No one really knows and that's ok.

I am probably procrastinating.

[tgatbc]

[walking-teabag]

sharing is caring, vimes. MOVE

[dabblingreturns]

Tell me your worst crafting bad habit.

And I'm not talking normal stuff like being overly ambition, or lack of planning, not finishings

Tell me the stupid stuff.

I'll go first: I keep working with size 11 and size 15 seed beads in bed. And find them in my sheets when I'm trying to sleep

[blessedbrick]

This is mine I think

Original post here

[punkrorschach]

games over! everyone loses! 👍

[lordeisonfire]

Sam Neill’s dream, if anyone wants a good cry.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[lamorchemoveilsoleelaltrestelle]

Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher in Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012)

[kosemsultanim]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | Day 3 (July 5th): Favorite Costume Design → Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012-2015) [Costumes by Marion Boyce]

[systlin]

Hey Tumblr.

So I have had...several medical procedures this year. Two colonoscopies...the first as a checkup for management of Crohn's disease, and the second three months later because the first found inflammation in my large intestine and the doc adjusted my meds. Second showed improvement so that's great!

I have also this year, after a Lot Of Shit, been diagnosed with endometriosis. My left ovary, in fact, is completely encysted in a 9.2 cm endometrioma. In one month and two days I am having surgery to completely remove the cyst, which will involve completely removing my left ovary. (Righty is hanging on and being a model citizen so far, no cysts at all currently.) After going back and forth with my care team and considering options, I'm going to follow their reccomendations and also undergo a hysterectomy at the same time. Right ovary can stay for now.

This, since American healthcare is a hellscape, costs money. I've done the regular measures to reduce the bills, but they're still adding up. I've maxed out my FSA already for the year and still have about $4,500 to go before I hit out of pocket maximum for my insurance for the year.

So. Any help to defray medical costs...the ones already incurred and the ones I'm about to...would be wildly appriciated.

Help support Iowa Rambler by donating or sharing with your friends.

If you can't help, that's fine. If you can, I love you.

[systlin]

Just was able to pay off the balance I owed yet for anesthesia for the second colonoscopy, crying a little, thank all of you SO much. Still have the yeeterus appointment coming up so anything is still wildly and gratefully appreciated, but already this is a huge thing off my mind.

[systlin]

Reblogging this again as the Yeeterus appointment is in less than two weeks.

Thank you all SO much.

[apatheistlesbian]

Anyway this disability pride month I would like to shoutout disabled folks whose creativity has suffered because of their condition. I’m talking people with hand tremors and pain that stop them from drawing, knitting, and playing instruments. People whose thinking has become so disorganized that nothing they write makes sense to other people. People with chronic pain who can no longer dance. People so over medicated in a fruitless attempt to maintain stability that the wells of their imagination have run dry.

I see you and I love you. You are more than your creative output. You are not a shell of what you used to be. You are a whole, complete person, regardless of what your creativity has been, is now, or will be in the future.

[whyenn-reader]

as good of a time as any to share my list of activities I do during what i like to call Scheduled Soul Maintenence to avoid burnout

go on an aimless bike/ride/walk - move your body, do it for as long as you feel like it, discover new places near you weather that is a frog or a cafe

watch a new movie/read a new book/listen to a new album - get inspired, excercise having opinions and longer attention span, break out of consuming content and make a choice about what you want to expirience

create something in a medium i haven't used in a while - get out of a habit, rekindle a flame you haven't been upkeeping, making a friendship bracelet counts

go have a fun new drink/snack - arguably most important, have a little treat without rush, slow down and focus on physical sensations, treat yourself in a way that isn't landfillcore

meet with friends and/or go to a place where you meet strangers - human connection is good for you, (maybe some casual sex if you like that/try something new with your partner)

make some bad art - create for the sake of creating without any expectations

play an instrument - this can be anything that makes you reach a kind of flow state

go see something you haven't yet - get to know the cultural/geographical map of your area, this includes events, places, or just anything that makes you go out of your way to expirience something new, can be like a viewpoint or it can be a museum exhibit, anything you find cool

cook/bake something new - nurish your body, break out of cooking habits and routine, make it an event, plate it nicely too and i would like to point out that none of these have to cost more money than your usual lifestyle.

[hachisenshi]

Reminder to myself

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm «Lighthouse of the Northern Sunset» 2025

[fox-teeth]

Today's my birthday and I'd like to share a new comic with you, it's called Marginalia. It's a love letter to all the weirdness of medieval manuscripts, and you can read it by unfolding a single sheet of paper!

Risograph print editions are also available in my shop.

[foxes-in-love]

[ink-the-artist]

bed creature 

he arrives when you need a break

[ink-the-artist]

no worries if your neighbor is mowing their lawn early in the morning hes soundproof

[ink-the-artist]

bed beast and beyond

[modmad]

I was going to draw a comic about the irony of drawing snowscapes (in the other comic that I make) in this temperature

but then. the temperature.

[thekimonogallery]

This woodblock print is a legendary masterwork by the Shin-hanga (New Print) virtuoso Shiro Kasamatsu (1898–1991). Titled "Iizaka" (depicting the historic hot-spring onsen town of Iizaka in Fukushima Prefecture). It captures the profound, quiet solitude of a mountain hot-spring village wrapped in winter twilight.

[formlab]

Tomète