Linkspam

Cute Animals

17 Bunnies for all the sad people out there (note: via Buzzfeed) also because **I got to snuggle a 3 month old bunny yesterday**

Giraffes hum to each other at night and zookeepers never noticed (via umadoshi )

Webcomics

Mummy Brown and Other Historical Colors comic (via umadoshi , plus as a bonus the text and extra info is at the bottom)

Morning Me (comic) ... aka why evening self is an asshole


Autumn-related

It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers (via umadoshi )

An Open Letter to Pumpkin Flavored Treats

Homeric Hymn to Demeter (cn: you know how the Persephone legend is creepy? this is that story told from her mother's perspective in a contemporaneous poem. I also really like it, but just...emotional space may be needed for this poem because kidnapping and also the dysfunction of Greek deities)

The Toast (older links I've been meaning to post for awhile)

A League of Their Own Inspired Thinkpieces

Let's Be Real: Two Women in Their Latter 20s Watch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice

Signal boost: social expectations w/ respect to one's body, food, activity (survey for a class)

I wish to signal-boost truelove's post about her survey for her final project for a course. The survey, linked from that post, is about social expectations with respect to one's body and one's food and activity choices, and I understand truelove has not much turnaround time and is hoping for more than a handful of responses in that time.

Evidence for "cycle of violence" in nonhuman animals

( tw: nonhuman animal intraspecies abuse, implications for human domestic violence )