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so many snow animals are just white puff with dot eyes. amazing design

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Some late night Cosmo posting, angst edition

(CW: Abuse mention)

Cosmo has a very hard time with people being mad at him, whether this anger is real or imagined by him. He has an intense fawn response, and will perform appeasement behaviors and self punishments until he’s forgiven for whatever he did wrong. He stays quiet, does as many chores or helpful tasks as are available to him, and isolates as much as he’s able to. He doesn’t tell them what tasks or chores he did because he doesn’t want to be needy, ‘seeking validation for things he should just be doing unprompted.’ He doesn’t let himself receive physical touch unless the person goes out of their way to give it to him, because he’s so used to affection being withheld until he’s earned it as a reward. He doesn’t speak until he’s addressed, he does what he’s told, he waits and he works until he’s earned their good graces again.

This isn’t how Cosmo always thinks. Most of the time, when he receives physical touch he knows it’s not a reward, and when he doesn’t do a bunch of small, specific tasks he knows he hasn’t left something important unfinished. He doesn’t unquestioningly do whatever he’s told. But when someone is upset with him and they don’t immediately stop to talk about it, he reverts back to the behavior that kept him safe when he was still being abused.

An additional note: Cosmo’s perspective of yelling, that it’s okay to do if it’s the only way to get someone to listen, doesn’t just apply when he’s the one yelling. If someone he cares about yells at him then he assumes it must be because he wasn’t listening. If someone yells at him then it must be his fault.

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man i have GOT to do this thing. *doesnt do it*

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WHY ARE YOU MARKED RED ON SHINIGAMI, WTF DID U DO

i cant even post moths anymore. because of woke

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writing tip: searching "[place of origin]ish names" will get you a lot of stuff and nonsense made up by baby bloggers.

searching "[place] census [year]" will get you lists of real names of real people who lived in that place.

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When you remember how much you love a character you hadn’t thought about in a while

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🚨KOSA is back and being pushed heavily in congress right now

I really hate to do this, but KOSA, the bill that is a mass censorship and surveillance bill that will specifically censor all LGBT content online to "protect kids", is back.

KOSA advocates have brought in support from Elon Musk (I wish I was making this up) and are trying to get him to get Donald Trump to speak out in support of it. (And they lie and tell us it's not an anti-queer bill 🙄). The reason so is because the holdouts that are stopping this from passing are...republicans. It's GOP House leaders Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson. If they succeed and put this in an end of year spending bill, it will be near impossible to get it out and it will most likely be passed. Pro-KOSA advocates were on the hill today pushing hard to pass it. They have a lot of support behind them. There is only two weeks left in congress, so if they don't succeed, it's over.

The ONLY way this bill has stalled so much so far is because of calls driven to congress. It has worked and can still work. Please, spread this as much as you can and call House leadership and spread the word! You don't have to be from their district. You can pretend to be GOP. It doesn't matter, just call and voice your opposition. Trump and Musk clearly have a lot of sway over these people and I'm really scared they will succeed at the last minute!!

Here are their numbers: Scalise: 202-225-3015 Johnson: 202-225-2777

If you don't know what to say, use either call script! It takes less than a minute, I swear.

SOURCE: https://x.com/omaseddiq/status/1866621865793314845?t=9pJm-QRdqJg30E_rVuhINw&s=19

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Ranting abt something dumb

I listen to a lot of those YouTube Reddit-reading channels, and It drives me NUTS how many stories are like, “should I (M) allow my partner (F) to do an activity alone with her friend (M)?” And then the response is so often like “Well *I* wouldn’t be comfortable with MY girlfriend doing 1 on 1 activities with another man but…” And like. Yes I at least appreciate that they always end on the conclusion that the poster needs to trust their partner, but I hate how much genuine thought the possibility of cheating is given. I hate hate hate how so many men, even men who try hard to be feminist and supportive, talk about women as if leaving a woman alone with any man comes with a significant risk of her having sex with him. Like women just can’t help but fuck any dude they’re left unsupervised with. It’s giving “Of course men and women can be casual friends! Buuuutttt they’ll always want to have sex with each other even if they keep things platonic, and you know how untrustworthy women can be…” It just makes me so angry

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If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...

Start helping with citizen science projects

What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!

You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases

Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.

Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.

Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.

Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.

Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.

Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.

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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.

Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help

Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.

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Had an impromptu chat with @ushi418 about fashion history the other day- thought I’d post it here as a quick ref for people!

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If Vesper’s hair wasn’t curly he’d fucking rock hairstyles like this

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Woah , my garage dog has arrived ,