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No one tells you when you get a Big Serious Job™ how many fucking abbreviations you’ll be forced to learn.

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Homophobic police in New Orleans when there’s two men and only one bed, but there’s also a daughter and the blond one slept with your wife

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Fiver from Watership Down. A doodle for me.

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GUYS HELP ITS MIDNIGHT & I'M GOING INSANE OVER THIS QUOTE I FOUND 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵

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//I'm not scared of you//

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it is forever hilarious to me that in 2x05 when armand and louis are fighting louis takes just about 5 business days to process the fact that armand claimed to be "picking lint off the sofa" waiting for him and just reacted with such abject confusion as soon as he did

like just his face

dude was like "are you fucking for real????"

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The worst thing about piece of children media becoming popular among adults is the fact that adults fucking hate that they are not the part of the audience.

They start to write stupid ass meta how all adults in said piece of media are bad because they allowed children to be in a dangerous situation.

They want big rational worldbuilding.

They want adult characters to have their own sideplots with their own adult problems.

Dudes, there are zero children who after reading a book about their peers saving the world said: "Meh, I wish adults in this book prevented children from going to this dangerous adventure, I would rather read how economics in this world works and also about this adult character's divorce".

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You know what the most frustrating thing about the vegans throwing a fit over my “Humans aren’t Parasites” post is?  I really wasn’t trying to make a point about animal agriculture. Honestly, the example about subsistence hunting isn’t the main point. That post was actually inspired by thoughts I’ve been having about the National Park system and environmentalist groups.

See, I LOVE the National Parks. I always have a pass. I got to multiple parks a year. I LOVE them, and always viewed them as this unambiguously GOOD thing. Like, the best thing America has done. 

BUT, I just finished reading this book called “I am the Grand Canyon” all about the native Havasupai people and their fight to gain back their rights to the lands above the canyon rim. Historically, they spent the summer months farming in the canyon, and then the winter months hunter-gathering up above the rim. When their reservation was made though, they lost basically all rights to the rim land (They had limited grazing rights to some of it, but it was renewed year to year and always threatened, and it was a whole thing), leading to a century long fight to get it back. 

And in that book there are a couple of really poignant anecdotes- one man talks about how park rangers would come harass them if they tried to collect pinon nuts too close to park land- worried that they would take too many pinon nuts that the squirrels wanted. Despite the fact that the Havasupai had harvested pinon nuts for thousands and thousands of years without ever…like…starving the squirrels. 

There’s another anecdote of them seeing the park rangers hauling away the bodies of dozens of deer- killed in the park because of overpopulation- while the Havasupai had been banned from hunting. (Making them more and more reliant on government aid just to survive the winter months.) 

They talk about how they would traditionally carve out these natural cisterns above the rim to catch rainwater, and how all the animals benefitted from this, but it was difficult to maintain those cisterns when their “ownership” of the land was so disputed. 

So here you have examples of when people are forcibly separated from their ecosystem and how it hurts both those people and the ecosystem. 

And then when the Havasupai finally got legislation before Congress to give them ownership of the rim land back- their biggest opponent was the Parks system and the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club (a big conservation group here in the US) ran a huge smear campaign against these people on the belief that any humans owning this land other than the park system (which aims at conservation, even while developing for recreation) was unacceptable. 

And it all got me thinking about how, as much as I love the National Parks, there are times when its insistence that nature be left “untouched” (except, ya know, for recreation) can actually harm both the native people who have traditionally been part of those ecosystems AND potentially the ecosystems themselves. And I just think there’s a lot of nuance there about recognizing that there are ways for us to be in balance with nature, and that our environmentalism should respect that and push for sustainability over preserving “pristine” human-less landscapes. Removing ourselves from nature isn’t the answer. 

But apparently the idea that subsistence hunting might actually not be a moral catastrophe really set the vegans off.  Woopie. 

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But First They Must Catch You by JNTomczak

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Sketches of a lovely hare I saw last week. ☀️

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Mammals of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. 1975.

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Ok I want to say something controversial

But you are responsible for your own safe spaces. You can block tags, block words, block people.

“But i thought fandom was supposed to be a safe space” —yeah you have to curate it.

Unfortunately one persons’s safe space may be another persons’ trigger. That’s ok. Simply block them, block the tag, block the word etc. They can do the same for you.

Maybe I’m just out of touch, but I’ve been around since the days of “don’t like, don’t read” and that’s a good philosophy. If it squicks you, scroll past. If it causes you anxiety or upset, block! Plenty of people are responsive if you ask them to tag an upsetting trigger. And if they’re dicks about it, block em.

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Tales of the Wild. Written by H. Mortimer Batten. Illustrated by Ernest Aris. 1931.

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