clean water is such a luxury that we tend to take for granted.
i found out that wild animals can drink dirty water only because they’ve been acclimated to its contaminants since birth. because of this, any changes in the water can cause outbreaks of severe illness. animals raised on clean water would have just as much trouble with wild water as we would.
anyway, unrelated but Fuck Nestle
Nestle has done so much to the water it’s actually hard for me to find specific sources because there’s so many. when you google ‘nestle water’ the first autocomplete suggestion is 'nestle water scandal’ and you’ll get articles dating back to 2016 just on the first page.
the gist is that Nestle is a mega conglomerate and essentially a water monopoly. they’ve been known to buy land containing natural water springs and restrict access to that water from the locals, only to sell it back to them at an inflated price.
in the 1970s, nestle was exposed for causing the deaths of many infants in third world countries due to their baby formula marketing practices. they would offer free two week trials of their formula to struggling mothers, who of course would take the offers for some relief and convenience. unfortunately, two weeks is just long enough for a mother to stop producing milk if she isn’t breastfeeding, which would force them into buying more formula once the trial was over. on top of buying the formula, they would also be forced to buy nestle’s overpriced water or risk using contaminated water to mix the formula with.
nestle also owns almost all the local brands of water in the united states. they also own companies like loreal and purina. it’s incredibly difficult to boycott them for this reason. purina is also said to be causing illness and death in many pets, and has recalled one of their dry dog food options at least once
here’s a list of the companies and brands nestle owns. they are large and wealthy enough to afford their own private militia and form a sovereign country if they wanted to. the article also lists some more of their controversies.
clean water is such a luxury that we tend to take for granted.
i found out that wild animals can drink dirty water only because they’ve been acclimated to its contaminants since birth. because of this, any changes in the water can cause outbreaks of severe illness. animals raised on clean water would have just as much trouble with wild water as we would.
anyway, unrelated but Fuck Nestle
Nestle has done so much to the water it’s actually hard for me to find specific sources because there’s so many. when you google ‘nestle water’ the first autocomplete suggestion is 'nestle water scandal’ and you’ll get articles dating back to 2016 just on the first page.
the gist is that Nestle is a mega conglomerate and essentially a water monopoly. they’ve been known to buy land containing natural water springs and restrict access to that water from the locals, only to sell it back to them at an inflated price.
in the 1970s, nestle was exposed for causing the deaths of many infants in third world countries due to their baby formula marketing practices. they would offer free two week trials of their formula to struggling mothers, who of course would take the offers for some relief and convenience. unfortunately, two weeks is just long enough for a mother to stop producing milk if she isn’t breastfeeding, which would force them into buying more formula once the trial was over. on top of buying the formula, they would also be forced to buy nestle’s overpriced water or risk using contaminated water to mix the formula with.
nestle also owns almost all the local brands of water in the united states. they also own companies like loreal and purina. it’s incredibly difficult to boycott them for this reason. purina is also said to be causing illness and death in many pets, and has recalled one of their dry dog food options at least once
here’s a list of the companies and brands nestle owns. they are large and wealthy enough to afford their own private militia and form a sovereign country if they wanted to. the article also lists some more of their controversies.
why r some american tumblr users like the us education system didnt teach me that i have five toes on each foot so i didn’t learn it until my twenties 😞
i love you USPS I love you NASA i love you taxpayer funded services that actually contribute positively to society i love you libraries i love you public transport
A friend of a friend has the superpower of making people realize their trans. Pretty much anyone he’s come in contact with has later realized they’re trans.
This power is so pronounced that he got into a car accident and a few weeks later the person in the other car came out as trans.
Power of trans your gender
Not a major car accident, just a little gender bender
guy who keeps going to cemeteries and digging up human corpses but with such an air of innocent curiosity that no one can get angry at him for it and they just try to gently lecture him on why he shouldn’t do it
so I started a new anxiety medication this past week and so far it’s been going very well except that I have extremely vivid dreams and apparently sleep texting. I seem to have sent this at 3am and i have no memory of it
but i am Right
okay this reminded me. i’m disabled and i’ve gone to the hospital a lot and one time in college during finals season i had to write my professor an email excusing my absence but the dilauded kicked in and well
If you are a fan of anybody’s work, whether it be art, writing, music, translating, editing, videos, etc- it is incredibly important that you share that you enjoy their work.
