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arrghigiveup

The comments and responses on this post are amazing

poetry-protest-pornography

I’m c r y i n g

Oh my godddd

justcatposts

It’s spider time!

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feralseraph

The bee friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924) There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a stra...

“There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition. Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family. Failing to do so often resulted in further loss such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying. Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.

Humans have always had a special connection with bees. In medieval Europe, bees were highly prized for their honey and wax. Honey was used as food, to make mead—possibly the world’s oldest fermented beverage—and as medicine to treat burns, cough, indigestion and other ailments. Candles made from beeswax burned brighter, longer and cleaner than other wax candles. Bees were often kept at monasteries and manor houses, where they were tended with the greatest respect and considered part of the family or community. It was considered rude, for example, to quarrel in front of bees.

The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message. Telling the bees was widely reported from all around England, and also from many places across Europe. Eventually, the tradition made their way across the Atlantic and into North America.“

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

*walks up to a beehive on new years eve, champagne drunk w/ mascara dripping down my eyes* you bitches are not going to bee-lieve the year i’ve fucking had

mr-squiggley-poufs

Ok so I've found a way to describe what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like to neurotypicals

So you know how you can't make yourself put your hand down on a hot stovetop? There's a part of your brain that stops you from doing that? That's what Neurodivergent Can't Do Task Mode™ feels like

Even if we want to do it, there's a barrier stopping us from doing it, and it's really hard to override

And why does our brain see the task as a hot stovetop? Because when neurotypicals finish a task, they get serotonin, but we don't get that satisfaction after completing a task. A neurotypical wouldn't get serotonin from putting their hand on a hot stovetop, it would just hurt. When we can't do a task, it's because our brain knows that the task will hurt (metaphorically) and wants to avoid that.

It's not that we're choosing not to do the task, it's that our brain is physically preventing us from doing it.

Neurotypicals can and should reblog but please don't add anything

(Sorry/not sorry about the random bolding, it makes it easier for us to read)

dovewithscales

Oh that’s a great example. It’s not even really a metaphor in some cases. Because this is exactly what some of our brains are doing. For one reason or another the brain thinks that the task in question is dangerous or harmful and the mechanism keeping us from doing it is a survival mechanism.

guerrillatech

kyraneko

We can have chocolate without slavery, it’ll just be more expensive. Which is perfectly reasonable, and would essentially make it more of a treat item and less of a barely-appreciated-half-the-time thoughtless-consumption item. Worst comes to absolute worst, it’ll rise in price to the point where building a greenhouse/hothouse onto your house, raising a cacao tree or two in it, and harvesting the pods to make your own chocolate in the kitchen becomes a thing people do. Which could probably stand to be done anyway, because growing things locally cuts down on transportation and we’ve gotten the indoor-farming thing to a point where it’s legit awesome.

Poor, poor Nestle, tho. People are enslaved by them, but oh no they might lose customers. WAAAAAAAAAAAH! (/s)

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

So I was once actually collecting data in a frozen river, and another guy fell in, filled up his waders and everything. He was wearing cotton (we were floored), and I had the car keys so I was like “alright, I’ll walk you back to the car to make sure you’re okay. Then you can strip down in there and get the heat going. There’s a blanket to wrap up in.” And he looked at me like I was insane. He said, “what? I’m fine.” I informed him that actually, if he stayed outside in subzero temperatures, soaking wet, in cotton, he was Licherly going to Freeze To Death, and he was like, “it’s not the 1800s lmao.”

And then while the guy in charge Forced him to go back to the car and strip, I had to stand there in a frozen river absolutely bewildered by the implication that a Wildife Biologist thought hypothermia is like, an old timey disease that people stopped getting at some point.

normal-horoscopes

WHAT DOES HE KNOW THAT WE DONT

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Vampire spending his current life as a wildlife biologist almost blows his cover when he forgets that humans often perish from Cold and Wet Syndrome.

adhd-alien

ADHD can feel like it gets 'worse' when we get older and have to organize ourselves more - the same thing can happen when we start working from home. For me, wfh is a double edged sword. It has it's upsides, but was also the reason I almost got fired and had to seek a diagnosis.

While I learned that I can generally concentrate better at home where I'm able to be inunterrupted or walk around when I need to, I was also unable to get myself to work for WEEKS without medication (and sometimes even now). I want to make a comic about how to deal wih this, but as I'm still trying to figure this out for myself (I feel like hardly any coping strategies work for me), I'll need a some more time to make it right. Also, this isn't trying to make a case for or against wfh!

Pomodoro technique = set a timer to 25minutes, then take 5 minutes break, repeat and adapt to your own time preferences

Body doubling = sit with someone in voice chat (without chatting) as you work, so you're less likely to wander off and start procrastinating

sirfrogsworth

I think Zelda got more of her father’s comedy genes than she realizes.

whitepeopletwitter

nuevayor

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nuevayor

Everything about this is a masterpiece: the girl that says “wow” and the girl that says “hi” shyly and bill awkwardly lifting his hand to say hi to them I’m cracking THE FUCK UP

forgamers

aussiepineapple1st

I WOULD BE SO COMFORTABLE WHEN DRAWING!!!!!! And playing games.

mellifera38

marauders4evr

Yes, yes, hilarious Wall-E jokes, but the accessibility?! I’ve spent the past 6 weeks alternating between bed rest and sitting in my wheelchair. I’m currently lying flat on my back, my laptop dangerously perched, threatening to fall into my face, while staring up at a godawful fluorescent light. Give me a future where we can sit in environments that consistently adapt to you, while looking like you’re a supervillain that would rival Megamind in presentation!

ruffboi-mags

catch me and my wife in our matching SCORPIOPOD DESK CHAIR AMALGAMS.

scoutsmoocrew

fishmech

*lion chilling on the plains* oh whoa that guy over there just ate a bird, maybe i should eat an antelope or somethin

casanovabutch

Only 3000 years ago???

mamakay93-deactivated20190129

Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues

teratomarty

Important information! Insurance coverage decisions are made by medically ignorant bean-counters. Until we can dismantle the whole shitty system, know how to scare them into submission.