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dirty confession: i'm a teacher and my ex had a teacher fantasy so i'd talk math formulas before we did the do and after a while I was curious so i said the quadratic formula in public and he automatically got a boner and we broke up because i thought it was really funny and wouldn't stop doing it

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

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pink tummy

#tama #pomsky #puppies

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Via @StarshipAlves at the It Was A Bird Once place: "Google has suspended drone courier flights because of raven attacks. Looks like the Ravens have taken our side against Skynet."

#really though corvids are a major threat to drone deliveries rofl #once they figure out the drones have goodies inside? they'll deliberately look for them to steal your mail #until they find goodies inside? they're gonna mob it because it's too close to their territory #see: kiki's delivery service

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#honestly though a fetus CAN fuck with the pregnant parent like a mech #no seriously #I DID IT TO MY MOM AND SHE STILL GETS ANNOYED ABOUT IT TO THIS DAY #i was very fussy in the womb as she got further along with me #i kicked and thrashed a lot (turns out I was born with a broken gallbladder and i'm the proof babies feel pain in utero) #and sometimes i'd kick at just the right angle to just... pinch my mom's sciatic nerve #and literally make her legs go dead and make her drop like a stone #it was alarming to her coworkers #one cisman tried to tease her about it and she responded by strategically vomiting on his shoes #he never made fun of her again #and he had to buy new wingtips

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Never, ever, EVER play around with botulism. Not only is the botulism toxin the most lethal toxin on the entire planet and nearly 100x deadlier than cyanide, but it kills you in the most terrifying and slow way possible: By paralyzing your lower limbs and slowly paralyzing muscle groups as it climbs up your peripheral nervous system, until it reaches your diaphragm (the meat slab that makes your lungs do the honk-shoo thing).

When botulism reaches the diaphragm in humans, it's said to be like choking to death on air. You can't move your lungs. You can't get air. You're drowning on absolutely nothing, and you're awake the entire time. It saves shutting your brain down for last, so you can feel it take away your ability to move, feel, and breathe as it creeps its way closer and closer to your vital internal organs. Your body is trying to tell the diaphragm to move; to expand and contract and GET AIR, but the botulism is so potent that, once it's reached the respiratory system, the patient is going to die if they aren't given antitoxin and intensive care ASAP after showing symptoms, and spend weeks or months recovering in-hospital afterward. It can take years in some cases for a person to be considered recovered from botulism, and the damage the toxin does to your nervous system may never fully heal. Please don't screw around with botulism.

By the way...

Ever wonder what Botox is made from?

Go on. Look it up :)

Hey kids, wanna learn what signs of botulism look like?

#botulism

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Shocking how many people don’t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken

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some vibes presented without elaboration

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#dropped out in high school #never bothered finishing anything else #too disabled

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we are in dire need of some new media trend. we've done pirates, we've done cowboys; we've gone through two whole zombie revivals. aliens and space themes have basically been a constant since at least the 1950s, as have robots and evil AIs. we went pretty heavy on vampires for a while. we've also done dinosaurs, ninjas, musicals, wizards, sea creatures, ancient rome, ancient egypt, middle ages out the wazoo, entirely too much world war II, we're currently overdosing on our superhero phase, we've done monsters (misunderstood), monsters (radioactive), fake guy in the real world, real guy travels to fake world, caves & mining, vikings, what if you were really small, genre parody as a genre, sand, New York, time travel, something racist goes down in the jungle, neurodivergent detective, buddy cops, crooked cops, gangsters, bank heists in particular, kid has powers, revolt against the corporate world, portals, social insects, dragons, the British, global apocalypse, martial arts, roadtrip as self-discovery, Jesus, clones, clowns, babysitting goes wrong, demonic possession, ghosts of all kinds, talking animals, fucking with the stock market, restaurant ownership, dwarves, planes, and spies. where do we go from here. what's our next big thing

#full length and complete series featuring queer representation without the bury your gays trope #or generic christmas movie except the high maintenance executive girlfriend falls in love with a lesbian lumberjack

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I think about Lycion and his relationship with beauty soo much

Looking at him, we can see that he easily meets the elven beauty standards. He has long silver hair, clear skin, and androgynous form: he's the picture of a youthful, pretty man.

And yet.

He experiences such a visceral reaction to his own body. Despite looking like your stereotypical pretty boy, he doesn't fulfill the expectation of being vain in the slightest (at least not in this form).

In fact, we see in the extras just how badly his body dysmorphia got to him. This was not a passive discomfort or a shallow desire. Lycion was trying to destroy his body. He hated living in his skin so much he was actively self harming in multiple ways in an effort to punish himself.

It's not until he uses ancient magic to get his beast form that his perspective of himself changes. The magic required him to be heavily tattooed over his whole body and we can clearly we can see that he wears these marks with pride. But that's not where any of this ends for him because despite having the solution to his problem, Lycion can't be a wolf all the time.

This means that he has to learn to cope with existing as an elf still, and what stands out to me is how Lycion's hair is almost always in his face. Even now, in the body he likes more, he hides. Whether this is a lingering discomfort or just a habit, there's no saying, but it makes me sad.

Especially in this panel, where it's clear that a lot of his hair had been pulled forward to cover his face rather just the few strands. His expression looks so hollow. He looks tired and uncomfortable. This isn't the casual playfulness he usually has. I think this is a peek into the idea that it's very self soothing for him to use his hair as a shield when he's forced to stay in his human body for too long.

I think that his hair is so important to him because we can see that it's the only trait that carried over into his wolf form. This means that when he's forced to be human he can cling to the single part of him that's shared between his current body and his preferred one.

In summary: I love him so much

#dungeon meshi

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An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

Peni Delina Bedard · August 31, 2019  ·  The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t… That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.” That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!” That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable. Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

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MONKEY MAN (2024)

#brb need to watch this #having bad dysphoria today and i really need some affirmation from somewhere

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Guy who only knows thomas paine from his stay-making career in 1792: hey honey they're having to try the guy who made your bra for sedition and treason in absentia after he fled the country to avoid arrest

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Another awful day. I've been insisting on they/them and generally gender neutral pronouns. Got misgendered by literally everyone I interacted with, including my advocate, who kept saying "HER pronouns are they/them". If I weren't so goddamned blind I would've stormed out right there. Instead, I had to take it until they gave me my fucking prescription and let me leave.

#tw: misgendering