if i look back, i am lost
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we're not kids anymore.
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on watching a parent age
i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening
OP, this is genuinely a masterpiece, three poems in one, moving and well crafted. Please tell me you have submitted it to at least some poetry contests, and if not, please do so.
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Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.
Screenshots for those who want to try to make the recipes. One was completely blocked by text but I thought maybe someone would like to make them ♡
Someone with better typing skills if ya wanna type em up….. ♡
I looked up the obscured grave with the blueberry pie recipe:
From Margaret Davis
GLAZED BLUEBERRY PIE
- Soften a 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese.
- Spread in bottom of cooled, cooked pastry shell.
- Fill shell with 3 cups of blueberries.
- To an additional 1 cup of blueberries add 1 cup of water.
- Bring just to boiling.
- Simmer 2 min.
- Strain reserving juice, about ½ cup.
- Combine ¾ cup sugar, and 2 tablespoons corn starch.
- Gradually add reserved juice.
- Cook, stirring constantly until thick and clear.
- Cool slightly and add:
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Pour over berries in pastry shell and chill.
the others are:
From Kathryn Andrews
KAY’S FUDGE
- 2 SQ. chocolate
- 2 TBS. butter
- Melt on low heat
- Stir in 1 cup milk
- Bring to boil
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 TSP. vanilla
- Pinch of salt
- Cook to softball stage
- Pour on marble slab
- Cool & Beat & Eat
From Naomi Odessa Miller-Dawson
SPRITZ COOKIES
- 1 cup of butter ormargarine
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 ¼ cups of flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder.
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
From Constance Galberd
CONNIE’S DATE & NUT BREAD
100% Good Stuff - 0% Bad Stuff
Ingredients:
- 8 oz. dates cut into small pieces
- 1 cup raisins
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 4 cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ½ cup chopped nuts
Directions:
- Pour boiling water (where 2 tsp. of baking soda have been dissolved) over dates and raisins. Cool.
- Add 1 ½ C. sugar and mix well.
- Add 2 eggs, well beaten.
- Gradually mix in 4 C. of flour and 2 tsp. of baking powder. Beat thoroughly.
- Add ½ C. of chopped nuts. Beat thoroughly.
- Bake at 350 for ¾ - 1 hr.
Bake in tin cans.
One batch = 13 small cans
From Christine Hammills
A GOOD CARROT CAKE
CARROT CAKE
Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 4 eggs
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 ½ tsp. soda
- 1 ½ cups oil
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 cups grated carrots
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 (8 ½ oz.) crushed pineapple, drained
- ⅔ cup chopped nuts
Directions:
- Sift together flour, baking powder, soda salt, and cinnamon.
- Beat eggs and add sugar.
-Let stand 10 mins.
-Mix in oil, pineapple, carrots, nuts, flour mixture.
-Turn into 3 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans.
-Bake at 350’ for 35 – 40 min.
-Cool in pans for 10 min, remove to wire racks, and cool well.
VANILLA CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
Ingredients:
- ½ cup butter
- 1 (8 oz.) cream cheese
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1 pound powdered sugar, sifted
Directions:
- Mix butter, cream cheese, vanilla then add sugar. First between layers, top and sides.
From Annabell Gunderson
ANNABELL’S SNICKERDOODLES
Mix Thoroughly:
- 1 c shortening
- 1 c margarine
- 3 c sugar
- 4 eggs
Sift Together And Stir In:
- 5 ½ c flour
- 4 tsp cream of tartar
- 2 tsp soda
- ½ tsp salt
Directions:
- Roll (softly) into balls the size of small walnuts.
- Roll in mixture of 6 tsp sugar and 6 tsp cinnamon.
- Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 375 F for 8-10 minutes or 400 F for 6-8 until lightly brown, but still soft.
Secret is: Keep dough fluffy!
Humans have been eating meals in honor of the memory of our lost loved ones for as long as humans have been human…and probably even proto-human.
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(OC) Siren Cordelia - Daughter of Oceanus, Demititan Captain, Smiles in the Face of Damnation
buzzkillgirls / prettytheyswag / bichopalo / infectiouspiss / rawjoy / cass elliot / Tennessee Williams / robin / bakwaaas / headspace-hotel / noah kahan / shawn mendes / ada limon / roach-works / b0nkcreat / Richard Siken / frogus / jb-blunk
on growing up and moving on
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microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)
you're welcome
obligatory reblog of this after I forgot to bookmark them (again)
do the people know that zohran gave all new yorkers free access to heated rivalry on ebook/audiobook during the snowstorm. truly the greatest city on earth
oh my god you're not kidding
The Knight and the Zoomer—they retire from battle, and they settle down in a small village. With each passing day, their love grows stronger.
