trees may dream
of summer days
as do we all,
in our own ways
but I ,
I will dream of you
for there can be
no finer thing
than the joy
that you still bring
when ere I close my eyes
and see
that you are once more
here with me
for it is you,
only you
that can add colour
to my world
Anonymous asked:
zoologicallyobsessed answered:
I’m bringing back the panda discourse; fuck those black and white bastards.
Is this because they get loads of conservation money that should go to more genetically viable and ecologically necessary species or are you just, like, a panda hater on general principle?
Mostly the first thing yes, paired with the fact they are ecologically insignificant and them dying off will have no real negative effects on the wider ecosystem.
They’re also the face of this shitty capitalistic system where animals are given funding based on how cute they are rather than their ecological importance.
Umm wtf all animals deserve to live???
wow you really just missed the entire point. You saw a conservation biologist very clearly explain what the point was and it just really flew over your head didn’t it? Amazing.
Congrats on your degree. 👏🏻 🙄
But literally it sounds like you’re saying cute animals don’t deserve funding/human support. The whole panda hate thing doesn’t really support your claim that you agree “all animals deserve to live”. 🤷🏻♀️
Also cute is highly subjective. I think snakes and lizards are adorable but other people think they are gross. So…
Why not “all animals deserve to live club” instead of “panda hate club”. When you approach issues from a negative place its pretty reasonable for people to misunderstand what you mean. 🙃
It’s actually two degrees xoxoxo.
Still not what I was saying or have ever said. Congrats on your reading comprehension! It’s terrible!
Maybe you should actually listen to what conservation scientists like myself are saying instead of spending all your time getting mad about literally nothing.
If you want me to break down what I was actually saying in a more accessible way so you can actually understand it, sure.
But something tells me you actually don’t care and you just want to pick a fight.
At the moment it seems the only one wanting to pick a fight is you. You’ve been nothing but rude even to people who are simply adding to the discussion or weighing in with their thoughts. You’re coming off as rude and ignorant of what others have to say. It’s people like you that baffle me when they put something out there but are only defensive and show nothing but utter complacance when asked to prove themselves or further the conversation.
1. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?
2. You talked to an ex today, correct?
3. Have you taken someones virginity?
4. Is trust a big issue for you?
5. Did you hang out with the person you like recently?
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7. What happened tonight?
8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted?
9. Is confidence cute?
10. What is the last beverage you had?
11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?
12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?
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66. Cheetos Or Fritos?
67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?
68. Favorite Taylor Swift song?
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so a gay jewish college student was murdered by a literal white supremacist
this is what “free speech” for nazis means. this is what being “tolerant” of the alt right means.
this is the danger of thinking antisemitism is not still a real, deadly threat.
his name was blaze bernstein. may his memory be a blessing.
(ok for everyone to rb, esp non jews)
I wanted to say a few words about this…
Blaze was a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania. We were classmates.
He loved to cook… I had to kick him out of the Writers House kitchen once because it was past closing time.
His pastries were amazing.
He was the managing editor of Penn Appétit, our premiere food magazine.
He was pre-med, but loved to write, and didn’t believe we should separate the arts from the sciences.
He penned “Picking Marbles from Dirt”, a piece about the joy he found in writing.
He was the first high schooler to be published in the Penn Review.
We read together during the Review launch. We were both fiction contributors.
He was smart, gentle, grounded, and kind.
He was a member of our community, our house.
He was my friend.
“Writing gives me my voice, which is why my stories are in a constant state of flux. Even if I don’t change a word or a single letter, they move with me down corridors of memory, through seas of emotion, and into worlds both real and imaginary. As I change, they change, but even after days or months or years I can still find a version of myself (a time traveler from the past, present, or future) sitting there in the text and waiting to speak to me.” – Blaze
chickenkeeping
birds are so weird. what is this thing. what is he doing. please I want to swim in that pool
