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Dragons are basically fish, when you get down to it.

There’s no such thing as fish. The word doesn’t have any taxonomic meaning. It’s a word we’ve used to describe everything from hagfish to goldfish, even though a coelacanth is more closely related to a camel than a salmon. But because they inhabit the same ecological niche of “vertebrate animal with gills and fins,” we call them all fish.

Likewise, there’s no such thing as dragons. We call anything that fills the mytho-ecological niche of “dangerous animal that blocks the way” a dragon. And that’s why any kind of argument of what does and doesn’t count as a dragon is moot — wyverns are dragons just as much as a jabberwock or a jaculus or a tatzelwurm, not because they’re closely related in a biological clade but because they fill a narrative niche.

Dragons are also lobsters, but that’s for unrelated reasons.

#popular mythology

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Graveyards aren't just your backyard to play in whenever you want. There are people who died resting there. There are living people who have to tend to the grounds and clean up the place.

Respect other people in graveyards, respect the rules of the place, and leave it cleaner than you found it.

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id rather you have cringy but honest interests than try and act like everything youve ever loved was in an ironic way cause you think that love for simple or useless or silly things is beneath you . pathetic! embrace existence with both hands coward

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i wish there was a site that was like. video game hints. that were less walkthroughs and more “it’s in this general area” or “this puzzle is easy if you picked up all seven clues. are you missing one?” or “don’t forget you can [mechanic].” sometimes im stumped but i dont want someone to just tell me the answer…

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“gender and sexuality are separate concepts” and “my gender and my sexuality are inherently connected in ways i cannot articulate clearly with words” are concepts that can and do coexist

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I know it tends to be regarded as kind of cringe or unhelpful but oh my god when cis people introduce themselves with their pronouns or write them down on a class project, an unbelievable burden gets lifted off my shoulders. It’s so so so helpful. Because I don’t have to be the one to say it first, I’m just following the trend. The precedent gets set for using the pronouns they list so when I show up and it doesn’t quite match that’s fine.

I don’t normally talk about being a “good ally” whatever the hell that means. But this is a good thing, more cis people should do this thing.

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Wow holy shit

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“ur just mad bc testosterone turned u into an ugly hairy bald fatty and not an anime twink”

i wonder why young impressionable trans ppl who want to go on t would be afraid of being hairy and bald and fat. i wonder if it’s maybe bc they’ve watched the queer community treat fat queer people in general, but particularly fat queer ppl who are hairy, bald, and/or not feminine, like absolute fucking shit. i wonder if it’s bc our society assigns morality to looks and fat hairy bald ppl get literally treated like predators simply because of the way they look. i wonder if it’s because they watched the rest of the queer community idolize and prioritize white thinness. i wonder if maybe, just maybe, there are deeply seated issues in the queer community that we might wanna address when they make themselves obvious instead of falling back on mocking individuals for the way they look.

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babysat five kids today and three hours in the oldest turns to me, points to her nine year old brother and says, “look what he made.” what he made was a piece of cardboard with “fuck ass shit” written in capital letters in crayon

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i feel like it shouldnt be necessary to reveal your official diagnosis of Brain Fucked to someone for them to treat you better

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strange that people choose to be sad when they could simply choose to never think of things again

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the amount of stranger danger bullshit i see on here is absurd considering how much i cultivate this space to not show me that lmao. The vast vast majority of interpersonal violence occurs either in instiutions or between people who were already known to each other. Your mum is a bigger threat to you than a stranger, yes even a visibly high stranger

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The “don’t do violence because they’ll just do more violence to us back and they’ll get what they want” line truly IS borne of cowardice. It admits that a) violence works, and b) you’re too scared to use something that works

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google search How to become so nonbinary it kills people

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quick shoutout to any nonbinary people who may also happen to identify as men, women, or both in some form. also includes nonbinary people who are boys, girls, are both. gender is weird shoutout to us for breaking the rules people try to set. hope y'all have a great day

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Boss's wife upon hearing I'm a medieval scholar: Isn't it crazy all the things medieval people thought would stop the plague?

Me: *Fighting all my devils & angels not to bring up that she drank horse antiparasitic last year.*