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I don't really have a conclusion for this idk something about infantalisation bad and having a little whimsy doesn't mean you're not a grown ass man or something gay like that I'm totally not projecting here or anything

sooo.. the journey towards the scary all-seeing tower, am i right?

doodles in-between commissions

straight from the tap

Seeing a lot of posts like "umm why does everyone love bees and hate wasps, bees are bastards and they sting you why are they the only insect anyone actually cares about, why does everyone hate wasps when they're the same as bees"

Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn't an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they'd stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.

The reason "everyone loves bees" isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they're cuter than wasps. It's because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn't cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.

Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.

The fact that it's so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it's as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.

If you want this for wasps too (which i also want) you gotta put the work in to change people's perceptions.

I hate you epitome of innocence being represented with blonde hair I hate you lightness representing goodness I hate you "angelic features" automatically being read as blonde hair and blue eyed with pale skin I hate you whiteness as the default for morality I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

Guess who's being the most annoying on this post

this post isnt about blondes and how its so unfair to them that theyre always viewed as good healthy holy morally upright outstanding people no matter what this post is about racism its about colorism its about white supremacy making people with dark features and skin literally feel evil. this is not about your stupid disney princesses or achilles or your fave anime boys being allowed to be unhinged feral shitty awful people and this sure as hell is not an opportunity for blonde people themselves to show their entire pasty flat asses and beg praise for "breaking the stereotype" by being shitty unhinged people. fandom people you are 192% of the problem. white people in general you are 1,000% the origin of the problem. this site is so unbearably white my GOD

the tags on this post:

- 1/3 white people making this about their Evil Blonde White fandom blorbo (sometimes they’re even conscious that they’re derailing!)

- 1/3 white people saying “as a white person i hate this too”

- 1/3 white people saying “YES thank you op i hate this trope this is a stupid trope i hate how fictional people suffer like this. of course it doesn’t happen in real life though so not sure where it comes from”

when i was about 12 i saw a televised report on The Doll Study among other studies on racism. That study made a huge impact on me and my concept of race and racism. In it they asked a bunch of, like, 5 or 6 year old black children which baby dolls were prettier, and i think things like which could be trusted etc, and it turned out the overall trend was for the children to pick the light-skinned dolls over the dark-skinned dolls for positive traits like "prettier" -- even though they were themselves black, living with black families.

Because they were exposed to television shows and movies and classrooms and commercials and kids books and radio, because they lived in a society that codes light for good and dark for bad AND still contains many things that code for the same in specific association with skin color... these little black kids pointed to the white dolls and said they were prettier and ascribed other positive traits to the dolls with lighter skin over those with darker skin.

That study was originally done by the Clarks in the 40's, and i think the report was on a reprisal of it in maybe the 80's. More recently Toni Sturdivant, an assistant professor at East Texas A&M University (a public research university) did a similar study, like three or four years ago i think, with similar results.

It is so important that we work to remove these kinds of biases, and if we want to talk about the light of day being safe and the dark of night being scary or whatever, then maybe eventually different language, new words created or old words given new life, should be employed to differentiate when we are talking about pigment or light, so we can remove the assignment of "scary" to "dark" the way those things conflate currently

it's so sad that little children are kind of, like, learning to hate themselves? just through the passive absorption of this culture? surely we must try our best to change that.

28 million people planning their reis must feel so good for the app

Jack O'Connell behind the scenes of Sinners (2025)

my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.

And that wasn't done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad's ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.

Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going "They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way" "They didn't clean... Like at ALL"

Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. "It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets" Jake that's what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.

On my dad's boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They're grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that's what every boat was doing.

Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life

jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that's probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we'll catch more let's just fry it up:

i want to ensure that noone ever calls me a liar on the internet and want to confirm that island boy dinner is very real and it's waiting for you

Weird vibes police🖐🚨

Hi I'm op and my post blew up in 72 hours (pray it doesn't happen to you). For the most part people are cool and chill but unfortunately I see some fouls on the field and I'm going to hand out a couple yellow cards.

1. Polynesian Orientalism

I made a silly post about a dream place to be, absolutely my intention is for you to go ah I wanna be there... But how are you saying that.

You can be aspirational about it! You can say what a good opportunity, hope that happens to me, or we should recreate that in our own way.

We should probably NOT say ah I gotta get me some Polynesian guys. I gotta go find a Samoan man to adopt me. We should have them adopt all the white boys one by one so they can teach us their mystical ways.

That's a little weird isn't it. We won't say that.

2. I'm being language police here, I don't see any bad intentions with this oopsie just realised people don't know- Maori is a descriptor! So it's not The Maori, it's a Maori person (like it's not The Black it's a Black person)

3. I am not going to answer if my dad is Hot. I get this enough from my friends. YUCK. I will answer if the other guys on the boat are hot ummm I'm gay but objectively they're all tall and do physical labour in the sun for at least 6 hours a day and have tattoos so. Sure. I reckon so

Okay take the cards you think apply to you and resume scrolling in a mindful chiller way👍

Family of Cyprinidae, Water-Type native to Kanto.

update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;

do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.

I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didn't ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still don't trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.

to be clear, the one that is a scam is the one that asks for your Discord login information. there is a legitimate one that does not ask for ANY information and that one is a legitimate qualtrics survey from Discord. make sure you always check sites and links before you click on them fellas!

The legit survey has been closed down as of yesterday.

The phishing scam is taking advantage of the high emotions about AI, but if anything online asks for your login info (that is not on the actual verified website that belongs to that login that you navigated to yourself (not a link from an email or post!)), that is a huge sign to STOP.

Been playing totk again, i love my sick emo horse

I'll be around town just a lil' bit...