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Uncommon Words / Phrases to be Inspired by
Absquatulate: to leave without saying goodbye
Cassandra Complex: a psychological penomenon in which someone's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed
Cicatrize: to find healing by the process of forming scars
Even a Worm will turn: the belief that even the most docile creature will retaliate if pushed too far
Fernweh: the ache for distant places; the urge to leave everything familiar behind
Hamartia: a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero
Hiraeth: homesickness for a home you can never return to
Ichor: a fluid that flows like blood in the veins of gods
Jester's Privilege: the ability and right of a jester to mock his king without fear of punishment, for nothing he says seems to matter
Lachesism: longing for the clarity that comes with living through a disaster
Lotus-Eater: a person who lives their life in a constant state of dream and fantasy
Novalunosis: the state of relaxation and wonder experienced while gazing up at the stars
Pyrrhic Victory: a victory with such devastating consequence and collateral that is becomes a 'hollow victory'
Swan Song: a final act or effort given just before death
Wanderlust: a strong desire to wander and explore the world free from any obligation
Weltschmerz: the pain that comes with the realisation that the material world will never satisfy the demands of the soul
Whistle in the Dark: to make a show of bravery despite one's fear
Yhprum's Law: 'everything that can go right will go right'
[Prompt Calender: January 9th, National Word Nerd Day]
Pink raven mug! Part of my first batch from this year. I don't usually use pink glazes, but I kind of love the contrast here.
You know, as an adult you can just... make so many porcelain creatures. All kinds! Just because! Nobody will stop you.
I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.
But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
A few months later
All hail the High Warden of Gondor.
Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.
Every time I see this post I’m obligated to reblog and make it your problem too!
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For those of you who are into moths, here are all the types of moths you will see.
Yes. The only categories I accept now. To be faithfully applied to all my future porcelain pendants.
Sometimes, just for fun, I make critters out of porcelain.
don't give up
I don't know if this post will ever be read, but I'll try anyway.
Hello to everyone who appreciated this post!! As you can see, I'm the op. I humbly thank you for your lovely reblogs, thoughts, poems and references.
Even if I didn't like how this post went, I wanted to answer to the people who contacted me in DM or in the ask section with no response (I'm really sorry about this, I didn't have time and the head to do that...)
I understand now that for all of you this drawing has taken on another meaning, very dear, that doesn't belong to me.
So I decided to give it for free: you can do whatever you want with it. For real.
If you want to copy it, do it. If you want to embroider it, do it. If you want to print it and hang it in your room, do it. Anything you want. Then if you want to, send me a photo, I would be very happy to see!! If you want to support me in some way, but you are not interested in the rest of my works, I have opened a shop on INPRNT where you can buy a print of this artwork: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/reikacchan/dont-give-up/ I decided to do this because in my current situation printing independently and sending packages around the world is quite difficult, both economically and timing. If you prefer something else, I remember you that I have just opened commissions and I am available to accept anything (read the TOS first for more infos). All this to thank you again for giving important value to this post, which in my eyes will remain a doodle, and also for contacting me privately! Have a nice day!
Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.
For general graphics: use GIMP For vector graphics: use Inkscape For drawing and illustration: use Krita For print and web publishing and design: use Penpot For PDF authoring: use LibreOffice For PDF reading and form filling: use Okular
All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.
If you like frogs. Or possums. Or cool builds. Or happiness. This is the video for you.

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Dick isn't Damian's Parent
Thinking again about the push to see Dick as parental towards Damian and the reasons it does not land for me (and is not my reading of the Dick!Bats era):
There’re a few points I want to establish up front:
Not every person who cares for or supervises a child is their parent or guardian.
Having the ability to set boundaries and consequences for a child is more persuasive of parenting but not determinative.
My fundamental determination is the ability to make decisions on behalf of the child and about the child, including in respect to boundaries and consequences, is what places a person in a parental position to a child.
