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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Southern African slug moth, Coenobasis amoena, Limacodidae
Photo 1 by thijsvalkenburg, 2 by nikiescott, 3 by fubr, 4 by Bernard Dupont, 5 by qgrobler, 6-7 (cocoon before and after moth emerged) by nikiescott, 8-9 by wolfachim, and 10 by suncana
Cerulean orchid bee, Eufriesea coerulescens, Euglossini, Apidae
This species is found in Mexico and like most orchid bees, they are solitary and non-parasitic.
Photos 1-4 by ignacio_a_rodriguez, 5-6 by elrayman210, 7 by gera_bio, and 8-10 by ignacio_a_rodriguez
here's some advice for people new to tumblr i haven't seen around our parts yet... a very, very common current scam on this site to get some money out of folks is as follows:
You receive a message like the below, asking for a signal boost for a donation post pinned on their page; this is almost always for a pet.
You check their page and it all looks legit. They have an icon/pfp, a bunch of reblogs rather than an empty blog, the pinned post has candid cat/dog/etc photos that look convincing, and there's a link to a normal looking gofundme in a lot of cases, with similarly realistic photos. They didn't even ask you to publish the ask specifically, they just want you to consider reblogging.
…but if you scroll down far enough, it turns out there's only like a week worth of random reblogs, no real other posts and no interaction with anyone else on the site. Which isn't in and of itself an issue- everyone joins Tumblr at SOME point- but maybe a red flag?
Inevitably, when you reverse image search the pet photos, they were nabbed off instagram or facebook or twitter or something. It's a scam.
I was getting 2-3 of these a week at one point, and all of them were convincing, probably because I doubt any of them were bots. this is a really common scam but not nearly as easily spotted as obviously automated phishing attempts; don't publish or donate to these. they're hoping your sense of sympathy, generosity and even guilt will override your suspicion at a rando asking you for money. delete 'em.
i just bring this up because i'm seeing a couple people in tf fandom getting these asks and going 'hey, signal boost!!!'' and while it's a very kind impulse... yeah, it's overwhelmingly scams, folks. sorry.
I was caught by a couple of these over the years. Reblogging for us all.
you haven’t met all of you yet
posts that hit different when y. when youre a.

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Me: Man I should be making interesting content for people to engage with!
Also Me: Cat Creeper doin' a little jig
this is interesting content i engage with don't worry
No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn't find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes
This is how you treat us!
i am reblogging this as someone who does not have delusions and often makes shitposts about werewolves, and i just want all my followers to know this is not a joke!
i am so glad you had this positive experience, and i hope this sort of kindness catches on with doctors and the general public.
Look when someone is in a confused or compromised state, no matter why,
and they are your medical charge,
it is vital to continue to treat them with dignity. Like that. Reassure them with visible practicalities that you acknowledge their fears, will not belittle them, and can show them facts to help them cope.
THAT is the proper compassion of a Healer.
Can I just add that, if you like me have delusions where everything bad that happens is your fault, the doctor shouldn't be like "Yeah, you're probably right" but try to reason with you in a respective way. OP's doctor did it right, but some of the notes make it look like people think delusions must be agreed to always, when doing so can be detrimental to the person's wellbeing
This is my favorite addition to this post because it’s true. When dealing with delusions you need to avoid the extremes - DO NOT tell the person flat out “you’re wrong”, “thats not real” or worst of all “you’re crazy.” BUT DON’T ENCOURAGE THE DELUSION EITHER! Let’s take my werewolf delusion, for example. Doctors who have flat out told me “that isn’t real” haven’t helped because for me it is real and no amount of you saying it isn’t will change my perception. It makes us feel alienated.
But someone saying “You ARE transforming into a werewolf but i have a poition thatll stop it! :D” is just as dangerous because you’re furthering a delusion which could get someone hurt. its also manipulative. we’re psychotic, not children.
So what DO you do? Acknowledge that the situation is frightening. If possible, give them the objective facts (ie, i don’t see any monsters; your mom hasn’t said anything to make it seem like she’s going to kill you) while also acknowledging that for them, it is real. Most of all, ask what you can do to keep them comfortable and safe.
Sorry for the long addition but when I made this post it didn’t occur to me apsychotic people would look at it for advice on how to handle an actively delusional person. I’m glad it’s resonating with people, though
Hi guys ER Nurse here!
Firstly, that’s what we’re taught to do in nursing school. In theory, so are doctors, and OPs doc did her job properly. You don’t dismiss a hallucination/delusion/psychotic episode, but you don’t encourage it either. Usually I say things like “I don’t see any monsters, but that must be really scary. Do you want to talk about it?” And go from there with a psyche patient.
Secondly, and more for color than anything, but clinical lycanthropy is a thing. It’s generally considered a rare psychiatric disorder in which the patient believes they’re a werewolf or dog of some kind, and takes on behaviors to match such as howling, scratching, biting, eating raw meat, etc. I’ve never seen a case myself but its in my nursing textbooks as a recognized psychiatric disorder.
Yes!!! I have clinical lycanthropy as a subset of my schizoaffective disorder. Even now when I'm highly medicated I feel myself growing wolf ears and a tail on the full moon. It used to be severe before medicine, with hallucinations of my bones cracking and reforming and of my teeth elongating, chronic pain from where my tail would be, urges to bite people and fear of losing control entirely during episodes. I dont know how most people develop it but I developed mine due to reading extensive werewolf literature while in a psychotic, depressive episode. I'm honestly just really happy, all these notes and this is the first time anyone has recognized it as clinical lycanthropy. It's not a disorder that a lot of people know about. If you have any more questions I'd be happy to answer!
a meeting of creatures…
some context from Twitter preceding this historical and entirely uneventful moment
It’s practically every day I think of them. Credit to @shingworks on Twitter
I don’t know what headmate, alter, or part needs to hear this, but having skills transfer over from one system member to another is not a sign you’re faking
It’s okay if your art styles are the same, or your handwriting, or your speech patterns, or your system has some unique skill that you’ve never learned but you still know how to do. That’s normal. When you share a brain with others there’s bound to be some things that you all share. That’s ok.
You’re not faking, I promise
-Fae/Luz
just because Twitter’s about to crack doesn’t mean we should be distracted from this site’s own problems which I’m sure staff would enjoy. We still have a problem with predators on here and people posting child exploitation material. We still have fascist communities and hate groups here. We have groups of terfs that dox trans kids. A lot of people who rely on sex work for their income had their lives upended as a result of the porn ban. We have a broken automated moderation system that will fuck you up if it thinks it saw a nipple. Staff banned a bunch of real, vocal people of color during the height of the BLM movement in 2020 under the pretense that they were somehow foreign intelligence agents. We need significant change and improvement here, and if Twitter shuts down within the next year, I’m sure that the people who run Tumblr as a business will have little motivation to do anything if their competitor is dead.

