#nor many must-have's

[heterochromatica]

This can be done in a romantic and platonic way (platonic kisses exist, okay) further explanations and a blank sheet under the cut! <3

can cook - because Shoto can't for the sake of his life and he loves people that can cook because he's very food motivated

reliable & honest - Shoto hates nothing more than being lied to, he needs someone he can trust to tell him whats up even if it's uncomfortable

family drama - because that is going to haunt him and it's always easier if you got a partner to rely on when things go south

physical affection - it's easier for him to express affection through touch, gestures and gifts than through words bc words are difficult for him

silly questions - because he likes to ask stuff that some people might categorize as trick questions or silly but oftentimes he has been genuinely wondering about the answer

museum dates - because he loves to learn new things and loves natural history, animals, rocks, plants, stars and space

protective type - because he never had someone to stand up for him and he deserves to feel safe and at home with someone

star gazing - some might think of as boring, it's just something he really likes to do, either in comfortable silence or while talking about everything and nothing

promise keeper - he's been disappointed enough in his life, he would love someone that he can be certain that if something is promised, it will be done

eliminate bugs for him - critters with more than four legs are essentially evil and he needs someone to either politely escort them outside OR smash them, there is no in between

good with his friend - obviously if you want to be with him (romantic or platonic) you gotta get along with the people he values the most

never give up - he likes people who are headstrong and determined, who don't back away from a challenge and can stand their ground

loud and proud - he likes those people because opposites attract and it allows him to remain in the background (which he's comfy with)

decision maker - Shoto sucks at making decisions and it's easier if he's got someone at his side that knows what they want or what options there are, helping him out

clingy - he is clingy, sticking at his friends/partners side, will absolutely follow them around the house like a duckling, listening to whatever you have to say - happily!

being patient - he's been traumatized multiple times, isolated and abused and it shows, the people around him gotta be patient

training partner - because he would love someone he can spar and work out with since maintaining his from is important as a hero

Blank for whoever wants to do this:

[dandelion-roots]

Helena Eagan, VIOLATION (2025)

[ID: a digital drawing of mark s and helena from severance next to a heater. helena is lying on a blanket that says lumon over and over again. she's entirely ice blue, with only the mask she's wearing being warm orange. the mask is of helly r. her smiling face is drawn on with sharpie that has smudged in places, and her hair is angular like it was cut from paper. mark s is over her, his hand cradling the mask. we see the back of his head and a crack in it in the shape of an anatomical heart. helena's hands are at the edges of the crack, pulling it apart, and the exposed brain is pink in the middle and blue around the edges of the crack. a needle with a tear on it is going into his brain. mark s is also in warm colours like helena's mask and the heater. in the background are design elements- the elevator with the down arrow, ms casey's turned away face, shrouded figures and eyes. End ID]

[daltonsnightmare]

MacGyver (2016) s2e9 CD-ROM + Hoagie Foil | Cold Open

[of-fear-and-love]

Glenn Howerton in Must Love Dogs (2005)

[fluffypotatey]

everyday since Aug. 30th i say, “i’ll just listen to Legendary because i would rather not get stabbed from God Games”

………..AND YET

[swallowtail-ageha]

Bringing Insane Discourse that was caused by reddit showing me for some godforsaken reason posts of the helluvaboss sub and being bombarded by the "is the imp girl gonna abort" discourse but like. I do not think a pregnancy plot is the end-all of a female character if done well you are all just used to how sitcoms and shipfics treat babies

[ghostlypawn]

i miss her* *watching HQ bootlegs.....

[dudenastii]

sometimes u literally break down bc ur life is so meaningful if its not the way u want it even if u suffer there is art this is music there is love even when theres no food no shelter and almost no hope. with everything going on in the world there is still hope. theres still love and theres still ways to find a reason to go on. literally just broke down in a sob bc of this. like we're all so lucky to be alive let alone comfortable.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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not sure it's my post to make particularly, but I do fucking hate how the concept of white guilt gets weaponized within white people ingroups to throw at each other in order to goad each other into emotional passivity, detachement and inaction, it's just so extremely not what the concept is about initially and is actually still an extension of white guilt it turns out!!! as it's still reacting to that idea and concerned by trying to sever oneself from its perceived effects, regardless of what those are and what they do and what bigger picture they exist in!!!! anyway.

