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I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

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I’ve never had a reheading go this horribly before. I’d say I’m pretty good at beheading- I may have broken a neck once or twice, but never any parts I actually liked or intended on keeping, and usually a reheading is the easiest thing, right? Just a little squish and a pop and done, a complete person. But this time it just- it just won’t go back on the body?? Which is incredibly frustrating but also, like, why??

And the funniest thing is, I’m not even swapping a head!! This is a curvy dancer head going onto a curvy dancer body!! They match!! This should have been so simple!! But no, this head’s just flopping around like a limp flaccid idiot and my hands are all red and sore now but the head just isn’t attaching all the way!!

Today I did six beheadings and two other reheadings, and I wanted to get this one attached so I could take a picture, but somehow it just isn’t working!! The head is just getting squished around but isn’t stretching over the neck right!! And I’m way too lazy to go and boil the head just to make the slip easier!! And I don’t wanna keep forcing it cuz I might break something but this is!! So frustrating!!

Like, what could I possibly be doing wrong!! Fuck!!

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everywhere I go people are asking me for my email. my email is in high demand. it's rare for me to visit a website without someone getting on their hands and knees, begging me for my email

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Are bears just.... undomesticatable

My friend and I were talking about it today, how humans will pet anything and domesticate anything even remotely friend shaped...so what happened with bears?

I mean we tamed wolves and big cats (domesticated themselves but ya know) oxen, deer and birds, wild boar....why never did we make tiny lovable bears?

well, the shortest answer to that is that domestication isn't really something we did TO animals, it's a process that happens over time that requires work from both ends! it's a two-way-street, so to speak.

see, for domestication to really work, the domesticated species has to actually need something from humans that they then get when they enter a partnership with us.

for dogs? companionship, food, shelter, safety of the group, and assistance with child rearing and territory defense.

for cats? access to a steady food supply, shelter and safe places to rear their young, companionship.

for horses? protection, safety and shelter, healing of injuries and illnesses, and a constant sense of reassurance.

for livestock animals like cows, pigs, and goats? guaranteed safety, healing of injuries and illnesses, assurance of producing young in a safe place, and an eventual swift mostly-painless death free of the agonies of the wilder food chain.

but bears?

bears don't want anything from us. bears don't NEED anything from us. they'll eat our trash, but they're just as happy pulling salmon out of a river somewhere.

they don't have any use for human protection or shelter. they'll eat you if they think it's a valid option on the table. (pun intended)

so no, no matter how much you might like a domesticated grizzly to cuddle up to on cold nights, they're just not interested and so it will never happen.

and that's okay! there are some animals that we just don't have anything to offer to, and it's good to acknowledge that.

bears belong in the wild.

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Bunjman, please confirm...

Does the twelve wired bird of paradise really look like that?

Whose mocking me, nature or the internet?

yeah, they're real.

and neither! birds-of-paradise are just what happens when you put small fruit-eating birds on jungle islands with LOTS of fruit and very few native predators!

they spend all their time evolving to get very very fancy for attracting the females instead of running away from things that want to eat them, and it turns out that the bird idea of "fancy" mostly just looks fucking bizarre to human eyes.

would you fuck this? I wouldn't fuck this.

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Hi I just learnt that grebe the bird existed and I am intrigued do you have any knowledge to drop on the dudes

BOY DO I! grebes are my favorite waterfowl!

they're specialist divers and fish hunters, and they're a pretty wide group with a LOT of species!

and they're all freaks. every single one of them.

they're most closely related to FLAMINGOS, of all things, which is why their feet are so weird! they evolved completely separate from other waterfowl like ducks and geese, so they did the flipper thing totally backwards.

this is going to be a theme, nothing these birds do is normal.

unlike other specialist diving birds (coughcough LOONS coughcough), they aren't totally incompetent on land! just, again. total freaks about it.

aaagh I love them so much I might actually explode

also they swim like frogs, babies can dive pretty much immediately after hatching, and adults can minutely adjust their buoyancy in the water at will like a fucking submarine. you just can't make any of this shit up.

weirdest fucking bird 100/10

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Do animals cuddle in the wild ?

(Totally not me wanting an excuse to see cute animals photos)

pretty much all animals with social or semi-social lifestyles cuddle at least occasionally in the wild for everything from protection to enhancing bonds and relieving stress! this includes everything from birds and mammals to some really unexpected animals like sharks.

touch is just a near-universal love language.

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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I genuinely don't know how I am going to keep this blog running. How am I supposed to be optimistic and hopeful for the cities in the US when we just elected a Fascist by a majority in the popular vote who openly campaigned against cities

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the absolute worst thing is that, objectively, if he was not real, trump would be funny as fuck. as a skit character? like literally fucking hilarious. but no, he’s not a dramatized, satirical parody that exaggerates a stereotype. no. this man is REAL. and that is. fucking terrifying

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I hope everyone who voted for him and didn't care what he could do to everyone else gets exactly what they were willing to dish out. Truthfully, I hope everyone who voted for him and those who didn't vote AT ALL suffer the consequences of having him as president again, right along with the rest of us. I'm feeling vindictive as FUCK right now!

