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Insects are the baseline for everything to work.
Above, they mentioned agriculture. But my favorite story is how badly they screwed up with cattle in Australia. This is possibly the best explanation for why my babies, the dung beetles, are important. https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/dung-beetles-in-australia
But let me also give a quick explanation of insect pest control: There are different ways of handling pest control but both biological (using another living organism, often a parasitoid wasp) and chemical pest controls work better at certain times in the pest's life cycle. Several of those invasive pests? BEETLES. So yes, you want to know their sex lives to know how and when they have sex and when that means their eggs will be laid or larva will hatch so you know WHEN to attack. Otherwise, you're throwing away millions of dollars and it probably won't even work.
And yes, it would still have intrinsic value, but the fact that we're putting people in charge who would try to save like 20k and lose billions of dollars instead is ludicrous and sadly not unexpected.
There’s a bunch of right-wing people posting memes about “”DOGE”” making the government more efficient by removing funding from “”dumb bug researchers”” and I am now realizing how little the average person knows about entomology and its importance
Excuse me while I get sad .
#Seriously#We put people in charge that are going to get people killed AND businesses bankrupted/losing profits because they understand NOTHING#That said#Capitalism and businesses are the true rulers of our country#And the minute that “DOGE” starts to hit their profits they will likely sue the government and possibly the individuals put in charge#I give DOGE a year at most before Trump disbands it because people keep saying mean things regarding him about their ideas
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Sooo many intrinsic differences between People Who'd Prefer To Be Vampires and People Who'd Prefer To Be Werewolves but let's take a second to appreciate the similarities.
Noctornal
Appreciation for sturdy, well-made clothes
Would prefer not to be stabbed
Like to show off a lil chest when possible
Cant have garlic (poisonous to dogs)
Uhhhhhhhhh teeth? Big on biting things
Both probably have some pretty strong opinions on modern ecology and conservationism
Both probably ate something/one important by mistake at some point and had the same "ah shit fuck" feeling, very relatable
Hnnnnnnngfhghhh.gh. Queer
#That said#Can NOT understand having a preference fir Vampires#Werewolf is everything Vampire except also naked and eight feet tall#Show me the downside#AND I can still spend an afternoon at the park????#Obvious winner
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For the last time Neil is not oblivious he's just so busy playing 5d chess with everyone he meets that the concept of regular chess baffles and bores him. Matt what do you mean I should hook up with a cheerleader can't you see I'm busy waging psychological warfare on a Frenchman.
#aftg#tfc#now in his defense#Neil grew up in a household where the default dynamic between all parties was 'barely restrained loathing'#and his version of the stranger danger talk included a section on how to be said danger#so for him this is like. the correct amount of effort you're supposed to put into your relationships#that said#post series i think Wymack starts getting a lot of REALLY weird complaints on his desk
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You seeing this? :D
Excuse me while I SCREEEEEAM
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🏳️🌈?
If no gay then why rainbow colors...
#hinata shouyou#kagehina#kageyama tobio#haikyuu#haikyuu!!#that said#DAMN some gorgeous merch#i want..
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Some little boys always knew they wanted to be little girls
But some little boys grow up before figuring it out, you can spot them quite easily
Maybe the way they avoid looking in the mirror, their discomfort at pools, maybe it’s just the way they linger in the girl’s clothing isle
It is such a tragic sight, a beautiful woman is waiting to be born, but she’s still trapped in her own wilful ignorance
So what I like to do when I find “boys” like this is to press them onto a corner
Force that skirt on them, stake their pride on whether they dare put on lipgloss, give them no other option other then confronting their true selves
Make them internalise that:
Yes, you want to wear petty clothes
Yes, you like wearing make up
Yes, you enjoy being “mistaken” for a girl
Yes, you WANT to be a girl
And Yes, that’s all you need to BE a girl
#Yes I am talking to you#now be a good girl#and internalise what you really want#.#forcefem#i-like-talking#..#DISCLAIMER: don’t do this irl! give cuties the time and space they need to process this!#gender is hard!#you should take your time and let them take their time as well!#that said#sometimes the most elegant solution uses a little force#take care of yourself#and your eggs cuties!
