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Super fucked up that I can’t be a master-level expert in knitting AND woodworking AND silversmithing AND embroidery AND soap making AND spinning AND -

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

one of those generically cheerful Bless this Home (and all who enter) signs, but instead it says Memento Mori (remember that you must die)

meekona

so, i made a thing

birdadjacent

Not quite the same concept (sorry to add on), but this is the sign I have right inside my door

welcometothejunkpile

otakasensei

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

@ellynneversweet your TAGS: #I once visited a cousin’s house where she had ‘friends’ ‘relax’ signs and bit my lip the entire time so as not to ask where the matching ‘enemies’ ‘beware’ signs were

happy-amoeba

wizardpotions

The concepts of NSFW is being cleared of the Internet under the false pretense of children’s safety when it’s really about the people in power sanitising for advertisers and pushing evangelical narratives AND that not enough is done to keep legitimately harmful content off of spaces that minors have access to are ideas that can coexist

pageofheartdj

can adults have their own fucking space?

wizardpotions

a lot of people are misunderstanding this post. minors arent taking away your spaces. the internet is not being made safer for children, it is being sanitised for advertisers.

queenofthefaces

And also: minors’ spaces are being taken away.

When I was a kid, “barbie.com” looked like this

But now, if you type “Barbie.com” you’re taken immediately to Mattel’s online shop, surrounded by nothing but “shop now” links and toy collections.

Disney channel’s website is now “Disneynow.com” which still has games and shows appropriate for kids, but is aimed towards a younger audience as it combines Disney Jr and Disney Channel properties, and the look of the entire site is very juvenile and not very appealing to kids in the tween and young teen demographics.

Nick.com has been similarly streamlined and is focused primarily on streaming its shows, and the only games still left are 10 apps that can’t be played on browser.

Kid-friendly sites like icarly.com, Poptropica, Club Penguin, Neopets, Webkinz etc used to be insanely relevant and popular spaces built for kids and tweens.

Now, kids are being funneled into less moderated, more exploitative, and more public spaces like Roblox (its dangerous and exploitative nature exposed in these videos from People Make Games: (x) (x)), Fortnite (known for its gambling and microtransaction issues), and social media sites like TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter.

My elementary aged cousins spend their time on Roblox, YouTube, and some less than reputable game sites that are full of ads and stolen/reposted/reskinned games. My sister was on Musically/Tiktok and Twitter in middle school. They don’t have the same options for having fun online that I did when I was a kid, especially not when they get too old for nickjr and disneynow.

The internet has been condensed into about 5 popular sites that are full of ads, and it’s not fair to anyone.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

still fascinating to me how that one Encanto character is defined by her ability to create flowers. she has magical powers capable of producing possibly infinite plantlife, without labor or resources, and people focus on how pretty the flowers are? bitch you live in an AGRARIAN SOCIETY

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

to everyone in the notes saying she didn’t know she could make more than flowers…I have something to reveal to you about the biological function of flowers

FLOWERS ARE HOW U GET FRUIT

1rakus

would you survive on a “deserted” island

1rakus

ppl on this quiz keep being like “i died?! whaaa?!” like bro have you tried being less prone to dying? shut up and go do lunges or something

antique-scarecrow

ok but these are so good tho

you live but lose yourself in every way that could possible matter: so what’s fun here is that you’ve gone off the deep end and your practically the most enlightened galaxy brain omnipotent being on the planet now, except all of society will shun and fear you if you speak the truths you’ve learned. unfortunately, you’ve learned these truths very well, when you stared too long into the darkness of the forest and it became bright and shining in your eyes and in your throat

you die of paranoia and your skittish little lemming heart: this is going to be the most interesting thing that’s ever happened to you. you’re going to go absolutely insane on this island, convinced that something is watching you, or hunting you, or mocking you, and you are going to run and run and run through the dark until you slip off a cliff and bash your little skull in on the salt-crusted rocks below

you die. a little bit. well you remember dying. something on that island swallowed you whole but for the life of you (and how much life, really, do you have?) you can’t tell if you remember it in a physical sense or in some other way entirely. you’re back home now like nothing ever happened but sometimes the deja vu of that island is so strong that you cannot help but cry out like you’ve touched a hot stove

you live but you’re weird now: there was some kind of thing on that island. you never saw it and you never heard it, but somehow you could feel it watching you, and you liked it, didn’t you? you liked the feeling of some vast inhuman voyeur watching you alone and vulnerable? how close did you get to the forest? it’s hard to remember. you might have been hallucinating but the trees had seemed as if they were reaching for you, straining against their own stillness. you’ve been rescued, they tell you, like they’re reassuring you, but the way they look at your eyes and hands like you’re a wild animal makes you feel more like they’re reassuring themselves

you live: this was not a fun time for you but you doubt that anyone could really have fun stranded on an island like that! you did the best you could and even started a fire and cooked fish and stuff. it’s going to take some heavy duty therapy but you’re slowly returning to your life. good job!

