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ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

Tumblr is unique bc like. It's collaborative shitposting and you can't opt in or out. You can just say something about your day then an evil wizard shows up to turn your post into something humorous

Every other site is just one and done, but here a post is a welcome mat to be funnier than you

yeah or sometimes you’ll see a post that hacks into your brain and forever rewrites your instinctual reaction to seeing a pineapple explode

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but seriously i think learning about nature is Hard for many people, especially adults, because you have to rationalize the symbiotic experience youre having next to the contemptuous and abusive way we treat the land. I think USAmericans fear nature as a way of making sense of the fact that we're waging war against nature, with our lawns and our suburbs and our landscaping and our cosmetic use of pesticides.

There was a post on facebook my mom was showing me where someone found a salamander and was asking what it was. thankfully half the comments were like "that's a SALAMANDER they are SPECIAL and a BLESSING and you must PROTECT it"

but the other half were things like..."I don't know, but I think it's time to move" "Burn the house down" "Kill it with fire" "I would scream if i saw that"

this is why i have such specific preferences in horror fiction that nothing seems to really hit: for me, horror is not about bad things happening, horror is about fear. So occasionally I find these really satisfying stories that are about fear of the unknown thing and the experience of fear, but the unknown thing being harmless is generally seen as a "twist" rather than a perfectly sensible and satisfying outcome.

on the face of it: why would you be afraid of a tiny creature weighing only grams, whose body is so delicate and frail? it's heartbreaking, but it's not unexplainable. What kind of a childhood makes someone an adult who is totally unprepared to comprehend the idea of something both unexpected and good?

a bizarre universe to try and place myself in, where a salamander is more likely to be...what? a mutated fetus of a brain-sucking alien? rather than one among the thousands of gentle creatures that you can marvel at, forever, for free.

It's the same way with bugs: people argue with the simple fact that nearly all insects cannot harm you, and I think it's because it's so difficult to reconcile with how liberally and carelessly we use insecticides with proven harms to humans and pets, and how we treat and speak about these creatures in general. If that weird bug almost certainly would not have harmed you, that means you killed a living thing because you didn't understand it, and that's a troubling thought.

friendly reminder that nearly all insecticides you can buy at the store are not specific to individual "pests" and will harm non-target invertebrates and potentially fish, amphibians, and birds.

You can do this yourself, I went through home depot's website and looked up the active ingredients to all the pesticides that they were selling, and their toxicity and environmental data.

"spider killer" "wasp killer" "roach killer" are marketing gimmicks and these different products often have the exact same active ingredients that are broadly toxic to everything (yes, including you, though the dose is small for a creature of your size)

soil and water are widely contaminated with insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, which often interact with each other in the environment or in organisms bodies and multiply their harmful effect. These residues are not usually deadly toxic to the creatures, instead they cause bugs, amphibians and other vulnerable animals to have developmental abnormalities, damaged immune systems, less healthy and vigorous young, odd behaviors...just generally makes them sick, like living next to a toxic chemical leak could make a town sick and cause high rates of cancer, etc

Spraying your yard for "bugs" is marketed as a basic routine of cleanliness and innocent people fall for this malicious scam all the time, releasing pesticides that harm and sicken every living thing into the environment because it's what the advertisements told them you're supposed to do

Do NOT assume that its safe just because it's legal to buy. Garden poisons are critically under-legislated

MS Painting (acrylic on canvas)

me when someone leaves a box of crayons unattended

If you vote for me as president of Crayola I promise to install hi-tec security systems on every corner everywhere so that this villian will never have a safe place for their vile crimes

we have a problem.

hmmm?

???

Oh

Uh huh

W-well, what seems to be the problem?

me when someone leaves a box of crayons unattended

If you vote for me as president of Crayola I promise to install hi-tec security systems on every corner everywhere so that this villian will never have a safe place for their vile crimes

It's a wunk eat wunk world

"damn I'm crying over an insect" "why am I having such strong feelings over how the sky looks" "it's weird how happy this small thing made me feel" THAT'S BECAUSE YOU LIVE HERE!!!! you live on this earth. everything all the time is an experience, no matter how common or mundane. this world is unique. so are its small moments. it is good to enjoy a tiny thing. you love the world even at its smallest scale.

Waiting for scar to come back online so he can show off his cool fans.... they should explode

One of the best schlorbing responses I have received thank you and congratulations.

will wood taking a quick look at his tumblr tags rn:

Looking through my drafts right now, what the fuck did I mean by this???

I don’t remember typing that out 😭

i need you to know that i just actually referenced this post irl to my friends. you have corrupted my mind

Glad to hear my knack for corrupting the minds of my mutuals is powerful as ever.

be careful this the type of shit they executed Socrates for way back in ancient Athens

Accidentally hid the background while I was working but it looked pretty sick so you get it as a sneak peak

I finished the piece. Gotta say I absolutely loath rendering, it takes forever and makes near no difference >:(

50 notes and i’ll cover any will wood or lemon demon song

let's hear the aftonsparv sing