A Secret Land

“The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.”

[pangur-and-grim]

my humours have balanced. I have become mentally normal again

[meangirlnurse]

oh my god

[meangirlnurse]

[smallbabywerewolf]

[classicalcanvas]

Storm (1861) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[kittydealer]

u/darth_vader39

[whatcoloristhatcat]

black tortoiseshell with high white spotting (calico)

[mothric]

PSA: quick at home electrolyte drink

if you're anything like me and you don't feel heat like you should, or you live in a normally not-hot area that's currently experiencing a heat wave, and/or you've been sipping plain water for hours and wondering why your throat is still dry and you're inexplicably exhausted, you probably need electrolytes.

in this situation your best line of defense is gatorade or some form of electrolyte tablet or powder. if you like those things, go get those things, this post is over.

BUT maybe you're also like me and you find gatorade unbearably sweet (it also gives me a headache, no idea why), and maybe you can't afford the fancy tablets or powders

if that describes you, I just did the following right here in my kitchen:

grab a big ol thermos/cold cup/giant glass of your choosing (i think mine holds 2 cups of liquid)

throw a pinch of salt in there and dissolve it in a lil bit of warm water

squeeze half a lemon in (or 1-2 tablespoons of store bought lemon juice. or lime, or orange, any citrus works tbh)

add 1-2 tablespoons of real maple syrup OR honey (maple syrup dissolves easier, honey will need a bit more warm water to melt it)

fill the rest with cold water

boom. poor man's gatorade, not too sweet, and within 20 minutes of sipping it my "mysterious" exhaustion is gone. i am very annoyed it was this easy to feel good again after languishing for hours wondering why the hell I was so tired and shaky. it was the electrolytes. it's 90 degrees out and I don't feel hot so I forgot. don't make my mistake. now go forth and hydrate!

[a-very-cute-snake]

[peg-the-empire]

i love making friends in fandom, i love playing with our toys together, i love coming up with increasingly niche aus, i love lifting strangers up, i love motivating people to create, i love watching someone get excited over an idea and immediately running with it, i love yelling in tags together, i love seeing someone gain confidence in their writing/art because people were kind to them <33

[bugwars]

It is imperative that the customer remain unaware that employees drink water, it frightens and scares them to think of an employee as having human needs

[kosmogrl]

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

[podcastwizard]

LIKES TO CHARGE REBLOGS TO CAST

[ultradia]

Titania and the Kingfisher

[cabbageheadss]

besties snooping

[draconym]

The kids on Tiktok were right actually

Making masks rules

[draconym]

I think the beads really complete the look

[draconym]

For the folks curious about templates, these are the shapes I cut from cardboard. I added a couple little pieces of cereal box cardboard as structural support in various points, like the bridge of the nose and behind the beak. Also, I ended up cutting the forehead piece a little smaller, which I marked on the paper, but I kept the template size in case you want to see how it originally looked.

@blackbearmagic made a bunch of cool templates for the workshop I'm going to do in December, too. I'll get a few photos of those later.

[blackbearmagic]

I think my favorite part of this was how different your mask looks from all the ones I've made so far, and not just because you made a bird and I've been making mammals

It's a completely different piece of wearable art. It has a different soul. It has a different feel.

I think everyone should make a mask of their favorite animal to wear, even if they're not a therian. I think the world would be a healthier, happier place if everyone made a cardboard replica of their favorite animal's face.

[draconym]

Bear's mask templates! I just want to stress that our masks are extremely low tech and budget friendly. They're made out of cardboard, hot glue, and fleece, with an elastic band in the back. I used a little sheer black fabric I had leftover from my terror bird costume for the eyes.

Fleece and felt are very forgiving fabrics and you can basically just cut a single large piece and stretch it to fit, gluing it to the cardboard one small section at a time. The fabric was the only purchase we made for these, and it was in the form of thrift store blankets.

It's easy! It's fun! Go do it now!!!

[i-suggest-cdrw]

hi yeah this is good advice and you 🫵 should do it

this was all stuff i had lying around, most of it was obtained for other craft projects that i haven't yet gotten around to

go make a fun little mask. go crazy go stupid.

[draconym]

Hell yeah this RULES

[abyssal-ilk]

you ever get so into the whole "it would have been good if it was good" thing that it gets kind of embarrassing. it would have been good if it was good but it's Not and in fact it's maybe worse than anything else but unfortunately. it still could have been good. if it was go

[doomtemparts]

one of my friends in a discord server was talking about how they were nervous about their first scheduled acupuncture appointment. another friend offered to do a tarot reading for them. sent this picture.

[paladinstrait]

isn't it so amazing that people make all kinds of music about all kinds of things and then you can just listen to it. like its just there and you can listen to it whenever you want. thats amazing

[littlestpersimmon]

Free Ornamentation IV. This work is dedicated to the public domain 🐌