a couple of the many beautiful Kikihia scutellaris cicadas molting last night :-)
Do you collect anything?
I'm really enjoying learning more about my fellow tumblr users, so let's keep this going.
I want to know what (if anything) you collect. I'll go first.
I have a bad habit of changing my collections often but recently I've been really into View-Masters, you know that plastic headset that showed you 3D images. I'm working on a site where I'm putting all my research (https://gruber.travel/) and buddy of mine made a special reel scanner that I'm getting next week. I'm really excited about it.
The trick is to do it without shame. Literally anything could be cool if you just did it shamelessly
its possible to personally dislike or fear a creature w out demonizing it. u can be afraid of and annoyed by animals like snakes and mosquitos and roaches and rats etc w out treating them like theyre inherently evil or out to get u. theyre just animals. we're just animals. whether u like it or not they live here with us and its honestly really weird that theres such a pervasive deep rooted habit of anthropomorphizing these animals just to say theyre malicious and actively trying to cause harm
like idk man i just dont think its normal or healthy to look at animals exhibiting their natural behaviors and assume its being done solely to target u. thats just some little beast dude it doesnt know shit. it just knows it needs to defend itself and survive and sometimes that means the paths u cross will be unpleasant, thats literally just how shit works. learn to tolerate and coexist with the creatures u fear and i promise the existence of these animals wont be as scary