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THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
#I have very mixed feelings on the trailer. doesn’t look *particularly* spectacular#biggest gripe is obviously chris hemsworth just being there. for no discernible reason#THAT SAID#d-16? adorable. love that man#am I excited? not particularly.#am I *intrigued?* mildly#tf#tf one#transformers#transformers one#maccadam#starscream#soundwave#shockwave#tfone
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Transmasc Summer 🐋🐚 Sims4 CC Masterpost
Top surgery - RFF Phalloplasty - Hysterectomy
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I've wanted phalloplasty scars in the sims4 for eons now as a few of my OCs (pictured above) have had bottom surgery, but no one had made any yet, so I decided to make my own.
I ended up going all out and also making a set of hysterectomy and top surgery scars to match the style of my phalloplasty scars.
This is my first ever cc!! So if anyone has tips or tricks or really useful tutorials pls send them over I'm very fresh to all this.
I've tried to make them all be Maxis Match and Base Game accessible!
Pose Used in the header image 🐚࣪ 𓈒
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Top Surgery Scars
Base game Compatible
Masculine Frame Only
Teen - Elder
21 swatches ( 7 top surgery types ((Double Incision, Inverted T, Keyhole, Periareola, Fishmouth, Lollipop)) with 3 transparencies each )
Can be found in the scar category ( front torso + right arm )
Free + No ads download
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Hysterectomy Scars
Base game Compatible
Both Frames
Teen - Elder
21 swatches ( 7 hysterectomy types ((5 laparoscopic + 2 open surgery)) with 3 transparencies each)
Can be found in the scar category ( fem frame in front torso + masc frame in left arm )
Free + No ads download
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RFF Phalloplasty Scars
Base game Compatible
Both Frames
Young adult - Elder
6 swatches ( left and right arm with 3 transparencies each )
Can be found in the scar category ( front torso + back torso )
Free + No ads download
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Reupload (To here or any other sites, reblogging is welcomed though!!)
Put behind a paywall
Steal/claim the cc as yours
#my sims 4 cc#trans#trans sims#transmasc#trans ftm#sims4#sims4cc#sims 4 cc#ts4#ts4cc#sims 4 custom content#sims 4 trans cc#s4mm#sims 4 maxis match cc#maxis match#sims 4 download#sims 4 phallo#sims 4 phalloplasty#sims 4 top surgery#sims 4 hysterectomy#sims 4 scar cc#sims 4 scars#I wanted to make a few different options (ALT + Abdominal)#but I wasn't able to find enough references to draw something I felt was good enough to post#so I had to stick with only making RFF#that said#I'm really happy with how everything turned out :D#One of the laparoscopic hysto scar types is a replica of my hysto scar placement which makes me really happy#making my simsona that little bit more accurate to me is a really nice feeling#I hope this cc helps other simmers get to experience this feeling too !!
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I’ve grown to appreciate the aus where Shen Yuan enters the story as “Shen Yuan” - same name, probably similar face, generally able to interact with PIDW as himself and change the story through his added presence. I like the sense of “if only you’d been here, things might have been better the first time around” of it all.
And I was thinking, it’s a funny coincidence in that scenario that someone named Shen Yuan gets put into… another Shen Yuan. What are the chances? What a weird twist of fate that Airplane would pick out the name that his most dedicated critic could slip into seamlessly.
What about a version where it’s not coincidence at all?
Airplane goes to school with a kid named Shen Yuan. He’s prickly and hard to approach and a little intense, but Airplane is persistent. In fairness, Airplane is relentless - and maybe it’s a good thing that they end up being friends, because they’re a little too much for anyone else to handle. They balance each other out. They’re the “weird kids” in class and they’re okay with that, because even when they don’t have any words for it, they know they’re not like their classmates, not really. That’s okay; they don’t want to be.
Recesses and breaks are consumed with the elaborate stories that Airplane wants to tell, and all the holes Shen Yuan pokes into them. It’s not mean-spirited, though, even though Shen Yuan isn’t the kind to temper his words. It’s passionate. He cares about those stories the way Airplane cares about them, and it can’t be mistaken for anything else when they lean together conspiratorially across the lunchroom table. They’ve both got notebooks filled with details and characters and monsters. Shen Yuan’s practically got a whole bestiary sketched out in wobbly childhood attempts at art, entries fervently scrawled beside them. Airplane prattles out plots nonstop, always with the promise of shining eyes and being asked “what happens next?”
They come up with a whole world together. Airplane’s going to write about it someday. Shen Yuan is going to read every word.
Shen Yuan misses school. Shen Yuan starts missing school a lot.
Airplane goes to the hospital room instead. He doesn’t think to worry, because Shen Yuan is okay - that’s what he says. He looks okay, and he’s a kid, and it doesn’t feel real that anything bad should happen to a kid. He doesn’t think to worry. He doesn’t think to say goodbye.
