Beneath the golden Balm

[wetheurban]

I hope July and the second half of this year are gentler on your spirit, kinder to you, good for your growth, and even better than the first half.

[hellenhighwater]

We had heavy rain last night-- the kind that usually means worms coming up--so I fully expected Vice to have brought me one. Here is this morning's gift:

Two wool dryer balls! Stolen fron the laundry downstairs. Good job Vice!

So proud.

[hellenhighwater]

Also please know that sometimes my phone tries to do portrait mode and gets it really wrong and instead gives me these cat cutouts on solid color backgrounds.

[hellenhighwater]

[hellenhighwater]

Spot the difference

[hellenhighwater]

[thesuninperigee]

Hey, boss, how's this?

[qwuilleran]

[scienceandstorytelling]

[prosthetic-placebo]

[greaseonmymouth]

[grenade-maid]

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

“Welcome to Soviet America, home of the McDonalds and Cocaine Cola. Long live Comrade Reagan.”

[olivia-online]

The Civil War, or as I like to call it, Late Tokugawa Period America

[melonisopod]

I know this is a joke but this helps me put a lot of historical periods into perspective.

[computationalcalculator]

"cowboys were a sort of itinerant warrior class common in meiji-era texas"

[eldritchbauble]

I can't fuck with people who are fundamentally uncurious.

[eldritchbauble]

I also can't fuck with people who are fundamentally unkind.

[bouncing-flowers]

If you really want something in life, you’ve gotta let that fear of rejection go.

[sunsetbuddie]

we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us

[ozarkthedog]

"I miss characters living alongside us."

What a perfect quote.

[absenteism]

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

my baby doesn't belong to any white man

North of North is about a young Inuk woman who gets sick of her narcissistic husband's macho BS and moves in with her single mom. that... probably makes it sound like one of those shows, doesn't it.

well, maybe it is, maybe it's not (it's not). while Siaja (Anna Lambe, gorgeous, absolutely stunning) runs around trying to put her life back together and find herself (but first find and hold down a job and learn to coparent with her almost-ex - yeah of course she has a kid, she's 26!), there is life happening all over place in the tiny Nunavut town. Ice Cove is the kind of tight-knit community where your people won't leave you alone - but they also won't leave you alone, you know?

the show doesn't preach, but while you're laughing, it still quietly, casually shows you how colonialism doesn't really end.

how it lingers.

here's your white mayor. here's your language being slowly forgotten and now you need a translator to understand your elders. here's your town's lack of funding and what it gets it has to fight for (and how do you fight for it when there's another town (the Shelbyville to your Springfield, the Woodbury to your Stars Hollow) that even has a sushi place?). here's a French Canadian man who calls you Snocahontas. here's your mother's self-sabotaging old trauma.

*sigh* fine, there's also walrus dick baseball. if anything, watch it for the walrus dick baseball

[chaoticgouda]

[seat-safety-switch]

5-RebeccaSue Metahearst, my editor at Better Homes & Gardens, was now shrieking at me so loud her biomemetic antigold earrings were becoming incandescent. It reminded me of when I was a child, when the space shuttle exploded with Big Bird on board.

"You can't put the words FUTON FETISH in 150 point type on the front of the magazine," she explained patiently but at a volume exceeding maximum safe worksite levels. I slapped my watch to keep it from automatically filing a lost-time complaint with the union metamind.

"We already took the photos," I gamely explain. "It's like a high concept art piece. Hugh wanted more of that."

5-RebeccaSue's jewelry pulsed with nightmare light as she removed the photo proofs from the envelope. In each picture, a scantily clad model was performing a pantomime of a crude act with furniture.

"It's gender balanced," I babbled.

[probuccalfat]

beautiful women and their beautiful breasts. Thank God.

[footlongdingledong]

idk man not to sound like a cartoon hippie but if your entirrrrre blog and dash is about how the world sucks and everyones bigoted i think you are going to give yorself brain worms

[footlongdingledong]

"ah but all of this is important and true and if i dont reblog all of this important stuff waga baga THE WORMS! THATS WORMS! THE BRAIN WORMS!

[footlongdingledong]

i do not think you are doing activism chief i think what you are doing is sitting in your room flagellating yourself expecting something to happen

[pmamtraveller]

Kathleen Jennings

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, for hands and wrists!

X

[livlina-angel]

posting this with every artist tag i can think of, even if you dont do crochet, PLEASE TAKE RESTS FOR YOUR HANDS!!! no matter what medium artist you are, take care of your articulations

[jeanninedupree]

@copperbadge, this seems like something you or your cats need

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4304287254/pope-leo-xiv-by-paintbrush-studio

[copperbadge]

I like the implication that my cats also do crafting (and/or are Catholic I suppose!)

Pope Leo Fabric is definitely somethin' else.

[great-and-small]

I saw an otter briefly hop on top of a babirusa at the zoo and when the stranger standing next to me heard my camera shutter click he turned to me with this look of immense relief, put his hand to his chest, and said in a dead serious tone “oh thank christ someone caught that on film”

[great-and-small]

Not the best photo but here it is for posterity

[aelijoh]

I wanted to draw them