I Just Really Love Shadow

Miles | adult | they/she/he | This is my normal about fiction blog where I am normal about works of fiction

[genyakisser]

i like him the normal amount

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[niedopalek]

HALT!✋😐

did you remember to express gratitude for not having to subsistence farm today?

[demetersmiling]

Returning to subsistence farming as a society would be better than the capitalist hellscape we live under now. So no.

[niedopalek]

imma be real with you, thats a dumb as shit thing to say and you dont really believe that

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

I'm at work. I don't want to be at work. I'm tired and sweaty and my eternal companion the Headache is with me, and my lovely wife and animals and art projects are at home. Where I am not. Because I am at work.

And it beats the absolute hell out of starving to death because of droughts or flooding or crop blight or war or my wife having fucking cancer and being too tired and immunocompromised to work the fields with me.

Which is what would happen, if we were subsistence farming.

[gwydionmisha]

People literally can die if no one is well enough to do things like haul water to crops and feed animals.

[captainscarletsc]

Folks, farming is not a side hustle. It’s an entire lively hood based on weather and pork belly futures. I promise you, it is not something most people are resourced or equipped to do.

[shadowfellefox]

I grew up on a farm. Not a subsistence farm or an aesthetic urban farm, but a modern family farm.

These assholes never understand how much work -- sweaty, boring, frequently gross work -- is involved with all this. Repairing and maintaining equipment. Feeding and tending animals. Moving literal shit from one location to another, which is surprisingly large percentage of all farm work.

Cutting hay. Raking hay. Fucking baling hay during the hottest days of the year because that's when hay is baled (and when the hay is baled you still have to MOVE IT AGAIN). Being at the mercy of the weather constantly. Ugh. Getting the fUCKING grain burner to work because the rain didn't cooperate and if we don't dry it, it'll rot in the bins before we can sell it.

(I do miss the animals very much. Having ducklings eat out of my hand and calves to bottle feed and a horse to love on made this bearable for me growing up. I'll never have either again because I know the work would break me)

[findingfeather]

And because there's SOMEONE out there who will be like "well I'd RATHER be moving shit - "

This poster still wasn't subsistence farming. And the society they're in sure as fuck wasn't. They still had access to all kinds of shit that can't be grown on one family farm, and, crucially, they eventually had a choice. (Eventually, because when you're a kid if your family farms, you farm. Hate everything about it? Too bad.)

That "one acre farmstead" is me laughing in actual mediaeval history: we literally know that isn't enough to reliably feed one person and their animal through the entire off-season. No not even with zucchini (and you'd have to just eat zucchini all the time).

Also I ain't going to engage with them directly but I'm petty enough to point and laugh - there's someone in the notes talking about how they "supplemented" their living By Subsistence and I have my head in my hands with the laughter at the absurdity of that sentence.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Some people just don't know what the word "subsistence" means.

If you're "supplementing" your living then you're not subsistence farming, you just have a vegetable garden.

(To people who would rather be moving shit on a modern, non-subsistence farm... you can go and do that. There's a critical shortage of farm workers in most well-off countries. Because the work sucks and as soon as there's other options, two thirds of the farmers and their kids leave.)

[notthatamy-blog]

I recently reviewed a plan for a subdivision that had "subsistence farm lots" in the name of the development and, uh, it made me feel feelings. Specifically the same creeping panic, dread, rage, and horror I felt as a child while reading the Little House box set of novels while growing up on a working family farm.

Subsistence farming is the most lethal, backbreaking, precarious way humanity has ever found of providing for itself.

"What happened to X neolithic culture? Where did they go?" They were subsistence farmers. The climate shifted just a tiny bit and they all starved or fled or both.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Does anyone else get pissed off when you wake up just as you were making significant progress in some bullshit task you had to do in a dream? Like great now I did all that shit for nothing

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[art-the-f-up]

"Waste of Space" -Simon the convict

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Ross had changed its slogan from "Ross, dress for less" to "Ross, die for nothing".

[let-roman-bite-someone]

i love prinxiety because the guy with the sophisticated regal prince aesthetic has no problem dishing out every cuss word known to man, meanwhile the stoic edgelord with a tragic backstory who “doesn't have an issue with strong language” barely ever swears on screen.

[randomoarfishdraws]

Necessary intervention

[memorizedkeysmash]

Cannot even begin to imagine what an anime-only thinks when they accidentally stumble across jaw-droppingly beautiful museum quality devastating Orufrey fanart bc going off of season 1 alone there's NO WAY they would think that these men have done anything that warrants this, it's gotta just look like some bullshit

[twinkle-art]

go my overindulgent dark world design

[shittysawtraps]

interested in a movie where jigsaw is a municipal position that one can be elected to, half because the idea of the government funding serial killers in order to create a culture of people who are constantly worried they’re going to be punished for not being good enough is really narratively interesting, half because i want to see those fucking campaign slogans

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

orange when every streamer voices her with a really gruff tough guy voice

[parakeet]

little known fact about me i was actually isekai'd into this world from the video game world. i used to be a peggle orb

[evenmoreevil]

i miss the suckening bro

[problemsleuth]

a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale

[queef-queg]