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Endogenic systems are stealing resources... built and funded by the endogenic/pro-endo community...
Putting aside the fakeclaiming, as a general rule, if something has the word "plural" in it, then it was probably made by the inclusive community.
This is true of Simply Plural. This is true of the Plural Association which funds it. And this is true of Pluralkit. Many of the resources linked to in Simply Plural are pro-endo.
While anti-endos can use our resources, acting like we're "stealing" the resources we made and helped fund is incredibly gross.
These are resources that wouldn't even exist without our community.
Simply Plural and Pluralkit are not examples of endogenic systems and the pro-endo community taking resources, but building them, making this community stronger together.
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bit of a vent, very confused. if you're gonna get mad about this, please read to the end before you get mad, i'm genuinely just confused and concerned
i've never thought of my name as cultural appropriation, and yes, our body is métis, not asian. our host just came across a post about asian names being cultural appropriation if you're not bodily asian, and how it's easy to change your name to something else if you're a fictive from an anime, for example. well, i'm a pariogenic introject from an anime, one of a few in my system, and i have most of my lifetimes worth of exomemories using my name. it's what i've been called since i was knee high to a grasshopper, and i understand some people may see their names as disposable or unimportant to them, but mine matters to me. i don't want to abandon one of the last pieces of my life and identity i still have now that i'm here, just because the body i landed in was born on the wrong continent. i don't know what to do, or how to express this without being judged. i'm not using my name *because* it's asian, nor am i using it because it's aesthetic. i'm using it because it's mine.. do i really have to change it?
-a fictive having an identity crisis
butches deserve to wear those fun harnesses gay men wear. who cares if some of us have titties. the lesbian community can have a little “butch titties framed by leather harnesses.” as a treat.
addendum to this is that we actually do do this I just wasn’t hanging out with the right dykes yet when I made this post
There is nothing I like better than posts where someone is like I wish this interesting thing happened all the time and then several months later response to themselves with guess what guys? I found my community! I genuinely feel like the internet has given us more of that in general and it genuinely warms my heart
Apparently regular carbon monoxide detectors only detect levels that are threatening to your life. Not levels that slowly mess you up over time.
At the suggestion of the firefighters I have turned off my heater and ordered a specialized low level CO detector. So we’ll see if I’m regularly swimming in low levels of poison or if tonight was just a freak incident.
Also you need to replace your CO detector every 8-10 years
So basically regular CO detectors only alarm when they detect levels over 70ppm which can get bad for you after a few hours. Above 100ppm can potentially kill you given enough time. Above 150 you need to leave your house right now immediately However, the WHO recommendation is that CO should be below 10ppm. At 11-30 you can develop chronic headaches and nausea. Possibly even problems with your respiratory or circulatory systems depending on who you are. But most CO detectors don't pick up on that. Crazy.
I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth
Or, as my dad put it,
Sympathy: I know how you feel Empathy: I feel how you feel Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?
Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?
Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.

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i lowkey ship tumblr ♠ twitter now
the twitter users are coming QUICK post twitblr yaoi
I have never made art faster in my life
it’s because they’re divorced
Man this goes hard feel free to screenshot 💔😰💔💔😰
sacrificed my anatomy for SPEED
ik everyone is drawing tumblr in suits but
i would rather help 100000 fakers than make life harder for a single disabled person
if making sure that disabled people don’t have to jump through one hundred million hoops in order to receive accommodations means that people start faking disabilities to get those same accommodations, then i think that’s fine. that does not hurt anyone.