mossworm:

mossworm:

I don’t like feeling intimidated anymore. I heard from someone I trust that G B Edwards the famous jumping spider taxonomist is creepy towards young women - staring at their behinds and things like that. He also is honestly a really terrible curator and has loans sitting all over the place rotting.

NO ONE was allowed to touch the spiders after he retired, so the other staff and I had to carefully leave the whole space alone even though they obviously needed care too. My boss Felipe Soto-Adames (who has G B’s job now) refused to stand up to him despite knowing things were bad. I don’t know why.

If the National Museum of Kenya is wondering where all of their specimens have gone, FSCA has a special cabinet just for G B’s abandoned loans. I had to dig through it looking for the Causey millipede holotypes he lost. My job was curating non-insects and my boss, the head non-insect curator, had to tell me and my coworkers not to touch the spiders ever or the PREVIOUS curator would get mad at him. It was lunacy.

People are contacting me with stories of collections neglect, territorial behavior, misogyny, and everything in between from all over the world, and it’s making me so furious. Conservation is already miserably hard right now and I’m sick of horrible people making it worse. No more of this! Name them!

I am so sorry everyone. I don’t want to be talking about this. I want to be talking about bugs and drawing. I can’t keep hearing from other people over and over “oh yeah this happened at my school too!” and then worry about my own reputation. This is too important.

orionsbelts:

yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said “well I bet they don’t have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library” and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said “oh well I bet they don’t in [nearby rural county]” and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well

so here’s a quick reminder that if you don’t think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you’re not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don’t know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can’t win without vocal public support

weak-hero:

movie critics: this movie is a horror

me, an intellectual: wrong! it’s a comedy

witchesversuspatriarchy:

Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)

alcorian:

disability rights involves the right to do fuck all. the right to be a useless member of society and STILL be loved and cared for and have a fair standard of living. human beings are not defined by the capital we produce.

lgbtunis:

lgbtunis:

oh my gd these two films came out on the same day? should tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite gender essensialism

should we invite insensitive jokes about some of the largest massacres in human history that effects people to this day

unamccormack:

sigynpenniman:

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

ABSOLUTELY one of my favourites.

ymutate:

Rick Hobson

“Sea Matryoshka (A whale eats a seal that eats a penguin that eats a fish that eats a calamari that eats a sea cucumber, and finally, there’s aplankton)” Nesting dolls created in Semenov, Russia for the Helsinki-based studio COMPANY.

vicekings:

the general gist is as follows:

All commissions can be arranged by contacting me at trickstersheir@gmail.com or through messages on my main blog, @vicekings. ​ I am open to negotiation on prices!

for more examples of my work, have a look at my portfolio

Here’s a closer look at my pricing chart:

payment is to be made upfront. I’ll send an invoice to you through paypal.

for drawing OCs, pets, & people, reference images are vital. I can work with screencaps, face claims, or previously drawn art.

I will draw: ocs, oc x canon, canon x canon, furries, mecha (not my strong suit, but I’d like to improve!)

I will not draw: anything r*cist, tr*nsphobic, or h*mophobic.

pterribledinosaurdrawings:

hey can you do me a favour?? Can you go get that nice pristine sketchbook or journal you’ve been hoarding and put some kind of mark on the first page?
Anything will do, like a smudge of graphite or a blob of ink, or perhaps a very scribbly dinosaur. Just put something there. Please, or the dinosaur will be sad.