✦ RAN GVILI IS HOME!! ✦ ✦ !! I AM A MINOR !! ✦ ✦ i bite ✦ audhd ✦ ✦ they/she/he/היא (+ fem nouns) ✦ pjo lover ✦ ✦ hate is not activism ✦ ✦ #2 jason grace defender (second to lilac) ✦ ✦ “inej fell, twisting in the air the way she had as a child, searching for her wings.” ✦ ✦ life is beautiful ✦ ✦ i <3 my AMAZING partner ✦
intro post?? idk, this feels kinda silly but… 🤷♀️
hi! you can call me star or australili* (they/he/she)
*p.s., australili is the name i put as the watermark on my edits
p.p.s., i sign my art with my irl initials (nas)
[pt: *p.s., australili is the name i put as the watermark on my edits
p.p.s., i sign my art with my irl initials (nas) /end pt]
most reblogs are queued, my queue is 10 posts a day (not always filled though) and set to 24 hrs—so no, i’m not awake at 4 in the morning every day, i promise 😭
i am a queer ethnic jew, and i am israeli american. no i don’t support displacing, hurting, or killing anyone. however i do support you shutting the fuck up if all you're gonna do is lie about me and my beliefs
not all of my posts on this blog have to do with israel, but being israeli is an intrinsic part of who i am. if you don’t like it, don’t interact. i’d just appreciate it if you’d hate me in silence and keep it off my blog. thanks <3
i am a proshipper. if your immediate reaction to that is thinking i’m horrible, i highly recommend taking a look at this. ship and let ship
this is my main blog! i have a few others, i’ll make like a master doc or smth at some point
socials masterlist
tag index
big post about my 3 different soc aus (+ it has the tags for all 3 of them, so you can click on those to see the rest of my posts about them)
more abt me below the cut :)
books i like: six of crows, shadow and bone, pjo, hoo, toa, mgca, kane chronicles
shows i like: stranger things, shadow and bone tv, hilda, toh, arcane, heated rivalry
movies i like: kpop demon hunters (2025), me and earl and the dying girl (2015), whip it (2009), the princess bride (1987), zodiac (2007), jojo rabbit (2019), the prince of egypt (1998)
music i like: the killers, florence + the machine, kate bush, ofra haza, le tigre, emei, lorde, katseye, nep, wolf alice, pj harvey, charli xcx, conan gray, dead kennedys, janani k jha, the crane wives, chappell roan, suki waterhouse
musicals i like: next to normal, hadestown, hamilton, epic the musical, heathers, rent, nerdy prudes must die, the lightning thief musical, six the musical
i connect with robin buckley, max mayfield, and nancy wheeler on a spiritual level. trust me when i say they're ALL me in another life
omniromantic, acespec, nonbinary, arospec (but happy taken 💜); very neurodivergent (adhd, ocd, generalized anxiety disorder, autism); super social; i like to read, write, draw, and hang out with my friends :)
last books i read: siege and storm, with the fire on high (school)
currently reading: ruin and rising
next books: diary of a young girl, things i've been silent about, king of scars
books i started reading a while ago but i put them down before i finished them: court of the dead, the virgin suicides, utopia
random facts abt me:
- i skipped 5th grade
- i loveeeee epidemiology!
- i’m currently making a fictional disease for a book that me and my friend are writing together
- i <3 pins!!
- i have a pink american flag with chappell roan on it + a french flag that has a stock image of a man working at a desk both hanging on my bedroom ceiling
- my stuffed animals take up (significantly) more space in my bed than me
- i’m 5 feet tall </3
- i’ve played 3000+ hours of the sims 4 and i have 200+ files in my ts4 mods folder
- i own a copy of almost every book rick riordan has ever written (including daughter of the deep) except for a few (less than 5, i believe)—i can’t seem to get my hands on camp jupiter classified but i’m working on it
- i play the flute!