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can elon still kill himself even if trump wins it was like the only thing i was looking forward to this month

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i did not grow up in the US, although I live there now. i am not white. the “trad wife” belief has sickened me to no end. indian women have made everything from scratch from the beginning. they were housewives and they cooked and cleaned and took care of their children. they had no money of their own. they depended on their husbands for everything—money for groceries, school fees for their children, clothes. they were beaten, abused verbally, mentally, physically. they were cheated on and humiliated. they could turn to nobody for help. they couldn’t leave. they had no money of their own. in most close-knit communities in india, even if you had money, you couldn’t run away because your neighbors would tell your husband where you were. women were trapped for DECADES.

you can say your husband isn’t like that all you want—life happens. he may not be a monster, but women need their own money, because society has never been kind to a woman. and the most interesting part is, the same “trad wives” that sit in their million dollar mansions with their thousand dollar aprons and perfectly manicured nails and curled hair and tell you to “submit to traditional values” and serve your husband….they have a career. their career is sitting there and telling women that their worth is inherently less than a man’s, that tradition is more important than independence. they are getting money from social media, and THAT is a career.

women from the east have been housewives for centuries, yet they were treated “less than” for not having a career. feminism allowed women to have a choice, to have bank accounts, to have an escape plan. now western women are swooping in with their “traditional values” and popularizing it.

I have nothing against SAHMs. a SAHM mom is a job. i have an issue with women who sit behind a screen and tell other women that they are worth less because they choose not to have children, or choose to have a career and put their kids in daycare, that they should “serve” their husbands and uphold “traditional” values, despite knowing that with every view that comes in, they make money. i have an issue with their fraud, and now i’m going to ask….whose tradition do they want you to follow?

the trad wife trend is not only patriarchal, it’s inherently racist. and if you agree with any aspect of their lives, you should think about exactly why you agree with it. do not glorify a practice you could not even begin to comprehend the consequences of.

Many people will find this controversial, but I just have to get this off my chest.

I don't have a problem with women being housewives or not having a 'corporate' job. Most of the women in my life are housewives or will become housewives after they have kids.

But I see this trend of tradwives and as a non-American, I'm just flabbergasted that they get as much fame as they do. For one thing, you never see them doing any hard, essential domestic work. Like mopping the floors of their mansions or cleaning their huge, shiny kitchens. At most you see them cooking, baking or making special dishes. They probably hire staff for all the hard work. And that's fine but don't go on the internet and tell people that just because you don't need feminism, then no one does. These privileged, young women post their videos on the Internet about traditional gender roles, how a woman should cook, clean, raise her children while her husband works. All the while women in my country fight for basic rights to education and a right to make their own choices.

The reason you're able to enjoy all the things you do is because of feminism. Maybe rich women always had freedom, I wouldn't know but middle class and poor women have to fight to be treated as human beings rather than property. I'm sorry but the truth is, in my country being a housewife puts you at the mercy of your husband and in laws. They can and in most cases disrespect you and treat you as a servant. This is normalized. Again, maybe not in upper class but definitely in middle and lower classes. Most of the people, women included believe that a woman should have no rights. They should marry who their parents choose, work like crazy and get no thanks, raise your children, take care of every single need of your in laws and still get mistreated. I see women around me, dependent on their husbands for a roof over their head. Get beaten by him, but never answer back, get taunted by your mother-in-law but still respect her. Forget your family, your parents, your right to being a human being. When you marry, you are a property of your husband and in laws to do as they see fit. I see my aunt beaten by her husband, and not being able to defend herself because she doesn't have a job and her family will not take her in. Glorify being solely dependent on your husband if you want to, but in my country, undereducated women who couldn't support themselves are burnt by their husbands for dowry, get tortured by their in laws while the rest of the society watches. Everyone agrees that this is wrong but does not take a step to help the poor women. And their husbands go away scot-free and remarry with impudence. Many companies do not hire women for higher positions because it is expected that she will quit after marriage. Three days ago, a young woman was killed by her husband because her parents could not give more dowry. Three days ago. In the year 2024. This is not an isolated case, this is the norm. This is what you're romanticizing.

Maybe I shouldn't be so pressed, I'm not the target audience. But they influence young girls. They peddle lies. In this economy, in this political climate, we have to be vigilant or we could lose our hard won rights. Don't depend on the goodwill of the men in your life.

I am fortunate and grateful for my mother and other progressive people in my mother's side of the family who constantly fight against society and gender roles just so I could have the freedom to do what I want. I can pursue higher education while many of my cousins can't. I can have male friends, no matter how much our neighbours complain.

I won't have to marry against my will, I won't have to marry at all if I don't want to. And this is because my mother fought her in laws and separated from my father. She did it for me. She did it when she realized she wanted better for me. She wanted me to have the choice she and many women in our family didn't get.

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"the idea that women were homemakers or are (primarily) homemakers came about during the European Industrial Revolution which was about the same time Europeans were pushing other systems of exploitation like slavery like colonialism..."