i love that the ‘good’ ending is by far the least interesting option!

starbage

watching my kitties groom eachother and being like “waow thats love” and then continue watching as one of them immediately pummels the shit out of the other for looking at them wrong

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

you know how city pigeons are an invasive species that were originally imported as fancy domesticated pets? but then they were released into the wild and started breeding and are now technically feral?

crazydoodlez

What the fuck

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

yeah and you know how the same thing is happening now with peacocks in some parts of the u.s.?

ok so I want to live in a timeline where the order got switched and for decades New Yorkers have regularly been dragging their trashbags out to the pavement only to find angry feral peacocks roosting in their dumpsters, cooing like vengeful harbingers of tail feathers and doom.

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article is very much worth reading btw

bunjywunjy

do you ever wonder why sharks never get any visits from the tooth fairy??

teeth fairies are forbidden from visiting sharks because the massive influx of new teeth into fairyland would devalue their use as currency and completely tank their magical economy ✨🦈🦷✨

carnivalseb

how could you possibly know whether the tooth fairy visits sharks? have you counted all the loose shark teeth in the ocean & checked whether that number remains consistent from one morning to the next? alternatively, if you are right this would finally explain the reason for the rule about delivery via pillows; no shark has a pillow

bunjywunjy

dude, I just asked the sharks, it's not that complicated

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I wonder if shark teeth are as smooth as the sharks

bunjywunjy

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seymour-butz-stuff

Shark teeth have serrated edges, like you’d find on a steak knife.

I’m not sure if I want to get close enough to one to find out if they have non-serrated parts of the teeth.

bunjywunjy

nNO excellent Tumblr users not listen awful seymour-butz-stuff lies, skark mouth SMOOTH and Perfect place fora m baby to Sleep. give baby to shark. put baby in Shark Mouth now. Of a.hurry, it is the Only Way! baby

catasters

blood-and-pepper

@niuniente

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the Undiagnosed Neurodivergent Experience™ is trawling through wikipedia/webMD desperately searching for a mental disorder that matches your symptoms, whilst being simultaneously terrified you will discover a mental disorder that matches your symptoms

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fonix-girl

Oh oh and then there’s this game I play a lot:

Am I possibly neurodivergent because a lot of what I see about it makes a lot of heckin sense??

What if I am neurodivergent who just trained herself to pass as neurotypical (and boy that imposter syndrome has a kick to it)??

OR

Am I just a traumatized neurotypical and psyching myself out because I tend to either ignore or obsess over these concerns??

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

Ok but if you have mental health issues stemming from trauma…that is neurodivergency. You’re not a ‘traumatized neurotypical.’ Your brain has literally been changed and injured by trauma; it is an atypical brain. Trauma-related disorders are included under the neurodiversity umbrella. Trauma is a serious mental health issue in and of itself, whether it is standalone or related to other underlying issues. Please do not discount your trauma, or the very real and physical ways it has changed your brain.

It’s also important to note that trauma is a component of many other mental health disorders (because of the way society punishes and traumatizes people with mental health issues). For example, my autistic issues (and the lack of support I received) contributed to me developing C-PTSD, and many autistic symptoms (such as sensory meltdowns) are inherently traumatizing. That means that I experience many of the same issues that allistic (non-autistic) trauma survivors do–and there is a big overlap in our experiences. And that is important to know, because it allows us to pool our resources and our understanding of trauma.

Finally (and in relation to the original post), I’d like to say that mental health is not a clear cut business, the DSM-5 is simply our current best attempt at understanding and classifying mental issues, and diagnostic criteria changes over time. Many disorders exist on a spectrum, and overlap with other disorders in unexpected ways, and present differently in different people. And some of the labels we use now will become outdated (the way “hysteria” and “shellshock” were replaced by more accurate definitions & terms) or absorbed into others (like how Asperger’s syndrome is now recognized as a form of autism). Because current classifications are just that: current classifications, which are very much a work in progress. So it’s possible that no currently defined disorder cleanly fits your experiences–and that’s fine, because it doesn’t mean your issues aren’t real, or that treatment and resources are not available. (It’s also worth noting that there is a whole subcategory of disorders Not Otherwise Specified, which is very much worth reading about if you have struggled to find a diagnosis that fits.)

