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I wanted to share some of these sunsets here as well because aren’t these just drop dead gorgeous? 🌅
#art#illustration#aesthetic#artists on tumblr#photography#nature photography#nature#nature hikes#sunset#sunsets#beautiful#content creator#original content#lgbtqia#lgbt pride#self love#article
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I got another article written about me - first one in two years!!!
Wording's a little funny at times, but I feel like it's a overall fair representation of what I had to say - so feel free to read if you're so inclined!!!
#lol article time#lol flag time#trans#trans pride#queer#queer pride#pride flag#lgbt pride#lgbtq pride#lgbtq#transgender#transgender pride#hiking
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What about Bo's relationship with Jade??
SCIENCE BUDDIES! THEY ARE FORAGING IN THE DIRT TOGETHER
Bo has never been particularly afraid of the twins, his first impressions landing somewhere between "distrusts" and "potentially dangerous so stay on guard", but they don't set off his anxiety as much as others might speculate. Most of the reason they're intimidating is because half the time they're playing with people while doing odd jobs for Azul, at least in Bo's eyes.
Jade's interest in Bo peaked upon the discovery of his (then) budding insect collection. A fellow nature-lover would surely be a pleasant recruit to his club, right...? Well, not officially, but Bo is a returning honorary member. They sometimes watch over each other's vivariums like a form of pet-sitting and love to chat about what "adventures" they got up to. Usually, if one has mysteriously disappeared off-campus, the other will have as well, and they'll return soon in less than stellar shape with bags full of moss. No need to worry.
Outside of their bond through being absolute fucking nerds, they don't typically hang out together if it isn't situational. Bo will, on occasion, seek out Jade for assistance with potionology or similar homework, but they tend to go their separate ways.
#twst#ask#twst: bo#gawzdrawz#jade leech#yuusona#did i tag the last one with that#i dont think i did#jade and bo are like exactly the same person when it comes to natural sciences#they will literally chat for hours over the phone#but instead of gossip its like. some new science article that came out#also neither of them are particularly good at *actually* hiking#as in#physically trekking the mountains#and i think there's something beautiful in that
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It sounds like satire: a beloved Texas state park has been sold to a Dallas real estate guy, who plans to develop it into a private gated community. How could this happen? The answer: an old lease agreement, some bad timing, and a series of bizarre fumbles by the state of Texas itself.
For The Texas Observer, I wrote about the last days of Fairfield Lake State Park.
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I went on a stone age art wikiwalk. come partake in some highlights with me
Çatalhöyük. Often called 'the world's first city' and located in current day Turkey. Here's a probable reconstruction of an interior of the houses:
Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük. A figurine found in Çatalhöyük. Personal note: what the hell this art fucks so incredibly, look at that definition, those shapes!!
Venus of Dolní Věstonice, found in current day Czech Republic. It's dated to 29,000–25,000 BCE (!!!!) and is one of the oldest known ceramic pieces ever made.
I don't know why this got to me as much as it did, but during a scan in 2004 they found the fingerprint of a child between 7-15 on this figurine -- they probably weren't the artist, but must have handled it at some point before it was fired. and somehow that gets me real emotional haha
Venus of Monruz. Found in current day Switzerland, likely about 11,000 years old, and of a profile I feel can only suitably be described as 'absolute dumptruck'. Mostly here for the ass enjoyers to balance out the representation of glorious boobage, if I'm being honest. Some similar figurines were found in Germany and at least one of them are theorized to be made by the same artist; I find this idea absolutely delightful because I love the idea that someone so obviously Knew What They Were About back then. (The actual function of Venus figurines, whether for ritualistic/religious purposes as fertility symbols, works of art, or good old fashioned tit(t)illation is uncertain and contentious (as is the use of 'Venus figurine' as a name for them, accordingly), but in my own humble and entirely unqualified opinion: somehow this one feels deeply horny. someone here was all about that base and didn't care who knew it.)
Venus of Hohle Fels Found in current day Germany, the oldest known clear depiction of a human being we know of, dated to 40,000 -- 30,000 years old. (The Löwenmensch figurine is likely older, but it's kind of unclear if that is meant to depict a human being or a god or what. My unprofessional personal opinion: Yes, that is right; the furries got there first, and I don't see why anyone's surprised fhsdfjak.)
