an cat dubh

éamonn, 34, he. sadist commie fag. ♉️🍁🍉 developing animist & ancestral practice/politic against empire.

[mbrainspaz]

idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

[ancat-dubh]

looking at next week's forecast for the northwest of Ireland (where I will be in a week) vs the south of England (where I am currently going through deep spiritual and physical torment)

[formlines]

Becoming Worthy

Marika Echachis Swan

from the website: When our people were whaling they prepared their whole lives spiritually to be worthy of a gift as generous as a whale. Everyone in the community had to work in unity to ensure the hunt was successful and done safely. Each whale was such a bountiful offering of food for the community and each part of the whale was utilized and celebrated. As a Tla-o-qui-aht woman there are many large gifts I am hoping to bring home to my community and I understand that I am on a journey to spiritually lay the groundwork so that I am ready when they arrive. Pook-mis, the drowned whaler, lies at the bottom of the sea floor and offers a warning that things can go horribly wrong if you are not properly prepared.

Becoming Worthy is a part of a series of woodblock prints exploring my people's natural and supernatural relationship with whales. This is the third unique version of this print after two other sold out editions.

[pudulogy]

there's never been a time where I'm talking about the struggles of the world where my opinion is centered on the US

[pudulogy]

like I could be talking about the economy in my country and someone is going to come out of the woods and reply with "here in Minnesota we struggle the same, here's a long ass paragraph articulating my experience". do you realistically think you can relate to everyone and also you need to understand that the reason so many of us struggle is because your country did that to us

[pacificnorthwestcore]

(Source) August 2nd, 2026.

The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Wildfire Recovery Fund

[segmentedleg]

Urban Foxes. Sibylle Peretti. Glass, crystal inlay.

[tyger-land]

Top photo: Artist Betye Saar in her Los Angeles studio, 1970. She is pictured holding Black Girl's Window (1969), an autobiographical collage shown below in more detail.

[gifharbor]

Are there no stones in heaven But what serve for the thunder?

LAURENCE FISHBURNE as OTHELLO Othello (1995)

[roycohn]

inspired by a rant i was going on elsewhere bc someone tweeted something very stupid and uninformed about hamlet and it got my back up as someone who took two single-text-focus english literature courses in college and they were on wuthering heights and hamlet, i now put it to all of you on here:

what's "your" shakespeare play?

hamlet

macbeth

the tempest

merchant of venice

midsummer night's dream

twelfth night

richard iii

othello

julius caesar

king lear

another not listed (specify in tags) (i really just put my own top 10 here nbd)

i have no particular feelings about any shakespeare play/results tag

Remaining time: 5 days 21 hours

[gatheringbones]

[“You are right to have mixed feelings about it. We crave pleasure and we fear it (because of the pleasure ceiling), and both are correct. We crave it because we need it. It awakens, calms, refreshes, nourishes, restores, and brings us relief and gratitude—and we fear it. It’s going to bring us right up to our self-doubt and lead us to insight and change. We have an inner push-pull going on, which is normal and, as far as I can tell, unavoidable.

Here are some things that people have said when exploring their pleasure: “Whenever I feel pleasure, I feel guilty.” “It’s okay to experience a little pleasure, sure, if it happens by accident. You know, while I’m giving to someone else.” “It’s not okay to feel this good myself, but it’s okay to make my partner feel good, and that feels good to me too.” “Yeah, that’s sort of pleasant, I guess, but I don’t let myself really enjoy it very much.” “Wow! That feels phenomenal! I didn’t know I could feel that! So why do I feel like crying?”

Pleasure is a powerful change agent. Pleasure lets you make friends with your body, and that changes your sense of who you are in the world, and your sense of self-worth, value, and compassion. Many fears and inner conflicts resolve. This is why it is often said that pleasure heals. Indeed, for many of us, as professionals, pleasure is our primary healing modality. We’re back to pleasure being a change in physiology. Change your physiology, and you change what you are able to perceive. Change what you can perceive, and you change what you are able to imagine. Change what you can imagine, and you change what you are able to choose in your life.”]

Betty Martin, The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[tourdion]

classic post rant quora phrase

[mydarkapron]

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | Season 1, 2021

Barry Jenkins

[ancat-dubh]

had suuuuuch a nice spontaneous easy absurdly hot hookup over the weekend that checked so many of my boxes – great chemistry! gender play! lotta laughing! fucked them so good they cried! – and now my hips are simply not functioning. not to be Catholic but it does! sometimes feel like my v-sex-affecting disability is god keeping me humble

[horce-divorce]

my partner and I are disabled, trans, and are homeless and live in our van. we tried to find resources in a new area over the last 7 months but it didn't pan out. now we are prepping for a big cross country journey in our 30 year old vehicle.

we urgently need money for gas and food. even $1 here and there helps. a kind word of encouragement from other vanlifers would also be appreciated bc we are feeling very defeated and isolated right now.

we have been deeply impacted by the housing crisis, Medicaid, SNAP & HRT cuts, and even by the shifting climate. direct aid saves lives like ours and we are really needing a miracle rn.

♡ pypal . vmo . cshpp ♡

[horce-divorce]

we need maybe $100 for gas and food, anything helps!!

[horce-divorce]

we are SO close to our destination (like maybe 1 or 2 more tanks of gas tops) but we have been stalled for days trying to get more $$. My posts are getting very little traction, even my regular posts. I have been posting writing and stuff to Threads but I think I'm getting shadow banned for talking about communism as well as MA.

we don't need much more before we can get to the woods and just coast on what we've got for a couple of weeks. we are SO close. it's like 5 more hours of driving.

If you're interested in communism and fighting the intentions of the algo and it's overlords and you're able to, please please please send us $1 or a reblog 🙏💖 I am not healthy enough to panhandle outside in this heat rn and yet im still solely trying to provide for my queer little family

[hikes-and-moans]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: A lot of "mental health issues" disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn't affect mental health is privilege.

[heylsgowt]