Gods Of Ocotillo

Buddhist-Animist - queer - elder millennial - desert lover - Commonplace book - posting my mail/postal art

[taylornprice]

mussels!

[itsjustfish]

Day 14: Twilight

For @montereybayaquarium ‘s Deep Sea December

[nobeerreviews]

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.

-- Jean Baudrillard

(Egypt)

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

“Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So, the Nothing grows stronger.”

The Neverending Story (1984)

[solarpunkcast]

This is exactly why speculative fiction is important

This is why taking a break for downtime is important

This is why being able to daydream and wander, is important

Without hope and dreams, we can’t even consider that a better world is possible

And that is exactly the point of overworking and underpaying us.

[kattahj]

Michael Ende, who wrote The Neverending Story, also wrote Momo, where the villains are little grey men who convince you to “save time” by cutting out everything fun and meaningful in your life. But you never get the saved time back, the little men smoke it.

[lycanthrop-ee-art]

joan of arc

[queer-as-city-folk]

AFRICAN RED RIVER HOG appreciation post

Reblog with your favorite African red river hog

[victusinveritas]

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

happy Saturday heres what the Derry girls would do if they woke up in a saw trap

erin: not a chance of surviving. like shed think she could outsmart jigsaw easily but let's be honest she would bite it fucking instantly.

michelle: 'what the fuck is this? is this an orgy? is this how orgies start? listen, theres stuff I'm into, like theres a LOT of stuff I'm into, but this is-" trap goes off and she bites it

clare: panics and screams but does manage to escape somehow

james: not a chance of escaping that shit and he knows it

orla: completes the trap and absolutely loves every minute of it. goes home and tells her mammy about the absolutely class escape room shes found. they both do their best to get kidnapped by jigsaw at least once a fortnight. jigsaw lives in fear of them.

granda: "yer stupid prick of a husband has got me stuck in yon saw trap mary!"

sister michael: is jigsaw

[hellboundhorrormovielover]

so, it may be one-thirty in the afternoon, or perhaps it might indeed be one-fortyfive, or maybe even one-fiftyfive, I cant be exactly sure if the time now; but this was when I woke up in a wee bathroom. well, I've seen me fair share of wee bathrooms, but this one, I must say, beyond any other bathroom I've seen, was a particularly nasty bathroom

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

[your-fave-hates-ai]

YOU

YOU HATE AI !!

[very-gay-alkyrion]

[divinum-pacis]

Buddhist monks take part in the funeral of Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who in the 1960s came to prominence as an opponent of the Vietnam war. Photograph: Reuters

[memories-of-ancients]

It's early in the morning and I'm wishing I had a time machine so that I could go back in time to the Peruvian Moche culture circa 1st to 8th century so I could tell their pottery makers how much I love their ceramics. Mayhaps even buy a piece for my collection.

Ditto Colima culture of Mexico and their ceramic puppers

[powerburial]

i love how theres no rules for pronouncing words in English, you literally just have to learn and hear someone say every single word

[3liza]

if anyone is wondering why this is, it's because they stopped teaching American children (and many British) the rules (which exist, and have been standardized and written down for centuries) sometime at the turn of the 21st century. if you are gen x or older, have English degree-holding parents, and/or had any really old teachers who were still teaching into the "fuck grammar" era of public schooling, you unlock a special level of English comprehension where you can pronounce 99% of words perfectly without ever hearing them at all, as well as the ability to code switch to a higher-"class" dialect of English at will, which is extremely important for any social interaction where you have to deal with people who are judging you for such a thing, which happens a lot more often than you're aware of unless someone has already told you about it. usually no one tells you about it unless they're teaching it.

there were a lot of reasons for the shift, most of them can be blamed on Reagan and Thatcher (like everything else). it was pushed through to school curriculums and popular culture as a "de-snobbification" of english education where everyone's regional and ethnic accents would be normalized and accepted, what actually happened is that language gaps between rich and poor kids was crowbarred farther apart as you could no longer learn to talk, write, or read fancy in a free public school, leaving only the wealthy kids who got tutors and private schools and educated parents with a formal English education able to choose to code switch or to struggle considerably less in college when professors usually start expecting you to know grammar and etymology already and don't think it's their job to fix your high school teacher's fuckups. (it is, but that's a different post)

this is why almost everyone on YouTube is speaking only approximate English (see the #youtube grammar tag) a lot of the time and one of the big reasons people with average hearing and reading and processing function have started needing subtitles a lot more in the past ten years, when they didn't before

this gets brought up on Tumblr a lot, see prior discourse about cursive not being taught anymore (not actually a good thing, prevents you from reading anything handwritten before 1990, bad for handwriting ergonomics especially for hypermobile people [see: why do so many hypermobile and autistic people get into fountain pens]) and the new yorker article about "vibes based literacy".

anyway the lesson here is every time the education establishment announces they are about to make education "less formal" and that this will benefit "everyone", because hooray we all thought learning cursive and sentence diagramming and Greek word roots was boring, right? what they are actually announcing is that you will still be judged for not being able to use those formal skills, but now only rich people will be able to learn them from tutors as basic education becomes increasingly privatized.

[bourtange]

specifically on the topic of pronouncing words, a conlang nerd sat down and brute-force compiled a numbered list of rules for correctly pronouncing english words that gets it right for nearly every word 23 years ago (the date explains why his phonetic transcription is so weird, sorry)

[bigmickswingin]

[godsoftheocotillo]

We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body…There is no phenomenon in the universe that does not intimately concern us, from a pebble resting at the bottom of the ocean, to the movement of a galaxy millions of light years away.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

From “The Sun My Heart” (chapter 3)

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

No but seriously. Normalize finding love in your 40's. Normalize discovering and chasing new dreams in your 30's. Normalize finding yourself and your purpose in your 50's. Life doesn't end at 25. Let's stop acting like it does.

[theinternetarchive]

proposition 6 was an initiative by senator john briggs to expel gay and lesbian teachers from the school system. poster by a teacher's union, 1977.

[saintly-sorceress-deactivated20]

St. Joan of Arc, pray for us ⚔️