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just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out
EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!
if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.
if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to
PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply
figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list
so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...
so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts
posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig
ppl who don’t make an effort to listen to their partner(s) abt their interests bc they “don’t like it” scare me
exactly. it’s not about whether you like it or understand it. it’s about sharing their joy and learning about who they are.
Real and true
It's so frustrating seeing hunters fight against predator reintroduction because "hunters with rifles can kill more deer than wolves/lynx can"
Even if that's true, predators like wolves do so much more than just killing deer. Their mere presence completely changes the behaviour of deer. Instead of hanging around one area and overgrazing it, deer herds have to stay constantly on the move to try and avoid wolf packs. This spreads their grazing over much wider areas and significantly reduces the amount of damage they can do.
Hunters also only target adult deer, often going for the big trophy bucks. Predators like wolves and lynx don't just hunt adult deer but also kill a lot of fawns, as well as does. This has a much bigger impact on controlling deer populations than killing adult bucks. Predators also tend to target the old, sick and weak, which helps keep deer herds healthy. The remains of wolf kills also provide an important food source for scavengers, and when the bodies rot it nourishes the soil and massively benefits the whole ecosystem.
Humans can certainly play a role in deer control, but they'll never be as effective as native wild predators.
also worth noting that hunting is becoming less and less accessible for people as it requires a not insignificant time commitment and some people just can't make room for it in their lives as a hobby any more
so many people are just totally ignorant about predators and their importance in the ecosystem, even those that SHOULD know better
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Minotaur is not a species
The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.
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I am so sorry.
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
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i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge
This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.
petition to make Americans google “euro” before writing fic
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YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN THAT RIGHT NOW
well damn
Every time, I know what's coming, but every time, I just lose it at "Uh. That"
S. snuffleupagus, a newly described species of fish, is named after the beloved Sesame Street character, Mr. Snuffleupagus, to which it bear
SNUFFLEUPAGUS REAL
Fantastic article!! The guys looking for it were fish researchers who saw it one time, knew instantly it was an undescribed species, and then tried for nearly 20 years to find and document it!
It's a type of ghost pipefish, related to seahorses, and it floats around coral reefs looking like a piece of algae and hunting unsuspecting prey
They are, of course, named after Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street!
Later on it the project, they got citizen science involved, and people across the Pacific started reporting sightings of snuffy fish from all over!
Hooray for science and hooray for S. snuffleupagus !
As a someone with a classical studies degree, I find it exhausting that tumblr only has two modes whenever my area comes up:
1 incorrectly claiming someone couldn't have been black (Helen of Troy, various Roman emperors)
2 incorrectly claiming someone has to have been black (Dido, Cleopatra, the exact fucking same Roman emperors, the entirety of Rome)
So let's be clear: to the ancient Greeks and Romans, Libya, Egypt, etc above the Sahara were in their backyard, while the Nile gave them an easy trade route to Ethiopia and nearby sub-saharan African countries. But for majority of people, these places were still far enough away to be mythologised. Andd the exact fucking same is true of Europe, but with Britain being the hard to reach you need a boat place.
The difference is that Africa was viewed as civilized and full of noble enemies and trade partnera while North Western Europe was viewed as a primative backwater full of barbarians.
They also were right next to Asia minor, trading through them to Asia major. Alexander invaded India, Iran ("Persia") was working hard to prevent Rome and China from trading directly, etc.
They didn't know about the far north of Europe and Asia, the far south of Africa, the Americas, or Austalasia. But they knew, traded, and intermingled with the rest, but at the same time travel was a much longer and harder thing to do (hence why the sea and river routes were more known than the overland).
*Sighs tiredly* Okay. Let's do this. Why those examples?
Helen of Troy (actually of Sparta) was the daughter of a marriage between a Spartan (Greek) king - Tyndareus son of Oebalus and Gorgophone (Afro-Greek), daughter of Perseus (Greek) and Andromeda (Ethiopean) and an Aetolian woman - Princess/Queen Leda, in which the Spartan king got Cuckholded by Zeus. Leda's parentage and ancestry is all over the place, however one of the many possible parentages (the myths are all equally valid) is that she is daughter of Thestius of Pluron (in Aetolia) and Deidameia of Messenia (also in Aetolia), who was in turn daughter of Perieres (king of Messenia) and Gorgophone, daughter of Perseus (Greek) and Andromeda (of Ethiopia). Which means that according to some versions of the myths, Helen and Clytemnestra are mixed - mostly Greek, but still enough black to count.
Various Roman emperors: Ancient Rome was a trade hub and while the first group of Roman emperors - those born of old aristocratic families - were without a doubt 100% Italian, after people worked out they (and by they I mean the Praetorian Guard) could just assassinate an emperor and install their preferred general in his place? Well, Rome had this nifty thing where they avoided rebellions by never giving command to people from a region, and they had legions from all over their empire. Including Africa. So after being emperor became a game of biggest army and Praetorian guard rulette people of every ethnicity in the Roman empire (which stretched Europe, Africa, and Asia Minor) got to be emperor!