As a person with a siblings significantly younger than myself, Dick and Damian's relationship has never read "parent-child" to me. Much of their interactions felt extremely familiar, even. The exasperation, the elder sibling's responsibility but sometimes only incedental authority toward the younger, the hot and cold levels of respect for one another at any given time, the teasing and yes, the grudging and eventually STRONG affection. It all felt pretty similar to what I experienced when my sibling was very young but I was an independent adult. (Obviously with the exception of assassin cults and vigilantism) 🙃
I’ll be honest, when one party’s aiding and abetting the genocide and the other’s outright gonna kill all my friends, I don’t really care if the fascists “win”. They’ve won already.
You know who would be delighted to hear that? Trump and Putin. The US far right and the Russian government have poured lots of time, effort, and money over the last decade+ into convincing US leftists and liberals that things are hopeless, there's no point in even trying to make things better, and the Democrats and Republicans are functionally interchangeable. They do this because one of the easiest ways for them to win is if the left gives up and stops trying. Every person on the left they can convince to give up in despair brings them closer to complete control. Defeatism on the left actively supports victory on the right.
I think your statement is wrong on a number of levels, both factual and emotional. It comes from not understanding what the actual options are for the US government and the President specifically, either at home or abroad. And it will allow actual fascism to flourish and make the world far worse than it is now.
On an emotional level, the way to address this is to stop doomscrolling. Stop focusing on the worst things happening in the world. Don't ignore them! but don't let them consume you. Start looking for the things that are going well. Find places in your community that you can get involved in making things better. Even if it's only on a small scale like volunteering in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter, it will help you realize that you aren't helpless, that there are things that can be done to make the world a better place. Stay informed about things on a local, national, and international level, but limit how much time and attention you give to things that depress you that you can't affect. Instead of sitting there thinking about all the ways the world sucks and how awful things are, look for things you can do that are productive, and then do them. You'll feel better and you will have made your corner of the world a little better. And you will be a lot less likely to unintentionally fall into the despair, nihilism, and passivity that the fascists want you to be consumed by.
Always remember that the worlds problems are not resting solely on your shoulders, or solely on America's shoulders, and neither is the hope of fixing them. Everyone has things that we can do to make the world a better place, but there are also things that are beyond our control. We can control what we do; we cannot control what others do. We can and should try to make the world a better place, but focusing on the things we can't change has no positive benefits. Focusing on things we can't change accomplishes two things: it makes you feel bad, and it stops you from doing the things you actually can do to make things better. Neither of these things is good for you or anyone else. Look for things you can do and do them. Keep informed on the things you can't change, but don't focus on them.
On a factual level, let's look at "aiding and abetting genocide," shall we?
First, it's important to remember that the US President is not the God-Emperor Of The World. The US government has limits to what it can and can't do in other countries, and both legally and practically. If the US wants to intervene in a problem in another country, there are a variety of things we can do that boil down to basically four categories. It's a lot more complex than this in practice, of course, but in general here are the categories of things we can do:
Send in the troops. Invade, either by ourselves or as part of a NATO or UN operation. (Or maybe just send in a CIA wetworks team to assassinate the head of state.) I hope you can see the moral problems with this option, and also, we've done this a shitton of times over the course of the 20th Century and pretty much every time we've done it, we've made an already awful situation worse. On a moral level, it's pretty bad, and on a practical level, it's worse. Sure, we could stop the immediate problem, but what then? Consider Afghanistan and Iraq. We got rid of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, and everything went to shit, we spent twenty years occupying Afghanistan with pretty much nothing to show for it. (The Taliban is back in control of Afghanistan.) Things were worse when we left than when we arrived. So this option is pretty much off the table (or should be).
Diplomatic pressure. Now, the thing is, they're a sovereign nation, they don't have to listen to us if they don't want to. We have a lot of things we can leverage--including financial aid--but the only way to force them to do what we want is to invade and conquer, and that only works temporarily. Since we can't force, we have to persuade. This requires us to maintain our existing relationship with the country in question, and possibly strengthen it, because that relationship is what we're leveraging to try and influence them to do what we want them to do. If we do not maintain our relationship, they have no reason to listen to us.
Cut ties and go home. Break off any existing relationship and support, loudly proclaim that they're awful and doing awful things and we wash our hands of the whole situation. This keeps our own hands lily-white and pure, but it also means we have zero leverage to work on any kind of a diplomatic solution. They have no reason to listen to us or care about what we think. We can pat ourselves on the back for doing the right thing, but we destroy our own ability to influence anything. Not just now, but also in the future. Let's say the current crisis ends, and then ten years later there's another crisis. If we want to have any effect then, we would have to start from square one to start building a relationship. Cutting ties would be great for making Americans feel better about ourselves, and there are times when it's the only option, but it should be a last resort. If there is any hope of being able to influence things for the better this will destroy it at least temporarily.
Cut ties and impose sanctions. Break off any existing relationship and support, loudly proclaim that they're awful and doing awful things, but also use the might of the American economy to isolate and punish them. We've done this a lot over the 20th Century, too, and it has never actually resulted in the country in question buckling down and toeing the line we want them to. What happens is the sanctioned country has an economic shock (how long it lasts and how bad it gets depends on a lot of factors) and then pulls themselves back together economically, except this time they're more self-sufficient and less reliant on international trade and financial networks. They tell themselves that America is evil and the cause of all their problems, and so not only do they not listen to us, they actively hate us. And they have fewer international relationships, so fewer reasons to care about what the international community thinks about them. So they're most likely to double down on whatever it is they're doing that we don't like. This one is completely counterproductive and utterly stupid. It's great for making Americans feel better about ourselves, but if we actually care about being able to use our influence for good (or, at least, to mitigate evil) this option shoots us in the foot. It encourages other nations to do the very thing we're trying to stop them from doing.
So, with those four options in mind, both option one (invasion/assassination) and option four (sanctions) are off the table for being immoral and counterproductive. That leaves "breaking our relationship and going home" and "using diplomatic pressure" as our only two viable options.
Biden has chosen option two, diplomatic pressure. Yes, he and our government have continued financial support for Israel ... but with strings attached. They have put limits on it that have never been put on any US foreign aid before. They have taken legal steps to lay the groundwork to target Israeli settlers (i.e. Israeli citizens who confiscate Palestinian homes and businesses). We've been hearing reports for months that Benjamin Netanyahu (Israeli Prime Minister, and a far-right-wing demagogue) hates Biden's guts, because Biden is pressuring him to stop the genocide and work towards peace. Biden is maintaining the relationship, and he's using that relationship to try and influence things to curb the violence and pave the way for a just peace settlement of some sort. Biden has also mentioned the possibility of a two state solution where Palestine becomes its own completely separate country. That's huge, because up until this point the US position has always been that Israel is the only possible legitimate nation in that territory. If Biden stopped US support for Israel, it wouldn't force Israel to stop what it's doing ... but it would let them ignore us. It would remove any leverage or influence we might have.
Biden's hands aren't clean. But the only way for them to be clean would be to also give up any chance of influencing the situation or working to protect Palestinians now or in the future. Only time will tell if it works, but I personally would rather have someone who tried and failed than someone who didn't even try. You might disagree about whether this is the right course of action, and there's a lot of room for honest disagreement about the issue (there's a lot of nuances that I'm glossing over or ignoring). But please do acknowledge that Biden isn't supporting Israel because he supports genocide; he's doing it so that he can continue to maintain diplomatic pressure on Israel to stop the violence.
Which brings us back to "aiding and abetting genocide." Trump is not like Biden. Trump is good friends with Netanyahu and backs Israel to the hilt. Trump thinks that all Arabs are terrorists (and all Muslims are terrorists) and genuinely believes the world would be a better place with them dead. Biden is continuing to support Israel, but using that support as influence to get them to stop or slow down. Trump would be using that influence to encourage them.
And those are the two choices. Someone who is trying to curb the genocide, and someone who actively supports it.
