is this the real world? or is it just fantasy?

Don’t tell me

Realizing that a species is imperiled has broad connotations, given that it tells us something about the plight of nature itself. It reminds us of the need to implement conservation measures and to protect the region of which the species is a part. But aside form the broader picture, species have intrinsic worth and are deserving of preservation. Surely an oddity such as C. vicinella cannot simply be allowed to vanish.

We should speak up on behalf of this little moth, not only because by so doing we would bolster conservation efforts now underway in Florida, [highlighting begins] but because we would be calling attention to the existence of a species that is so infinitely worth knowing. [end highlighting]

But is quaintness all that can be said on behalf of this moth? Does this insect not have hidden value beyond its overt appeal? Does not its silk and glue add, potentially, to its worth? Could these products not be unique in ways that could ultimately prove applicable?

She picked out a print of pointillism style painting, nice bright colors, appealing to the eye sort of thing.

It arrives only for her to find that it’s not a painting, but rather a mosaic-by-number kit with ~75,000 pieces. Her eyes are bad enough that she can’t really put it together herself and my fathers hands aren’t steady enough to get the tiles facing the right way. So, for the past two weeks I’ve been putting them down one by one so that she can have a nice mosaic for her office wall instead.

I’m roughly 25-30% done:

5/27

Usually its stress, paranoia or ptsd from near death experience.

Lets say you walked into the next room, and standing on a piece of furniture was a little man, literally 18 inches tall, at most, in green clothing, clambering and climbing about. I don’t mean like what you’d imagine from a special effect or a cartoon, but a real tiny thing that looked, moved, and acted like an impossibly miniature humanlike creature, the hair wouldn’t be shrunk by proportion, there’d be fewer folicles overall, but more densely packed. You can see the faint veins under the skin, the hairs, the pores, you can smell it, it leaves scuffs, it makes sounds appropriate for its size… and when it sees you, it just looks at you, tilts its head, smiles mischieviously, and darts under the couch, vanishing. The only thing you find is a gold coin, which is real, solid, and rare, having not seen circulation in centuries.

You’ve had, in this scenario, an encounter with a leprechaun. It’s a relatively understandable phenomenon. There’s plenty of tolklore to prepare you for it, the creature is rationally built, has antatomy that makes sense, is similar to yourself enough to be very familiar. It wasn’t even hostile. 

Is your life ever going to be the same? 

In addition to questioning whether you actually saw what you saw, you now have to wonder why you were visited. Wil it come back? If it does can it hurt you? If it can, can you stop it? Where did it come from? Has it always just been there, out of sight? Is it here right now?

And those are just surface level questions. Now, fundamentally, the rules of reality have to be reassessed. If such a thing can exist, what does that say about our understanding of biology and evolution? Moreover, there are suddenly theological implications here, none of which are likely to be cleanly or comfortingly answered in their entirety. 

You’ve just witnessed sone of the single most important encounters in human history, and anyone who hears you talk about it is going to think you’ve lost your mind. The terror and sense of lonliness from that is going to be soul crushing.

but attempting to control how everyone engages with the world, both online and off, because you encountered something you didnt like? that's tyrannical, its an overreaction, and it's wrong.

are there topics that are too mature for some audiences? absolutely there are. sexuality, for starters. should 3 year olds be engaging with media that contains sexual content? no. but does that mean that heather having 2 mommies is inherently sexual? no, it doesnt. if there's no explicit sexual content, of any flavour, then its not sexual.

if you try not ban things because of a personal dislike, then that makes you a autocratic dictator.

gainsay

gatecrash

ghostwrite

globetrot

goalkeep

Add to that "grandstand" and "gold-dig"

Wiping down my dash at the end of an evening, I see your read-more, over-hear your rant in the tags, so I pour you a drink.

She says tumblr I’m feeling like shit today can you send me some posts for a smile can we talk about slash, can you fill up my dash so I won’t have to think for a while

Laa dahdah didee dah La dahdah didee dah dadum

And sometimes we blog with a beer

And when I proudly boast that I’m older than most, 

Instead of stopping with the video/tabletop games whenever that was supposed to happen, we played them as long as we liked then went out and got jobs making them or reviewing them an got paid for it.

Instead of no longer watching cartoons once we “matured” we got into creating them or taking our natural talent at fanfiction and writing media-tie ins authorized by the IP owner or got jobs writing about or reviewing them.

And even if we didn’t end up making professional, adult money for creating or writing about the “childish” things, we kept watching and listening and loving and engaging because it brought us joy, and that was so important.