Septimus Severus: Speaking of Roman Emperors who may have been black. Septimus Severus was almost certainly mixed Libyan-Italian. His father Publius Septimius Geta was from a local family in Leptis Magna, a formerly Carthaginian city. Now. Carthage was a Phoenician colonial empire, but by the time Septimus lived there had been a lot of time for the Semetic-Phoenician population to intermingle with the local Libyan population. So while it's possible this family somehow was of only Phoenician ancestry, it's unlikely, especially with sources that say otherwise. Emperor Septimus' mother, meanwhile was Fulvia Pia - of one of the most illustrius families in Rome. Emperor Septimus was married to a Syrian woman and they had two sons Emperor Caracalla and Emperor Geta. A lot of people will tell you that the reason Geta's face is missing from ancient portraits is that "white people were trying to hide that he's black". This is bullshit conspiracy crack. Geta's face is missing from portrature because after he died, his brother Caracalla tried to have him removed from history. The (modern) term is Damnatio memoriae.
Dido: Did not exist. She was a propaganda character. The woman she was based on - the one who DID found Carthage? Elissa of Tyre. She was not black. She was not African. She was a fucking coloniser who fled from her Phoenician (Semetic - same ethno-linguistic group as Arabs, Arameans, Assyrians, Jews, Mandaeans, Samaritans and Amharic) kindgom in modern day Lebanon to steal and colonise part of modern Tunisia. And when a local king said hey, marry me and legitimise your rule in the area or I will conquer your new city? She killed herself.
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator: Was a coloniser ruling over what was significantly racially segregated between the Maecedonian Greek ruling class (of which Cleopatra descended) and their native Egyptian subjects. The main push behind the idea of a black Cleopatra (one who would look nothing like the Cleopatra in all the images and texts describing her from her era) can be traced back to a guy named John Henrik Clarke, who repeatedly failed to correctly name members of Cleopatra's family, sited incorrect sources, straight up lied about sources (the Encyclopaedia Britannica has never claimed Cleopatra was black, Cleopatra is not in the New Testiment claiming to be black, etc) was a prominent afro-centerist. Which is a political movement/ view of history that started on the basis of fighting back against black people being written out of history (good) and quickly became "claim everyone important in history was secretly black and refuse any actual evidence" (it's been called euorcentrism in blackface for a reason and funnily enough it almost never celebrates actual black history and achievements, just tries to claim everyone else's as being that). In other words, the main push behind "Cleopatra was black" came from a guy in the 1890s who had a political axe to grind and wanted a figurehead - regardless of whether it was true or cultural appropriation. Moreover, since Rome had some anti-black racism and Augustus Caesar threw every believable accusation under the sun at Cleopatra: had she been black by way of being a black harem slave's bastard, we would never have heard the end of it in ancient texts. But she's never once accused of that.
In both Dido and Cleopatra's case, remember: if "she was queen of part of Africa" was enough to make someone black, then Victoria and Elizabeth were also black and if "born in africa" was enough to make someone black, the elongated muskrat would count.
Various Roman Emperors: You remember how I said that Roman Emperors could be of any ethnicity in the empire after the Praetorian Guard started shiskebabing emperors? Before that you had to be a Roman aristocrat from an old family - which meant ethnically Roman, which meant you either had olive skin, dark eyes, and dark hair if you had more Etruscan blood in you (Julius Caesar) or pale skinned blue-grey eyed and light brown haired if you had more Latin tribes blood in you (Augustus Caesar). There's a fucking reason we call having a nose with a prominent bridge and which looks curved or bent a Roman Nose. Incidentally, all portraiture of Cleopatra also shows her with this beak-like "aquiline"/Roman nose.
The Entirity of Rome: *sighs* This is back to the afrocentrism/racialised, usually racist propaganda again. No, Rome was not secretly a black paradise that the evil white univeristy professors covered up. No, northern African nations were not as dark as sub-saharan African peoples because the Sahara meant they traded more with European Mediterreanians and Arabs from Asia minor because yes, the Sahara was a desert in the times of Ancient Greece and Rome. It was not a beautiful freshwater sea. Every 20,000 years the Sahara switches from desert to savannah grassland and back because of the way the Earth moves. It was not an ocean that dried up. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling "there was once a perfect place for our superior race" but for black people instead of white. The real Ancient Rome was very much like modern London. Swap native population English for native population Italian and you've got the same setup; massive international port with a mix of people from all over its empire/former empire and the rest of the known world, but slight majority to native ethnic group. Fusion cuisine, merchants and travellers, those who chose to stay, those whose ancestors were forced to come, an average population that's Mediterreanan European but is massively mixed, Roman being in many ways more about your culture than your skintone. That's the real Rome. It was never all black or all white. It was briefly all olive and then they became a trade hub and started conquering people.

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happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of
health isn't a virtue.
people still go around acting like they've done something good in order to be able bodied and healthy. that they worked for it, that it's due to their moral fibre or good upbringing or self control. they genuinely, on some level, believe that they are a good person solely based on the strength of their physical abilities. they will resist the fact that it is largely down to chance that they were able to maintain such health. whatever they think they've built from scratch, the building blocks were already handed to them. not because they're more worthy of it, just by luck. and they really think they're worth more based on that sheer luck. i've met disabled people worth a hundred of the healthiest ableds alive.