#this is a subject I am very passionate about

[just-another-annoying-artist]

When I was 14 I was diagnosed with imbalanced hormones (later discovered to be PMDD, I recommend looking into it). Because of this, I had completely random period cycles, incredibly painful cramps, and my mood swings were violent. I was either manically happy or horrifically depressed within the span of a few minutes. My doctor prescribed me the pill, explaining that it would balance out my hormones and regulate my period.

One day at school, my pills fell out of my bag and my friends asked about it. I said it was the pill. They all looked at me like I just said the most scandalous secret. The one thing about that interaction that sticks with me though is that one friend said: “but aren’t you a lesbian?” I was so shocked by the question that I literally had no idea how to respond other than huh???????? And they said the pill was only for girls who don’t want to get pregnant. I got irrationally upset about it and kind of just. Shut down after it. I knew I wasn’t going around having sex on the daily, but just saying I took the pilk was enough for them to make that conclusion.

This is why I think they should explain the other purposes of the pill during health talks/lessons. It’s actually common for people to be on the pill for reasons other than pregnancy. I think about how embarrassing that interaction was every time I take my pill and hope no other child/teen has to go through that experience.

"People shouldn't post about how the contraceptive pill can be prescribed for non-contraceptive reasons because it's sex negative" feels like a take that can only come from people who don't realise just how young some people end up being prescribed the pill

Like, fine, you, person in your twenties, might be comfortable being like "this is the pill I take to fuck without getting pregnant", but I don't think it's sex negative for a thirteen-year-old who has been prescribed it for debilitating period pain to not want to have to hide their medication from their classmates on an overnight school trip because their classmates think that the only reason anyone would take it is that they're sexually active

[missingpolinseason]

I wasn't going to talk about beacuse I'm new to Bridgerton/Polin tumblr and the internet is full of Jess Brownell supporters who think it's okay to cyberbully anyone who criticises her - it's not, by the way...

BUT

If people think Colin Bridgerton would cheat, it's most likely because of the way Jess Brownell's decided to tell Polin's love story.

I remember an interview I've read (before season 3 was released) in wich she talked about "Penelope's glow up". It was an Entertainment Weekly back in december and the interviewer said that "penelope's wardrobe change was a huge part of Romancing Mister Bridgerton - wich is not in the book she just starsts dressing the way she wants because she's 28 and a spinister and her mother gives up on her prospects - and Jess Brownell doesn't correct this fact. She says she's "aware" of this topic (glow up) and that she's palying with it as in their world "her wardrobe change doesn't fix her confidence magicaly". The point is: Penelope's wardrobe changes doesn't change her status in the book either(!) If we're being honest, people (the gentleman of the ton) pay way more attention to her new style in the show.

And that gave some viewers the impression that Colin, too, only saw her after her glow up/wardrobe change/new style. Wich isn't at all true! In fact, when they meet again in their book and he complements her dress she says "it's not yellow", to wich he replys "so it's not", because he didn't care(!!) And his feelins for her are not attached to the way she dresses(!!)

If you asked me, i'd say Colin has been falling in love with Pen through all their friendship. However, the consensus seems to be that people believe his romantic feelings started with the kiss - wich is totally fine. The thing is that right after their first kiss (the best ever book-to-show adaptation of a scene) enters Debling. And the the idea some non Polin fans have that Colin may only be interested because she now has a suitor.

Both scenarios, plus the decision to not involve Colin in Whistledown plot, making him not only ask for her hand in marriage but have sex with her before finding out - when book Colin is the first one to know about Pen being Whistledown and asks her to marrying him after he discovers it - leading to the most infamous line of it all: the "entrapment line".

What I'm saying is: the way things were put out, and most specifically, the order in what things were put out in the show, gave some people the impression that Colin's love for Penelope isn't strong when it couldn't be fourther than the truth.

Colin Bridgerton loved Penelope before being in love with her. He is canonically the first man to ever have a conversation to her, the man who saw her and show her kindness when not even her family did. The man who danced with her at his mother ball - in a specific situation he dances with her after Benedict leaves her alone in the dance floor because he just feel in love with Sophie and them """fights""" Ben for it. He discovers she's Lady Whistledown because he is concerned with her safety. He goes to her when he is concerned Eloise may be Whistledown. He fights with her opon finding she's Whistledown because of her safety. He holds her hand when she panicks after Cressida claims to be Whistldown. He notices her witt and humour and how it it's only reserved for him and and other people she's confortable with. He's willing to gave a chance to publish his writing for being married to Whistledown because being by her side is the most important thing to him.

There's an actually quote in the book: "maybe, this, then, is the definition of love. When you wanted someone, needed her, adored her still, even when you are utterly furious and quiet ready to tye her to a bed just to quit her from going out and making more trouble". Wich to me represents his feelings for Penelope in the carriage scene in chapiter 13.

And I know a lot people hate - or very much dislike - the Bridgerton Books and most of all the behavior of the man in the books but the thing is they're hitorical romances. They take place in the early XIX century and are written to resemble that time. We view this books as fantasy because that society and costumes seem to far away from our society and social context.

