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postmodernbeing · 4 years ago

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Shingeki no Kyojin headcanons: 104th training corps (College AU)

Hello, Postmodernbeing here. This time I wanted to write about things that I actually know, since I’m a college student and I’m studing History and Social Sciences I found myself wondering about what would the 104th training corps focus their studies on if all of them had chosen humanities as their career. I hope you find this funny and at least a bit accurate.

IMPORTANT: I do not own Shingeki no Kyojin, only these HCs are my own. // Might contain a few spoilers from the manga. // English is not my first language and I study uni at Latin America, so scientifical terms/words/concepts may vary. Anyhow, I thank you for reading and for your patience.

Eren Jaeger

He’s passionate about Military History, not to be confused with history of army. Eren’s rather focused in strategies, weapons and semiotics involved in military speech.

First started with books about great wars in modern era. The use of certain weapons took him by surprise due the technological development.

Then he took classes about discourse analysis, semiotics and such, and felt inspired by the discourse reflected in emblems, uniforms, flags, etc.

Eren doesn’t really have a preference between occidental or oriental, North or South, Modern or Ancient settings. He would simply devour all the books that deal with military strategy and warlike conflicts. Although he has more experience and information about great wars in modern era.

He’s fascinated with the inexhaustible human desire of freedom and the extent that it can reach. This fascination might not be very healthy, he concludes.

Also, finds a cruel beauty in violence when showed in freedom and ideals are protected over one’s own life. But he won’t tell his classmates or professors. He knows is a controversial opinion for he’s still aware the implications of massive conflicts and the abuse of power.

One thing led to another, Eren is now taking classes and reading about philosophy in war and anthropological perspectives about violence through time.

He’s so into social movements besides his main interest in college: “No one’s really free until all humanity is”, that’s his life motto pretty much.

Due his readings and researches he decided it was important to develop a political stance about the world’s problems. Eren strongly believes all lives worth the same, but systems and nations had imposed over others and vulnerated other human's lives.

Yes, Eren is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist.

Mikasa Ackerman

Asian Studies Major / History Minor.

She thinks by studying these degrees, she pays honor to her heritage. Specially to her mother. Her family is the proudest for Mikasa is also the best student in her whole generation.

Mikasa received a scholarship thanks to Azumabito family, who are co-founders of an academic institution dedicated to Asian historical and cultural research. She might as well start working when she graduates.

Although she’s passionate about Japan’s history, she has written a few articles and essays about Asian Studies themselves and the importance of preserving but also divulging by means of art and sciences.

In her essays and research work, she likes to employ tools from many disciplines since she strongly believes all humanities and social sciences serve the very same purpose at scrutinize the social reality all the same. Might as well use demographics, ethnology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, archeology, and so on. For it proves to bring light into questions that history by itself could answer unsatisfactorily (in Mikasa’s opinion).

Even her professors wonder how she manages to organize that much information and pull it off successfully. She might as well be more brilliant than a few PhD’s students.

Armin Arlert

Prehistoric studies / Archeology

He’s so into the studies about the prehistoric humans and routes of migration.

Passionate about the ocean and natural wonders since kid, Armin believed his career would be environmentalist or geoscience related.

That was the agreement he had with his grandad since middleschool, until he read Paul Rivet’s “The Origins of the American Man” book and captured him thoroughly. The way the book explained logically the diverse theories about global migration and enlisted the challenges of modern archeology -for there are numerous mysteries- simply devoured his conscience.

He knew from the books he’d read that most evidence of the first settlements are deep under dirt or far away in the ocean whose level has risen over the centuries leaving primitive camps – and answers – unreachable.

That’s the reason he is so eager to study and give his best to contribute both archeology and history disciplines. Also, he’ll forever love the ocean and nature, just leave him do all the fieldwork, please.

Jean Kirstein

History of industry / Industrial heritage / Historical materialism

Jean first started interested in capitalist industries and production development in first world countries. Kind of rejected other visions and explanations since he’d read about positivism studies.

His interest in such matters started when he was a just boy. He often found himself wondering how things were made and that question captured him ever since. As he grew up, he realized that machines and industrial processes were highly involved in the most mundane objects creation.

Nonetheless, he learnt that not always the best machinery was used, nor the best work conditions were available for mass production. From that moment he’d started to read about the First Industrial Revolution and his mind just took off with questions. Invariably, he learned about labour struggle and the transforming power due workforce.

Between his readings and university classes, he’d knew more about labour movements, unions. And in the theoretical aspect, he'd learned about historical materialism analysis.

One could say that Jean possesses a humanistic vision of the implications in mass production under capitalist system along history and nowadays.

Marco Bodt

Royalty's history / Medieval Studies

I wanted to keep his canonical fascination to royalty and the best way to do that was including Medieval Studies.

Marco would study since the fall of Roman Empire until the latest gossip of royal families all across Europe.

Might get a bit of Eurocentric with his essays but in real life discussions he’s always open to debates about decolonization. He has even read Frantz Fanon books and possesses a critical thinking about colonial countries and their relations with the so named third world.

Nevertheless, Marco finds a strange beauty in the lives of monarchs and he’s interested in study from their education, hobbies, strategies, relationships, everything.

I’d say that his favorite historical period is probably the establishment of the descendants of the barbarian peoples in the new kingdoms such as the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Franks, Vandals, Huns, Saxons, Angles and Jutes (holy shit, they're a lot).

Because this would transcend as the beginning of his favorite matter of analysis.

Sasha Braus

History of gastronomy, development of cooking, antropology and archeological studies.

Sasha’s interested in the history that shows human development of food and cooking. She finds wonders when she inquires into cultural aspects from the first farming till modern artistic expressions that would involve food.

Such as gastronomy. But her attention got caught in literature’s food representation too, with its symbols and allegories, also in paintings that belong in still life movement, but also Sasha finds interest when food is used as rhetorical devices (for example: the apple in Adam and Eve’s myth).

She’s curious about primitive systems of irrigation, cultivation, food distribution, adaptation of wild species; as well as the domestication of animals, the diversification of the diet and its link with sedentary life, as well as the subsequent division of labor once the need for food was assured in humanity’ first cities.

Sasha’s convinced that alimentation is the pilar of civilization as we know it. For it involves cultural, artistic, economic, emotion and social aspects. Food is a microcosm of analysis of humanity.

Sasha hasn’t a favorite historical period or setting. But she definitely has a special fascination for first civilizations and their link with alimentation. Also, she likes to study the development gastronomy in occident world around different regions, social classes, and time.

Although, let’s be honest, Sasha would devour (lol, couldn’t help it) ANY book about agriculture, cattle raising, cooking or gastronomy.

Connie Springer

Micro-history / History of everyday life.

Connie loves his hometown, has a deep respect to his family and traditions. That’s why he finds himself wondering about the most ordinary events that developed in his dear Ragako.

The book “The Cheese and the Worms” by Carlo Ginzburg changed the way he used to understand history and capture him into meaningful discussions about what he learned was called micro-history.

His favorite quote from that book is: “As with language, culture offers to the individual a horizon of latent possibilities—a flexible and invisible cage in which he can exercise his own conditional liberty.”

Once deep into studying the Italian historians and their works, he decided to give it a try, and ever since he’s mesmerized with the mundane vestiges craftsmen that worked in his village left behind.

Connie’s parents are so proud of him and his achivements, but mostly because he became a passionate academic over human and simple matters, (so down to earth our big baby).

His attitude towards his essays and research works truly shows his great heart and humility. Connie is aware that academic works have no use if they are not meant to teach us about ourselves too and current times.

Empathy and hard work, that’s how one could describe the elements that integrate his recently started academic career.

Historia Reiss

Political History / Statistician

Her father’s family pressured Historia since she was a little girl into studying History just like his dad. For he’s a very famous historian that had made important researches and books about the greatest statesmen of Paradis.

She thought in numerous ways that she could sabotage her career or study any other career without her family’s consent and end with her linage of historians. But she ended up enrolling in tuition and so far, she is trying her best in her studies. Historia swears this is the right path for her.

But don’t let the appearances fool you, even thought she studies her father’s career and the very same branch of history’s discipline, she has her own critical sense and she’s so talented on her own, very meticulous with her research papers.

Definitely wants a PhD about women, power and politics. We stand a Gender Studies Queen.

Her complementary disciplines are Political Sciences. Historia also has a talent for philosophy and owns a diary with all her thoughts about them. She hopes one day she would write a book or a manifesto about an innovative methodology for research and teaching History of Politic Thinking.

Ymir

Religion’s History / Theology

Just like Historia, Ymir was pressured into studying History. And if she’s totally honest, she still has some doubts about it. Even if she couldn’t imagine herself studying anything else.

Anyways, Ymir thought that she could build her career around topics that she enjoys. So, she finally chose theology for unusual reasons.

Her classmates had grown up in religious families or had experience studying the doctrines they practiced. But she, being an agnostic, found satisfaction in unraveling belief systems in different cultures and time periods.

Albeit she studies in Paradis’ University, she currently has the opportunity of taking an academic exchange at Marley’s University. This only made Ymir more conflicted about her future, for she wants to stay (near Historia) but she’s aware that Marley would offer her more academic opportunities for her specialization.

Nowadays she’s working in some collaborative research paper with some people from Mythological Studies from the Literature department. She’s nailing it, writing some historical studies about titans in Greek mythology and its impact in shaping neoclassical poetry. Her brains ugh, love her.

Reiner Braun

Official History / Biographies of heroes and great wars.

His mother convinced him with numerous books about great national heroes, but mostly because she knew that would mean sure job to her son. All political administration in every level requires of an official chronicler.

When he started his college courses, Reiner felt motivated and he was actually convinced that he had the vocation. But the more he read the less sure he felt that the academic world was for him. He wondered if he made the right choice. If he did it for him or for his mother.

Stories and myths about heroes have always cheered him up. That gave him purpose and consoled him when feeling down. Or at least it was like that when younger. Reiner truly didn’t feel like himself when regretting his choices, but he couldn’t help it for he was changing in more than a way.

That’s why he decided to experiment with other disciplines and with time he would find joy in historical novels. He would analyze them just as good as a litterateur and research about historical context in the written story AND study the artwork’s context itself.

His favorites theorical books are: “Historical Text as Literary Artifact” by Hayden White and Michel de Certeau’ “The Writing of History”.·

Heroes stories would always accompany him, just differently now.

Bertolt Hoover

History of mentalities / Les Annales

Intimate relationships, basic habits and attitudes. / Culture

Bertie has always been a much reticent and shy guy. As he grew up, he consolidated his sullen personality, but maintained a friendly attitude towards anyone who needed him. That’s why he thought that the priority in his studies was to be at the service of his classmates.

So, although he was passionate about research and was a fan of the French Les Annales current, he considered his mission to be in the Archive. As a cataloger, organizer and curator of ancient documents.

But the ways of History are always mysterious, and Doctor Magath showed him that other way of being was possible. Before Bertolt picked his specialty, he met Theo Magath, a professor who recently had finished writing a book: “The Idea of Death in Liberio’s Ghetto in Marley During its War Against Eldia (Paradis)” (long-ass titles are historians specialty btw). After Magath ended his book’ presentation, Bertolt reached him. They talked for hours and finally, he felt inspired into pursuing his true passion. Magath gifted him “The Historian’s Craft” by Marc Bloch as a way to reminding him his way.

By the time Bertolt took History of Mentalities as optional class, he already had some basic notions about Les Annales, Lucien Febvre, Marc Bloch, Fernand Braudel, Jacques Le Goff and such.

Being the gentle giant he is, Bertolt finds joy in reading about different lifestyles in diverse cultures. He constantly wonders about the origin of social constructs and the way they shape thinking as much as identity.

This boy is a wonder, he might not be the best in oral presentations or extracurricular activities but sure as hell he’ll graduate with honors.

Annie Leonhart

Oral history, about institutions. Particularly, police and justice system in early XXs.

