[robin-in-the-library]

I have gone from a job-that-I-got-to-with-car to a job-that-I-get-to-via-public-transportation and yes I may save considerably on gas but damn, I may end up spending more in tranqs so I don’t stay biting people’s heads off

[drhorsekiller]

[1938rebecca]

not feeling your best?

very gentle yoga

you feel like shit (a self care guide)

disability accessible recipes

tips for baking with brain fog

stretches made more physically accessible

adjust your posture

the nine delights

different ways to rest

in-depth self care assessment

what to do when you've had a bad day

gentle ways to get back on track

how to feel your feelings

emotions & actions

[sparrow-in-boots]

due to a months-long art block, several life stressors, dwindling mental health, and now a considerable health scare that ate up what was left of my functional hours, i now find myself with about 40 bucks to my name and one month to fix that.

as my current commission to-do list is looking unspeakably late as is, i don't quite feel comfortable offering my usual roster, so we'll try it like this: 5 USD on my paypal or ko-fi, and I'll drop you a goofy lil sketch delivered in 24hrs or your money back!

it can be anything; oc, canon character, mascot, doing or expressing whatever. just shoot me the payment and a visual description and/or reference, and that's it!

you can also of course donate out of the kindness of your heart of course, but do make sure to leave a comment about it so i don't get confused <3

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[littlestpersimmon]

I live in complete poverty and disability. Trying to make art to sell as prints as I am not getting commissions the way I used to. I am disabled and diabetic, immunocompromised from recent surgery, and I live in a traditional filipino house partially destroyed by storms and termites. I work 3 jobs, but they are all very unstable. Please please please, if you've ever derived joy from my art or insight from my posts or book recs, if you could pick up a print, send a tip, or subscribe to my patreon where I have 400+ exclusive drawings / early access, it would help keep me alive, in the most literal sense. I have been given a second chance at life, and I would like to keep living. Thank you so much

Inprnt / patreon / ko-fi tipping jar / paypaI tipping jar

[littlestpersimmon]

Hello everyone. I am the sole caretaker of my family, the only one who works. I have nerve damage on 1/4th of my face and 80% of my neck that limits movement somewhat. This is due to surgery and was exacerbated by diabetes neuropathy. Would absolutely love help with my maintenance medicine and help care for my mama, who is completely unable to move independently because of a brain injury resulting from sepsis. She has an ECG scheduled tomorrow, and I am hoping for any assistance from anyone who is blessed with a generous heart and disposable income 🥹

[littlestpersimmon]

Everynyan. Please help me boost this post. Im in desperate need of help as my mother is very sick again. We are trying to find out rn if she has liver failure. Shes doing a bacteria culture lab test and blood tests.. Please keep us in your prayers as well. ♡ I am the only person who works in my family, mom's survival depends on me, & I depend on community.. thank you so much

[robin-in-the-library]

Help a student out and get a medieval blorbo in return 💕

[robin-in-the-library]

rip Galeazzo Maria Sforza Visconti you would have loved The Phantom Of The Opera

[podcastwizard]

you know that post that's like "if thinking naruto would be proud of you for brushing your teeth gets you to brush your teeth go for it" well today i texted my friends and asked them to pretend to be wizards sending me on a grand quest to eat lunch and buy hand soap and it worked so well i put a load of laundry in and did the dishes too so. i don't know what the lesson is here but maybe give that a try

[taraxippos]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[roach-works]

also people today aren't universally enlightened: i once worked with a guy who thought planets like mars and jupiter were made up for movies. they were all just science fiction sets. i asked what he thought was in space if not planets and stars and stuff and he was like 'i never thought about it, it's not like it matters to here.' total indifference. i knew another guy who thinks the government makes the weather, that's the main priority of the airforce. this guy learned about cloud seeding and read some conspiracy stuff on chemtrails and is perfectly content with the knowledge that airplanes make clouds and all this fuss about global warming comes down to bureaucratic mismanagement of the weather machines. i've met another guy who thinks we faked the moon landing because it was too expensive to actually beat the russians so we just fooled them into quitting. there was never anyone in space, really. he had never heard of the ISS and when i showed him pictures of it he said they must be faked too. i told him it was an international project and he looked at me pityingly and pointed out you could just hire foreign actors, easy. i met another guy who knew the pyramids were spaceships and jews had built them for aliens but of course modern jews just wouldn't admit it. all of these guys were much better welders, mechanics, and engineers than i am.

part of the human condition is that everyone is stupid about something and some people are stupid about a lot of things. how many people ever actually gave a fuck what the sun really was? how many theologians who dedicate their lives to making sense of the world actually managed it?

im not saying this out of despair but out of affection and a sense of measured caution. most people have their own lives to live and their own narrow spheres to care about. they always have. shining truths tend to take a back seat.

