Now Winter Dances Here

"It seems so fitting, don't you think?" Joan, she/her mfa candidate, college prof, + multidisciplinary artist. work focuses on glitch aesthetics + theory, parasocial relationships + stochastic terror, games + gaming communities, alt-right/nazi punks fuck off.

[willgrahamscock]

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

[c-kiddo]

every ICE agent could die right now and they'd all deserve it

[give-soup-please]

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Holy SHIT guys I commissioned Kevan Brighting to say some comforting things as the narrator and it’s giving me LIFE. He did such an incredible job. Please give this a listen. AAAAAAAAAA

[muppet-history]

If you’re cold, he’s cold.

Let him inside.

[talkingtotheanimals]

posin

[tortagnamgnam]

This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

[unclebabie]

THIS ONE!!! THIS IS THE ONE THAT WORKS!!!!!

I reblogged him the day i started treatment and 1. GOT TO MY APPOINTMENT ON TIME 2. FOUND A FREE PARKING TICKET SOMEONE LEFT IN THE METER FOR ME AND 3. GOT FREE STARBUCKS AFTER MY APPOINTMENT!!!!!

[darthstitch]

Rebagelling for positive energy! WE ALL NEED IT YO.

[dreamadove]

I want to be politically informed and educated but I also wanna have a good day and be in a good mood. Do you see my problem?

[etherqueen-deactivated20160417]

you know how much pressure there is on girls to be good at every video game they play, because if they fuck up once there’s going to be a heck of a lot of people saying how girls suck and how they shouldn’t play video games 

[enemy-stand]

[hummus-troyler]

THIS THIS THIS THIS THING RIGHT HERE IS DA SHIT MAN

[mymodernmet]

Creative Mom Dresses Up in Amazing Cosplay to Represent Older Women Characters

[timejumpingmayor]

He’s definitely not getting a fucking tip

[trubbishh]

This is the Money Tanuki, reblog and wealth will follow you both in-games and in real life.

[babyanimalgifs]

this husky is mad because he wants to take a bath but isn’t allowed to

[beebossinner-deactivated2023102]

let my poor baby take his bath

[melissa-anne-rose-deactivated20]

If y'all really knew. If y'all really knew what utter drama queens huskies are this wouldn’t surprise you at all.

This is my life.

[tinyelfperson]

Literally my husky is the same way. He’s only a few months and he’ll cry to go back outside after being in the house two seconds.

[fractiousrvt]

I once ran out of my house in my pajamas at 2 in the fucking morning because I heard a dog screaming like it had been hit by a car. As I’m pelting towards the road barefoot I see an open garage with two people standing there and a husky in the back of a truck. I slowed down and asked them if that noise had been their dog.

Heavily embarrassed they admitted that it was. The reason for the godawful tortured sound the dog had made?

“We took his running harness off.”

And that was the moment I vowed to never own a husky.

[grison-in-labs]

I frequently pet sit for a friend’s husky, who is completely normal and unremarkable for her kind with one crucial exception.

She is dumb as soup.

(You didn’t hear that from me: her owner thinks she’s a genius, bless him.)

Anyway, my dog Tribble thinks Arya the husky is one of her very own adopted babies, so she stays with us fairly often. Reasons I have heard this dog dissolve into a screaming, wailing meltdown include:

I followed my buddy up a mildly steep hill and now she’s gone and I can’t figure out how to get down

That one cat won’t be friends with me even though all the others will

I hopped up on the sofa and the hardwood floor next to it is much more confusing than the laminate I have lived on since I was two months old and I don’t know how to get down

I’m mildly bored and my buddy yelled at me when I tried to bite her neck for the zillionth time

I want to play with that potted plant but you said I couldn’t

I’m overcome with joy because you took me on a walk to the hardware store

I want that biscuit but I forgot what sit means and now I’m frustrated

I haven’t seen you in two weeks and I forgot you weren’t dead and I’m overjoyed

You are not petting me enough

You are not petting me at all

I got lost four times in five minutes on the off leash trail and now you won’t let me off again for a while

There’s a brush and I need it

You made eye contact with me and didn’t immediately drop everything to pet me

She’s a very good dog, and she’s a sweet dog who is never offended by anything, but the screaming has singlehandedly ensued I will never, ever, ever own a husky. I like having functioning ears too much.

[violent-darts]

To be fair, you and your friend may both be right: huskies, like border-collies, are just intelligent enough to develop Exciting Cognitive Neuroses, much like a toddler, which frankly dumber dogs will skip because they don’t actually have quite enough extra cognitive space to think up ways to be utterly fucking ridiculous. 

