Dexie's musings

ooc blog for the muse behind Bella Fireseeker, Laenne Leaffall, Veli Lightwhisper,  Lianellie Quinne and a bunch of others. A bunch of the pictures I take can be found on my DA account at  https://www.deviantart.com/scarlet2649 Occasionally nsfw, beware of Game of thrones spoilers. Also, quite a lot of food porn/recipes.  Artwork is not mine unless stated.

[howlingowl-festivals-wra]

3rd Annual Untamed Night

Come join us for our 3rd Annual Love Is In the Air themed festival, Untamed Night!

Join us in Nighthaven for an evening filled with Love Is In The Air themed vendors, performances, and raffles! The night will be finished off with a dance party!

As always with The Howling Owl’s events, Horde or Alliance are welcome!

When: Friday, February 18th, 6PM WrA

Schedule:

6-8PM WrA: Vendors  8-9PM: Performances 9PM: Dance party and raffle drawings immediately following performances

Where: Nighthaven, Moonglade, Kalimdor

!! RAFFLE !!

Raffle info:   There are 2 separate raffles.  1 paid raffle. 1 free raffle. The paid raffle will be 500g a ticket, limit 40 tickets per person.  The free raffle will be a separate raffle with entries via a google form. After performances, winners will be called. You must be present to win or a new winner will be picked. Open to both Horde and Alliance!

Paid Raffle Prizes:

1 colored portrait from @handhour-galleries​

1 paper-cut themed portrait from @radioactivechina

1 Line art bust by @artbygnome

1 store mount (your choice of any)

1 rare in game mount

Free Raffle Prizes Include:

-Choice of various toys, pets or mounts!

Join our Discord server here! Give our festival blog a follow too!

@the-royal-courier​ @wracentral​ @wowrpevents​

[noonmutter]

In just a few hours!

Friendly reminder: This is an 18+ only (OOC and IC) event as items of an adult nature will be discussed, advertised, and traded. Performances will be of a mature nature as well–expect some spice!

[usta1969]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every time I see this I think “why would this duck want to feed fish?” and then I remember that I also occasionally want to feed fish so why wouldn’t the duck?

[daily-deliciousness]

Salted caramel chocolate tart

[bekkathyst]

BEKKATHYST FIRST 2022 GIVEAWAY

~This giveaway is in no way affiliated with Tumblr.~

Please read thoroughly before entering!

Hello lovely Tumblr folk! It’s that time again- I have a giveaway for you all. This is the first one of 2022 and will likely be the last one we post while still living in the US! 💜

We have an online store that could use your support!

My business is a small, family run establishment that I started here on tumblr in 2013. I’ve been lucky enough to grow to the point where my husband and I opened a brick and mortar store and I’ve been able to employ my mother and some of my siblings! I’ve been supporting my mom and younger siblings since 2016 💜 I’ve always strived to put compassion and ethics above all else in my business!

This giveaway will have two winners.

What the first winner receives:

The large assortment of crystals & the altar cloth pictured above! There are 18 crystals in total. The full retail value is about $510

A $100 gift card that can be used for our online store or tumblr sales!

What the second winner receives:

A $50 gift card that can be used for our online store or tumblr sales!

Rules:

You must be 16 or older. (If under 18 you MUST have parent’s permission)

You don’t have to live in the US to join!

Shipping is entirely free, I will cover it. But if you live outside the US and for whatever reasons your country wants to charge you import tax, you are responsible for it. If it gets sent back to me, you will need to pay shipping to have it sent again.

You must be following me, so you can get updates if anything about the giveaway changes.

Please check out our online shop!

DO NOT tag this post as giveaway. That will risk the notes getting messed up, and this will be ruined for everyone.

Reblog this post to enter. Likes count as additional entries. No giveaway or spam blogs. If you reblog on a side blog, let me know in the tags what the name of your blog is that you’re following me with.

Please don’t spam people with reblogs- limit 2 reblogs per blog per day.  

At the end, each entry will be assigned a number and the winner will be chosen by a random number generator.

The giveaway ends Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 at 6 pm Pacific time.

The winners will be messaged and must respond with their full name and address within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen.

Please respect me and my rules, and have fun!

[momolive]

The laws of physics don't apply to goats...

[alex-penumbra]

[musingzero]

As you all know, I was down with covid for well over a week & still recovering. As a result I lost A LOT of pay as a result so I am doing YCH again & bringing back a couple poses due to urgent circumstances because bills are due and I am in a huge bind now in lieu to illness. 

 DM me to order. Pricing firm. Pre-pay secures your spot.

This is not first come first serve. I will approve your request based on what you would like me to draw because I do have strengths and weaknesses on what I can and cannot draw. So DM me to discuss please. ♥

Sharing is caring even if you cannot purchase at this time and I am very grateful for any sharing.

[montereybayaquarium]

As we remember Betty White on the days leading up to what would have been her 100th birthday, we reflect back on some of the stories that made a lasting impression on our staff and our conservation programs. In her 37 years as an Aquarium member, Betty supported everything from sea otter rescue and research to airlifting penguins to the Aquarium following Hurricane Katrina, even scrubbing in to assist with sea otter surgery! (It’s true! You can read the whole story here.)

“I'm very grateful for her generous support and friendship to our team over so many years,” says the Aquarium’s Director, Julie Packard.

In honor of Betty, and her tireless devotion to animal advocacy work, we are renaming our planned giving program the Betty White Ocean Legacy Circle.

Thank you for being a friend to so many, Betty, and for always reminding us that good things happen when we work together to make a difference.

