in the mountains. fuck. of course theyre in the mountains. i fucked this post up
I drew the lesbian mountain women i didn’t know how else to comfort you.
oh my god… they are so beautiful. i love your art style so much !! bless u
Ok, so, story time. I grew up in a tiny town in the middle of the Rockies, at about 9000 feet above sea level. By tiny, I mean there were a little over 50 people directly within the town limits. We had no sidewalks. There were more people in the 20ish mile outskirts, I guess, and we usually counted them as ‘residents’ because that’s just what you do when your nearest neighbor is 7 miles away.
Now, funny thing – there were men that lived here, but comparatively fewer than what I later learned was ‘average’. For six years, I had a near complete cast of all-women mentors and teachers. They were hardy ranchers who cared for massive herds of horses, muscled elderly types who built their entire homes themselves out of recycled tires, kindly schoolteachers who regularly hiked to the streams and lakes to teach us how measure PH or how to notice bear signs in addition to our geography and math.
Later, long after my family moved away, I learned that in the Rockies, there are in fact pockets of lesbians who live in the mountains, and yes, my town was one of those places. I remembered the firm way they would tell me that I needed to be myself no matter what. I remembered the affectionate glances some of them shared. And I was utterly baffled when I learned that not every place on the planet would have seen these women as brilliant and powerful people who could make a life in the mountains paradise.
So just in case anyone was hoping this lovely situation is real – yes, it is. Lesbian mountain women helped raise me. Imagine them under the brilliant stars and the silence of nature, building their lives alongside the wild pines, happy, thriving, and teaching others to do the same. I will refrain from naming the town because I suspect the residents go there for peace and quiet, and would rather not be outed to Tumblr. But my love to them from afar – they would adore this artwork.
“skip dinner and become thinner” more like “skip dinner and you have an eating disorder please get help”
“a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips” more like “a moment on the lips is okay to have, please take care of yourself in this lifetime”
“every time you eat you delay becoming skinnier” more like “every time you eat you give your body the nutrients it needs in order to survive, please keep surviving”
“you’ll be able to wear whatever you want when you get to your ugw” more like “you’ll be able to wear whatever you want now because fashion =/= weight”
“Don’t reward yourself with food your not a dog” more like treat yourself because you’re amazing and deserve happiness
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I love this post for how it politely demolishes destructive pro ana/mia mantras i love it
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While I might not deal with this, there are certainly others out there who do. Reblogging to help those people.
The substance the teacher uses in the video is liquid methane. But methane has a really low boiling point. Like, about −160 °C low. So once it touches the comparatively hot floor, the Leidenfrost effect comes into play, and it slides across the floor. The issue is though, methane is colorless, so you can’t normally see it. Thankfully (in this demonstration), methane is also very flammable, so he sets it on fire before dumping it onto the floor so you can see it as it moves.
Definitely a cooler demonstration of the Leidenfrost effect than dropping a little water in a hot pan.
At last! My tiny fluffy teddy bear moths have arrived!
My first southern flannel moth adult emerged from his cocoon this morning. You may remember my previous posts of them: as caterpillars, they are the most adorable fluffy shy hairballs who are also so venomous their stings are considered the most painful kind you can get in North America.
They were so cute and I wanted to hold them SO BAD but the closest I could get was stroking the side of the tank while I wept over how life was so cruel to deny me the joy of holding these sweet babies.
Well, my first sweet baby is here. A boy: his antennae are feathered to detect the scent females let out to attract mates. I knew they were small, but I was still surprised to see this tiny baby. Every surface is covered in fluffy fur.
His little black boots. His fluffy bum. His orange mustache 😭
I’m not going to lie. I kissed him. He is perfect.
So for those who
didn’t notice a few things changed this week.
After EA’s frankly
disgusting Loot crate system more than a few people got upset, the
fact that it was attached to a Star Wars game made this explode in a
big way.
