#but this is the ecosystem we live in

[kitefinteas]

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#kitefin teas #tea shop #tea #tea blends #gift set #gift ideas #custom tea blends #loose leaf tea #tea set #tea time #yeah yeah i know nobody likes ads #but this is the ecosystem we live in #so support a small business maybe?

[somethingcorenotsure]

I think it's so adorable that early humans took wild gourds - a tiny fruit that hollows out as it dries, making it float - and decided to make something out of it

they thought the tiny fruit was so good that they bred it for thousands of years, making it larger to form into bowls and cups, and different shapes to become bottles and spoons

and musical instruments

And then, people took the hollow gourds they farmed, and they turned them into houses for birds. We adapted them into the perfect houses for birds, and now there are specific breeds of birdhouse gourd just for making into birdhouses

And humans dedicated gardening space and time and thousands of years of breeding to make the gourds so absolutely perfect for birds, that there is a species of bird that lives almost exclusively in them

#yes I KNOW i posted about this the other day but *crying* i just love plant domestication and the history of agriculture #and humanity's positive affect on the ecosystems we live in #mine #image IDs in alt text #hmm. I'm gonna tag this #permaculture #just to pspsps @ that community to look at how cool gourds are please everyone grow birdhouse gourds and give cavity nesters places to live #i don't think mine will become fully ripe before i get my first frost :( next year i need to start gourds indoors #i didn't want to grow them before because i didn't have much garden space but now i do and i need to grow all of them #i might be. a little obsessed with gourds. but also i saw a pair of purple martins flying by the road last year #and i had never seen one before then! and i need to see more of them #i have a few hundred barn swallows but i need more birds flying around my house. more!! #and also i have a ton of invasive cavity nesting species around here. house sparrows and starlings. #gotta make up for those things competing with native birds for nest dites #*sites #the invasive birds very often win :/ #that's why they're invasive #i really do need to start trapping them....

[artgletic]

case study of the self-identified god

#obsessed with the fact that rain world is a game about survival #yet every character we meet has the express goal of trying to optimize killing themselves #every creature in game seems perfectly content fulfilling their role in the ecosystem no matter how many cycles they do the same thing #(rly obvious with gourmand's entire route. guy who lives their life to the fullest without the slightest hint of resentment) #it was really only the ancients who thought they were above it and thought of it as something to escape from #5pebbles is so interesting because the only reason hes “”“godlike”“” is because of his vast knowledge. if he was in any slugcats shoes he #would die instantly which is ironically what hes been trying to do this whole time #this comic was kind of exploring the idea of awareness (divinity) as something that drags down ones enjoyment of life (walking). #if 5p would humble himself down enough to walk around like any other creature #he would a) be much happier in life and b) achieve the ascension he's been gunning for for millennia like all the slugcats did #but he never will. #getting rid of all his work on the problem or even his awareness of it entirely #would just be a trick of convenience that steals away his godhood #and him calling himself godlike is kind of a cope LOL #a cope being faced with a problem he was never meant to solve #a cope being faced with what he did to moon #a cope being faced with the rot inside him #oh well. #anyway fuck 5 pebbles i hate that guy #rain world #rain world fanart #rw five pebbles #rain world five pebbles #rw gourmand #rain world gourmand #five pebbles #rain world void worm #rain world ancients #also JUST KIDDING ilu 5p. you suck but i💛u

[beescake]

are you secretly the CEO of solkat

solkat r the ceos of me. actually

#am but a fresh minnow in this decade old aquarium i dont feel worthy of this title #as a chaser of the trail left by the established reigning fish i say‚ #the yaoi game of the og slkts are insane!11 i cannot hope to come close #also i think solkat might b more than tumblr.? #there are bubbles of slkts living in other ecosystems that we tumblrinas are not privy to for sure :o #ask #anon #homestuck #2024 #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #vioart #ok as candidate-in-training my slkt take of the day is that they have a startup tgt ☝️🤓 #worst bosses ever btw these two grind so fucking hard #if u dont keep up w them whoopee youre booted off for killing the team spirit so dead even the mediums wont absolve u #their company culture bonds over shitting on ex-employees :(

[makoredeyes]

I got asked to do some warsat emoji for a server but first I had to get THIS out of my system.

