Grumpy Bog Lesbian

They knew I would be too powerful if I had regular bowel movements

[sea-mists]

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.

[queriesntheories]

Reblogging this with these tags because oh my goodness

To the person I reblogged this from THANK YOU i am now going to stick this on my pinboard where I’m gonna see it every single day

“Life is long and beautiful if you make it so”

[queerasfact]

Happy pride! You can find podcasts on each of these stories here: Gilgamesh; Hind and al-Zarqa', Abu Nuwas, Maryam Khatoon Molkara

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[gallusrostromegalus]

Thoughts, in approximate order:

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes

[viralfrog]

[automatuck9]

[weevilwizard]

so we all agree that lord of the rings is a musical

[weevilwizard]

you. you get it

[grumpyboglesbian]

*laughs in memorized most of the poems in the books, including an Elvish one, because you got extra credit in middle school for every poem you memorized*

[grumpyboglesbian]

Just found a book in a little free library called Westward Whoa, and dear reader, I deeply need you to know in your heart that the Lewis and Clark Expedition was NOT to find the Northwest Passage.

[berkeleygirl3]

[maimonideznuts]

Sometimes I feel like I'm a patchwork doll of the things you copied from other seemingly functional people to mask the fucked up results of a childhood filled with trauma and not love? And as an Adult you're kinda terrified that a thread will snag and the ugly insides you have for stuffing will come spilling out revealing ugliness your afraid you might have hidden even from yourself?

Why yes, I am having a moment of being unsure if who I am is who I am, and what it means to have become an adult when it doesn't feel like I meaningfully had a childhood.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[imtzvi]

Remember when i got really into the international phonetic alphabet. sorry about that

[imtzvi]

But i was right about what i said. if we all started using that we could read each others accents it would be fun

[certified-linguistics-moment]

[jɝ so͡ʊ ɹʌ͡ɪt̚ ˈbɛsti]

[capesandshapes]

As a former librarian I'm actually required to remind you that many libraries that subscribe to Libby are opted into a program that lets you subscribe and access magazines for free with no wait

And that this is actually a really fun, low cost way to not only access news and larger cultural magazines, but also to get free patterns for many different crafts that you can screenshot if need be and that lower the financial barriers to entry for trying new things

From my experience working in both academic and public libraries, many libraries are use it or lose it funding-- I have to say this because a lot of patrons feel guilty for how much they use the library and how often they're using it funny enough, but the worst thing you can do for libraries is not try out new features and not use what's already given to you as much as possible.

The numbers that come as a result of your patronage are how most libraries justify their continued existence in times of financial hardship, which sucks but, go check out some magazines on Libby!

[wanderingjunkdrawer]

Reading PSA

[dovesick]

various types of pigeons

[mammalianmammals]

See the First-Ever Photos of Cozumel’s Mysterious Dwarf Fox

Many believed the tiny fox had gone extinct

Strange things happen to animals when they colonize islands. Some of them get larger, like the enormous rabbit Nuralagus rex of ancient Menorca, while others get smaller, like the dwarf fox of Cozumel. This mysterious species of gray fox is estimated to be only around 60 to 80 percent the size of its larger mainland brethren. Fossils indicate it first arrived on the Mexican island around 5,000 years ago, predating the arrival of humans...

Read more: https://nautil.us/see-the-first-ever-photos-of-cozumels-mysterious-dwarf-fox-1281829

[gallusrostromegalus]

@raccoonmilf hey this is your part of the world!

[grumpyboglesbian]

[chromaticabrasions]

there are so many horrific ways for the body to break down and you may be lucky enough to experience any number of them at any point in your life

[hypokeimena]

#reframing my disability as being able to experience a new thing. i could say shehecheyanu every time i get a new symptom. (via @alonewildbird)

[grumpyboglesbian]

Today, my fine motor control tanked. Shehecheyanu?

[grumpyboglesbian]

The value of my education is oranges

Given the absolute dumpster fire that is student loan repayment, I vote that we revert to Great Depression tactics and pay in oranges, just like workers who had accounts at the bank my great-grandfather worked at.

[grumpyboglesbian]

Trees blooming in spring