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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

[klaasje]

[evenlyevi]

Home.

[64mpg]

affirmations for when you have brain fog

[raccoonmilf]

Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

[raccoonmilf]

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

[raccoonmilf]

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

[raccoonmilf]

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

[raccoonmilf]

Those vibes are likely because I’m the original creator of Dashcon and my personality has not changed since 2012 lmao

[fipindustries]

[jeniferprince]

historians say they were friendly neighbors 👀

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[victusinveritas]

"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).

Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger

June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.

Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.

He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.

Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"

Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.

From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."

From another obituary:

He served valiantly in every way.

[shabbytigers]

happy 125th birthday to bunny roger

[victusinveritas]

Found this color photo:

And this in-memoriam piece.

[marzipanandminutiae]

(he did not precisely invent capri pants- Sonja de Lennart did, and they popularized them together)

[free-my-mindd]

[ruinedchildhood]

[atlinmerrick]

I just laughed for one year watching this. The casual walk-off is just deadly.

[anasabdin]

Abandurance

[escuerzoresucitado]

“I’ve been told by my producer not to do an impression of a peacock” 🦚

[fred-the-dinosaur]

i love her

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[mumblesplash]

it’s so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you don’t have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you don’t have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed

[mumblesplash]

so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth 💕

[tofupixel]

a lot can change

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[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[legrange-5]

Went into the notes to see if anyone else was saying it

[evenlyevi]

Creeping Foxglove (Asystasia gangetica)

[specialagentartemis]

why does it take SO much energy to keep your house only sort of clean

[s0ym1lk]

Hi! I have an answer to this!

Your brain is focusing on the work you need to do and it has lost sight of the pleasure of having a clean and tidy space. That means that no matter how much work you do, the only result you feel is, 'that sucked, and it will suck again when I inevitably have to do it again in the future'. So you procrastinate this task that brings you no pleasure and it becomes even worse and more overwhelming the next time you have to do it

YOU CAN BREAK THIS CYCLE. Set a timer for 10 minutes. Pick a small and easily completeable task, like cleaning off one surface, picking things off the floor of one room, emptying the dishwasher, or emptying the sink of dirty dishes into the dishwasher. It needs to be something that takes very little brainpower. If you don't have anything that isn't totally overwhelming, dump your dirty laundry basket on the floor to pick back up as a practical exercise.

For this example, we're going to say emptying the dishwasher. Every time you put a dish away, stop and think to yourself, 'wow, so clean, so tidy.' I don't care if they go straight into the drying rack or in a pile on the counter or in a messy stack in the cupboard. So clean. So tidy. Do this until your timer goes off. At the end, I don't care if you finished. STOP CLEANING. Look at your work one final time and consider how much better it looks.

This reprograms your brain to feel pleasure from cleaning, and stops you from overworking and creating a trauma loop. If you do this every day for a week, you will see results. Even if you're doing hard, overtaxing cleaning alongside this, taking time to restimulate your brain to associate cleaning with pleasure and satisfaction will pay dividends. Once it starts feeling better to do, you can work in the same bite-sized chunks on doing these small tasks more regularly. My current one for example is immediately drying off knives I've washed and putting them away instead of letting them dry in the rack (better for keeping a sharp edge allegedly). I use this method for all the cleaning I struggle to accomplish and it really makes a difference.

[prideandprejudice]

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