#long way

[vitbrollop]

walking in a weddingdress is much more uncomfy than wearing a tuxedo, but the way from being a boy to being now the bride is much more difficult. Now being a bride is the reward of all the struggles and the beginning of a new part of your life now as the woman you really are.

[fieriframes]

[PLATING TOMATO BONBONS. IT'S LIKE NOTHING YOU'VE EVER HAD. SALMON AND SCALLOPS. THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS PLACE IS VALERIE'S WONDERFUL CREATIONS. BURGER UP! I'VE HAD EVERYTHING ON THE MENU. EVERYTHING'S GREAT. SHREDDED BEEF SANDWICH. GREAT FLAVOR, AND IT COMES FROM THE HEART. THAT GOES A LONG WAY.]

[lakanakana]

war never changes

[fishfingersandscarves]

they've never had sex

[kedreeva]

Following the author of The Last Unicorn on Facebook is the only thing that makes being on that site worthwhile.

(source)

[velvetcloak]

The Olympics but high fashion by Wisdom Kaye

[barrbodiedberry]

Beach combing by Mia Incantalupo

[trippercrazy]

Baby Bash

[great-and-small]

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

[gongyussy]

those!!! are!!! his!!!! tits!!! be gentle 👉👈

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

[velthurvik]

Langer Weg Chalzedon der tertiären Elbe. Jeder Fluss hat seine Geschichte. Die er Elbe begann vor über 30 Millionen Jahren. Und die Edelsteine der alten Zeit warteten auf sie um irgendwann abgeholt zu werden. Nach langem Weg und langer Zeit fanden sich dieser Chalzedon auf einem Feld in der Niederlausitz wieder. Frisch gewaschen liegt er heute auf diesem Tisch.

[alohapromisesforever]

Wondering About My Errors

Wondering About My Errorsby Michael DoyleI have been looking in the mirrorRevisiting all my errorsI have been thinking about the pastAll the beliefs that didn't lastThe Devil visits my mindShowing ruins that I left behindBurning bridges to yesterdayIt seems so castawayA different light shines on BabylonToo many moments that I've rambled onI never thought you'd drift awayThe fortune changed an…