Drinking water

No longer making self deprecating jokes

Making sure to take time out of the day to relax and take a breather

Lighting candles

Counting ur breaths in and out if ur having a panic attack

“if you’re not __ identity, then what you drew was offensive.”

Like I get it. I get wanting to make sure than buff trans lady was drawn by a trans woman. I get being suspicious of that twinky white NB portrayal until you learn that’s what the artist is. I get it! Same, sometimes!

But the fact that this is the new socially acceptable way to ask “Hey, what’s in your pants?” “Have you had the surgery?” “So are you like…you know…gay?” as a total stranger and act as if you’re any more in the right that a creepy uncle at a barbecue is totally fucking uncool. One Fun New Trick to out and force queer artists to explain the minutia of their identities on peril of being burned at the stake!

There’s complications in this kind of statement, obviously. And offensive stuff is still like…offensive, and anyone can make mistakes. But also? I’m really over people having to flay bare their relationship with gender and medicine to avoid cancellation.

And it totally ignores people’s actual realities. These people aren’t just archetypes, they’re people that actually exist that other people have interacted with. I know people who are the “bad representation”, and if I could draw worth a shit, why shouldn’t I be inspired by them? Hell, why shouldn’t I be inspired by art drawn by the “right” kind of artists?

✨These are going to make some Hellenics mad but the visuals are stunning🤩

Humans have a much higher percentage of body fat than most other land-dwelling mammals, we’re much closer to various aquatic mammals who rely on that fat for buoyancy & insulation.

We may have lost most of our body hair because it would have created drag as we swam through the water, but kept most of our head hair because it would protect our scalps from damage from the sun when we would come up for air.

We’re one of the only land-dwelling animals that are able to hold our breath.

Human infants instinctively know to hold their breath underwater, keep their heads up, and try to swim upwards (they’re not strong enough but they do the motions correctly), whereas the infants of other primates simply panic and drown, suggesting this isn’t simply due to having spent 9 months in the uterus.  

Children who swim very frequently are able to contract their pupils at will, something that is helpful in seeing more clearly underwater.  This can especially be seen among children of the Moken tribe from an island off the coast of Thailand who rely on this ability for catching fish and clams, but can be trained in children anywhere.

Humans are the only primates who retain some small amount of webbing between our fingers and toes, some people more than others. 

Females have permanent breasts with fatty tissue that doesn’t assist in milk production but does assist in buoyancy that would be ideal for breast feeding while floating on your back.

Our dependence on iodine for proper brain and metabolic function is highly unusual for land dwelling animals but would not be an issue for ocean dwelling creatures.