This morning Belgium
made the legal decision to mark ALL loot crates gambling and have
since taken the legislative action to the EU congress.
-what this means-
1) If they receive at minimum 20 votes from the gathering of almost
200 all countries within the EU can make the switch over legally to
making Loot Boxs gambling
2) If done so they simply have to make a single small court
appearance and they do not need to announce that they are doing so.
3) All game companies that sell loot crates or similar WILL have to
PURCHASE a gambling license that will consist of 20% of their tax on
the system from the last year, they must re-buy this every year.
4) The companies may also be ‘Taxed’ for all previous years of
selling the crates within the region of some countries, this would be
a loss of literally billions in some companies cases.
This will be an almost certainty in places such as Italy that is
currently going through a financial crisis at the moment and will
cost the companies greatly if the regions choose to add a tax to the
initial taking of funds, which is within there legal rights to do so.
5) All drop rates and quality rating must be made Public and actively
Updated. -the very thing Blizzard has been trying not to do since
Overwatch launched.
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Loot crates will become VERY unprofitable since all prices will also
be regulated from outside of publishers and there can be up to (but
not limited too) a 40% take on all crate sales within some areas.
Added to the purchase of gabling licenses this will be around a 60
-80% take from company profits each year.
There is also a special little note here.
Hawaii have also jumped onto this little float boat, an area which
has being confirmed as a primary seller of loot crates for the last
year are now pushing it forth by the government as gabling, if it
takes hold there six other states have vowed to follow suit.
This has caused Blizzard to actively state on there Twitter this
morning that meetings are currently underway about the replacement
/modification to loot boxes in both Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch
at this current time.
This after the Blizz-con 2017 event where they talked about expanding
the loot crate system to a greater extend over the course of the loot
panel held on the Saturday.
EDIT: Apparently the tweet was removed VERY quickly after, teach me not to grab a screenshot…
I’m reasonably sure someone at EA is getting screamed at right now,
and that other companies are watching this with the utmost attention,
there is also a lot of people keeping that same attention on EA since
they are being the ones pinned as responsible.
I fucking hope they all get labeled as gambling. They function very similar to gambling and actively do prey upon gambling addictions and depressive/other mental illnesses that are prone to being exploited by microtransactions
Imagine hating homeless people so much u find ways to make their lives shittier instead of providing them with the resources they need
and unfortunately this isn’t the first time people have did things against poor people…
…THIS SHIT NEEDS TO END NOW
“hostile architecture” is one of those things that sounds like it should be awesome from the name
and then you find out what it actually means and are filled with violent nausea
Destroying Hostile Architecture is an act of human decency
There was a bridge where i went to school, under which homeless people hung out a lot. Where I met this guy Bill. This guy who’d been fired from his job as an air traffic controller for testing positive for weed, whose wide had left him and taken everything. We sat there talking for like hours and he shared his vodka with me and offered me a smoke even though he had next to nothing.
And i come back to visit a year later and the motherfuckers have cemented fucking jagged rocks to all the support structures so nobody can sit on them i was fucking livid i hate this shit so much this man had the clothes on his back, a plastic bottle of booze, and a pack of cigarettes, and a place to rest. That’s it. That’s all he had and he still had the kindness and generosity to share what little he had with me, someone who didn’t need it at all
You know what come to think of it, i haven’t met a single homeless person who hasn’t at least offered me a cigarette or something when i’ve talked to them and you sons of bitches won’t even let them have a place to sit down for 5 fucking minutes
If you see this shit and you’re physically able, break it. Get rid of it. Put a mattress over those spikes between pillars
Anyone who thinks homeless people are a nuisance or an inconvenience should have every single thing that they own and hold dear removed from them for at least a year and see how they fucking like it!
like, instead of wasting money to build these horrific sharp anti-homeless crap, how about they donate it to shelters instead???
Like this is just to keep up ~aesthetics~ instead of putting human life first
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