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@aniseandspearmint / aniseandspearmint.tumblr.com

American, 39. Aro/Ace. She/her pronouns (They/them works too) Prepare to see geekery on a multi fandom scale and general bitching about the world.

i wonder if it’s time for a cultural reappraisal of rob liefeld’s art. maybe we were all just too quick to judge a guy for daring to have a unique stylized take that focused on exaggeration and action. *actually looks at some of his art again* jesus CHRIST never mind

#this is me once every like six months. he really was that bad.

Because our experiences are not universal and we don't question things that have always happened when we do stuff: it is not normal to taste blood in your mouth during cardiovascular exercise and if this is something that happens to you that you've never thought much about you may want to get checked for asthma.

To make a point:

I always forget there are maga people on tumblr, this doesn’t feel like a website you’d find them on, so to keep them away:

Reblog if your blog is a maga free zone because if it wasn’t clear enough fuck ice, fuck maga, fuck Trump, Fuck Rowling, and fuck all the other bigots I missed

New Priority Species: Servals

Today's upload is a species chosen by the Repository's Patreon supporters! It's taken quite a while to get good serval photos, but it was worth the wait.

We need to talk for a second about context, before we get to more photos.

When I visited Project Survival Cat Haven last year, they were kind enough to give me the opportunity to get a bunch of the very active photos in this drop. I got a chance to observe and photograph an enrichment session between a staff member and the cat pictured. These shots were taken safely in a professional setting using a telephoto lens, and the only person who interacted with the serval was an experienced zookeeper with decades of history with felids.

This is a test run for these types of photos on the site. Please don't make it weird. I'm not here to encourage unsafe animal interactions or wild felids as pets.

With all of that out of the way... let's see the photos!

As always, more photos at the link:

The Animal Photo Reference Repository is an independent, permanently open-access project and funded entirely by donations. Artists creating derivative or transformative works (without AI) have blanket permission to use all photos in the repository as references.

**Patreon** -- **Ko-Fi**

This is actually so funny to me. I hope puritans who migrated from Wattpad are so shocked and terrified by the fact AO3 is actually against censorship that they come crawling back to Wattpad and leave AO3 alone forever.

Like why are you surprised that the site that was created specifically to host dark/taboo/fucked up fics—that were banned on pro censorship platforms—because the founders are proships who got tired of censorship, actually hosts and allows dark/taboo/fucked up fics that were banned on pro censorship platforms 😭 Your report will do nothing because AO3 EXPLICITLY ALLOWS AND WELCOMES DARK/TABOO/FUCKED UP FICS. AO3 IS THE PLATFORM THAT WAS CREATED FOR DARK/TABOO/FUCKED UP FICS.

Imagine willingly walking into the Freak and Pervert Factory and then being shocked because the Freak and Pervert Factory is actually a home for the Freaks and Perverts.

If you're migrating to Ao3, you've got to learn to use the filters and the back button. Else you're perpetually going to sound like a sheltered evangelical cult teen encountering normal people for the first time. Let us all recite the liturgy together: Don't Like, Don't Read.

This is actually so funny to me. I hope puritans who migrated from Wattpad are so shocked and terrified by the fact AO3 is actually against censorship that they come crawling back to Wattpad and leave AO3 alone forever.

Like why are you surprised that the site that was created specifically to host dark/taboo/fucked up fics—that were banned on pro censorship platforms—because the founders are proships who got tired of censorship, actually hosts and allows dark/taboo/fucked up fics that were banned on pro censorship platforms 😭 Your report will do nothing because AO3 EXPLICITLY ALLOWS AND WELCOMES DARK/TABOO/FUCKED UP FICS. AO3 IS THE PLATFORM THAT WAS CREATED FOR DARK/TABOO/FUCKED UP FICS.

Imagine willingly walking into the Freak and Pervert Factory and then being shocked because the Freak and Pervert Factory is actually a home for the Freaks and Perverts.

Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9

The slow death of interesting things for the sake of unceasing cancerous growth and ephemeral content.

If you still have a subscription cancel it now. If they allow you to leave a comment, tell them you're not going to pay for something humans haven't written. If they can't be bothered to write it, why should you pay money to read it?