I hate when spellcheck tries to capitalize the word “god” or “christ” like bro I’m literally trying to use the lord’s name in vain over here, please DONT put some respect on his name
in three years tiktokers are gonna be like “oohh baby im garlic and oil in a pan im providing flavor for the soup” and every bougie little knickknack store is gonna sell soup earrings and soup socks and soup iphone XXIV bluetooth accessories and theres gonna be thinkpieces about teens on tiktok inventing “soupcore” and theyre soooo weird and quirky ~~!! and i will literally still be here on tumblr
Have any of you ever heard of glass frogs? These are a group of frogs that belong to the family of amphibians known as Centrolenidae. The remarkable aspect about these frogs is their quasi-transparent skin, which is where they get their name. I won’t detail anything further about these frogs yet; just have a look at how amazing they are! (Imagine what one of these might look like if they were in Amphibia… it would be a little gruesome). Oh, and a brief warning if you are sensitive to seeing organs!
I’ve been thinking about Howl’s Moving Castle and how Sophie’s curse is a physical symbol of her self belief of being romantically unlovable (especially after growing up with beautiful, sought after women in her family.) How Howl tries to undo the curse the moment she steps into his castle but he *cant* because Sophie doesn’t want it to be broken. How, in the film, Sophie gets so close to breaking the curse in the field, but hearing Howl call her beautiful went against her self views, so she reinforces her sense of self by turning 90 again.
And the way that her love and kindness make her younger again and again. How film Sophie sacrifices her long hair, perhaps what past Sophie would have seen as her only beauty, for Howl but she’s grown so much that she still remains young, perhaps even confident about her grey hair, showing that Sophie no longer links her appearance to her lovability or worth and she learned to accept herself as she is. In this essay I-
I see a lot of talk about how neurodivergence evolved and stayed in the gene pool because it was somehow ‘useful’ to our ancient ancestors. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this theory, I would like to propose an alternative. A theory that we already have physical evidence for. Humans just love each other and care for each other. Don’t you think that a species that cared for it’s people while they recovered from broken bones, or nursed their elderly well beyond their ‘usefulness’ would leave a member out because they didn’t make eye contact, or couldn’t stay focused on a particular task, or whatever other trait you associate with neurodivergence? I really don’t.
Sure, maybe it was useful to have someone around who didn’t mind making arrowheads all day, or who knew absolutely everything about all of the local flora and fauna, or who keyed in on every little distraction. At the end of the day, though, these people weren’t kept around because they were useful, they were cared for because they were loved.