This distinctively warty lichen is Melanohalea exasperata (with several friends) on a lushly populated oak twig.
It can be tricky to find as it mostly grows high up in the tree canopy - so far I've only enountered it on branches that have recently fallen to the ground.
pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up
when people go after no-fault divorce or abortion what they're really doing is trying to enshrine the sunk cost fallacy into law
it sounds like a joke but this is a genuine political belief of mine. you should be able to leave a situation you don't like. the government has no business trapping you in a relationship.
quitters rights!
I'm curious...
Reblog to make the post go 'round and all that. Maybe explain in the tags or replies why you're using the theme you're using if you want.
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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????
"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am
gonna add this art i made a lil while back because it feels relevant -
[ID: marker art of a jellyfish with pink spots along its bell and arms that reads "I can make this world kinder." End ID.]
Victor refusing to make the Monster a wife because he was worried they’d breed is such a cop out. Like, you’re cobbling together body parts from charnel houses. You can just not give her any ovaries. You can just spay her like a cat. Why are you this dumb Victor. You’re a doctor.
Something to remember is that Victor didn’t just give the monster a working dick! He wanted his creation to be made of the best parts of men-it’s why the monster is made up of so many different pieces rather than one fresh corpse, why he’s so large, and why Victor is disappointed that he isn’t beautiful.
So, what does this mean? It means that Victor looked at the dicks of various corpses, testing not only to make sure they work, but also to find what he considered to be the best corpse dick. Does this mean the monster was extremely hung? Or did Victor simply pick the dick that seemed most attractive to him? Did he memorize the appearance of the dicks, or did he line them up to compare?
We’ll never know, because the original story never touches on the subject, and it’s one of the few flaws in Mary Shelley’s work.
Considering we know who Mary Shelley was spending time around I guarantee this was a CONVERSATION that she actively and adamantly refused to actually include in the text
Well, there is ONE adaptation which includes this very discussion.
I feel it’s my duty to make sure everyone sees this because the still images don’t do the comedic timing of that pause justice.
Gene Wilder was a comedic master.
A rare example of a movie with absolutely NO poor performances, and every single member of the cast firing on all cylinders.
Thats just how Mel rolls. All his movies are great.
So while I was getting my haircut, the lady asked me if I had other plans for the day and I said:
“I’m just going to pick up the boy from daycare and then it’s date night.”
And the lady says “Oh! How old is he?”
“He’s three.”
“Mine too! Where are you registering him for kindergarten it’s such a hassle-”
And that’s when I realized I said “boy” and not “dog” because I always think of Charlie as “good boy” but this slip up has lead to a miscommunication.
The lady is now 6 minutes into a clearly needed rant about how unnecessarily complex shopping for schools is, esp when you have a neurodivergent child, so I can’t just tell her that Charlie is a dog because then she’ll feel awkward for unloading on me and she clearly has enough going on.
So the rest of the haircut became a game of “how much can I say about Charlie without revealing that he is not a human child?” And the answer is “enough to cover a half hour hair appointment, quite possibly several hours worth if I’m specific enough”
“is he very verbal?”
“It really depends on who he’s with. He’s very quiet at he but won’t shut up if he’s at the park or has a friend over.”
“was it hard to potty-train him?”
“he’s adopted, but I was genuinely amazed at how good he already was with hygene and potty stuff.”
“mine’s just obsessed with paw patrol and Frozen, drives me crazy!”
“I imagine. Charlie is colorblind so he’s not as into tv, but he always wants a toy if I take him anywhere with them.”
“oh gosh the toys! And the kids are so rough on them!”
“yeah Charlie can destroy a stuffed animal in about 2 minutes, so I only buy him the really cheap ones.”
“Does he throw tantrums when they break?”
“Not really. It’s meditative, really, taking them apart. He has hysterics if the cat takes his toys though. Runs downstairs and cries at me until I retrieve it because he’s not tall enough to get it out of the cat tree.”
The Very Good Boy in question, Charleston Chew.
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*showing visible symptoms* oh my god i need help desperately
*symptoms go away for one day* what if im just faking it
no more group chats. we meet once a week from now on and everyone prepares 2 personal stories and 3-5 memes and we sit in a circle and have a Socratic seminar covering these topics
i started playing Disco Elysium and last night (the same day i started playing) i woke up to my stomach hurting so bad that in my delirium i thought it had to do with something from the game.
and looked it up…
i thought this was completely normal until waking up later after the pain was gone.
you’re playing the game better than anyone else has ever played it
frail men, who look like they couldn't survive the winter hmu
Fruit bat noises, apparently. If you care
Oh my god. I care. I care SO much.
reblog for noises
If you don't think you care, trust me on this: YOU DO CARE.
Also, for those who wonder why I call bats "sky puppies", these guys are why. <3
It’s what at the what now?
Continue✨ Keep going✨
Thank you, lady 🤗
The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home...
Always grateful when this makes the rounds
You literally have to understand that ur closest friends and loved ones may very well have kinks or fetishes that gross or freak you out and they simply won’t tell you because they know it grosses or freaks you out. Like you have no way of knowing if your best friend is into necro roleplay if she doesn’t wanna tell you. Sometimes you date someone for years before finding out they have a thing for incest. Maybe your coworker likes ageplay and diapers. Who gives a fuck. Nothing changes between you knowing and not knowing except your own constructed moral outrage.
WRONG!
1. Get comfy doing illegal shit. Laws are made up to enforce whatever the people on top want to enforce, anal and oral sex are technically a crime in several states currently if I recall correctly
2. It’s also illegal in many places to do any kind of play that causes pain to a partner, especially that leaves marks, including bruises.
3. Making judgements about people’s morality and personhood based on whether or not they fall into the class of “criminal” is bad. Stop
I understand that “kink and not a crime” is meant to refer to genuine acts of sexual abuse and rape, but you can just say that. Also we don’t need to bring that up every single time we talk about kink. It just strengthens the connotation between kink and abuse. If we’re talking about kinks and fetishes, we are automatically talking about roleplay and other kinds of consensual play between risk-aware adults 👍🏼
"do you want to go out to dinner?"
"as long as we're eating food and not nuclear waste."
"You don't have to say that every time."
when i was in middle/early high school my best friend and i ran an entire RP universe through a complicated network of over 100 fake facebook accounts working in real time, characters fighting in the chat with each other and causing drama on the feed and relationship statuses changing and updating profile pics and everything, different browsers on the same computer logged onto different accounts and running the whole thing like a real time grand strategy game we had documents we had charts we had relationship maps we had character arcs and we were so good with making it seem legit we were in it for the realism and it was just the two of us doing this, and at our school for mentally ill kids everyone else was 14 and doing drugs and getting pregnant and getting suspended for knifing each other in the parking lot but we just minded our own and 100+ fake people's business and stayed out of trouble and let me just say. facebook's rules nowadays would never let any of that fly and that's the greatest tragedy of all we could never pulled any of that off now but 2012 was a different beast. you had to have been there
we'd be in like 10th grade science class and it would be 1:43 pm on a tuesday and we'd be like oh shit emily should have her pregnancy test results by now we have to post updates and we'd be sitting in the back on our laptops rp'ing emily and her baby daddy and her brother having fights on her facebook wall in real time while our teacher had some bad outdated 90s documentary playing on the projector. kids these days would have to do that on twitter and it's just not the same, you have to prove every identity of every account you can't just make 100 different yahoo emails. this decade is a bust
