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brandnewclty:

toadcroaky:

eileensdress:

Oh my god I was just looking to see how much a copy of Hamlet would be through Barnes and Noble and PEOPLE ARE ROLEPLAYING WARRIOR CATS IN THE REVIEWS??????

@vriska

ok i was VERY involved in the. b&n reviews warrior cats roleplay scene when i was like 10-12. the first two books of the series were general hubs where ppl would post ads for their clans and other groups. there was a huge percy jackson community i remember participating in too. it worked through search results, eg. riverclan might be under the search result “rivers”. book 1 was rules and a “map”, book 2 might be the main area, book 3 the medicine cats tent, etc. there was also usually a book where ppl would post lengthy descriptions of their character(s). it was a rlly bizarre little corner of the internet jdksj also it was impossible to find any real reviews of any of the warrior cats books bc of it

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

He realized his dogs have an unusual skill. Now he uses them to help save turtles.

By Cathy Free

John Rucker was a high school English teacher in North Carolina when he stumbled upon something interesting: Whenever he took his two dogs hiking, they would run into the tall grass and bring him back box turtles. Like a gift, his Boykin spaniels would gently lay them at his feet, unharmed.

He mentioned it to a few people, and soon, biology teachers from the University of North Carolina started reaching out to him and asking whether he would take their students out so they could put transmitters on the turtles to study them.

Several years later, the outings were so successful, Rucker was fielding calls from wildlife veterinarians and zoologists who were studying turtle populations.

“Because turtles aren’t easily detected in the wild by the human eye, I could see that I was on to something,” said Rucker, now 73.

Now, two decades later, Rucker’s spaniels are a highly in-demand, specialized team trained to sniff out box turtles by following their urine trails.

The dogs — Yogi, Ruger, Jenny Wren, Lazarus, Scamp, Skeeter and Rooster — travel across the country with Rucker helping to track turtle populations and identify threats and diseases.

chancemedley116:

plumslices:

Can’t believe im adult now. Sometimes I feel like a teletubbie with a credit card.

On my way to buy groceries

funnytwittertweets:

newsmutproject:

I was puzzled by the false beliefs my students brought with them into the classroom, until I began reading antique sex advice manuals. And there they were in black and white, written a hundred year ago or more… students have absorbed these ideas from their families and their cultures, without any of them having read those books.

One day in class, I read a loud a couple of definitions of “sex.” First i read from Ideal Marriage; Its Physiology and Technique by T.H. van de Velde, from 1926. He wrote that “normal sexual intercourse” is

that intercourse which takes place between two sexually mature individuals of opposite sexes; which excludes cruelty and the use of artificial means for producing voluptuous sensations; which aims directly or indirectly at the consummation of sexual satisfaction, an which, having achieved a certain degree of stimulation, concludes with the ejaculation–or emission–of the semen into the vagina, at the nearly simultaneous culmination of sensation–or orgasm–of both partners. 

Then I read from The Hite Report, published in 1976, from the chapter titled “Redefining Sex”:

Sex is intimate physical contact for pleasure, to share pleasure with another person (or just alone). You can have sex to orgasm, or not to orgasm, genital sex, or just physical intimacy–whatever seems right to you. There is never any reason to think the “goal” must be intercourse, and to try and make what you feel fit into that context. There is no standard of sexual performance “out there” against which you must measure yourself; you aren’t ruled by “hormones” or “biology.” You are free to explore and discover your own sexuality, to learn or unlearn anything you want, an to make physical relations with other people , of either sex, anything you like.

And I asked my students, “Which of these is more like what you learned growing up?”

No contest. Ideal Marriage.

-Come As You Are, Emily Nagoski

kanyewesticle:

I just want to thank pasta for being a part of my life