It could be a comment, a tag, an anonymous ask saying thank you or something about their most recent piece you enjoy, anything. Creation is more often than not a social thing, and a little note or comment really goes a long way. People are sharing a little piece of themself every day, here on the internet!
So if you don’t mind a little challenge, on the next piece of art* you see that you find personally impactful, leave a little tag or comment saying something about how much it means to you.
*this includes writing, music, edits, jokes, anything that has undergone the act of being created by a person
Rough draft scene doodles. Since I nearing chapter completion I thought I’d go ahead and post it. Writing here is just the early draft, finale one has (minor) dialogue changes, and the scene is split into two parts between two chapters, with the first half starting at the beginning and ending when Narinder agrees it looks cute. That first scene will be in chapter 19
The other half will be related but in chapter 20 instead with more emotional weight to it in the posted chapter. Dw they get their snowball fight eventually :P
also when I was doodling these Twitch chat was screaming about how Narinder hard fumbled
We don’t really know who this is we just took a screenshot because the intermission creator commented we’ll probably be fine they look totally mental stable
i hate what diet culture has done to ethnic food my ancestors (my GRANDPARENTS) ate rice and injera and bread and coffee all the time and they turned out fine. i hate white people
“Humans can’t really digest beans and rice”. I am beans and rice. Beans is my father and rice is my mother
This kind of thing exposes the classism and xenophobia that underlies so much of diet culture.
Two thirds of humanity subsist on a mostly rice diet
“humans can’t digest - ”
Lemme stop you right there. Do you have any idea how much wild nonsense humans can eat that straight up murders other mammals? Even our closest relatives?
Hmm I think I’ll have a chocolate eclair with my coffee, sounds tasty. Both of those things are poisonous to pretty much all other mammals, as in same day organ failure kind of poisonous. Like spice? Capisin is formulated specifically so plants that make it won’t get eaten by mammals. Enjoy some refreshing mint flavor? Same idea. Booze? Fermented anything for that matter? It’s kinda weird that our livers can even do that, but considering all the other wierd shit we put in our bodies it’s not surprising.
Try giving a chimp or a bonobo that same menu and it might have time to have a heart attack before its kidneys shut down and its liver explodes. Dogs get a little bit of a hand up since they’ve spent the last few millenia living with us and eating whatever we feed them but there’s still a huge list of human foods that they can’t digest or even safely eat.
Milk? Yeah, that one’s a bit wierd but it kinda proves the rule. Given the challenge humans will digest anything eventually. Mushrooms? Cook ‘em. Rocks? Depends on the rock but you would be amazed. Bones? Cook those too.
There is a reason there is a human culture in nearly every biome on earth. If there’s water to drink we will find something to eat. Then we make it tasty.
a giant castle rises from the ground around the main government building. this is basically peta’s fault.
you ride a dragon-god into space to fight a meteor alien. this is plan b. plan a was to send the meteor alien to another dimension.
one guy tries to get rid of the oceans. one tries to get rid of dry land. What Happens Next Will Shock You.
a dude jumps straight out of the water onto an evil pirate ship, lowers the gangplank, then swims off to let a teenager deal with it.
there is a 1/3 chance that a runaway 11-year-old yakuza/mafia prince broke into a laboratory to steal an adorable plant creature.
you can buy a useless fish for several thousand yen from a shady salesman. this is actually a very good investment.
the devil, the god of death and the bringer of eternal nightmares all really really really like cake.
the space cultists would have won if dragon lucifer hadn’t showed up.
god is a goat, and if you take it to the right place, it will make you a baby god.
the most powerful trainer in the world (a 14-year-old with a pet rat) went up a frozen mountain for no apparent reason. he only comes down after you beat up his rat. this is absurdly difficult.
the effective ruler of the unova region is a magical catgirl space princess with a bunch of pet dragons.
there’s a nine foot tall guy wandering around. his height is the least interesting thing about him. and his best friend is a flower fairy.
