A Wooden Chest

Anglo-Catholic Gen-X GNC female human with Benedictine tendencies | autistic artist | resolving trauma by eating noodles and fishing | Icon by Bruegel the Elder

[scobbe]

Be the gender-subverting medieval monk you wish to see in the world

[exhaled-spirals]

« I crave that feeling you get just before you go to sleep, when everything gives in. The fight ends. The fight of our thinking lives. […] Rest awaits. The relentless ticking clock of your conscious awareness prepares to be smothered, your limbs prepare to go slack, the things that hurt will stop hurting, the whole frenetic circus of it all is about to collapse. There’s nothing for you to do, or work out. »

— Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease

[soymoss]

starling

[fragrantblossoms]

Blok, Leendert. Woods. Park alongside a body of water in late summer/autumn, with distinctive lighting. Netherlands, location unknown, c. 1920–1935.

[opossum-handz]

[graceebooks]

when people tell you not to care what other people think, you hear “some people are always going to dislike you for who you are,” but what you actually need to be hearing is literally “you have to learn non-attachment to the concept of other people even understanding who you are at all” which is like… just so deeply much harder to accept

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[naamahdarling]

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

[sapphic-and-stupid]

Picture of her from the USA Today

[teaboot]

I would let her kill me for sport

[vaelus-malewife]

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

[gremlininho]

looking. at you

[acid-aholic]

remember that guy that had a single auditory hallucination that told him he had a brain tumor and the exact location and then he went to the doctor and it was fucking right

[penglue]

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[secondbeatsongs]

if you really cared about me you wouldn't have to ask

[captain-price-returns]

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

[thesituation]

my 100% failproof way to handle reactionaries asking why i don’t shave at all is going “because i don’t want to” it works because what they really want is an argument about the merits of feminism, and they’ll draw it out and try to convince you it’s a cult or whatever, but you can avoid it all by sticking to “i just don’t wanna. don’t feel like it” and if they argue with you about it you can use your ultimate ability, which is “i’m sorry i thought it was a free country?” which, believe me, they cannot come back from. they’ll either drop it or start harping on something you didn’t say, and it’s important you don’t take the bait at that point. when they can’t argue with what you say, they assume your beliefs and attack those. and you crucially must be visibly baffled at their change of direction because it will make them seem and possibly feel crazy (which they are). “i don’t want to shave” is a perfect response because truly it all comes down to autonomy and the ability to do what you want. they’ll try to say “feminism makes you think you have to do that” and it’s important to not take that bait. to reiterate that you don’t know what they mean and you just don’t like shaving and that it’s really weird to look into it that deep. this works i promise

[creekfiend]

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

[selfcarereminder]

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second

[backtornado]

insane headline to pair with the actual photo of the beastie itself

this is just a gormless little creature. what are we doing here.

[remanence-of-love]