#this feels 50% accurate

[ladyylesbian]

how does pinterest see you?

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search these and pick the first photo - celebrity, shoes, outfit, aesthetic, purse, makeup look.

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[the-art-of-sanshoku]

[artistmarchalius]

As promised, a more historically accurate (in terms of black and white printing) version of this.

[g4y-th0ughts]

i appreciate the realistic way in which corrie is portraying what falling for a woman feels like with carla’s storyline. like yes, exactly, you’re going to get with a woman and first of all, you’re going to realize that she treats you better than all of the men you’ve dated before (turns out you’re actually a flower person when it’s your girlfriend who picks them out anytime you need cheering up and you don’t have to ask for them) (turns out your feelings actually matter and deserve to be validated).

then, you’re going to see that you can put all your anger and body armour down because all you’re being met with is softness (the same reassurance a thousand times) (i’m going nowhere) (of course i’m sure).

and after a bit of resistance, you try it out, you peel off the layers around your heart and let yourself bask in the love (you still can’t believe it’s real) (you’re terrified of her bailing on you daily). and you don’t know where all this clinginess is coming from all of a sudden but you find that you actually don’t care (you want her close all the time, pressed up together on the couch and buttering your toast only inches away from her) (you say i love you one month into the relationship) (where’s lisa? i need lisa).

you realize you’re so down bad that sometimes it’s cute (triple texting sending kisses even during a fight that you didn’t cause) and sometimes it’s straight up dumb (offering to move out of your own flat just to make sure she has somewhere safe and familiare to sleep). but ultimately it’s never dangerous because there’s so much safety, so much love (she fucks up and lashes out at you but her apology is genuine) (shaky sobs at the idea of hurting you) (relieved sigh when you show her that you still want her) (i don’t need space, i need you). soft soft soft all around (wiping away tears from her face) (tucking her hair behind her ears) (realizing you’ve got something precious in your hands) (something you can never let go of) (you’ll forever be a simp and you’re okay with that).

so yeah, great healthy sapphic rep!

[lady-green-sleeves]

It’s actually hilarious how freaked out people are over the whole Daemon dreamfucking his mom thing😂

Like don’t get me wrong I agree the writers are cowards and should have made him dreamfuck his brother instead but oh well we can’t win them all (or majority of them with this show)

I personally think it was funny and it’s even funnier the targ stans who have sm other incest ships and are grossed out by this and think it was too far

People who are fans of the incest show when the incest show has incest that’s not the specific flavor of incest that they wanted:

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

the only thing that’s standing in between me and truly settling down to write a prequel fic with sarah/victor/rufus is that i really don’t have the time nor energy to do a deep dive into every tiny thing about what was historically accurate for every year of these people’s long-ass lives

[brown-little-robin]

my gender is Poor, actually,

[nynnph0]

Doomed yuri :broken-heart:

I'll make a coloured ref sheet of her soon,, maybe

beta design for gb Ryan

I don't like it so i redid it lol

[lycanr0t]

See the issue with trying to figure out chilchucks 'real/human age' via math is that it ignores the fact that that's not how biology works. the 'dog years' concept is not scientific or at all an accurate way to compare species ages

[gristlegrinder]

happy spotify wrapped day to those who celebrate

[luckyashes-art]

you ever feel hungry enough for crumbs that you consider making things yourself

[zooblesbutchpuppygirl]

Saw a post on twitter that made me think about this so I'm talking about it here. I'm thinking so much about how my s/i would be mischaracterized by the tadc fandom if they were canon (under the cut because there's a lot lol)

I feel like they would definitely be infantilized. People would absolutely portray as like. A literal baby who can't do anything on their own

This is a big one but I super feel like they'd be portrayed as a yandere in fan stuff because of their strong feelings for Zooble. Rambling here but yeah they do get jealous sometimes and they are protective of Zooble but they aren't a yandere and honestly it makes me very uncomfortable to think about them being portrayed that way

Also they would totally be drawn skinny and I feel like people would ignore that they're a butch

Another big one (that isn't really mischaracterization) but I do feel like in general people wouldn't like them because they get in the way of popular ships so in fanfics people would probably either kill them off, have them break up with Zooble/Zooble breaks up with them or like. Idk something lol

[whysamwhy123]

Hoo boy, I am still inexplicably trying to make this dumb, trashy Ricky/Christian thing happen, even though no one wants it, no one will read it and I am not equipped to handle it. But...it's fuuuuuuuuun. Even though I'm sure it sucks. I haven't written the smut because LOL, I never do. Maybe I'll try and circle back to it or maybe I'll just do my usual fade to black. But even so...there's some real self-indulgent, gratuitous stuff here so far, despite the lack of actual smut. Who is this for exactly? Other than me? Why am I doing this?

*chants while glaring at myself in the mirror* SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.

[mikolasjosef]

6, 42, 78, 99 ♡

omg hi!!! ✨✨

6: käärijä - mic mac (my playlist did this for u)

42: benjamin - hoida mut (suomiboo)

78: mikolas josef - boys don’t cry (omg the url representation!!!!)

99: regatt - enne võitu (this is an estonian cover of human by the killers and it SLAPS)

[queenlucythevaliant]

Albino redwoods are the ABSOLUTE COOLEST. My family spent some time in the redwoods the summer after I took AP biology and I spent the whole trip obsessing over them. Here's some of what I remember!

Some redwoods have a combination of albino branches and wild type/chlorophyll producing branches. They're called chimeras and they're GORGEOUS (pics below). These trees express both sets of DNA along clearly delineated areas of the tree. Genetically, it's the same thing that's going on with calico cats

Most albino redwoods only grow to shrub or sapling size, but a few can grow to 30+ ft. Only the full-sized, mature trees produce cones. (Ie most albino redwoods arise due to new mutation and immediate natural selection, not heredity)

The filtration abilities are a direct size effect of the no chloroplasts thing. No chloroplasts -> weak stromata (bc it's basically just matrix) -> inefficient water transport and poor retention -> lots of uptake of environmental toxins, but poor retention. Kind of like flushing toxins out of our bodies! This kind of anatomy is really costly to the individual organism but, as discussed above, highly beneficial to the community. (Also, what even is an individual organism? Jury's still out lol)

There tend to be more viable albino redwoods near industrial/otherwise contaminated areas, as well as during periods of drought. Evolutionarily, this suggests that wild type trees might be behaving altruistically when the environment is stressful, allowing albinos to survive and thrive (the 30-footers). In contrast, during times of low stress, most albinos are ephemeral and die quickly.

Ecologically, this also means that albino redwood success might be a useful marker for localized environmental stress. They're the "white flags of the forest."

Chimera:

Large albino redwood:

More typical albino redwood, like the one I remember seeing:

Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.

[theabstruseone]

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.