#i had nearly 1000 there

[leapingthroughworlds]

this was my 13th reason

just in case yall don't hear from me again

#not to be dramatic #but #what about my daily gay dose? #what about when i go to sleep thinking about a certain pairing being lovey dovey #and wake up the next morning to try to find a fic like that #what then????? #omg #my bookmarks #im fucked #i had nearly 1000 there #ao3 how long will war take this time? #i miss having you home ykno #ao3

[nighty-night-nh]

I've been booped over 1000 times now, thank you everyone!!! 🤍🤍🤍

#nicky rambles #i was thinking I'd be happy getting to just 100 received. and ive been smacked 1000 #thank you for real #ive had nearly 24 hours of serotonin and its been glorious. been a while since i smiled this much #anyway. back to fighting with suesue we need to get them to the 1000 mark before the day ends

[quarklynx]

I read 500 pages today. Five hundred.

What is wrong with me, why do I do this. Why can't I just enjoy books at a normal pace?

#lynx thinks #it is nearly 3 am and i am so tired #which is a good thing i guess considering how lwst night went for me #hopefully I'll actually be able to get to sleep and stay asleep #but for real... I've read half the book already and i just got it from the library today #why can't mr sanderson speed up the pace on these things i mean do they really need to be 1000+ pages each? #i would say that i havent done this kind of thing since i was in high school but that would be a lie #when i found SVSSS and MXTX's other works i went just as rabid reading them #I'm pretty sure i read all of TGCF in like a week bc it was in an online format and i had no way to know how much i was fucking reading #that work is multiple times the size of the bible and has very few words in common with it #absolutely unhinged behavior on my part tbh

[sabraeal]

1000 Followers Update!

Due to some super fun chronic health shenanigans, the posting for the 1000 Followers Celebration is being postponed a month! Posting will start on 2/2 with to all the ghost still standing in this room, and continue as previously planned from there. Thank you guys for bearing with me-- I struggled with the idea of even postponing for a week, but it became very clear on Monday that I would not be able to catch up with the schedule unless I took an extended break to recover. Can't wait to show you guys what I've got up my sleeve!

#1000 followers #i don't talk much about my illness struggles on here because without a word count limit #i would absolutely write myself into a terrible spiral talking about some of the very recent setbacks #but I do weekly goals up on twitter and I often talk about what's going on there #so it's only fair that i explain a bit in some tag chatter where i have to stay on task #to start: i'm fine and I'm going to be quick to recover now that i've gotten my meds #but due to all sorts of insurance bullshittery that has occurred since september/october #my last three infusions have been over a week late. two of them have been nearly two weeks or over #and coupled with a particularly nasty stomach bug + christmas stress #i ended up with extremely bad exhaustion and brain fog #and on monday finally flared #thankfully i was able to move my infusion up a day so I only had to wait until wednesday #and me and my husband had planned that I would be out of commission for the 10 days my meds were overdue #so I just had to triage my commitments and lay low until they could get me what i needed #it's been two days and i'm doing much much better. back to a place where I can actually write #probably at a better place than i have been since the beginning of December since today I nearly blew through 1K without even trying #but it's been 2-3 weeks of barely being able to scratch out what i consider my minimum #and then a week and change of not being able to even READ without it overwhelming me #so i finally had to face the music of: not only can I NOT do this on time but I need fully shift it #so that I can work without stressing myself or my limits #i am a rat gnawing at the bars of my little rat cage over it but it is what it is #tldr; i'm here i'm fine i just have to accept my human limitations and i don't like it

[sockfus]

reading through my essay and can't help but cringe looking at the part on the man obsessed partly because of his mental illness. girl . why are you trying to convince people he's a homosexual

#sorry renfield i think you deserved better in the narrative but i have stamped you with a big fat gay stamp. tis the way #like icl theres sensuality in his obsession. the idea of a man obsessed to someone he does the bidding of i can get BEHIND that #not to dracula on main. still mad that i had to cut down nearly the entire part on women because im an IDIOT who misread the word limit and #had to compress over 1000 words 😐 #i couldve even talked about dracula and syphilis... why does the word count restrict me like this #sophia.txt

[nokikissa]

Lmao bought a new litterbox for Paju (it has a thing where you just turn a handle and the poop and such gets filtered to like a waste bin under it!) and it's fucking massive lol, but Paju wasn't phased at all of this sudden litterbox change at all and figured it out immediately which is good haha