This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8
I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct
I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.
This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.
As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.
Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:
Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.
There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.
And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”
The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.
This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.
From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.
Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something
there's art now
Swiss Cheese Mono Font by Heirloom
the font was designed by Rob Meyerson, and turns out a guy named Dirk McGirk made mechanical keyboard caps inspired by it, including a few accent keys (that are all free to 3d-print and use yourself!)
look how cute those are...im crying
I still think the most devastating enshittification I've ever seen has been picrew. One of the few dress-up game websites left that's not flash-based and it's become DRENCHED in ads. You can't open the home screen without being blasted by at least three or four ads. You can't open two picrews in a row without watching a video ad first. When you have a picrew open the ads cover up the different options and sometimes even stack on each other so you have to hit like 2 or 3 different x buttons to get it to go away, only for more to appear seconds later. Evil world
It got worse - they added a subscription service
WHAT
For once I can be the one to promote alternate sites, my time to shine has finally come
Now I will say I do use an adblocker so I can't say how many ads all these places have, but- Here's some other places you can go to dress up little characters on your screen!
meiker.io - A free dress-up/character creator tool/platform filled with a TON of neat little games. There ARE ads on this site unfortunately but imo they aren't overwhelming (and from what I understand them running ads helps keep the site free, so). I've been using this site off and on for years already bc most games are fullbody instead of headshots, which I find more helpful w oc creation, and I can say in my experience it all runs extremely smoothly :) of everything here this site is the most similar to picrew
DollDivine - One of the classic dress-up game websites. Not only is it still up but it is actively being updated with new games, and the owner has been working to try and transfer the old flash games into a program called Ruffle so that they can still be played. Most of the games that I played when I was younger are already back up and working again thanks to this. DollDivine is also the host site for the games featured on Rinmaru Games back in the day so if you were like me and lived and breathed that site for most of your pre-teen years, you will be delighted to know that many of those games were saved here! :D
Azalea's Dolls - Another classic one that is still running and still being added to! If you like Disney/fairytale-esque dress-up games you will love this website, they have some BEAUTIFUL games. They have also been transferring many of their old games into Ruffle, so a good chunk of those will be working again too.
PastelKatto Games - A site owned/managed by one of my personal favourite developers back in the day. While the creator has moved on from publishing their own games they still update the site with other games every so often, and the catalog of games they created over the course of the last decade or so is absolutely worth your time. The range of options they would give to players for characters included a wide range of skin tones, vitiligo, missing limbs + prosthetics, scars/burn marks, and more. Plus their art is also just really, really pretty.
VeggieStudio - If you like anime-esque games then this is the site for you. Their catalog may be quite small, but all the games on this site are beautifully drawn. You may recognize their style if you played any Rinmaru games, as they did the art for a few of those back in the day.
Most of these sites mainly feature games that center around female/feminine characters, but there ARE games where you can make guys/masculine characters as well. But just a heads up in advance. None of them are hardwired for pfp creation either, so if you're looking for that you might not find a lot here. But otherwise, def check these sites out! The flash purge hit dress-up game communities HARD but people have been working to keep things running in some form or another ever since the news dropped. It's been rough, but all has not been lost and a lot of the old games I used to play are now playable again! :D
If you're feeling anxious or depressed about the climate and want to do something to help right now, from your bed, for free...
Start helping with citizen science projects
Public participation in science is increasing, and citizen science has a central part in this. It is a contribution by the public to researc
What's a citizen science project? Basically, it's crowdsourced science. In this case, crowdsourced climate science, that you can help with!
You don't need qualifications or any training besides the slideshow at the start of a project. There are a lot of things that humans can do way better than machines can, even with only minimal training, that are vital to science - especially digitizing records and building searchable databases
Like labeling trees in aerial photos so that scientists have better datasets to use for restoration.
Or counting cells in fossilized plants to track the impacts of climate change.
Or digitizing old atmospheric data to help scientists track the warming effects of El Niño.
Or counting penguins to help scientists better protect them.
Those are all on one of the most prominent citizen science platforms, called Zooniverse, but there are a ton of others, too.
Oh, and btw, you don't have to worry about messing up, because several people see each image. Studies show that if you pool the opinions of however many regular people (different by field), it matches the accuracy rate of a trained scientist in the field.
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I spent a lot of time doing this when I was really badly injured and housebound, and it was so good for me to be able to HELP and DO SOMETHING, even when I was in too much pain to leave my bed. So if you are chronically ill/disabled/for whatever reason can't participate or volunteer for things in person, I highly highly recommend.
