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DOST THOU WISH TO EAT A TASTY??? WOULDSTNTVE THOU LIKE THE TASTE OF BERRIES???

Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), EAT A TASTY BERRY!!!, family Sturnidae, order Passeriformes, South Africa

photograph by Andre Botha

Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), EAT A TASTY FISH!!!, family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, Florida, USA

The fish is a Black Crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus), family Centrarchidae, order Centrarchiformes

photograph by Matthew Paulson

Black-headed Parrot (Pionites melanocephalus), EAT TASTY FRUIT!!!, family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, Colombia

photograph by ruedacamara

Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) EAT A TASTY HONEY!!!, family Accipitridae, found across much of South and East Asia.

photograph by mikewang151

Ornate Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira ornata), famly Colubridae, EAT THE TASTY EGGS of a Reticulated Glass Frog (Hyalinobatrachium valerioi), family Centrolenidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Steijn Pulles

Limpkin (Aramus guarauna) EAT A TASTY SNAIL!!!, family Aramidae, order Gruiformes, Cillinan Park, Sugar Land, TX, USA

photograph by Allen Tsao

Coconut Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus), EAT A TASTY MANGO!!!, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, found in part of Indonesia, New Guinea and some other Indian and Pacific islands

photograph by Meng Kuang Han

California Newt (Taricha torosa), EAT A TASTY WORM!!!, family Salamandridae, California, USA.

Poisonous (Extremely).

we've collected twenty prompts to inspire reflection upon different aspects of animal identity that investigate how it relates to and interacts with other ideas of selfhood and existence. these prompts are flexible, and we encourage you to explore them in more abstract ways than just question-and-answer. jot down your thoughts on a prompt and then compose a poem in response to it. write a creative nonfiction piece or draw something that communicates how you feel to engage with your creative side. have fun with it! the questions following each prompt are meant to provide a way into interpreting them, but are not the end-all-be-all of a prompt. there are no rules and no set order, just pick what resonates with you and have fun writing or creating art about what being animal means to you.

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Blue-legged Sylvan katydid, Zabalius ophthalmicus, Tettingoniidae

Found throughout Sub-Saharan Africa

I’m so glad you asked! Let me list off what I’ve got for you:

Books I personally recommend:

- The New Topping Book and The New Bottoming Book, by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy

If you’re having kinky sex at all, you need to read at least one of these two books. Point blank. They’ll teach you the very basics of negotiating properly (which is critical!), and help you identify what you are and aren’t into.

- Mindfucking Mindfully, by Sir Ezra Where this book really shines isn’t actually in helping you “mindfuck” people, it’s in taking a close look at how to do so ethically. It’s a great answer to the question “how do I get someone to consent to something and still surprise and shock them with it?”

- Real Service by Raven Kaldera and Joshua Tenpenny This is a slightly niche pick but there simply isn’t a better book on the subject. It’s written from a 24/7 M/s perspective, which is not what I do, but the book itself is an indispensable guide to giving and receiving service. The phrase “if the Master doesn’t want it, it isn’t service” will be burned into my psyche for quite some time. I love this book a lot. Maybe my favorite out of all of these.

- Enough To Make You Blush: Exploring Erotic Humiliation, by Princess Kali This one’s high on my reading list; I’ve heard it recommended by a number of people whose opinions on these things I trust.

- Pretty Much Anything Midori Has Ever Done Midori is a great resource for this stuff - I haven’t personally read much of her work, but she’s a well known sex educator and great at what she does. She’s known for bondage, but has a lot of range beyond that.

- This Negotiations Worksheet from Bex Talks Sex This is what I default to using a lot of the time for negotiations. Forget BDSMtest, you don’t need that, it’s no good. Just look through this worksheet’s wordbank with your partner. Big fan especially of the “how do you want to feel?” section.

Books I can kind of recommend:

- The Ultimate Guide to Kink, edited by Tristan Taormino This book is weird. There’s a lot of good info for experienced players, but some of what’s written here skeeves me out. I think if I had a top that thought the way some of the tops in here think, they would not be topping me for long. But there’s some good techniques and so on to pick up that I wouldn’t have otherwise. I liked the distinction one of the authors makes between being sadistic in the sense of inflicting pain and being sadistic in the sense of doing something your sub doesn’t “enjoy.”

- The Ritual of Dominance and Submission, by David English Man, this book fucking sucks. The writing and editing are garbage, and the fear and protocol play described need way more careful negotiation than he ever lets on, let alone recommends. This is some 50 Shades bullshit. The only time I recommend this book is to tops like me who tend to be very affirming to their partners and need a guide on how to really scare them - when their partner consents and when you negotiate it, which this book sucks at teaching you. Really good content on fear, punishment, and protocol play, really terrible presentation of the topic though. Don’t read this if you don’t already know what you’re doing.

- Paradigms of Power, by Raven Kaldera I love this book. Great book. Very focused on 24/7 M/s play though, and, being an anthology, some chapters are better than others. If you can’t read something and pick out what is and isn’t for you, don’t bother. But some really great inspiration, and generally pretty well written. Big fan of the discussion of leather throughout the book.

I always love the og zoot suits made by black americans in Harlem, I really like looking at the changes from these clothes from the 30s to some of the more exaggerated renditions from the 40s. It's also so interesting to look at how fast the subculture spread, and especially in the american west integrated with mexican diaspora and pachuco culture to the point that that's what a lot of usamericans associate them with.

⬆️ long wallet chains and pork pie hats were classic accessories for mexican diaspora zoot suiters. Zoot suits/their components were also really popular with women and were a way to symbolize independence and a choice to move away from strict gender roles on top of the existing countercultural message ⬇️

Anyways it's kind of impossible to talk about zoot suits without mentioning the racism and violence that followed them. On top of a zoot suit making someone a target for individual racial violence, the national reaction of white america to zoot suit culture was part of the beginning of clothing and presentation being read explicitly as signals by police and justice systems, and the broad association of youth of color with gang violence through this specific excuse. Gang culture and how it's percieved in the western US and especially California is very influenced by this era. The most famous events from the zoot suit era are the collective zoot suit riots and the media characterization of all mexican american, filipino american, and black american youth as violent anti-american baby gangsters. Which, even if that was broadly true I mean. I'll take the opportunity to be flippant hell yeah??

As a side note, while making more new zoot suits during war rationing was pretty sick, most people weren't buying from the black market tailor shops and just wore what they already owned because the style had been popular for years already. People bought clothes less often to begin with back then. I think that misconception comes from the reasoning white americans gave to go beat up people of color with baseball bats in the street; i.e. it was racial and xenophobic violence to begin with and the nature of the suits themselves has been mushed around a lot to serve different narratives.

More zoot suits! ⬇️