#i had been looking at like the actual automatic litterboxes which would be neat #but I'm not willing to pay nearly 1000€ just so I could avoid cleaning the litterbox #but this one seemed like a nice cheaper (~150€) compromise lol #pointless text post is pointless #paju

[canary-prince]

If you catch me posting Bible memes I'm not turning into a Christian or whatever the fuck I was before my intense spiritual crisis 2 years ago (or was it three)? I went to school for academic theological studies (analysis of religion from an exterior view point) and recent books have me nostalgic and hyperfixating.

#if anything grief turned me back into atheist #ive been a few things #my dad was raised catholic but is a staunch atheist #and mom was sort of Pentecostal and sort of methodist and is a like #soft atheist who definitely believes in ghosts and curses and shit #and i was an atheist for a long time but i felt drawn to Catholicism #it felt like a culture idk #and then it got more and more comforting to non commitally hover at its edges through witchcraft and loose modern spiritual stuff #and perform mental gymnastics about it and mostly believe large swaths of its mythology without thinking about the moral and human side and #also not converting because i couldn’t face my parents if i did and i also was already aware that i couldn’t #but i kept convincing myself that The Church as an institution could somehow be good despite how evil everyone running it is #and then my education finally got the upper hand over my weird desperate longing to fully believe in something beautiful and nearly ancient #and also my father had repeated lies he didn’t know enough to spot #my education finally made me understand that The Church was only >1000 years old #that the gnostics (originally a jewish tradition according to bart d erhman and he referenced this as being commonly accepted) #were the group which the supposed messiah belonged to and the patristic church (catholic church 1.0) had them all killed #unarmed ascetics starving in the desert the people who wrote the earliest gospels and the church killed them all #there is no textual basis for the authority of the pope #the devil was a comprise #the saints were a marketing tactic #correction: the church is sort over a thousand years old but it went through so many iterations and eras before we got here #to be exact #the church FATHERS aka the church that will become the patristic church in the wake of these dudes #and im fuzzy on if the orthodox church is a fully separate iteration or if it and the patristic are used interchangeably #Catholicism as like a term comes out of the scism with Protestantism i think

[bsaka7]

I've been worried bc there's a 5 mile uphill in my marathon but. I finally looked it up and it's 500ft of elevation gain. I literally do that every week in less distance... #baller #mountains #forestserviceroads

#I also think I'm gonna need to get a new pair of shoes... My main pair r totally dead I run in them and my knee is touchy #Which is usually how I know :( #Tetrapod runs #Sorry if I like had running friends I would just say this to them in person but it seems WEIRD TO TEXT TO MY COLLEGE RUNNING BFF #Esp cuz she was just sick #The course is not nearly as hilly as I though like I clock 1000+ ft of elevation gain and loss on all my long runs

[cryoriku]

maybe I'm just a spiteful little bitch but does anyone else purposely not interact with a poll if it's followed up by "sigh you have to REBLOG you guys..."

like I know the importance of reblogging over liking on this platform and I'm especially dedicated to it for art (drawings or fic or whatever else). but it's been proven time and time again people of tumblr treat art and polls differently. and why are people getting so pressed over something they took 2 seconds to make.

#especially because the most recent example I saw still had nearly 1k responses and a few hundred rbs. like now yall just greedy #do you even realize how much that is? try to imagine 1000 people #idk its annoying asf #ok to reblog #roxas speaks

[redvelvetpdf]

bro i need to learn some speech for fucking EIGHT MINUTES by TOMORROW??? and they only informed us yesterday and the topics were only sent today morning??? like. what

#aurore.txt #i'll die #why was i selected😭 im shit at public speaking anyway #how am i going to learn so much is so little time😭😭😭 #i havent even finished typing it. i wanted a printout but the printer's closed and i nearly had a heart attack #bc there's NO WAY i can finish writing like 1000 words on paper. and my mom said she'd write it for me phew but HOW AM I GOING TO LEARN IT #FUCK FUCK FUCK #anyways yes ok bye ill go back to my little word doc and rot now

[agothorn]

I been feeling terribly weak and nauseous  the past two days, and I’m at the point were my muscles are hurt when I flex them, so Imma make a call to my doc about adjusting my new prediabetic meds

