Inconsistenties

This blog is very inconsistent, so that's a fair warning.

[everythingfox]

Arctic fox at a glacial river

Benjamin Hardman

[sandersstudies]

Anybody else, maybe with ADHD, see something but not SEE it?

Like as I was closing the fridge I saw the garlic and was like “oh yeah I have to put garlic in the stew” and when I reopened the fridge ten seconds later I had to search around for the garlic because I hadn’t SEEN it.

Just now I’m at a craft store, I saw the word “adhesive” but I didn’t SEE it so now I’m trying to find it again, a literal 2 seconds after I saw it.

[writingfeedsthedarkestones]

Yes! It's a mix of visual clutter and lack of object permanence. Your brain says "you saw it, no need to show you again" and leaves you crying in the grocery store trying to find cheese

[sandersstudies]

Me: please god I just want to finish dinner

My brain: you may witness the presence of garlic ONCE

[sandersstudies]

Me: oh hey here’s that thing you need

My sister: where?

Me: ... excellent question

[theveryworstthing]

the fight is harder each year.

[theveryworstthing]

gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.

[theveryworstthing]

you deserve to be new and whole.

[nervosityperson]

Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?

[naamahdarling]

In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.

In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another.  It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight.  It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future.  It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf.  Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same.  We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil.  It is only very strong, and inevitable.

The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior.  The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed.  They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore.  The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist.  It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into.  The two have changed roles.  The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.

It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.

[naamahdarling]

It’s not the new year, but things are so difficult for so many of us right now, and we are so worn down from so many fights on so many fronts, I feel like we could all use this again.  Love, rest, fight, love.

[everythingfox]

Made with love

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

in the ten years since we lost my dad, dozens and dozens of people have messaged me here or asked me in person, “my friend just lost [parents, child, partner, etc.]. What can I do for them?”

I could make an extremely long post about the year-long initial grief process I personally subscribe to, but my immediate advice is: Provide Basic Care, namely food. In the first two weeks following a death, it’s hard to focus on self-maintenance. If there’s not ready-made food available, many people may skip eating for days before they realize how hungry they are. Chores pile up.

In this case, we’re assuming you know your friend well enough to make some decisions for them. If you ask what they want, they might feel like a burden and deny help, or they may be too distracted by the shock of the loss to know how to answer. So don’t ask, show up. I’m not saying force yourself into their space. Dropping things off and being on your way if they want privacy is okay. If you know what they can/like to eat, bring it. If you can’t afford it on your own, reach out to their other friends, their place of worship, any support system they may possibly have, and try to pool money for groceries. Ask each person to provide, whether home-cooked or purchased, one meal. If it can be frozen for longer storage, that’s even better.

Staples are good, but so are comfort foods. Bring any favorites you know about.

Next, if you’re extremely close to this person, either you live with them or go to their home regularly, offer to do their basic chores. If they feel a little uncomfortable accepting, ask if you can work together to complete the chores. Dishes, sweeping, picking up the kids from school or taking the pets to their grooming appointment. Babysitting young children while adults make arrangements. Laundry, even offering to lay out a week of outfits for them so they don’t have to worry about what to wear.

When’s the last time they shopped for basic necessities? Are they out of anything? Toilet paper? Toothpaste? Tell them you needed to get some for yourself this week anyway, so you’ll pick it up for them too if they can name a few things, really it’s no trouble. If they want to shop, ask if you can go together, especially if they seem to have trouble actually getting there.

If you’re not extremely close with this person, say you’re a coworker, a newer friend, etc., if you know one of their close friends, get in touch with them and ask what the person may need. Offering to gather meals for a drop-off is still appropriate.

Acts of service go a long way, but If you don’t know them well or any of their close friends, financial support is a good option. A condolence card in an envelope with a personally or group-funded gift card to a grocery store, or just plain cash and note like “for anything you might need right now” is also appropriate.

It is impossible to exaggerate how far these things go in the wake of losing someone you love.

The night my dad died, my mom’s friends showed up at our house, and they simply began cleaning. They did the dishes. They vacuumed the carpets. They even cleaned the bathrooms. I don’t think it was all part of a plan. I think they were simply doing something for the sake of doing ANYTHING they could in a situation which made us feel so powerless. Then our friends and family fed us lunch and dinner for about two weeks.

My high school best friends helped me get dressed every day leading up to the funeral. One of them washed my hair.

I will remember the love of all of those actions for as long as I live. Even from the people who I know felt awkward and lost, who stopped by our house with a casserole and absolutely no idea what to say, who left groceries in a bag on the porch with a note because they couldn’t bear the uncomfortable “we’re sorry for your loss” conversation.

Every single thing mattered more than the people helping may have even realized. Community saved us when everything fell apart.

[yahooentertainment]

lmao😂/smh🙄

[freedomjusticewarrior]

Eli Bosnick had the best response to this ridiculousness.