It’s one of the older Shen brothers who catches him on the way up to the room one day, in the hallway just outside - snaps at him to go the fuck home, and when Airplane hesitates, pushes him into the elevator and tells him not to come back. “Tells” is a generous way to describe the way the words come out - a growl, a hiss, the sound an animal would make when a hand got too close to a wound.
(It’s not fair to name a villain after him, even if the name never really comes up in the story. He wasn’t trying to be mean. He’d lost a brother minutes before, and he was getting his brother’s friend out of the way so he didn’t have to… see. It isn’t fair, but then, none of it is fair.)
Death feels very real after that.
The notebooks get shoved into a closet, and it’s not until Airplane’s moving out and one falls on him from a high shelf that he thinks about it again. He’s written things, lots of things, but nothing as ambitious as this - nothing as important. It could be good, he considers. He’d promised. Shen Yuan wanted to read it.
The problem was that no one else does, not for a long time, not until Airplane has whittled himself and his art into a corner and into such an unfamiliar shape that he has to wonder how it’s still his own face he sees in the mirror. He has to eat. He has to pay rent. Shen Yuan would yell at him, but Shen Yuan isn’t there to yell at him, and who cares. Who cares if it could have been better? The people who actually are here love it, and it’s paying his bills, and sometimes stories don’t go the way they’re supposed to and the world is fucking unfair. It doesn’t matter.
(It does. But he shoves that thought away along with styrofoam cups and soda bottles to the bottom of a garbage bag.)
Authors are not gods and their power is limited, but Airplane exercises just a sliver of what he’s been granted and gifts an inconsequential sort of immortality. He thinks about making him a rogue cultivator, maybe the kind that goes around documenting beasts and compiling his findings. He thinks about making him someone too powerful for death to touch, or too important to threaten, but when Airplane looks at the world he crafted and everything that’s become of it, it feels like the kindest thing he can do for Shen Yuan is a childhood where he’s loved, and a death that’s peaceful. What does it say about that world, that he’d kill off his best friend too early again instead of making him live there?
(The best writing he ever does is the only, shining moment of humanity that his scum villain ever displays: a lament about death that comes too early, about a brother gone too soon. The commenters praise him. The commenters flatter over how real the emotions feel. The commenters don’t get any response from Airplane on that chapter.)
Death is incredibly real when it comes for him too early, too, still hovering over his keyboard with the story technically finished and incredibly incomplete. Airplane could tell himself that’s because the written version can never be the version in the writer’s head, always shifting and with every possibility still on the table, but he knows better than that. The System knows better than that, with its condescending message about “improving” his writing and “closing plot holes” and “achieving his original vision”...
…and he’s a child again. He’s a child in his own story, he’s Shang Qinghua now without the benefit yet of a peak or cultivation or anything, and maybe he’s a little bitter, and a little scared, and…
And Shen Yuan - with longer hair, with robes, with a couple of older kids watching him from across the street, but undeniably the prickly little boy who used to sit down imperiously across from him and tell him everything that was wrong with the chuck of writing that had been handed to him last period, but with that smile that said he was only invested because he knew it could be better and they were going to make it better - marches up to him with a fire in his eyes and a frown that warns of a coming tirade.
“You told it wrong,” is the first thing he says.
Shang Qinghua wants to ask how him how he’s here, how this is possible, or maybe laugh because, yeah - yeah, Shen Yuan has no goddamn idea how wrong he got absolutely everything.
(Shang Qinghua wants to say “I missed you” and “why did you leave so soon” but he’s here now. He’s right here.)
“I know,” he says instead. “I’m sorry. It all kind of… spiraled out of control.”
Shen Yuan frowns, but then it dissipates the way it always does, and his eyes shine with ideas the way they always used to. “That’s okay,” he relents, grabbing for his hand. “We’ll fix it. We’ll make it what it was supposed to be.”
#scum villain self saving system#svsss#shang qinghua#shen yuan#airplane shooting towards the sky#this got more into the feelings than i thought it would#surprising no one#anyway just! childhood friends au! as a reason for a shen yuan insert!#obviously he is not going to die as a child in this version#shang qinghua would not have that nope not again#also pls consider poor shen jiu who looks at this child that shen yuan has picked out for a best friend like '...really? that one??'#(it's up to you if he's shen yuan's actual brother from his first life)#(put there's a part of me that likes the idea that shen jiu also gets a second chance to spend more time with his brother)#a second chance for them to grow up together!#THAT SAID#RIP TO SHANG QINGHUA#WHEN SHEN YUAN IS OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT ALL THE PAPAPA#the LOOKS shang qinghua is going to get#anyway here have a thing because I CANNOT add another au to my drafts thank you and goodbyyyyye
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what if youre transmasc
Hi! I you feel like something might not be targeted at you, you don’t have to interact with it! This is a forcefem blog!
