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so these photos are all cute, right?

these last few months, Grim’s been back & forth from the vet for irritation and hair loss on her ears. my vet’s theories included a food allergy/bacterial infection, so she’s been on daily pills and her food’s all been swapped out for hypoallergenic stuff

then today, Pangur and Grim went in for their annual checkup. Pangur was dealing with her anxiety by alternating between SCREAMING, and obsessively licking Grim’s head and ears, at which point the vet just raised her eyebrows and said “oh…..okay, that’s the cause.”

tl;dr I’ve literally spent hundreds bc Pangur won’t stop getting freaky with her girlfriend

pangur-and-grim

the grand revenge

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MY PAPAYAS

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a crime of passion

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How to make a pumpkin head

Since I defs didn’t want to carve a real pumpkin to put on my head and get nasts pumpkin insides all over my hair I decided to paper mache one. Unfortunately there was no good tutorials anywhere so I will share my trial and error knowledge.

First I got some supplies: 1 Punch balloon (they’re rounder and larger they regular balloons), some paper mache stuff in a bag, cardboard, a glue gun, paint, sculpey clay, tape, some news paper and some water and flour mixed together.

I then put at least three - five paper mache layers of newspaper with flour water on the balloon. I also measured my head and left an opening at the bottom. (NOTE: Don’t put tape on the balloon and try to peel it off after you’re done paper macheing, RIP)

After that’s all dry I put glue gunned some cardboard onto it to give it some pumpkin like ridges.

Then I filled the gaps between the cardboard and the newspaper with the paper mache in a bag stuff. Wait for it to dry. (Note: Don’t pop balloon until the paper mache in a bag stuff is dry cause it holds a LOT of water and your paper mache project will sink, RIP) After that I popped the balloon and lightly dampened the top with a sponge and water until it was wet enough to slowly press down into more of a pumpkin shape.

After it’s all dry I taped a stem I made out of card board on the top and put another layer or two of newspaper mache over top.

More drying wait time (you can use your oven on the lowest setting to make it dry faster) then I sanded it down and cut out a face with an exacto blade.

I added a little bit of backing behind the face on the inside with the paper mache in a bag to give it more of a 3D look which wasn’t that noticeable but oh well, it kidna worked… After all that stuffs done I painted it all white otherwise the newsprint would bleed through and make my colours not as bright, I also added some sculpey clay to the brow area to give it some more emotion in which I used an iron to dry it with cause it was too late to put it in the oven with paint all over it (Note: Put clay on before painting).

I sprayed it with a sealer before painting colours on it cause I find acrylics do weird things sometimes. After it was all dry I begin to paint.

I also painted the inside a red and added a kinda head rest thing on the inside since when I pushed the top down it made an uncomfortable point at the top when putting it on your head. Then once it was all dry I sprayed it with some more sealer, added some cool stuff like stitches with some ribbon and blood which I used nail polish for a shiny effect and put in some lights which weren’t very effective when my head was in the pumpkin but that’s okay, it still looked cool.

And that’s that!

Hope this helps some people, Enjoy!

spoookiepie

I read the title as ‘How to Make Pumpkin Bread’, and was confused the whole way down wondering when this would get to the bread part

malocclusive

This solves my “will The Fool tarot card be too out there for elementary schoolers”

rosewater1997

i'm an anthropology major with a special interest in folklore and honestly... belief in the supernatural is intrinsic to the human experience and imho its becoming passe has as much to do with the living conditions of industrialized society/the degradation of the natural environment as anything else. it's not stupid to try to immerse yourself in the depths of the human experience babe that's just respect

Omfg you should write a book your background sounds so interesting and I love this paragraph….. 200,000 years worth of human experience deemed stupid bc people wanna enforce one “pro-logic” perspective on life and trivialize human emotion and belief and act like that has nothing to do with being alive. we live in a society

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sensory

pulpfiction

i googled “why do cats run around and meow at night” and one of the results listed this as a cause:

hongrie

time-lapse sun-cats ひまわり猫窓

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graycloak

Yale Lecture on Witchcraft and Magic

From a Fall 2009 history class, part of Yale’s Open Yale Courses program:

Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) [X]

This is [Lecture 14] in the class, and has the following description:

Lecture 14 - Witchcraft and Magic

In this lecture, Professor Wrightson discusses witchcraft and magic. He begins with the context of magic beliefs in this period, introducing the “cunning folk” who had reputations as healers and were often consulted. He then considers the specific problem of witchcraft, the use of magic to do harm, and its identification by the late medieval church as a form of anti-Christian cult. He examines the distinctive nature of both witchcraft beliefs and the history of witchcraft prosecution in England (as compared with both Scotland and continental Europe), outlining the typical circumstances of a witchcraft accusation and what these might suggest about the rise and fall of concern with witchcraft. Finally he considers a number of unresolved problems in the history of witchcraft in England: the nature of the links between gender and witchcraft; the reasons behind the passage of the statutes defining witchcraft as a crime; and the exceptionally large number of trials conducted in the county of Essex.

The following topic sections are listed for the video:

00:00 - Chapter 1. Magic

08:56 - Chapter 2. Differences between Witchcraft in England and in Europe

19:26 - Chapter 3. Trials in England

35:05 - Chapter 4. Witchcraft Statutes in Essex

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François Martin-Kavel (French, 1861-1931)

Alexander Roslin (Swedish, 1718-1793)

philosophybits

“Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible…”

— Peter Kropotkin, Fields, Factories and Workshops

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