IDK what is going on, I'm just existing

I don't think I'll ever figure it out

[enbyowl]

[enbyowl]

Updated affirmations list

[enbyowl]

[enbyowl]

Ive done too many things wrong

What is wrong

Happiness gone

Fleeting feeling, carry on

Through blood and tears

Sugar and spice

Everything broken, Everything nice

Call in the morning, its not the same

Holding my head, holding my "shame"

Never a savior, never a saint

Never a patron, I shan't complain

You were a ghost, I was a hive

Never one moment I wasn't alive

Never a moment I wasn't the lie

Telling myself I'm broken inside

Telling myself the pain Has to hide

I've done too many things wrong

So leave me at morning, leave before dawn

I'm in the background, all in my head

Never a moment, hot in the dread

F*cked in the head, dying in bed

Blinking out conscious, coming in hot

I've got a feeling, and it's something I'm not

Tell me there's reason, tale older than time

Tell me of healing, f*ck it isn't mine

And you might say I'm crazy

But darling I've rehearsed

I've done too much wrong

To get a second verse

02/01/25

[i-am-a-fish]

hey. I just got back from cute people town. everyone there knew you

[enbyowl]

Awwww, thnx

[toastyglow]

✨🫵✨ you are good enough no matter what you do ✨🫵✨ you could do nothing and still be good enough ✨🫵✨

[enbyowl]

HOW DO YOU KNOW!?!?

[enbyowl]

I roll to question the urkey durkey.

[enbyowl]

Wtf is an urkey durkey?

[enbyowl]

Me: I wanna interact

Also me: I'm far too tired for that

[enbyowl]

Same tho

[enbyowl]

ALCOHOL IS STUPID AND OVERRATED, ALSO BEING DRUNK, AND BEING HIGH!!!

[enbyowl]

Oh how the turns have tabled....

[uacboo]

From Twitter.

[mightbeunknown]

is it weird that as i got through the tweet my understanding of it lessens?

[balkanbruiser]

If you had a recent ancestor who went through starvation it actually altered their genetics and may have passed down genes to you that make you hold on to fat. So this tweet is more accurate than you’d think.

[lolotehe]

More on that.

[sea-dilemma]

Seriously, my body is expecting the next ice age.

[jezi-belle]

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

MY FUCKING GREAT GRANDFATHER LITERALLY FLED LEBANON DUE TO A FUCKING FAMINE AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND DAD AND I ARE ALL FAT AS FUCKING HELL.

FUCK ME RUNNING I DID NOT KNOW THIS.

[golbatgender]

…That’s going to apply also to anyone whose recent ancestors voluntarily dieted a lot, isn’t it. Diet culture long-term causes more obesity. Sure, it takes decades to show up, but anything you’d hear today about childhood obesity would reflect that. Exercising is still very good for most people, but trying to lose weight shouldn’t be the goal for most people, because a) it usually doesn’t work very well or it comes back and b) your kids or grandkids could end up with extra wonky metabolisms. (And while fat itself is actually not that much of a problem if you keep your fitness up, it can be hard on your joints. That’s actually the biggest health risk if you’re “small end of fat,” under 40, and active–joint problems.)

[greenekangaroo]

THAT MOTHERFUCKING ARTIFICIAL FAMINE THAT’S IT I’M GONNA FIGHT THE ENGLISH 

[explorerrowan]

Honestly, “I’m gonna fight the English” is a good reaction to a lot of things.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the ‘obesity epidemic’ in america is probably due to a combo of our grandparents living through the great depression and our parents being teens and young adults during the days of twiggy and heroin chic and the rise of diet culture.

combine that with the fact that gen x was the last generation allowed to play outside, pretty much, and the fact that everybody nowdays is working service jobs that exhaust them without working their muscles, and there is basically no way on earth you’re going to get a fit and healthy population without changing the basic structure of our society.

don’t fall for the hype. don’t focus on weight. it’s actually far more dangerous to be underweight than overweight. even with what is clinically defined as ‘morbid obesity’ it’s possible to be healthy as a horse, if your bone structure and metabolism are set up for it and you’ve got lots of muscle to support it.