Albeit she got into the same University than Bertolt and Reiner, even shared classes and hopes, Annie regularly felt disconnected from her studies. With time she realized it wasn't due her career itself but rather because of the currents that her professors had suggested her taking. Until now.

Talking with Hitch and Marlow about their doubts concerning subjects and departments it came up the topics of history and present time but also oral history. She’d never heard something like that before. So, that very same week, Annie started searching for information about that.

She ended up with more questions: is it all of this just academic journalism? Or maybe sociology? When we can talk about regular history and when it starts being present time? If she introduces interviews due oral history, then that makes it an interdisciplinary work? Which are the best systems for analyzing data? Definitely, she’ll need help from anthropology and sociology departments if she wants to keep going.

Contrary to her initial prognostic, philosophy and history of historic writing became her new allies, and the text “Le temps présent et l'historiographie contemporaine” (Present Time and Contemporary Historiography) by Bédarida among others, provided Annie another perspective.

Regarding her favorite topics, she wouldn’t say that she selected them freely. They were just practical preferences. For institutions own extensive archives and numerous functionaries. One way or another, she ended up tangled in judicial system and police issues.

With new tools and object for studying, one could find Annie having a blast as detective too. Even if her academic essays focus on institutions’ history and configuration, she’s also working in corruption and more. She doesn’t do it because she believes it’s the right thing, but besides, the thrill of the tea is spicy. Although she won’t admit it.

#shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #aot headcanons #snk headcanons #eren jaeger #mikasa ackerman #armin arlert #jean kirstein #marco bodt #sasha braus #connie springer #historia reiss #ymir #reiner braun #bertolt hoover #annie leonhart #modern au #college au

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plaguedocboi · 4 years ago

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I'm considering getting a leech for a pet, but I live in Arizona so for around half the year our house temp can be up to 82F.

I've read that leeches should be kept in 63F, or anywhere from 40-80F, and I wanted to know if it would be possible for me to keep a leech. I don't want them to live in a stressful environment, and I think they would get hurt if I got a tank chiller.

Could you set up a fan to blow on the tank during the summer? That might cool it down enough.

Although leeches do prefer cool, dark places, they’re very adaptable and their natural ranges put them in places that get pretty hot during the summer.

H. verbana (the most commonly kept pet leech species) can live as far south as the Mediterranean, so they would probably be alright in warmer weather. Macrobdella decora (the North American medicinal leech) live from Canada to Mexico, so some populations can be found in subtropical areas. Buffalo leeches are fully tropical and would love 82 F temperatures!

So, all things considered, I think it’s definitely possible for you to get a leech! Just have a fan handy for days where it gets really hot.

#asks #leeches

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fatehbaz · 5 years ago

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why are you against the use of the term anthropocene

Well, I’m not totally against its use; I think it can be useful, especially in discussions in popular mediums outside of academia. But I do think that academic discussion of and much of the popular discourse around and involving that term, especially among Euro-American scholars, is Eurocentric and pedantic. Eurocentric, in the sense that the discourse ignores Indigenous criticisms while simultaneously appropriating Indigenous cosmologies and accepting funding/concessions from (neo)colonial institutions. Pedantic, in the sense that the discourse is too focused on finding a specific start-date; too focused on fossil fuels and not enough attention is given to the arguably more-influential role of industrial-scale agriculture throughout human history; and not enough discussion of the human institutions (social hierarchies built to facilitate empires and resource extraction) that inflict social and ecological destruction. I do sometimes like the term as a rhetorical device, but prefer terms like “Plantationocene” which are more specific about which institutions and imperial cosmologies are most influential in provoking both violence against humans and ecological change and apocalypse.

You have probably heard of alternate proposed names for the same era of human influence: Plantationocene, Capitalocene, Cthuluscene. I agree that the distinction matters, and many people (especially Indigenous people and others from Latin America and the Global South) have written about the importance of this name. Indigenous writers and scholars have, in my opinion and not surprisingly, offered the most biting criticisms of Anthropocene discourse. From the perspective of North America, I enjoyed the writing of Dwayne Donald (Papaschase Cree); Zoe Todd (Metis); Kali Simmons (Lakota); and Kyle Whyte (Potawatomi); all of whom write explicitly about the Anthropocene, the ethics of ascribing a name to this era, its Eurocentric discourse, and alternative Indigenous interpretations of global environmental history. And if my rambling is annoying and if this post seems too absurdly long to read, then I would recommend reading what Zoe Todd has written about the importance of how the name of the era influences narratives told about human social and ecological stories; she also addresses other shortcomings and Eurocentric aspects of the Anthropocene concept: Heather Davis and Zoe Todd. “On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene.” December 2017.

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Here’s how I feel about the term “Anthropocene”:

Assuming we agree that the intertwined forces of colonialism, imperialism, industrial-scale agriculture, resource extraction generally, and the hierarchical social institutions which support them (including forced labor, severance of community connection to ecosystems through closure of the commons, racial and gender hierarchies, and Indigenous dispossession) are basically the major influences on global ecological change now and over the past few centuries or millennia (including the present-day, the era of overt European colonization across the globe, and earlier manifestations in historical “classic” state-building and early ancient hydraulic civilizations): Instead of looking for a specific date sometime around 1822 in Europe when fossil fuel emissions scarred the soil, like a technical geologist might, I instead try to ask at which point industrial-scale resource extraction (especially including agriculture and deliberate devegetation campaigns even in its ancient manifestations), supported by and to the benefit of social hierarchies and imperial worldviews, begin to alter soils at vast continent-wide scales enough to be the planet’s leading driver of change in soils, vegetation, oceans, and atmosphere?

Did it begin with the advent of industrial specialist guilds in Mesopotamia, when kings would bribe irrigation engineers not to help a farmer water their fields until the farmer had paid tribute or rent? Did it begin in Zhou-era or Warring States period China when deliberate devegetation campaigns, large forest-clearing projects, and flood-prevention dam infrastructure installation led to local extinction of tiger, rhinos, and elephants? Rome? The Columbian Exchange, institutionalized slavery, and plantations in seventeenth-century European colonies in the Americas?

Is an Isconahua community in Amazonia’s forests equally as responsible for global ecological change as a multi-billion-dollar American mining corporation?

This is an example of what might be the most common criticism of the term: The Anthropocene term, by invoking “anthropos,” is imprecise because rather than identifying the actual source of global ecological change (certain systems, institutions, and practices) it implies that blame be ascribed to humans-as-a-species for provoking this global ecological apocalypse. This criticism (”Anthropocene obscures responsibility”) is just one of many.

These are probably my major issues with Anthropocene: (1) According to Indigenous scholars and many writers from the Global South and especially Latin America, the name obscures responsibility and doesn’t adequately imply which human systems and institutions are responsible for global ecological catastrophe, erasing and obscuring the ongoing violence which those same institutions continue to enact, both upon ecosystems and human lives. (2) And given geologists’ common focus on fossil fuels as the key indicators of Anthropocene start-date and human influence on environment, I think that this distracts from the arguably more influential and more important role of agriculture (and associated devegetation for purposes of settlement, rangeland, etc.) as perhaps the more dramatic human influence on global ecological history. Fossil fuels didn’t kill the bison and change the entirety of the Great Plains from boreal climates to the subtropics. Empires seeking resource extraction, accomplished through violence and dispossession, killed the bison and changed the continent. (3) The concept is the result of Euro-American academic discourse and does not adequately incorporate Indigenous and non-Western criticisms. And while paying superficial lip-service to “decolonization, the same academic departments maintain relationships with (neo)colonial nonprofits and government agencies while the discourse also simultaneously engages in continued appropriation of Indigenous concepts. (4) Finally, if we agree that industrial-scale resource extraction (including agriculture) and its associated social institutions are (or at least were, for most of the past) the major human influence on altering ecology, then assigning a specific start-date is extremely difficult and probably just an exercise or thought experiment, because at what point in history did these extractivist cosmologies reach “critical mass” and become the leading worldview through which (some) humans disproportionately exercised so much power over altering landscapes?

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I’ll recycle something I’ve previously said:

“Did the Anthropocene begin in 1821, or 1822? Did the year 1821 mark the definitive shift into a global expansion of urbanization and monoculture plantation crops, or was it the year 1822?” These are, to some degree, technicalities. This is not, or should not, be the point of “Anthropocene.” I mean, it is often important to know some specific dates; like the specific date that Russian settlers first encountered Steller’s sea cow; the specific date that English authorities issued permits for corporate monopolies on guano trade in Peru; the specific date that deliberate fire-setting dispossessed Indigenous people in Borneo and signaled arrival of palm oil plantations; the specific dates that certain agricultural, colonial, and imperial institutions invaded, expanded, or consolidated their power. But “the single date when imperial cosmologies achieved critical mass as the dominant ecological force”? I think that’s more ambiguous.

I appreciate that some popular venues or forums like academia, occasionally, are at least attempting to openly discuss a 12,000-year-old trend towards imperial power consolidation which relies on social hierarchy, disconnecting communities from local native species and landscapes, Indigenous dispossession, and the commodification of ecological systems. Glad it’s being discussed. But the discourse has issues and I think we can do better than “Anthropocene” as a term. Even if we treat Anthropocene more like an informal thought experiment, and improve it by renaming it “Plantationocene” or something, I still don’t think formally defining a specific date or “Day 1 of the Anthropocene” is as important as clearly identifying which systems and institutions actually provoked centuries of dramatic ecological change and the current ecological collapse. I think that identifying a technical start-date for a geological epoch is comparably a distraction from the discussion of ecological degradation and extinction; a distraction from the concept’s implied-but-inadequate criticism of imperial cosmologies; and a distraction from how global ecological collapse and crisis is closely related to and deeply intertwined with social hierarchies, institutions, and violence against other humans.

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Thank you for the question :)

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sweetescapeartist · 3 years ago

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MY VIEWS OF BLACK & LGBTQ STUFF

If you don't care about this stuff, skip over it. I don't like talking about this often but at times I speak about it. I'd rather talk about anime & DBZ, but this is one of those times I don't.

I at times speak on stuff that ppl may consider political. I see it as logical or historical. First is...

LGBTQ

I honestly think its too confusing and I don't have time to try to keep up with all the terms and definitions because I don't care that much. It was supposed to be about unity but all it has done is caused more division because there are too many labels. How many sexual preferences and identities are there? Idk but there's more than the amount of fingers I have.

I don't hate ppl who are part of it because only an idiot hates ppl. Besides, I have relatives that are gay or lesbian. I simply disagree with the act for my own personal reasons. Some of it has to do with being a black man. That leads into racial relationships.

BLACK (& other "races")

Most ppl say racist things out of ignorance or because they like to purposefully be ignorant. I'm multi-racial, so I respect all "races" especially since race is truly just a construct that doesn't actually exist because we are of the human race/species. Do animals divide by race or is it only ppl who do that to take advantage of another person?

And I may be "multi-racial" but I have the appearance of a black man, thus I am black to society. Despite that I have European and Native American ancestry. Think about Latinos. Aren't they just ppl with South American Indian ancestry? The Americas were the land of the natives, so all of the descendants currently are of Native American ancestry. Why is race there to divide?

I choose to learn and not be ignorant and let society tell me what to think about race or sexuality. Their standards change all the time and society will give ppl the illusion of change to shut them up.

Now my thoughts about LGBT in the black community... I don't like the action because I'm straight, BUT I ain't gonna treat others with hate. Naturally, humans have a need to reproduce. There's nothing wrong with being straight because if straight ppl did not exist, there would be no lesbian or gay ppl. We would all die out. Now back to the black community...

Do your reseach of the effect homosexuality has had on black ppl throughout history. Slaves in the Americas specifically (& other places too) were "buckbroken." Don't know what that is?

BUCKBREAKING

Imagine your child is being beaten up by adults or being sold off and you are restrained and forced to watch. Imagine your wife or mother or sister or daughter or son or brother or father or even you yourself are raped in front of everyone by a man or group of men & they humiliate you (or your loved ones) over and over.