Nuts and bolts added courtesy of Val’s suggestion ❤️

#destiny 2 #destiny #destiny the game #felwinter #warmind rasputin #warsat #I can’t help it I’m a sick fuck sorry #poor fel can’t catch a break #Rasputin is bad at catch #blaming Sylenth just a little for this too #she posts the cute stuff and then all my insane friends start thinking of unhinged things and come to me for THAT #we live in a full and healthy fandom ecosystem #full and healthy for us #poor Felwinter suffers on the regular

[sleepygaymerdisease]

i really hate the way people talk about climate change on here. yes, we should be doing something. no, the majority of pollution is done on an industrial scale that we cannot solve as individuals. yes, we should still be doing things as individuals. no, it's not completely pointless. yes, there are scientists who are pushing to solve these serious problems before things get worse. no, we will not all instantly die in the next 2 years if these actions arent taken, we'll just have to come up with different, less effective solutions and continue to push companies. yes, things have been pushed and changed before, and it can be done again. no, it's not an easy task, and it never has been under capitalism. yes, many indigenous groups already know how to solve many of the agricultural problems. no, it is not by "coincidence", indigenous people are not stupid, and these solutions were not created for white people to snatch and claim as their own ingenious work. yes, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. no, that amazon same-day delivery is probably not justified. its just complicated. why overload people with despair and mind numbing grief and tell people that humanity is hopeless and make people apathetic or even pro-humanity's destruction? why would you do that? it's a tough subject but going straight to "we're all gonna die anyway so who cares" is the dumbest fucking thing. come on.

#anis gaymer moments #okay to reblog i guess but dont be weird. idk #people always despair about a post-apocalyptic world and i just think about the countless quotes about how indigenous people are already #living in that post-apocalypse. surviving isn't easy but it's doable and it's worth it. humans help the ecosystem. humans help animals. #humans help other people when they can. humans are good. we have beautiful cultures and languages. we have families and friends. #we shouldnt be throwing that away. dont tell me ecofascist garbage. #ask to tag

[creekfiend]

I have now blocked this person. but like. do not do this

#WHAT an ecosystem we live in

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

So anyway, today is Earth Day.

And you know the rules:

(For Godzilla's and Mothra's checklist rather 😜)

Maintaining the Balance of Nature

Keep Titans (and humans) in check

Avoid dumping garbages (and radioactive wastes) in his ocean territory (MV Hedorah would've born)

Patrolling everywhere to make sure there are no Titans steps slightly out of his/her orders

Advice the humans to practice their routine for the sake of the planet

Making sure he got a nice nap with his wifey. Do not disturb them or you'll regret this.

(Meanwhile, to Battra's checklist)

DESTROY HUMANITY FOR THE SAKE AND WILL OF THE EARTH

#happy earth day #our two alphas have this job very important for their lives #we know how the condition of our planet worsened #i mean here in my country the weather is abnormally hot yet with little rain #climate change affected our lives and economy #so we maintain the balance of the ecosystem if we certainly saved our planet #OKAY BATTRA HAS A POINT ON DESTROYING HUMANITY ALL BECAUSE THEY ABUSED THE MOTHER EARTH #NOT GOOD BUT ACCURATE LMAO #godzilla #mothra #battra #kaiju #monsterverse #godzilla king of the monsters #godzilla kotm #godzilla x kong: the new empire #gxk #gxk: the new empire #godzilla vs mothra #heisei era #toho #toho kaiju #checklist #happy earth day everybody!

[urgentkettle]

Reason 76 I cannot leave tumblr: the people here have memorized all silly pictures and don’t need a primer in order to have a conversation.

#I’m so understood here #I’m the only chronically online person in my current IRL friend groups #I forced my husband to learn the pictures #he likes them I think #but we live in different ecosystems

[keebwee]

finding friends through the wild kratts fandom ensures you have friends interested in science and animals and i think thats just wonderful. never stepping foot back in that fandom tho. never again . im all good. no offense to my wk followers i love yall <3 its the fandom as a whole i do not associate with anymore

#my silly friends (HI !!! YOU KNOW THIS IS ABOUT YOU !!!) like animals and science and none of my friends irl do #in my school at least #i talk to my friends irl about my interest in decomposition and i get weird ass looks :( #let a man ramble about how a body decomposes and how pretty it is #because it really fuckin is !! i will be so fr!! decomposition is beautiful #beautiful process and the idea that it takes something that has died and taken from the ecosystem #and then brings it back INTO the environment #so it CONTRIBUTES #is just amazing #and creatures were built and their features just. exist. their livers just exist. their tongues exist #and isnt that amazing? #that we live in a world where intestines and chlorophyll are real #and veins and thyroids and pancreases and ears and eyes and noses and leaves and roots and fur and teeth and bones and nerves #and the fact that these things make up other things which make up other things #and create life #they are life #this is a post about finding good friends i did not mean to dive into a ramble on how much i love organs etc

[zahra-hydris]

starfield is very fun, but it continues the modern Bethesda tradition of mixing some truly wild game design choices with some basic ass writing

#why are there so many menus todd #why is there a delay in moving between them todd #why are there no ground vehicles todd #why does the uc vanguard storyline end with a choice where the 'right' one has a truly piss poor justification #sarah yelling at me because I chose to bring back a creature we drove to extinction over unleashing a brand new microbe into the ecosystem? #'you don't trust science!!!!' what??? tell me the science here that completely eliminates the risk of mutation or resistance sarah #even the general lore. there's some fun stuff here but also it's very... american #big government UN-esque united colonies vs. idealised space texas in the freestar collective with neon as the degenerate cyberpunk city #it just doesn't feel complete imo. it doesn't feel lived in. #I swear I am actually enjoying the game though lmao #I like the companions for the most part #I'm enjoying the faction quests and a lot of the side quests #and it's just fun gameplay wise imo #jessica plays starfield

[rayveewrites]

Concept: A Pokemon game with Legends-style gameplay set entirely in Ultra Space.

