"Every beautiful daughter of the colony has six legs, so it is written that The Disturbance That Feeds must have six legs too. But I am a scientist! Each time the sky has rumbled and food has come from above (or Punishment as in the day of The Cleaning) I have trained my senses on What Comes From Above and I have counted! Each time only Five legs! Five! What heresy is this? I must write in secret, but I must write because it is what I have observed.
"On one day I was brave: climbed up on The Disturbance and aimed to cross her end to end. In this I discovered another thing: The Disturbance has no end. It is not a sky-sized creature, but much bigger than the sky. Where her gaster should have been is only an endless branch like the 'Trees' our elder queen has told us of as larvae. Perhaps The Disturbance is a tree? More heresy! I despair. Who will save this little ant? Do trees have six legs? They must. But then what is The Disturbance?"
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i love how weirdly erotic the humanities/social sciences are. every time i (sociology major) interact with another hum/social sci major i wanna kiss them on the mouth and thats just how it is
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TUMBLR IN 2024?
oh my god, i'm still here so many years later. just saw a post of mine where i was talking about my 22nd birthday. i wanna go back!!!!!!!! ahhhhh :( :( :(
hello though, tumblr. i will probably use you again because you aren't twitter and you aren't instagram and you aren't facebook and you aren't tik tok and i can still post all my silly silly art here once i get the chance to catch you up on so many years of things changing. how do i even do that?
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I'm tired of bad things. lemme have all the happy good things and I wanna put em all in a little ant terrarium and watch em move around.
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do you ever worry that ant dentists (being dentists that are humans that simply perform on ants) reach to pull out their ant sized mirrors to look in the ant’s mouth, but accidentally pull out their regular human-sized mirror instead, and burn the ant?? I think about this a lot and it’s the one thing keeping me away from insect dentistry.
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the ant mind
The ant mind isn't like our mind. It's smaller, alien, vastly different.
But ants make decisions, ants have moods, ants learn, ants have goals and use multiple attempts and strategies to achieve them.
So it's important to recognize that the ant mind exists, but also recognize that there is very little we can understand about what that might be like from our own experience.
This will always keep me coming back to the ants.
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I love working with the idea that because Donald & Della were thrust into Scrooge's adventuring lifestyle at such a young age (and lost the support and buffer that their parents might've provided), Della embraced a life of danger to the point where she doesn't know how to handle real-world responsibilities, while Donald only sees the danger and tries again and again to live a normal life (wanting to stop hunting Santa, going to college and joining the 3 caballeros, abandoning scrooge after Della took the Spear, etc.) only to keep getting dragged back in
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sniper tf2 probably does yoga. i feel in my bones this is true. he keeps one mat in his camper and one in the base so he can limber up first thing in the morning and before matches
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