I kind of suspect this is going on here in part because of the dog being so very specifically upset that the one cat won’t be friends, despite all the other cats being friends, and also the overcome-with-joy bits: you’ll notice they’re very similar to what makes toddlers randomly cry for no reason. 

Where a bulldog doesn’t care about the difference between laminate and hardwood, a husky is just smart enough to get VERY CONCERNED ABOUT HOW THESE ARE SUBTLY DIFFERENT AND POSSIBLY IT MEANS THAT GETTING DOWN WILL BE A TOTALLY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE AAAAAUGH! and get hysterically anxious about it. 

“Smarter”, in animals as in humans, does not actually always mean “more sensible.” XD 

[theclutteredbroomcupboard]

I agree with the above statement except for the part about a bulldog -

Bulldogs have the same thing in different ways. They are also more intelligent than you’d think because they can learn tricks like a normal dog but they have the conscious to choose whether to obey or not. They are stubborn not stupid.

Also they are little cry babies and make even more horrendous sounds when they whine. Mine with cry if I don’t wake up early enough (even with other people home) and if I don’t come down he will come to my room and KNOCK on my door with his body and cry some more until I come out. What does he want? A quick pat on the head and for me to sit in the same room so he can take a nap.

[littlehellenicthings]

A consequence of being pagan in the modern world is that sometimes you just aren’t taken seriously. I’m not claiming that our religion is necessarily directly targeted by oppression, but in a Christocentric world a lot of pagans still have to keep themselves under wraps and go to worship a god they don’t believe in, and even those of us who can be open about it get treated like crackpots.

I would love to be able to say “I worship the gods of Olympus” without being treated like I’m intellectually deficient. After all, the Greeks were a primitive and superstitious people, even though secular western society has been falsely tracing its lineage to Greece for centuries.

But in trying times, when it just seems like it’s silly to burn incense to gods most people think belong in Mythology for Dummies books, its important to know that these gods were real.

Imagine being ill and being brought to the Temple of Asclepius, and sleeping there, feverish and shaking, and being told of your cure in the night.

Imagine being a bride burning a lock to Artemis before her wedding, hoping that her husband would be kind and her new family welcoming.

Imagine being a sailor near drowning praying to Poseidon and washing up on dry land, and taking a bowl to his sanctuary that tells the world how the god saved you.

The gods were real to these people. They were real to Sappho, who called Aphrodite down resplendent with a word. They were real to Homer and all the poets who begged the Muses to sing through them. They were real to the initiates at Eleusis, who went into the dark unknowing and came out knowing that even in death they would be thrice-blessed. They were real to the people who came to their sanctuaries and decorated them with pottery and marble and art, and who built some of the most spectacular buildings the world has ever seen, just to house their gifts to the gods.

It was not a matter of faith, but of knowing. The gods were real to them, and to us too, they are real now.

[sapphire-crimson-claw-archive-d]

I’m a kemetic polytheist and this still resonates with me.

[elphame--bound-deactivated20181]

I’m a Gaelic polytheist and this brought tears to my eyes.  It’s incredibly touching and a reminder that our gods aren’t just characters in a book or figures lost t history. They are here with us, and are just as important and valid as any other. 

[8xns]

If you think about it in the shower, you’re not over it

[unclebeanbag]

I’m apparently not over the burning of the library at Alexandria

[foxyamazingoperates-deactivated]

Is anyone truly over it?

[unclebeanbag]

They shouldn’t be

[nowwinterdanceshere]

i’m a 32 year-old woman who pays rent and contributes to society but i also really love animal crossing

help

[orriculum]

🌹 “la vie en rose” rose hot chocolate ritual ☕~ on my witchy youtube

a simple potion/ritual for living a life where everything is rosey♡

[gothiccharmschool]

Today is World Mental Health Day.

Peeps, there’s a reason I talk about my bad days. There’s a reason I talk about my struggles with the Brain Raccoons. Because when I was younger, people didn’t talk about mental health. If they did, it was in pitying or scared whispers. And if your brain didn’t work like “normal people’s”, you didn’t talk about it for fear of … a lot of things. Discrimination was the mildest of those things to fear.

You know what? Fuck all that. No one’s brains work like anyone else’s. If yours isn’t working the way you think it should be, if you’re dealing with emotions or thoughts that make you feel like you’re struggling, there’s help out there. You don’t have to be stuck in that horrible, dark place.

Please, please don’t feel like you’re alone, and don’t give up hope.