#pokemon #ultra space #gf really just introduced an entire new dimension with its own complex society and showed us four characters and one street #like there's this one area that's an alternate hau'oli city after its citizens fled in the wake of a disaster #and now it's lying in darkened ruins & being consumed by a guzzlord like WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?! #anyway i know thisll never happen but it would be SO COOL #prefferably our character would be born & raised in ultra space #and we would be allowed to pick fun skin colours ideally (ultra recon squad all has blue skin btw) #(ik its kinda hard to tell with the suits but its true) #give us just like. a ton of new ubs living in unique & complex ecosystems instead of just dumping half a dozen in Alola for the postgame #& have familiar pokemon be considered deeply weird and potential threats to that ecosystem #make beast balls the standard + give us new variants on them #show the people of ultra megopolis go from fearing pokemon to befriending them #and learning the kindness that's so widespread in the pokemon world #slowly healing from the god-knows-how-long they spent living in fear of necrozma #i have so many thoughts and im so tired but ultra space makes brain go brrrr #rayvee rambles

[mortalmab]

Other Mythologies

The whale road lost a beast today

His song again to never play

And floating down an ocean vein

He hits the ground and starts decay

For Sunlight’s loss is Bathyal’s gain

A gift that sinks from Heaven’s plane

And from the biomass they creep

To feast on (worship) savior slain

The denizens of ocean deep

Rejoice, where shallow fishes weep

This gentle giant will provide

A harvest for abyssal reap

Once scavengers their trade have plied

And opportunists get inside

The neighborhood will gain a reef

From barest bone and holy hide

A scene of ocean leitmotif

As loss goes hand in hand with grief

In death the whale provides relief

In death, the whale provides relief.

#my writing #whale fall #my poetry #original work #feeling inspired by whale fall #those organisms have never experienced a live whale #so what must they think of whale fall? #oh! a gift from our drowned and abyssal gods! abundance! shelter! we feast! #what myths would spin from the slow descent of a giant creature of the sunlight zone #whose only purpose seems to be to feed the local ecosystem? #or is the WHALE the god to these creatures #who sacrifices himself for his people?

[theropoda]

Thinking of when in high school i saw some kid's classwork hung outside the biology classroom where they wrote about this rare species of rainbow owl which was quite clearly just a normal owl photoshopped to be rainbow (this was the biology classroom with the same biology teacher who showed us a slide that said fungi were a "strange kind of plant" btw. And didn't listen to me about it) Anyways im just fuckin mad thinking about how this is probably like 500 times worse with fucking AI sludge around.

#fake animal viral photos arent new at all but it makes me mad how much easier it is to make and spread them now #we already live in a world where 'nature lovers' love something that is either not real or super warped #this disney world idea of animals and ecosystems #now people are gonna fall in love with animals that just don't. exist.

[morgenlich]

idk i grew up with plains gartersnakes in my backyard and also with the knowledge that there are a few venomous and dangerous to humans snakes in the area (yes illinois has native venomous snakes!) and with both i was just taught to leave them alone, let them mind their business, they're more afraid of you than you are of them and they control pests. doesn't seem like it should be too difficult for people to grasp....

#in general to be fair my philosophy with (native) dangerous animals is well they were here first. #if we want to restore and protect ecosystems that's going to involve learning to live with animals that can be dangerous to us #there's simply no other way #our cities and towns are a part of The Ecosystem. rural areas definitely are too #there's going to be animals there. #some of those animals will be pretty birds or mice or whatever #some of those animals will be pumas and wolves and bears #doesn't mean you like go up and try to pet them. but you also can't shoot at first sight either

[wakandamama]

So apparently I've been foraging and eating wild onions wit eggs my whole life because I am Native and not because I'm Black....

#because the amount of niggas in the midwest commenting they dont know wtf im talking about is appalling #i looked into it and apparently the real name of this dish is Cherokee eggs and is tradtional Native American tribes from the plains #whicu makes total fucking sense to me know and as to while it was the first dish my granny learned to forge and cook #but ive only know and been taught Black or Black Cherokee Plains forgers all my life sooo #like we had both the tamale lady but also the wild onion/mustad green lady ya know? #anyway #learn how to forge and live off the land you live on and support native plants to your ecosystem #black culture #indigenous culture #midwest #foraging #live off the land #where my Afro-Cherokees at? #Where my Afro-Indigenous at?