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🎈- A memory about a time they were safe and relaxed
Finally, it was the time. Blackfire had planned to come to this planet for - eh, what was time? She never bothered to keep track of it - for a long time, at least. It was never really the perfect time to do it, and so she delayed it everytime. Sometimes to act upon her plans towards Starfire or Tamaran, sometimes she simply had too many people trying to track her down, sometimes it just didn't feel like the right moment to try something this risky.
Now, though, she felt prepared. She had made sure to check that the planet was out of 'season', that very few people even thought about visiting it - spread some rumours too to keep even more away. Then, she reserved herself a spot in this 'spa', and after making sure that no one could track her here, she was ready to land and go in. It was empty outside of staff, as expected, and she was welcomed and exchanged some chit-chat with them before going into one of the rooms that had the pool-like tubs that were the reason for this whole place to exist. One bath to free yourself of all your worries and concerns for as long as you do it, completely safe and regardless of everything that you might or might not be, they promised. Stepping into the water, she could feel the sensations immediately. It was like a fluid form of bliss, different from all the consumables that promised or gave similar, it was more, it was completely everything. She sunk into it quickly, and let out a long sigh as she just let the perfect satisfaction take her over. She wasn't the type to ever assume she was safe, but right now, she was sure she took enough precautions and planning that she could enjoy this for at least an hour or so. Thus, she let all her worries and concerns drift away into the blurry bliss that this bath was giving.
Amazing, that such a place truly existed.
#✫ Tamaran to Earth ✫ | Answered#anon#✫ General Tag (Blackfire(Canon)) ✫#✫ IC (Blackfire(Canon)) ✫#✫ Headcanons (Blackfire(Canon)) ✫#✫ About (Blackfire(Canon)) ✫#so uh this did very much not come through as well as I had in mind#but yeah she's never really feeling like that unless planning very much in advance and almost being completely alone#and I've had the thought for a while already that there is a planet promising perfected bliss to whoever came so I figured why not#add that to this here
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Planet's Fucked: What Can You Do To Help? (Long Post)
Since nobody is talking about the existential threat to the climate and the environment a second Trump term/Republican government control will cause, which to me supersedes literally every other issue, I wanted to just say my two cents, and some things you can do to help. I am a conservation biologist, whose field was hit substantially by the first Trump presidency. I study wild bees, birds, and plants.
In case anyone forgot what he did last time, he gagged scientists' ability to talk about climate change, he tried zeroing budgets for agencies like the NOAA, he attempted to gut protections in the Endangered Species Act (mainly by redefining 'take' in a way that would allow corporations to destroy habitat of imperiled species with no ramifications), he tried to do the same for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (the law that offers official protection for native non-game birds), he sought to expand oil and coal extraction from federal protected lands, he shrunk the size of multiple national preserves, HE PULLED US OUT OF THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT, and more.
We are at a crucial tipping point in being able to slow the pace of climate change, where we decide what emissions scenario we will operate at, with existential consequences for both the environment and people. We are also in the middle of the Sixth Mass Extinction, with the rate of species extinctions far surpassing background rates due completely to human actions. What we do now will determine the fate of the environment for hundreds or thousands of years - from our ability to grow key food crops (goodbye corn belt! I hated you anyway but), to the pressure on coastal communities that will face the brunt of sea level rise and intensifying extreme weather events, to desertification, ocean acidification, wildfires, melting permafrost (yay, outbreaks of deadly frozen viruses!), and a breaking down of ecosystems and ecosystem services due to continued habitat loss and species declines, especially insect declines. The fact that the environment is clearly a low priority issue despite the very real existential threat to so many people, is beyond my ability to understand. I do partly blame the public education system for offering no mandatory environmental science curriculum or any at all in most places. What it means is that it will take the support of everyone who does care to make any amount of difference in this steeply uphill battle.
There are not enough environmental scientists to solve these issues, not if public support is not on our side and the majority of the general public is either uninformed or actively hostile towards climate science (or any conservation science).
So what can you, my fellow Americans, do to help mitigate and minimize the inevitable damage that lay ahead?
I'm not going to tell you to recycle more or take shorter showers. I'll be honest, that stuff is a drop in the bucket. What does matter on the individual level is restoring and protecting habitat, reducing threats to at-risk species, reducing pesticide use, improving agricultural practices, and pushing for policy changes. Restoring CONNECTIVITY to our landscape - corridors of contiguous habitat - will make all the difference for wildlife to be able to survive a changing climate and continued human population expansion.
**Caveat that I work in the northeast with pollinators and birds so I cannot provide specific organizations for some topics, including climate change focused NGOs. Scientists on tumblr who specialize in other fields, please add your own recommended resources. **
We need two things: FUNDING and MANPOWER.
