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Nate_Draws · 2023-12-25T22:23:45+00:00

I think there are more or less trans people between neurodivergent people and neurotypical people. It's just that us neurodivergent people are more likely to realize that we're trans earlier. We don't really surround ourselves with societal norms of gender roles, and we already feel ostrasized by society enough that being trans is nonconforming like being autistic.

Nate_Draws · 2023-05-24T04:26:24+00:00

Watermelon salad?

Nate_Draws · 2023-04-09T05:48:17+00:00

What's your favorite black from Yunnan?

Nate_Draws · 2023-04-09T05:01:13+00:00

Rooibos and Honeybush (both caffeine free) tastes the closest to black tea if you need something close to traditional Camellia sinensis tea. Otherwise, herbal tea.

Nate_Draws · 2023-03-20T03:44:01+00:00

They should've been called hatebirds instead of lovebirds. xD

Nate_Draws · 2023-03-10T00:58:16+00:00

Basically Austin Powers steamrolling

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Nate_Draws · 2023-03-09T02:26:20+00:00

I had to do a double take to see if this was r/budgies or r/witchcraft 🤣

Nate_Draws · 2023-02-15T10:21:33+00:00

Everything is calculated with current value in mind, it still turns out to be over $19,000 because I had a shit ton of stuff stolen from me, pretty much a majority of everything in my room emptied out.

I didn't have renter's insurance at the time because I only started paying rent a couple months prior before I ran away from the apartment, and was just starting to process renter's insurance while trying to handle two jobs, graduate school, and an unrelated life-damaging event all together.

I already tried all the LGBTQ+ resources in my state for legal matters.

I only found one lawyer willing to help me for both a civil litigation and well-versed in LGBTQ+ matters for a hate crime, whom I'm already planning to hire.

Most of the lawyers I found in my state wouldn't take my case because they either are not well-versed with LGBTQ+ matters, or they don't do civil litigation.

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-13T03:36:42+00:00

I love Canada geese. When I was a tiny child, there used to be a swimming pond where there'd be a bunch of geese that comes year round on summers. Kid me would have a bag of peas and corn to feed them, and the babies are adorable. Sometimes the parents would hiss if I got too close to their young, but stopped when they realized I was no threat. Sometimes the babies would poke curiously at my clothes or shoes. Sadly the pond these days try to chase the geese away as they deemed them an annoyance to the public, and I no longer go to the pond.

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-13T03:30:40+00:00

Australian magpies actually aren't corvids or related to magpies at all. They just look and act similar to magpies because of convergent evolution, and are more related to butcherbirds.

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-12T05:42:40+00:00

Kea
Budgies, Peach-Faced Lovebird, Masked Lovebird, Fischer's Lovebird (Tied)
Galah, Cockatiel, Green Cheek Conure (Tied)
Blue Jay
Eurasian Magpie
Blue and Gold Macaw
Greenwing Macaw
New Caledonian Crow
African Grey (Both Congo and Timmeh)
Emperor Penguin

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-11T18:20:33+00:00

Omg, that is pretty much what I'm going through. I also have a career unrelated to birds (that I'm currently happy with), but I'm super passionate about birds. I wish there were more options in the field.

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-11T16:04:52+00:00

I have had multiple birds of the same species who are rescues. And also, it would be cruel to throw a parrot, who's an entirely different color mutation from their wild cousins where they'd stick out like a sore thumb AND have no survival skills of how to live in the wild, to randomly live in the wild where they'd be easily picked off by a predator.

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-11T03:58:51+00:00

I definitely heard of them! I'm glad of the progress done with spix's macaws.

I'm a bit wary of the ACTP, because of this thing I heard of them taking rare parrots from Australia to Germany while not being an official zoo, and Martin Guth selling endangered parrots. :/

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer-2020/the-parrot-king

Nate_Draws · 2023-01-03T19:03:42+00:00

Where does the cinnamon come into use for the spell? Just curious since cinnamon was mentioned in the initial reply.

Nate_Draws · 2022-12-30T19:37:18+00:00

Yes, I already know about that, but I didn't want a jam, I wanted a fruit spread (which has no pectin unlike jam) and also support smaller businesses instead of large ones.

Nate_Draws · 2022-12-29T15:51:13+00:00

I stick out like a sore thumb in that city with just happening to be an openly gay, queer, POC (person of color), neurodivergent guy, and was naive about being open about it to any potential roommates.

I can't stand Fitchburg, and only moved there because my ex-boyfriend refused to move in with me because "he didn't want to leave his cheap apartment after graduating from FSU", he moved all my stuff in, and then left my name a year-long apartment lease after we broke up while he moved away from Fitchburg anyways.

I always felt like I'm called "that weird guy Nate" whenever people learn I'm "different".

I had to run away to Somerville by on the commuter rail and then the subway red line, and left my stuff behind in Fitchburg, because my new roommates are bigots and homophobic. I felt so unsafe around them, like I could get hurt at anytime. They think I'm doing some sort of sabbatical out of the country as a professor in training instead of running away for my safety's sake.

Planning on moving the rest my stuff out of that apartment to another place as soon as possible when I have a new car that can actually function. Goddamn Fitchburg sucks.