Next time you wish you could do something - anything - to help
Remember that actually, you can. And help with some science.
Yup, these are actually *really* important. And a small bit of work helps, so it’s doable even if you’re snowed under with survival work or in too much pain to concentrate for longer periods.
It’s multiply-checked by more than one person, so don’t worry about fucking it up because your concentration is fucked. Your input is valuable but not the only input.
I find Zooniverse very good, and it does Citizen Historian work too - I spent time digitising concentration camp records because a) families still don’t know what happened to some of their loved ones b) this makes the records available for historians without travelling to archives in person, which I can testify is *invaluable* for disabled historians and helps cut the need for overseas travel to do vital historical work.
It unexpectedly helped me with learning how to decipher premodern handwriting too, which proved really useful in my academic stuff. You *will* pick up valuable skills doing this. Put it on your CV.
Other places you can go to do citizen science, from the notes
(Thanks to everyone who left these in the notes! If you know more, put them in the notes, and I might add them! And ty @enbycrip for the fantastic addition that covered a bunch of details I didn't get to)
Apps/Websites
eBird (birds
Merlin (birds)
citizenscience.gov (big project database, US-based)
iNaturalist (nature)
MapSwipe (collaboration between several Red Cross organizations and Doctors Without Borders, update vital geospatial data) Smithsonian archives (transcriptions, many subjects)
Cornell Bird Lab (birds)
FoldIt (folding proteins)
Fathomverse (sea animals)
Project Monarch (butterflies)
In person
Bioblitz (nature) Species watch (species) Audobon Society (birds)
Also:
Even if you don't have time to spend, but do have some processor cycles to spare, check out the projects available at BOINC's Compute for Science: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Hey guys, these projects make a HUGE difference for science. For example, I run bplant.org and iNaturalist is the #1 source of images in ID guides and articles and other educational materials I develop. The plant observations are also helpful for assessing plant ranges and how these ranges are changing with climate change. And it also helps me identify local seed sources for use in restoration plantings. Use of iNaturalist, even casual use like a random person uploading pics of plants they see growing in their yard, or a random parking lot they were in, or a random vacant lot, those observations are MAJORLY helping in (1) education (2) science (3) conservation.
This stuff makes a huge difference.
Also, if you want to make the biggest impact on these sites, release any material with the more permissive licenses, like CC-BY. If you add a NC or ND clause, for instance, your photos cannot be included on Wikipedia or bplant or a number of other educational sites, because those license restrictions are incompatible with combining with copyleft material.
But yeah, go do citizen science, please!!!
I thought I'd go back and repost this because there are probably a lot of people out there who, like me, reallllyyyyyy need something to distract them right now
So, hey. You. Stop doomscrolling. Take a deep breathe. And if you want, try doing some citizen science or citizen history instead
I'm also going to especially promote MapSwipe, for those who want to do something tangible to help people now.
Volunteer from your phone. Make a difference worldwide.
From their website:
Data Everywhere
In today's technology-filled world, we have access to vast amounts of information at our fingertips. This includes geospatial data, which helps us understand places and the “where?” of things - a vitally important piece of successful humanitarian programs. It is important for getting from point A to point B as well as for coordination, understanding needs, tracking impact, identifying gaps, and a multitude of other concerns. For responsible use by humanitarians, this information must be assessed, refreshed, and validated as populations, infrastructure, and the surrounding environments experience the inevitable changes that occur as time, conflicts, and disasters unfold... MapSwipe is a free open source mobile application available on iOS and Android that empowers anyone with a smartphone to make a meaningful impact contributing to global mapping efforts. MapSwipe crowdsources the review of satellite imagery to:
The whole BAFTA 2025 intro with the skit and song :)
Danny transforming without the rings.
Roblox games are all community-made, and all the wide variation that comes with that.
Mostly you get kind of mediocre games that are rehashes of the same 5 concepts with like one new feature or a distinctive visual style.
Often you get money-grab child-casinos and low-effort copycats of the previous category of games.
Sometimes you get Baby's First Programming Attempt that is just one featureless level of making a car go back and forth.
Rarely you get incredible original story and/or gameplay by someone to watch for in future Real Game Development.
But once in a blue moon........ you get this.
when i was a teenager it felt very revolutionary to be cruel to myself. like some kind of slow passive protest against how much everything hurt. i starved myself of sleep and food and tenderness because it felt right. it felt sharp and angry and radical and i wanted to be those things. adulthood is the realisation that the world is already working to cut into you well before you learn how to do it yourself. caring for yourself and others is the real protest