more
a 10 year old destroys the yakuza (and then another 10 year old destroys its remnants a few years later)
there’s multiple professors who study subjects they have no fucking clue about. they’re still considered experts for some reason.
bikes cost a gajillion dollars but you actually WERE the 1 millionth customer and get one for free anyways.
a woc orphan gets a suit that basically makes her a super hero. This is never followed up ojn
a random guy with a bad accent in a brown trenchcoat is the sole police officer seen in the series. no i mean literally, there ARE NO OTHER POLICE its just him, he keeps showing up. All the others you might think were police are just security guards.
same police officer fights a pokemon with his fists at one point
in a previous game a dragon hits a person with a laser and this is a good thing
Psychic powers are totally real and common as dirt
ghosts are real too but they’re mostly goobers
fossils are resurrected ala jurassic park all the time
people can read dreams
teleportation and matter to energy conversion is so common place it’s used for minor conveniences
an ancient civilization 10000 years old used braille as their alphabet
you can visit the underworld
There is now another police officer. He lives next to a town overrun by a gang, with his fifteen cats.
Pokemon Heritage Post
A princess who’s never battled in her life moves to another country after she unlocks latent psychic powers and becomes one of that country’s top battlers.
To follow up on the orphan superhero: she’s also like 10 years old and a professional PI in Paris.
A pair of self-proclaimed “celebrities” that no one’s heard of try to rewrite history by driving a dog insane.
You have the power to alter the past by choosing where to plant carrots.
Three specific birds change their appearance and types when in the UK. This is never elaborated on.
Between a respected sports champion, a renowned professor, and a terrorist cult leader, the cult leader is the only one whose ancestor never betrays you.
A region’s top champion who’s known for “never holding back” loses to two teenagers on separate occasions, and is still considered the top champion for some reason.
a teenager can understand animal speech because he grew up surrounded by ones that had been traumatized by shitty trainers
the same teenager hates battling and becomes the champion battler of his region entirely to make a point, and fucks off on the back of a dragon god when he loses
people have been confirmed to have been dropped into alternate timelines or into the past of possibly their own worlds. they get amnesia from the process and no one has made a significant effort to try to get them home again
there are multiple pokemon that murder people based entirely on their vibes- the more emotions someone is feeling, the more likely it is that something will teleport to them to vaporize them
a man jumps off the blades of a moving windmill and lands in an arena at least three stories below where he started in a superhero pose. this is not viewed as remarkable
in the aforementioned trip into space to fight a meteor alien, the player does it in a suit designed to withstand the deep pressure of the ocean or the extreme heat from a volcano. nasa has decided that is acceptable protection from the cold vacuum of space
its possible to grandfather paradox your way into triggering the plot of a mainline video game thanks to a turtle made out of gemstones and a book about conspiracy theories
that grandfather paradox confirms that once enough time has passed, you are guaranteed to get animals that look exactly the same as before, except now they’re dinosaurs or robots
you get a kaiju, and befriend it by way of sandwiches. no one knows what it is or is worried about what it might do, and the person that caught it via time travel entrusts it to you, a total stranger, because you beat up their son’s pet squirrel
three gods of willpower, emotion, and knowledge test a fifteen-year-old to make sure they have what it takes to save the world. the willpower one gives them a test they’ll never win to make sure they won’t give up, the emotion one grills them on the trauma of the last few weeks/months of their life, and the knowledge one asks them how many eyes a couple different species of pokemon have. these are all treated with equal seriousness
a giant castle rises from the ground around the main government building. this is basically peta’s fault.
you ride a dragon-god into space to fight a meteor alien. this is plan b. plan a was to send the meteor alien to another dimension.
one guy tries to get rid of the oceans. one tries to get rid of dry land. What Happens Next Will Shock You.
a dude jumps straight out of the water onto an evil pirate ship, lowers the gangplank, then swims off to let a teenager deal with it.
there is a 1/3 chance that a runaway 11-year-old yakuza/mafia prince broke into a laboratory to steal an adorable plant creature.
you can buy a useless fish for several thousand yen from a shady salesman. this is actually a very good investment.
