Bloody Kit

[largishcat]

[sacrificethemtothesquid]

I don’t know if I’ve spelled it out on tumblr yet, but I want to talk about The Mammal List. 

The Mammal List is something I came up with when I was in a mental health intensive outpatient program four(!!) years ago. The premise is that we are at our core animals, and if I consider myself the way I’d consider a pet cat, I’m much more likely to practice good self-care:

1. Mammals need food. Eat something! If the Hellbeast doesn’t pass judgment on a piece of cheese, neither should you. (She also eats anything small enough to fit in her mouth, so be judicious in that respect. Food is good. Lint is not.)

2. Mammals need hydration. Drink something! It doesn’t have to be water. It could be delicious tuna juice. You’re a discerning creature. I trust you. 

3. Mammals need sleep. Make a soft nest and let yourself enjoy it. Knead it until it’s comfortable. Let yourself rest as long as you need. Just existing is hard. You’ve earned a break. 

4. Mammals need movement. Take your precious body and do something. Don’t hurt yourself. Be kind.

5. Mammals need stimulation. Treat yourself to a new jingle ball or mousie toy. Get a bird feeder and stare at it. Let yourself really enjoy it. Play is in your nature.

6. Mammals need socialization. I know this one is particularly difficult these days, but if you don’t keep reaching out, you’re going to forget yourself and start biting people. 

7. Mammals need cleanliness. Nobody likes scooping the litterbox, but it has to be done. Don’t forget your own body. Make your fur shine. Treat yourself as the luminous creature you are. 

And most important of all: don’t feel guilty. This isn’t about deserving (although you do deserve it). You’re an animal and you need these things to survive, and I very much want you to survive. 

[knitmeapony]

Do it for the meme. http://blinkingguy.com

[whimsicalmane]

i checked the thing

there is only like only has been 35$ raised

[mirrorleaf]

Signal boost April 2025. $240 raised...

[separateentity]

Go forth and do good, tumblrinas!

[dragontatoes]

As of April 26, the page on Bike MS has raised $10k! He asked that when his personal goal was reached, people who want to donate do so to his biking team, The Big El West. It looks like the others on his team have only recieved $300 altogether, and they have a goal of $50k.

[praebitorem-glaciei]

Doctor wearing nitrile gloves running their thumb along by bottom lip before opening my mouth to make me suck on their fingers

[bunnyaikaknight]

Huff, absolutely yes please.

[hostagine]

Thee amount of distress in this scene.

[bunnyaikaknight]

It's my 8 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[yourplayersaidwhat]

"Yeah um I rolled an 11 and I'm looking for booze and carnal pleasure."

-Our skeevy sex fiend party member whose last name is Al Dente

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Minuet (Bard): *Speaking to an uncooperative NPC* “Whats the matter? Cat got your tongue?” Asria (Tabaxi Rogue), without missing a beat: “No, I don’t. Buuuut I can change that if you give me a few seconds~” *Playfully twirls one of her daggers*

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Fork of doom

Background: Playing in a Homebrewed world with a Rouge, a hexblade and a minotaur wizard as I’m a Lizardfolk Paladin, we’re fighting a bunch of wereravens and down to the last one, who has taken 2 fireballs.

Dm: [Prone Fighter NPC] uses commanding strike.

Rogue: But I can’t do anything except throw a dagger I have some utensils.

Me: you have a fork? It’s silverware!

Rogue: *throws a fork, proceeds to crit, and with commanding strike does 21 damage total, killing it*

Everyone: *loses it*

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Context: The group is doing Curse of Strahd, starting with the Death House module. The party consists of a Drow Bard, Half-Elf Bloodhunter, Rock Gnome Artificer, and Gargoyle Paladin. Hilarity ensued. These are some highlights.

–

Gargoyle Paladin, anytime something creepy happened while we were looking for the baby in the house: “BURN THE CHILD”

He later tried, unsuccessfully, to burn the house down while everyone else was still in it exploring…

–

We had just finished a battle and the Paladin was injured…

Gargoyle Paladin, OOC: Can I use Lay on Hands to heal myself?

Drow Bard, OOC, grasping the metaphorical low-hanging fruit: Here we go, the Paladin touches himself…

The Paladin proceeds to heal himself with Lay on Hands by actually grasping his… literal low-hanging fruit. The Bard, who already doesn’t like him in-character, sees this happen as he speaks to the party.

Drow Bard: First of all, Richard, I regret having eyes…

–

The group has found a whistle in the house. The Bard, creeped out by the house, is already wary of it.

Drow Bard: I’m not blowing on that whistle. And before you ask, it’s not because I’m afraid of the whistle being dirty or anything. My mouth has touched worse.

Rock Gnome Artificer: You’ve played the meat flute, yes…

The Bard doesn’t deny this…

–

The Bard found a dog in the house, and the party earned its trust and now had it following them. There had previously been jokes about the group being the Wizard of Oz team with the Paladin being the Cowardly Lion (as he appears lion-like and is, well, cowardly). Then a realization hit.

