Karen the bearded dragon enjoys helping me study. She definitely thinks she is better than me, but she's good moral support🤎

Keep at it and finish your semester strong!!

i know the population on here is aging so does anyone who's already gone thru a few years of college have any advice for. a werewolf who's going to start his first year in the fall . 0_o;

i mean it when i say we've gotta bring back askblogs. bring back making character chat posts with poor choice text colors over random backgrounds. bring back blogs dedicated to what outfits you think characters would wear.

fandom is an ecosystem, not a numbers game. these types of blogs/posts/etc still exist in concept, because people still want to make them and they're a great way to get your thoughts of an idea out in a simple format, but most people make them on like tiktok or instagram reels and that's where the problem lies. Those videos don't go anywhere. The format doesn't allow for the discussion to spread through the community and they're less likely to be engaged with in general. And to make them most people have to either show their face or figure out editing software, so the barrier to entry is higher (editing) and/or they have to forfeit an amount of privacy.

those types of posts/blogs are the first rung of the ecosystem. they're the perfect environment for younger members of the fandom to begin safely interacting with the larger community and putting their own thoughts and ideas out there. roleplay is the other major spot for that and those communities are diminishing as well, honestly (if you know of an rp forum board site, cherish it. and if you can make one, make one). they allow younger fans to begin engaging with the source material on a different/deeper level, but still at a very low barrier to entry, and begin conversations with other fans, which also helps them build skills which in turn may encourage them to pursue other avenues within the fandom (fic writing, other formats of askblog - which itself usually leads to art, cosplay, also fic writing, etc). Without those places to build those skills, they might feel discouraged from trying to begin when surrounded by curated people who have built their skills up for years.

And those conversations they foster also in turn help the community, by offering ideas to artists or fic writers to extrapolate on or building community jokes. And that text/blog format specifically is extremely beneficial, because it allows younger members of the fandom to remain anonymous and keep their privacy without concerning themselves with having any platform or having anything attached to them (very important for young fans figuring themselves out and navigating online community spaces for the first time, since they can remove themselves from spaces easily if they decide they don't like it and they're protected, rather than PUTTING THEIR FACE ON THE INTERNET). And those posts they make will spread a lot more into the community since they're in a significantly easier format to be reposted (few people are gonna be reposting tons of random short-form videos versus spamming their instagrams with reposts of 10 random fandom images yoinked from tumblr, or reposting to pinterest or something). Like, don't repost art, at the VERY least don't repost without credit, but also I am not ignorant to the fact that my art is not just the first google image result for "pjo pride" and related searches, but also the 4th, the 6th, the 9th, the 10th, the 11th, etc etc., and pops up in the search results before the official ReadRiordan does simply because people reposted my work more (most with credit, thankfully).

For fandom to be a community, it needs to perpetuate itself. There needs to be engagement with one another and conversation. If that bottom rung is cut off, then new fans won't be able to grow into the other niches of the fandom, and the fandom will be solely reliant on the source material and die out extremely quickly, and there won't be a community. There's no conversation! There's no reason to stay beyond the original material! But if you don't have points of entry for new fans, they won't have any way to build the skills needed to move into those niches, or engage with the community in a healthy way.

tl;dr: Bring back askblogs and character-based text post blogs. They are vital to fandom ecosystem.

i’m an ecology major because nothing terrifies transphobes like life sciences taught beyond the 7th grade level

there is supposedly a fortnite leak that solid snake is being added in the new season. If this is true guys im going to supply you with so many fucking gifs of him doing gay little dances

peter griffin is also here but not important

You already know it's wrong to kill animals for pleasure.

If you can access, afford, and safely consume the equivalent nutrition in plant foods, any meat you eat is from an animal killed for your pleasure.

The Star. Art by Delphine Malidore, from 78 Tarot Ecological.

ROUND TWO

KINGFISHERS from CLASS AVES vs TOBY from HARVEST MOON

PROPAGANDA:

KINGFISHERS - "Saw one snatch up and gobble a fish in front of me. Very good at the grabbing part but less good at the eating part due to the fish being extremely large in relation to its beak"

TOBY - "Lives at a fishery. Favorite hobby and job are both fishing.' "This man can marry you but his first love is fishing."

hi there! 🌿

im an aspiring wildlife biologist intending to major in wildlife bio and minor in applied ecology. I'd like to go to grad school studying wolves or canines in the future as well. i created this blog to motivate me with my studies and to reblog posts relating to my interests 🍄

i would love to chat if you have similar goals or if you are majoring/already majored in what i mentioned above! I really want to make more friends with similar interests! 🍃

thinking about techno being A Creature From The Nether is so when you actually get into the details of it bc like. "he's from the nether" alright cool you can say that but have you actually thought about it

he lives in the overworld now. do you think he ever looked at the sky and went "...wtf is that" like. what do you mean there's no ceiling?? and why is it so bright??? WATER FALLS FROM THE SKY SOMETIMES AND YOU'RE OKAY WITH THAT??????? he has no concept of the infinite void of space or stars or planets jdjfhd. and the ceiling in the nether means no day/night cycle. there's a good chance has initially had no concept of a day, weeks months and years, birthdays, TIME IN GENERAL... i think little things like that should be taken into account more than they are currently, make him quirkier (assuming you even headcanon his character being from the nether, if not then whatever but if you do Please Consider The Possibilities)

A rare sight of a Major Pinnae Dragon out during a clear day. These dragons are endemic to Anemoi and are usually found before and during storms. Rarely they will venture out to sun bathe. This individual is still young, and curious about the traveller that spotted it. Watch your back though, its mother might still be near even if the young Major is almost fully grown. Watch your back though, its mother might still be near even if the young Major is almost fully grown.

Ngl, my brief poke at it looks like bog myrtle's range is literally dancing around your go-to regions. In that it is either really South (Devon and Southampton) or really North (Scotland) with it being uncommon in both Wales and East Anglia (according to the New Forest National Park website). So the answer may lie in exactly how boggy you want part of the territory to be

Bog Myrtle is literally dangling on a string and both the Erins and the ecology of the British Isles are making me jump and hop around like a dancing monkey

Watch me roll out the Swamp-inator and turn ShadowClan into a fuckign peat bog

how many classical/opera people on this site are secretly like super science/math guys and classical/opera are just like a hobby for them

got to splash around in a stream today and look at bugs for my college degree 😜

the tower / the foundation

ive been working on some sort of tarot card based ttrpg where the major arcana are dragons you can battle with ! itll likely be awhile before i have anything to show for it but hey im having fun.

each card has an upright and reverse side, where the reverse side is the flip side of the card.

the tower has hollow scales of a matierial that as they move and their scales rub against each other, it generates static electricity which is their main form of defence. if you remember that old post about my imaginary dragons as a kid, this is one of them !

the foundation began as a parasite that attached to armored organisms like snails and crabs and drilled through their shell to suck their blood and grow kind of like a chiton. once they grow big enough, they kill their host and enter a free-living state where they search for a new host to infect.

a population in an environment with an increasing sparsity of suitable hosts began parasitizing other members of the same species. being immune to the toxin that kills their host to eat before entering their next life stage, hosts survived, and over generations evolved to support their young.

ancestral forms could reproduce asexually or sexually via fertilization after implantation on a host, and modern dragons fertilize the spawn that are implanted on them. as they are hermaphroditic, mating pairs duel in effort to lay eggs on eachothers armor while escaping getting eggs themselves.

this book has led me down a rabbit hole of searching whether birds can get rabies