Buck - blacks weren't viewed as human & dehumanized.

Breaking - break the will & spirit of the strong with inhumane tactics.

All of this is to break your will power so you don't fight back for your freedom. If you fight back, you will be publicly raped, beaten, sold away from your family, limbs amputated, murdered, eaten by slave owners, and other kinds of torture.

There were many gays involved in slavery & even a trans-woman slave owner increased slavery in the U.S. All of this plus more is ignored. Why don't the LGBTQ community address and try to solve these traumatic issues that still affect the black community today? Because they don't care to fix it OR they are not told about it. (Not every individuals, but the group as a whole. I ain't a fan of groups.)

Even the rainbow flag was used by black ppl first. The Rainbow Coalition. Uniting ppl of all colors to stop oppression. Then the leaders were assassinated by the government, the Rainbow Coalition was sued, then the rainbow flag was adopted as the gay pride flag (a.k.a. the LGBTQ pride flag in current day).

CONCLUSION

I can't side with any group of ppl that disrespects the group I am a part of. I respect individuals who show they are deserving of respect & I don't promote hate. Why treat ppl the same or worse than I & my people have been treated? That's stupid to do so & shows that a person has fears of the other person being better than them, so they attack them. I fear no man. Each individual is better than each other in some sort of way. That's what makes ppl unique. Fearing & hating a group of ppl is just silly to me. Ppl change so I won't hate a person.

I like to know things so history doesn't repeat itself with me. Being informed is very important. Otherwise, you're following someone blindly & you don't even know who you're following. THAT sounds foolish to me.

#just me explaining my thoughts and views #y'all can ignore this if you wanna

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canyouseeanangrybirdface · 4 years ago

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Ethnicities in the Angry Birds Flock

This is based on the species of the birds and where they originated from. I know I'm not the first to do so, but I'm thinking things over with regard to nationality as well. This post goes over subjects related to biology, geography, and demographics to present more accurate headcanons with real world basis.

(Note: I actually finished this once but didn't save and lost half of my data, so this is a summarized version for the top half of the data. RIP.)

Red and Terence: Northern Cardinal

The species can be found from southeastern Canada to Central America, and is also the state bird of seven different states (Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia) in the eastern Midwest and border South. But due to considerations for Tony's species, I still am unable to decide whether they would be white, Latine, or mixed.

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The Blues: Mountain Bluebird

The distribution of the bird can go anywhere from southeastern Canada to Mexico, but the species is the state bird of Idaho and Nevada. Since Nevada is part of the year-round range, I personally prefer Nevadan!Blues, but it is also more difficult to determine their ethnicity this way, because of the racial diversity of the state. However, since Idaho is over 90% white, I think I'll have to go with them being white.

Chuck: Canary

The species originated from the Macaronesian Islands (the Azores, Madiera and the Canary Islands), which are governed by Portugal and Spain, and their population is mainly from these countries, which would likely make him white.

If he were an American goldfinch instead, which is a species distributed from Canada to Mexico (but is the state bird of New Jersey, Iowa and Washington State), his ethnicity would be far more difficult to determine.

Bomb: Greater Antillean Bullfinch

This species is native to Caribbean countries like the Bahamas, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. The Dominican Republic is mainly Mestizo (white and indigenous mixed), but the rest have predominantly black populations. So, it would be safe to assume that Bomb would be black.

Matilda: Chicken

The domestic chicken is widespread to the point that it's impossible to pinpoint a definite ethnicity for Matilda. The only things we know about her species is that 1) she lays white eggs, and 2) her plumage is white with black/grey crown and tail. The eggshell colour narrows things down a lot, but not her plumage, because the crown is usually red in white-feathered species.

Hal: Emerald Toucanet

The emerald toucanet or northern emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) is a species of near-passerine bird in the family Ramphastidae occurring in mountainous regions of Mexico and Central America.

This is supported in the Angry Birds Transformers comic where Hal calls others amigo, the Spanish (and Portuguese) word for friend. Latine!Hal is something the fandom definitely got right.

Bubbles: Jamaican Oriole

The species is native to Jamaica, with a mostly black population, and San Andrés, an island governed by Columbia. San Andrés used to be predominantly Afro-Caribbean in ethnicity before 1960, but now they only consist of 30% of the population, the rest being Columbian mainlanders and English-speaking white people of British descent. But to play safe, I think he would be black.

Stella: Galah

…it can be found in open country in almost all parts of mainland Australia.

This doesn't narrow things down a lot, because Australia is fairly racially diverse, and galahs being common in metropolitan regions too? Oh, forget it, I don't know.

(Her eye colour also doesn't line up with any real world galah's eye colour.)

Silver: Peale's Falcon

The Peale's Falcon is a subspecies of the peregrine falcon, the fastest animal species on Earth. They are found along the coastline, from the easternmost reaches of Russia to Alaska, and as far south as Washington State. The place with the highest density of peregrine falcons is in British Columbia, Canada, so Canadian!Silver is a great idea, but the regions in question here all have sizable indigenous Canadian/American populations on top of racial diversity, so… I really don't know what specific ethnicity she would be.

Poppy: Cockatiel

The cockatiel is native to the arid and semi-arid regions of Australia, but due to her yellow colouration, she likely has a mutation (Lutrino or Clear Pied). She might also be American, since the Lutrino mutation was first established in the US.

Luca: Scrub-jay

They are New World jays found in Mexico, western Central America and the western United States, with an outlying population in Florida.

Also take into consideration that Luca is mainly used as a male name in Italy and Romania, or places where those languages are spoken. Among these regions, Italian Americans mainly settled in the northeastern US, so unless you think that Luca is from, say, San Francisco, he's more likely to be from Central America and/or Mexico. So he might be anything from Latine to white or multiracial in human form. I'm yet to decide.

Willow: Western Crowned Pigeon

The western crowned pigeon is found in and is endemic to the lowland rainforests of northwestern New Guinea; the other species of crowned pigeon inhabit different regions of the island.

Would that make Willow a Pacific Islander or indigenous (generic version)?

Dahlia: Great Horned Owl

The great horned owl (Bubo virginianus), also known as the tiger owl (originally derived from early naturalists' description as the "winged tiger" or "tiger of the air") or the hoot owl, is a large owl native to the Americas.

I would definitely subscribe to the Latine!Dahlia headcanon because of this, though it might be preferable to spell her name as Dalia, as that is the Latin American way of spelling it. And since the dahlia is the national flower of Mexico, Mexican!Dahlia it is.

Gale: Violet-backed Starling

This strongly sexually dimorphic species is found widely in the woodlands and savannah forest edges of mainland sub-Saharan Africa.

Black!Gale? We cannot be certain, but it's more likely than you think, geographically speaking, and I found another gem:

The violet-backed starling is a sexually dimorphic species in which the males possess an iridescent violet back while the females are brown.

Trans!Gale, for her purple plumage? Biological speaking, probably!

Icy: “Extraterrestrial bird”

He's just too out-of-this-world to be bothered by ethnicities - he's probably a whole other unknown ethnicity all by himself. It's just that we know barely anything about him in the first place, so we can't even have a backstory. (I'm probably writing one in the future. I'm too salty to let this go.)

However, from Angry Birds Comic #9, we can see that other extraterrestrial birds exist, but none of them fit any close description for something similar to him. In Let's Snake On It, the birds mostly look somewhat like earthen creatures, only with extraterrestrial characteristics like more or less than two eyes and/or antennae. There's even one which is shaped like a fish. In Eggfight at the Not-OK Corral, Dry Soaked Gulch, a wild west-esque town on a desert planet (or that part of it is desert, we are not sure), is populated by humanoid extraterrestrial chickens.

Perhaps Icy is from a different part of the universe. A different galaxy, maybe, one far away enough from Earth to produce completely different lifeforms (I want to understand the biology behind him as well tbh). We do not know for sure. As I said, we know very little about him, and canon has apparently forgotten about him altogether in recent updates, other than one singular promotion.

Tony: Blue Tanager

There is no precise species called a “blue tanager”, and the closest I can find is the blue-gray tanager.

Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south.

Even though he lives in Finland, it is likely that human!Tony could be Latine, which is a very low percentage of the Finnish population (among the 0.37% of “other ethnicities”, in fact). But considering the ethnicities of his cousins, Red and Terence, it's difficult to decide. Maybe they're mixed. Maybe they're one or the other. Who knows.

Conclusion:

White: The Blues, Chuck

Black: Bomb, Bubbles, Gale

Latine: Hal, Dahlia

Indigenous: Willow

Unconfirmed (White, Latine, or Mixed): Red, Terence, Tony; Luca

Unconfirmed: (Indigenous or White) Silver, Poppy

Unconfirmed (Other): Matilda, Stella

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Hi, sorry to bother you, but I'm a type 9 INFJ Hufflepuff, and I was wondering if you had any ideas what daemon might suit me?

yes!! so many!

kinkajou came to mind early. the coati is also an option but might be too sociable. kinkajous are going to be tight-bonding who enjoy both time with loved ones and time alone, but are at their core independent people who don’t readily depend upon others and like to retain their personal life. they’re not terribly assertive about it; this is someone who’s going to be very easy-going, affectionate, and communicative, playful but not very ambitious and likes their creative comforts. anxious when outside of their comfort zone and definitely prefer to have a plan. for the coati i recommend looking between the white-nosed coati and the ringtailed (south american) coati. both coati species are going to be more group-oriented and dependent on friends than the kinkajou, very tolerant, expressive, and communicative. they just really thrive in being part of a community. they’re relaxed people and are much more adaptable than the kinkajou. differences between the species are that the white-nosed is going to be much more spontaneous and curious than the ringtailed, who has more of an anxious streak and like to plan ahead.

also check out lagomorphs! all of these species i think would fit a sociable INFJ well (which IMO most are because of high Fe... lone artists are usually INFPs mistyping but i digress), as lagomorphs are group animals who are the very least are going to be socially tolerant. i’m feeling a species like the pygmy rabbit (introverted and appreciates quiet alone time, yet appreciate the company of their loved ones and their support, anxious and cautious, sensitive, modest yet hardworking, tactful) or volcano rabbit (very private and anxious, deeply loyal to friends, specialized and doesn’t do well with change, diligent but easily discouraged).

i feel like a few dove species fit very well too. columbidae is just huge, so to pluck out a few species i feel might fit, i’d consider the mourning dove (one of my favorite animals so i’m biased in always thinking of it!), wood dove, or fruit dove. these species are all going to be individuals who are socially tolerant and fine around others, and even devoted to their close few, but also fit the bill of an introvert. as you’d expect of an individual with a dove, they’re all going to fit someone who’s generous, soft-hearted, habitual, and anxious. in a few words — the mourning dove is to be loyal, selfless, but perfectionistic and can be hard on the self; the wood dove is introverted, sensitive, plans ahead, self-preserving; and the fruit dove is focused and devoted, very much a specialist.

the raccoon dog (tanuki) i think is also pretty emblematic of your type of personality. they're someone who takes a while to befriend someone else but is very devoted to their loved ones, cooperative people who value hard work and are likely seen as selfless, and value being calm and keeping the peace — very conflict-avoidant and unobtrusive. they prefer to stay in their own lane and take things as they come; they're not at all fussy and very easy-going and quietly passionate.

okay before this gets crazy long i gotta suggest some species of deer! the mule deer and white-tailed deer i think would be my top suggestions. all deer are going to be extremely alert, observant, and aware people who don't like spontaneity; if you're not someone who prefers the familiar and your routines, these guys are probably out. the mule deer is someone who values their social group and is very loyal to those people, but doesn't require them for constant emotional support. they can be rather proud and stubborn at times, but not at the detriment of being rather unobtrusive and tactful people. the white-tailed deer is actually someone who’s going to be much more willing to adapt and be flexible — definitely not their preference, but they’re good at dealing with what life gives them. they’re also going to have less of an even temper than the mule deers when under stress. they’re prone to anxiety and don’t have that same proud tact... can be rather feisty and snap when their boundaries are pushed.

and last one i promise is potentially the american black bear. a very easygoing and socially tolerant person who is loyal to their companions, but definitely capable of being alone and doesn’t feel the need to lean on others. very passive and relaxed people who work slow and steady, and generally just prefer to work with what life gives them. you could definitely characterize someone like this as very approachable and friendly; they honestly can be rather playful people who are driven by a sense of fearless curiosity.

