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Asia: *includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and several other countries besides China, Japan, and the Koreas*

some people for some reason: "you'Re NoT aSiAn YoU'rE iNdlaN"

Asia: *includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and several other countries besides China, Japan, and the Koreas*

some people for some reason: "you'Re NoT aSiAn YoU'rE iNdlaN"

Asia: *includes India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and several other countries besides China, Japan, and the Koreas*

some people for some reason: "you'Re NoT aSiAn YoU'rE iNdlaN"

From the article:

This massive meta analysis (for those not familiar, a study analyzing the results of many studies on similar topics) found that the vast majority of conservation efforts show much much better results than doing nothing. In many cases, biodiversity loss was not only stopped but reversed.

This shows that conservation efforts really work and money invested is put to very good use. Legally protecting endangered species really works, restoring habitat really works, removing invasive species really works, returning land to Indigenous communities works. All of the blood, sweat, and tears being poured into protecting the natural world has been making a real, big, tangible, difference on a global scale.

Volcanic horses running down the mountain

in the new year i’m cannibalising any non aussie who makes a “australia was founded by criminals” joke who can’t tell me what year the convict system started and ended and what percentage of those people were below the age of 18

”australia was founded by criminals”

there were more people under the age of 20 transported to australia as penal slaves then there were in us america at all. btw. if you even care

Gonna start saying England was discovered when the Vikings invaded in the 700s or whatever

Man I wish it was easier to figure out what cats want. They're so mysterious

[image description: two photos of a calico cat chewing on the top of a container of cat treats, for some unknowable reason.]

[image description addendum: the container is labeled with the word “Temptations.” There is also text on the container labeling the treats “catnip fever,” containing chicken, catnip, and cheese.]

You’d think finding just a clean image file of the KH2 mansion photo with Roxas and the gang wouldn’t be such an annoying thing, but god if I don’t feel like Tantalus right now. I could find somebody selling handmade Munny pouches but this is where the internet draws its line in the sand?

Oh, is it? Is it really?

Fuck it, internet’s useless, gonna unpack a KH3 mod and look for the photograph’s texture i guess. If it works, I’ll add it in a reblog to help some other poor soul

i’m not going through the hassle of setting up the unreal engine editor. just gonna photoshop this image ig. i’m tired.

you won't believe the weather we've been getting [remembers to avoid giving away my location] the sky was turned to darkness and the moon to blood, and the stars fell from the heavens.

Detroit

I never liked those posts that reduce the Disney princesses to “girl who overacts about something and dramatically flings herself down and bawls” (super popular in the early 10’s and somehow that’s how a shocking majority view the classics now) but after an Aladdin (1992) rewatch, it’s especially egregious that they ever included Jasmine in that.

This part. This is the part I’m talking about

This is not a woman falling to pieces because her father won’t let her marry a man she just met.

This is a woman born to a life she has very little say in. She has never had a genuine friend (besides a tiger). She is facing a marriage to a man she doesn’t know and doesn’t like but duty (and the law) demands it. So she took a risk, ran away, ran to a world she doesn’t know or understand and when she landed in trouble (serious, serious trouble) a stranger came to her aid. She finally (finally!) made a real connection with someone but they didn’t get much time together before the guards showed up and she had to reveal who she was.

This moment when she’s crying her heart out? It comes after she’s been told that the first person she ever connected with, the first person to be genuinely interested in her for who she is and not what she is, the first real friend she has ever made, was executed… because of her.

She believes a good, innocent person has lost their life because of her actions, and what’s more, it brings home the reality for her that she cannot have a normal life or normal relationships, because see the consequences one little attempt wrought?

I actually love this trope. People treat crying like some kind of moral failure. Boys shouldn't cry, girls *can* cry, but that's also what makes them inferior. If this is not an example of toxic masculity, I don't know what is.

Crying is normal. Even if it's over something trivial. We all face a lot of struggles in their lives, whether we acknowledge it or not. Something minor might end up breaking the camel's back.

Anyway, here's one of my favorite scenes in Beauty and the Beast:

Belle's reaction is completely understandable. I think Mrs. Potts put it best: "The girl lost her father and her freedom all in one day." That's not overreacting!

Thank you so much for adding Belle!

Really, none of the classic princesses deserve the misinterpretation.

Cinderella?

Again, this is not after someone told her “yOu CaN’t MaRrY a MaN yOu JuSt MeT”—this is after she went to great lengths to get ready for the ball, adhering to the intentionally difficult (meant to be impossible) stipulations set by her abusive step-mother for her to be allowed to attend (when really she was invited and had as much right as the others to attend). She made that dress (I can’t recall off the top of my head if the classic animated version was also her mother’s old dress she restyled or not but still, she put in a ton of work on top of all the extra house work) and what did her step-family do? They tore to shreds while she was wearing it. Of course she’s lost hope: it’s the final straw after years and years of doggedly remaining optimistic despite constant harsh treatment.

Let’s go to another favourite: Mulan.

Mulan’s just had the worst day.

She tried her hardest to live up to her family’s and her society’s expectations and vision of a perfect bride but she failed. Not only did it go wrong, but she was publicly humiliated by the Matchmaker—by extension, humiliating her family.

Granted, her family has been kind and sympathetic about the whole thing. Her father even goes to encourage her, assuring her of his unconditional love for her and his confidence that she’ll get it right next time.

She’s just beginning to smile when the drums pound and news of war reaches their village. Her father—her beloved father who’s already a veteran and lives with a disability—is expected as the only male in their family to suit up and head out in the morning.

Mulan can’t help. Nothing she says will be listened to and she can’t take his place (until, of course, she thinks of a way to do so which this moment of crying it out in the rain leads to—score one for having a good cry and clearing your head).

There’s of course more. Take any princess’ dramatic crying momentTM and review the context and I’ll bet you’ll see it’s never as trivial as some have framed it. And, yes, like prev pointed out, it’s this awful thing of people believing boys can’t cry and girls can but then they can never be taken seriously.

Crying is healthy. And crying in response to emotional distress is totally normal. Writers and storytellers across the ages have understood it and portrayed it.

someone accused me of feigning a sexual attraction to spiders for clout. there's easier ways to get clout, man.....

Someone once called my 22 minute hand sewn 18th century buttonhole tutorial video "Empty, clout driven content" so I think some people will just say anything.

Had a soul-searing moment where I sat unblinking trying to figure out what a "hand sewn 18th century butthole" could be for, until I read that again.

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the world may be a dark place sometimes but there are also 1200 year old paw prints from a happy kitty cat out there

Philosophy tells us that we MUST imagine the kitty purring

they sell items at tjmaxx that even God is not aware of

cow triangles

UPDATE! They found the original photo!

yes I DO live under a rock and her name is the Moon and she is always smiling but she teaches me nothing

this is my first time in the pacific northwest. we drove through a forest so wet and foggy you couldn’t see the bends in the road ten yards ahead of you and it straight up felt like a horror game until we emerged into a sunny valley with a rainbow over it and then we went to a taco bell and in it there was a guy dressed like a hot dog and a guy dressed like hamburger. is it all like this