Just Bloom

Hi I'm Sarah! Vegan. 20, Nj. Health, nature, yoga, animals and feminism.

[micdotcom]

Watch: John Cena continues, “So, let’s try this one more time. Close your eyes.” 

[antoniporowski]

JOHN WITH THE TEA

[stephynow]

Dirt don’t hurt. I think I’m going to name this island “the barefoot island.” I’ve taken to trails, lava rocks, sludgy mud, greens, dirt, sand, and glass of the sea through the soles of my feet. This is the mother beneath my feet vibrating life from my toes to my tips radiating high above me. Thank you, Kauai, you are inside of me. (at Waimea Canyon)

[cybergata]

[caaseybee-deactivated20170216]

@mademoisellecuriosite

[magic-of-eternity]

[prettygardens]

[moonletkid]

i miss my summer fairy garden

(please do not remove credit!)

[pluvilis]

 x plant x princess x rainbow x have a good day x lemonade x 

[datable]

[bellygangstaboo]

Black and brown solidarity. Willow and Jaden Smith protesting #NoDAPL

[slytherinnpride]

Hermione Granger: The Queen of Sassines

[thrivingonplants]

Breakfast this morning was so freakin good! 😍 Loads of my diy granola at the bottom (can be found at @thecleantreatsfactory), @kinglandau Greek style mixed berry + chia yogurt (either this or the passionfruit + chia one is my fav 🙏🏼✨), @thesourcebulkfoods coconut flakes, frozen raspberries, more of my granola & hemp seeds! 💓 Seriously though if you haven’t tried @kinglandau’s new vegan yogurt range you need to asap! They’re dairy-free, gluten-free and taste ridiculously good… 🙌🏼✨

[traitspourtraits]

[the-sunflower-soul-deactivated2]

Give me allll of the fruit pls

[fuks]

i love this 

[i-say-spooky-you-say-scary]

this is the purest thing I’ve ever seen

[floralls]

[depressionresource]

If you struggle with anxiety, overwhelm, or just plain feeling like a failure, I have a mantra for you that’s been really helping me out lately:

Just show up.

I used to skip class because the whole thing was so overwhelming: I had to get dressed in something clean even though I never had the energy to do laundry, walk to school, sit in class for up to three hours, plus pay attention, take notes, and participate in discussion. In reality, I was being a perfectionist, and life would have been a lot easier for me if I had Just Shown Up. By staying home because of my depression and anxiety, I wasn’t giving myself the chance to do any of that. I was such a perfectionist that being a “bad” or average student was unthinkable, so I stopped being a student at all.

If you’re having trouble getting something done, Just Show Up. You don’t have to be employee of the month. You don’t have to be valedictorian. Just Show Up.

[cleromancy]

ime it also helps to be like “you dont have to stay the whole time, you just have to go” bc most of the time once youre there it’s fine. a lot of things are like that, like… you dont have to finish the dishes, just start them. a lot of the time once you start a task it’s easier to finish than to stop, especially if you can trick yourself like “after five more minutes if i still feel bad i’ll go home” or “after washing two more dishes i can stop for today”

even if you don’t finish the task, you started it, and by completing part of it you lessened your future workload and ALSO taught your brain that things may not be as daunting as they seem

[robotplant]

This is wisdom! Peace!

[kendrajk]

Informative Ancient Egypt Comics: BROS

Our 1st place contest winner requested a Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep comic as their prize.

[samandriel]

I took a class about Ancient Egypt last semester and we had a whole lecture dedicated to talking about how gay Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were. Their tomb walls were decorated with scenes of them ignoring their wives in favor of embracing each other. In one scene, the couple is seated at a banquet table that is usually reserved for a husband and wife. There’s an entire motif of Khnumhotep holding lotus flowers which in ancient Egyptian tradition symbolizes femininity. Khnumhotep offers the lotus flower to Niankhkhnum, something that only wives were ever depicted as doing for their husbands. In fact, Khnumhotep is repeatedly depicted as uniquely feminine, being shown smaller and shorter than his partner Niankhkhnum and being placed in the role of a woman. Size is a big deal in Egyptian art, husbands are almost always shown as being larger and taller than their wives. So for two men of equal status to be shown in once again, a marital fashion, is pretty telling. Not to mention they were literally buried together which is the strongest bond two people could share in ancient Egypt, as it would mean sharing the journey to the afterlife together. And yet 90% of the academic text about these two talks about these clues in vague terms and analyze the great “brotherhood” they shared, and the enigma of Khnumhotep being depicted as feminine. Apparently it’s too hard for archaeologists to accept homosexuality in the ancient world, as well as the possibility of trans individuals.

[aeacustero]

On the last note, I was walking around the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and there is a mummy on exhibit. It caught my attention because the panel that was describing it was talking about how it was a woman’s body in a male coffin and wow, the Egyptian working that day really screwed that up. My summary, not actual words, sorry I can’t remember verbatim but it basically said that someone screwed up.

They claimed that the Egyptians screwed up a burial.

The Egyptians. Screwed up. A burial.

Now I’m not an expert in Ancient Egypt but from what I know, and what the exhibit was telling me, burials and the afterlife and all that jazz DEFINED the Egyptian religion and culture. They don’t just ‘screw up’. So instead of thinking outside the box for two seconds and wonder why else a genetically female body was in a male coffin, the ‘researchers’ blatantly disregard the rest of their research and decided to call it a screw up. Instead of, you know, admitting that maybe this mummy presented as male during his life and was therefore honorably buried as he was identified. But it would be too much of a stretch to admit that a transgender person could have existed back then.

(Sorry I can’t find any sources online and it’s been like 2 years but it stuck in my mind)

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

There’s a lot of bigoted historian dragging on my dash these days and it makes me happy.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Once again, more proof that we queers have ALWAYS been here, and it’s a CHOSEN narrative to erase them.

[rain-wander-deactivated20200822]

@temple-of-rah

[medievalpoc]

I am reblogging this for the lols as well as a very accessible and engaging reminder that every historical narrative is created by human beings interpreting existing evidence and will necessarily reflect their biases, experiences, cultural norms and taboos.

Human objectivity is a myth, and until we have diversity present and speaking out in and across all disciplines, the truth will remain obscured.

[guiltygirl]

someone: but if you sleep so much why are you still tired me: i am depressed and i have depression