#form finding #hdm #daemonism #Anonymous

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Cryptid Article’s Cryptid Categories

The definition of cryptid is, “Any creature that may or may not exist. Sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved”. Which leaves a lot of room for creatures and sightings to be labeled as a cryptid!

If you ask people’s personal opinion on what a cryptid is you’ll get all sorts of answers. Some will say it’s creatures reported extinct that are still seen, or perhaps an undocumented new species, some will say urban legends, and some will say supernatural creatures! What people focus on is usually personal preference, but plenty of people are like me, I love to hear about all of them!

I love hearing about new species, misplaced animals, the supernatural, the extraterrestrial, everything!

The purpose of this article is to write down all the different categories of cryptids I’ve noticed, and tell you some examples!

The Science Side

The science side is composed of different creatures and theories that are based on things we already know. They’re not more likely to exist, it’s just every theory is based in the natural and explained. The science side falls into (three) categories:

The End?

These creatures are real creatures! Documented even! The problem is that these creatures were reported extinct (sometimes millions of years ago), but sightings are still being reported! The most famous of these creatures is the Thylacine, also known as the tasmanian tiger, a marsupial that went extinct in 1936. It was still considered endangered until the 1980s, and many people believe the creature still exists today. There have been many sightings, even a few blurry photographs, all the way up to 2019!

Other cryptids that fit this category include Megalodon, an ancient giant shark that went extinct millions of years ago; the American Hyena, a type of hyena in america that went extinct over 700,00 years ago; the passenger pigeon, a bird that went extinct in 1914; the Dodo Bird, a flightless bird that went extinct in 1681; and the eastern cougar, reported extinct in 1938. All of these have reported sightings ranging from very recent to relatively recent.

Possibly

These creatures have little documentation and are not proven to exist, but the main theory is that they’re a new/unique species. Tons of sightings have poured in for these creatures, photos and videos have been taken, but their existence is still up for debate. The most famous of these is the Sasquatch, also known as BigFoot, and is described as a bipedal hairy creature assumed to be a unique species.

Other cryptids include the Loch Ness Monster, a large creature residing in Loch Ness, there are actually lots of lake, river, and ocean monsters that fit this category; the skunk ape, similar to BigFoot except with black hair and very stinky and spotted in the south eastern US; Ahool, said to be a giant bat/ape-like creature that flies and attacks people in Indonesia; this is also a popular theory for the Beast of Gevaudan, a creature that attacked and killed many people in France; the Cactus Cat, a prickly cat that loved to drink cactus juice and emitted a haunting wail; There’s also multiple sightings of Dogmen, the most popular being the Beast of Bray Road. All of these have a main theory being they’re a new species.

Wrong Place Wrong Time

These creatures have plenty of sightings, quite a few pictures, even some videos. Some of these creatures are even well known! The problem is these creatures were spotted in the wrong place, by that I mean they were found far away from their natural habitat. The most popular theory is that these animals were taken as exotic pets, but then were released when the burden became too much. The most popular of the is Alien Big Cats, these are lions, tigers, cougars, leopards, etc. seen throughout Britain.

Another creature of this type is the Phantom Kangaroo, typically described as a normal kangaroo, sometimes described as a giant kangaroo. It’s been spotted all over America and even a few times in Britain. There’s been quite a few photos and sightings but none have been captured. The most popular theory is that it’s an abandoned exotic pet or an escaped zoo animal.

You Ain’t From Around Here

These cryptids have lots of sightings, pictures, and videos, and the most popular theory is that they’re not of this world! Just like science side they’re not more likely to exist, there just based on something we’re not 100% sure about but plenty of people are trying to understand better.

Creatures From Outer Space

This is probably an obvious one, extraterrestrial life is life not from earth but presumably outer space. Many people believe aliens exist, as massive and expansive as our universe is it’s hard to believe we’re the only alive and conscious beings. There have been dozens upon dozens of sightings, pictures, and videos, some of these sightings dating back centuries. There is still debate about whether or not we’ve actually been visited by aliens.

It’s hard to pick a most popular or well known alien, they’ve become very mainstream and are probably the most well known cryptid alongside bigfoot and nessie. A very popular alien is The Grays, the aliens described in the Roswell UFO Incident, when reportedly there was a UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico. A witness reported seeing aliens corpses, and described them as short, gray, large heads, slitted eyes and nose, and usually naked.

Other well known aliens include The Flatwoods Monster, a strange creature that appeared in the woods where something crashed; The Hopkinsville Goblins, after seeing something crash into the woods a group of small creatures appeared and harassed a family; the Dover Demon, a small humanoid creature that multiple people reported seeing; the Fresno Nightwalker, strange tall figures that have been seen walking around; Indrid Cold, a strange human-like figure with a wide grin, he stalked quite a few people; The Brown Mountain Lights, strange lights in north carolina that are believed to possibly be aliens; Pascagoula Elephant Men, strange creatures that abducted two men. All of these have the main theory of being creatures from outer space.

The Multiverse

These are creatures that have been sighted that are believed to be from an alternate dimension. For some reason, or maybe by accident, these creatures have appeared in our world. Some of these creatures disappear as soon as they appear, believed to have gone back to their own dimension. Some of these creatures bring chaos with them, reports will pop up of supernatural and extraterrestrial encounters in the area. Not much is known about these creatures or where they come from, but it proposes a possible answer to why it’s so hard to find anything out.

The most popular creature is the Mothman, a winged creature that terrified West Virginia and captures many people’s attention today. There are many theories for what exactly Mothman is but one that has emerged and gained some traction is that he’s an interdimensional creature. Some people suggest that he is a creature more powerful than anything in this dimension, and is able to travel back and forth between different dimensions. Some people have also suggested his strange nature is what caused so many poltergeist, UFO, and alien encounters in the area at the time, and also tons of electrical and radio malfunctions.

Another popular creature is the Grafton Monster, a strange white creature with no apparent head. A man spotted the Grafton Monster on the side of the road and quickly sped off, when he came back with his friends the beast was gone, only an indent in the grass where it sat was left. The men couldn’t find any footprints. People wonder if this is because the creature vanished into another dimension.

A lot of creatures with extraterrestrial as their most popular theory are starting to be considered for the interdimensional theory. The Dover Demon, mentioned before, is being considered; the Chupacabra, a creature that feeds on the blog of livestock, is being examined; Dogmen, also mentioned before, are also being reviewed; The Flatwoods Monster is being evaluated; even Bigfoot is being assessed to see if there’s a possibility he’s from another dimension.

The Supernatural Side

These creatures fall into what we know even less about, something beyond our understanding. These sightings and theories aren’t based on science, or are at least based science we don’t understand yet. These creatures come from mythology with modern sightings, or just come from unexplainable sightings. These creatures are reported to have strange attributes and abilities, and can be incredibly dangerous.

Ghosties

This is sort of a square and rectangle situation, some cryptids are believed to be ghosts but not all ghosts are considered cryptids. These cryptids have strange attributes, sometimes being see through or randomly disappearing, and sometimes bringing bad luck and fear. The first creature that comes to mind is the Black Shuck, haunting the british isles the Black Shuck is a large black dog with one red eye. Said to appear and disappear randomly, if you see the Black Shuck you’ll either perish soon or have terrible luck.

This follows closely with the tale of the Black Dog, a similar ghostly canine but with both eyes. It can bring death and misfortune, but it can also guide and protect people. This apparition has been seen all over. One notable instance is the Tennessee Ghost Dog, a large black dog known to growl and bite people. Locals report hearing its howls at night.

There’s also the red ghost, a strange camel typically seen with a creature on it’s back. It’s said to appear and attack people, leaving only trampled bodies and cloven hoof prints behind. It’s said the footprints soon stop, like the creature vanished in mid air.

Then there’s the Black Cat of Killakee, a black cat who haunted people living and working on a house. The cat would appear in places it shouldn’t, locked rooms and random hallways. The cat would hiss and growl at anyone who looked at it. The couple who owned the house did an exorcism and the cat disappeared, until someone held a seance and the cat came back full force.

These creatures are sometimes believed to be strange species, or merely superstitions and hoaxes, but many people believe these are haunting creatures.

Hey Demons, It’s Me, Ya Boy

I’m sorry I couldn’t help myself

These are creatures that are typically believed to be violent and dangerous creatures, even more so than Ghosties. They’re typically described as terrifying demons with strange appearances and powerful abilities. These creatures are also known to attack people on sight. One of the most famous creatures in this category is the Jersey Devil, a creature in sighted in Pine Barrens, New Jersey. The creature is described as having a goat head, bat wings, arms with clawed hands, legs with hooves, and a forked tail, it also has a piercing scream. Legend has it that Mother Leeds was a witch, and when birthing her 13th child she cried out and cursed it. The child was born normal but soon changed into a terrifying creature, cursed to roam the Pine Barrens.

Another creature that fits this category is the Lone Pine Mountain Devil, spotted in the mountains of the southwest. It’s described as being large, furry, multiple wings, and multiple sharp fangs. The most clear description came from a priest who survived an attack on his convoy. He was the only survivor, and described the creatures as horrifying demons who slaughtered everyone except him.

Goatmen have been spotted in multiple areas, but many people assume they’re demons. What they all have in common is appearing as half-men, half-goats, and being very aggressive. The Pope Lick Monster, one of the more popular goatmen, is said to attack people. Legend has it that it used to be a man who sold his soul to satan for power.

There’s also The Nameless Thing of Berkeley Square, a strange creature hiding in a building on Berkeley Square. It’s described as a cosmic horror, a strange slimy and formless creature, the only defining feature being tentacles. It tends to burst into people’s rooms and strangles them and drags their corpse to the basement. Many say it’s a demon infesting the building.

So these are my cryptid categories! Obviously these will be interpreted differently from person to person, and what seems more likely to exist will change from person to person too!

I always love to learn about other people’s opinions and beliefs on cryptids, feel free to share yours! Do you have different categories that weren’t included in this post? Do you have a favorite cryptid that falls into these categories? What’s your favorite category?

#cryptid #cryptids #categories #article #spooky #creepy #flatwoods monster #Big Foot #alien big cat #loch ness monster #fresno nightcrawler #mothman #my info

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50 questions

I was tagged by @hayley-the-comet thanks heaps!! This looks fun

What is the colour of your hairbrush? Umm, yes... my hairbrush

Name a food you never eat: Besides all animal products... mushroom. Can’t stand em. Wish I liked them, they’re a pretty versatile food.

Are you typically too warm or too cold? Too warm. It’s changing a bit now because the weather’s so cold but compared to other people too warm definitely.