The fantasy is that this man - rakes who fuck around and control a society where woman have basically no rights or voice - fall in love. And find their one true love. There's no cheating. It's a happly ever after. No Bridgerton man will ever cheat and if you didn't understand it, you didn't get the books at all.

[smol-blue-bird]

today in insane anti-intellectualism: I just saw a post about how aspiring healthcare practitioners shouldn't take classes in biology and chemistry because those subjects are useless and bad. ????

[oldrockformations]

I have long hair and paint my nails and wear dangly earrings and I am still a man!!! I am soft and gentle and kind and I enjoy feminine things and I am still a man!!! It doesn’t matter what people look like or dress like or sound like, treat people as they want to be treated.

Around my sophomore year of highschool I got fed up with being misgendered, so I cut all my hair off and wore boring monotone clothing. It didn’t work. I changed my mannerisms and everything, but I was still misgendered regularly. The only thing that changed is people tell me how glad they were that I wasn’t one of those trans people.

If someone doesn’t respect your identity as a whole, the way you present yourself isn’t going to change that. Assholes are always going to be assholes, so you might as well do what makes you happy.

I wear colorful clothing now and I grew my hair out again and I don’t tone down my emotions to be more “masculine” anymore. I’m the most confident I’ve been in a long time, and I’m still a man!

crazy how people assume trans guys dont know if we had short naturally coloured hair and a basic style we'd "pass better." "you want tips on how to pass? no more fun piercings, jewelry, anything feminine, dyed hair, nail polish or nice things for you!" thanks but I choose joy and whimsy x

[wynco]

What’s your beef with the Northern Pike?

I'm so glad you asked.

The northern pike (Esox lucius) is native to the United States (Alaska, Midwest, and Northeastern USA specifically) and Canada, however, it was introduced to many other parts of the US as a sportfish, including parts of Alaska where the northern pike do not occur naturally due to the state's geography. They were also introduced to some places illegally due to some sportsmen trying to establish new populations to angle.

(USGS 2019)

Northern pike breed incredibly quickly and out compete many native fish for resources. They are also predators and eat many native fish as well, causing steep declines in their populations. Northern pike have no real predators, so there is nothing to stop their populations from getting out of control. This is especially a problem in Washington and Alaska where they add additional pressure the already struggling salmonid populations. They are INCREDIBLY hard to remove from the ecosystem once established and are kind of a death sentence for a lot of ecosystems.

If you happen to be fishing in an area with invasive northern pike, do the ecosystem a favor and take that shit out!! Despite what some people might say, they're actually pretty good eating if you fillet them right! There are tons of recipes online if you do get your hands on one. My suggestion is to make fish tacos out of them 😋

TL;DR: Northern pike are very invasive in many parts of the United States and decimate ecosystems.

If anyone is curious about reading further into the topic, here are some resources to look into/the sources I got my information from!

California’s Invaders: Northern Pike (CDFW)

Invasive Pike in Southcentral Alaska (ADFG)

Northern pike (Esox lucius) (WDFW)

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species - Northern Pike (USGS)

Northern Pike remains top invasive species in Columbia River system (The Columbian)

The Pike Problem (Northwest Power and Conservation Council)

Northern pike can wreak havoc on waterways. Some Maine fishermen still welcome them (Maine Public)

[foxbirdy]

In early 2021 I wrote an essay titled "Loving The Yellowstone Grizzly," when the future of the Bitterroot grizzlies was to be decided by the USFWS - I revisited it today. These are a few passages. ID is in alt text.

[lilybug-02]

What is your collage major, Bread? Is it anything art related?

My major is Environmental Geoscience. I want to make a difference in environmental management and conservation. There is always a need for people in geoscience-y jobs 🌿💚

Art is a close hobby of mine, but I don't see it as a career. I like to take my art slow and only draw when I feel like it.

[wirsindkrieg]

The phrase to look for if you want to dig into this topic more is "non-human personhood". I wrote an essay on the subject fairly recently [link], but to summarize the relevant bits for this: The state of being a "living thing worthy of basic respect" (to borrow your words) is best summarized as "personhood", which is distinct from "being human". Every human is a person, but not all persons are human. There's long-running debates about where exactly the line between "person" and "not a person" lies, so there's no shortage of material to read through if you want to dive in. (There are even well-reasoned arguments that certain non-living beings, like true Artificial Intelligence, should be considered to have personhood.)

The reason that "dehumanization" is the word usually used for the idea of stripping someone of their personhood is because society at large treats "human" and "person" as synonyms, when (in certain senses) "human" could be considered a sub-set of "person". Changing that general view is a long-term goal that will require a fair bit of cooperation among advocates for non-human personhood. It'll probably be a difficult task (as with most large-scale social change), but one that many people have been passionate about for a long time, so you're not alone there. It's just a matter of knowing what to look for in order to find each other.

begging folks to understand that dehumanization actually means a removal of basic respect. the “human” is a stand-in for “living thing worthy of basic respect”. and i agree, that really isn’t an ideal thing when considering the nonhuman, but i truly dont know of a better word that could be easily understood. i do have many words to say about how fucked up it is that dehumanization is so tied to animalizing someone or making them into an object—as if such things do not also deserve respect?—but dehumanization is not synonymous with those things

[biologyologyy]

“King George was in TRP for no reason” LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER. ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌

HE IS LITERALLY INCLUDED BECAUSE IT REPRESENTS HOW THE NEWS OF HAMILTONS’ AFFAIR REACHED ENGLAND!!!!! I’M GOING INSANE I’M GOING TO BE ISCK

[alexandersimpleton]

Y'know, I ended up rereading some of the series to make something, and I'm now starting to realize that Blaine is massive d***.

