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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Misplaced Lens Cap
Peter Solarz
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Origami Around
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
shark vs the universe
trying on a metaphor
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Jules of Nature
Kaledo Art
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noise dept.
Sade Olutola
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will byers stan first human second
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@canadianwheatpirates
Well damn. I was going to be spending less time online anyway, but it would have been nice for them not to ruin online. Feel free to send me an ask or DM for alternate contact details if you know me (mutuals and people I've talked to before included!).
Happy migraine and headache awareness month. This may seem like a minor terminology nitpick, but it’s a serious misconception about migraine: nausea is an actual migraine symptom, not a thing that happens because of the headache. When people with migraine experience nausea during attacks, it’s not because the pain is so bad (the idea that migraine is always excruciatingly painful is also a myth), it’s because migraine causes a lot of symptoms that aren’t pain, including nausea.
This goes for other symptoms as well: although pain can definitely contribute to people’s experiences of these symptoms, fatigue and brain fog are actual migraine symptoms, not just pain symptoms.
This is also your friendly PSA that nausea is not a normal tension headache symptom, if you frequently get nauseous with your headaches, you almost certainly have migraine.
today i rang up a customer at work for $13.36 and i said with such genuine cheer "uh-oh! two years before the plague hit England, if anyone cares!" and i watched the customer's eyes as they were clearly taken aback and then tried to pretend to be interested at all. they made such a valiant effort. they were like I don't wanna damper this guy's plague enthusiasm. They said, very awkwardly, "haha, uh-oh!"
Carefully explaining to my elite catgirl infantry for the fifteenth time that polearm unit tactics only work if everyone in the unit is wielding the same polearm. One of them showed up with a Bohemian ear-spoon. Where did she even get that.
This is how you get 256 catgirls with one hand each on a single 100 meter long sarissa
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.
chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380
glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded
You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.
When I say the recent major waves of transandrophobia, transmisogyny and exorsexism on this site feel like a psyop, I am not saying "bigotry in the community isn't real and everyone ever posting it is a government agent", I'm saying that a lot of us are becoming so susceptible to hating one another that we arent even recognizing when blatantly obvious bad faith actors are inserting themselves into our community spaces anymore.
I am watching people get anons that are self evidently written by TERFs, 4channers and a number of people who likely do not engage with our spaces outside of discourse, and blindly blaming other trans people/communities as a whole. Watching them insist that that's just how our brothers and sisters treat each other, so they've earned slurs and harassment in return. Eye for an eye, but you earn it by even having eyes to see that a blade was swung at all.
I'm begging all of you to learn to recognize this and stop participating in it. It's feeding exactly what the nasty underbelly of this site wants of our community - for it to self cannibalize and fizzle out until there's no one to have your back while they try to drive each and every one of us to detransition or suicide.
Every person that I know, that I have opened up about my schizophrenia to, has shared that they have had at least one psychotic experience in their life.
Whether that was that they have psychotic features as a part of their bipolar disorder, depression or PTSD. Or that they have seen a shadow of a person out of the corner of their eye, or a delusion that some entity is after them. Even if it was just a single instance of hearing a voice that wasn't real that stuck with them.
It seems like when I break the barrier of stigma and silence, people feel comfortable enough to share their own experiences and I love that.
Psychotic experiences are extremely common. Anecdotally, it seems that everyone has had at least one hallucination, delusion or instance of paranoia in their life. And I wish everyone was able to talk about these experiences, and how they've affected them without fear of shame or panic from the people around them. This is a normal thing that brains do for whatever reason. It shouldn't be seen as bad unless it negatively affects someone, and then you should listen with care and see if the person needs help in any way.
That's why acceptance for those of us with disorders like schizophrenia is so important. If you can hear a schizophrenic person out, and not treat us like we are dangerous or scary. See as equal human beings that happen to have these experiences. Only then will the pathway for everyone to share their experiences with psychosis be open and normalized.
I think it's fascinating that human brains can create experiences out of thin air. I think it's so cool that everyone can relate to me in even a small way. Imagine how many interesting conversations and connections we could all be having about this if we destigmatized psychosis and schizophrenia.
Back in 2013, I posted a Welcome to Night Vale fic and someone commented, “I’m autistic and I see myself a lot in the way you write Carlos. Did you intend for him to autistic?”
And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”
Now twelve years later I spent some time this evening trying to track down that comment to give a very belated clarification. Whoever you were stranger, hey. I only said no because I based Carlos heavily on me, and since I wasn’t autistic, Carlos wouldn’t be either. Well. I’ve learned some stuff in the intervening decade that strongly support your literary analysis.
blockhead gets mogged
Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely
I really wonder what the demographic outcome would be of trans people involuntarily getting "the body you'd have if practicality wasn't a concern" like what percentage of the resulting bodies would be obviously nonhuman?
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into a cyborg werewolf with dragonfly wings.
ngl kinda hate that "this has been discussed extensively you're just 21" tweet cos it was directed at a trans woman who was getting dogpiled for saying that the "dangerous man in a dress" horror trope is shitty
she was born in 2005, the right wing culture war against trans people has been going on for half her life, if she independently arrives at a correct take then how is that something worth mocking?? you got flowers sprouting through concrete, water them dumbass
my dipshit six year old: if the earth is round how come we don't fall off??
me: lol we learned that in science class 20 years ago 🤣 prick
infinite strangers online: okay this is an all time dunk
how about we don’t bring forcefem onto posts about transmasculinity and posts by transmascs and trans men unless they want it there.
how about we don’t bring forcemasc into posts about transfemininity and posts by transfems and trans women unless they want it there.
how about we don’t bring any gender-based kink into posts about transneutrality and posts by transneutrals, xenine, non-binary and abinary folks unless they want it there.