What were you doing 45 minutes ago? Chilling on the couch with family, pretty sure that was 45 mins ago as of writing this

What’s your favourite candy bar? Vego bar

Have you ever been to a professional sports game? yeah

What is the last thing you said out loud? I think I said “see you tomorrow” to a family member, unless you count just laughing at a YouTube video which was more recent

What is your favourite ice cream? Probably chocolate or mint. I like the vegan cornettos too

What was the last thing you had to drink? Water

Do you like your wallet? Yep it’s a batman wallet

What is the last thing you ate? A complete cookie

Did you buy any new clothes last weekend? Can’t remember if it was on the weekend but I’m waiting on a tee shirt and bomber jacket to be delivered

What’s the last sporting event you watched? Couldn’t say, I don’t watch sports

What is your favourite flavour of popcorn? Probs just salted or buttered/salted (vegan butter obvs)

Who is the last person you sent a text message to? A work colleague

Ever go camping? Very occasionally

Do you take vitamins? Usually but I’m being slack rn, I’m waiting on some of those to be delivered too. Normally I take B-12, omega-3 algae oil, D-3, iron, zinc, and magnesium

Do you go to church every Sunday? Never been

Do you have a tan? Not in this weather

Do you prefer Chinese or pizza? Pizza

Do you drink your soda through a straw? I’m sensing these questions were written by an American... nope I don’t drink that stuff

What colour socks do you usually wear? Black

Do you ever drive above the speed limit? See, here’s the thing. I use cruise control fanatically to avoid getting a speeding fine. So far so good. But a month or two ago I got done by the cops for speeding, but it’s because they got me just as I’d finished overtaking someone. That’s literally the only time I’ll drive faster than the limit. To overtake someone. Not because of the law or anything, I couldn’t give two shits what the law says (I mean look at my Tumblr name lol), I just don’t want them taking my money. Lucky for me when I got done the cop was one of the few reasonable ones and let me off with a caution because he knew I’d just overtaken someone and saw that I’d had a flawless record prior.

What terrifies you? Not having properly lived before I die. The animal holocaust going on every minute of every day. The fact that the environment is getting fucked and all people seem to care about is the economy. We’re one species of ten million. Sometimes I just wish the events of the day the earth stood still would happen. Probably not quite what the question was asking but that is honestly what terrifies me. Anthropocentrism.

Look to your left, what do you see? My bedside table with various items on it (lamp, Apple Watch, cologne, deodorant, drink bottle, tissues, etc.)

What chore do you hate most? Probably vacuuming

What do you think of when you hear an Australian accent? Yep, definitely written by an American hahaha, I think “oh someone’s saying something in a normal sounding voice” lol... wait no I wanna change my answer to Chase from House

What’s your favourite soda? N/A mate

Do you go in a fast food place or just hit the drive through? Usually drive through but depends

What’s your favourite number? Don’t have one

Who’s the last person you talked to? Think my dad

Favourite cut of beef? No cutting, just a live, happy cow allowed to live its life is my favourite :)

Last song you listened to? I’m good? by Hilltop Hoods

Last book you read? I think 12 rules for life? I have very mixed opinions on it but at the very least Jordan Peterson has some motivating things to say

Favourite day of the week? Friday or Saturday for obvious reasons

Can you say the alphabet backwards? Probs very slowly haha

How do you like your coffee? Strong French press with 1 sugar and a lil soy milk 👌

Favourite pair of shoes? I have like 1 pair of shoes I wear 95% of the time they’re just black nikes with the white sole and nike tick

Time you normally get up? If I’m working then like 90 mins or so before I start work, if I’m not working then more like 11am, love my sleep ins :)

What do you prefer, sunrise or sunsets? Sunsets

How many blankets on your bed? 1 quilt

Describe your kitchen plates. Um mostly just white but a few with a blue ring halfway to the edge, like if you drew a radius line the blue bit would be in the middle of the line

Describe your kitchen at the moment. Messy

Do you have a favourite alcoholic drink? I usually have like a vodka/soda/raspberry thing or vodka dry or if its beer then corona

Do you play cards? Badly

What colour is your car? Red

Can you change a tyre? Haven’t before but how hard can it be

Your favourite state? If you mean Aus then I very much like my state South Australia but if you mean in the US I have no idea

Favourite job you’ve had? They’ve all sucked equally haha

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Why Study at Queens College While Working in Australia?

When people know that you are an Australian, they’d probably ask about the kangaroos, koalas and other exotic animals in the country. It is true that Australia is a haven to many species and is rich in biodiversity. But more than that, Australia is also home to students all across the globe.

According to the University College of London’s Centre for Global Higher Education, Australia is set to take over the spot of the United Kingdom as the world's leading and second most popular study destination. While an increasing number of students, both foreign and local, desires to study and work in Australia, it is important to note that there are many factors to consider before choosing your next university.

There are countless possibilities to think about when choosing where to study, may it be in your home country or another. Plus, there are a lot of highly reputable colleges and many beautiful countries to explore. To help you make a pick from the overwhelming choices, we give you some reasons why we think Queens College is one of the best places for you.

Queens College is an institution for higher education that caters to foreign and domestic students.

In Queens College, you are set to avail of an affordable education with a guaranteed unique learning experience.

In Queens College, we have full time, part time and short courses that suit your interest in business and English.

With our adept and expert educators, we are certain to provide you with high quality education.

Why Queens College?

For Local Students

Unlike many other places in Europe and America, Australian students show little to no interest in studying outside their own country. Many of them prefer to stay at home and study in colleges and universities in major cities like Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney as it is more convenient. They feel like it’s always a better option to study and work in their hometown, Australia.

That said, it is safe to assume that the Australian Educational System is really effective in making sure that the nation would not be threatened by the culture of brain drain.

If you’re a local and you’re finding your future university, look no further. Queens College is a great place for you to start your education. Having doubts and second thoughts? Let this list clear your mind.

1. We Have an Excellent Education System

Australia takes pride in their best practices and education systems. Australian colleges and universities offer a wide range of courses and degrees, so every student can easily find the school and field that are fit for them. Students can choose between universities and enroll in vocational courses that cater to their interests, without compromising the quality of education. For English and business courses, it is good to note that Queens College is one of the leaders in providing affordable and excellent education.

2. Satisfactory Student Experience and Graduate Outcomes

Learning and education are always expected to translate better opportunities for students. In the 2018 Department of Education International Student Survey, international students report 90% satisfaction rating for their living and study experience in Australia. That number is only for international students, what more for local who have better access and understanding of the Australian customs and culture.

For International Students

Australia is regarded for its diverse and hospitable people - a melting pot of cultures. It is also recognized in 2015 by Legatum Prosperity Index as the #1 country in the world for education. Hitting all three key indicators: access to education, quality of education, and human capital,' the Australian educational system assures international students a high-quality education.

If you're planning to study abroad, make Australia a part of your shortlist and you would definitely not regret it.

Still not sure as to where you'd study? The list below will be of great help.

1. We Are the World’s 3rd Most Popular Student Destination

It could sometimes get lonely when you're in a foreign country. Well, if you're in Australia you'd be sure to meet other international students like you. Being a friendly country and a multicultural society, Australia values individual freedom, acknowledging diverse cultures all over the world. With over half a million international students from 192 countries, you'll earn friends and gain a huge network throughout the globe. For instance, Queens College has 7 distinct nationalities - Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Korean, Eastern Europeans and South Americans. Thismix of nationalities makes our colleges vibrant venues of culture and relativity.

2. We Have the Most Breathtaking Landscapes

If you're an adventure jock planning to study internationally, Australia could offer an experience of a lifetime. With a great mix of the urban and regional centres, Australia sets you in a mood to crave for learning beyond the corners of your institution. Being in Queens College, you’ll get to be a part of a bigger community with three campuses: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Our Campuses

Sydney

Sydney is the largest city in Australia. It is famous for its beautiful beaches, notable landmarks, and sophisticated culture.

Located in the heart of Sydney's Central Business District, Queens College Sydney campus is accessible to different public transports in convenient locations. If you like the metropolitan life or the laid back environment, Queens College definitely suits your lifestyle.

Melbourne

Known as the cultural centre of Australia, Melbourne is the second largest city of the country.

Queens College is an international college in Melbourne. Other than English and business courses, our Melbourne campus offers diploma, certification, English, and online courses across our different campuses

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Sustainable and green - we are proud to have our third Queens College campus. Brisbane is home to dozens of flora and fauna.

Our Brisbane campus in our region, Queensland Country gives every student an interesting experience as this country is renowned for its four distinct seasons.

Enquire about our enrollment process now and experience excellent quality education in our Queens College campuses.

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About Axe

Full name: Axelle Rose Nelson (named after Axl Rose of Guns n Roses)

Date of birth: November 28, 1989

Place of birth: NYC

Hometown: Jericho, NY, a suburb of NYC

Signs: Sagittarius (fire), Earth Snake, Owl

Parents: Estrella Mariam Nelson (born 1972, died 2001, née García) and Leonard Earl Nelson (born 1971)

Siblings: Kailene Renae Nelson (born 1993) and Kalise Rae Nelson (born 1998)

Ethnicity: Spanish, English, Welsh, Indigenous American

Height: 5'7

Species: vampire and human from her father's side, werewolf from her mother's

Personality: Axe has a dark side. It's hard to peel back her layers and get passed it. Manipulative and a liar to boot. Some would call her evil. Loyal to a fault to those who have earned her trust - which is a slow, arduous process. Axe tends to trust the wrong people though, and has fallen into plenty of abusive relationships - platonic and otherwise. She herself is very toxic and conniving. Macabre sense of humor. Kinky. Loves to dance.

Backstory: Axe grew up relatively normally, the oldest of three daughters. Her parents were loving enough to each other and the girls, although her father was emotionally abusive to all four of them and physically abusive occasionally to their mother. He blamed it on being in a house full of women and having nowhere to escape to, but really it was the alcoholism combined with generally being a jackass. If asked, Axe would insist it didn't shape who she was at all.

A couple months before Axe's 12th birthday, a tragedy that shook America hit particularly close to home for the Nelson family. Estrella was a custodian in the Twin Towers. At 9:03 am, They were supposed to be watching a DARE video in health class, but instead, Axe watched live as the South Tower was hit, killing her mother though she didn't know it at the time. There was stunned silence from the 8th grade class - Axe was bright, and had tested out of 6th grade - of Jericho Middle School, and the teacher promptly shut off the TV.

Axe had no idea this moment would change not just her family's lives, but the lives of all Americans. School was let out at about 11 am that day, and Axe walked home. Her father had picked up Kailene from elementary school, and Kalise was only a toddler at the time. They couldn't possibly understand what was happening - or what it meant. Mom is gone. Axe couldn't break it to them though, as her father kept attempting frantically to make phone calls. All lines were jammed.

They were huddled in the living room of a neighbor's home, the neighbors praying and crying, and Kalise began to fuss as well. Dissociating, Axe held the child and tried to soothe her. That was the day it all changed forever. That was the day Axe took on a role she shouldn't have ever had to, the day the alcoholism spiraled, the day that destroyed the Nelson family's already cracking foundation. She couldn't hear the news over the sounds of bodies thudding live in the background.

Since that loss, Axe turned to unhealthy coping mechanisms. She was never really one to overindulge in drugs and alcohol, though she did partake; instead, she let bloodlust consume her. She manipulated plenty a man into feeding the monster that consumed her... the monster she had become. Axe raised her sisters, as her father continually let them down, though he never did raise a hand to them outside of spanking.

When she was 17, Axe was ready to move on. She applied for the Biomedical Engineering program at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, and she got in. Kailene was just starting high school, and Kalise was doing well in elementary. It was time for her to move on. Besides, Baltimore was less than 200 miles away. Tinged with guilt, Axe still took the chance to improve her life. She couldn't play mommy forever.

No child should be forced to go through what Axelle did; no child should have to raise their siblings, however common it is. Axelle never got the chance to be a teenager. She never even partied until Johns Hopkins. Unfortunately, she spent so much time finally getting to be a teen that she failed two classes her first semester and lost her scholarships. Axe decided to continue moving on with her life, though.

Without telling her father, Axe moved to Detroit and worked three jobs until she had enough for an online semester at Wayne State University as a biology student. Living paycheck to paycheck, Axe put herself through a year of college there before she was able to apply for financial aid once again. When she did, her father found out where she was. She didn't let his anger shake her, though.

Eventually, she was able to quit two of her jobs and rack up a lot of student debt to attend in-person classes. She dreamed of being able to get back into Johns, but they rejected her every time she reapplied. Instead, she attended Wayne State's School of Medicine. By the end of her college career and residency, she was in over 300,000 dollars of student debt. She also developed alcoholism during her stint in med school.