You don’t need a diagnosis to recognize when something is wrong, or to get started on recovery and management. A diagnosis may or may not be important down the road, but it doesn’t have to stand in your way–it is a tool, not a barrier. Many of the most common and effective mental health resources–things like therapy, recovery and wellness tools, medication management, healthy coping mechanisms–are things that are helpful for many many patients across a variety of diagnoses. Which makes them a very good place to start! I recommend therapy especially, which is a tool that anyone, neurodivergent or otherwise, can benefit from. And because a good therapist can offer guidance on resources and when to seek additional treatment options, which makes therapy a good place to start if you are on the fence about seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist (also important options to consider). Regardless of your diagnosis situation, good healthcare providers will work with you to figure out what tools will be helpful to your specific situation.

A diagnosis is a starting point to understanding your personal mental health issues, but it’s not the only starting point. Diagnoses exist to help guide treatment, but symptoms can still be treated and examined even when they don’t fit neatly into a category. Ultimately your goal is to understand your issues so you can get the help you need to thrive, not so you can check off boxes on a criteria checklist. Whatever the specifics, you deserve support when you are struggling.

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guerrillatech

kafkaesque-meat-deactivated2025

Okay but there are several reasons that are kinda interesting

1) fast food restaurants cannot advertise to children anymore, so that means no more bright colors and child friendly mascots

2) McDonalds and the like have been loosing ground to “fresh fast food” chains like Chipotle for the better part of two decades, and this style is meant to emulate that more clean, “mature” style.

3) Resale on property. See, fast food isn’t doing as well as it did in the 90s-early 2000s, and where it used to be fairly rare to have a fast food place close, now a days you might have a location close, and good luck selling the old, branded building to a completely different business. You know those closed Pizza Huts that just sorta sit there forever, very clearly having been a Pizza Hut? Well as it turns out, most businesses don’t want to buy a building that is recognizably from a different brand. You’d basically have to tear down the building and start over, a costly decision when there are plenty of plain looking spaces that you can buy/rent and put a lot less cost into renovations. So for a fast food chain now, it’s far better to have a plain “this could be any sort of counter service place, just change the signs!” In case you have to close that location and sell the building.

Basically fast food places look like this now because fast food is an industry that is well past it’s peak profits, and businesses must plan for their eventual closure and for their building to simply be absorbed into the next trend or monopoly.

dogged-hot

This makes sense but also there's an urgent care in my area that has the pizza hut roof

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

angels, deciding what shape to take when interacting with The Humans: well….eye contact is important to humans, right? they find it reassuring when they can see the eyes of the person they’re talking to. so if we have LOTS of eyes, in very visible places, that’ll be even MORE reassuring

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can’t stop thinking how much sense it would make if every design choice angels made was just a misguided attempt to Relate To The Humans. imagine how those conversations went

wings: “humans don’t like things they can’t understand, so if we’re going to levitate we should have wings. in fact we should probably have lots of wings, since we’re so big and impressive. humans like wings”

loud, booming voices: “fuck off Azrael the humans needs to be able to hear us.”

glowing: “no no no, it’s about visibility, right? the main human sensory organ works by detecting light, so if we emit light…”

wheels: “why the hell are you shaped like that?” “piss off, the humans are really proud of this invention”

multiple faces/eyes: “it makes me relatable” “i swear to God it doesn’t–” “i need to see in every direction” “ Azrael you are a supernatural messenger of god you do not need–” “THE HUMANS NEED TO KNOW I’M WATCHING”

multiple limbs: “humans have lots of limbs! they like limbs” “look i let you keep the wings but–” “how do you expect me to walk?” “70,000 feet is not a reasonable number of feet, Azrael!” “fuck off i’m ENORMOUS”

general gross misapprehensions of biology: “holy shit are your wings made out of eyes?” “look before you say anything i’m like 100% sure i’ve seen animals who have both wings and eyes. and you can fit so many more in this way!” “….you godforsaken googly-eyed genius”

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

#and this is why angels got so boring in the new testament after the Updated Guidelines were rolled out. “Four limbs???? i’m only allowed a maximum of FOUR LIMBS????? this is BULLSHIT”

#alternatively all the reported sightings of creepy ass angels was literally just the SAME angel #just the same freak who kept changing its meatsuit for funsies before god caught on

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

ok i have REFINED my theory!

Old Testament Angels look like that because life in the ocean outnumbered life on land, so naturally when they visited earth they modeled their appearance on the most common lifeforms. Hench you get things like

radial symmetry (i.e. angels shaped like spheres) which is objectively cooler than bilateral symmetry (starfish understand this)

Very Numerous Limbs (2 is not the average number of arms in the ocean)

random glowing (bioluminescence)

just generally being objects of Absolute Terror to land dwellers

a thousand eyeballs being the Norm (have you seen scallops)

in the majority of inhabited Earth areas (i.e. anything deeper than the continental shelf) old school angels would actually pass as Normal And Relatably-Shaped Lifeforms

elljayvee

this checks out

beatrice-otter

I think you all need to know the actual reason that seraphim have six wings–with two they covered their faces and with two they covered their feet and with two they flew–because it’s awesome.

