A Blog Full Of Odd Stuff

Ree/Bird/Sullivan - 49 - they/it - WI, U.S. - a corvid's nest of odds and ends

[bird-related-tomfoolery]

The eclipse is tomorrow, nevermind. 😓

Oh well. I'm still going to play Terraria, and see how hard that seed combo kicks my butt...🤪

[himekokosu]

Gladiolus

[bird-related-tomfoolery]

nobody asked, but here is the Noodle Cube.

... it needs to be washed, it is dusty. 😐

there's probably a correct solution to where the noodles are supposed to go, but I haven't figured it out yet. 😅

[storyweavingspider]

If you are a white person in a racialized person’s life, especially as a partner or close friend, you should go out of your way to ask regularly “hey is there anything you have been holding on to that I did?” and critically both fix it and NOT DO ANYTHING TO PUNISH THEM FOR TELLING YOU.

As a white person raised in a white supremacist society, you’re gonna fuck up sometimes. That’s just a fact. But racialized people often aren’t able/comfortable speaking up when y’all do some shit because of the power imbalance/not feeling up to educating when you may be resistant/don’t think the “fight” will be Worth It.

Show initiative without making it A Struggle or playing the white guilt card. Show you actually care about them, their struggles, and the way you interact with them BEFORE they have to have a bigger Conversation with you, beyond when they need to yell about someone else being racist.

And for fucks sake if they’re making/showing you something from their culture fucking act like you realize the importance of that, that they’re showing you shows they grew up with or making you food they made with their families, that they’re letting you in and trusting you more than other whites in their life.

[mintendo96]

This would honestly be life changing for me. The idea came up because I feel so incapable of telling the people in my life when they do racist shit. And like furthermore, actually respond beyond just an I'm sorry. Like for the love of god actually internalize the shit the Black and Brown folks say to you.

[mintendo96]

I'm seeing a lot of tags from white people saying something along the lines of please tell me if I fuck up and like that really goes against the point of the post. Racialized people have to swallow so much racism on a daily basis and it's impossible to tell who is safe to confront.

Even close friends or partners are not necessarily safe. I have had partners dismiss accusations of racism just off hand, I have had partners treat me like a repository for knowledge on Muslim cultural practices despite the fact that *my family has been Christian since Jesus,* hell I have had a partner say I was overplaying my pain at the genocide to get sympathy.

Racialized people are constantly waiting for the other shoe to job. Constantly waiting for their "antiracist" white friend to decide they have learned all they need to. We need you to ask. We need you to care enough to be proactive literally at all. Stop asking us to trust you without doing any fucking work to prove you are trustworthy.

[storyweavingspider]

To emphasize

IF YOU ARE WHITE YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP OR YOU ARE JUST PUTTING MORE LABOR AND DANGER ON YOUR RACIALIZED FRIENDS FOR YOUR FUCKING COMFORT

Fucking reblog this each time you see it so that it gets drilled into other whites heads

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[beautyqueenforbes]

pokemon cinema snacks - art by jellywisp.art (instagram)

[bizarrelittlemew]

but above all, one must not concern oneself with the opinions of people who censor the word fuck

[sirpuntine]

Not only did mama raise a quitter, but she also raised a procrastinator, people-pleaser, doormat, coward, and liar, and you can’t put a price on that

[bird-related-tomfoolery]

I found some more Picrews that were fun. The Two cocktail ones seem familiar, so I've probably done them before. ꉂ(˵˃ ᗜ ˂˵)

Mumo's Mermaids - Make a cute mermaid.

Cupcake Maker - Make a fancy cupcake.

Sword Maker - Make a cool sword. (Mine is actually a psionic catalyst, lol)

Bottle Maker - Make a bottle, jar, or fishbowl full of neat stuff.

Cocktail Maker (Martini Type?) - Make a cocktail in a martini glass.

Cocktail Maker (Old-Fashioned Type?) - Make a cocktail in a tumbler/old-fashioned glass.

[sillystuffiwrote]

Bolt Encounters A Carnivorous Hamburger!!! 😹

[guiltrose-deactivated20180203]

do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

[mevil]

being black in any art community is such a strange feeling cause you’ll see just blatant racism being expressed in others art and you have to just casually ignore it, for your sake if anything, colorism being something that’s just fundamentally there in every artist and you deal with it cause it’s not worth it in the end to even think of it too hard let alone even mentioning it, it’s definitely something

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello nonblack reader of this post, I think you ought to share this one so that you and your peers can actively remind yourselves 1) of how your Black peers feel when you tolerate antiblack racism in your art spaces for entertainment and 2) that we notice it, but don't believe it is secure around enough of you to bring it up 🙏🏾

[bird-related-tomfoolery]

I've never been any good at Snake. 🤣 Oh, well.

[depresseddisneyprincess]

reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing