I love this. I’m all for these types of friendships but I think most ppl think anything intimate is too far but friends can do these things too

When I talk about queering friendship this is the type of shit I'm talking about. Just genuine, meaningful gestures and actions of love even within platonic relationships.

they do

The one thing Darwin was most terribly wrong about has done so much damage.

Darwin believed competition was the main driver of evolution. Now, many scientists are revolutionizing the field with evidence that no, evolution is equally, if not more, driven by a vast web of cooperation.

But people still think about society in a competition-based way.

A woman using the word "partner" to describe her boyfriend somehow "takes away" from gay people??? A cishet guy wearing a dress is somehow bad for transgender people???

Don't y'all know that the most tough and resilient plants thriving in a hostile environment make it possible for the other ones to survive?...

...Anyway this is why I don't shave my legs. Disaster species (autistic who is completely oblivious and indifferent to all social judgement and critique) taking hold in hostile environment (misogynistic society) preparing that environment to support a wide variety of species (many other women who would want to stop shaving but don't want to feel judged and alone)

now i want there to be a comic that's a panorama of a teeming forest with giant trees and mosses and lichens everywhere, the ground is covered in loads of fancy orchids and berries and flowers and the understory is packed with blossoming and fruiting shrubs, there are multicolored birds everywhere and deer browsing in a little meadow full of sunbeams where wildflowers and vines are going wild

Up toward the lower corner two flowers are having a conversation: "We didn't have any of this stuff back when I was young ...orchids that can't even sprout in the first place without the mycorrhizal network!...flowers that can only be pollinated by one specific rare bee...I just think it's getting a little out of control...there are even plants down there in the bog claiming to be carnivorous! Plants that don't even want to have chlorophyll anymore...We're photosynthetic autotrophs! That's a biological fact!...Don't you think it's a little ridiculous? Sixty years ago you never heard about anything like that...The weeds that came here after this place was logged wouldn't have approved of it..."

Some guy: People like you would have never been accepted when we lived in THE WILDERNESS.

The wilderness: *literally interconnected by a vast symbiotic network that distributes resources among the plant community, gets steadily more diverse and supports more fragile species with more specific needs as it matures, everything is interdependent, a huge variety of weird organisms that wouldn't survive in a more hostile environment indicates a thriving ecosystem*