One of my favorite realizations from biology is that like… every creature is your relative. You look at your sister or brother or your parents and you think “that’s my family” and you look at uncles and second cousins and distant relations you’ve never met and think “well I don’t know them as well, but we’re all part of the same… clan, you know. They’re my family too”. Surely not everyone thinks this, but some people do. Well anyway, that same thing is true of your dog. The ants crawling on the ground. The birds in the sky. They are, literally, members of your extended family. Not merely as species but as individuals, the way each brother or cousin is an individual member of your family. There is no line between these things. My distant relation, this guy, this bug crawling around. I’m related to him. We’re very different, we’ve lived different lives and are good at different things. But he’s my family.
and im more closely related to raccoons than possums. And more closely related to possums than pigeons. And more closely related to pigeons than wasps. But all of us want my sandwich
You know that whole trope where like, the protagonists get teleported up into the aliens’ spaceship or base or whatever and the alien appears to them only it doesn’t appear as it really looks like but rather, since it doesn’t want to scare the protagonists, it takes the form of something we find familiar and pleasing and is like, “I look like your dad or whatever–is this form okay?” Like I think about that trope a lot and I think like, what if the alien couldn’t pick out a form via telepathy and only had earth media to try and decide what form would scare its human guests least and be accepted almost immediately and honestly the more I think about it the more options for what form that might be are just really fun to me.
“I have chosen the form of your earth playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda–do not be afraid. I come in peace.”
“Greetings. I am Glofnorbo of the cloud you call the ‘Pegasus Nebula.’ I have scanned your earth media from afar and empirically decided that you would find the form of the one known as Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson most pleasing. I have come to confer with your leaders.”
“Do not be panic. I come in peace. I have assumed the form of your insectoid demigoddess ‘Hatsune Miku’ so that we may communicate peacefully without my true form horrifying you.”
“It was decided that I would assume the form of your ‘Mister Rogers’ in order to best welcome your world to the galactic neighborhood without frightening your kind.”
“…So did your colleague take on the form of Jack Black for that reason too?”
“No, that is the actual Jack Black. We do not know how to make him leave.”
“…So did your colleague
take on the form of Jack Black
for that reason too?”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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uploaded this at 1 am thinking ‘oh no one is going to see this, whatever :)’ but reading your thoughts, your heartbreak and ultimately your hope made me feel like the world is one yknow what? We got this
ME: hold up. you see that? train’s been through here FRIEND: how can you tell ME: tracks. they’re not fresh, maybe 60, 80 years old FRIEND: no chance it’ll come back, then ME: don’t be so sure. That’s well within their lifespan… and they’re highly territorial
Both of these are super fucking illegal. Landlords can’t lock you out without going through the legal process. Likewise your car can’t be repossessed without that same process. Kill corporations.
every time i remember this video exists im not even exaggerating when i say i wheeze until i cant breathe its the fuckijgn funniest thing in thw world to me it gives me a migraine every time i watch it
stfu stfu literally nobody has an ugly smile or an ugly laugh its just not a thing. your smiles and laughter are the literal manifestations of your joy theyre gorgeous no matter what they look like or how they sound
she was initially formed out of pottery clay but came to life because it was her true hearts wish to be friends with everybody in the world and the princess of the faeries helped her
i hate to e-beg but the situation is getting dire and i feel like i’m left with no other choice. i left my summer job in july due to a toxic work environment where my hours became severely reduced out of nowhere, and i was never even paid a chunk of what i was owed after my last day. it’s been a massive struggle trying to get a new job ever since and it’s eaten into my savings severely. i currently can no longer afford to pay for the college course i was accepted into. to make matters worse, my teeth have gotten to a point where i can no longer eat comfortably, and i really need to see a dentist before the end of the year before the problems (receding gums among other, mystery issues) get worse.
even though i am an artist who has done paid work before, i currently do not have the physical or mental bandwidth to make proper commission sheets; though i absolutely plan to open comms as soon as possible. in the meantime, here’s the link to my ko-fi if anybody is willing and able to help me out (PLEASE only donate if you’re sure it wouldn’t put any financial burden on yourself, i cannot stress that enough). i will do my level best to respond to every donation, no matter how big or small, with a doodle or small drawing to express my gratitude.
if you’ve read this far, thank you so much for listening to me scream into the void :’) i appreciate anything you can give, whether it’s a donation or a reblog or even just some sympathy, more than you can ever imagine.