You may surprised to find that an insane amount of conservation work is carried out by volunteers. We don't ever have the funds to pay most of the people who want to help. If you really really care, consider going into a conservation-related field as a career. It's rewarding, passionate work.
At the national level, please support:
The Nature Conservancy
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Cornell Lab of Ornithology (including eBird)
National Audubon Society
Federal Duck Stamps (you don't need to be a hunter to buy one!)
These first four work to acquire and restore critical habitat, change environmental policy, and educate the public. There is almost certainly a Nature Conservancy-owned property within driving distance of you. Xerces plays a very large role in pollinator conservation, including sustainable agriculture, native bee monitoring programs, and the Bee City/Bee Campus USA programs. The Lab of O is one of the world's leaders in bird research and conservation. Audubon focuses on bird conservation. You can get annual memberships to these organizations and receive cool swag and/or a subscription to their publications which are well worth it. You can also volunteer your time; we need thousands of volunteers to do everything from conducting wildlife surveys, invasive species removal, providing outreach programming, managing habitat/clearing trails, planting trees, you name it. Federal Duck Stamps are the major revenue for wetland conservation; hunters need to buy them to hunt waterfowl but anyone can get them to collect!
THERE ARE DEFINITELY MORE, but these are a start.
Additionally, any federal or local organizations that seek to provide support and relief to those affected by hurricanes, sea level rise, any form of coastal climate change...
At the regional level:
These are a list of topics that affect major regions of the United States. Since I do not work in most of these areas I don't feel confident recommending specific organizations, but please seek resources relating to these as they are likely major conservation issues near you.
PRAIRIE CONSERVATION & PRAIRIE POTHOLE WETLANDS
DRYING OF THE COLORADO RIVER (good overview video linked)
PROTECTION OF ESTUARIES AND SALTMARSH, ESPECIALLY IN THE DELAWARE BAY AND LONG ISLAND (and mangroves further south, everglades etc; this includes restoring LIVING SHORELINES instead of concrete storm walls; also check out the likely-soon extinction of saltmarsh sparrows)
UNDAMMING MAJOR RIVERS (not just the Colorado; restoring salmon runs, restoring historic floodplains)
NATIVE POLLINATOR DECLINES (NOT honeybees. for fuck's sake. honeybees are non-native domesticated animals. don't you DARE get honeybee hives to 'save the bees')
WILDLIFE ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER (support the Mission Butterfly Center!)
INVASIVE PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES (this is everywhere but the specifics will differ regionally, dear lord please help Hawaii)
LOSS OF WETLANDS NATIONWIDE (some states have lost over 90% of their wetlands, I'm looking at you California, Ohio, Illinois)
INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE, esp in the CORN BELT and CALIFORNIA - this is an issue much bigger than each of us, but we can work incrementally to promote sustainable practices and create habitat in farmland-dominated areas. Support small, local farms, especially those that use soil regenerative practices, no-till agriculture, no pesticides/Integrated Pest Management/no neonicotinoids/at least non-persistent pesticides. We need more farmers enrolling in NRCS programs to put farmland in temporary or permanent wetland easements, or to rent the land for a 30-year solar farm cycle. We've lost over 99% of our prairies to corn and soybeans. Let's not make it 100%.
INDIGENOUS LAND-BACK EFFORTS/INDIGENOUS LAND MANAGEMENT/TEK (adding this because there have been increasing efforts not just for reparations but to also allow indigenous communities to steward and manage lands either fully independently or alongside western science, and it would have great benefits for both people and the land; I know others on here could speak much more on this. Please platform indigenous voices)
HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS (get your neighbors to stop dumping fertilizers on their lawn next to lakes, reduce agricultural runoff)
OCEAN PLASTIC (it's not straws, it's mostly commercial fishing line/trawling equipment and microplastics)
A lot of these are interconnected. And of course not a complete list.
At the state and local level:
You probably have the most power to make change at the local level!
Support or volunteer at your local nature centers, local/state land conservancy non-profits (find out who owns&manages the preserves you like to hike at!), state fish & game dept/non-game program, local Audubon chapters (they do a LOT). Participate in a Christmas Bird Count!
Join local garden clubs, which install and maintain town plantings - encourage them to use NATIVE plants. Join a community garden!
Get your college campus or city/town certified in the Bee Campus USA/Bee City USA programs from the Xerces Society
Check out your state's official plant nursery, forest society, natural heritage program, anything that you could become a member of, get plants from, or volunteer at.
