[crmofmushroom]

Pssst hey, I’m gonna shimmy off to new blog tonight so uhhhh, if you wanna follow me over that, that’s absolutely cool. If not - also completely understandable and it’s been an awesome ride with y’all.

Find me at @craftedbyhephaestus or @rose-polendina 💛 I’m gonna leave this blog up but will no longer be responding to messages or anything because I’m logging out of it soooo. Ye. See y’all on the flip side! 💛

[stars-in-our-skies]

“they’re faking” I dont care. id rather give help and support and resources to people who dont need them than not give those things to those who do.

[agentukelele]

“Its for attention” I dont care. If someone is so deprived of the human need for attention that theyd do that, they need help

[poetry-protest-pornography]

We are not going to let that fuckwad DeSantis gain a foothold in the 2024 election.

You are going to fucking vote for Joe Biden, and you are going to give us a fucking chance to save our country from fascism, and you aren't going to fucking complain about it, because there is literally no other choice.

We will not let another election be a close call. Are you listening?

Vote for Biden. Vote for whatever Democrat is most popular in your local elections. Our system sucks, but this is what we're working with. Just fucking vote.

[writing-with-olive]

"But he's --"

It doesn't matter. It does. not. matter.

Not every battle is about progress. Sometimes it's just holding the line until we get reinforcements. And they are coming. The Gen Z vote was monumental in stopping the red wave, and there are increasing numbers as more and more come of age.

Hold the line.

[beatrice-otter]

I want to push back on the battle “not being about progress.” Because /Biden has accomplished a lot, actually, especially given a Republican-controlled House. One could argue that he hasn’t gone far enough, but that’s not the same as having accomplished nothing. So here’s some things Biden has done:

1) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

2) Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan. Reagan started a trend of Republicans packing federal courts with uber-conservative judges, and blocking Democrat appointments, which is how we ended up with our current Supreme Court. Biden is doing his absolute best to turn the scales back the other direction by appointing as many liberal and left-wing judges as he can, as fast as he can.

3) $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that will pour federal money into things like public transit, high-speed internet in places that don’t have it (which are overwhelmingly poor, and cut off from the rest of the world), and a whole lot of other basic things that make life easier for ordinary people.

4) Halted Federal executions. This doesn’t affect state-level convictions, but it does affect federal-level executions; those are completely off the table for as long as he (or any other) Democrat is President. (13 people were executed under Trump)

5) Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and pushing for other environmental care legislation,

6) Pushed through the “Inflation Reduction Act” (named that to get Republicans to be willing to allow it through). It’s actually the largest climate bill in U.S. history and allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs for the first time. It includes 369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies. $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase. $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more. A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.

6) Overturned Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

7) Re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act

8) Pardoned marijuana

9) Forgave student loan debt (this one the Republicans in congress managed to partially stymie, but that’s not Biden’s fault--it’s the Republicans).

10) Managed to get a modest gun-safety bill through the gauntlet of Republican opposition. (The first one anyone’s managed to get passed in decades.) It’s far from perfect, or enough, but it did expand background checks on gun purchases and made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking. And the reason it was as weak as it was, is because the Republicans have a majority in the House and they blocked anything stronger, it’s the Republicans’ fault. Not Biden’s. If we want sensible nationwide gun control, we have GOT to get the House a Democrat majority.

11) Passed a long-stalled Post Office reform bill.

There’s a lot there! And the things that he promised but didn’t manage to achieve, he put them before Congress and the Republicans in the House stopped them. If Democrats controlled the House as well as the Senate, most of them would have passed and now be the law of the land! The problem is not Biden.

Biden may not be very exciting, and he may not be as far left as we want. But he’s still got a lot done in the last three years.

[crmofmushroom]

Also been v heavy into a Sora and Ruby shift soooooooo ye

[crmofmushroom]

Psssst hi. I’m. Moving to a new blog for a breath of fresh air. Gonna try to be more active and creating stuff for witchcraft and fandoms I enjoy. More stories and such. 👍 you can find me at @craftedbyhephaestus or @rose-polendina , one is main blog, other is rooby side blog where all of my au and OC stuff will go

Will also eventually be making kinblogs there soooo keep yer eyes peeled

Planning on leaving this blog come early June bc I’m trying to transfer stuff I rly want to keep over there like various likes and reblogs n stuff

Love y’all, see you on the flip side 💛

[betwixtyiff]

You have to pick one upper middle class/rich person luxury to have in a hypothetical home

Walk in closet

Indoor or outdoor pool

Hot tub

Large sized bathtub big enough to lay down in comfortably

Full size kitchen with more than enough counter space

Large sized pantry

Dining room that you would actually use to eat in

Large backyard with yours to landscape as you please

Add yours in the tags

Voting ended onMay 7, 2023

[prettycolors]

[butchfagminotaur]

shoutout to the faggot colour :)

[nuts-and-dolts-week]

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[nikutsuneart]

So, like, what if Sora and Riku went to Valentine’s Town tho..

