why-animals-do-the-thing:

zookeeperproblems:

Looking for an enthusiastic person to join our team! We need someone with…

• The expertise of a curator
• The experience of a manager
• The knowledge of a scientific researcher
• The flexible schedule of a recent college grad

Must have all of the above, plus:

• The salary expectations of an intern

This is, unfortunately, pretty darn true. Like any non-profit field, the zoo world isn’t great about compensating employees appropriately for their time / labor / and expertise, but what’s I find truly frustrating about it is that rather than acknowledging that fact, most zoo folk end up talking about forced austerity like it’s an indicator of moral purity. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say, literally, that ‘you don’t work in a zoo for the money! that’s what second jobs are for.’ Wanting to be paid a living wage to work full-time in a keeper position at a zoo is something that’s considered almost inappropriate by the general industry – to the point that bringing it up is sometimes considered an indicator that you’re ‘not dedicated enough’ to the field. 

virovac:

I imagine the mask has a germ filter.

I stand by this.

mono-black-devotion:

chandra-nalaar:

mono-black-devotion:

chandra-nalaar:

chandra-nalaar:

getting bullied at art school is the worst bc not only are you getting picked on by people who post voltron discourse but every mean thing they say to you is verbatim lifted from a text post you’ve already seen and that has damaged my self respect in a way that nothing else ever could

knowing i am lower on the college food chain than 20 year olds who say “weird flex but okay” and “sure jan” in real life has done irreparable psychological damage

I can’t wrap my head around art school bullies

i said i hate anime and now they want me dead

Oh I thought they were just being mean you didn’t tell me you provoked them

prokopetz:

tinnitusismymuse:

prokopetz:

You know, if a piece of media takes place in a milieu in which there are or could plausibly be coffee shops, you don’t have to write a coffee shop AU just to physically locate the characters inside a coffee shop. They can just, like, go to a coffee shop.

But it’s about working at or owning a coffee shop. So, yeah, you could have Tony Stark walk into a coffee shop and get coffee, but if you want Steve Rogers working as the barista? That’s going to take an AU.

Well, sure, that’s the genre in its classical form, but a lot of the stuff I see tagged as “coffee shop AU” merely happens to physically take place in a coffee shop – the latter is what I’m talking about here.

fromacomrade:

via 
Han Koehle

on fedbook:

This
photo is usually divorced from its specific content. It is the most
famous image of Nazi book burning. Most people assume the specific books
don’t matter. The horror is at the notion of destroying books, any
books, which I can certainly understand. But let’s talk about what was
in them anyway.

This image shows Nazi-aligned vigilantes (not, incidentally, government agents) destroying the library
of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science. Hirschfeld was the
founder of modern transgender theory, and it is his displaced students
who founded transgender advocacy in the US. Destroying this library
destroyed the first central hub of transgender advocacy in the world.
This loss is not an inconvenience. Parts of that library can never be
replaced.

In the 1910s Earl Lind read one of the books from
that library and wrote for a feminist magazine that mothers ought to
raise their trans children according to their endorsed gender (as Lind
said, their “mental sex”). One hundred years ago there was a movement to
normalize trans people. It was based on scientific study and the
assertion that the policies of a just society should be based on sound
evidence, and sound evidence showed that gender variance was perfectly
natural and perfectly healthy. That movement is what was displaced when
Nazis stormed the library and burned all the books they found.

We recovered from the loss of Hirschfeld’s collection, eventually. We
are once again at a place where people write to feminist journals
extolling parents (no longer just mothers!) to raise their trans children
according to the genders of their hearts. But suppressing trans
existence is so visible at the heart of the party that just came to
power in this country. We’ll see what happens next.