Name's Pan, born '93, satyr glorious, ancient tree elf, genderfluid, pan(romantic/sexual). General housebody, Sociophobe, and book collector.
Small space living, generally confused about life, and with at least three books always on the go.
Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.
In a surprising twist, scientists have discovered that octopuses,
along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA
(ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.
This is weird because that’s really not how adaptations usually
happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some
fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation - a change
to the DNA.
Really interesting short read for those interested in evolution.
stupid non-cephalopodes: evolve through a relatively stable updating of genetic matrices
grand cephalopod savants: biohacking into the nature mainframe and leaving eldritch comments in the engine’s source. what the fuck is a “stable release”
This Black Pearl pepper plant is so stunning! I picked it up at a local farmer’s market the other day while loading up on pumpkins. It’s a cultivar of Capsicum annuum and the berries are supposedly edible but extremely hot and have a citrus-y flavor.
God I really wish carrying stuffed animals around with you was socially acceptable
I don’t mean to take over a post, but I actually did a project on this for my sociology of deviance class in college!
I carried a large stuffed rabbit whenever I went in public for about a week to observe the reaction of others. The point of the project was to do something harmless yet unusual to see if the action would be considered deviant, in which case someone had to try to correct or shame the behavior.
Long story short, nobody tried to correct my behavior. I was asked about it casually, had a few lingering stares thrown my way and when I was with my boyfriend, shop employees would direct questions to him instead of me. However, nobody refused to assist me when I was alone in a store, nobody said anything about the rabbit besides “oh, thats a cute bunny!” and I attended college classes without even a teacher questioning it.
In conclusion, it is socially acceptable to carry a stuffed animal, its just not a societal norm. ^^
My friend gave me a stuffed monkey plushy when I was struggling with uni, and I took him everywhere for like four years, usually velcrod to my backpack. No one said a damn thing, except my renaissance professor who saw it one day in the hallway and cracked the fuck up because I had a literal monkey on my back and he just looked at me like, “oh god, me too”. I used to leave him on desks during classes and exams (the monkey, not my prof). It was my reminder that someone cared if I was coping. But more than that it was soothing to have something to fidget with that wasn’t a pen. I used to ping those fucking things across the room I was so agitated. Harder to hurt people with a projectile stuffed monkey.
I got what I thought was a normal screen cleaning kit for my computer while I was in college. Much to my delight, instead of a little washcloth or whatever, the kit came with a tiny stuffed pig.
So I carried this pig in my backpack all through college, periodically taking it out, spraying my screen, and using the pig to wipe it off.
Now, I kept the pig in the side pocket of my bag where he was completely visible.
Then one day in screenwriting class I pulled him out to wipe my screen.
One of the guys sitting next to me looked appalled. “You’re wiping it off with your little stuffed animal??”
I explained what the pig was.
Turns out, the guy had noticed it and just thought it was adorable I carried a stuffed animal with me every day. He’d never mentioned it before.
Honestly, people do not care, and will not say anything. No matter the reason for your little stuffed animal friend.
And if you’re still really nervous about it keep a stuffed animal keychain on your bag. I have a cute little frog that stays on my backpack so when work gets stressful I can squeeze it.
For my anxious followers.
I love this so much. It reminds me that people can just be accepting, and if they aren’t - it’s by their choice. It isn’t a default.
a hot take? believing in thought crimes is inherently ableist.
there is no version of thinking that someone’s thoughts alone define who they are and what they’re worth as a person or thinking that people should be judged and punished for their thoughts as they would be for spoken words and actions that does not target neurodivergent people.
there is no way you can believe that thought crimes are real without that meaning you condemn neurodivergent people who suffer from intrusive thoughts or whose neurodivergence affects their thinking or emotional processes in a way that causes them to have thoughts that are not particularly kind or positive or charitable about other people or the world they’re in.
to believe in thought crimes is to believe that neurodivergent people are inherently bad, inherently evil, inherently dangerous, and inherently deserving of being locked up or punished in some other way.
and to say you believe in thought crimes “but no, wait, i don’t mean for neurodivergent people! i mean for everyone else!” is a cop out that signifies you either don’t actually believe in thought crimes but find the concept useful as a justification for ostracizing and abusing people or you haven’t actually thought that much about the platform you stand on in any nuanced way.
Some Works in Progress: Coven Leader In Training Crystal Collector Ritual Summoning Astrology
LOVE!! I woul also try to do different shapes(triangles and squares) for a few of them! I think it would be cool!
If we are really gonna do it GS style lets do it like Junior or Caddets.
Troop Crest becomes coven symbol or symbol to represent your independent practice.
Member Star/Discs represent each year you have been in the scouts. Do it as moons are moon phases since you have started your craft, change the moon phase based on where you are in your journey (maiden, mother, crone) or maybe a moon phase that resonates with you for that year?
Journey Awards get replaces with path/ journey patches that represent achievements in your craft. Maybe connection with a God or Goddess, a new form of the craft being added to your practice, learn about your ancestry, etc.
^ On the back we have patches. These are usually for local events, cookie sales, participation based badges essentially to outwardly show to other girls things and places you have been.
So for these we could have coven specific events, yearly events like Yule with years to signify each year you have celebrated, historic locations or significant spaces specific to your area or places you visit. Like local to me is Bunny Man Bridge and lots of haunted locations and things from urban myth. Really the stuff on the back is anything that doesn’t have a formal meaning with anything on the front so it can be fun stuff and things you have done in general.
Also I’m a fan of the girl guide/vintage uniform aesthetic <3
I also like the idea of deity “pins” in place of the “My Promise, My Faith” pins if you have anyone you worship or if your a Christian or really any religion and wants to want it clear put a symbol there. If not don’t worry about or put something else that reps why you do what you do. :)
As a former Girl Scout and Girl Scout Leader I LOVE this idea. If yall want to make real patches I would love to help I still have my contacts from when I would have patches made for my girls (and I do marketing and graphic design as a job so we can have fun designing them as a witchblr community, maybe put the money we make towards a charitable cause, or several based on holiday and need through the year)
thats a bit more intense than i have ever planned on going with this spitball idea.. but im glad you’re on board for it.
why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you
This is both against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan God’s. This is blatant satanic blasphemy
frollo has logged tf on
Reblog if you too are against the gender roles that God put forth and in favor of the worship of pagan Gods.
opposite of depression nap. depression awakeness. refreshing the same three websites over and over. there’s nothing new on any of them. eight seconds have passed and it feels like a century