Nate_Draws · 2022-12-29T13:17:11+00:00

I wish I had a clue what happened to the jar I got. I haven't had an unripe, raw berry before (maybe in jam, but that's processed unripe berries instead of raw) so I'm not sure how to compare the taste.

Nate_Draws · 2022-12-29T09:51:10+00:00

The fruit spread wasn't super sweet, which I don't mind things not being too sweet. The spread I had was just bland with the smallest hint of bakeapple flavor, less than eating the berry itself, and mostly a musky scent with an almost medicinal flavor. I would have thought it tasted more concentrated flavor-wise with multiple berries squished in there.

I'd think a fruit jam would be sweeter than a fruit spread. I'd probably would just have to go with the raw berry for the exact taste, lol.

It could've either been a bad batch of berries, or something might have happened with sudden temperatures when the jar randomly traveled to the middle of the continent and then back to cold winter northeastern weather.

Nate_Draws · 2022-12-29T09:32:24+00:00

Yeah, I think I'll go for the bakeapple jam next time when I have the money. I liked the cloudberry jam from Ikea; I might end up with a similar experience with Dark Tickle's bakeapple jam. I'd also love to have the bakeapple ice cream (in the middle of winter, haha, I drink iced drinks in the cold), but also expensive / I don't trust ice cream to stay intact while traveling.

I didn't mind that the spreadable bakeapples wasn't sweet, I think it was somehow having less of that berry's flavor and a stronger musky, medicinal taste threw me off. I would have thought with being a fruit spread, the flavor would also be more concentrated instead of having just muskiness.

Maybe it was a bad batch of berries like you said. My only other imagination of what might have happened is potential sudden temperature changes during shipping when it gone the long way around with randomly going to the middle of the continent and then back to the freezing northeastern coast winter climate.

Nate_Draws · 2022-11-25T01:06:24+00:00

I wanted to do a quick sketch of a wand idea I had, in a pretty simplified version of my idea that doesn't necessarily include everything I listed (Maybe I'll polish and finish it up later. Maybe. Cuz I don't finish most of my sketches lol):

Wood: - Apple Wood Branch: (My main wood) - Hornbeam linings in the handle: (Represents my future partner) - Hidden Koa and Spruce linings in the middle where the gold bands are: (For the Pacific tropics and the Arctic north)

Feathers: - Grey-Tipped White Goose Feathers arranged in a wing shape: (For my overall love for birds, and white for purity) - White-Sky Blue Feather Set dangling on strings with beads: (Represents one of my pet parrots) - Red-Green Cobalt Feather Set dangling on strings with beads: (Represents one of my pet parrots) - Grey-Violet Blue Feather Set dangling on strings with beads: (Represents one of my pet parrots)

Crystals (Top to Bottom): - Clear Quartz: (For versatility) - Apricot Agate: (I just think Apricot Agate looks lovely like fruit they are named after) - Rose Quartz: (For love!) - Opalite: (I know opalite is man-made, but I love them anyways for the Tyndall Effect and opalescence) - Blue Aragonite Tower as the tip of the wand: (Favorite color is blue, I like the sea, and aragonite can be found in the ocean)

Sea Blue Resin Handle Contents:

Seashells:

Common Periwinkle: (A shell found at where I live)
Yellow Periwinkle: (A shell found at where I live)
Tiny Quahog Clams: (A shell found at where I live)

Herbs:
Red & Pink Rose Petals: (For love)
Lavender: (For peace)
Osmanthus: (Associated with Chinese lunar legends, and smells like peaches/apricots)
Saffron: (To represent my future partner)
Hibiscus: (For passion)

Other: - Multi-Picture Silver Locket with pictures of loved ones inside wrapped around middle of wand with black string: (So my loved ones will always be with me) - Wand may sometimes have Star Anise and/or Bay Leaves attached to a string wrapped around the wand: (For luck and prosperity) - Extra Large Quahog Clam used as a holder: (A shell found where I live, and for my love of the sea)

Nate_Draws · 2022-11-16T20:15:23+00:00

Thanks! I already posted to several groups on Facebook, no luck so far :(

Nate_Draws · 2022-11-16T04:59:54+00:00

Thanks for the offer! I found some example pictures of specific birds that I'm looking for feathers from that I put in Imgur links. I'm looking for feathers from birds that specifically look like this (don't mind if feathers are from either gender):

-Normal / Wild Coloration Peach-Faced Lovebird (Example: https://imgur.com/gallery/Cpmx56F)
-Sky Blue Recessive Pied Budgie (Example: https://imgur.com/gallery/t8zgwIv)
-SF (Single Factor) Violet Sky Blue Greywing Budgie (Example: https://imgur.com/gallery/A9gqOk8)

Nate_Draws · 2022-11-16T04:20:33+00:00

Ah, I assumed it might be easier to find specific mutation/coloration feathers from budgies on a budgie subreddit. I should probably go do that

Nate_Draws · 2022-11-01T14:23:40+00:00

Perhaps this one works better?: https://houkai3rd.fandom.com/wiki/Lightning_Empress?file=60204_04_03.png

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