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pink-dragonair

Reminders for people with agoraphobia

You’re not lazy

It’s okay if you can’t work

It’s okay if you need a day of self-care

It’s okay if you have to take a break from school

It’s okay to ask a friend to come over because you can’t go out

It’s okay if you have to do phone appointments for therapy sometimes

You’re worthwhile

and most importantly

Every panic attack will end.

No male WWI pinups exist yet so my gay ass decided to change that at 1 AM and I ended up looking like a propaganda poster with homoerotic undertones so

my-darling-boy

Some of you mistook the belt around my tunic for me wearing a crop top, but then I thought, what if it WAS a crop top instead?

my-darling-boy

“No Charles, I will not be taking criticism” I say whilst making direct eye contact with my WWI soldier ancestor’s portrait hanging on the wall in full view of me wearing my uniform with tiny shorts posing like an Edwardian renter in front of my phone taped to a tripod at 2:26 AM

my-darling-boy

People told me they want more so here’s to being anti-war!! War is a trap lads!! Lord Kitchener’s ghost is going to manifest in my room after I post this but I WILL fight him!!

ihassheepquake

Now this...

This is ART

#art #this is amazing #I love it

isleofspooks

I’m obsessed with this school girl outfit I purchased on depop (=´∀｀) it’s officially my character outfit and I’m never taking it off.

#clothes

rottedgoth

“This Antique Hearse from Dresden, Germany. 1800s”

#history #death

g-daism

please remember in these incredibly difficult times: gam zeh yaavor.

#jewish #hebrew

Self-quarantined with my family right now. Stay safe, everyone, and please remember to wash your hands. And try to keep yourself entertained, so as not to go stir-crazy.

#my photo #coronavirus #covid 19 #books #parlor games #victorian #history #historical

slettlune

boring psa bc i haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere so far

remember that moisturising is an important part of hand hygiene. especially if you’re washing your hands more frequently these days. healthy, intact skin is one of your immune system’s barriers, as dry and cracked skin can harbour dirt and microbes, and in extra bad cases skin infection can tank your immune system further

soap and water is great for getting rid of harmful microbes but they also remove your skin’s natural oils, so please please please apply some lotion after you wash your hands

#covid 19

devotaj

A new study depicts for the first time what Lilith, the baby-killing seductress, looked like to those who feared her and why Satan has a tail and horns.

I know some of you just went “SQUEE!”

And some of you just went WTF?

Demons. Everything in Judaism eventually comes back to demons.

Asher yatzar (Bathroom prayer) - toilet demons.

Breaking a glass at the end of a wedding - demons.

Psalm 91? Demons.

Bedtime Shema? Demons.

#jewish

snootyfoxfashion

Vintage Inspired Bath & Body Products from TheParlorApothecary

x / x / x / x / x x / x / x / x / x

#victorian #self care

questionableadvice

~ Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children and on the Treatment on the Moment of Some of Their More Pressing Illnesses and Accidents; Pye Henry Chavasse, 13th ed., 1878

#medical #victorian

avoiding-claws

PSA: purring does not always mean happiness and contentment, cats also purr when stressed and in pain

So when your cat is sick or injured and you say “oh but she’s purring still so she must be okay!”, please think again

#cats

vondutchcouture

#music #emilie autumn

hederigerenthag

It makes me a little sad when Judaism gets summed up as ‘ethical monotheism,’ and people try to present it as this very clear, rational sort of thing. Because, it’s true, it is that, but it’s also dybbuks, and ghosts you can sue in court, and Lillith who comes in the night, and amulets to keep away Lillith who comes in the night, and changing your name when you’re sick so Death can’t find you, and secret codes and mystic math, and smashing glasses at a wedding to scare off the demons.

And do I believe in those things? No, but I think I might need them.

When I was a kid I went to Hebrew school and we talked about how to worship G-d, and we never mentioned the little things we still do at weddings or when babies are born– those times when you can’t be too careful, when you have a happiness worth protecting with new and with old ways.

And I grew up with Jewish religion, but absorbing Christian superstition, and I didn’t learn until much later that we had our own Jewish superstitions, and Jewish names to give our fears, and Jewish ways to make ourselves feel safe from them.

As a mostly-secular American Ashkenazi Jew, a lot of what’s been passed to me has come to me from institutions: my synagogue, which naturally tends to capital ‘R’ Religion; and political and cultural organizations, that tend to focus on the rationality and the potential universality of ethical values. And I think it’s worth thinking about what isn’t transmitted that way, and what gets lost, and maybe making more space for embracing our own particular weirdness and irrationality.

I don’t know, I just have a lot of feelings about folk religion all of the sudden.

gavrielabrahams

This is a marvelous example of why I really protest defining Judaism as a religion and not a tribe (with a religious aspect). Religious rational doesn’t explain why we wash our hands upon waking to rid the body of a negative energy that collects on us at night (and can be transferred to a basin of water if we keep it under the bed while we sleep). I love that stuff.

I just that learned that the Zohar explains that when washing, one should actually pass the cup back and forth 3x (instead of 2x/3x on one hand, then the other) to represent the relationship between Din and Chesed, and I looked at my husband (who I was sharing all this with) and said “sold!”. That stuff is way more meaningful that just “wash your hands so you don’t get germs”. 😒

#jewish

letyourfantasiesunwind1

Victorian Valentine cards

-Victorian Valentine cards, 1870-1880

Victorian Valentine cards were flat paper sheets, often printed with colored illustrations and embossed borders. The sheets, when folded and sealed with wax, could be mailed. On 10 January 1840, Great Britain introduced the Uniform Penny Post, meaning that Valentine cards could be mailed for just one penny. The mass produced Valentine card was born. Valentines were sent in such great numbers that postmen were given a special allowance for refreshments to help them through the extraordinary exertions of the two or three days leading up to February 14th. Rather than purchase a ready-made valentine, some Victorians assembled original valentines from materials purchased at a stationer’s shop: lace, bits of mirror, bows and ribbons, seashells and seeds, gold and silver foil appliqués, silk flowers, and clichéd printed mottoes like “Be Mine” and “Constant and True.”Victorian valentines commonly feature churches or church spires, signifying honorable intentions and fidelity.