#and when we can

[scoriarose]

Hi @peptobismolultra! I'll be honest to say it isn't my first choice- my girls prefer bioactive 100% Due to unforseen life circumstances my snakes and I are living at a temp location and we'll be moving again soonish- so setting up bioactive and taking it down again might not be the best plan. (Epoxying it to make it waterproof makes disassembly to move difficult. I'm also trying to figure out how to reenforce the bottom of their Zen Habitat since bioactive can be HEAVY and I'm worried about it causing collapse. Perhaps someone else has a bioactive Zen with 5+ inches of substrate they've reenforced?) Once we are settled in our future home they'll have a sculpted foam backdrop and bioactive substrate. While we've tried aspen, I've read of someone else using Carefresh when they had health issues from aspen. I figured we could give Carefresh a try!

It doesn't hold burrows super well, so I've hidden a bunch of tubes under the substrate which they use as tunnels, as well as hides with underground rooms (her castle has one door she can go in that is free of substrate, another that goes right into her substrate which she sometimes uses.) They've both learned how to move their bodies in such a way that the ground immediately swallows them up if they wish. It's a little odd to see, they're just slithering along and decide they're done with socializing and their entire body just is swallowed by the ground in under a second. This is a skill the introverts in my life envy. I think they are having fun with the novelty, and have the space they need now they are larger, and they have their former bioactive enclosure in the larger enclosure so they can still go burrow into dirt when they want too. But I do want better for them. It isn't the ideal situation, and for the moment instead of IMPRESSIVE SCENERY and 100% bioactive, they have their smaller enclosure in a snake playground with all their favorite toys and enrichment activities. I'm hoping until we can make our lives get back on plan they are still happy and having fun. At that point, I think I'll use carefresh under a blanket for a little bed (it isn't as incredibly difficult to remove from Sakura's blanket- she likes having a cloth draped over soft substrate for a bed and she'll lay on the blanket or slightly burrow into the substrate to go under her blanket. Perfect bed.) And then give them a box to burrow through it as an enrichment activity- or their container they go to the vet in. One nice thing is it absorb and clumps around their waste so it's incredibly easy to clean- but I know my girls will be much happier when their main home is 100% bioactive and stuff like this is just enrichment. (At the moment they think they have a home they can leave for enrichment any time they want. Scoria is a good girl and puts herself to bed every night. Sakura is the child that passes out wherever she wants. Sometimes her castle. Sometimes pressed between her door and substrate barrier. Sometimes butt up in the air on top of a toy and face buried in her substrate. This is the way of Sakura.

They come in fun colors so here's some halloweeny ones if you want to put some in a box to give your snake a fun enrichment activity! If you are thinking of switching substrate, please let your snake choose. Put their current substrate in one tupperware bin, and this in another identical bin, and both next to each other so the snake can go from one to another effortlessly. See which one the snake enjoys being in and doesn't want to leave. This is how I know my girls like bioactive the best <3 The day I offered them this option Scoria did not want to go in her home and eventually fell asleep in the tupperware. I immediately gave her bioactive and she has been so happy since.

[word-count-bullet-count]

I've been seeing a lot of knight posts recently. pretty great

[kensatou]

i watch baseball for the side quests

update: i think you should look at the reblogs for more important baseball hijinks

[inkskinned]

how do i contact apple bc actually i am currently going through an internet story but i don't have twitter.

which is to say that 3 weeks ago i was on vacation to the Azores with my family. due to girl pockets (iykyk) my phone fucking jumped into the ocean literally only because i lifted my leg above a 30 degree angle to avoid a wave. the phone was black. the sand was black. it was night. i had waded in about 2 feet deep. i think my guardian angel just closed his eyes.

i immediately reached a state of peace about it. maybe it was a sign from god or the universe. don't we all need to unplug. let's live in the moment or whatever. also, let's give the crabs technology, i just think it would be funny.

i come home. i haven't backed up my phone in a while (lol since 2022) and the shitty replacement i got is literally useless. i lost pictures of newborn babies. i lost contacts. i have to wrangle things together that need 2-factor authentication with a phone that's in the fucking ocean.

and then today i got this notification.

What in the everfuck. are you kidding me. this thing was IN THE OCEAN. like the ACTUAL OCEAN. like originally "find my phone" was reporting it as ABSENT.

and then i get this email:

she found it while she was SNORKLING. at the bottom of the actual ocean. it's been there for 3 weeks.

IT STILL WORKS.

which is to say. like how do i get her anything she wants, forever. i don't have any money but i would buy her a fucking boat of iphones to thank her. how do we get apple to give me a commercial. if nothing else i just want people to know that someone found my phone at the bottom of the ocean because how fucking fake of a story does this even sound.

what's going on. hello????????

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[batcavescolony]

THE TIKTOK PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY MADE GONCHAROV!!!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[anothersuperstition]

there was a summer i started collecting knives…

[ionomycin]

[evilmafuyu666]

[suprecorp]

*girls when it is literally eating away at their psyche* whatever

[demaparbat-hp]

He truly did.

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about

[chloesimaginationthings]

I can’t wait to see mangle in the FNAF 2 movie,,

[eggdrawsthings]

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[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!