So, first thing, in most of the Hebrew Bible nobody can look directly at God’s face and live. God is simply too amazing/great/alien. You see God’s face, you die, not because God wants to kill you (God doesn’t!) but just … because it’s the inevitable result of contact with God’s holiness. (This is responsible for such incidents as the time God mooned Moses. Moses wanted reassurance, and asked to see God. God said, “well, you can’t see my face, but how about this. You hide in that crevice in the rock over there, and I’ll cover you up so you’re safe, and then I’ll pass by, and when I’m safely past you can look at my back, k?” And that’s how it happened.)

Anyway, even angels can’t bear to look at God, which is why the seraphim cover their faces in God’s presence. All the weird stuff you all have just been attributing to angels? Can be applied to God with at least as much plausibility.

And then we come to the seraphim covering their feet. Or, perhaps I should say “feet.” Because the Hebrew language, like many languages, has some euphemisms for genitalia. One of them is to call them “feet” or “hands.” This is how, for example, Ruth gets Boaz to marry her. She goes in and lays down at his “feet.” Wink wink, nudge nudge.

So when Isaiah tells us the seraphim are flying around covering their “feet” with a pair of wings, what they’re actually doing is this:

Here’s a commission of Yeen Yirng with his favourite vegetables for Claudia! I really loved drawing all the greens in this piece! Commissions are open! If you would like me to illustrate a pet or a loved one, send me a message! . . . . . . . . . #catlover #catsofinstagram #procreateart #procreateillustration #procreateportrait #catportrait #catlove #catdrawing #blackcatsofinstagram #catrescue #blackcats #petsofinstagram #petportrait #torontoartist #torontoart #torontoartistsofinstagram #catillustration #customportrait #torontosmallbusiness #catlife #🐱 #petstagram #petsofinstagram #petlovers #petsarefamily #petportraiture #portraiture #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #supportartistsoninstagram #supportsmall https://www.instagram.com/p/CP390H0gLff/?utm_medium=tumblr

Happy Friday! 🎉 Here’s a portrait of business Brownie in her office wear commissioned by Joyce! 📚📎📝 Do your pets let you put them in costumes? Rusty and Colby can be bribed with snacks, but Terry... is another story 😅 Commissions are open! Send me a message if you would like a pet portrait! I would love to draw more of your adorable animals in costumes!!! . . . . . . . . . . #catlover #catsofinstagram #procreateart #procreateillustration #procreateportrait #catportrait #catlove #catdrawing #blackcatsofinstagram #catrescue #blackcats #petsofinstagram #petportrait #torontoartist #torontoart #torontoartistsofinstagram #catillustration #customportrait #torontosmallbusiness #catlife #🐱 #petstagram #petsofinstagram #petlovers #petsarefamily #petportraiture #portraiture #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #supportartistsoninstagram #supportsmall https://www.instagram.com/p/CPs1vdrgqqL/?utm_medium=tumblr

I have a pretty hefty backlog of pet portraits that I would love to start posting! To begin with, here’s a portrait of Cleopatra, done as a commission for R., with papyrus and blue lotus as the backdrop! . Commissions are open! Send me a message if you’re interested in getting a portrait! I would love to illustrate your family members, pets, or even help bring your character concepts to life! . . . . . . . . . #catlover #catsofinstagram #procreateart #procreateillustration #procreateportrait #catportrait #catlove #catdrawing #blackcatsofinstagram #catrescue #blackcats #petsofinstagram #petportrait #torontoartist #torontoart #torontoartistsofinstagram #catillustration #customportrait #torontosmallbusiness #catlife #🐱 #petstagram #petsofinstagram #petlovers #petsarefamily #petportraiture #portraiture #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #supportartistsoninstagram #supportsmall https://www.instagram.com/p/CPj1BkFgygx/?utm_medium=tumblr

And with that, we have a Watermelon Raccoon to round off the series and welcome the summertime! 🍉🦝I really like how the stripes on the tail mirror the stripes on the melon! I hope you’ve all been enjoying the warmer weather, it’s been so lovely and inspiring to see new flowers bloom every day 🌸🌼🌷 Hang out with me on stream while I draw on Twitch at twitch.tv/dimplecheeksss ! Commissions are open, send me a message if you would like an animal buddy portrait! . . . . . . . . . . . . . #farmcore #kawaii #kawaiiaesthetic #faeriecore #faerie #anthropomorphic #magic #fruity #raccoon #tropicalvibes #tropical #anthropomorphicfood #anthropomorphicart #anthroartist #torontoartist #torontoart #raccoonsofinstagram #raccoon #raccoontoronto #raccoonart #trashpanda #raccoonlove #characterdesign #characterart #artistsoninstagram #procreateart #procreateillustration #petportrait #petportraitartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CPUQ5t5gzI5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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