“If I gave you a bowl of skittles and three of them were poison would you still eat them?”

“Are the other skittles human lives?”

“What?”

“Like. Is there a good chance. A really good chance. I would be saving someone from a war zone and probably their life if I ate a skittle?”

“Well sure. But the point-”

“I would eat the skittles.”

“Ok-well the point is-”

“I would GORGE myself on skittles. I would eat every single fucking skittle I could find. I would STUFF myself with skittles. And when I found the poison skittle and died I would make sure to leave behind a legacy of children and of friends who also ate skittle after skittle until there were no skittles to be eaten. And each person who found the poison skittle we would weep for. We would weep for their loss, for their sacrifice, and for the fact that they did not let themselves succumb to fear but made the world a better place by eating skittles.

Because your REAL question…the one you hid behind a shitty little inaccurate, insensitive, dehumanizing racist little candy metaphor is, IS MY LIFE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF MEN, WOMEN, AND TERRIFIED CHILDREN…

… and what kind of monster would think the answer to that question… is yes?”

[areax]

Jed portrayed the shapeshifting alien taking the form of a Norwegian dog in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). Jed was half-wolf, half Canadian malamute, and according to Carpenter, was an excellent animal actor—after becoming familiar with the cast and crew, he would not look at the camera, crew, or dolly during scenes. Jed’s quiet manner perfectly reflected the alien’s unsettling nature. Jed would go on to act in a few other movies, and lived on his trainer Clint Rowe’s animal sanctuary until his death at age eighteen—quite old for a dog of his breed.

[devnaut]

literally where is his oscar

[babyanimalgifs]

This is so wholesome

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip

[callmebliss]

I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is

[deadjosey-deactivated20200613]

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children. 

[strangeracrossthestreet]

CAT DAD IS BACK

[jackslenderman]

aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;

[aquilacalvitium]

HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!

[midgardian-april]

This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen. 

[trishmishtree]

update:

[lemonsharks]

I love that he kept …. All of them.

[petermorwood]

I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.

This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.

[teashoesandhair]

You’re welcome.

[askfordoodles]

I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ❤

[theminingengineer]

@every-n-anything

[karmic-punishment-deactivated20]

[fierceawakening]

All hail Catdad

[daisy-rivers]

I saw Catdad for the first time today, and my day instantly became exponentially better.

[pretty-frown-deactivated2026011]

I’M CRYING!?

[instant-karma-official]

CATDAD HAS REVIVED MY WILL TO LIVE

[lilith-hargreeves-official]

I live for cat dad-

[rip-paramour]

Cat dad has saved us all

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[inferno-sytem]

CAT DAD!!

[thekristen999]

I had not seen the updates. I am so happy that the Cat Gods smiled upon this person and their new family :)

[lmaodies]

He’s got more recent pictures (and is also an INCREDIBLE artist), but this is the fam circa May 2020 :>

[yuumei-art]

Finally finished all 6 of my Terrarium Life series~ I first started this series when Covid lockdown happened and everyone had to quarantine. It made me think about all the things we can enjoy by ourselves and how to focus on our self care and mental health. Be it reading books, cuddling with your pet, drinking tea, or tending to plants, take some time each day and treat yourself well <3 I’ll be adding stickers and postcards sets of this series and other new products to my shop for the upcoming Thanksgiving Charity Sale! There will be other exciting giveaways too but that’ll be a secret for now

[aspergersissues]

[saiyanqueenreads]

Yes.  Just yes.

[cameoappearance]

"I wasn't confused, I had a very clear and completely incorrect idea of what you wanted."

[yd12k]

'I did ask for clarification and you got angry at me instead of clarifying' is even worse

[whatevercomestomymind]

And also "the fact that your instructions were JUUUUUST non-specific enough to allow for drastic reinterpretation of what you actually wanted is not my fault."

[thesaltyspice-deactivated201901]

I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-Nazi ones, which is great, but I felt like we needed one to show our support for the Jewish community.  

[bipolar-bubbeleh]

all you goyim I follow - I see you reblogging this and it warms me.

[ameerawritesstuff]

do not reblog this unless you mean it. I have dealt with so much anti-semitism in my life and the number of times I get it from “open-minded liberals” is disturbing. Remember this summer when the Dyke Marches banned people for having a rainbow flag with a Star of David on it? I was accused of playing my “Jew card” too much when I tried to get my shitty goy roommate to stop making Auschwitz jokes. 

Being anti-nazi does not equal support for the Jewish community. Do not claim you support Jews just because you recognize that Nazis are terrible. Surprise, we actually have more to us than the Holocaust!

If you DO support the Jewish community, reblog the crap out of this so people can feel safe!

[dungeons-and-dryads]

I usually try to keep things light, but my family is Jewish, and we’ve faced anti-semetism for as long as I can remember. If I’m being honest, recent events have made me even more scared.

