Who is Cutty Darke?

A place for putting things that don't fit anywhere else. Preferred pronouns her/she.

[cuttydarke]

In which I celebrate engaging in commerce!

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[cuttydarke]

Two blog posts in two days. Unprecedented productivity from me.

I was an artist before I was a writer

[cuttydarke]

It's been a while. I can't guarantee that I'm back but I do have an explanation.

[cuttydarke]

A Question I Haven't Asked

Strictly speaking, it’s a question that I haven’t asked of myself. I’ve been seeing a psychologist. She’s very good but I’ve got a limited number of sessions and I knew from the start that it wouldn’t be enough to fix any of my major problems. However I have been learning some tools to help keep things ticking along so it hasn’t been a complete loss. Now that we’re getting close to the end she’s…

[cuttydarke]

Behold, I have returned!

Now I’m back, from outer space (not really).You find me blogging here, with a sad look upon my face (so about the same as usual then). Obviously I’m not dead. Which I’m sure you’re all super relieved about. I stopped posting here here because I was writing a lot of fiction and I only have so many words in me. I was using all my words elsewhere. That was great until it wasn’t and suddenly I…

[femsolid]

I like art that depicts women not posing seductively or gracefully but simply existing as human beings.

[sheheisk]

Works:

1. Ampio orizzonte by Ettore Tito, 1910 2. Mariana (Millais) by John Everett Millais, 1851 3. Bathing Girls by Paul Gustave Fischer, 1860-1934 4 If a woman reads a book in the forest but no one is there to see it... by Jenna Gribon, 2020 5. The Reader Wreathed with Flowers / Virgil's Muse by Camille Corot, 1845 6. In the Garden by Helena Janecic 7. A girl with her bike looking over the water by Alexander Akopov 8. Girl with a Straw Hat by Francine Van Hove 9. After the Ball by Ramon Casas, 1895 10. Untitled by Francine Van Hove

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

It's kind of tragic how homophobia affects insecure men.

Like sometimes they want to experiment with a bit of anal and instead of just buying a sex toy and some lube like a normal person, they instead shove random objects up their ass that inevitably get stuck and then they try to get them out by themselves which makes things worse and then they lie to doctors about it and like this all leads to all kinds of extra complications like internal damage, risk of infections, bleeding, the fall of Yugoslavia, etc.

Come on guys, just buy a dildo. It's way safer and it leads to way fewer problems.

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

[flavoracle]

Mental Crop Rotation

When farmers grow the same crop too many years in a row, it can leave their soil depleted of minerals and other nutrients that are vital to the health of their fields.

To avoid this, farmers will often alternate the crops that they grow because some plants will use up different minerals (such as nitrogen) while other plants replenish those minerals. This process is known as “crop rotation.”

So the next time you find that you need to step away from a project to work on something else for a while, don’t beat yourself up for “quitting” that project. Give yourself permission to practice “mental crop rotation” to maintain a healthy brain field.

Because I’ve found that when that unnecessary guilt and pressure are removed from the process, a good mental crop rotation can help you feel more energized and invigorated than ever once you’re ready to rotate back to that project.

[bomberqueen17]

: A crucial part of crop rotation is that the field is let fallow sometimes. You plant what’s called a “cover crop”, which is something you don’t expect to harvest– it’s there for its roots to hold the soil in place, and often it’ll be what’s called a nitrogen-fixer, i.e. a plant that can pull nitrogen out of the air and fix it into the soil with its roots (but sometimes it won’t, sometimes it’s really just there to shelter the soil surface), and then you’ll till in that cover crop, or let the frost kill it and the stalks lie as mulch, and then you’ll rotate productive crops back into that field the next season. 

It’s important, though, to understand that during the fallow period, no nutrients are removed from that ground, and nothing is expected of it. Whatever the land grows then, it keeps, and it gets tilled back in or decomposes in place, to return its energy to the earth.

We’re not allowed, in our current society, to just let our minds be fallow for a bit, to produce nothing for export, to make nothing that can be sold. But it’s part of good land stewardship, to give every field time when it doesn’t need to give you anything back. 

So yes, grow and produce different things from time to time, rotate them around your mind and exercise different mental muscles, take different things from your creative processes, yes– but also, give yourself a fallow spell now and again, and let the field of your mind grow things for itself to keep, to break down and save for later. 

[highvelocitysandwich]

Positive mental health AND agriculture??!?

*slams reblog button*

[spilledkaleidoscope]

Just some assorted Disco Sapphics

[mumblesplash]

mean gills + nosy neighbors = gossip squad

[rosellacwrites]

Ngl I would watch the shit out of this

[cuttydarke]

I would also watch this. It would be a great way for people to raise support for the stuff that they're passionate about.

[biggaybunny]

Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?

[lady-inkyrius]

Posting hole

[lady-inkyrius]

Lol

[aquitainequeen]

John Rogers, on Day 100 of the WGA Strike.

Never forget: "Rejected our proposal. Refused to counter."

[pirateprincessjess]

Good Trans News!!

Whenever a celebrity turns out to be transphobic they get a million hours of media coverage and spotlight. It’s easy to feel like every famous person hates trans people, and that’s just not true! We have tons of high profile allies!

Here is a quick list of some (but definitely not all) supportive celebrities! Please feel free to add to this list.

[kalamity-jayne]

AND DON'T FORGET MY BOY PEDRO BEING THE BEST BRO TO HIS TRANS SISTER.

Also we can not leave out Cher!

Cause she will absolutely cut a terfy bitch if she has to.

[keiraincognita]

We also cannot neglect one of Canada’s finest, comedian Colin Mochrie.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Here to add a second fine Canadian, Tatiana Maslany who wore this sweater in several promotional videos for She-Hulk.

[doomtribble73]

[savagegood]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

im trying to go to sleep but i cannotttttt stop thinking about this and laughing

[thestarsaredown]

Listen, we have to keep this thing circulating on the internet for at least another two decades, because I have to believe that one day that little girl will be grown enough to stumble upon it and She Will Explain

[holy-muffins]

We’ve made it 5 years folks