clareyrobwrites

Histfic girlie, grad student, friend to cats everywhere

[clareyrobwrites17]

I really feel like there should be some kind of like…amazing aesthetic or thematic trend to my tumblr so that one day people could look at it and be like ‘I like her vibes, I want to buy her books’ but maybe the sad truth is that my vibes are just chaos and an unhealthy dependence on Terry Pratchett

[thisburie]

We loved each other for a really, really long time

[boeing747]

btw i think its so cool when my life is worse due to worker strikes because when my life is worse constantly the rest of the time its due to the corporate greed of one million random faceless corporations who are grinding up the entire planet in a meat grinder so little numbers on a screen go up and stay green or whatever the shit

[kiwisoap]

How did you get your bird?

When you said legally trapped, do you mean you like... caught him and then trained him to catch stuff? Do you just repeat with a new bird every hunting season? This whole premise is incredibly funny

Yeah LMAO basically! In the USA, falconers are legally allowed to trap a juvenile, aka "passage" bird to use for falconry. Actually for a long time, the law REQUIRED apprentices to trap their first bird from the wild (as opposed to purchasing one from a captive breeding program). The government really said "you WILL get a fucking bird from the side of the road".

Most falconers will keep a passage hawk for a season or two before releasing it back into the wild and starting the process over again with a new bird. For me personally, that's a big part of the appeal! You get to develop a relationship with a new bird and get to know their personality and quirks etc, and also the more birds you train, the better you get at training.

It really is a pretty fucking hilarious premise, but it's also really faithful to the way falconry was originally practiced in the middle east/central asia for centuries, where people would trap a migrating juvenile bird to help feed themselves during the lean months, then release it when food was plentiful again.

Falconry in the USA is incredibly tightly regulated which is why wild trapping is allowed - it's also allowed because the vast majority of juvenile raptors (75-80%) die before they reach breeding age, usually during their first winter, so taking them doesn't impact the breeding population whatsoever. In fact, it can actually BENEFIT the raptor population, because taking one from the wild and giving it food and medical care and a safe place to live gives it a much higher chance of surviving to breeding age.

[roach-works]

imagine if you were like thinking about going to college and then some genius alien just abducted you and gave you the most confusing but luxurious lifestyle your little brain could imagine and then you weren't released until you were a brilliant killing machine

[koenichthomas]

[spell-bound-life]

Crystals for banishing someone:

Any of em if you throw em hard enough

[morticious-delicious]

This here’s my banishin’ rock. 

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Crystal of Banishment, 2d8 Bludgeoning damage

[joasakura]

@autumnyte

[amygdalae]

October has been extended through November for all the sleepiest flickering ghosts and skulking ghouls and shambling horrors and shuffling corpses that slept late or otherwise only just got here

[netherworldpost]

Libraries and bookstores aren't enemies, they are dating you fools.

[nekomori-art]

Ghost March

[leave-her-a-tome]

[clareyrobwrites17]

- Lewis Grassic Gibbons, about Robert Burns

Imagine being so famous for being a lil slutty you can’t even be trusted around the big M

[caughtinorbit]

[assiraphales]

this might be a bold statement but I think one of the best character designs to exist in television is salem saberhagen, a warlock punished for trying to take over the world & forced to live as a cat for a 100 years, who spends his penance being a bitchy little drama queen who causes constant trouble and cries a lot 

[assiraphales]

an icon like no other

[joysticks-n-dragons]

The original poor little meow meow

[chewedcorn]

Unreasonable Ideas

[unlettered-heathen]

It seems silly but this is why it’s so important to give yourself downtime where you can just let your brain idle!! You gotta let yourself become the cardboard box, trying to make ideas is just herding cats so let them come to you instead

[xirlos]

This is especially useful for ADHD people – chasing something relentlessly will just burn you out. You’ll find it if you divert attention, annoyingly – use the weird psychological quirks to your advantage!

[tkingfisher]

“Become the cardboard box” is terrifyingly good advice.

[whatbigotspost]

Yup, it is!

Closely related anecdote: One time, after telling her about feeling constantly swamped and overwhelmed and walking her through how I spend my time, a very wise colleague asked me, “so when do you do your thinking and ideating if you’re always DOING?”

My mind was blown, I’d never conceived of having “thinking time” on its own. I struggled for second and replied that all my best ideas seemed to come to me in the shower or when I was trying to sleep and that was frustrating. She helpfully pointed out exactly what others are here…I needed to very intentionally give myself more idle time to think creatively that WASN’T in the shower or bed. So it would be useful.

So I did. And creative thinking = problem solving (instead of constantly reacting.)

I had mastered harnessing my particular ADHD brain powers to “produce” but I wasn’t giving it any time to rest and just BE and therefore THINK. I’ve burned myself out a few times this way. So I tried giving myself some less structured work “thinking time” and I have figured out a couple things by slowing down and thinking of the big picture since.

REST is an activity that has a purpose all of its own. Brains need rest to thrive.

[vizuart]

[clareyrobwrites17]

Do you ever simply cry bcos you’ve been seen too clearly?

[pudgypeachcat]

Remember to stretch ! 🐱