the devil, the god of death and the bringer of eternal nightmares all really really really like cake.
the space cultists would have won if dragon lucifer hadn’t showed up.
god is a goat, and if you take it to the right place, it will make you a baby god.
the most powerful trainer in the world (a 14-year-old with a pet rat) went up a frozen mountain for no apparent reason. he only comes down after you beat up his rat. this is absurdly difficult.
the effective ruler of the unova region is a magical catgirl space princess with a bunch of pet dragons.
there’s a nine foot tall guy wandering around. his height is the least interesting thing about him. and his best friend is a flower fairy.
more
a 10 year old destroys the yakuza (and then another 10 year old destroys its remnants a few years later)
there’s multiple professors who study subjects they have no fucking clue about. they’re still considered experts for some reason.
bikes cost a gajillion dollars but you actually WERE the 1 millionth customer and get one for free anyways.
a woc orphan gets a suit that basically makes her a super hero. This is never followed up ojn
a random guy with a bad accent in a brown trenchcoat is the sole police officer seen in the series. no i mean literally, there ARE NO OTHER POLICE its just him, he keeps showing up. All the others you might think were police are just security guards.
same police officer fights a pokemon with his fists at one point
in a previous game a dragon hits a person with a laser and this is a good thing
Psychic powers are totally real and common as dirt
ghosts are real too but they’re mostly goobers
fossils are resurrected ala jurassic park all the time
people can read dreams
teleportation and matter to energy conversion is so common place it’s used for minor conveniences
an ancient civilization 10000 years old used braille as their alphabet
you can visit the underworld
There is now another police officer. He lives next to a town overrun by a gang, with his fifteen cats.
Pokemon Heritage Post
A princess who’s never battled in her life moves to another country after she unlocks latent psychic powers and becomes one of that country’s top battlers.
To follow up on the orphan superhero: she’s also like 10 years old and a professional PI in Paris.
A pair of self-proclaimed “celebrities” that no one’s heard of try to rewrite history by driving a dog insane.
You have the power to alter the past by choosing where to plant carrots.
Three specific birds change their appearance and types when in the UK. This is never elaborated on.
Between a respected sports champion, a renowned professor, and a terrorist cult leader, the cult leader is the only one whose ancestor never betrays you.
A region’s top champion who’s known for “never holding back” loses to two teenagers on separate occasions, and is still considered the top champion for some reason.
a teenager can understand animal speech because he grew up surrounded by ones that had been traumatized by shitty trainers
the same teenager hates battling and becomes the champion battler of his region entirely to make a point, and fucks off on the back of a dragon god when he loses
people have been confirmed to have been dropped into alternate timelines or into the past of possibly their own worlds. they get amnesia from the process and no one has made a significant effort to try to get them home again
there are multiple pokemon that murder people based entirely on their vibes- the more emotions someone is feeling, the more likely it is that something will teleport to them to vaporize them
a man jumps off the blades of a moving windmill and lands in an arena at least three stories below where he started in a superhero pose. this is not viewed as remarkable
in the aforementioned trip into space to fight a meteor alien, the player does it in a suit designed to withstand the deep pressure of the ocean or the extreme heat from a volcano. nasa has decided that is acceptable protection from the cold vacuum of space
its possible to grandfather paradox your way into triggering the plot of a mainline video game thanks to a turtle made out of gemstones and a book about conspiracy theories
that grandfather paradox confirms that once enough time has passed, you are guaranteed to get animals that look exactly the same as before, except now they’re dinosaurs or robots
you get a kaiju, and befriend it by way of sandwiches. no one knows what it is or is worried about what it might do, and the person that caught it via time travel entrusts it to you, a total stranger, because you beat up their son’s pet squirrel
three gods of willpower, emotion, and knowledge test a fifteen-year-old to make sure they have what it takes to save the world. the willpower one gives them a test they’ll never win to make sure they won’t give up, the emotion one grills them on the trauma of the last few weeks/months of their life, and the knowledge one asks them how many eyes a couple different species of pokemon have. these are all treated with equal seriousness
so many people do not understand that 1) animals are not people, and 2) they aren’t teaching their animals what they THINK they are teaching them.
dog group on the book of faces, someone is asking for advice on how to get their dog to come to them after the dog is done relieving itself outside. The dog doesn’t like coming to them an they spend ten or twenty minutes or more catching the dog each time to bring it in. Which reminded me of one of many attempts to talk a person through trying to fix exactly this same behavior in *many* other dogs over the years…
Me: So, a quick question for you… does the dog not coming to you and you having to chase them down frustrate you?