on top of that, the charts for ideal weight are at least a generation out of date. they were compiled based on a population that didn’t regularly get enough dairy and fresh produce, at a time when girls didn’t do athletics in school. young women in the 1960′s were measurably smaller than young women today. their bones were thinner, they had less muscle mass, their shoulders were more sloped, they had a smaller lung capacity – society discouraged them from being physically active past the age of ten or twelve, and they finished their physical development in a sedentary setting.

boys were plenty active, but just like the girls, they were eating just about nothing but red meat and starch and some mushy greens with the vitamins boiled out. the thing where the poor get fat because sugar and fat are cheap wasn’t really happening yet, especially in rural areas; a farm kid’s diet was beef and wheat in the north, pork and corn in the south. “eat your vegetables” was such a hard sell because everything else was expensive and bland and overcooked. you’ve seen the godawful cookbook excerpts from that time. mushy green beans and fried spam on a bed of mashed potatoes, seasoned with nothing but a pinch of white pepper.

sorry, that was kind of a tangent. i guess my point is, even the people who ate well by the standards of the time were malnourished compared to the standard of today. your lunch of a matcha cucumber smoothie and a cobb salad with one ounce of ham, one ounce of turkey, and 15 kinds of fresh vegetable, would give them the explosive shits because they’ve never had that much fiber in one place before. there’s more vitamins and antioxidants in your black bean fajita dinner than they saw in a week.

so first of all, the idea of trying to be the same size and shape they were is absurd.

and second, if malnourishment in one generation primes the next two for protective fat retention, the combination of that and the incredible wealth of nutrition we have available to us today is obviously going to make us HYUGE.

instead of fighting it, we should embrace it. we could all be HUMAN BOULDERS OF MIGHT.

[hellgrub]

I know a number of gen z kids who are active, regularly exercise / do sports, and are mindful or careful about what they eat but who are considered overweight. They’re healthy kids. They’re strong and have energy. But they’re repeatedly criticized by parents and doctors alike for being “fat”. You wonder why so many kids have anxiety disorders? When you’re trying your best and are still told at every checkup that you need to stop eating junk food and sugar and lying on the couch watching tv because the doctor assumes that a kid living healthily couldn’t possibly be fat so that must be what you’re doing, it hurts. You feel like something is wrong with you. You internalize what you’re being told and it turns to feeling shameful, guilty, not good enough, messed up. I wish parents and doctors could wrap their brains around the fact that fat children can be healthy

[dancing-thru-clouds]

I am 5'9", and for a solid portion of the last decade I was also 125lbs. It’s only in the last couple years that I’ve managed to put on a reasonable amount of weight. I’m between 180 and 190lbs right now, and very happy about it

When I was 125, not a single doctor was ever worried. I was constantly cold, stressed, and exhausted. I was literally always eating, and still could not gain anything. I was hungry all the time, but at the same time I would have given anything to just go to bed and sleep for days, because being chronically underweight does screwy things to your entire system

Now, a couple years into being an actual reasonable weight for my height, I’ve had a doctor, on our first visit, include ‘healthy eating and weight loss’ tips in my visit notes without even asking if I was happy at my weight. I am still mad about this. But also, I have so much more energy, I sleep better, I can actually regulate my own damn temperature, and I just over-all feel better

Eat the food, guys. The alternative isn’t worth it

[pbrim]

Also, women who were pregnant in the 50′s and 60′s were ruthlessly exhorted to minimize weight gain during pregnancy, with doctors often demanding they gain only 15 pounds.  In fact, if they were overweight before getting pregnant, their doctors might urge them to actually lose weight in early pregnancy.  This led to a whole generation of babies who were undernourished during development, which studies have shown can lead to overweight in adults for two or three generations.

[aishwaryaaraiii]

leila khashagulgova

[reishidreams]

Ceremonial fungal mask.

[autumngracy]

Do you know the Mushroom Man?

[aunclesquishy]

I don’t want to know the Mushroom Man

[autumngracy]

But perhaps he wants to know you?

