Miss the days when pockets were big enough to fit worms

"An Aspiring Centenarian"?

What if we didn't let him live that long actually. What if we didn't do that.

Ohhh myyyy gooooodddddd can we stop praising this guy. Hugo can we just like. Stop trying to make him sound smart and amazing and talented and cool. It's not gonna work. It's never gonna work. You will never sell me on this man, you already set him up for permanent failure. I am doubtful there's anything that you could do that would make me like him at this point so how about we just move on.

HAHA okay actually I don't even think he's trying to make me like him. "He got some awards and still thinks the guy who gave them to him, Duc de Nevers, is a Great Man despite him becoming Absolutely Nothing during and after the Revolution. Also, he thought Catherine II deciding to try and wipe an entire country and it's people off the map by joining in the partitioning of Poland was no biggie because she also bought and published the ingredients of 'the elixir of gold', a publication he clearly never read or else he'd have known it was, basically snake oil; merely ferric chloride in alcohol, which, depending on the amount of ferric chloride that was mixed into the alcohol, could have been harmful. But he was such a fanboy of the stuff that he clearly never looked into what it was made of, and simply supported anyone who supported the tincture, no matter what terrible crimes they might have committed."

Also, Gill, happy to break it to ya, but: "He [Duc de Nevers] wrote a great deal and with great facility; but his writings nowadays are generally considered to be of little value, his Fables being his best work." (Off Wikipedia) No one cares about this guy anymore and they definitely don't think of him as a great man. There's actually not that much information on him when I search. He's just not that interesting.

If any young man ventured to acclaim the Republic in his presence, he would turn blue and almost faint in his fury.

Guys we could weaponize this information

TRAVELLIN' ON THE DEMETER

THINK HE CAN'T GET YA?

DRACULA

SOMEWHERE IN CAPARTHIA

HE'LL HURL A WOLF RIGHT AT YOUR BEDROOM

BLEH BLEH DRACULA

MENACING THAT JOHN HARKER

It was flagged as "Eksplicit", shadowbanned, and every reblog turned invisible. The flagging is also unappealable (unless that is an error, thanks tumblr)

Happy Trans Day of Invisibility from your tumblr mods!

Only found out because I tried to reblog with an update from your local trans unicorn siblings!

I cannot even LINK to my old comic without every new post getting deleted.

The original post was pardoned, but the shadowban still persisted and every reblog was hidden from the dash and flagged explicit. I'm not sure if it recovered by now, or if it's always going to be at risk of banning.

So whatever staff reviewed my complaint agreed that it wasn't explicit. So thank you for that, moderator. This highlights that the problem starts with bad actors reporting anything they don't like, and that it's a tossup if your appeal is seen by a bot, a normal human, or a bigot.

I'm grateful I can still touch people and spread positivity. Many of my queer siblings, brothers, and sisters - especially trans sisters - can't say the same.

But no matter what happens, we will always have each other. Every letter in our alphabet is a pillar holding up a beautiful world that only stands if we're all in it together. The rest of society may call you a monster, but it calls me one too. Maybe you won't hear it from the rest of them, but listen and you will hear it from me.

I love you.

Attend a parade!

Rip up paving stones to build a barricade!

Use guerilla tactics to counter the forces of the national guard!

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

Reducing the fat content does not inherently increase the healthiness of your food.

Reducing the sugars does not inherently increase the healthiness of your food.

The only way to increase the healthiness of your food is by adding additional nutrients to it.

I saw a video of someone complaining that fucking chicken tikka masala "wasn't healthy" so they made a "healthier version" that was, in fact, LESS HEALTHY. Because they made it with only fat free dairy products, rendering many of the vitamins they would have otherwise gotten from that meal utterly useless, because the body needs fats in order to absorb them properly.

Two tbsp of brown sugar does not render a meal "unhealthy." Full fat dairy products do not render a meal "unhealthy." Calorically dense foods do not render a meal "unhealthy."

If you're really concerned about your health, add more nutrients. Eat extra veggies or extra protein. But you're not actually worried about your health. You're worried about your weight.

You're worried that in the process of eating a homemade meal with lean protein and veggies and a rich, delicious sauce you will consume more energy than you can use today.

You're worried that energy might be stored so that your body can use it when it needs to later.

You're worried that your relationship with gravity might change. You've been taught to worry about that. You've been taught to misconstrue manufacturered body issues as being "health conscious." But you're not doing things to promote health. You're just trying to reduce your energy consumption no matter what.