why lgbtq representation in kid's media is great: my tween sister and her friends watch the owl house and now a bunch of girls in the group are getting "married" amongst themselves.
when i was her age i made my two girl dolls get married in secret, and now these lumity shippers spend their lunch break exchanging vows in the school playground
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i will never ever ever get over how miraculous writers spent 5-7 episodes (attempting to) redeem chloe just to make her worse ?? like you made her a whole ass superhero for whattttt!
was this years ago? yes. will i ever let it go? no!
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I saw someone say that it didn’t make much sense for Isabela not to have made a cactus until Mirabel pushed her, because she must have been angry before. However...
I think that instead of being based on internal emotions, like Pepa’s power, Isabela’s plants reflect her outer persona and how she presents herself. The cactus doesn’t represent anger - it’s authenticity, honesty, conviction. It’s Isabela finally allowing herself to be something other than the beautiful, well-mannered, perfect granddaughter. When she cracks and admits she doesn’t want the future that Abuela (and seemingly, the family) envisions for her, she creates something different, because she’s showing a side of herself that has previously been hidden. A side that’s resolute, and willing to stand up for what she wants. And it comes in the form of an unembellished but sturdy plant that clearly asserts its personal space.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Damn its been 8 years since I renamed my main blog? Or did this one used to ne smth else? Before I washed my slate clean of the arencest lol
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it is literally the most fucked up thing in the world that fruit goes bad. you shoild be allowed to have a box of blackberries in the cupboard for 2 years and they are still fine to eat
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cemetery flowers after the ice storm photography: Peter Fricke
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I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them
People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human
“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”
“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”
“Yeah!!”
“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”
“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“
“How illogical”
“That’s what I’m saying!!!”
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In a modern setting Astarion would have precisely two ways of dressing himself with no in-between, neither are good, a scientific diagram:
It's a 50-50 gamble which form you'll spot in the frozen food aisle at 3 am
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There was a song in the first Frozen movie, called “Fixer Upper” and it was sung entirely by the weird rock/troll things Kristoff considered his family.
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Do you think at Luisa's gift ceremony, she might have accidentally ripped the door out of the wall?
If she did, I bet it hit Agustín.
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Hey guys
There's a post going around about something called the "Invertebrate Studies Institute" needing help. A few comments made on the post made me curious, so I checked it out and it seems sketchy to me. (ETA: the post's OP is now aware of the situation and is trying to rectify things on their end, and are ok with my post getting more exposure. Read the notes for more info too!)
The institute is a startup and the owner has displayed misogynistic behavior. He made a company and received "$1.3 million in research grants from the USDA and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" in 2011, but there aren't any research papers listed on the ISI website more recent than 2012 (sources: ISI website, People Behind the Science podcast transcript, All Things Bugs LLC webpage). It's possible his research is still a work in progress, but I would expect to see some genome sequencing work at the least since that seems to be a major focus.
Also, it's possible to ship frozen specimens in dry ice and have them be fine. Even stuff for molecular work and genome sequencing. So the inability to get help from other research groups, to where they're asking for a local freezer plug-in, is a bit weird to me.
Some screenshots below the cut, didn't screenshot everything since it's mostly just text, but I did cite the sources if you wanna read them yourself.
Not sure what the overall point is of this post is besides "seems sketch to me" but I saw a lot of people worrying on the initial post so I wanted to at least mention this stuff.
Comments from the tumblr post which sparked my initial concerns.
Screenshots from the LinkedIn link, with the initial contact and follow-up legal threat.
Screenshot from the ISI website talking about their facility and "initiative" (I noticed a lot of the wording on the website sounded like they hadn't done significant research, which also gave me pause).
And, for fun, the CDC guide on shipping frozen specimens.
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