I really hope you can see the significant and substantial difference between those two positions.
But let's say that you're right and Biden's policy towards Israel and Palestine is every bit as bad as Trump's would be. If there was nothing to choose between them on foreign policy grounds, there would still be a shitton to choose between them on domestic policy grounds. You admit that the right wants to kill your friends, and yet you don't seem to think that stopping them from killing your friends might be a good thing to do.
"We can't save Palestinians, so we might as well let Republicans destroy the rights, lives, and futures of LGBTQ+ people, women, people of color, people with disabilities, poor people, non-Christians, and anyone else they don't like." "We can't save Palestinians, so why bother to try to save the people we might actually be able to save." "We can't save Palestinians right now, so there's no point in trying to build up a longer-term political bloc that might drag US politics to the left over the long run."
Do you get why there's a problem with that line of thought?
A snake story, based on an experience I had while I was in Florida.
The STARS in the corn snake's eyes 😭
little thing about seeing the eclipse with my family and some kind strangers
It was Awesome, in the truest sense.
[ Video Description: A TikTok by @/chellfsh of a small snake inching forward in the crevice of a couch. Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder is playing. End ID. ]
This is one of my favorite videos in existence <3
He does a SCRONCH

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this is so compelling and heartbreaking and important and i wanted to share it. this is the reality of getting an abortion even with roe v wade in place and it's about to get worse.
Hey guys
There's a post going around about something called the "Invertebrate Studies Institute" needing help. A few comments made on the post made me curious, so I checked it out and it seems sketchy to me.
The institute is a startup and the owner has displayed misogynistic behavior. He made a company and received "$1.3 million in research grants from the USDA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" in 2011, but there aren't any research papers listed on the ISI website more recent than 2012 (sources: ISI website, People Behind the Science podcast transcript, All Things Bugs LLC webpage). It's possible his research is still a work in progress, but I would expect to see some genome sequencing work at the least since that seems to be a major focus.
Also, it's possible to ship frozen specimens in dry ice and have them be fine. Even stuff for molecular work and genome sequencing. So the inability to get help from other research groups, to where they're asking for a local freezer plug-in, is a bit weird to me.
Some screenshots below the cut, didn't screenshot everything since it's mostly just text, but I did cite the sources if you wanna read them yourself.
Not sure what the overall point is of this post is besides "seems sketch to me" but I saw a lot of people worrying on the initial post so I wanted to at least mention this stuff.
Don't u just love niche academic drama (and by drama I mean one guy being a massive asshole)
Can you believe the OG post is less than 24 hours old
Based on my extensive third-party correspondence with him (an academic listserv that he posted/posts to begging for resources for the last 10 years), I don't think Aaron Dossey is a scammer; I think he's an extremely unpleasant man who for many years has had a pipe dream of an insect zoo and research facility, but has alienated any potential collaborators and funding sources to the point of needing to beg on Facebook.
The grandiose puffery of his pitch and "we have a zoo! no wait the zoo is closing, we have specimens! no wait the specimens need to be preserved!" is, in my opinion, a move of desperation rather than some kind of calculated money-spinning system. Curating a collection costs money, even if you're a dilettante who accepts random donations from anywhere with no coherent curatorial or scientific agenda and who doesn't know how to handle specimens appropriately for meaningful research.
The fact that he's a self-taught entomologist means little or nothing. Many of the best entomologists I know are self-taught, and not having an academic nameplate shouldn't make the difference in whether your work is respected.
The difference is that he contributes nothing to the field, neither research nor education and outreach; wants to play with bugs and be a big shot in his own small pond, rather than contribute to many preexisting research endeavors that share the same goals, and expects people to give him money about it; and is a disgusting bigot and misogynist.
Some much-needed context and further validation of what I said in the comments of the OP. This guy is not likely someone to be trusted with your funds or any good-hearted aims to help the scientific community. He reportedly contributes nothing to the field, and his history of aggressive interactions (particularly towards women) has managed to alienate many of the local experts in his purported area of study.