Several male anthropologists have said some deeply exuberantly weird and horny things about this one! It does somehow feel like I'm daring tumblr to strike me down even in the absence of female presenting nipples on display here (nevermind the 'more of a pussy out sort of look' of it all) so maybe they have a point, but I find this piece of art so deeply charming I'm ready to take the chance anyway. I adore the way the hands are rendered especially. I also cannot recommend enough that you go to the wikimedia section of this one, not least because I found THIS in there
the power of transformative art. the anime titty jiggle of our modern day applied to the oldest known human figure. art begets art across the ages
Not a piece of art as such, but the the Neanderthal skeletons found in the Shanidar Cave in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq fascinate me. Lots of interesting speculation about the possible presence of altruism in Neanderthals brought up from this. Special shoutout to the body known as Shanidar 3: a male person who was between 40 and 50 at the time of his death, and who may have been the first guy we know of to have been stabbed to death by someone. what a claim to fame. Caesar may have done it the most but this guy did it first
This little guy
I can't stop laughing. yes that is exactly how I feel too, trace of French cave art possibly depicting a cave hyena from Le Babiliou Cave, Dordogne, France. You're saying what we're all thinking
#I also went through a fun little hike through some articles on homosexual pair bonded animals and such it was that kind of day lol#art nonsense#ngl I mostly made this post to get to share the possibly-hyena one. it despondently said :/ and I'm so there with it#there were also a bunch of amazing cave paintings from all over the world but I am tired. and sad. so mostly you get boobs&ass jokes today
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"Are you the first finish?" "Oh yeah!"
(credit to years of hill training)
#i cannot stop thinking about that article#he really said “a hike is childs play my dad made me do hill sprints for 20 minutes”#aiden celebrini#vancouver canucks
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https://www.garagegrowngear.com/blogs/trail-talk/crushing-it-how-we-talk-about-outdoor-adventure-and-why-it-matters
This guy understands it, and puts it much better than I ever could. Coming to nature with a conquering and colonialist mindset is not going to help, but neither will, "Trusting Mother Earth to take care of me, the trail provides!"
We have a responsibility to take care of ourselves in nature and be prepared so that we come home safely. We also have a responsibility to take care of the areas we enjoy, reduce our harm to the natural environment, and give back if we can. A good walk in nature can do great things for your short term mental health but it will not replace treatment if you need it.
But if you plan ahead, and bring enough water and dress for the weather, then you can have an amazing time exploring all the amazing sights right outside your backyard.
#hiking#mindset#mental health#honestly this is just a good article#garage grown gear#backpacking#outdoor sports
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Alex like a year and a half after Rabbit's death going awol for a while to hike the Appalachian trail
#OKAY BUT REALLY....#alex still grieving and holding everything in and deciding he just has to... go do something. anything#he's probably always wanted to do it??? especially when he was a little younger#alex making some brief connections with other hikers he runs into during his trip?? some of them the closest he's felt to anyone since#meeting rabbit for the first time#not *nearly* in the same way of course. but in the shared love of the wilderness#coming out of it with a banger of an article on the kind of people who hike Appalachia or who choose to spend so much time isolated in rocky#situations#and again.... everything he writes after Rabbit is secretly a love letter to him....#and then the days Alex spends alone... talking out loud to Rabbit. telling him about the journey. telling him he misses him#he takes photos of things he wouldve wanted Rabbit to see. spends a lot of time thinking about all the years Rabbit spent#surviving by himself
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like i just searched his name and clicked on the second article that showed up and it maybe talked about trevonte for a paragraph or two then spent the rest of the article talking about the nature reserve. they care more about an inanimate location (that was not even harmed, just that something bad happened there at all) than a black man's life and death.
his full name was trevonte jamal shubert-helton.
#antiblackness#death#i was able to find better articles there isn't much information released so far but that doesn't mean spend the rest of the article#being upset a place where people like to hike had a likely murderous hate crime take place in it instead of. the murderous hate crime#trevonte helton
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DTE outages are a long standing problem that have nothing to do with an ice storm
#article#DTE#Detroit#michigan#power grid#electricity#energy#price gouging#price hike#bridge michigan#bridge detroit
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Cleaned my desk last night (long overdue) and now there are only two projects on it!