Even if you exclude the gaslighting and beating of Frederick, he's a total jerk to literally everyone. He basically bullies Dandridge (I'm probably spelling that wrong), because he has a crush on a girl. He's really egotistical, and has this holier than thou attitude with almost everyone, including his own family. He is a smug d*** in the worst way possible, and I'm saying that as a proud smug jerk, so you know it's bad. He lectures everyone else, and his inflated ego just makes me angry. I have no idea how I didn't notice this on the first read, but I'm noticing it now, and I'm pissed off that this borderline narcissistic behavior gets encouraged by everyone around him for almost the whole series. You could say that the recital was him comeuppance, but after it he gets comforted by Maria like he isn't a total b****. He's just so vindictive, he has an inflated ego the size of Jupiter, and he treats everyone around him like inferiors.

And again, this is almost completely excluding his relationship with Frederick. His holier than thou attitude is blown up to monstrous proportions whenever he talks with him. He beats Frederick, calls him names, and gaslights him, while still thinking that he's some perfect angel and that Frederick is at fault for everything. He's so hypocritical with Frederick, saying horrible things to his face, and then hitting him for saying something remotely similar about Gwen. He rats Frederick to their father, who he's said himself that he doesn't feel same around, for literally no reason other than spite. He treats his own brother like a god damn cockroach and it's encouraged by the narrative. Considering all that's happening to Frederick over a single insult, I'm franky offended by how Blaine and narcissistic, self centered attitude, not only goes completely unpunished, but gets encouraged. Later in there series, when they reconnect, there is no change whatsoever from Blaine. Sure he starts kinda thinking of Frederick better, but he doesn't try to treat him any better. I mean, he doesn't treat Frederick like a cockroach anymore, but he really doesn't treat him much better. He still talked to Frederick like he's some inferior being that he has to push along. And Frederick is just expected to play along. Frederick did agree to the marriages, but I think I know how Blaine would have reacted if he didn't. Blaine would have forced two LITTERAL CHILDREN to get married and spend the rest of their lives chained together, because he's Blaine, and Blaine is the only important person on the planet and everyone are inferior being looking up to their god in hopes of guidance. "Oh, who cares that they're 17? Let's get married!" "Oh, who cares that Frederick is afraid of Gwen and flinching when she makes sudden movements? Gwen is lovely and Frederick deserves to get beaten and coerced into child marriage by his own family, and this is absolute and right because I am Blaine and I think so and I an always right and Frederick is always wrong because I am a perfect angel sent from heaven and Frederick is just a dog at my heal."

In conclusion: BLAINE IS A FUCKING BITCH

[comfymoth]

hiiiii moth hii. ur my resident vampire wereworlf mutual ur like my ta in these studies in a way so with this in mind i have a quastion for you. a query even. what happens when a werewolf bites a vampire or vice versa. can u get half vampire half werewolves. what is your wisdom

SOAP hi hello oh this is a good one okay. so. if vampirism and lycanthropy can be transmitted through bite, then we can use fake-fantasy-science to assume that they have some function similar to a virus, injecting new information into a cell and multiplying that way. using That, we can assume that if someone who already has one ‘virus’ were exposed to the other one, there would be some sort of viral interference. i believe this would take place in the form of superinfection suppression, where, quote: “persistently infected cells hold off infections by unrelated viruses” (thank u wikipedia). so basically (according to fake fantasy science that i can bs however i want because this is fake fantasy), if you have all this werewolf juice in you already and someone introduces a new smaller amount of vampire juice, the werewolf juice is gonna fuckin beat up the vampire juice and it won’t be able to get a foothold and survive.

so if a vampire got bit by a werewolf or vise versa, i think they’d just get sick for a week or two while their body fights off the ‘infection.’ maybe in some rare once-in-a-blue-moon case you could find them coinfecting! but 99.9% of the time. probably just results in a bad fever

[watery-melon-baller]

what if you were a girl trying to change her major and you wanted to take a class but your schedule from hell said no. and you were also on the verge of a mental breakdown

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

realized ricky is not only canonically polyam, but rep for polyam survivors who are abused for being poly, and i am having a lot of feelings about that which i plan to write up a post about but also wow in hindsight it put some shit from an abusive ex-friend into perspective.

[jwooyoung]

if taeil doesn't get a solo before he enlists i'm unstanning nct until he gets back

[thementalistscandidate]

hi im curious what youre studying in school, if youre comfortable sharing 👀

Hi! I’m in my third year of undergrad, studying Classical Studies (aka Ancient Greek and Roman history, culture etc) :) I’m hoping to apply for a masters in cultural history and resource management for next year so I can go on to work in museums and archives!