Graduating in 2019 with a Ph.D. in immunology and microbiology, Axe finally felt like she'd made something of herself. She refused to change her name for her degree, despite plenty telling her she should. Besides, now she was Dr. Nelson, and that sounded plenty professional to her. She returned to the Big Apple to find a job as an immunologist. Doctors had access to plenty of blood, after all.

Kailene had already graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a Bachelor's in Accessories Design and Kalise was partying it up in her third year at LaGuardia Community College where she had changed her major from Social Science and Humanities to Business Administration. She had no idea what she wanted to do with her life, and who could blame her. She never knew their mother, and it had led to her being really stunted in life. Axe felt partially to blame; she had left when Kalise was so young, after all, and stayed gone for eleven years. Now that she was back, she wanted to spend time with her family - even their father. She had forgiven him a long time ago. Besides, he'd had to have done something right since all three of them had attended college.

Kinks: shibari, daddy doms, footplay, bloodplay, asphyxiation, breath play, choking, knifeplay, barebacking, CBT, exhibitionism, anal. Switch, primarily sub. Loves being yanked by the hair, slapped around, and generally manhandled. If it's BDSM, she'd definitely try it twice before deciding if she's into it or not.

Turn-offs: pet play, collaring, hard degradation, age play - regression, diapers, begging, CNC.

Sexuality: pansexual (open to threesomes/orgies), polyamorous

Relationship status: single and not looking for serious commitment; prefers fwb. You won't hear her dropping the L bomb any time soon.

Current age: nearing 30

#about axe #about muse #oc #axe #axelle rose #axelle

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When I finished my previous post we had wrapped up the Midwest Ocular Angiography Conference at the Four Seasons Resort and Residences in Jackson, Wyoming the previous night and were just about to begin the holiday leg of our trip through the Pacific Northwest of the USA.

Wednesday, July 10, 2019 We had our lunch at the Four Seasons with Tony, the pharmaceutical representative from Chicago we had met at the conference, and now it was time for us to hit the road. We got in our white, rental Toyota Corolla and it needs to be said, Anna does a great job of driving on the opposite side of the road and there were some confusing roads and intersections to deal with in this area. Wifi was almost nonexistent so we had to either try and make the most of the one bar of connection we had while in a town to find our destination on Google Maps or simply resort to paper maps, something I would have to do a lot over the coming days in order to navigate, making me sometimes feel more than a little carsick. In fact things were so remote we couldn’t even get a radio reception and it looked like we’d just be listening to static for the next couple of hours until I was finally able to get my phone to pair with the car’s stereo via bluetooth, allowing us to listen to the music I had saved on iTunes. If we had to rely on Spotify, we would’ve been screwed. It really didn’t take that long to make our way deeper into Grand Teton National Park, where we would be spending that night:

Grand Teton National Park is an American national park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (480 sq mi; 130,000 ha; 1,300 km2), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. Along with surrounding national forests, these three protected areas constitute the almost 18,000,000-acre (7,300,000 ha) Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the world’s largest intact mid-latitude temperate ecosystems.

The human history of the Grand Teton region dates back at least 11,000 years, when the first nomadic hunter-gatherer Paleo-Indians began migrating into the region during warmer months pursuing food and supplies. In the early 19th century, the first white explorers encountered the eastern Shoshone natives.

Grand Teton National Park is an almost pristine ecosystem and the same species of flora and fauna that have existed since prehistoric times can still be found there. More than 1,000 species of vascular plants, dozens of species of mammals, 300 species of birds, more than a dozen fish species and a few species of reptiles and amphibians inhabit the park.

One of many meese in the area

To be honest, neither Anna nor myself is particularly interested in fly-fishing, which is extremely popular there, but we do like the outdoors, hiking, and checking out the wildlife so we would be doing plenty of that over the coming days. In fact, we learnt an easy way for spotting animals almost immediately; if you see a whole heap of cars pulled over on the side of the road and a bunch of people staring and pointing into the distance, there is usually something worth pulling over and seeing. On the first occasion it was a female moose (above, right) grazing in a small body of water. It was obviously female, because it didn’t have antlers, but this got us immediately wondering if there might be more moose around, particularly male ones. Then I got a little irritated when it occured to me that the moose is a member of the deer family so the name is an invariant, the plural form still being “moose”, not “meese.” It seemed like such a wasted opportunity, but never mind, that wouldn’t stop me from referring to them as “meese.” Nothing could.

Another stop en route to our destination would be Jenny Lake, a popular hiking area through some of the tallest peaks in the Teton Range, in order to trek a portion of the Cascade Canyon Trail. We would take a boat, the humorously named “Beaver Dick Leigh” (which I later discovered was named after Richard “Beaver Dick” Leigh), from South Jenny Lake across to the the entrance of Cascade Canyon and hike up to the well-signposted Hidden Falls, then past the Jaw and the Rock of Ages, down to Lake Solitude, along the way passing that family from Oregon with whom we went whitewater rafting the previous day and Anna having to keep the sole attached to a busted hiking shoe with a hair-tie, before finally making our way back down to Jenny Lake and catching the “Beaver Dick Leigh” back across to our car. Besides squirrels, we didn’t really see any wildlife, but the scenery was pretty spectacular. See for yourself:

Entering Grand Teton National Park

Token panoramic shot

Our ride across the lake

And we’re off

It looks cold but it surprisingly wasn’t

I guess that’s one way to stop lake pirates

Almost there

following the river

Hidden Falls isn’t all that hidden

I’m dressed like I work there

The beginning of the trail

Still going

Anna getting a bit ahead of me

Not a bad way of spending an afternoon

One of many squirrels we would see

Looking down on some trees

Teton Range

We didn’t encounter any bears… yet!

To say the water is clear would be like saying it is also damp

Now that we were done with the hiking we had to find our way to the ranch where we were staying. That’s right, ranch. We were staying at the Heart Six Guest Ranch, which claims to be “One of the oldest dude ranches in America,” located just outside Grand Teton National Park and right near the south gate of Yellowstone National Park. Another fact to add was that the ranch stunk strongly of horse manure, an odour that you could almost taste, one that never disappeared, but also one that permeated everything until you just became acclimatised to it. One good thing about staying in this region is that it stays light until about 9:30pm each night so we didn’t have to worry about locating the ranch in the dark, but when we eventually found it, we were surprised to also see covered wagons and teepees on the grounds. We would definitely have to explore them a bit more in the morning, because I want to know how Native Americans could tolerate the cold nights here in just a teepee! When we arrived we checked in, noting the wildly swinging ceiling fan in the ranch’s reception, along with the multitude of mosquitoes and other insects in the general vicinity. Once done we didn’t go to our room, instead opting to drive down to a nearby river in the hope of seeing some animals, as dusk is apparently the prime time for spotting wildlife. Unfortunately, we didn’t encounter a whole lot, just a couple of female deer enthusiastically spotted in the distance by some fellow tourists, a large, slowly moving mound on the opposite bank of the river that was apparently a beaver (but realistically it could’ve been almost anything), and some spiders. I did, however, manage to snap the photo of the mountains with the purple sky that I used for the featured image for this post while we were there.

We returned to the “Dude Ranch” and asked the guy working in reception where there was to eat. There were apparently two options, one of which the receptionist said in no uncertain terms was “shit.” We walked outside and there was a man in a cowboy hat passing us so we asked him for his recommendation, to which he replied the other option out of the two was “shit.” We weren’t expecting to find ourselves in a culinary hotspot, but in our experience there people were more willing to tell you which was the worst out of the two restaurants, as opposed to which one they preferred, and thus far the consensus was split 50/50. Not a good sign so we opted for the closest which was on the grounds of the ranch — It was shit. There was probably only about 15 minutes until the kitchen closed and there was a family on a table behind us where the mother, similar in appearance to what you see in ‘Karen’ memes, was going to snap. She was constantly complaining to our waiter and bitching at her kids, but it was the waiter that I felt bad for. This tall, gangly guy with long, blonde hair in a ponytail with a fringe, a curly moustache, and suspenders over a t-shirt was frazzled — It can’t be easy being the only hipster in a tiny town, as well as the only employee in the town’s restaurant. When the family was ordering, the mother asked if there were any gluten-free options, to which the waiter replied that nothing they serve would be truly gluten-free, because they cook everything on the same grill and don’t really clean it. She just let out an audible, dissatisfied sigh and ordered a random dish. I’m not sure if he was cooking the food too, but it took quite a while to come out and it most likely wasn’t because they were busy cleaning in the kitchen. That family were there first so their food arrived before ours and the mother still wasn’t happy, going on a rant about the poor quality of their dinner. Ours eventually arrived and it was pretty bad too; a tough steak each and french fries that weren’t just crunchy, but hard as if they had kept all of the leftover, uneaten fries aside over the course of the evening and then refried them all at the end for our meals — It’s pretty hard to screw up fries, but they managed somehow. Still, we just smiled and gnawed on our steaks and crunched our fries, because we didn’t want to ruin the waiter’s night any further, he seemed close to tears.

Once we had got through the bulk of our dinner we decided to have a look around this part of the ranch, including the lounge area and the bar. As had been the case in Jackson and is probably a theme running through all ranches, there was a heap more taxidermy within those walls. Inside the lounge there was a kid being shown how to play pool by an older man, people sitting around reading books, and a stoned-looking guy admiring a stuffed animal head mounted on the wall, looking at it in the same way that a person takes in a renaissance masterpiece in a European museum. He giggled and pointed out to me that it had a weird horn in the middle of its head that would block its vision when it looked to the side. I mentioned that its eyes were on the sides of it head so it probably wouldn’t have had true peripheral vision anyway and the horn could just be the result of poor taxidermy. He seemed to take this onboard and continued to study this felled beast. Anna and I decided to take in other areas of the building such as the small bar with incredibly uncomfortable looking saddles on top of the barstools, when the guy staring at the head came running up, appearing relieved to have finally located me. “It’s a caribou!” he yelled while laughing hysterically, obviously having asked someone else, because he wouldn’t have been able to Google it unless he could get on one of the two occupied computers in the lounge.

We weren’t going to be staying in a teepee or a covered wagon, we just went up to our ugly room and hit the sack for the night. We were told when we checked in that the rooms in the part we were staying had only just been completed and when we got up there we saw that it was really basic; the walls were just plywood and everything appeared to be unfinished and really cheaply done so we could hear everything happening in the neighbouring rooms, all the while trying to make contact with as few surfaces as possible in order to avoid getting splinters. It also smelled of turpentine and there wasn’t a TV or wifi for a distraction so we just showered and went to sleep. A look around the ranch and our room:

Part of the outside area of our ranch at dusk

Me in the ranch’s restaurant with the angry mum behind me

Anna from the other side of the restaurant

Inside the lounge area

Some heads on the wall

The caribou with its weird centre horn

Inside the bar

Those stools don’t look comfortable at all

Our bed for the night

Thursday, July 11, 2019 Maybe it was just the jet-lag catching up with me, but I had a mild epileptic seizure that morning in my sleep. It wasn’t anything major, I still remember waking up immediately afterward and snoring heavily while trying to get back to sleep, but it would leave me feeling kind of lethargic, however, I wasn’t going to let it prevent me from making the most of the day. We also couldn’t sleep much, because there was construction going on outside our room from the early morning onward, as well as people speaking loudly just outside.

We knew that the restaurant in the ranch was terrible and we hadn’t heard sparkling reviews about our only other option so we didn’t bother with breakfast, we just went down to a convenience store, breathing in the fragrance of horse shit the entire way and passing our waiter from the previous night, a defeated-looking man now hanging out towels. We just hoped for better results than the last time we were in a convenience store and we didn’t do too badly, just a couple of average cups of coffee and I grabbed a Hunter’s Reserve Roadkill meat stick. It may sound like a bad double entendre and due to the word “roadkill” being a registered trademark, I have my doubts that it did contain any actual roadkill, however, “meat from feral swine” was one of the listed ingredients. Anyway, I ate the roadkill stick and stuck the wrapper in my pocket, because there were no bins around. We did one last look around, taking in the covered wagons and teepees around Heart Six Ranch and was surprised to see that they were actually quite modern on the inside, almost to the extent of our room, except for the fact that the people staying in them needed to use a communal toilet, something that is kind of a dealbreaker for Anna and I. A better look around the ranch in the light of day:

This doesn’t just apply to cowboys, there is crap EVERYWHERE!

