Old, Grumpy, and Tired

She/Her * Pansexual/Polyromantic *Mom of Three* Norse Pagan * Seidr Witch * Writer * Fibercraft hobbiest * Chronic Pain Sufferer * Single

[memeuplift]

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Historian and Feminist Scholar Gerda Lerner

[figdays]

Canyon Bat Plush // KaleidoscopeOfGifts

[stsathyre]

@mother-entropy omgosh, looook

[saint-batrick]

oh my god! ::grabbyhands::

[luthied]

@tj-crochets

[crocoguile]

also @dowager-mother

[freyjadottir87]

[chickadee-djarin]

Last Line Tag

In the last week, I’ve been tagged by @keeper0fthestars @astridmayewrites and @avaeverstone ! Thank you for tagging me, my loves!! 🥰

From a Star Trek AOS one shot that, a month after drafting, is still awaiting editing..

Her tears wet his jacket as she tells him how proud their father would be.

No pressure tags @hlabounty96 @blueeyesatnight @starlightmornings @clydesducktape @captn-andor and @ anyone else who wants to play along!

[blueeyesatnight]

He didn’t sleep.  He wandered. “You look fairly miserable.” Boba smirked and handed him a drink, “See if that fixes it.” Din looked at the drink, “What is it?” “Does it matter?” —–from Nursemaid

Tagggggging @brandyllyn @seasonschange @radiowallet @absurdthirst and anyone who sees this with an open WIP

[writeforfandoms]

Grumble mutter calling me out this way Blue

Six men stood around a doorway, spaced oddly. They didn’t seem to want to get too close to each other at the moment. One of them had turned to look at you, brown eyes sharp and attentive. He was clean-shaven, hair kept tidy, dressed in a decent suit. Something in his eyes sent a chill down your spine, made you pause. His lips twitched in what might have been a smile or a smirk.

From A new WIP called How Did You Love.

Tagging: @oonajaeadira @green-socks @grogusmum @insomniamamma @honestly-shite @mylovelycomandante and you!

[oonajaeadira]

Lol I’mma cheat and just give you the last line of what I’m about to post. *tongue out* Nya!

Sometimes some secrets are easier to cover than others.

Tagging! @grogusmum​ @insomniamamma​ @honestly-shite​ @mylovelycomandante​ @songsformonkeys​ 

[grogusmum]

@writeforfandoms @radiowallet @oonajaeadira

Oh my gosh, thanks y'all!

So far, his possessiveness toward you was sweet and did not seem to extend beyond wanting to hold you and be close, that you were his moonbeam. Your eyes widened, and you lean toward your mam with a hurried whisper.

Tagging: @winter-fox-queen @ezras-channel-rat @ezrasbirdie @yespolkadotkitty @ohwaitimthewriter @oloreaa @scribbledghost @seasonschange-butpeopledont @firstofficerwiggles @jessie-writes-things

[scribbledghost]

Thank you for the tag!

“I mean it,” he said tentatively. “I… used to think about it sometimes, back when we first moved in. I worried that Champagne would find us. That he’d try to hurt you. I… I realized I’d kill him before I’d let him get near you. And I would’ve done the same thing to whatever was outside earlier if it got in. Would'a ripped it apart with my bare hands before it even touched you.”

Anyway, now that I’m 3k words into this thing, how we feeling about a MinoWhiskey horror AU?

(tagging anyone who’d like to share what they’re working on!)

[hangmans-wingman]

Thanks for the open tag @scribbledghost lol

Just barely, you could feel the breeze from his breath at the side of your neck where your flight suit exposed it under your helm.

I’d say I’m over halfway done with the next chapter of All That Glitters so I’m just waiting for my next burst of writing inspiration to finish it out.

@dincrypt @djarinsbeskar you two always have something amazing in the works.

@anyone else who wants to do it.

[omgreally]

I pickpocket this from you @bestinbeskar <3

so I can share

“You’ve got six hours before nightfall,” Mando continues. “You might make it. If you find shelter.”

She just keeps walking. And, deep down inside, Mando feels the first thread of admiration unfurl at the sheer, stubborn tenacity of the girl, in the face of all odds. 

He tries once more. Because for that alone, she deserves a chance, at least.

from upcoming chapter 2 of A Shot Away

tagging @the-scandalorian @floraandfrost @novemberrain221 @yespolkadotkitty @javierpinme @anyone else who would like to, open tag!