- milk gives me the ick in every way
- lavenders are my favorite flowers but jasmine is my favorite scent
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Look, this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling.
This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house.
Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.
And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.
And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.
This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!
heavy emphasis on the friends part of that addition to the post! do not forget that abusive friends can fuck you up and traumatize you just as much as abusive partners, family members, bosses, et cetera. you have the right to cut off ANYONE in your life, at any point in time. their relationship to you does not and cannot change that fact
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Apparently the dude who runs the crematorium is just fundamentally confused about how advertising works.
He actually thought that the way you made an ad was you found a picture that got people’s attention … and then also included information about your company.
He was genuinely surprised and baffled when people thought there was any relationship between the (independently nonsensical) captioned image and his cremation business.
There were two more ads in the series that are equally, just… so much…
because wylan grew up an isolated kid i feel like he goes through a phase where he asks kaz to teach him all the kerch childhood games (which kaz takes very seriously) and over time wylan starts accumulating scrapes on his hands and knees, bruises, one day he even comes back with a bloody nose and when jesper asks where he got it from he just starts laughing uncontrollably because for the first time in his life he can say the marks on his body are from memories of pure, unadulterated joy
I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.
Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.
Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.
Ilya has surgery on his shoulder in the off season. The surgery is considered a minor one and everything goes well. He walks up from surgery high as a kite but otherwise fine. Yuna, David, and Shane are talking to Ilya when a nurse walks in. The nurse explains he’s here to examine the small incision and check the stitches but when he tries to pull down the hospital gown, Ilya freaks out and tells him no. “I’m married!” He slurs out. “Happily married!” They try to explain that the nurse is just doing his job but Ilya isn’t having it. Only Shane can undress him so Shane peels back the gown enough for the nurse to look at the stitches. Shane apologizes for Ilya’s outburst but the nurse shrugs them off and says it was actually kind of cute.
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You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.
(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.
When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.
It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:
Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.
Flamingos can survive in high altitudes, hypersaline conditions, and caustic lakes.
Source: ‘All flamingo species have evolved to live in some of the planet’s most extreme wetlands, like caustic “soda lakes”, hypersaline lagoons or high-altitude salt flats.’
They can survive water so alkaline it burns human skin.
Source: ‘More than a million lesser flamingos breed in Tanzania’s Lake Natron, for instance, a lake fed by hot springs with water so alkaline that it can strip away human skin (one pioneering flamingo researcher named Leslie Brown spent months in Nairobi General Hospital after burning his legs wading out to observe where the birds nested).’
They can drink water at near-boiling temperatures.
Source: ‘They can drink water at near boiling point to collect freshwater from springs and geysers at lake edges. If no freshwater is available, flamingos can use glands in their head that remove salt, draining it out from their nasal cavity.’
The lakes they inhabit can freeze overnight, and the flamingos can survive once it thaws in the morning.
Source: ‘The birds may seem to epitomize the tropics, but they also live in the Andes, 15,000 feet above sea level, where they rest on lakes that freeze around them overnight.
“You’ll see them sitting there like snowballs, frozen on ice,” Dr. Arengo said. “And as the temperature warms up, they thaw out, fluff themselves up and go about their business.”’
The photo is indeed from Lake Natron, taken by photographer Nick Brandt. The content of the lake chemically preserves animal corpses that die there. You can see more photos of this here.
It is also true that 75% of Lesser Flamingos are hatches on Lake Natron.
Source: ‘The lake’s landscape is surreal and deadly—and made even more bizarre by the fact that it’s the place where nearly 75 percent of the world’s lesser flamingos are born.’
Some species of Flamingo eat cyanobacteria or algae.
Source: ‘Flamingos have very specialised diets. And their food is responsible for their famous pink colouration. The two species in Planet Earth II eat a lot of floating microscopic algae, which contains carotenoid pigments, the same types of chemical that make carrots orange. These pigments turn their feathers pink, orange and red – without them, flamingos would be white.’