The wagon accommodation

That’s where the smell is coming from

Some of the teepees

I don’t think it would be big enough in one of those for the both of us

So long, poop ranch

About to gnaw on some “Roadkill”

Before long we were back in the car, bound for the world famous Yellowstone National Park (no, not Jellystone):

Yellowstone National Park is an American national park located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. It was established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872. Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is also widely held to be the first national park in the world. The park is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful geyser, one of its most popular features. It has many types of ecosystems, but the subalpine forest is the most abundant. It is part of the South Central Rockies forests ecoregion.

Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km2), comprising lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges. Yellowstone Lake is one of the largest high-elevation lakes in North America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest supervolcano on the continent. The caldera is considered an active volcano. It has erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two million years. Half of the world’s geysers and hydrothermal features are in Yellowstone, fueled by this ongoing volcanism. Lava flows and rocks from volcanic eruptions cover most of the land area of Yellowstone.

Hundreds of species of mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles have been documented, including several that are either endangered or threatened. The vast forests and grasslands also include unique species of plants. Yellowstone Park is the largest and most famous megafauna location in the contiguous United States. Grizzly bears, wolves, and free-ranging herds of bison and elk live in this park. The Yellowstone Park bison herd is the oldest and largest public bison herd in the United States.

That all sounds pretty cool and if you took the time to read that Yellowstone background information, you would have seen that it mentioned a geyser called Old Faithful, the eruption of which we wanted to witness that day:

Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It is a highly predictable geothermal feature, and has erupted every 44 to 125 minutes since 2000.

Eruptions can shoot 3,700 to 8,400 US gallons (14,000 to 32,000 L) of boiling water to a height of 106 to 185 feet (32 to 56 m) lasting from 11⁄2 to 5 minutes. The average height of an eruption is 145 feet (44 m).

The time between eruptions has a bimodal distribution, with the mean interval being either 65 or 91 minutes, and is dependent on the length of the prior eruption. Within a margin of error of ±10 minutes, Old Faithful will erupt either 65 minutes after an eruption lasting less than 21⁄2 minutes, or 91 minutes after an eruption lasting more than 21⁄2 minutes.

The drive to Yellowstone took us through some gorgeous scenery, bringing us within six miles (10 km) of the Idaho state line, through mountains and alongside rivers until we were finally where we needed to be. Old Faithful wasn’t due to erupt for another 30 minutes or so when we arrived, but remember there is a ±10 minute margin of error, meaning it could be anywhere between 20 and 40 minutes. We had a look around the stores nearby, used the bathroom and grabbed a drink, then we went outside and pulled up a seat on the wooden, colosseum-like benches and waited for the show to begin:

Anna killing time

A lot of people show up to see this thing erupt

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Once the geyser had finished doing its thing the bulk of people watching began applauding for some reason, however, a lot of people here do that when their plane lands as well and you know for a fact that that pilot has successfully landed every single flight he’s flown. Others complained that the geyser was three minutes early which was kind of amusing, mainly because it doesn’t follow a set schedule, rather people make educated guesses with reasonable accuracy as to when it will erupt and within three minutes is a pretty decent guess.

We then spent the bulk of the day hiking around the grounds, although this left me a little breathless at times, probably a combination of the altitude and the seizure that morning, but we saw some incredible sights. Photos don’t do justice to hydrothermal features so before I post the pictures from around the park, I’ll add some more videos of individual ones we came across:

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Anna and a pool

Me on a pathway

A closeup of the pool

Looking over the general vicinity

Another closeup

Something erupting

Overlooking some of the pathways

That’s a really bright flower!

Once we were done in Yellowstone National Park it was time to start driving toward the state of Montana, our home for the next couple of nights, and twice along the way we saw a bunch of cars pulled over to the side and people staring out at something. As I mentioned, that means there is something worth seeing and we wouldn��t be disappointed on either occasion.

First we would be stopping by one of the numerous geyser basins that follow Firehole River to see yet more hydrothermal spots. This area was crowded and the features there were incredible yet again. On this occasion I had a middle-aged guy with a big beard start laughing at my “Let’s Summon Demons” t-shirt, asking his 14-year-old daughter over to admire it. As it would turn out, she and a group of friends had recently got in a bit of trouble with both teachers and police for conducting satanic rituals and dad was more than proud, both him and his daughter wanting to find where they could get the shirt as well. Ultimately just settling for a picture with me.

We ended up stopping further along the river, this time to stop and watch and entire herd of elk that were making their way upstream. At this point we hadn’t seen a whole lot of wildlife so it was a sight for us to behold:

At the geyser basin

Flowing into the river

This shirt got me a bit of love

A panoramic shot of the area

Another part upriver

Just a small portion of the elk from a distance

Some of them feeding

The next stop would be our last one for the day, we would be traveling to Bar N Ranch, but we wouldn’t be staying in their regular accommodation, not by a long shot. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, or May 23 until September 8, when there isn’t too much snow, the ranch opens Under Canvas and Anna had booked for us to go glamping in a tent in the middle of nowhere. That’s no typo, for those unaware of the term, “glamping” is a conjunction of “Glamorous Camping.” I mentioned earlier that Anna doesn’t tend to like roughing it and despite the fact we were going to be staying a tent, she would by no means be getting in touch with nature. We were going to be staying in a Stargazer tent, described on their website as:

Stargazer

The Stargazer has its own viewing window above the king bed to stargaze at night. The ensuite bathroom in your tent includes a shower, sink and toilet. A wood stove keeps the tent warm at night and a private deck allows you to enjoy the outdoors.

Sleeps up to 4

Private bathroom

Key Features

Superior view with night sky viewing window

King size bed with luxurious linens

Private bathroom complete with shower, sink & flushing toilet

Additional camp cots and bedding can be provided for up to 2 people

Definitely an upgrade from staying in a sleeping bag under a tarpaulin, the type of camping that I was used to. Hell, it turned out our tent even had its own indoor fireplace with a sealed flue going outdoors. We drove down there, but there are a lot of cattle surrounding the entrance due to a cattlegrid stopping them exiting the premises so we couldn’t enter until a woman coaxed all of the cows away from the road. Once down the path we checked in and were chauffeur-driven in a golf cart, along with our luggage, to our super-luxurious tent and this wasn’t like anything I was expecting. We got everything arranged, then went to the main area of Bar N Ranch to have dinner, which turned out to be a great meal, and then it was back to our tent. It was a cold night and our shower had hot water, but it took a little while to kick in. Also, the only way to keep the hot water running was to be continually pulling down on a handle, otherwise it it would just cut off, leaving you standing there naked and wet on a freezing night. Anna discovered the best approach was to put soap on the sponge and toothpaste on the brush before getting in, that way you never had to release your grip on that handle. While I was in the shower, she also thought she had found some biscuits on the fireplace, but wasn’t really hungry — It was a good thing, because they turned out to be firelighters. I was pretty tired by the time I got into bed, our tent had a clear panel above the pillow area so I put on an eye-mask and we both went to sleep. This is where we would be spending the next two nights:

Waiting for the cattle to move

Anna out the front of Bar N Ranch

The view from our tent

Inside the restaurant

Another area of the restaurant

…and another

Glamp Montana

Inside our tent

Looking toward the bathroom

Anna ready for bed

Our shower

Pretty luxurious for a tent

Another part of the bathroom

Anna’s biscuits

Friday, July 12, 2019 Anna was already awake and reading by the time I awoke, which was still quite early. She hadn’t worn her eye-mask to sleep so she woke as soon as the sun rose over the clear panel above us in our tent, but no mask could block out the glare, waking me not long after and helping me avoid getting sunburnt. Factor in the jet-lag that was still affecting us and it becomes clear we yet again weren’t really destined for a long sleep.

The plan for the day was to do a little backtracking from Montana into Wyoming to Gallatin National Forest, an area near where we were the previous day, first stopping off at Gibbon Falls and then making our way down into the Mammoth Hot Springs area of Yellowstone National Park for some hiking, hopefully encountering something a little bigger than an elk this time. Before we left we took a look around where we were staying, this time in the broad daylight, me realising as we were walking that the previous day I hadn’t discarded of the wrapper of my roadkill jerky, instead just stuffing it in my pocket. This wasn’t a particularly bright move because, although we were hoping to see some bears from a reasonable distance, I didn’t want the smell of meat attracting any to me directly. I’ve never even really been in a fight before so I don’t like my chances of fending off a grizzly bear, I’d more than likely just instinctively play dead. Probably should pop that wrapper in a bin. The place where we were staying felt bad about some of the food we had been served in the area so far so they allowed us to buy packed lunches from their really good restaurant and we were off. We drove down to Gibbon Falls, a waterfall currently with a drop of approximately 84 feet (26 m) and constantly growing as it erodes the rock below, and we noticed what we had seen time and time again not only the day before, but had also noticed on several previous trips spent exploring the outdoors — That a lot of women traveling from a country that shares its name with the material from which fine teacups and saucers are made choose fashion over function. We particularly noticed it in Turkey where these women would be walking around caves and other geological features wearing high end dresses and heels when hiking attire is far more appropriate, preventing injuries and allowing you to access more areas. Now a lot of them had been wandering around Yellowstone, some even rocking a pair of stilettos, and we hadn’t seen the last of them. Anyway, Gibbon Falls was really nice, here’s a look at our morning up until that point:

Anna waiting outside our tent

Some of the other tents in Under Canvas

An area for outdoor dining

Not the worst heels we saw, but still not appropriate outdoors footware

Gibbon Falls from the side

Looking over the falls

Gibbon Falls from the front

Next we were going to make our way to a kind of unnamed town in the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District, first to eat our packed lunches, then to go to the Horace Albright Visitor Center to get us some information about where we could go hiking and potentially see some big furry things. A little more about the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District, an area that looks a hell of a lot like a town, operates like a town, but apparently isn’t a town:

The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District in Yellowstone National Park comprises the administrative center for the park. It is composed of two major parts: Fort Yellowstone, the military administrative center between 1886-1918, and now a National Historic Landmark, and a concessions district which provides food, shopping, services, and lodging for park visitors and employees.

Fort Yellowstone is a carefully ordered district of substantial buildings that clearly indicate their military origins. The U.S. Army administered the park from 1886 to 1918 when administration was transferred to National Park Service. The park headquarters is now housed in the original double cavalry barracks (constructed in 1909). The Horace Albright Visitor Center is located in the old bachelors’ officers quarters (constructed in 1909).

The concessions district contrasts with the military district, with a less formal arrangement and style and includes the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and Dining Room, a gas station, and retail stores. The Yellowstone Main Post Office, itself on the National Register of Historic Places sits just north of Fort Yellowstone. The residential area includes houses designed by architect Robert Reamer.

So despite having a residential area, retail stores, and even a post office, it still doesn’t qualify as a town, just a “Concessions District.” That explains why I was so confused trying to figure out the location when I first started writing this part of this post, even the locations on the photos I took aren’t accurate.