Drow Bard, OOC: Oh man, now we really are the Wizard of Oz team. We even have Toto.

–

Many other things happened in that session, but these were just a few highlights I remember. I’m looking forward to continuing Curse of Strahd and seeing what other shenanigans this party gets up to.

[zafojones]

Circus Tree: Six individual sycamore trees were shaped, bent, and braided to form this.

[gwydtheunusual]

Actually pretty easy. Trees don’t reject tissue from other trees in the same family. You bend the tree to another tree when it is a sapling, scrape off the bark on both trees where they touch, add some damp sphagnum moss around them to keep everything slightly moist and bind them together.  Then wait a few years- The trees will have grown together.  You can use a similar technique to graft a lemon branch or a lime branch or even both- onto an orange tree and have one tree that has all three fruits. Frankentrees.

[beautifuloutlier]

As a biologist I can clearly state that plants are fucking weird and you should probably be slightly afraid of them.

On that note! At the university (UBC) located in town, the Agriculture students were told by their teacher that a tree flipped upside down would die. So they took an excavator and flipped the tree upside down. And it’s still growing. But the branches are now the roots, and the roots are now these super gnarly looking branches. Be afraid.

[reallifescomedyrelief]

But Vi, how can you mention that and NOT post a picture? D:

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[sashiscorner]

I am both amazed and horrified of nature as we all should be

[jadedsoggy]

I love how trees are like “fuck it, I’ll deal” at literally everything. Forest fire? Cool, my seeds’ll finally grow. Upside down? Branches, suck, roots, leave. What’s this new branch? Eh, welcome to the tree buddy.

[rooksandravens]

I need to be more like tree

[azzandra]

I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.

[fuckyeahwomenprotesting]

what kind of professor did these students have that they needed to prove him wrong so badly that they literally dug up a tree, flipped it and put it back in the ground?

[sailorofships]

Sounds like y’all’ve never heard about the Tree of 40 Fruits. Well, it’s exactly as it sounds. Sam Van Aken, an artist based in New York, decided to try his hand at grafting (e.g. the process by which you attach the branches of a different tree to a host tree).

As artists are inclined to do he decided to push some limits and over the course of a few years he grafted over 40 different fruit onto the host “ including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties.”

It has a fruiting period lasting from July to October and this is what it looks like when blossoming.

Shit’s tight yo.

Also we have a group called the Guerrilla Grafters. A group who started in San Fransisco with the goal of grafting fruiting branches onto non-fruiting trees of the same type.

Most cities have fruit trees that simply don’t produce fruit because having all these would be a mess and inadvertently providing unregulated food to people comes with a lot of legal risks I suppose. These grafters seem to think otherwise and have taken it upon themselves to try and bring fruit trees back to urban areas.

[dangerbooze]

HOLY SHIT

[okapiandpaste]

THE LAST ONE

[solarpunkcast]

Solarpunk as fuck!!

[fancynewaddress]

Reblogging for “I continue to fear and respect out arboreal overlords.”

[4damien]

Anyone can help!

(Real pen the last picture)

It is important for EVERYONE to know how to help ANYONE. Not everyone can give them selves their medicine under every circumstance. Be educated, help out.

In the last year, i have gotten about five new violent allergies from foods i used to be able to eat. Next time i eat a fruit, my throat could close. I may not be able to inject myself. My boyfriend and i played with my trainer pen for like 30 minutes. He knows how to inject it. I know how. This is important.

[freshest-tittymilk]

Blue to the sky

Orange to the thigh

[boatsxheauxs]

BOOST

[sky-bound-wayfarer-deactivated2]

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[novadust86]

this is something they should teach everyone in school IMO. till then please everyone reblog this. in extreme cases, the time needed to read the instructions can be fatal. please know this just in case 

[queen-hylla-rules]

@smartest-of-them-all @samirah-the-valkyrie @thalia-the-hunter @oggie-bloggie @eclecticpeachpuppy

[juliuscaesar11]

YESSSS EDUCATION!!!! This is the exact same Epipen in Australia but please call tripple zero (000)!

[medicalbasics]

#medschool #doctor #medicalstudent #medicalschool #resources #step1 #study #inspiration #school #tips - http://bit.ly/2ByDqHG

[robertmitchum]

BILL NYE can’t stress the importance of Climate Change enough

[flojocabron]

A doctor friend of mine shared on Facebook some crazy happenings in hospitals, so I stole the pic from his post and made this new image. Let’s see if you gamers out there get the reference……

[bunnyaikaknight]

Some super sweet art of my boyfriend and I. #Nurse #BloodyNurseKit #Love #Fox #Couples Art https://www.instagram.com/p/BwDQJA9pjvD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dyt5ipz5rzuv

[pathcend]

More corniness for my medical geeks.