[yespolkadotkitty]

@omgreally @grogusmum thankyou so much for tagging me!! <3

This is from the Rick Flag fic I’m writing:

Rick was framed by the aperture of the doorway, hair rumpled, chocolate-brown eyes soft and sleepy. The hem of his t-shirt was askew, riding up to reveal his lower belly, lightly furred with dark gold hair.

Your mouth went dry.

“Mornin’,” he half-muttered, half-grunted, running a hand through his hair. His gaze found you, zeroed in. “You okay?”

Tagging @djarinsbeskar @radiowallet @charnelhouse @danidrabbles @nolanell @lovesmesomehiddles @the-soot-sprite @riddikulus-obsessions @babblydrabbly @littlepadika and YOU

[winterisakiller]

From a new Tom/OFC story I’m working on, tentatively titled Plain Sailing Weather:

Morning faded into afternoon without a word. Flora had been grateful for the distraction of her own work. It gave her something to lose herself in.

Tagging: @redfoxwritesstuff @nuggsmum @messy-insomniac-bookgirl and whoever else wants to share

[messy-insomniac-bookgirl]

Thanks for the tag @winterisakiller

From an original story I’m working on:

‘So, that’s what you’re getting, whether you need it or not.’

Tagging @devikafernando @tinchentitri @tilltheendwilliwrite, and anyone else who wants to play.

[tilltheendwilliwrite]

Thanks for the tag, peach!

Loki scoffed and rolled her eyes as she pulled more blue yarn into her lap, causing the ball of it floating beside her to spin gently on its invisible axis. “You would think they had never seen anyone knit before.”

tagging: @dowager-mother @bolontiku @justreadingfics and anyone else who would like to play🥰

[freyjadottir87]

When Savanna’s sobs settled back into those hiccupping little breaths, Loki pulled away enough to look down into those glassy hazel eyes. She wanted to ask any of the thousand questions careening around her skull, but she pressed a kiss to the other’s forehead instead. 

“Come, we’ll be more comfortable on the sofa then back here.”

Thanks for the tag, Sis! I’m gonna tag anyone who wants to share! 

[onyxbird]

In Leverage 2.0, I hope we’ll find out that Eliot’s computer skills have developed in the weirdest way possible after 8 years with Hardison.

Like, on the one hand, if the display settings in his email program get changed slightly, he dumps his computer in Hardison’s lap stating his email is “broken” and demands Hardison fix it, without attempting even the most basic troubleshooting. Software updates that change the interface layout result in months of grumbling and asking Hardison where they hid the ___ option this time. On the other hand, when one of Hardison’s magical hacker flash drives encounters a minor hurdle Hardison didn’t expect, Eliot just opens a command line interface and starts tapping away hunt-and-peck style. Whoever they’re working with nervously asks if he’s sure he knows what he’s doing and maybe they should wait for Hardison, and Eliot just says “What? I’ve been dating a hacker for 8 years! This is what Hardison does!” And sure enough, it is. He’s not fast, but he actually does know his way around a command line and knows enough of Hardison’s basic hacking techniques to fix minor hiccups on the fly.

(For some reason, I picture Eliot finding the command line satisfying. I think a lot of the slick commercial GUIs that are designed to be “intuitive” would drive him crazy because they’re not intuitive to him (or for Parker). Hardison’s GUIs, on the other hand, are very deliberately designed around how Eliot and Parker expect them to work with zero consideration for them making sense to outsiders.)

[liberalsarecool]

Access to safe abortion is a woman’s right.

And abortion is a decision to be made between a woman, her doctor, her family, and her god.

...Not a majority white male cohort of politicians with a false sense of morality.

And your judgement?

It matters not.

<end>

[headlesswarlock]

“WHATS THIS? WHATS THIS?”

[headlesswarlock]

i wish i never made this post ill never get my dash back

[keiko-evans]

Yes

[feels-fics-fandoms]

It’s a tradition to bring this back, I’ve got it schedule for like the next eight years to post this on the first and last day of October

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[butch-bakugo]

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

[churchoftheconfusedchicken]

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

[ifiknewiwouldtellyou]

I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.

[lunarchfey]

Today (October 29), the Canadian federal government has filed its intent to appeal an order from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to compensate Indigenous children and their families. The struggle for recognition and reconciliation is still ongoing.

[weavemama]

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

[jackharknessday]

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

[gayfeatherfiend]

Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army

[rab-it-deactivated20231030]

My turn.

I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.

I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.

I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.

They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.