 I will say it’s hard to lean into a design philosophy that doesn’t exist because we’ve never seen valentines town and i tried my darndest but i would be lying if i said it wasn’t almost entirely self indulgent

[nikutsuneart]

~smitten~ 💕✨

just a little doodle for valentines day!

[louisinart-like-cuisinart]

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

[polararts]

[saigamiproject]

“Thinking of you, wherever you are…”

When longing for V9 meets my Kingdom Hearts playlist. ☺

Patreon  •  Ko-Fi  • Carrd

[sygol]

breathe in. the cold hands of the world twist down the throat, your lungs offer them shelter, and excitedly their fingers fill you. indulging in the refuge, they grasp your alveoli.

there are no words for the intimacy that inhabits the ephemeral, reach into yourself and find that flame. caress the truth and nourish it.

breathe out. in an unfurling flourish, the fingers release, their hands flow back up you neck, and slip tenderly out from between your lips. grateful for the passing warmth, the world waves farewell.

you will meet again. but it can never be the same.

[wheelie-butch]

when you download a pdf and it's called like 1328723486basdf12.pdf but then you gently rename it to what it's supposed to be. that's forming a bond with a hurt and wild mythological creature and reminding it who it is.

[runby2]

[theneonfennec]

@vesselvindicate get peer reviewed

[vesselvindicate]

how could you...

[crmofmushroom]

Teehee, teehoo, I’m in the hospital from a kidney infection that almost killed me again, teehaa

[katelyn-danger]

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it’s insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN’T SHED MICROPLASTICS

[katelyn-danger]

Like, there’s literally nothing you can do to a sheep that’s as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by rayon, polyester, and spandex.

[prismatic-bell]

You are brave as FUCK for saying this, and it’s 100% true.

Wool farming, if done with an eye on animal welfare*, does absolutely nothing to harm a sheep or alpaca. It’s no different than a haircut. And just like a haircut, it’ll grow right back. If your argument is that sheep may be cut in this process—very occasionally a sheep may be nicked. To be clear, I say NICKED, not cut. Think about shaving your legs or face and hitting a bump, and ow, you bleed a couple drops. That is what may, rarely, happen. But RARELY, because farmers are going to take damn good care of the animals who keep them in funds. Should it happen, it’s as much an accident as you finding that bump while shaving.

Likewise y’all should be promoting ethical beekeeping and honey farming. Bees are unique among livestock in that if they don’t like their keeper, if they think the hive is shitty, they can, and will, just…leave. You can’t put a collar or ear tag on a bee. Bee populations are declining and they’re incredibly important in our biodiversity (as pollinators, yes, but also in other ways). And bees do, indeed, make too much honey for themselves. That’s why they swarm. A nest gets too full of comb, or they outgrow it, and they just dip. Swarming is dangerous because it leaves the bees vulnerable—the queen is mostly unprotected, they have only as much food as they could carry with them so if it’s late in the season they’re dead meat, humans spot swarms and freak out and send exterminators because they don’t realize swarms aren’t dangerous as long as you’re calm….it is, BY FAR, better to have bees in a hive that never overfills, where they can be checked for parasites and diseases that would destroy the colony or even an entire apiary and can receive honey substitute rather than starving to death if winter should be particularly harsh or long, and where an excess of their natural product and instincts can be siphoned off for the benefit of humans with no detriment to the bees.

Honey is less harmful to us and to the planet we live on than agave syrup, stevia, or cane sugar. It does not rely on any kind of slave labor (again: if the bees weren’t happy, they’d leave). It does not upset entire economies. And by its nature there are more independent keepers than there are giant conglomerates, which is better all the way around! (Although the conglomerates are trying to change that, so like. Support your local beekeepers.) Plus, old no-longer-needed honeycomb is made of beeswax, which can be used in all manner of things in lieu of more harmful chemicals like phthalates. There is no downside here!

“Never do anything involving an animal ever” should not be the goal. That completely ignores that we are animals that grew up in a complete ecosystem. “Do the least amount of harm and be good stewards, because this planet doesn’t belong to only us” should be the goal.

Wool and honey. We can argue another time about eggs. For right now let’s agree that sheep, goats, alpacas, and bees make far more of these products than they will ever need, that in some cases an excess can even be detrimental to them, and that it is a GOOD THING to find a way to live in balance rather than poisoning our world with “vegan leather.”

*to wit: animals should have plenty of space, shelter, food, and clean water. I love meat and I fucking hate factory farming.