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auntie em, 30s, f | HAPPILY MARRIED | mom-to-be | ✝️ Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | Veggie Tales enthusiast | fiber artist (spinning, embroidery, crochet, quilting) & hobbit-y homemaker | not here to argue | go forth and have the day you deserve. | blog title courtesy @imaybeabear | empty blogs and e-beggars will be reported and blocked eventually | ecclesiastes 2:24-25 | psalm 37 & 77:10-20 | romans 5:3-5

[pain-isnt--needed]

[c0nji]

[kave-elott-ne-szolj-hozzam]

love it when peoole draw someone instead of photographing random strangers.

art: 10/10

respect: 10/10

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[morrigan-reads]

if there was a muppet king arthur movie, you might be tempted to have arthur played by kermit, it seems obvious on the surface. but that would be a huge mistake. because then you can't have piggy be guinevere without the implication that kermit is being cuckolded by whichever muppet or human you get to play lancelot. the obvious best answer is to have kermit play lancelot, and have arthur be the one human actor. because then you get the joke of lancelot being french (viz. a frog), guinevere being miss piggy (iconic), and the much funnier joke of kermit cuckolding an oblivious nikolaj coster-waldau (or insert your own arthur casting here.)

[frostedmagnolias]

Silk and Velvet Dress with Royal Provenance

c. 1906

"Attributed to Elizabeth of Romania, purchased at Christie's Auction July 11, 1967. Helen Larson called this auction the "Queen's Auction" due to so many objects with royal provenance in the sale."

Whitaker Auction

[anonpolls]

Ok If I want to follow someone who follows me back is it required to talk to them like message?

No it isn't required you can just be mutuals

It isn't required but you usually are supposed to

Yes being mutuals is like being friends

Idk man stop overthinking it's not that serious

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[ghostrider-02]

Prayer request. Not an emergency so far, but my husband woke up feeling nauseated. No fever, just not feeling quite 100%. He's been dealing with allergies the last couple days, between corn/grass pollen and some smoke that's trickling in, which causes a lot of sinus drainage problems for him. I'm going to blame that for now, until new symptoms present themselves.

At least he doesn't seem to be as sick as he was in May.

[ghostrider-02]

Instead of taking the full day off, he went back to bed for a couple hours, felt well enough for me to cook him a proper breakfast and set up his lunchbox, and off he went. He seems to have recovered.

Thank you all for your consideration, I'm crediting you all and your prayers for his recovery.

[turnipfritters]

My scorching hot take on Christopher Nolan Presents Homer's The Odyssey is Tom Holland having his mind blown while filming this, then going back to Marvel to and being all "Why did no one tell me that you can, like, have a finished script before you start filming and a cinematographer who has all the shots planned before filming instead of figuring it out in post, has anyone else heard about this?" is pretty funny

[turnipfritters]

Visionary Director Christopher Nolan's controversial directing style of "telling actors what's happening in a scene when they're filming"

[headpainmigraine]

Freaking out

Do you usually put margarine/butter on your bread before you make a sandwich?

Yes - USAmerican

No - USAmerican

Yes - elsewhere

No - elsewhere

See results (don't make sandwiches, etc)

Remaining time: 2 days 4 hours

[sarahwestcott]

American here, and absolutely never have I or would I do this. Yuck!

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

GET BACK IN TRACTOR FACTORY OR WE SHOOT

[recoiloperated]

Picker Wheel - Spin the Wheel to Decide a Random Choice

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What's your job after the communist revolution?

[recoiloperated]

Ever bury an animal and notice the grass is greener over the grave?

Good news! You won't have to deal with the commies!

[mornington-the-crescent]

[m00nxtal]

Lol i got factory worker and that's literally what i do! 🤣

[ghostrider-02]

Prayer request. Not an emergency so far, but my husband woke up feeling nauseated. No fever, just not feeling quite 100%. He's been dealing with allergies the last couple days, between corn/grass pollen and some smoke that's trickling in, which causes a lot of sinus drainage problems for him. I'm going to blame that for now, until new symptoms present themselves.

At least he doesn't seem to be as sick as he was in May.

[riverlarking]

the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you

[after-fear]

Overly Honest Methods in science.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

ooh this version has some ones i haven’t seen before, priceless

[wanderingandfound]

  #we chose macrocystis because every other kelp was rotting at that time of year    #we kept the crabs 12 to a sea table because we were sharing the space and couldnt use more    #the crabs were subject to a non-natural light cycle because other researchers kept leaving the lights on overnight (via Dicrocoeliumdendriticum)

[poepower]

Archaeologist. We sometimes choose places to dig because our gut says “this is nice, I’d settle here”. I’ve had field directors say “this has paleo energy” about areas. Often we see big hill in our dig area, we dig on big hill. 

Most recently, I’ve found two sites because I was walking to my next hole and saw some petrified wood I wanted. Started picking up pieces and saw a half buried biface lmao. 

Other site, I was walking and imagined a little native girl running along the ridge. I had a gut feeling to dig like 5m from where the hole was. Found a utilized petrified wood flake. Could’ve written it off as a plow fact, but due to all the pet wood I’d been collecting throughout the area (I’m a greedy little thing who wants pretty rocks), I knew the was it was broken was inconsistent to how the pet wood naturally breaks. 

What sealed the deal for me was cleaning the mud off, and it cut me so, yup, definitely utilized. 

[megalunalexi-aesthetic]

So glad you commented this because I was looking for the term for “people saw a pretty rock and took it with them” forEVER now and couldn’t find it. Fuckin love manuports

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

eternal human urges:

shiny rock!!

throw object in body of water

big hill. climb.

not come in to lab on weekend

[thatdisasterauthor]

We found our T. rex last summer by just walking around and sticking a very long, thin stick in the mud until we hit something hard, then we dug.

[ospreyonthemoon]

@katy-l-wood PLEASE tell us about your t-rex

[thatdisasterauthor]

Here’s the article/press release I wrote about it!

https://www.rmdrc.com/post/25-years-and-thousands-of-miles-walked-to-find-a-t-rex

[taavicleric]

The Dinosaur Resource Center is absolutely amazing. Next best dinosaur exhibit I’ve been to after Actual Literal Dinosaur National Monument. NYC and Denver have great set-ups, too, but both National Monument and the Resource Center feel very current but accessible.

If you’re ever down in Colorado Springs, folks who haven’t been, it is a shortish gorgeous drive, especially if it’s rained recently.

[quill-of-thoth]

Recent archaeological dig tour had me (with permission) going around poking bones going “burnt, burnt, not burnt, burnt, polished” because it turns out I handle bones. Often.

[kyidyl]

We do the stick thing in archaeology too. We actually have a tool for it bc most of our stuff isn’t stone like dinos are. So we have this thing we stick in the ground and it takes out like a very small core of the layers. And the kind of ironic thing is that all of those instincts that make you say “oh yeah someone totally would have lived here” also made a bunch of OTHER people say that and so the sites are disturbed. x.x

[salt-n-tigers]

Self deprecation is one of the most vile things I can think of.

Never talk like that about yourself, WTF is wrong with you?!!

If you ever even come close to talking shit about yourself you should stop, consider why, and then change your course of direction. Never hate on yourself, why would you do that? WTF is wrong with you.

A joke now and then at your own expense is not the same as self deprecation.

[disturbedcore]

I still battle with this everyday. I'm caught between self depreciation and sarcasm..

[salt-n-tigers]

Nothin wrong with havin a laugh at your own expense, I do that all the time, because I am secure in myself. There’s a huge difference between being self confident and hating yourself. Please don’t hate yourself

[ghostrider-02]

Had a non-alcoholic margarita with supper tonight, it was the most delicious thing I've had since the heatwave started.

[teaboot]

The number of times I have been delighted by witty banter only to find out later that I was “Flirting” is both unfortunate and disappointing.

[teaboot]

“haha so what about that guy, huh?”

Me: what about him

“Well you seemed super into him”

Me: what why

“…dude you were flirting all night”

Me:

Me: Whoms't™™

[trainerdelaney]

I found out several of my female coworkers were planning on trying to get our male coworker to ask me out because “You guys kept flirting” but I was like “We were literally just goofing around. Like we literally just told jokes to each other. Literally just stuff that friends do, the same stuff you and I do.” I was definitely 100% NOT flirting but everyone thought I was

[trainerdelaney]

“You were laughing at everything TJ did!”

“He paper clipped a banana to the ceiling, Isabelle. That’s fucking bonkers”

[spindletrees]

This might be a good time for Ms. Psych degree here to step in and let ye all know that People Are Unable To Identify Flirting. There are double-blind studies to support this, if you instruct participants to flirt or not flirt with another participant, neither the second participant nor onlookers are able to accurately tell which instruction the first participant was given. Even if you get the flirting participant to rate their attraction to the person they’re flirting with, and only count trials where people are either flirting with people they find attractive, or not flirting with people they don’t find attractive NO ONE CAN TELL WHO IS FLIRTING OR WHO ISN’T.

[gallantblade475-blog-deactivate]

I’ve heard that people actually have a *less than 50% chance* of guess whether someone is flirting or not.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Thank fuck this isn’t just me failing at humanity

[stammsternenstaub]

SagePub has one such study here, dated 2014. There might be more recent work, however.

[str-ngeloop]

you will struggle to say the unsayable thing for five years straight. and then it will suddenly become easy on a Wednesday morning