[jugsjules]

Tbh if netflix had just paid for a normal trailer ad to show up when I was scrolling tumblr, same as the mobile match three ads or the ai anime boyfriend chatbots, i probably would have barely noticed. But if one piece started trending on its own bc folks were watching it and talking about it being good, I’d probably go “huh, i wasn’t into the anime, but that was more about the art and the pacing, maybe the live action show will suit me better”

Instead, mobile has been oversaturated with the logo and the character tabs and the promoted posts from netflix and the trailer and apparently on desktop people are being harangued by a clown??? So all I see is people going “I am sick of seeing one piece” and all i’m feeling is “i would like to stop seeing one piece” and that’s BEFORE factoring in that the only reason netflix has resorted to marketing like this is bc they are desperate to gain traction in the ongoing strikes and tumblr is enabling them, against the spirit of the striking workers

now to a lot of tumblr users, their association with the one piece live action is “oh yeah that’s the show that kept trying to corner me in an elevator on tumblr during a strike”

I haven’t seen a marketing campaign backfire so completely since the itunes u2 incident tbh

[lobpoints]

Very funny the first thing Carmen said to Angela after directly appear in front of her face in person is that "you are supposed to be like me and think like me but here we are (disagreeing with each other over our chosen path)" especially with how the writer themselves answered in the QnA that Angela is not anything like Carmen even from appearance alone is on purpose because A simply couldnt do it and would also never make Angela like her in the sense because he view an act itself as inherently disgusting nor was Angela's conflict deep down is she wanted to be like her (rather that she wanted to be valued for what she is) like she doesn't even consider the possibility ig

[acaciapines]

been in a Huge owl house mood n I haven’t written in a week so it’s prompt time babey!!!

send me a number 1-1270 and I’ll write a drabble based on whatever song that happens to be in my playlist! if you want a specific character/topic feel free to send that along as well, but if nothing is specified im going Entirely off the vibes of the song

[blissfulalchemist]

Also while I found out how to not have armor showing all the time while you play I also realized why I don’t like that for at least Thea and it’s because it’s too much chest and I’ve been finding it odd this whole game. However might steal Astarions casual clothing for Aza because pirate…..

[crittertalez]

As a system with a lot of nonhuman and alterhuman members (hence our system name) our alterhumanity often affects our daily life and make many of us want to nest, or make us be able to make nonhuman noises, or even have individual scents. And as embarrassing as it is to admit to more "normal" people, it can affect sex lives as well, including some members going into heats or ruts or whatever equivalent they have. Which would all sound like a perfect mix-match of things to get us into the misceverse! But there feels like there's just this significant barrier between us and that community

That being just how heavily it focuses on people's sexes and ascribing certain personalities or dynamics or behaviors or what have you to being a certain sex or having certain sex characteristics. Even when it comes to people making it more explicitly queer there's still an expectation to believe that, say, it is "typical" for a certain sex to be more submissive and calm while another is more aggressive and territorial. And, even more notably, it's seen as fun and interesting, quirky even, new, for this to be treated as a fact of life. The idea that one sex could instead do the actions typically associated with another is queer and known to be unusual (even if the person is describing it as a Good and Interesting thing, they're still enforcing the idea that certain actions typically belong to another sex)

Which.. Is just Sexism 2! "Women cook and clean and are more quiet, demure, submissive and Men protect the territory and what is theirs (which includes their wives, being treated as possessions), they're sex-driven and aggressive" 2. "Women nurture and Men protect" 2. We want to go into animal care, we spend much of our time researching animal dynamics and behaviors for fun. But even if nonhumans & alterhumans often do not see themselves as human, we are still all people, and the idea that ascribing certain personalities/behaviors/traits/etc to certain sexes is okay and fun as long as they aren't human sexes is.. Blegh.

I don't quite like being kicked in the head even when the kicker has a paw instead of a human foot. Something being seen as "natural" or a part of being a nonhuman animal does not automatically make it good

We've had this issue with omegaverse as a concept in general as well, especially when it comes to the versions that focus solely on men. Obviously the point is to explore secondary sexes and not the primary ones, but if you were to replace "omega" with female (and yes, that word specifically, so you understand what I mean) and "alpha" with male suddenly the problem becomes a lot more clear with ascribing submissiveness and nurturing behavior to one sex and aggressiveness, domination, and protectiveness to another

