THE WORLD IS ALWAYS ENDING

Long Eared Bat, huge ears and an adorable face!

Mexican Free Tailed Bat, named for the fact that their uropatagium (back leg membrane) doesn’t cover their tail, leaving them with a teeny mouse-like tail. 

Gould’s Wattled Bat, they got some pearly white sharp teeth, but they tell great jokes and always laugh at yours too. 

“HAHAHAHAHA!”

Hoary Bat, AKA the bat that looks like they’re covered in powdered sugar.

Bulldog Bat, a bulldog… with wings <3 

Vampire Bat, often seen as creepy, but they’re actually really cute. Also fun fact, vampire bats live in a social structure where able-bodied bats go out and feed and then share part of their meal with old/weak/sick members who cannot forage themselves. No survival of the fittest here, every bat helps every bat out <3 

If youre an animal, it's time for you to be a goddamn animal. Be feral, Be aggressive, fight for your life.

If you're a dragon, then be a terror to Kings, and start burning down the halls of power like the dragons of yore.

If you're a mythical creature, have no concern for the social constructs of man. Stand proudly outside what people even believe is possible.

If you're plural, know you're never alone. Fight against individualism that seeks to divide each body into deterministic boxes.

If you're a fictional character who saved the world, believe that you can save any world. Don't back down now.

Now is the time to really believe that you are what you say you are. People in power are going to try to take that away from you. Don't fall for it.

It's time shed any preconceptions you have about what you're capable of. If you're an animal it's time to fight like one. A dragon that uses gasoline and matches is still a dragon.

bipaliines feed on either worms or land gastropods, tracking the slime trails of prey with their highly sensitive spade- or crescent-shaped head plate.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for bipaliine diversity, and at least six species can be found in Singapore, all of which I managed to encounter this summer!

It’s mother has most likely used the fake deer as cover for the fawn to sleep near. I’ve personally witnessed a doe direct a fawn to lay in a patch of tall weeds and go lay on a hill where she could see me and the tall patch of weeds. That’s what they do, find something bigger than the fawn to sleep near so they’re hidden while they sleep.

A great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) in Gothenburg, Sweden.

it's not immoral or a punishment or a sign of evil or an "excuse to be lazy and unmotivated" or a way people use to make other people pity them and give them things. it's not sloth. it's not "impure" and it does not make someone an abomination or a mistake

disability is a normal, natural occurrence and not something people should be punished, starved, abused, abandoned, rejected, excluded, mocked, freak showed, gawked over, isolated, and murdered for

A mute swan (Cygnus olor) idles on the river in Gothenberg, Sweden

demanding

you have no right to control another person's feelings

does not provide a productive alternative

"when you hide behind that rock I feel as though you don't appreciate the fact that I came all this way to deliver the word of god"

statement of fact

not pushy

opens conversation to productive compromise

This means that a lot of white people, especially in countries like the US and Canada, have no real sense of cultural identity beyond "white" and a vague national identity. That on top of a lack of religious traditions and practices (Western Christianity is centered around spreading at all costs, leading to a lot of sects becoming very generic and inoffensively bland to attract followers, while other religions are not suitably "white" enough) leads to a lot of settlers feeling like there is a hole in their lives where culture and spirituality should be.

Instead of acknowledging the way that colonialism and white supremacy caused that feeling, or working through undoing in by connecting with their national cultures or their families' heritages, many people instead turn to appropriating from cultures and religions that they see as more "pure" or "complete," particularly indigenous cultures and cultures from Asia. "Incidentally", a lot of these cultures and religions have suffered horribly under colonialism and the violent spread of Christianity.

Otherkin have a tendency to distance themselves from psychotic people (in an attempt to appear more palatable + respectable to the masses).  🡡 This is rooted in ableism (sanism, more specifically) and reinforces the stigma that psychotic people cannot vouch for their own ontology or experiences.