Any fun factoids you have about your blorbos that you haven’t revealed yet?
Absolutely! Some are fun, some are not so fun. ;3
Merry has gotten drunk. Once. They regretted it the morning after.
Coby has pollen allergy. Spring is not his season.
Behind that sweet face; Runt is very intelligent. If he's kept motivated he can solve complicated tasks quickly. He never forgets the scent of someone, meaning he will recognize a person even if he's only met them once before, many years ago. And he'll remember the context followed by their name (if it's given). So yeah, his memory is no joke.
Many of the scars on Cetus' back are from boat propellers. Freshwater mers rub their long bodies against eachother like cats to show affection. But given his size, he makes do when the humans he likes are on their ships. You'd think he'd learn to wait until they have safely turned the engine off after the first injuries but nope. The people gotta scramble to stop the propellers so he doesn't hurt himself. xD;
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I've been seeing discourse about kettles lately on Tumblr, like specifically electric vs stovetop, and I just want to throw my hat into the ring and say that I have a stovetop kettle on top of a hot plate in my room, and I would love to know where that fits into this.
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It's bad, and I don't want to in any way minimize that, but this is not a unique moment in human history. In fact I would argue that on average, globally, things have gotten better and will continue to get better at least for the near future. Old prejudices die out. Fewer people die in war and famine. More people receive education, and better education. There are a lot of detriments that come with everyone having a camera in their pockets, but it also means that people abusing power get caught in the act. We haven't well figured what to DO about that yet, and how, but the reality of many problems is being revealed to many more people, and that's the first step. Global communication and wide access to that communication means that people's minds can be changed. I know mine has been.
This is the only time. This is the only time you have, and that means it's the only time you have to fight injustice, but it also means it's the only time you have to paint or sing or carve or kiss your loved ones.
I could say a lot of things that are extremely out of my lane, but it comes down to: I would urge you against despair. Perhaps there is not much hope for this situation, but that doesn't mean there is no hope for every situation. Despair robs you of all fight. Despair ensures a total loss.
Not every fight is in your lane or within your power to fight. Choose your battles, but you cannot choose all of them and you should not choose none of them. Choosing all of them leads to despair and burnout because you are just one person and you do not have all of that in you. Honestly, it is better to choose none of them than all of them because at least then you enjoy your little life.
Apologies/warnings for an English speaking USAmerican's understanding of The Tao here, but
Tao te Ching 29 starts:
Do you want to improve the world?
I don’t think it can be done.
And for a long time I took this as a capital T truth. You cannot significantly increase or decrease suffering in the world. You don't have to do anything. Ain't it grand.
I said something about this to my partner one day and he paused to think for a moment and said "The Civil Rights Movement."
And it made me want to kick rocks, initially.
There is hope for improving the world systemically. It has happened before and it will happen again. You are not absolved of responsibility.
(some translations read that you cannot improve the world by controlling or conquering it, and I don't know Chinese, but I suspect that is more accurate. Even if it's not, I think Lao Tzu would agree with me when I say you study the teachings of the old masters but sometimes it is important to examine a teaching, realize it is false, and go against it)
I worked in healthcare (and continue to work in healthcare) through covid. Throughout, I thought (and continue to think) about the starfish story a lot.
If you're not familiar, it goes more or less like this:
A young man is on a beach. As far as the eye can see, from horizon to horizon, the beach is covered in starfish. He picks one up, he throws it into the ocean, he picks up another, tosses it into the surf, again and again and again. An old man approaches him and says, "You can't save all of them." The young man keeps throwing starfish. "I saved that one. And that one. And that one."
Trite! But until someone shows up with some sort of automated starfish scooping apparatus, or figures out how to solve whatever ecological problem is causing all these starfish to die on this beach, it's what you do. You get people to throw starfish with you. You draw attention to the starfish problem. You will not win them all but you do not give up.
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