Adding a third sex or even sexes that have a mixture of traits assigned to them doesn't necessarily get rid of this discomfort, as there's still the fact of the matter that sexes are getting assigned typical personality traits. Not to mention that within the community there's an expectation to say what your sex is, and to see the idea of others being able to instantly tell what sex you are as hot and fun. Even with queer labels existing to make the idea more expansive and inclusive there's just something that feels.. Off. About how inherent to the community the idea of certain sexes coming with certain personality traits and behaviors is. I'm not much of a fan of bioessentialism even when it has a coat of nonhuman paint over it

(Also, the wolf studies that alpha/omega/beta as concepts were derived from are extremely inaccurate studies that don't have basis in real life and we honestly wish that the idea of alpha males would die out already so people stop thinking it's a real thing. It hasn't been pleasant to run into in any iteration, whether in zoology, incel culture, or alterhuman communities)

[bibleofficial]

lol uni accom sent an email saying that theyve ‘received many complaints from staff students & guests’ & it just makes me laugh but they DID include a place accommodating me feeding them at the end of the car park which is fine bc that is all i wanted to be fair. this was ALWAYS ABOUT POWER like 😭😭 it’s deadass so miserable living here we are all postgrad students so 22+ but we literally have room inspections 2x a semester like we’re fucking 12 to make sure things are ‘clean’ as if the building isn’t as old as our parents & literally falling apart. they restrict u so much like u can’t have a kettle in ur room …. but those guests can ??? ur putting a like 3 inch suicide bar on my window ? that i PAY FOR ???? girl … ‘it gives ppl anxiety & diseases …” & ???? having no fucking security here gives ME anxiety & these mfs are givin ME diseases shut the fuck up !!! THE ASBESTOS IN THE WALLS CAN HEAR U & IT’S LAUGHING

[reasonsforhope]

"During an archaeological dig in a desert area north of Jerusalem 40 years ago, a seed was discovered which was determined to be in pristine condition but had obviously seen many a year.

Now, despite falling from its parent 1,000 years ago, it has grown into a mature tree, and botanists examining it believe it may be an extinct species that was used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years—even receiving a nod in the Bible.

Neither Israeli botanists, nor Dr. Sarah Sallon, a physician who founded the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, could determine what species it was from simply from the seed covering. So they did what nature intended—they planted it.

Using a well-documented technique that saw 2,000-year-old date palm fruit pits germinate, Dr. Sallon soaked the seed in hormones, liquid fertilizer, and water, and then planted it in a pot of sterile seed; then waited.

Despite its genetic code being exposed to environmental stressors for over 1,000 years, the seed sprouted after 5 weeks. The shoot was protected by a caplike feature called an operculum. As the shoot grew, the operculum was shed—leaving something for the team to radiocarbon date. It narrowed down the age of the almost 10-centuries-old seed to between the years 993 an 1202.

Fast forward 14 years and the plant has become a 10-foot-tall tree. Dr. Sallon shared images of the tree, its bark, and its leaves with botanists around the world. One expert suggested it belonged to the genus Commiphora, found across the Arabian Peninsula and parts of Africa. A genetic analysis subsequently revealed this was the case, but a perfect match was lacking.

Pictured: The tree, now 14 years old.

Dr. Sallon and her team thought it was an extinct species known from history as Judean Balsam, but the best way to confirm that suspicion would be to have some aromatic traces similar to the resins of the myrrh tree to which it is related. However, no such fragrant compounds were detected.

Instead, the chemical analysis of the leaves identified a group of phytochemicals known as guggulterols which have been observed in a related species called Commiphora wightii that’s known to possess certain cancer-fighting properties in its resin.

A medicinal balm, the origin of which is not known, is mentioned in multiple historical texts including the Bible as ‘tsori,’ and rather than the fragrant Judean Balsam, it’s this tsori that Dr. Sallon and her team believe they have found.

They must wait until the tree, now 14 years old, produces flower or fruit to know for sure if it’s an extinct species, and if so, how to perhaps keep it alive.

Dr. Louise Colville, senior research leader in seed and stress biology at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London who wasn’t involved in the research, told CNN that it was a major accomplishment to grow a seed that old and possibly lead to a resurrection of this Biblical botanical.

“What’s surprising in this story is it was just a single seed and to be able to have one chance for that to germinate is extremely lucky,” she said.

“Working in a seed bank, seeing the potential for that extreme longevity gives us hope that banking and storing seeds that some at least will survive for very long periods of time.”"

-via Good News Network, October 8, 2024

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Note: This is such a good demonstration of why seed banks are so important!! They give us such real and massive hope for deextinction and the revival of endangered species.