Then I found out.

Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.

Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.

[knight-of-vengeance-deactivated]

The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.

[fisharescary802]

Unsettling update

[oldearthaccretionist]

Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!

[autismking]

holy shit

[dranikitten]

@thebibliosphere This reminded me of some of your dreams you’ve posted in the past

[myoxisbroken-deactivated2024022]

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Tweet by Tim Seeley ( @HackinTimSeeley ):  There’s a subset of fandom whose view is that if anything isn’t for them it must not be for anyone. Your goal as a creator should be to never, ever make anything for those people.]

[funnytwittertweets]

[freyjadottir87]

Yes you can. Check out the LARPing community on TikTok. 

[grumpyjesterr]

on another note, watched The Mummy (1999) the other day and I couldn’t help  feel like the O’Connells and the Addams (Addams Family Values (1993) would get on really well ya know? The O’Connells are basically the pastel adventure version of the Addams, surely they would just be vibin’ over tea and crumpets in an extremely haunted mansion having a ball of a time

[grumpyjesterr]

Morticia: “So what is it you do for a living my dear?”

Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Morticia: “fascinating”

[grumpyjesterr]

Gomez: *leaping out from behind a pillar which is encrusted with ominous looking runes* en garde!

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Gomez: *nearly in tears* oh he’s screaming nonsensically, what spirit! what reslove!

[grumpyjesterr]

*Rick and Gomez, still frantically sword fighting*

Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is

Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better

*sword fighting intensifies as both men rapturously extoll the virtues of their wives*

[digitaldiscipline]

Jonathan and Fester and Cousin Itt watch from the bar, where Lurch and Thing are making the drinks.

[lemonsharks]

Jonathan and Thing knew one another from The War; each thought the other to be dead

Their reunion is highly emotional

[burntcopper]

Rick, whilst swordfighting:  My wife resurrected an ancient evil that brought about the plagues.

Gomez: What. A. Woman.

[wendibird]

Meanwhile, Alex has run off with Wednesday and Pugsley and the Addams children are teaching him the finer points of dynamite usage, and he translates the inscription on the mummy sarcophagus in their playroom (and inadvertently wakes up the mummy inside, but they all have fun dealing with it) and no one bats an eye at the explosions coming from upstairs.

[magellan-88]

……@bolontiku @tilltheendwilliwrite this. Is. EVERYTHING

[tj-crochets]

A sparkly silver bat!

Pattern is by @spirellity and I’m pretty sure it’s my new favorite bat pattern

[tj-crochets]

Here’s the pattern link if you’d like to make your own tiny bat!

[tj-crochets]

Morning pattern link reblog for the tiny bat!

[freyjadottir87]

It’s so cute! 

[crossdreamers]

87 year old grandmother from India brings joy into the hearts of transgender people all over the world

Kali published the following Instagram post on the role of her grandmother in her life in this Instagram post:

The necklace I’m wearing in this photo was the first gift my grandmother gave to me after I came out to show her support for my transition. My grandmother was and is still my biggest support in my life. 

When I came out to her, I was scared she may not understand it and our relationship getting ruined. She was extremely worried at first about how society would treat me and had some health issues because of the stress, but she never let me know that she was worried. 

Slowly with time, she started getting better and now Fully loves me as the woman I am. She was the one who helped me make my mom and other relatives understand and accept me. 

I asked her if she wanted to be part of a reel for @officialhumansofbombay and she was so excited to do it with me and she said she wants to give a strong message to society to help every Transgender person out there to gain acceptance and love from their family.

I have included the video from Humans of Bombay above.

The 87-year-old says that she no longer cares about “log kya kahenge” – a Hindi phrase meaning, “what will people think.”

See also LGBTQ Nation and Republic World.

[fierceawakening]

This is lovely! I wish them both joy and love! 💜💜

[guerrillatech]

[bolontiku]

Not feeling too great but here we are!!

I havent seen anyone do the selfie thing in a minute so... Drop a selfie. I think it'll be nice to see people smile. Even if you just wanna show off that nifty mask.

@just-a-kj-blog @magellan-88 @tilltheendwilliwrite @angryschnauzer @samwilsons-pillowpecs @charliethehoneyedangel @honey-bee-holly @juju092118 idk who else to tag. They put a hole in my head...

[tilltheendwilliwrite]

Well, I attempted the selfie and this happened

@dowager-mother @kagome1414 @extransient @messy-insomniac-bookgirl

[freyjadottir87]