après moi, le deluge

lesbiacebian:

shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do shit. just go to work or school and then come home to watch shows. while gay

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dragongirlfaggot asked:

how could you like the colour yellow

see a therapist immediately

cuprohastes:

headspace-hotel:

teaboot:

I actually used to hate it! Like, actually despise it! Yellow was too bright, too loud, discordant, unruly, and clashed with everything. Nothing like what I wanted in my life, nothing I wanted to be.

When I first moved away from home, everything I owned was black. Jet back. As black as I could get. Smooth, cool, sleek, discrete, calm, unassuming. Flexible, cohesive, agreeable black. Fashionable black.

I had a really, really bad time. Unrelated to the decor. It was my first year out of a toxic place I’d grown used to my whole life, my first year acknowledging a mental illness I’d believed to be normal, my first year fending for myself with very little money or sleep or companionship.

I’d grown up on instant white rice and unseasoned ground beef. One day I realized that everything I’d been raised on tasted like cardboard. While out on an assignment, I passed a tent with a woman selling spices, and bought myself some turmeric. I went home and tried making curry with it. It was so yellow.

Another time, my professor took us out to a modern art gallery. I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but when we got there, the whole building had been painted bright sunshine yellow.

The artist’s theme was “happiness”.

What it is. How we make it. How to share it.

All bright, lovely yellow.

The house I grew up in was beige. The walls were white. The appliances were post 9/11 stainless steel. My job was to be quiet, compliant, presentable and agreeable.

Black goes with everything. Black is neutral. Black is quiet, reserved, elegant and mysterious.

Yellow is warm. Yellow does what it wants. Yellow tastes sweet and spicy and hot and cool, like a summer breeze, like sunflower petals, powdery like dust on a long dirt road and soothing like well-worn linen.

I still like the look of black. I like the look of most colors. But I like the way that Yellow makes me feel.

Do you understand?

bumblebees understand everything

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twlvie:

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grendelmenz-deactivated20200929:

some sort of love poem

This is the wildest result of one of my comics becoming popular I feel rabid

was just gonna reblog this bomb ass comic again bc it’s a mood but the author’s addition is hilarious. this is why your english teachers taught you to find meaning in a text

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queersamus:

sem-boi:

queersamus:

sem-boi:

headspace-hotel:

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macleod:

You can view more here.

its hard to remember everything isn’t hopeless but things like this, things that show we aren’t too far gone, help. Our planet has a future

She is so lovely…

Can someone explain to me what this is supposed to be

basically, the first photo is what the landscape looked like as the result of the hydroelectric dams on the river leading into this valley that was on Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe land. It was proposed by environmental scientists that studied the area, as well as the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe themselves, that the dams were stopping not only the migrating native fish species but also the nutrient-rich sediment from reaching the valley, which was the most likely cause of the stunted reforestation and nearly completely absent flora in the floor of the valley. From 2011-2014, a project was undertaken to remove the dams to reinvigorate the valley naturally and let the native species repopulate, and the photo on the right is the result nearly a decade after completion of the dam removal. Here’s the NOAA article about the project and their observations of its effects on the flora and fauna of the region compared against their observations pre-dam-removal if you’d like to read more about it from a reputable org: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/dam-removals-elwha-river

I’ll try read more in a bit when I have time but (ex lake) reservoir implies that what we see would have been underwater so it obviously wouldn’t be filled with trees.

i seriously doubt there were any tributaries built in to help fish circumvent the dam, (EDIT: confirmed that when Thomas Aldwell built the dam he intentionally did not build salmon tributaries because he didn’t want to spend the money doing so) as they were built in the early 1900s and nearly 90% of the salmon territory was made inaccessible to them which devastated their population.

as for the ex lake part, here, hopefully this helps illustrate what is meant by ex-lake. the red outline is (VERY roughly as i was working with a mouse, not a pen lol) where the lakebed sediment ends, and everything from there inward would’ve been underwater. from there to the blue line is where what appears to be logging has taken place, clearing the trees and pushing the tree line back. everything in between the red and blue line should be vegetation flourishing off the watershed.

In the recent update photo, not all the water has returned, (probably because of damage done by buildup and impaction of sediment from the dam that narrowed the mouth of the inlet and reduced the flow permanently) meaning it will likely never actually fully be a lake again, but the water level did rise and you can see the vegetation, including sapling trees, returning to the area between the red and blue lines that had just been some rough scrub grasses before the dam was removed.

i understand skepticism, but this is pretty solidly an example of indigenous stewardship and activism repairing an incredibly damaged ecosystem and providing critical habitats for some endangered species to begin to repopulate

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tarrot-patch:

spider-noir + spider-punk 🤝 punching n*zis

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garf :3 💜💙

the full strip

That makes it WORSE

one call from each tower

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