[athenasdragon]

Ain’t baby yoda that Russian witch who lives in the house with chicken feet

[liketherazor]

So not knowing the reference, i googled “Russian witch house” and I’ll be damned. Turns out that’s a whole genre of music.

[swampxwitchxhattie]

I laughed harder than I should have

[plainiack]

Ranking Gomez

The higher they rank the more Gomez they are.

Not the Better because they are all fantastic .

In conclusion?

I really like Gomez Addams

[zetabrarian]

There's... So much Addams Family I have never seen, apparently. I should fix that.

[diaryofadaringwitch]

For Your Consideration

Emo: The world is broken, and I'm sad because there's nothing I can do to fix it.

Goth: The world is broken, but there's an odd beauty in the dark parts.

Punk: The world is broken, and I am angry, and I am going to fight to fix it.

[enraged-sapphic]

My only 3 personalities

[crayyola-deactivated20220827]

scene: the world is broken, but I don't care and I am going to have fun while I'm still alive.

[bitterbadfem-harpy]

That's just nihilism with skinny jeans

[everythingfox]

I thought this was an animatronic at first but apparently it’s real lol

[todaysbird]

this is a shoebill and they are living muppets

[severalowls]

The “I probably shouldn’t have clowns” Starter Pack

[severalowls]

Clowns are creatures that need to clown. They were not meant to be domesticated and profited from as pets. They are highly active creatures that will self harm from stress in such confined spaces. Circus Clowns are delightful to keep in groups, though they are fine on their own, but every 1 clown adds 30 square feet to the space needed. They need multiple props and performance areas in order to replicate their natural environment. These are examples of proper Circus Clown or other basic clown enclosures.

Candee Fluff is a horrible brand of cotton candy, I used to feed it to my clowns and they would just throw it back up. The sugar is all unprocessed, when clowns need highly refined white sugar, just because it’s cheaper. Which is something they don’t list on the packaging to fool clown owners. Ideally you should only feed your clown freshly whipped cotton candy. Large mixers may be expensive but a simple childrens make-your-own candy floss machine will suffice if your budget is tight.

Clowns shouldn’t be confined to a car. (Especially a childrens car..?) Clowns are curious creatures that need to jump, tumble, honk and play to be healthy. Keeping them locked in a car 24/7 as a toy for your kids will stress them out in much the same way as a hamster in a ball. Clowns do enjoy having access to a clown car, especially in groups, but their car should provide 1 square foot per clown and their enjoyment comes primarily from exiting the vehicle in large numbers. Keeping them locked inside can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 years. A small human-sized compact car may be suitable for larger groups of clowns.

I’m cringing at that rainbow collection of “my mommy got me a cute clown” balloon sticks. These are creatures that need to run around with helium balloons. They need to bounce and float away when released. Air-filled balloons on sticks are not a suitable replacement. This is the proper set up for a clown or more modern jesters.

Clowns get stressed from any foot confinement under size 16. Clown shoes are the worst item for being sold to kids as “accessories” in human foot sizes. When kept like that the clown will die a horribly stressed life within a year when they can live for 60 or more. They need colourful shoes or boots with plenty of toe-space and loud squeakers. Clowns are so intelligent that they actually play with you, and they need podiatric stimulation to live healthy. These are proper clown shoes.

Never change the natural markings of a clown. This should go without saying, but I see people buying halloween store ‘clown makeup’ and attempting to alter their clown’s faces. Clowns use their facial markings to identify one another, and altering it may cause stress, and even endager the clown if you keep several in the same tent.

Who the fuck would even feed an omnivorous clown pellet food…? Do they want a sick clown? If clown stores even bothered to care about the keeping of clowns, they would know that shit is bad for them. If you can’t feed fresh peanuts and hot dogs then you shouldn’t own a clown in the first place. Pellet food isn’t even real food, it’s chemically made with preservatives.

[severalowls]

Hey this hit 100k right on time for Clowning Season this year so I thought it would be prudent to remind people not to approach feral or unfixed clowns around September-October as they can be particularly unpredictable during the spawn.

[nevaehtyler]

sadly not every girl can protect herself from these creeps 😔

[sweetscam]

This is extremely satisfying

[wolfendreams]

I hope that whenever I’m in a creepy situation, I channel this woman.

[legitimatelala]

To every woman reading this: May you get the same instant and instinctual courage and strength to do this if you need to and you don’t freeze up in fear 🙏

[wwwdotugh]

imma reblog this again for that ^ because holy shit

[sera-phine]

^^ omg yes

[imfemalewarrior]

The point of Martial Arts training is to make each move muscle memory so if you ever need it you can just react without having to think about what you are doing. 

It gives you the strength to do something like in the video to defend yourself without worrying whether or not you can do it, because you have done it a thousand times and more during training, and if far more complicated ways. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They