#And it is ran with a mostly transfem sight.#I can’t do forcemasc no sorry#That said#This doesn’t mean transmascs interested in forcefem have to go#Yall who talk about forcefemming those close to you#Thank you for your service!#And those interested in forcefem for themselves#Welcome!#With that said.#If you aint part of these groups#Then this blog just… isn’t for you?
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Haunted Car Au Part 12
Previous. Masterpost
Danny wasn't completely sure what all of the sound files Duke uploaded into the radio storage. Granted, the fact that there was apparently a 10 Terabyte hard drive just for the radio seemed a bit much, although it was over half full before Duke gave him a metric butt load of sound bytes, so maybe Batman was onto something. Now it was about three-quarters full…. How many files were there?
Either way, whoever named these files are the MvP of this entire situation. Either they were just the name of the saying, or we're named something like ‘exasperated 4’ and they were On Point!
Unfortunately there weren't any defined names other than movie references. Why were there three different versions of the “Hey, Becky, look at her butt” Danny didn't know, but he might use them for reasons.
Duke had left him alone with a disgruntled “Good Luck” after Danny started playing the ‘mood’ files to see exactly what they were. He figured Duke would come back in a few hours to have a “conversation” about his predicament. Until then……
DID THEY SOUND BYTE BATMAN HIMSELF?!?!?!
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@kizzer55555 @sebas-nights @candeartist422 @trappednyourheart @fandom-life-corrupted-me @tkiesai @2lbballpeenhammer @admiralwidow @rewrittenwrongs @whotfevenknowsanymore @symmetricalastigmatism @thespacedragons @atinygracie @okami-love @lesbian-spider-drone @1n0sss @forgetmenot-bluepurple
#dp x dc#dc x dp#dpxdc#dcxdp#danny phantom crossover#dc crossover#haunted car au#I find it funny that Danny has about half of the chapters from his pov#and they are all smaller than the ones from others POVs#I am not doing it on purpose#but their reactions are better and more dramatic since this is weird for them and Danny is just...#Huh... this is happening#After all of Technus's BS?#this is just another Tuesday#that said#16 written blurbs and writing for Barbara and Jason are my favorite#Poor Jason is having a time#Babs is having a.... kinda crisis?#Dunno. but i feel for her#Sorry Babs#ITS FOR THE PLOT I SWEAR#wow I rambled a lot this time
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I just want whatever the hell walton goggins has going on with his costars
#walton goggins#tim roth#kenny johnson#timothy olyphant#as always i must say THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION FOR RPF#that said#why do straight men always act gayer with their friends than gay men do with theirs#like. all those bait videos where straight dudes just have ZERO boundaries with each other#you know what im talking about#also they are SO talking shit in the last two help
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What if the OG crew still kept their item system
#non-request#art tag#twewy#I've thought of having him pull out a whole-ass bowl of ramen#but I think this should get the point across#that said#if Rindo et all have a whole wardrobe hammerspace#this isn't too much of a stretch
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when your most sopping wet dog of a man childhood friend (affectionately) picks up some things from his students
i am fully back into naruto folks 🥷💖
#cebdraws#naruto#naruto oc#kakahyo#inuzuka hyo#hatake kakashi#kakashi sensei#that said#idk how much of that i'll be posting here#i'm still pretty hesitant about sharing my nart thoughts#since it's such an important series to me#and having people actually read stuff i've had in my brain#since i was 12 is so skdfjskotghg
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Ah, Yamamoto tweeted this awhile back near the end of May. Looks like these are two prototype designs for Scarlet. He ended up using the second one for Scarlet's Levincia Gym challenge disguise.
As stated above, said design is based off of Christina Ricci's role in the 2021 series Yellowjackets. Ricci was also the one who played Wednesday Addams in the 90s films.
#pokemon special#pokespe#he just really wanted wednesday addams huh#also im an idiot#of course scarlet has the default hairstyle#that's the only one with a braid#that said#huh#scarlet could've had glasses
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