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feminismandhappiness
this-isakindness

Dad: Why do you think they do that?
Girl: Because the companies who make these try to trick the girls into buying the pink stuff instead of stuff boys want to buy. [x]

that awkward moment when a child understands the harm of forcing gender roles better than most grown male politicians.

whatsortofamandoesntcarryatrowel

Always reblog.

kieradoe

I’m surprised that I haven’t reblogged this, to be honest.

themadfangirl

I love that last gif.  She looks so frustrated.  Like “Um, hello, obviously girls and boys can like anything why doesn’t anybody get that???”

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seananmcguire
jaubaius

That’s completely fucking awesome!

claudiagray

I have complicated feelings about marine mammals in captivity but (a) this seal’s tango ability deserves recognition and (b) I’m inclined to think that this level of coordination suggests the seal legitimately enjoys it. 

janetm74

@gordonthesquid

feamir

ok, so I’m not at all an expert, but what I’ve learned from visiting various marine research centers and talking with people who work with these animals:

1) At this point in the US, all of the large marine animals like this you see cannot be released into to wild, and they come to the centers from things like injury and rescue. We do NOT just go out to the ocean and capture random animals. That is super illegal.

2) All performances like this are purely voluntary on the animal’s part. If a seal or sea lion twice the size of a person doesn’t want to do an activity with you, there is nothing you can do about it. You can encourage behaviors through positive reinforcement, but in the end the sea lion does what the sea lion wants.

3) This kind of training is actually very necessary for proper care of large, intelligent animals! The more intelligent an animal is, the more important it is to have sufficient social and mental stimulation, and training with keepers provides both. The displayed behaviors that these tricks utilize are often seen as play and/or social behaviors in the wild.

4) And perhaps most importantly, training large animals to move and position themselves in certain ways is necessary for minimizing stress during routine medical care! You can’t safely manhandle a large sea lion into showing its belly, so if you need to do a medical check without tranquillizing the animal (which carries its own risks and stresses), you need to be able to ask the animal to roll over on its own. If you watch the dance in the above post carefully, you’ll note that a lot of the different “dance moves” are effectively presenting different parts of the body. So what this performance does is take all of the stances/actions you might need it to do for a health checkup and sets it to music!

drivemetogeek

Reblogging for all the added context and confirming same from my own experience doing an internship at an aquarium mumbleteen years ago. This is true on all points.

copperbadge
thegoodlannister

the year is 2012.

I have two tabs open. one is tumblr. I am 160 posts back on my dashboard - I have made it back to the place I left off the night before.

satisfied, I open the second tab to pull up a post-avengers fanfic. everyone lives together in stark tower - each of them has their own floor. for no explained reason, loki shares thor’s. no one questions that he has not been arrested. the team has friday evening movie nights. at breakfast, thor eats all of tony’s pop tarts.

I am content.

thegoodlannister

to all the people saying this was an embarrassing time: I am 34 full years old and reading/writing these fics brought me so much joy and rereading them still does. embarrassment is a construct, cringe culture is dead, and the found family trope saves lives.

ekjohnston

I was 28, wrote three of them, and then wrote ANOTHER one several years later. (Except for the Loki parts, because that wasn’t my jam.)

drgaellon

I feel like this is a call-out post for @copperbadge

copperbadge

The year is 2022 and I’m 42 years old and this is still me, yes. 

(Mind you, I was more on the “writing” than “reading” side of Marvel Post-Avengers Fic but I’ve just replaced a googledoc of That Fic with a googledoc of the latest Shivadh Romance novel.) 

drivemetogeek

It is 2022 and I am 43 years old and I just reread a bunch of @scifigrl47’s Toasterverse and Tales of the Bots cause it’s been a rough couple weeks and I needed some comfort reading. And this weekend may see me diving into Foodieverse for the mumbleteenth time and there is nothing wrong with that.

comfort reads don't mock my coping strategies found family and snark plus the best OCs arounds
seananmcguire
amarguerite: “elodieunderglass: “kryprosmarin: “redlipstickresurrected: “Pipi The Barn Owl (Female, b. July, 2020, located in the Czech Republic). Pipi has a gene mutation called Melanism that is 100,000 to one and is an undue development of...
redlipstickresurrected

Pipi The Barn Owl (Female, b. July, 2020, located in the Czech Republic). Pipi has a gene mutation called Melanism that is 100,000 to one and is an undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages and is the opposite of albinism.

kryprosmarin

@elodieunderglass a bird for the leucism channel

elodieunderglass

Oh my goodness I haven’t put anything on that tag in ages. Let’s fix that

amarguerite

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Goddamn galaxy brain take from @fremedon

drivemetogeek

My brain just went straight to Labyrinth and now I’m picturing the awkward double date between Dream and Hob and Jareth and Sarah.

the sandman dreamling labyrinth crossover somebody write this
avelera
avelera

I know some people are disappointed Hob's not in more of The Sandman (yet) but actually, as a fanfic writer, there are upsides to this.

Hob is totally central in one self-contained episode, his section is about 30 minutes long and you don't need to have seen much else of Sandman except the first episode to understand everything you need for it. That's a pretty low barrier to entry, just over an hour of time commitment to bring new people into the fandom.

On the one hand, yeah, sometimes that means sustaining engagement is harder because there isn't a ton of material to work with, but I've seen popular ships survive on much less than 30 minutes of dedicated screentime to the ship. Newt/Hermann in Pacific Rim might cumulatively as characters get about 35 minutes, across both movies. Arthur/Eames was a super popular ship in Inception which probably had more like 10 minutes. It's really more important that the world is expansive enough to create fanwork scenarios where they interact than that they've got a ton of time together canonically. Hob and Dream have 600+ years of history to work with and the entire Sandman story to play around in, much like Aziraphale and Crowley.

Conversely, there are tons of ships I'd love to get into, but the time commitment is HUGE. The Magnus Archives comes to mind, it's hundreds of hours before one has enough grasp of the story to understand the main ship and all the fanart. There are others too where I'm sure the fandom would be bigger if it wasn't so hard to catch up, despite the fact that means the ship has a ton of material to work with.

All I'm saying is, Dream/Hob have actually a pretty good foundation for a fandom ship, more dedicated time in the episode they're in together than many other popular film ships, and the promise of more content between them. There's a low barrier to entry for others to learn everything they need to know about the ship and jump on board. From a fan creator perspective, that's pretty great!

drivemetogeek

You only have to look at Clint/Coulson of MCU to see how far a fandom can take a pairing from VERY little source material and just run marathons with it. Screw “Life finds a way,” FANDOM finds a way…

the sandman marvel clint/coulson fandom ftw
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