Volunteer to be part of your town's conservation commission, which makes decisions about land management and funding
Attend classes or volunteer with your land grant university's cooperative extension (including master gardener programs)
Literally any volunteer effort aimed at improving the local environment, whether that's picking up litter, pulling invasive plants, installing a local garden, planting trees in a city park, ANYTHING. make a positive change in your own sphere. learn the local issues affecting your nearby ecosystems. I guarantee some lake or river nearby is polluted
MAKE HABITAT IN YOUR COMMUNITY. Biggest thing you can do. Use plants native to your area in your yard or garden. Ditch your lawn. Don't use pesticides (including mosquito spraying, tick spraying, Roundup, etc). Don't use fertilizers that will run off into drinking water. Leave the leaves in your yard. Get your school/college to plant native gardens. Plant native trees (most trees planted in yards are not native). Remove invasive plants in your yard.
On this last point, HERE ARE EASY ONLINE RESOURCES TO FIND NATIVE PLANTS and LEARN ABOUT NATIVE GARDENING:
Xerces Society Pollinator Conservation Resource Center
Pollinator Pathway
Audubon Native Plant Finder
Homegrown National Park (and Doug Tallamy's other books)
National Wildlife Federation Native Plant Finder (clunky but somewhat helpful)
Heather Holm (for prairie/midwest/northeast)
MonarchGard w/ Benjamin Vogt (for prairie/midwest)
Native Plant Trust (northeast & mid-atlantic)
Grow Native Massachusetts (northeast)
Habitat Gardening in Central New York (northeast)
There are many more - I'm not familiar with resources for western states. Print books are your biggest friend. Happy to provide a list of those.
Lastly, you can help scientists monitor species using citizen science. Contribute to iNaturalist, eBird, Bumblebee Watch, or any number of more geographically or taxonomically targeted programs (for instance, our state has a butterfly census carried out by citizen volunteers).
In short? Get curious, get educated, get involved. Notice your local nature, find out how it's threatened, and find out who's working to protect it that you can help with. The health of the planet, including our resilience to climate change, is determined by small local efforts to maintain and restore habitat. That is how we survive this. When government funding won't come, when we're beat back at every turn trying to get policy changed, it comes down to each individual person creating a safe refuge for nature.
Thanks for reading this far. Please feel free to add your own credible resources and organizations.
#us election#climate change#united states election#resources#native plants#this took 3 hours to write so maybe don't let it flop? i know i write long posts. i know i follow scientists on here#that study birds and corals and other creatures#i realize i did not link sources/resources for everything. i encourage those more qualified to add things on. i need to go to work
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"Can't two guys be just friends?" If they stop looking at each other like that then sure
#just saw weirdos reblog my post so lemme clarify no irl shipping especially anything to do with mcyt get the fuck out of here ur not welcome#soukoku#shin soukoku#rampoe#itafushi#haikaveh#satosugu#mitsukou#vanoe#hualian#fengqing#beafleaf#wangxian#matcha blossom#renga#wrightworth#narumitsu#klapollo#mikayuu#iwaoi#sakuatsu#bokuaka#kagehina#lawlight#killugon#prob add more later
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if anyone has money to spare for donations, im forwarding more links for palestinian aid
CareforGaza is a nonprofit that provides direct aid to Palestine, and you can donate directly here
Operation Olive Branch is a document that lists evacuating families that need assistance, which gives information on the families, the urgency, and tracks the progress of their fundraisers
eSims for Gaza lists very clear instructions on how to purchase e-sims to keep them connected, they are urgently in demand
Here is a project that distributes feminine hygiene kits directly to Gaza
Mutual Aid Diabetes has channels set up for you to donate insulin and medication to diabetics in Gaza, as well as lists fundraisers for diabetics seeking to evacuate
please keep sharing and adding links on this site, please add more if i'd missed any, and please don't stop talking about Palestine.
#free palestine#palestine#gaza#<tags for boost let me know what boosts further? im seeing these more on twitter than tumblr so im trying to add to the traction here too
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Today in vc we discussed the concept of a gmod funeral so I drew my interpretation.
#art talks about stuff#unlabelled drawing tag#the name of this piece is ''gm_funeral'' if you wanted to know#i was going to add more colour/detail but i like the minimalism here#and i'm lazy#id in alt text#garry's mod#gmod#<- this has like 10k notes it's time i main tag it i guess
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Zuko is just playing hard to get
#atla#zuko#sokka#zukka#did i brake zukos back here??? kinda yes no maybe#it looks good lets leave it like that!#the seacred to drawing hair is unlocked. the solution is just drawing a black blob and leave it like that#also yeha sokka took the topknot off and is insufferable#i have a bunch of drawing in my draft since the start of the year and i was like ambarabaciccicoccò my way through the images#trying to figure out which one gets a turn this week...#also i don't know what to add in the body of the text anymore.. idk? enjoy? some idiots?!?!?
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Happy 10th anniversary to FNAF!!
