In My 20's and Doing My Best

Like OP said, the notes of these kind of posts are full of people doing exactly what they said.

One of the things I really appreciate about Dungeon Meshi is how the text is so clearly full of love for animals. Like the true kind of love Laios feels for the monster where he wants to know everything about them, but most of all he respects them and loves them as animals.

One of the blu-ray bonus is an extra about Anne

While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'

While I sort of get the impulse, it does always get my back up when people talk about something like Animorphs with this attitude of 'omgggg remember these books, how on EARTH were we allowed to read these books, they're so grim and dark and violent and tragic, no adults could possibly have known what they actually contained or they'd have been banned.'

“Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he’d thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist’s sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett’s last few books seemed to be related to them. ‘There’s only one true evil in the world,’ he said through his characters. ‘And that’s treating people like they were things.’ And in the last of his ‘grown-up’ Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you’ll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they’re a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don’t even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.”

Tumblr being the "piss on the poor" reading comprehension site makes sense when you realize that 79% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate. Same goes for Twitter and TikTok.

hey anon

Please help if you can, they've made some real good art that I love over the years, and some stickers for me as well.

[VD: a man behind the wheel of a car sings a country-style song, interspersed with various video clips of pickup trucks on highways with precarious cargo, including loose plant matter, dangling pipes, and a small carousel. Lyrics: "If you got a pickup filled with a pile of junk, and I can't tell if it's secure / if you got a ladder tied to a couple of chairs or a bunch of loose 2 by 4s / if you got a couch or some plants or some pipes or some canisters that look like they're about to combust / I won't be eatin' your dust / 'cause that's a truck I don't trust/ that's a truck I don't trust." Credited to @/tommcgovern27. End VD]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

For comparison, this is a daffodil

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

This is a marigold: