#bat culture

[todaysbat]

EEEE!!!! hi I know they are Basic but!!! I really love common pipistrelle’s? could we have a common pipistrelle?

No bats are basic, every species has something special about them.

image description: a brown bat in flight against a black background image source: Paul van Hoof, via Bat Conservation Ireland

Common Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) One of the smallest bat species in Ireland, the Common Pipistrelle is known as ialtóg fheascrach in Gaelic.

[specimentality]

LETS GO anti poaching win

[nrmnas]

[cthulhu-nymphos]

Die-cut cover art for My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews

[weepingchoir]

Fandom bloggers with “terfs fuck off” in bio about to condescend to a trans woman: listen here, Phallus (gender neutral where I come from),

[batboyblog]

I'm just gonna say something, Bar/Bat/B'nai mitzvahs are a celebration, they often but not always come with an after party and depending on the means of the parents of the lucky 13 year old they can be over the top sometimes. Much like rich kids with sweet 16s or Quinceañera.

okay thats out of the way, what I wanted to say is, I'm SICK of every media depiction of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah as a 100 million dollar, biggest party on the planet celebration of conspicuous consumption. Almost ALWAYS missing the you know Bar Mitzvah itself, and again depicting Jews over and over again as INSANELY wealthy. Like not everyone, hell not MOST people's Bar Mitzvah was huge and expensive.

another thing, I know by definition no 13 year old is cool, by definition they are greasy and annoying and cringe. But EVERY depiction of a Bar/Bat Mitzvah where the boy or girl of the hour is both an awkward loser and (particularly the boys) sleazy little creeps who are trying WAY too hard to impressive with their garishly massive (and expensive) party (and how often they quote how much something costs as if a 13 year old would know or care) it just seem a little close to the old antisemitic stereotype of Jews as crass and uncouth social climbers desperately trying to use their money to buy their way into classy society and forever failing.

[flittermousing]

Here's your yearly reminder NOT to purchase bat taxidermy products.

Because of their size, bats are notoriously difficult to find deceased from natural causes, and by the time they are found, the bodies have often already decomposed beyond value.

As sad as it is, it's true — As holidays approach, I know many people with an interest in these critters have the potential to receive gifts that are very unethical for the creatures they care about. Bats are killed for the sole purpose of displays like this as a soulless cash grab. Already, there are dozens of bat species that are threatened or endangered. It is not fair to them to support an industry that is actively trying to extinguish their life for decoration.

You can read more about this crisis here and here.

Photo provided by Denley Photography on Unsplash.

Reblogs on this post are encouraged.

[academic-vampire]

Vampire culture is sitting in a big chair and staring dramatically into the distance

(Bonus points if you’re all slumped down + staring into a fire)

[svartalfhild]

Unsurprisingly, people are already being fucking weird about Mizu's gender.

Headcanons are all well and good, but maybe we shouldn't be so eager to apply modern Western gender politics and terms to a character whose identity is so tied to the time, place, and circumstances in which she exists.

Please remember that Mizu was forced to present as male for her own safety and agency. Please remember that allowing others to see her as a man and call her he/him is not a choice; it's protection; it's a means to an end. Until we see Mizu talk about her gender in further detail, that's all the context we have.

Don't project what you want to see onto her and then treat it as fact.

[pepirfecin]

Random team dark tidbits

Found family<33 (they barely tolerate eachother)

[geneticdriftwood]

my thoughts on dick and damian’s relationship is that damian is not dick’s son. but everyone who knows them knows that damian IS dick’s kid.

[specimentality]

Check out this plush artist!

[shopwitchvamp]

-Victorian Bats- -Bone Collector-

You've got until tomorrow night (5/24 at 11:59pm CT) to preorder either of these two beautiful gothic skater skirts by @vetiverfox! 🖤witchvamp.com🖤

[cthulhu-nymphos]

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[superbudsie]

Anyone else just slam out a picture book about a bat talking about their emo bat son named Batty Batty and how they love him just as much as the day he was born and will always encourage him to be himself or is that just me?