chronically (ch)ill

the way prehistoric animal documentaries will talk about extinction like it happens because of “a failure to evolve” as though evolution is a meritocracy is so funny and so scary

this species persisted over the eons because of its Protestant work ethic to produce more of a specific kind of digestive enzyme that allowed it to extract 4% more nutrients from the dominant plant species in the area

we watched a couple episodes of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs a few days ago and it kept going on about shit like “this dinosaur has found a meal worthy of her future bloodline” like she’s some sort of Triassic era Bene Gesserit

I understand that, but that’s not really what I’m talking about. There is a degree of personification and narrativization that is just kind of inevitable, especially in scicomm aimed at a general public. HOWEVER there is a point at which is becomes egregious and another, parallel point at which it becomes weird propaganda for a christofascist blood and soil worldview. I’m a huge sucker for the Walking with Dinosaurs model of CGI dinosaur documentaries which all have their troubling rhetorical flaws but I made it through about an episode and a half of Netflix’s The Dinosaurs while writing that post before I couldn’t take it anymore… at all times it was 30 seconds away from praising its dinosaur characters for their sigma grindsets and the purity of their bloodlines.

I think gatekeeping art is such a funny thing like. "Oh so this doodle I just made is art" yes next question. "So video games are art?" yes????? Bitch your essay you wrote on that book you didn't read in English class when you were 10 is art. Painting a fence is art. 2 sentence shitpost on Tumblr is art. Get on my level.

okay yeah i do think your filler is off putting and your botox makes you rigid and strange to look at

I know you think it’s “feminist” to hate on women who already have self esteem and image issues (through no fault of their own, as a direct result of patriarchy) for doing something to help them cope with their fleeting youth - which may or may not have been stripped from them against their will due to years of depression, abuse, oppression, or whatever else - but the truth is that the freedom to get Botox is actually a right feminists have fought for - whether intentionally or unintentionally. Women used to get thrown away when we outlived our youth and beauty - now we have the option to prolong it and change the way we are perceived and treated by society as a whole. We ALL had to grow up too fast. We ALL have to cope with a childhood that ended too soon. I’m no less a feminist than you are simply because I choose to hold onto my youth and beauty because it helps me feel better about my own loss of innocence. This is all just another excuse to hate on women and tear us down. You’re literally letting the patriarchy win by judging women for their personal choices which harm absolutely no one. Please grow up. Not everyone is conventionally attractive or ages gracefully. Some women can cope with that and some can’t. Both deserve love and respect. Have some decency. You’re not edgy for this. You’re hating just like a man would.

you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.

lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.

"girl dinner" "boy kibble" can y'all just eat a meal gender neutrally

gender neutrients

if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent bands you’ve likely already done more to pay musicians than a year of spotify streaming. just pirate everything and send some walking around money to a couple artists you like. they’re probably on bandcamp, wait till a bandcamp friday. spotify hates you anyways.

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

it's really embarrassing how much self control i have to exert when you put me in front of a tray of convenient and tender meat like if you put meatballs in front if me the fuckers are gone in milliseconds. same true of roadted brussels sprouts or basically anything that's a nice little dense and textured morsel. i am the hors that d'ouvres

do not stand at my plate and snack. that shit's all mine. please give it back. i am the dozen hors that d'ouvre. i am the meatball's gentle curve. i am the cracker's butter crunch. i am a thousand grapes for lunch.

I love indigenous place names in north america so much because, unlike most european place names that are named after some asshole who claimed it, or like, something in Christendom, our place names are meant to help people easily identify them with major landmarks and water features (most people would be arriving via lake or river). but then you look at the name of a place and it’s like “this is where I saw a lot of wolverines” or “the curved lake at the end of the bend up north” and it’s like. fuck yeah it sure is. and then you look at settler place names and you’re supposed to know the difference between two different St. Johns that are both in the maritimes and it’s like come the Fuck On man

it’s also often an act of quiet diplomacy between communities that have tension or are otherwise feuding to name a place after what you Do there or what you can expect to find. like “this is a good place to harvest salmon. I may not like you very much right now but I also don’t want you to starve”

Hot take: there is no valid reason that official government ID should have either a sec or gender marker on it. First name, last name, dob + up to date image will suffice. Address, if relevant.

Y'all know it's crucial to paramedics, right?

I'm always confused by why people seem to think that there is some sort of Penis Emergency that will kill you if paramedics perform the Vagina Procedure on your fully clothed body.

Hospital spoilers btw: blood isn't sorted by sex, it's sorted by type. The sex of the blood donor doesn't factor in at all when receiving a transfusion, and you will not be harmed by receiving blood from a donor whose sex is different than yours. Saying this because it's another misconception that I've heard.

if you're unconscious at the hospital and they need to operate and insert a catheter in your urethra, don't worry! they'll figure out if you have a penis or a vagina without having to look at a laminated card in your wallet

And if you have ambiguous or surgically modified genitals, they'll find your urethra anyway!

i support women's wrongs

i love when people on the internet get denied stuff and you find the most innovative minds of the generation dedicated to making goddamn sure other people get what they want come hell or high water

men really be like “well this woman has studied this subject her whole life, and i am a man, so we have equal knowledge on this”

it’s ok you could have just said “i hate men”

okay, i hate men