[sweetoothgirl]

I don’t know if you’ve heard this today but you are doing great and you deserve a warm chocolate chip cookie 💖

[theproblematicblogger]

[jabberwockypie]

“Overuse of Healthcare” Like. How would that even work?

“Huh, this feels kind of … weird and “off” and not good, give my Universal Healthcare, I will go get it checked out. It MIGHT be nothing, but they MIGHT check it and find something like serious before it becomes deadly or disabling, instead of just hoping it’s nothing serious and ignoring it until I can’t ignore it anymore”

Oh wait, that’s how healthcare is SUPPOSED TO WORK.

[levynite]

HI, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL IS OWNED BY RUPERT MURDOCH, THAT PUSTULENT STAIN ON JOURNALISM WHO OWNS FOX NEWS AND ITS ILK AND ALL THE AWFUL ENGLISH TABLOIDS THAT WERE DOING PHONE HACKING ON CELEBRITIES AND FAMILIES OF VICTIMS A WHILE BACK

[theconcealedweapon]

“I’m not sick but I’m going on vacation and I need a place to stay. Can I have a room at the hospital?”

[kiwianaroha]

[dkgwrites]

Let me start this by fully disclosing that I am an insurance broker who works in the group health insurance field. If the United States gets Medicare for All, I will be unemployed. I run a small business with one other person, so it’s not like I’m rolling in the cash and will have a multi-million dollar exit strategy. I have been working in some area of the healthcare/insurance field for fourteen years. I say this to be clear that I do have a level of expertise in this, and that I also have a stake in the outcome of this. Literally, I will need to retrain and look for a new career under socialized medicine (not looking for tears, folks, just stating the facts).

Now, here are more facts. The United states needs to move to Medicare for All. Just like we need to move away from coal and go to green energy, we need to move away from private health insurance and move to socialized medicine. Financially, one of the biggest cost drivers today is that we play defense and not offense when it comes to health care. If we have annual comprehensive checkups for everyone in this country (everyone, not just every citizen), we would reduce our overall spend. It’s about ROI, and over the course of a three to five year span, there is provable return on comprehensive preventive care. If we can catch a cancer in stage one or two instead of four we can save not just a life but a lot of money. If we can find undiagnosed diabetics and get them on proper diet and medication, we can stop future high-cost claims. This trend is true with cholesterol, heart disease, etc. Even if we were to ignore the moral reasons why we should be providing comprehensive health insurance to everyone, financially, we’re wrong not to do it. We have this data. Insurance companies have this data. The government has this data. There’s a reason that preventative care is a zero dollar cost under PPACA (aka Obamacare). It saves money.

Don’t let any of this “Medicare for those who want it” talk fool you. The last thing we need is a larger pool open only to the sickest people. That will keep the healthiest people on group health insurance, make the carriers more profitable, make Medicare less cost effective, cripple Medicare, and “prove” that Medicare for all wouldn’t work. Only by having a truly integrated pool of those currently insured and healthy and those currently uninsured and in need or services will we see the actual fair and just returns of the system. Medicare has a much lower admin cost than private insurance carriers, and if we fully empowered Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers, we could drive down those prices much, much more. (Ten years ago, Rxs made up 10% - 15% of medical spend and is currently over 30%. In ten more years, it is likely to make up 50% of our medical costs.)

The only reasons anyone opposes this is money. I don’t mean it’s going to cost too much. It’s not. The amount that we pay out of our paychecks and for out of pocket expenses to see a doctor will disappear, and in turn, we’ll pay a higher tax. Does the money come out of your left pocket or your right? It’s the same money. Maybe we don’t even pay as much as per Elizabeth’s Warren proposal which puts in a 6% wealth tax and increase the income tax on the highest earners (unless you make millions of dollars annually, this isn’t you).

I look forward to voting myself out of a job at the next election. I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t strongly believe it was best for all of us. Congress needs to start serving the people who have elected them instead of the corporations who feed them money. Please educate yourself. Please ask questions. Please look into the sources of things you hear. Please vote. It matters. This is still our country if we want it. 

[sweetoothgirl]

Homemade Oreo Sandwich Cookies

[river-mist]

@belillina-ooc

[memeuplift]

[mrbrojangles]

[iwt-v]

Betty White and a bear stop what you’re doing and reblog

Betty White: First Lady of Television (Netflix)

[roach-works]

terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.

[thundergrace]

Thank you for being a friend.

Estelle Gettlemen: July 25, 1923 - July 22, 2008

Beatrice Arthur: May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009

Eddi-Rue McClanahan: February 21, 1934 - June 3, 2010

Betty Marion White Ludden: January 17, 1922 - December 31, 2021

[howlingowl-festivals-wra]

Untamed Night:  Save the Date!  Looking for Vendors!

The Howling Owl will be hosting a special Love Is In The Air themed festival event that will feature vendors, performances, a dance party and more!

Date: Friday, February 18th Time: 6PM WrA/PST Location: Nighthaven, Moonglade

We still have some spots available for vendors!

We are looking for vendors with themed goods (flowers, candies, romantic gifts) Risque things like lingerie or sex toys are okay too. However things like selling escorts services will not be approved.

Vendoring time will run from 6-8PM, at which point vendors will close up so everyone can enjoy the performances.

If you are interested in being a vendor at this event, you simply need to join this Discord server—> Click here! <–and read over the information in the Vendor-Info channel and then fill out the Google Form linked there! 

@the-royal-courier​ @wracentral​ @wowrpevents​ @wraeventscombined​

[hopephd]

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

[chirmartir]

Ch😅

[belillina-ooc]

@chothulu​