Them: Of course!
Me: So what do you do when you finally either catch the dog or get them to come to you?
Them: I give the dog a correction!
Me: So. You get hands on your dog and then you immediately punish them for allowing you to get hands on them. And you wonder why your dog has developed the habit of not coming to you?
Them: No, that’s not… I’m punishing them for not coming when I call!
Me: Which was…. fifteen minutes ago, or so, you said?
Them: Yes, when I first called them!
Me: Dogs brains literally cannot link an abstract thought like that. A thought and a consequence MUST happen within 2.4 seconds of one another, or the consequence becomes linked to the most recent behavior, thought, or activity. So, tell me… how is your dog supposed to understand that you punishing them is for the event fifteen minutes ago when you have made such a concerted, if unintentional, effort to teach them that them getting close enough for you to lay hands on them in the yard means an immediate punishment?
Them: But that’s not what I *meant*!
Me: Doesn’t matter what YOU meant… what THEY learned is that they come to you, and they get punished. Stop punishing your dog for the behavior that you want to see more of.
Stop anthropomorphizing your animals, folks. They don’t think like us. Stop setting them - and yourself - up for failure.
with humans, thanks to the capacity for abstract thought, punishing them basically always produces undesired results.
so many people do not understand that 1) animals are not people, and 2) they aren’t teaching their animals what they THINK they are teaching them.
dog group on the book of faces, someone is asking for advice on how to get their dog to come to them after the dog is done relieving itself outside. The dog doesn’t like coming to them an they spend ten or twenty minutes or more catching the dog each time to bring it in. Which reminded me of one of many attempts to talk a person through trying to fix exactly this same behavior in *many* other dogs over the years…
Me: So, a quick question for you… does the dog not coming to you and you having to chase them down frustrate you?
Them: Of course!
Me: So what do you do when you finally either catch the dog or get them to come to you?
Them: I give the dog a correction!
Me: So. You get hands on your dog and then you immediately punish them for allowing you to get hands on them. And you wonder why your dog has developed the habit of not coming to you?
Them: No, that’s not… I’m punishing them for not coming when I call!
Me: Which was…. fifteen minutes ago, or so, you said?
Them: Yes, when I first called them!
Me: Dogs brains literally cannot link an abstract thought like that. A thought and a consequence MUST happen within 2.4 seconds of one another, or the consequence becomes linked to the most recent behavior, thought, or activity. So, tell me… how is your dog supposed to understand that you punishing them is for the event fifteen minutes ago when you have made such a concerted, if unintentional, effort to teach them that them getting close enough for you to lay hands on them in the yard means an immediate punishment?
Them: But that’s not what I *meant*!
Me: Doesn’t matter what YOU meant… what THEY learned is that they come to you, and they get punished. Stop punishing your dog for the behavior that you want to see more of.
Stop anthropomorphizing your animals, folks. They don’t think like us. Stop setting them - and yourself - up for failure.
with humans, thanks to the capacity for abstract thought, punishing them basically always produces undesired results.
the tff au is turning out to be much more darker than i originally thought it would be. now i’m kinda hesitant to post it, but my friends are encouraging me with “the world needs more toxic yaoi” so
tff au will deal with heavy stuff such as abuse, cult stuff, blood/gore/death/resurrection & mental aftermath of death & resurrection, and uhhhhh okay i think that’s all i’ve brainstormed so far. the au does not paint the lamb in a good light most of the time. they’re not a good person <33 (narinder isn’t gonna be a good person either. toxic yaoi fr……. god bles)
well anyway i suddenly decided fuck it we ball and also right now the majority of the votes are for toxic yaoi so if you follow me and don’t want to see anything related to the first follower au just mute “tff au” tag 👍
