Wanderings of the Mind

I write fanfic because I read fanfic. I vid because I watch vids. I sob uncontrollably over my drawing (lack of) skills, because I look at other people's art. Friday is Prompt day.

[ornamatique]

Sunken alcove in the garden

[frontmansdefender]

I aspire to be as passionate about something as this guy and the orcas are passionate about hating the sunfish

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

[abandonedography]

Old abandoned grocery store repurposed as a library

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[azzandra]

"Hey, we need to renovate this grocery store into a library."

"Okay, I got you."

*Removes the B from the BREAD sign*

"Done"

[normal-horoscopes]

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

[theslowesthnery]

ohhhhhh my godddddd

[krakenartificer]

Higgledy piggledy, olden French bakery storing its loaves in a double-doored shed.

Inspector approaching the inner door op'ning to find a cow casu'lly licking the bread.

[justanormalpersin]

Lots of realy cute cats. Last one is one funky cool cat

[weaselle]

i love the personalities of the wild species we can see here

skunk "i'll do it! i swear to god i'll do it!"

fox "yikes! oh oka-yikes! oh. well maybe i'll ju-yikes!"

that last huge cat "comfy comfy comfy cool"

raccoon *ignoring everyone because they don't give a single fuck*

I also really like how this is largely a meeting of the mammas. Like almost every animal that rolled through there was a mamma with her babby. The only time the mamma raccoon cared about anything is when one of the foxes got close to her little raccoon kit in the background. The rest o the time she was like "what, spray me then skunk, idgaf"

[sevensixone]

@letsblogwithmama

Let's enjoy snacks and drinks with mama (multispecies edition)

[letsblogwithmama]

official mama post

[sphyrne]

she

[kactusnz]

#oh SO true#discworld#you've nailed it op that's it exactly#she is a prophet of retribution set aglow from within by the fury of her righteousness#and he's in the dictionary next to the word 'scrungly'

[maryellencarter]

this captures their kermit and miss piggy energy better than anything else i've ever seen

[captcrieff]

[brehaaorgana]

im laughing so hard omfg it’s like walking down the unflavored oatmeal aisle

[eeegdfhfghgfdg-deactivated20180]

I CAN T TELL WHO IS WHO LMAO

[bairnsidhe]

I have mild face blindness. Not a lot, just a smidgen. I have learned how to identify people off tiny discrepancies in things like posture, gait, and the way the muscles of the face do certain expressions, so I don't offend anyone (it makes me weirdly popular with twins). But unless I engage that manually, everyone is basically a skintone-haircolor-hairstyle combo. If two people have the same combination I am gonna struggle for a bit until I clock one of my memorized flags. I have tried and failed to explain this before to people.

From now on I'm just gonna show them this post.

[blignick]

[akiameko]

I cast Animal Friendship.

[just-a-mess-in-a-nest]

@letsblogwithmama

[letsblogwithmama]

honorary mama post

[a-book-of-creatures]

Is it socially acceptable to use opaque watercolors, or is that considered gouache?

[covidsafecosplay]

Do you need affordable sewing supplies? Do you want to help cut down on waste and fast fashion?

Do yourself a favor and check out Swanson's Fabrics! The physical location is in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, USA, but the online shop will ship to you!

I can't remember who first told me about Swanson's, but they're a textile thrift shop that collects and repurposes donations of unused sewing supplies. Their physical location, The Stash House, offers community sewing resources and a studio. For non-locals (such as myself), their online shop offers fabrics, patterns, and notions. The shop restocks on Thursdays, and they have a constantly-rotating collection of items. If you like thrifting secondhand craft materials, Swanson's is for you!

Via their official "about" page:

Swanson’s Fabrics and notions are gifts from retired sewing stashes. They are the fabrics and supplies that sewers and fiber-artists naturally accumulate. I had a suspicion that the reason we all collect so much is that we didn’t have a place “good enough” to take it. So I made the place. Turns out I was right, and thanks to my community (and yours) of makers and crafters, I can resell these fine materials at a low, approachable cost. ALL FABRICS ARE $5.00/yd, NO MATTER WHAT THEY ARE MADE OF. REALLY. I MEAN IT. I KNOW. UNBELIEVABLE BUT TRUE! As we come to grips with the climate crisis, interrupted supply lines, and our dependency on slave-labor in far away countries to produce our cotton and fiber goods, we need another way to approach the fabrics in our lives. We have a massive resource of textile goods in our country and it is time to tap into it. Our attics, basements, thrift-store donation bins, and dumpsters are brimming with discarded fabrics. It is time to start making and trading for the things we need, and stop buying so much new stuff we don’t. We need to see ourselves as trash-rich. Customers at Swanson’s can pay for goods and services with goods and services. I accept trade of sewing and fiber supplies/materials, and trade for help in the shop. I hope to inspire you to make your own clothes, to mend the ones you have, to shop second-hand and alter things to your taste. There is a lot of power in dressing yourself. Custom is king, and you can’t have a revolution in your master’s clothes…. ❤️💪🏻 -Kathryn

The CovidSafeCosplay blog and its admin are unaffiliated with Swanson's Fabrics, and are simply sharing the resource.

Do you have a favorite place to get your crafting supplies? Share in the comments or via a reblog! Bonus points for those that prioritize sustainability, accessibility, community, and trade.

[tamaraniac]

Lots of cities / areas have stores who also sell repurposed or donated fabrics! Here’s one directory of creative reuse stores. (Though ‘creative reuse’ is usually the key search term)

I get most of mine at Scrap in Ann Arbor (they also sell some items online) and New City Sewing Center in St. Louis.

[usaginasty]

weird fat girl I LOVE YOU

[bairnsidhe]

[animentality]

[opossum-mypossum]

[bairnsidhe]

These notes are very important and you should read them.

But also, there was a massive missed opportunity by not making the fake holiday card say "Season's Yeetings"

[lydiacatfish]

alt names for the leverage ot3:

Eliot Spencer and The Two Gremlins

Alec Hardison and His Two Stray Cats

Parker and Her Two Soft Boys Who Are Too Good For This World, Too Pure

[silima]

in loving memory of my favorite shirt

[silima]

turmeric kun update

[awesomepudding]

I don't know who needs to learn this but, the chemical causing the stain in tumeric (Curcumin) is easily destroyed by uv light. You can remove stains by leaving whatever shirt, cooking dish, etc stained by it in full sun for like half a day and it'll be gone.

[bairnsidhe]

So Tumeric-kun is a vampire? Got it.

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[traumatised-mum]

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

[anisetheapothecary]

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

[malcolmcooks]

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.