#and be kind to me

[moncuries]

HI I SAW YOU HAD STUFF ABOUT QUEER ART HISTORY AND QUEER RELIGION?? IM SO INTERESTED!! are there any specific facts that you found really cool?

facts! HM! ill stick to religion just to keep this from getting huge. i'd start by saying that almost every major religion has had queer people involved in it historically. I'll throw a few facts out but as a disclaimer, like most broad facts, these actually have a lot of nuance beyond what I'm telling you :D so do not use me as an authority! -Both Judaism and Islam recognize more than two genders, though most sects only privilege male/female -most Christian cathedral/church architecture is modelled after vaginas/wombs/etc in order to gender the church and its worship as female to make their union with God (masculine) acceptable -A huge part of the popularity of jesus' cock and balls being depicted in art was to make him relatable -Mukhannathun is a gender-variant designation within Islam with a rich history and a few of my favourite readings: joy ladin 1, 2 on trans + judaism and a google drive folder with some of my favourites including 2Spirit, and judaism! i had more on Islam but JSTOR is an annoying b and puts your IP all over your downloads, soz. (my suggestion would be: Omar Kasmani, "Of Discontinuity and Difference: Gender and Embodiment Among Fakirs of Sehwan Sharif,)

[bloodwrittenballad]

me when i lie about writing and uploading a fic

[maskenjager]

I can't unsee this

[bluismie]

This is my love letter to the most beautiful ship I witnessed this year. Cheers to us Jayvik nation 💫

[reasonsforhope]

We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

[vulpinesaint]

quiz enjoyers! i am now inviting you to come create something in my workshop❕

[flame-shadow]

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)

[abyssalzones]

updates from the stan o' war

[nariarts]

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

[mooseymi]

Timebomb tiiiime

[girlashfur]

new tumblr game. put in the tags a GENUINE flaw your fav(s) has. cant be something like "too kind" or "loves too much" like something genuinely bad messed up morally wrong they are or have done

[sparebutton]

(Across the Spider-Verse spoiler)

[velinxi]

Lord of the Rings fanart! I watched for the first time recently and loved it

[EDIT: Thanks for the love on this! Prints of this are also available on my shop for those interested!]