#i have too many crafts#turns out that i can only take mending in small doses#because i quickly get sick of the tedium#(and weaving in ends)#haven't decided whether or not i want to redo the sad mitten#(may throw it in the wash and see what happens#can't go wrong right? it's already too large#suspicious of the yarn's superwash claims...it's merino and i guess i do have a number of superwash merino articles#(socks mainly and a shirt in my childhood home for a hiking base layer)#but it's supposed to be pretty feltable right?#idk. haven't yet learned enough about what is done physically/chemically to make a wool superwash#vaguely aware that stripping the scales tends to be a bad idea so i'm assuming the fibers are coated?#and that would probably have to be post-dye#although...the dyed wool is indigo dyed which involves more physical entrapment and less chemical binding#so it may theoretically not care about superwash processing...
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everyone talks about how your frontal lobe finishes cooking at 25 but maybe they are on to something bc i have been suddenly struck with inspiration to live a more fulfilling life?? like mentally.
to try and work toward self-improvement and to stretch & do yoga and meditate and read more nonfiction and do research about things just because i find them interesting and journal more and commit time to creative projects and actually commit to the languages i’m learning and just like invest good things in myself because if i feed my brain garbage it will output garbage.
like i am generally very happy & have been for a minute, and that is fine but it makes me worry that as long as i am happy i won’t have any reason to work toward becoming the kind of person i would meet and want to aspire to be more like. so anyway
TL;DR: if anyone has any thoughts on concrete ways to improve life and being a person i would very much like to hear♥️ in tags, replies or comments
#currently i have a list on my phone to give an idea of what i mean#going out in nature more. like hiking/camping as well as literally going in sunshine as much as possible#limiting twitter time but thats bc my adhd brain just gets addicted to the dopamine from it#committing to learning more world geography & capitals even tho & perhaps bc it is very difficult for me#reading more articles&essays&poetry&creative nonfiction. and WRITING it more!#just writing all the time with reckless abandon#ok heres the part where i put some annoying tags in the hopes that ppl will see this PLS FORGIVE ME#meditation#aesthetic#life goals#self love#self improvement#me as hell#creation#creative writing
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The Outdoorsman's Season
Fall is upon us, which means time spent outdoors. Allow me to explain why I think of autumn as the outdoorsman's season.
Autumn is now upon us, dear readers, and that means it’s time to reconnect with nature. Spring and summer may be the seasons for all things green and growing, but they’re both too full of rain, heat, humidity, and biting insects for all but the most diehard fans of the great outdoors to truly enjoy them in peace. That’s why everyone who has a choice has spent the last several hundred days inside…
#Article#Autumn#Blog post#Column#Fall#Hiking#Hobbies#Humor#Hunting#long story#Outdoors#Personal Opinion#Seasons#Weather
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ive had to block two fucking AI art blogs in the boromir tag today WHAT is going on
#im in here to be a faggot and you show me AI generated women??????? quite literally the exact opposite of what i asked for.#where is sean bean? where is sean bean in the boromir tag? real human man sean bean#god ill never get over the one article i read that described him as 'craggy'#ill climb that craggy old man like the fucking mountain he hiked up given half a fucking chance. watch me#thats whats fucking wrong w modern hollywood where are the crags. stop showing me twinks!!!!#drooling like a fucking dog at the thought of sean bean as per the usual
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Here's the article.
Full offense but I would never hike a mountain with my coworkers.
#*reading article*#well I know my family wouldn't ever but dear god my brother's gf would happily go on something like this and they'd totally leave her#oh and they didn't contact the authorities until much later like they tried to text him down but oh boy its going to be awkward#): I feel for rescue team cos my other hobby is listening to how shit goes wrong on youtube that actually confirms my mom's fears#search&rescue legit said No One should hike alone#even if this dude was likely thinking he's mister outdoorsman#*hops over to reddit* ok so ppl are waiting for somebody to spill on the office dynamics#oh better article#ok so they were fundraising for World Central Kitchen and it was an insurance company#his name is Steve Stephanides who works at Beazley insurance company#oooh they took his stuff that was meant to mark the correct path#o _ o#i can already hear the alternate universe YouTube video about the tragedy this was and how it could've been easily prevented#noon types in tag
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Golf Courses ARE Being Converted
The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!
The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.
The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.
Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)
So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.
So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)
#solarpunk#sustainability#climate change#gardening#activism#hope#climate justice#news#new york times#golf courses#habitat#conservation
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