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf movie#fnaf silver eyes#into the pit#security breach#mike schmidt#micheal afton#springtrap#fnaf vanny#william afton#fnaf vanessa#charlie emily#gregory fnaf#cassie fnaf#oswald fnaf#abby schmidt#HAPPY 10 years!!#All the rabbits are pretty happy about their anniversary!#everyone else though all the protagonists? not so much pff#they have no reason to celebrate their crimes#SILLY lil comic I wanted to do had to do something to celebrate#tbh me drawing fnaf everyday was my celebration gift as is#tried to add all the fnaf canons into this one games movies and books#I only started to draw fnaf late lsst year but I’ve been a fan from the very beginning#happy 10 years to fnaf and here’s to many more!! 💜💜
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Good Omens + Parallels
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens spoilers#gos2spoilers#crowley#aziraphale#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#david tennant#michael sheen#my stuff#probably exist so many posts with parallels lol#and of course here are more scenes but i can only add 10 gifs
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Surely this will have no negative consequences whatsoever!
#dbhc#dbhc art#dbhc grian#dbhc mumbo#dbhc s8#art escapades#grian#Mumbo#mumbojumbo#mumbo jumbo#hermitcraft#hermitcraft au#grumbo#hermitcraft s8#hc watchers#watchers#watcher grian#watcher mumbo#tw eyestrain#tw eye contact#tw eye imagery#tw eldritch#tw glitch#tw horror#not sure what all to tag here so pls lemme know if I should add anything#yeah I took the soul sharing thing in a very ‘’undertale’’ light#those aus where Asriel and frisk share a soul so asriel can maintain his form really changed me /silly#also this was a great idea grian. yeah. yeah okay. give the 6 month old robot with an ai soul the eldritch all seeing powers of a watcher#good idea#love the ‘woah’ page… something about grian being able to see entities at their ‘core’…. the androids being code-contained vessels…
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this. this is what happened in that scene right
#fnaf#fnaf movie#five nights at freddy's#five nights at freddy's movie#mike schmidt#vanessa shelly#vanessa afton#bonnie#fnaf vanessa#fnaf mike#fnaf bonnie#bonnie be nice your sister's rizz game isnt the best#let her have this#mike looks so traumatised here im sobbing kjfhdjkgd#if you saw me repost this no you didntttttt#i fORGOT TO ADD THE VANESSA AND MIKE PANEL#pear post#scheeze art
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psychic kiddies having lunch!
#love all 3 of these shows with all my heart i had to do it#feel like mash deserves to be here too but alas im not bothered enough to add a whole 4th full character lmao#mob psycho 100#spy x family#saiki k#the disastrous life of saiki k#mp100#shigeo kageyama#anya forger#mp100 mob#spy x family anya
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Please tell me in the tags who's in the pfps and what you picked! If it's the same person/character think of one as a clone. What would they do to themselves?
#pls pls pls i will go through the rbs and add the most ridiculous pairs on here#poll#tumblr polls#polls#fandom polls
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Happy (Shimmer) Holidays!
Even the chem baron can enjoy a sudden snow day with his family! Too bad his right hand lady decides to use this chance to have some revenge for all the bullshit she has to deal with
(I wanted to draw this three years ago but didn't get around to do it)
#my art#arcane#silco#sevika#arcane jinx#here's one for the holidays!#silco and jinx are like teasing each other like im really gonna throw it back off haha#and then sevika comes in with the snow boulder#she deserves some retribution#her life aint easy#let her crush her boss and his daughter under some snow#i almost gave this one a background#wanted to add people hiding in fear there but they're barely shadows there now#oh well i have holidays to enjoy
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The idea of the Batkids doing normal people things while suited up is hilarious to me, you know, like Red Robin and Spoiler making the 9 o'clock news while racing through a grocery store because they totally forgot to get the things Alfred asked them to bring for the family dinner. Or Damian and Dick swinging into the Bludhaven Zoo mid-patrol because Dami really wanted to see the new baby tiger. Red Hood buying lemonade from a kid's stand and then standing there awkwardly messing with his helmet, trying not to hurt the kid's feelings. Black Bat, on a particularly tiring day randomly appeared in the nosebleeds of the ballet hall and started sniping phones out of people's hands. Or Signal and a deeply irritated Batman changing out a blown-out tyre in some back alley, earning amused looks.
#Add yours (if you want lol)#batkids#batfamily#batfam headcanons#oh boy here we go roll call:#dick grayson#jason todd#red hood#batman#nightwing#bruce wayne#duke thomas#signal#cassandra cain#black bat#stephanie brown#spoiler#tim drake#red robin#damian wayne#robin#only in gotham#dc comics
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FFXIV drinks--full set!
#ffxiv#ff xiv#ff14#final fantasy xiv#final fantasy 14#haurchefant greystone#i'm too lazy to tag all the jobs#but here are all the drink labels in once place! until they add beastmaster
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