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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice’.

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its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr

all of us

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do you think you could take a vampire?

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possible career paths going into 2025:

1. mysterious cult leader

2. reclusive artist who only paints in shades of gray

3. heiress who marries for scandal, not love

4. professional mourner (for versions of myself that never grew)

5. mythical figure seen only in blurry photos

6. long-lost twin showing up unannounced at family reunions

7. memory hoarder

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Hi, there's a really good chance I'm imagining things, but isn't there a name/term for when we latch onto "cute"/marketable endangered species and that gives incentive to protect their habitat as well? Like when keeping one animal alive allows for the argument to be made to keep a different "uglier" animal alive, or put resources into protecting a plant species? I could swear there's a name for this but I can't find anything so I could also just be mixing it up with something

The term you're looking for is "Charismatic Megafauna" or and it works in two directions:

People are more likely to identify with a large mammal than say, an ecologically vital insect or slime mold, especially if it's something regarded as "cute" like Pandas or Orcas or Elephants. People give more of a shit about the enviornment and do what you ask if they give a shit about the animal in question.

Picking a Keystone Species at the Very Tippy Top of the food chain (Apex predators like Tigers and Orca), or that needs VAST amounts of space kept pristine (Pandas, Elephants) means that you also have to preserve THE ENTIRE FUCKING FOOD CHAIN UNDERNEATH IT, and by extension, the habitat all them critters live in. So signing a law to protect Penguins protects not just their land nesting sites but the ocean they hunt in and the fish they eat and this protects vastly more species than protecting The-Actually-Load-Bearing-Deep-Sea-Sponges would.

So if you were ever wondering "How come there's all these fundraisers for cute things like giraffes and gorillas? Where's the love for the ugly little guys like freshwater clams and earthworms?" the answer is "RIGHT BEHIND the big sexy poster animal. We sneak them in like hiding your dog's pills in cheese."

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getting a high-maintenance plant is fun until some of its leaves turn yellow (meaning it’s drowning) and some curl up (meaning it’s dehydrated)

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ENOUGH about being insane and evil what about those of us who are insane and nice. do we get some representation

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My first pokedex... i mean space-dex entry! Looking at everything from nebulae to jets bigger than our galaxy.

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Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

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Art by Lucas Garcete

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haters will see a winter enjoyer and say "why are you going outside it's cold and boring" and not even see the beauty in desolation and stillness 🙄

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How could you NOT fall in love with the glow of the moon and stars, the warmth of the sun, the ancient life within the trees, and the sweet melodies of the winds?