Hazelnut Mead

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.

Your teens are for depression, your twenties are for transitioning, and your thirties are for killing

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

in terms of "dead dove" tropes in general one of my favourite ways to pervert an otherwise healthy and consensual relationship is to have one of the characters be responsible for something that was objectively and unsympathetically their fault and that they're determined to spend the rest of their lives making up for, but are unwilling (or unable) to confess to their new partner who only knows them as they are now and not as the shameful fuckup they once were, so they end up convincing themselves that they're essentially committing rape by deception - for the entirely selfish reason that is wanting to prove that they can succeed in obtaining and keeping one genuinely good, stable, unblemished thing in their life - by concealing it. but because they both desire comfort and don't feel that they deserve it they continue to do so, going so far as to try to prevent their partner from being exposed to any situation or interaction where they might learn the truth, even as it becomes a case of using them and the relationship to self-harm to satisfy their unresolved guilt that only grows with each passing moment.

and then, just when they've finally started to relax and let themself consider that maybe, just maybe, they do actually deserve to be happy and move on with their life, that's when the other shoe drops and their partner stumbles across the information that fleshes out and gives shape to the unspoken thing that's been hanging over their relationship since day one, to the point that they'd adjusted to living in its shadow, in the least favourable circumstances possible. building your home in someone only to find out that your house is haunted and the spectre has been in the room with you this entire time >>>>>

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my favorite thing is everytime I enter a dungeon with Alisaie and she sets her lb off even when its not needed, I'm like "you're doing great sweetie" and then her line lb misses the boss completely. Keep winning girl.

I think for a lot of people “I am completely helpless and powerless” and “I am completely powerful and in control” are both basically comforting fantasies because most of us live our lives in an in between place where we have enough agency to be responsible for our actions but not enough agency to have true control over our lives and the tension between power and powerlessness in the day to day is psychologically wearing and exhausting

(tearfully) i just want everyone to be a girl…m-my lesbian greed…it can’t b-be sated…

It's also fun to have conversations with "people with too much money or desiring money cause so many problems, so we could make the world better by eliminating money" guys and you start asking basic questions about how product and service creation and distribution would work in their system and they quickly end up reinventing money but calling it something different.

In the Wayfarer Series, the human refugee space stations don't have money (they can do this because they're relatively small and socially organised and basic essentials are provided to everyone for free, so it's not really a big deal if a barter fails or is inconveniently labyrinthine) and that system's started failing in later generations because they've become exposed to societies that do use money. The instant somebody who uses money shows up with exciting things to trade, money itself becomes a valuable barter good (you can trade it with those foreigners for cool stuff). And once you've got something convenient to carry and store (physically or digitally) that only has value in barter, and everyone knows of its value in barter (how much cool shit the foreigners will give you for the coin), the local unofficial adoption of the coin is pretty much inevitable even if you somehow haven't adopted some other stable item as a local barter currency in the meantime.

I know we've moved far past this point, but my historian ass needs to emphasize that so so many people got killed over cows. When the most valuable thing you own is an animal that can walk off, shockingly enough there's a lot of incentive to sneak in and convince your neighbor's cow to leave with you and similar incentive to violently prevent it.

also no one says it but the punchline of "trans inclusive misogyny" is almost always the implicit assumption that transfeminine people do not actually experience misogyny in our day-to-day life. thats why its considered humorous and acceptable to do, rather than just being. misogyny against women.