hiding in the flower shop

a new multimedia fiction project by tip/toe

[hidingintheflowershop]

hi!! my name is naomi meehan (she/her). i am a musician and multimedia artist based in burlington vermont. last year i released a project called "hot girls don't trust the government" which you might've heard. this will be the new centralized place where i talk about stuff i care about, shitpost memes, and update the lore and narrative fiction of my new project "hiding in the flower shop." i hope you like it! you can reach out to me on IG at @prodbytiptoe and i will prob return your message in 5-7 business days depending on how overwhelmed i currently am by the capitalistic hellscape we inhabit. have a nice day! :)

[70sscifiart]

Michael Bohme, “Parallel Worlds”

[heartshop]

Chew your way into a new world. Munch leaves. Molt. Rest. Molt again. Self-reinvention is everything. Spin many nests. Cultivate stinging bristles. Don’t get sentimental about your discarded skins.

Amy Gerstler, an excerpt from the poem ‘Advice from a Caterpillar’

[identitty-dickruption]

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

[identitty-dickruption]

we have to give ourselves permission to imagine disabled futures. we’ve been told, either implicitly or explicitly that we shouldn’t exist, so it becomes hard to imagine a perfect world populated with people like us. but loving ourselves and our communities is about being able to imagine a future that has us in it. there is a perfect world where people are happily disabled. and that’s what I’m fighting for — the chance that we can slowly take steps towards that world. imagine disabled futures

[boosadly]

SLC Punk! (1998)

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[gaylienz]

happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

[gaylienz]

Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful

[lierdumoa]

Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."

[red-dead-revival]

It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.

[sweatermuppet]

[wolfertinger666]

if you're transgender you have to live.

[hidingintheflowershop]

[eve and naomi]

i'm coming back to my body, now.

listening to ethel cain like i do at 5 in the morning,

with you

at 5 in the morning

maybe i am coming unstringed like

the guitar you use to share your feelings

when you change to the tuning of my favorite song

the one i listen to at 5 in the morning

you tuned me like a radio

[i-am-a-fish]

I'll trans my gender right in front of you. I'll do it

[tearsandtheteeth]

[radicalgraff]

"Do you believe in life after work"

Spotted in Lucca, Italy

[mollyjames]

Sometimes I think about how many people I met in food service who smoke. I think about growing up in an upper-middle class neighborhood, and how it was drilled into me that smoking is addictive and bad for your health. I think most people, in America at least, are well aware of that. Whenever I would decline a cigarette, on the rare occasion it was offered, saying I dont smoke the reply is always "good, don't start."

I think about the long shifts, working on your feet all day, with breaks scheduled down to the minute. Every second of your day controlled by the clock, regardless of how tired you might be. However, in food service, there is one exception. The smoke break. Most managers respect the smoke break. The old school ones do, at least. The newer crop less so. Food service is fast paced, highly stressful work, and nicotine, in addition to all of its addictive and damaging properties, is a relaxant. If a burger flipper or barista says they need to step outside for a smoke, you let them do it, and you dont begrudge them for it.

It's such a strange bit of kindness. One that we know is terribly harmful in many respects, but performed anyway. I think about all of the interconnected systems, of health, of education, of exploitation, that leads a person to knowingly trade in years of their life for five minutes of peace. I wonder how many people in my upper middle class neighborhood would propose simply banning the smoke breaks. I wonder how many people I know would just break.

[ai-dream]

[liminallylonelyybabyy]

•retro whitewash•