Anyway, as we were driving into the town concessions district our path to the main parking area was obstructed by a couple of deer making their way across in front of us, which was not a bad start. We ate our packed lunches from Under Canvas then, as we were making our way to the Visitor Center we had to walk pass the town concessions district square, a patch of grass between the two main streets that was teeming with female elk, all just hanging around, some laying down, others eating. I took some pictures, but as I went in to get a slightly closer shot I was accosted by a park ranger. “You must remain 25 yards or 22.8 metres away from all wildlife at all times!” he screamed in a well-rehearsed fashion, but you would think that if it were really that important they would put up at least one sign in the town concessions district. In fact, the only place it was even mentioned was on a flyer from the Visitor Center, however, you needed to walk past the animals to get the flyer. Once in the Visitor Center we stocked up on some supplies such as sunblock and insect repellent as the mosquitoes and horseflies in this area are awful! Anna wondered whether we should get some bear spray, but to me it all seemed like a bit of a scam; the stuff is US$50.00 (currently about AU$72.50) per can and we hadn’t even seen any bears! It was also possible to rent bear spray from some places, but the stuff doesn’t act as a repellent, more like a form of mace for use on bears, and I figured if a grizzly bear was intent on attacking you, spraying mace in its face would only piss it off more so we opted against it.

We got ourselves some maps and were soon on our way, hiking on an uphill path, walking for about 15 minutes when we were approached by an excited looking tourist from New Zealand and her two young children coming the opposite direction. She told us that just a bit further up the hill was a female grizzly bear with two young cubs and it was a bit angry, scaring her kids. We asked her if she thought it was safe for us to continue and she replied, “Oh, sure, you’ll be fine as long as you have your bear spray.” Shit. We walked back down into the town concessions district, forked out the US$50.00 and got us some bear spray.

Take two. We started to make our way uphill again, this time equipped with our bear spray in a hip holster, a liquid with its ingredients listed as 2% capsaicin and 98% “Other ingredients”. This stuff must be pretty strong, possibly even working on the power of suggestion, because after over an hour of anticipating encountering a defensive grizzly bear and its cubs we came to the conclusion that there were now three possibilities:

The bears were substantially further away than the woman had led us to believe,

The bears were gone, or

The woman was working for the bear spray company

I even began to wish I had now kept the Roadkill wrapper in my pocket in the hopes of attracting one. Still, we kept going, hiking for about five hours, covering over 15 km (9.3 miles) of rugged terrain, getting caught in the rain and mauled by mosquitoes, just to see a couple of does, which quite possibly could’ve been the same one multiple times, one male deer, plus a couple of squirrels here and there. As our hike continued, I became more and more annoyed at how anticlimactic it had been; I was now exhausted, wet, and extremely itchy, yet we had seen hardly anything, encountering not only more wildlife, but cooler-looking animals in the town concessions district! We stopped off briefly to have a look at the Mammoth Hot Springs and then decided to head back. To add insult to injury, there was a female elk sitting right next to our car, but screw that 25 yard rule, I wasn’t in the mood to let this thing stop me from getting in our car. If I needed to be 25 yards away from the wildlife, it could do its part on this occasion and move away from me. Some scenes from the town concessions district centre and the little we saw on a disappointing, albeit trying, hike:

Parking the car

Interesting name

The centre of the “Concessions District”

A closeup of some elk

Looking over the concessions district as we begin our hike

Heading back to the store

Now equipped with bear spray

Seems like there’s some around

It’s all good, I’ve got bear spray

2% capsaicin, 98% other ingredients

Safety first

How to use our spray

A small portion of the area we hiked

A doe we saw

Possibly the same doe later

Mammoth Hot Springs

A nearby deer

Mammoth Hot Springs from a distance

She can get 25 yards away from me

That night we went into a real town, West Yellowstone, Montana for dinner with the intent of eating a bison or bear steak out of spite, because we sure didn’t encounter any on our hike. Instead, we settled for a ribeye and some damn good devilled eggs, all of which we shared between us, and then we headed back to our tent for a final night before moving on to the next stop.

Initially I was going to try and tell the story of this trip in two parts, but it turns out I will need a third and final post in order to tell it properly. Where would we be staying next? Would we encounter any wildlife worth writing about? And would I have to wear that hideous cowboy shirt again to a rodeo? Stay tuned for the conclusion of our journey through cowboy country!

Embarking on the vacation leg of our trip through Wyoming and Montana When I finished my previous post we had wrapped up the Midwest Ocular Angiography Conference at the Four Seasons Resort and Residences in Jackson, Wyoming the previous night and were just about to begin the holiday leg of our trip through the Pacific Northwest of the USA.

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theliterarywolf · 6 years ago

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In 1685, are there different subspecies for monsters such as western (lizard) and eastern (dog) kobolds? I know you have Abelard as a European Wendigo for example.

First and foremost, thank you for sending this because I was just thinking ‘God, I wish I had some asks to answer tonight’.

Anyway, subspecies:

Definitely a thing, especially in cases of mermaids (selkies, sirens, ningyo; along those lines), dragons (oof, I can’t even go into all the major species and subspecies here), witches (ex: Witches of Life, Witches of Sight, Kitchen Witches...)

And, of course, more obvious sectors like the undead: western (zombies), Egyptian/various South American cultures (mummies), French-specific (revenants), and so on.

In 1685, admittedly, I do lean moreso towards Western-influence in regards to Kobolds out of preference, but I do acknowledge the Eastern-influence ones.

#1685 Blightblossom Lane #world-building #ask-gunn3r-guru #replies

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skullcap0 · 3 years ago

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rametarin · 4 years ago

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amused at tankie social media

Yeah it’s no secret that a certain section of social media catering to the ideological echo chambers of tankies and their affiliates has seized LGBT and decided those are going to be their pet minorities whose struggle they’ll take the liberty of defining for them and through it define what they are.

The latest campaign is to decide that “TERFs” are actually “right wing.” And that the right wing is “adopting the language og LGBT in order to divide them up.”

Just. That’s hilarious. This is as stupid as religious conservatives and their “gay agenda.”

TERFs are no more “right wing” than extremist misanthropic left-wing environmentalists are, “eco-fascists.” They’re fucking left wing democrats and progressives and liberals that they just don’t want affiliated with what they define as the correct way to be leftist, so obviously those people aren’t real and must instead be conservatives and fascists.

If you’ve been in the company of the religious nutters for more than half an hour, you’d know there is no campaign nor movement, nor even social cohesion, to try and isolate the trans from LGB. To declare this is unanimously a “right wing” move is to insist that the attitudes of conservative religious types are changing, if only to strategically endorse and accept homosexuals.

It’s fantasy. It’s fiction. What would they get from doing this?

The truth is that the people trying so fucking hard to co-opt the T in LGBT are doing so because of ideology, not any fucks given for the transgendered. If the transgendered people didn’t have any value to their and their nurture based society, their tabula rasa/blank slate theory view of how culture and society works, their transhumanist aspirations of setting legal precedent to remove biology from the criteria of what makes constants in the human species, then they wouldn’t give a fuck about the transgendered people whatsoever.

The value of LGBT for these disingenuous litigious fucks boiled down to A.) being a minority to teach about classes and make their own political group/class/hivemind. B.) Argue that sexuality was voluntary and a choice; it’s not, but they absolutely want fixed things like sexuality to be voluntary and optional. And claiming that monogamy was bad for you, heterosexuality was oppression of women and reproducing is ‘bad for the planet.’ C.) Argue that gender itself is fluid and a choice, and sexuality bows to gender, therefore back-arguing that sexuality is choice again.

These are people absolutely dedicated to the idea that every aspect of being alive ought to be voluntary, and the things that make us human being abstracts and ideological and political, not biological. To them, the LGBT serve as contrasts and instant oppressed minorities to warn about the oppressive natures of the heterosexuals and the cis. And the transgendered serve as a group to feed a fiction about how the big bad European Christian church and cisheteronormative culture oppressed the trans from existing through systemic propaganda, marginalizing them.

Running around blowing the warning whistle as they are about conservatives “trying to break up LGBT” is blaming any internal strife among LGBT purely on outside infiltrators conspiring and viciously plotting to break up the harmony. Or rather, it’s, “the CIA is up to their old tricks again!” Just, not in South America.

They desperately need people to see an external existential ideological threat to get in line and socially coalesce, blame for the disharmony and support this false idol they’ve made that alleges to be for transgendered person rights. When in fact, it doesn’t. The rights they’re fighting for are simply to disentangle pronouns and gender for everybody from biology by default and demand we all bend the knee to the idea gender is something we’re “assigned” from this nebulous, somehow ubiquitous, “society.” Not even a government, because they believe a society itself somehow has the authority, not even needing institutional power or law.

And they see LGBT people, both cis and trans, coming aware of this and leaving their stalls and seats under this circus tent clown show. Knowing we can have respectable and reasonable transgendered rights WITHOUT trying to redefine how sex and gender is defined in the human animal. In a way that DOESN’T try to schizophrenically divorce biology from how we define our genders and ourselves, socially.

I was a bit incensed seeing that ludicrous article. Hilarious.

TERFs. Right wing? No. TERFs are disgraced feminists. TERFs were the very definition of feminism, right before trans rights asserted itself in the 90s as a serious thing that threatened the dominance in mainstream American feminism. A feminism that was diverse and consolidated, as opposed to the militant black feminism that preferred to sequester itself from mainstream feminism so as not tobe lost in it completely. But the feminism that is now called, “white feminism,” because it isn’t intersectional feminism; that is, the brand of feminism that argues your feminism isn’t real feminism unless it prioritizes the needs and struggles of minority races first and deliberately puts whites last, due to privilege.

The simple act of NOT putting black and indigenous American rights and struggles at the forefront of every discussion about civil rights and freedoms and struggles is enough to get a feminist labeled a “white feminist.” That simple absence of priority in their eyes signifies white supremacism. To not be afrocentrist is to be white supremacist.

TERFs enjoyed a bubble where they got to be the ultimate of ultimate oppressed minority groups, as women comprised 50% of all the human species. Sometimes more than 50%. So, feminism saw fit to declare itself queen of the minorities, as everybody from Jewish women, to black women, to Asian women, to native American women filled the ranks. Therefore, even white feminists felt they had the right to lord over their white male peers and speak on behalf of those oppressed women, on behalf of being a woman. It made them quite mouthy and quite self-assured.

The thing that did TERFs in was that, part of the allure of that variety of radical feminism was it embraced the idea that the male of the species was inherently an oppressor of the female. That no matter what, like day and night, the binary sex meant that woman was inescapably oppressed by men, philosophically as well as ideologically. You couldn’t have man and woman in the human species without man oppressing woman. Historically or presently. And given their Critical Theory, derived from Marx and similar hooey, anything that did not favor or empower “the oppressed” was therefore oppressing it. TERFs saw not being in defacto control of everything to be oppression of them by men. And this was an inescapable struggle. It was a toxic, noxious, annoying mentality of entitlement that appealed to those insecure about men and whom wanted a good rationale to demand more than their share.

But they didn’t take their critical theory or class struggle theory far enough. When the transwomen came knocking to be part of their clubs, the TERFs demanded that transwomen accept certain things as fact and base first. That transwomen weren’t really women, they were just queers. And while they would fight for the rights of queers, they would not recognize them as women. They were men.

This, ultimately, is why bio-essentialist feminists, as well as mainstram 90s feminists are now thrown under the catch all banner of, “white feminist” and “TERF.” Because their class struggle theory didn’t go far enough with making things socially constructed classes. THey stopped at biology for their romantic nonsense. And that was perceived as oppressing a group of people that championed the idea even constants of biology like gender should be social constructs.

Radical feminists that are not intersectionalists nor social constructionist are every bit the radical leftists as the people waving rainbow flags with the ugly trans colors and black stripe. They’re just disgraced and pariahed and disavowed after another school of philosophy asserted control in the tenured colleges where humanities are taught and among the professors that teach them.

That does not make them, “right wing.” Or conservative. To the disgusting sensibilities of these social constructionist, authoritarian assholes, not observing and prioritizing the logic and philosophy of class struggle theory to race and therefore putting the black struggle first makes you a white supremacist and an oppressor. It’s very extremist in nature and violently demented. Not too different from a religious zealot that sees difference as hostility and imminent danger.

And I am oh so enjoying watching this extremist rhetoric falling apart to the generations younger than my own. You’re doing great, kids.

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