serial crafter

I make stuff in my spare time and watch YouTube. Cat Lady. Plant Lady. Spooky Lady. ko-fi.com/craftykittykatie https://linktr.ee/craftykittykatie

[slkv]

when you notice your mental health declining, do one small thing that brings you peace. take a shower, text a loved one, step outside. one little step is all you need to remind yourself that this is not permanent.

[jun-hug]

pumpkin cat nap has to be something i'm missing in my life

print :)

[tanoraqui]

“I asked chatgpt” well I journeyed to Rivendell to seek council of Elrond Half-Elven, wise among men and wizards alike, and he invited me to a meeting with representatives of all the free peoples of Middle Earth. It turns out that my trouble is but part of the trouble of all the world, the origins of which lie in earlier, grander ages—but none of us stand alone!

[greenjudy]

weird cultural shift detected

Fam, be careful with your time online. I highly recommend sinking some time and energy into offline pursuits.

Try: knitting or crochet; gentle movement, stretching, walking if you can; playing a musical instrument, whether it's piano or penny whistle; and especially reading.

I do not mean performative BookTok reading that we do for likes because our neurotransmitters have been nerfed by modern life.

I mean actual reading that we do for ourselves alone.

If reading is hard, if attention or energy or memory are operating at a deficit, I get it. Nevertheless, please try. If you notice you're skipping across big chunks of text like a river stone, if you can't finish a paragraph, slow down, pronounce the words out loud. Stop sometimes and ask yourself what you just read. Explain the story or article or poem to your blorbo or your cat or a stuffed animal.

If your head feels scrambled up, no judgment. We may have incredibly intractable neurochemical reasons that this is hard. Just tell the blorbo, "That's hilarious, I don't remember any of what I just read. Let's read it again, together."

(Please don't ask A.I. to do this for you. Please. It's your right to read and think about it your own way. A.I. doesn't actually understand anything. Please don't assume it will guide you safely through this next weird phase of our human culture.)

If reading longform, offline, makes you feel bored or anxious, be gentle and patient with yourself. Start with stories you remember well, reliable sources of well-being. But please know you will need to put some backbone into it in the long run.

I think we are going to need to rebuild our ability to think, to process experience. This will be an unsupported activity. In fact, most of the really powerful cultural forces are making it very hard for us to notice, feel, perceive, or think clearly.

Not sure what, but something's happened quite recently that is making this situation much worse, some kind of tipping point.

Please read something every day.

Your friend, greenjudy

[craftykittykatie]

I have been reading for studies a lot and I think I need to carve out time to read for myself as well. It makes sense to me that it's hard to do reading for learning/work purposes, then to turn around and read something not for work. It's a difficult transition (though I can understand why people might not think of it that way) because I feel like I'm still in "work mode" if I don't have a different transition activity (as a palate cleanser) to switch gears, but I often get stuck in the transition activity and then it's bedtime 🙃 so once again, I am able to rationalize my struggles, know what I need to do different, and still have difficulty doing the thing. I might try using a visual timer (without a jarring alarm) to help me with this.

[fxlthyangxl-deactivated20240122]

website

[hesbythecampfire]

StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that everyone should benefit from technology, free from harm. Founded in 2000, SWGfL works with a number of partners and stakeholders around the world to protect everyone online

Sounds legit

[songue85]

StopNCII.org is operated by the Revenge Porn Helpline which is part of SWGfL, a charity that believes that all should benefit from technolog

[nosferatusnoopy]

everyone reblog this!!

[craftykittykatie]

It's been awhile since I've posted some art. I went to a comics art class at my local art store and one of my long time favorite artists was putting on the class and to warm up I did this prompt. I'm working on a zine so hopefully that will get done lol

[as-deep-as-the-sea]

“I don’t want to be a burden” you’re more like a relief, a gift, a blessing actually

[transgayaccount]

“i dont want to be a burden” dude i found the point of it all thanks to you. i realised the joy of existing is doing so with you bro

[dalniente]

"i don't want to be a burden" you're worth carrying. i don't care if you'd be worth it to you; you're worth it to me. i smile every time i think of you. and buddy you're just gonna have to figure out how to cope w that <3

[yamitamiko]

"I don't want to be a burden" human hands and arms and hearts are made for carrying.

[catasters]

[lizardsfromspace]

The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

[craftykittykatie]

I love a good twist

[theconcealedweapon]

When you have a disability, especially if you're classified as "high functioning", you're often the victim of unreasonable expectations. And if you don't meet the expectations, you're punished.

So you burn yourself out in order to meet the expectations. After all, the expectation sounds reasonable, and you don't know how to explain why you struggle with it.

But when you succeed at it once, it's used as evidence that you never struggled and that you've always been able to do it. The people who hit you, berated you, and otherwise abused you use that as evidence that abusing you works.

You end up scarred for life knowing that suffering punishments simply for being you is an inevitable reality and will be for the rest of your life, while the people who abuse you get to pretend that they're motivating you to succeed.

[craftykittykatie]

It also can cycle, and as you recover some from the burnout, you catch a break, you find optimism and you believe it will be different this time when you enevitably take on too much because "I feel fine again." Surely I have learned from my mistakes...

[madphantom]

"I'm just a girl☺️🥰💖💞💅🌺🌷🦄" when you were eight and the teacher said she needed some strong boys to carry something you used to be furious, and when you convinced them to let you help, you carried twice as many chairs as the boys with the righteous anger of a girl who knew she was just as capable as them. Where did that go?

[craftykittykatie]

My joints hurt more now.

[political-us]

[ghostseeds]

Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops

While national rhetoric leans on fear and force, mayors in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Birmingham are reducing homicides through dat

[snowfireblues]

I need more news like this

[itsc]

ai can’t deliver a painting to you with cat hair stuck in the paint strokes. but i can. and i will, every time. you don’t even have to ask.

[craftykittykatie]

This is true, sorry, not sorry.

[titsay]

i am meant to love

[purr-in-ink]

[debbie-sketch]

Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn Screens commissions✧☆.*･

[dragon-in-a-fez]

fast food managers I know you love your fancy menu screens but please just put everything up there at once. literally no one wants to be halfway through reading the name of a sandwich and have the whole screen do a powerpoint animation to the coffee menu

[craftykittykatie]

Oh my god so many places do this, it makes people have to take longer in the drive-thru, please make it stop! If you have to worry about screen burn out, just go back to the old letter boards. Make them out of wood or bamboo if plastic is an issue.