[justgarb]

I present to you Lady Caterina de Savona's classes on patterning a tunic or gown, which I just used

And then the fun mash-it-up part with layers and accessories!

[flame-shadow]

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)

[fucking-relax]

oh, Sisyphus! i got you

[reasonsforhope]

By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.

Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.

This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):

How to Sharpen Executive Functions: Activities to Hone Brain Skills

Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func

Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):

Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults with Autism

Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as

Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.

But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:

Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.

Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation

Meditation

Martial arts

Sports in general

Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)

Woodworking

Cooking

If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers

Things can be easier. You do not have to be stuck forever.

[robin-in-the-library]

btw I’m bored and have too much access to manuscript repositories so have, this, nth project

ideally you could get cool manuscript shirts in some time???

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[sanshofox]

It‘s scary to see how very important european petitions get no visibility whatsoever. We had a basic income petition last year which failed because not enough people knew about it. Now we have a „tax the rich“ one that only lasts until october this year and only has around 250k out of 1 mio. signings.

Most EU people go through their every day life w/o knowing about them. There are no ads, no marketing…nothing. I know that costs money though one might think important petitions that lead to a better and progressive life would be supported by the government or ministries in some way, but nooooo

And why should they? It’s petitions that would help out the poor and middle class, but endanger capitalism and their exploitation, sooo: government and business leads for example.

So here the link for those who are interested:

Tax The Rich

Nous voulons un impôt européen sur les grandes fortunes pour financer la transition climatique et sociale et aider les pays victimes des d

[eruditetyro]

The petition has to reach not only 1 million statements of support, but also a minimum threshold of support in at least 7 EU states. If you have citizenship for an EU country other than Germany and France, your country has yet to meet the minimum threshold for this petition.

[dkpsyhog]

You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

[potter-on-my-wayward-doctor]

[libraryogre]

Union watches out for its members.

[tlirsgender]

Trying to sell handmade crafts in this economy is so. Like. Hey guys I know we're all broke as fuck but do you want my silly little things. I'm very good at it. For the time it takes to make them + skill + materials it's gonna be 30$ per silly little thing. But also shipping costs 12$ for reasons outside my control so it's actually 42$ now. Sorry. No I really can't charge less than that. Yeah I know. Ok. Bye

[tlirsgender]

And this is for my things that are silly and little. I'm not even one of those people making, like, quilts and blankets and shit. Can we pour one out for the fiber artists making quilts and blankets and shit

[tlirsgender]

I'm presenting a tiny crocheted bird to you. Putting it into the palm of your hand. This can be yours. For what seems like too much money but I promise it isn't. We've all just really lost sight of fiber arts' value with industrialization and outsourced sweatshop labor etc. This is actually the minimum I could ask for without fucking myself. I don't like what this implies about mass produced items either. It's really horrific. You can get an ethically sourced 42$ tiny crocheted bird though

[tlirsgender]

Shortly after posting this I received an order for nearly 200$ worth of tiny crocheted birds this is the good luck post for people actually paying for your handmade crafts

[robin-in-the-library]

Hey why is nobody shipping Federico Auditore with Giuliano de Medici asking for a friend

[robin-in-the-library]

btw its the fact that Federico is far too young to be in Lorenzo’s social circle but just smth like 3 years younger than Giuliano so would fit perfectly in his, especially given the game establishing a close tie between the Auditore and the Medici

it’s about two charming boys growing up whispering at too long banquets as they grow up, it’s about hunting parties and feasts, challenging each other in sports (Giuliano excelled in the javelin throw, but wasn’t agile enough to beat Federico in climbing)

it’s the tragedy of dying mere years apart for belonging to a family whose name couldn’t protect you, your blood on the same man’s hands