prince of the halflings

humans fill a similar ecological niche to beavers. we create the basis for entire ecosystems and if we refuse that role or do it improperly, those ecosystems we build suffer. theres not a natural world with no humans in our niche and hasnt been for a very, very long time. we are not seperate from nature and never have been, not as hunter gatherers, not as dense urbanites.

our extinction would be no less devastating to the ecosystems we inhabit than our pollution of them. we can see one example of this in the genocide of native peoples from turtle island and the ecosystemic collapses that followed those genocides. like without the controlled burns that were standard practice for those indigenous to the great plains, wildfires grow to devastating levels. horticultural gardens that feed not just humans but many other species grow unhealthy and imbalanced without the people who tend them

Thaisha x Hal (and Kattigan can watch) 💖

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

That laser focus you get when your pet has a limp. The "why are you limping/are you limping?" look. I get the feeling that between that, and watching us play video games, that predatory instinct would be very visible. Not only that, we teach other animals to hunt with us. And one is a prey animal. Dogs we teach to hunt with us. But we also teach horses to hunt. Specifically, cattle horses. If you have never seen a cattle horse work when it is cutting a cow from the herd, you should. That is peak predator behavior. Watch a pack of wolves separating a caribou from the herd, then watch a cutting horse work. Certain motions are exactly the same, but very eerie on a herd animal. We are such consummate predators that we have mastered the art of training a herd animal to behave like a part of a pack of predators. I say this as someone who has worked with cutting horses, has trained horses (not to cut, but to jump and do dressage), and lives in an area where cattle is a big industry. As predators, we are terrifying.

#a group of three or more juvenile humans will spontaneously reinvent 'tag' if there's space to run even if they don't share a language.

Out of Touch Thursday

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

but im out of my head when you’re not around…

this is the only out of touch thursday you can reblog this

tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.

Imagine the level of whimsy I could reach if I just had $5M in my bank account rn

I feel like “every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave and show them something unspeakable” is something that’s okay for a paleolithic cave art expert to say, but like, absolutely no one else

Do not fall for the grindset mentality; jerk off and eat a hot pocket to recover spiritually

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old