sex Ed Post!

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andisupreme

At the company retreat, one extremely drunk girl asked what my pronouns were. (Eventually, it took her a while to word the question.) After the whole conversation was done, she goes- "YEAHHH GURL, Get on with--with THY bad self! See what I did?? They/them/thy."

I was almost holding back tears from trying not to laugh as I told her yes that's great you nailed it honey. Thank you very much I am feeling the love.

Anyway I've been assigned Thee/Thine at Supportive Drunk Girl

Good news. At work today I heard her and some of the other coworkers recounting the retreat, so I went over and I told her "Just so you know, and I mean this genuinely, sincerely, with all love in my heart and not a negative feeling in my body, asking someone their pronouns while you are drunk as a skunk is the funniest thing I've ever seen."

She had absolutely no memory of the conversation of course, but cracked up upon hearing it. When I told her that "They/them/thy" is branded into my brain forever, she immediately went "Pop OFF, your honor!"

So apparently she is exactly as funny when sober.

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xfiles is the best show ever made bc you watch an episode and youre like "jesus christ if these two ever broke up the fallout would destroy everyone around them and also themselves" and then you remember they aren't even together

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I love everything about this.

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damatris

@headspacedad Is this true? Because I love the concept of bunnies practically flipping the bird

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headspacedad

this is TRUE!

Rabbits rely on body language for the majority of their communication.  They also rely on manners in a way that would make the Heian Era aristocrats look uncultured.  And you don’t get manner dictates like that without ALSO knowing how to be passive-aggressive with them. 

Rabbit flops are super vulnerable for a bunny.  Their stomachs are exposed and they’re in a position that means if danger shows up they have to waste precious seconds getting up before they can sprint for safety.  A rabbit flop means both ‘I’m so happy I can’t contain it’ and ‘I feel so safe I am going to be vulnerable and really let go’.  Rabbit owners love seeing it.  It means that your bun really does feel that safe around you.  It’s a pretty high compliment from an animal that knows everyone’s out to kill them.

However -

it can also be used passive aggressively in the ‘you mean so little to me you’re not even worth acknowledging as existing’.  It’s right on the same level as walking into a room and greeting everyone but one person.  An enemy rabbit would be a threat.  This rabbit?  This rabbit isn’t even important enough to be a threat.  They’re a nobunny and so I will flop because there is nothing in the area worthy enough to bother being aware of.

To humans it can look very much the same but trust me, the bunnies know exactly which is which.

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stefanyd

the intricacies of bunnies social relationships. amazing.

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nat-20s

"someone who allows you to rest" is the relationship dynamic of all time

A parent that welcomes you back home after things have fallen apart. A best friend whose voice alone who can make you relax. A spouse who convinces you to stay in bed an extra hour and leave the dishes for later. A stranger who sees you tired and gives up their seat on the train. Augh. The humanity of it

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Brett Goldstein on working with Harrison Ford The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (October 2024)
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