Granola Crunching Hippie

🧿 AJ 🦋 Mid-20s 🫧 Home Life 🌀

[feralfaelife]

Welcome Here! 🫶

I'm AJ, your local twenty-something feral fae. I'm a homemaker and daycare assistant. I live in a tiny Minnesota lake town with my husband and 2 year old son. I am on a journey to live more slowly and sustainably.

I post about

Homemaking

Sustainable Living

Plant Based Eating

Toddler Life

Cooking/Baking

Small Town Life

Homeschooling

Prairie Adventures

TTC

And More 🩷

[reham-wahed]

[b0n1zbl3zz3d]

"Really? You think a trans person would go to church?"

Why not? Would you deny a persons relationship with God simply because of what they identify as? Anyone is free to love and worship God regardless of who they are.

[girltalk]

June will be filled with joy.

June will be filled with love.

June will be filled with trust.

June will be filled with peace.

June will be filled with clarity.

June will be filled with miracles.

June will be filled with blessings.

[feralfaelife]

Went for a 3 mile walk where I found some fleabane and Little Man took an unexpected nap.

I'm hoping to make it up to the prairie before my husband goes back to work next week.

[palaeosinensis]

Making these really sucked but mostly because of the teeth on the traps. If I do another I have some other ideas to try & would also vary the sizes of traps. Pretty good for my first stained glass 3D thing! Finally a carnivorous plant I can’t kill.

[drawnsnake]

Uncaring

[cipheramnesia]

"I literally don't care. I just wanna live." like really unlocked something in me. About house centipedes, about bugs, about me.

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[sheabutterrosesandeucalyptuspls]

nasya.xi

[lovepassionheart]

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Martina McBride didn't win Country Music Association Song of the Year for a song about how burning your house down with your abusive husband still inside it is good, noble, and an allegory for the American Revolution for people to act like the genre belongs to bootlicking fucks

[dragon-in-a-fez]

other things people didn't do for you to act like country music belongs to bootlicking fucks:

Garth Brooks winning video of the year at the ACMs for a song about how none of us are free as long as there's racism and homophobia

Reba McEntire charting with a gothic horror song about an innocent man being executed by an incompetent judge and a corrupt sheriff

Willie Nelson being, well, his entire self tbh

Dolly Parton recording the hating capitalism banger of all time

Kacey Musgraves telling everyone to ignore the haters, smoke weed, and be a bisexual slut

[dragon-in-a-fez]

how the hell did I leave Morgan Wade off this list. wrote a song about being depressed, alcoholic, and suicidal and how mental illness stigma sucks, saw how much people connected with it, wrote a Part II of that song about how she's doing better now but you're never totally free of the risk of relapse. fucking icon.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I specifically curated this list so people couldn't be like "ah yes but you see here is my simple binary of good and bad country music which always works", I made sure to add different genders, eras, subgenres, etc and y'all are still pulling that shit in the tags!

listen. Alan Jackson, the archetypal mister big hat man sitting on a tractor singing about a pickup truck, wrote a shockingly normal song about 9/11 that was like "yeah I don't know jack shit about politics but my copy of the bible says we're supposed to love everyone" and then went on the radio and explained how he specifically wanted to write a song about that day that "wasn't vengeful". Miranda Lambert took the southern leftist slogan "y'all means all" and made it the title of a corny ass pop-country song for the Queer Eye soundtrack. Kenny Chesney stole a horse from a cop and Tim McGraw put the cop in a chokehold defending him, and I know that's not about their music but it is, and this is very important, fucking sick as hell

it's fine if you only listen to female country artists or pre-1990 country artists or whatever the fuck you want but stop acting like you've cracked the secret code to dividing a whole genre of art into good pure anti-establishment folk songs vs bad corrupted right-wing sellout pulp

[dragon-in-a-fez]

updating this post for 2025:

Luke Combs covering Fast Car and keeping the line "I work in the market as a checkout girl" and doing an interview about how he couldn't change a single word because it's not his story. king shit

Morgan Wallen doing I Had Some Help, literally the first song that spoke to me as a male survivor of domestic abuse. also shoutout to the guy for getting caught saying a racial slur and responding by specifically telling his fans not to defend him and raising a bunch of money for the Black Music Action Coalition. bro had an engraved invitation to the culture war and said "nah I'd rather be normal"

Shaboozey just absolutely obliterating the drunk roadhouse anthem glass ceiling

Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne with a song that okay, released in 2019 but I didn't hear until recently, about how good friends mind their own business and let you love whoever you want and also get high with you when you're broke

Kimberley Perry! If I Die Young Part 2!! "actually I'm glad I lived, bitch" ass song that I bet is gonna mean a LOT to kids fighting depression

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan with Cowboys Cry Too. okay it's shallow and corny but genuinely a shallow and corny song about how men shouldn't be afraid to have feelings is what a lot of men need

[dragon-in-a-fez]

bringing the full version of this post back around because people are pissing me off today

[suffering-seraphim]

Thank God that I am blessed with a heart that can feel love, even if it's more painful than I can bear sometimes

[sectumsempraxz]

Yes, you can be a christian and still be a woke/lgbt+ and have your sexual life the way it works for you, there are people who claime to be christian when they are fascists, pro-guns, pro-capitalism and against human rights, so yeah, do your thing, everything is fine.

Actually, I think Jesus would be more at your side than to be at the side of these people.

[aleister-carpathia]

"Why do we fight? Because there is hope! Because only through battle can we break the chains that fate has forged! Don't you see? We have been given a chance! Though some of us will die, we will die knowing that our lives are finally our own! That we are no longer slaves to the whims of fate! Would you throw that away, just for fear of another defeat? Not I. I will fight! And if I die, I die knowing that I have made a choice... and that this choice, for good or for ill, was my own!"

-Agarth, "Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning"

[chilpitito]

Anyways, drink water and don’t let no mf bring you down.

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