[enbyowl]

I think he lives on Fungi Lane

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *rolls up to a merchant in ancient Athens on Heelys and sipping a Starbucks*

Me: Yo where’s your horribly dense wine I’ve got coin

Merchant: What on earth are you wearing

Me: It’s called pants.

Merchant: I hate that.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *struts up to an Inca temple in bright green sunglasses*

Me: Hey guy of knowing stuff what do you know can I see your dead kings

Ancient Inca man: Are you sent from the gods to annoy me

Me: Nope, I’m doing this for free.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *banging pots and pans in the street in the middle of the Mali empire*

Me: WHERE’S THE SALT???

Random passerby: What is a European doing this far south

Other rando: Yelling about salt apparently.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *walks into the Song Dynasty with a backpack and a hydro flask*

Me: Hey have you guys invented paper money yet?

Woman washing clothes: What are you talking about? Who are you?

Me: *takes a sip of my Ancient Greek wine I’m keeping in my hydro flask* Do you have paper money?

Woman: I suppose?

Me: Sweet. *walks off*

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *struts onto a Polynesian canoe in a Star Wars t-shirt*

Me: What do you guys eat on these things? Fish?

Sailor: What the f*ck are you and where did you come from we’re in the middle of the ocean

Me: Can I have that fruit

Sailor: No. Absolutely not.

Me: Fair. *jumps overboard with my hydro flask*

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *sitting on top of a building during the beheading of Marie Antoinette*

Me: *pulls a bag of popcorn and some peasant bread out of my backpack*

Roof climbing child: Who are you?

Me: Someone on a roof. *hands them some bread*

Child: Why are you dressed like that?

Me: Because I can.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Me: *arrives home totally plastered*

Friend: You know you’re supposed to water down that kind of wine right

Me: *throws bread at them* It was the Song Dynasty. I was right. Frick you.

[what-even-is-thiss]

[nambroth]

“Eternal” Barn Owl, 24"x18" oil on panel. Painted for my current exhibit, “Featherlight” at the Crary Gallery. A lot I could say about this one but I really enjoy the idea that everyone takes their own meaning!

[secretglittersauce]

(credit to Innova Corsetry)

Y'all, oh my god

Why have I never seen corset vests before??

Imagine any TS character in one of these and just try not to die instantl

[dungeonmastersconsortium]

@softbutchtaako​

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

you’re gay

[sketchyfletch]

This is an excellent look and I reblog for my man-loving followers.

[enbyowl]

I want one

[ohbellamy]

#iconic

[screamqueen96-blog]

By Konjyouyaki

[lilibat]

yes, good

[enbyowl]

MONSTER CUDDLES!!!!

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

The Addams Family renting out rooms in their huge mansion cheaply to broke college students.

The students digging it because the craziness and the bugs are pretty much the same as any other dorm house. Also, Morticia and Gomez treat them all like visiting cousins, not like tenants to abuse and exploit. 

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

One of the tenants is a creative writing major and Gomez and Morticia house them up in the tower because of the quiet and the inspiring view

They’re supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

They go to their room after classes one day and find Thing correcting the grammar errors in the manuscript with a red pen 

[specialstarfish]

and yeah, the students pay roughly market value for their rooms, but that doesn’t stop gomez from shouting “capital idea!” and handing them wads of cash when they tell him about their weekend plans or what they’re researching, so they basically end up living there for free

[gholateg]

In the same vein, half the them have to turn into exceptional fencers, because Gomez just doesn’t give a shit, and if he sees you in the library, its fucking Sword Fighting Time. 

Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to “water” balloons in campus history. 

Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it’s fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom. 

Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who’s too much of a coward for Grammy’s cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he’ll smile, and slowly applaud. 

And the spookiest thing of all

Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. 

There is no escape. 

[aardvarkingmad]

I especially love the idea of Gomez spotting a student in the library, throwing a sword at a startled student, shouting, “En garde!” and lunging at him/her with a sword of his own.

Student (later in life), when asked how she jumps from quietly doing research to handling a sudden influx of ER cases so quickly and easily, says, “When you have to snap out of deep concentration on biochem to fight for your life then get back to biochem without losing your train of thought…you learn or you die.”

[soap-stains]

This has made me laugh so hard-