#agothorn speaks #txt #I had a bad case of the twirlies the other night and nearly vommiting again today #i dont think taking like 2000 mg of glucophage a day is a good starting dose (1000 mg morning and 1000 mg evening) #agothorn vents #if my health doesnt improve by the 27th for my job thing i may have to call them and tell them i phyically cant work any #anymore--i hate having a body

[thingswhatareawesome]

yay, got enough of the irregular moogle tomestones to get the items i wanted (couple mounts, couple minions, barding, and some orchestrion rolls and triad cards). about 271 stones, leaving one leftover. i guess if i feel like doing more challenges until it ends i can put the stones towards mgp cards.

but this was much nicer than previous mogstone events, esp the anniversary one, where i felt like i couldn't do anything but be in xiv in prae grinding stones for hours every day. instead i could still do wondrous tales, fc events, be in games other than xiv, plus i even got back into custom deliveries and started improving my land gear. a lot more chill. hoping the second half of the event is the same sort of effort and time.

#the anniversary mogstone event i had to farm nearly 1000 stones and that was godawful that was too much #please ignore my xiv bs

[redgoldsparks]

My very last comic for The Nib! End of an era! Transcription below the cut. instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble

The first event I went to with GENDER QUEER was in NYC in 2019 at the Javits Center.

So many of the people who came to my signing were librarians, and so many of them said the same thing: "I know exactly who I want to give this to!" Maia: "Thank you for helping readers find my book!" While working on the book, I was genuinely unsure if anyone outside of my family and close friends would read it. But the early support of librarians and two American Library Association awards helped sell two print runs in first year.

Since then, GENDER QUEER been published in 8 languages, with more on the way: Spanish, Czech, Polish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese and Dutch.

It has also been the most banned book in the United States for the past two years. The American Library Association has tracked an astronomical increase in book challenges over the past few years. Most of these challenges are to books with diverse characters and LGBTQ themes. These challenges are coming unevenly across the US, in a pattern that mirrors the legislative attacks on LGBTQ people. The Brooklyn Public Library offered free eCards to anyone in the US aged 13-21, in an effort to make banned books more available to young readers. A teacher in Norman, Oklahoma gave her students the QR code for the free eCard and lost her job. Summer Boismeir is now working for the Brooklyn Public Library. Hoopla and Libby/Overdrive, apps used to access digital library books, are now banned in Mississippi to anyone under 18. Some libraries won’t allow anyone under 18 to get any kind of library card without parental permission. When librarians in Jamestown, Michigan refused to remove GENDER QUEER and several other books, the citizens of the town voted down the library’s funding in the fall 2022 election. Without funding, the library is due to close in mid-2024. My first event since covid hit was the American Library Association conference in June 2022 in Washington, DC. Once again, the librarians in my signing line all had similar stories for me: “Your book was challenged in our district" "It was returned to the shelf!" "It was removed from the shelf..." "It was moved to the adult section."

Over and over I said: "Thank you. Thank you for working so hard to keep my book in your library. I’m sorry you had to defend it, but thank you for trying, even if it didn't work." We are at a crossroads of freedom of speech and censorship. The future of libraries, both publicly funded and in schools, are at stake. This is massively impacting the daily lives of librarians, teachers, students, booksellers, and authors around the country. In May 2023, I read an article from the Washington Post analyzing nearly 1000 of the book challenges from the 2021-2022 school year. I was literally on route to a festival to talk about book bans when I read a startling statistic. 60% of the 1000 book challenges were submitted by just 11 people. One man alone was responsible for 92 challenges. These 11 people seem to have made submitting copy-cat book challenges their full-time hobby and their opinions are having an outsized ripple effect across the nation. WE NEED TO MAKE THE VOICES SUPPORTING DIVERSE BOOKS AND OPPOSING BOOK BANS EVEN LOUDER. If you are able too, show up for your library and school board meetings when book challenges are debated. Send supportive comments and emails about the Pride book display and Drag Queen story hours. If you see a display you like– for Banned Book Week, AAPI Month, Black History Month, Disability Awareness Month, Jewish holidays, Trans Day of Remembrance– compliment a librarian! Make sure they feel the love stronger than the hate <3

Maia Kobabe, 2023

The Nib

#maia kobabe #banned books #library funding #comics #book challenges

[reasonsforhope]

Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds

Article | Paywall free

When lightning ignited fires around California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park north of Santa Cruz in August 2020, the blaze spread quickly. Redwoods naturally resist burning, but this time flames shot through the canopies of 100-meter-tall trees, incinerating the needles. “It was shocking,” says Drew Peltier, a tree ecophysiologist at Northern Arizona University. “It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die.”

