Healthy relationships are clearly better in real-life but fucked-up ones are way more dramatically interesting in fiction. In much the same way–indeed, in exactly the same way–that feudal monarchy is a hell of a lot of fun in fantasy and historical fiction novels, but complete shit to actually live under.
Feudal monarchy is so hilarious because it’s just like: “What if we based our entire sociopolitical structure on fucked-up family dynamics?”
May I offer you regular moon bears & one golden moon bear though?
hm. I’ll allow it.
So happy to see a clear pic of a golden moon bear. They used to just be a rumor.
He’s just a regular mom bear with a negative color filter.
I know you’re being silly, but let me be serious for a moment.
So, a lot of the species in certain parts of Asia aren’t particularly well-documented in the ways we’re accustomed to in the “Western world”. Which gets into a lot of ambiguity. There had been rumors of “golden bears” for a long time.
And to those who know about bears, this is incredibly exciting! The problem is, the people who would mention “golden bears” didn’t distinguish them clearly.
Understand, there’s sorta three tiers:
Species - distinct, separate species. This used to be treated as meaning “cannot interbreed and produce fertile offspring” but that has proven a little fuzzier than we used to think.
Subspecies - can interbreed, but generally doesn’t.
Morph - distinct set of features which show up within a population but do not constitute a separate population.
(If you’re the nitpicky kind of person, you will please note how i said “sorta” before you do your “Well actually” bullshit. The last couple of decades have wrecked our approach to taxonomy.)
Anyway, so there had been rumors of golden moon bears, but no proof. The most optimistic but least likely option was that these would prove to be an entire new species of bear. Which is, remarkably, plausible for the regions in question where our knowledge of species populations is vague enough that there could be a whole other large carnivore out there. And finding a ninth species of bear would be a hell of a thing. But that’s not likely.
Finding a subspecies would be pretty damned cool, and explain why they’re only rumor most of the time.
But the most likely option was color morph. Just like some people are blondes or readheads, sometimes moon bears are golden.
It wasn’t until the 90s that someone actually mounted a trip to various parts of Asia, following rumors of golden moon bears - which was challenging as these rumors often originated with illegal hunting - until they managed to find a number of actual golden moon bears, and gather enough DNA samples to determine where they fit taxonomically. Disappointingly, it turns out they’re just a color morph - but now we know.
i saw a man at work the other day wearing a shirt that said “i was normal 2 pomeranians ago” with pictures of his pomeranians on it. important to note he had his pomeranians in his cart
artists rendition (i forgot to add the poms on his shirt but you get the gist)
Every time someone makes an artist’s rendition of a weird little guy they saw in public instead of recording them without consent, an angel gets it’s wings.
I’m gonna watch Nimona with my friends tonight and i will NOT shut up about it, this is all you’re gonna hear for the rest of the week, i need you all to watch this movie
This is a movie adaptation of gingerhaze’s original full-length sci-fi fantasy webcomic from 2012. That’s gingerhaze aka ND Stevenson aka the trans badass of Lumberjanes and She-Ra fame.
This movie has been in and out of development for 8 years – it’s been picked up and cancelled over and over because “it’s too gay :(” and now it is finally RELEASED. (Even though Netflix is trying to bury it because they are cowards.)
You should watch it by any means necessary, because the characters are delightful, the story slaps, and the deconstruction of what it means to be a “villain” or a “hero” is delicious. But you should especially watch it by means of Netflix if you have it, because I need the ratings to soar – this is original queer content by a queer author that has been gorgeously animated.
(EDIT: As a forewarning, the movie does contain flashing lights as well as a suicide attempt.)
Depends if you find it sexier to submit to the will of charismatic evil or to be overwhelmed by animalistic power. And that’s not a decision I can make for you.
Okay, but this is genuinely adorable. I love how the first kid, after entering the number, was like “what do I do now?”. I bet the kid was trying to figure out where the “call” button was, because if you’re only used to cell phones, it’s not really intuitive that the call will automatically go through once you finish entering the phone number
These days, the concept of a dial tone is rather obsolete for a cellphone-centric world, so it isn’t a surprise these girls are young enough to be unfamiliar with it or the hookswitch. Only place you see traditional telephones are in office buildings and older homes that still use it.
When dial service was introduced, the Bell System had to put together instructional films to educate telephone users. So many people were used to being able to pick up and tell the operator who to call for them, so you had to suddenly learn where to find phone numbers. They didn’t even have pushbuttons telephones yet, just rotary dial.
That’s so fun! How we circle back on ourselves! This is so wholesome
That’s so fun! How we
circle back on ourselves!
This is so wholesome
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
i love that you can get high off of nutmeg and it fucking sucks so you get videos like this
Omg so I did a project on nutmeg highs for a college level psychopharmacology class one time. It’s my favorite project ever.
Some highlights about nutmeg (might not be perfectly up to date but we’re accurate as of the early 2010s):
There are only 2 known fatalities attributed to “overdoses” on nutmeg. One of them was an 8 year old boy in the 1800s who ate several grams….. To treat him, the doctors injected a combination of brandy (yes, the liquor), a smidge of cocaine, and some other highly questionable substances I don’t remember the exact details of. (May edit this post later to add them). After the “treatment,” he died. Was it the nutmeg that killed him or the (literal) cocktail straight to the blood that could perhaps kill a grown man? The world may never know.
Update: it was 14 grams, and in 1908.
The dose of nutmeg needed to get high is approximately 5 grams. The toxic (NOT lethal, toxic just means ‘starts to make you feel some degree of very sick’) is also 5 grams. This means that in basically every instance in which a person successfully uses nutmeg to get high, they also feel very ill. Most people report nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, at the very least.
The nutmeg community is WILD. Part of my project required that I quote actual users from testimony somewhere online. The stories I read were so absurd that they still live in my head rent-free almost a decade later. Every single story (except ONE, see below) were indeed tales of utter misery.
One was a guy who ate 10g of nutmeg before his sister’s wedding. He reported that the wedding was “not very enjoyable” as “the cake tasted like dirt” and dancing felt like “being a puppet pulled poorly and roughly around by a bad marionette.”
Another reported doing nutmeg and becoming convinced he had destroyed his brain. He said he stared out the window of his second floor apartment and “looked down at the other people, the normal people, the ones who weren’t going to be 30 IQ points stupider for the rest of their lives. I envied them for what they had. They didn’t even know. I would never be like them again.” He reported that he was fine a day later after the high wore off, and swore he’d never do it again. I still remember his username. RIP thelittletripperthatcouldnt.
The final guy, though. His story was the strangest. He LOVED nutmeg. He nut(meg)ed every day. For 12 hours each day he would watch porn and do nutmeg. He had done this for months. He was happy. He recommended nutmeg to everyone. I did not include his take in my presentation.
The title of the presentation was “why you shouldn’t do nutmeg”. I used the Chiller font. Don’t do nutmeg, kids.
My favorite fun fact about this is that Malcolm X talked several times about taking nutmeg.
My favorite not so fun story is from the time I interned at a vegan bakery. I got to hear the story of a guy who used to work there who just really liked the taste of nutmeg and didn’t know it would get you high, so he loaded up a milkshake with three tablespoons of nutmeg at the start of his shift. He spent the rest of the shift curled up in a corner hallucinating that bats were attacking him.
twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right
