Spiritsglade - A Kite Above A Graveyard Gray - Tumblr Blog

finished and posted a fanfiction i deserve a fucking award

some chibi-fied wof villains for a sticker set !

utrh au where jason knows exactly what went down after his death and is instead doing the red hood stuff because batman's reaction was to grievously maim muggers and petty thieves. because jason's a crime alley kid at heart and he knows what desperation looks like and why people turn to crime and he knows how much hospital bills can fuck up a person's life forever.

robin dies and batman ruins countless lives in the city he's meant to protect as a coping mechanism. it takes another fucking child becoming robin again to fix him.

why is this man being trusted as gotham's protector.

Not to be a killjoy (though it is what I do best) but the unsafe and rough handling of a baby Pygmy hippo in a pretty substandard Thai zoo being meme-ed into something funny and cute really shows just how much groupthink plays into public perception of animal welfare.

Moo Deng shows avoidance, threat displays and stress around her keepers that are constantly man-handling her, blasting her with a hose and harassing her. The enclosure is mostly concrete, which is horrible for her soft feet. There looks to be some substrate but there doesn’t seem to be any areas for wallowing or deep water wading.

There’s also very easy access of this hippo to the public with no places to hide. I’d love if someone could shed more light on the enclosures but from what I’ve seen it’s not great.

Also the free contact and forcing into tubs that the keepers do is only going to create an avoidant and potentially aggressive and dangerous Pygmy hippo.

But the public happily overlook that because she’s cute. It’s a similar attitude with seals too.

Stop rewarding bad husbandry with clout. Baby animals deserve agency and respect and to grow up without getting harassed and feeling the need to defend themselves constantly.

I have yet to encounter any discourse surrounding my sweet baby boy Basil, but I imagine there's got to be a small portion of the fandom calling him a master manipulator for showing signs of severe mental illness or something. Not on my watch!!

DISCUSSING THE US SOUTH ONLINE:

northerners: lmfao those hicks deserve to suffer for getting trump elected, the entire south should be bombed

outside of the us: lmfao the entire united states is racist including all of its people, the place should be bombed for everyone being a colonizer. i also still call romani people the g slur and will get really mad if you tell me i also live on stolen land

Bingo of bad naturalist takes you can fill out when someone's being stupid about wildlife

@cathartidae you asked to be tagged when i posted it well here it is :>

My theory of adhd management is that in order to focus there are 4 things that need to be sufficiently occupied:

Eyes

Ears

Hands (or body)

Brain

And if you aren’t occupying them enough or there’s too many things demanding the use of one, it’ll start to wreck havoc on your ability to do things.

So for example, listening to a podcast. This occupies your ears and brain as you focus on both listening and processing what you hear, but it leaves your hands and eyes completely without anything to do. If you tried to sit down and just listen to a podcast by itself you’d probably get unbearably bored and stop doing it.

But if you pair that activity with something that uses your hands and eyes, like a craft, household chore, or commute, suddenly you’re fully plugged in and can in fact focus better on both tasks than you could if you tried doing them separately.

It’s also why you can’t listen to a podcast while doing homework; you’re trying to use your brain for two different tasks. To occupy your ears while doing homework (which is already using eyes, brain, and hands) you need something for your ears that doesn’t require your brain: music. Specifically music that doesn’t use too much brain power, which is why some people prefer instrumentals or songs in other languages.

Hyperfixation and sensory overload change this by moving the threshold for how much sensory input you need to be able to function. If I’m extremely focused on a craft project (eyes, hands, brain) I might not even need something for my ears; my interest in the project makes up for it. If i’ve had a very overwhelming day, trying to listen to an audiobook while I do some stretches could be too much to process. My brain needs a break.

Video games, which pretty much universally occupy all 4 areas, are basically instant, easy focus wrapped up in a neat little bow. No wonder adhd-havers tend to love them.

If you’re struggling with a task, try looking at which areas it occupies and which are left unattended. Then try to find something enjoyable to fill those gaps, and see if that helps.

friend of mine was messaging me as he ventured into crystal peak for the first time

love piping plover chicks they always look moderately annoyed somewhat inconvenienced perhaps even miserable

your so-called vengeance

holy shit that executive can dysfunction

Saint's monologue

KARMA

I really forget to post

“do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less despair” still living in my head rent free

She's fucking right. Also y'all should stop interacting or buying or watching any Harry Potter related shit.

Let jkr disappear from the public discourse. Let her go back to the fucking pit she crawled out of

Having ADHD is like....I have to...work up the energy to watch...a new television show 😩

billford animatic i made to the song 'confrontation'! ^^

(Princess of Gender Dysphoria) A dream.

Applejack's plea with the manufacturer (God, Hasbro, and me?) Alternatively, an expression of my past relationship trauma.

[< back | next >]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

Unicorns at the end of the world

Soft apples should be sentenced to death. Girl I trusted you