At this point, I truly think that MAGA are just like... anti-fun.
They don't like our rainbows, they don't like cosplay or costumes, they don't like cultural festivals.
Like... fun for them has very strict rules. Like it can't be too outlandish, it has to be about the country or have religion attached to it somehow, there's an itinerary. Like... the Freedom 250 thing has a baptism pool. The fun has to be a specific way or its out of line.
I'm in a picture with my friends, having fun at a parade in our dance costumes (which no one seems to complain about when they're on a stage) and they're like... "freak show," "lunatics," etc... and its like... yes? And?
Its a parade, youre supposed to provide a spectacle or you end up like the Christmas parade we were too queer to be in. (It was a requirement by the organizers to have the float themed around the birth of christ somehow. It was the saddest parade ever and I dont know why i wanted to be in it so bad.)
I bring my colorful flow props to everything. People spit on me, tell me im going to hell, preach at me while im just vibing. Like they see all the fun im having and have a visceral reaction to it. Like... how dare I make my lifestyle look fun and carefree in front of the impressionable youths? (My lifestyle is fun and carefree! I have a life that I love outside of my sexuality, but I also love being out and queer.)
A comment thats going to stick with me for awhile was 'i don't care if they're gay, but why do they have to be weird?'
And like... i am weird, yeah. For sure! But children's media for most of my young years was about embracing weirdness, so i figured it was okay. Plus, performers are often weird.
Im having fun in a way that doesn't fall into the three acceptable categories of fun: faith, country, or family.
And its like... I wonder if there's a correlation between MAGA and certain rules-based symptoms, you know?
This is why I'm so adamant that all of you adults have got to get more whimsical and start playing again as soon as possible. Being un-whimsical and believing in cringe is going to kill you or worse, make you a Republican
Wear those dollar store deely-boppers.
Keep your Christian worldview away from my disability
Oh! You’re suffering? Well looks like you absolutely must live a Perfect Life :) no drinking, smoking, drugs, “unhealthy” food, inactivity, kinky sex, clubbing, partying, or anything else at all that steps outside of the absolute ideal of Good Health. If you don’t do everything just right, it’s your fault for hurting yourself and you will be looked down upon, we’ll all be disappointed. Did I mention that you really shouldn’t be drinking coffee? Tattoos and piercings aren’t really great for you either…
are there any edible lichens? not necessarily lichens that are eaten, just ones that could be
Very few, but yes! Lichens are hardly ever a preferred food source (they resist cultivation, are slow growing, labor intensive to prepare, not easily digested by the human body, and don't taste great) but are sometimes used as thickeners, flavoring agents, traditional medicines, or as a back-up food source in times of famine. A few of note:
Cetraria islandica, aka Iceland moss, fjallagrasa The only lichen I have really eaten! It is used as a flavor additive, tea, and cough medicine (the efficacy of which is debatable), and is made into alcohol becuase people will make anything into alcohol. I have had traditional Icelandic flatbread made with C. islandica, and regularly drink C. islandica schnaps:
It has a grassy, earthy, kind of musky, tanic flavor. It's an acquired taste, to say the least. But it's grown on me. Bryoria fremontii, aka Wila, edible horsehair lichen
This lichen is incredibly culturally significant to the First Nations people of western North America, and has historically been used as food, medicine, bandage material, building material, diapers, dyes, fiber, and much more! Traditional Salish food preparation involves cleaning, soaking, and baking the lichen in an underground pit oven, the whole process taking several days to form dense, almost gelatinous loaves.
Be warned, however, if this has you thinking about going out and eating some right now: certain chemotypes with a yellow tinge contain toxic vulpinic acid, which is bad for you.
Parmotrema sp., aka, black stone flower, kalpasi, dagad phool
Lichens of this genus from eastern Asia are used as an aromatic spice and thickening agent in some parts of India, and are often hailed for their medicinal properties.
I had a jar of homemade curry spice gifted to me that used it, but can't say that I could really distinguish it from all the other spices.
Circinaria sp., aka manna or heavenly bread
You may have heard how god blessed the Israelites wandering in the desert with "manna from heaven" to stave off their hunger, and there is some ethnobotanical evidence that this was referring to vagrant Circinaria/Aspicilia lichens. It makes some sense: when dry, the lichen is pale and small, and difficult to distinguish from the arid dirt of its preferred habitat, but after rain, it swells and darkens in color, and looks as if it just fell out of the sky! The evidence is let's say, dubious, but it is fun to think about.
This is by no means an exhaustive list--just a few I have looked into. If anyone else has experience with edible lichens, feel free to add on!
Sources and further readings: Edible wild plant use in the Faroe Islands and Iceland Ethnolichenology of Bryoria fremontii: Wisdom of elders, population ecology, and nutritional chemistry Diyarbakir's heavenly bread and other manna of things Kalpasi: The Black Stone Flower spice of Southern India Ethnolichenology—The Use of Lichens in the Himalayas and Southwestern Parts of China