Yet many of them lived. In a paper published yesterday in Nature Plants, Peltier and his colleagues help explain why: The charred survivors, despite being defoliated [aka losing all their needles], mobilized long-held energy reserves—sugars that had been made from sunlight decades earlier—and poured them into buds that had been lying dormant under the bark for centuries.

“This is one of those papers that challenges our previous knowledge on tree growth,” says Adrian Rocha, an ecosystem ecologist at the University of Notre Dame. “It is amazing to learn that carbon taken up decades ago can be used to sustain its growth into the future.” The findings suggest redwoods have the tools to cope with catastrophic fires driven by climate change, Rocha says. Still, it’s unclear whether the trees could withstand the regular infernos that might occur under a warmer climate regime.

Mild fires strike coastal redwood forests about every decade. The giant trees resist burning thanks to the bark, up to about 30 centimeters thick at the base, which contains tannic acids that retard flames. Their branches and needles are normally beyond the reach of flames that consume vegetation on the ground. But the fire in 2020 was so intense that even the uppermost branches of many trees burned and their ability to photosynthesize went up in smoke along with their pine needles.

Trees photosynthesize to create sugars and other carbohydrates, which provide the energy they need to grow and repair tissue. Trees do store some of this energy, which they can call on during a drought or after a fire. Still, scientists weren’t sure these reserves would prove enough for the burned trees of Big Basin.

Visiting the forest a few months after the fire, Peltier and his colleagues found fresh growth emerging from blackened trunks. They knew that shorter lived trees can store sugars for several years. Because redwoods can live for more than 2000 years, the researchers wondered whether the trees were drawing on much older energy reserves to grow the sprouts.

Average age is only part of the story. The mix of carbohydrates also contained some carbon that was much older. The way trees store their sugar is like refueling a car, Peltier says. Most of the gasoline was added recently, but the tank never runs completely dry and so a few molecules from the very first fill-up remain. Based on the age and mass of the trees and their normal rate of photosynthesis, Peltier calculated that the redwoods were calling on carbohydrates photosynthesized nearly 6 decades ago—several hundred kilograms’ worth—to help the sprouts grow. “They allow these trees to be really fire-resilient because they have this big pool of old reserves to draw on,” Peltier says.

It's not just the energy reserves that are old. The sprouts were emerging from buds that began forming centuries ago. Redwoods and other tree species create budlike tissue that remains under the bark. Scientists can trace the paths of these buds, like a worm burrowing outward. In samples taken from a large redwood that had fallen after the fire, Peltier and colleagues found that many of the buds, some of which had sprouted, extended back as much as 1000 years. “That was really surprising for me,” Peltier says. “As far as I know, these are the oldest ones that have been documented.”

... “The fact that the reserves used are so old indicates that they took a long time to build up,” says Susan Trumbore, a radiocarbon expert at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. “Redwoods are majestic organisms. One cannot help rooting for those resprouts to keep them alive in decades to come.”

-via Science, December 1, 2023

#redwoods #california #wildfire #climate change #extreme heat #natural disasters #botany #plant biology #photosynthesis #santa cruz #hopepunk #sustainability #climate hope #united states #good news #hope

[nashevious]

help accidentally deleted my old acc with the same name please don’t block me I’m not a bot

#had like ignore multiple warning prompts #do you really want to delete your account??? don’t know her #god help me I had like nearly 1000 different accs followed #most likely not going to find all of them again #ah well

[jackinalex]

.

#I am so sorry to my contest winner bc I have written nearly 1000 words today and it’s not on the one shot #I was depressed this morning and then went to therapy and dug up old wounds about a dumb boy and I HAD to work on wcw when the inspo struck #I am so bad at writing happy things #it’s like pulling teeth for me #meanwhile if something is sad I can drone on and on for pages #like wtf is wrong with me bro #shut up kalina #wcwp #writing #I’m so sorry I suck