The Sleepy Beaver

A place for me to post whatever I want. Music, drawings, animals, pics. Deep thoughts on the mysteries of the universe and other bull shittery.

[sleepybeaver]

The Sleepy Beaver turned 8 today!

[mortisia]

[mortisia]

Tombstone tourist (otherwise known as a “taphophile”, “cemetery enthusiast”, cemetery tourists or “grave hunter” or “graver”) describes an individual who has a passion for and enjoyment of cemeteries. This involves epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and history of (famous) deaths. The term has been most notably used by author and biographer Scott Stanton. Cemetery tourists can be interested in the historical aspects of cemeteries or the historical relevance of its inhabitants. It comes from the Greek word τάφος (taphos) meaning grave and also the Greek word φίλος (philos / philia) meaning friend or admirer. 

[opossummypossum]

I will not ignore them

[babyanimalgifs]

[fastandqueerius-deactivated2026]

WHOLESOME POST

[mexicanjesuschrist-deactivated2]

[spookyloop]

🖤🖤🖤

Hey darklings!

As you might know, for the last three years I’ve been studying costume design at uni. It’s almost time for me and my classmates to graduate and hold the degree show to showcase our work. We need to pay for all the materials for the costumes and the exhibition (mannequins, stands…) ourselves and as young students it’s a bit of a challenge. Even though we’ve already raised some money through events like bake sales, we could still use some help!

So if you have any extra money I would be so grateful if you supported me, my spooky designs and my classmates by donating. (For the show I’m creating two dresses inspired by the In the Dark music video by The Birthday Massacre so you know I’ll be representing the spooky life at the exhibition.) Even a few dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, yens or rubles make a difference and we would appreciate your support a lot no matter how small the donation 🖤 

You can donate and read more about our degree show here:

http://justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ccadcostume2018

(And if donating isn’t your thing, please share this post to spread the word! Thank you, kiitos, tack, takk, spasibo, gracias, grazie, arigatou, danke, merci, aitäh!)

🖤🖤🖤

[raecupcake-blog]

"When Shelley's corpse washed ashore, a friend identified it by a copy of Keats's 1820 volume in the coat pocket, which he knew Shelley had taken with him. Then, after cremation in which Shelley's heart, hardened by calcium, did not burn, this same friend snatched it from the embers and presented it to Mary Shelley, who kept it thereafter in her desk, wrapped in a copy of 'Adonais."

Here’s your morbid literary fact of the day.

[voidbat]

jesus christ, i will never be this goth.

[katrinastratford]

Mary Shelley’s father taught her to spell her name by taking her to the graveyard and having her trace the letters on her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gravestone.

NO ONE will ever be as goth.

[closet-lunatic-deactivated20170]

didnt she also have sex on said grave

[mankillercalledbunny]

She lost her virginity on her mother’s grave yes

[violent-darts]

… that’s it we can all go home, peak goth was achieved before we even started.

[jstor]

JSTOR confirms it: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177447

[optimysticals]

Mary Freaking Shelley is None More Goth personified.

[flapper-queen]

@mama-germany Achieve maximum goth

[nyokoko]

@saarebitch

[gothiccharmschool]

If I fail to reblog this, assume I’m stuck in my crypt, and someone needs to come help me.

[gehayi]

She also wrote a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel focusing on the extinction of the human race and the meaninglessness of existence. In 1826.

Oh, and this isn’t especially goth, but my God, I respect her for this:

In 1827, Mary Shelley was party to a scheme that enabled her friend Isabel Robinson and Isabel’s lover, Mary Diana Dods, who wrote under the name David Lyndsay, to embark on a life together in France as man and wife.[126][note 13] With the help of  [American actor John Howard] Payne, whom she kept in the dark about the details, Mary Shelley obtained false passports for the couple.[127]

[ceridwens-cauldron]

The more I learn about Mary Shelley the more I love her

[monsieurenjlolras]

I mean makes sense that she was supportive of her non-straight friends because like she and her husband had an open relation ships and he definitely slept with other men (Lord Byron) and there’s a decent chance that Mary Shelley may have at the very least kissed other women

[almanacp]

So she was an LGBT ally icon as well as the Mother of Science Fiction. Adding her to my list of heroes.

(also @garrettauthor sorry I keep tagging you, but I feel you’d like this.)

[garrettauthor]

Oh my god do I ever like this.

[jsplayingfavorites]

@editorincreeps relevant to your existence

[sleepybeaver]

The Sleepy Beaver turned 6 today!

[vesface]

[dr-archeville]

[reasonsmysoniscrying]

Off topic, but don’t LOSE YOUR HEAD.

[babygoatsandfriends]

Help Save Teak’s Life

So, if you know me, I love my goats.  They are everything to me. 

I’m also on a fixed income and disabled and my husband is currently unemployed. We get by, but now we’re facing a big bill to get our injured goat the surgery he needs. We’d manage but it would be tough and we might take years to be able to pay it off.

So we’re asking for help. Teak is a sweet boy who got stuck in a fence in kind of a freak accident (how did he get his hoof through the mesh? I really don’t know :( ), and I want to save his life.

Please donate if you can or reblog to boost. 

https://www.youcaring.com/teakthegoat-900285

[marvelgifs]

[dagangstapenguin]

The most realistic scene in any Marvel movie.

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[userboxer]

[did-you-know]

In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated based on your income - causing some Finnish millionaires to pay fines of over $100,000. Source

[redbloodedamerica]

This is what “equality” looks like in that liberal fairy tale land of Finland.  They punish you proportionately to how successful you are.  Sounds really “fair.”

[tsukishima-tadashi]

Except… it is fair? Because it’s proportionate. I don’t get what’s difficult about that. An impoverished person paying $400 dollar fine isn’t the same as a millionaire paying the same amount. For the poor person, $400 dollars could mean starving. Would you really claim it would have the same consequence for a rich man? Would it even be noticeable to him, while the absence of food in their stomach would be glaring to a poorer man? Would it be fair for a man to starve for the same crime as a man that would be having a three course meal?

By taking income into account, it allows the impoverished able to still survive while paying any fines they may incur. And, ultimately, while $100,000 dollars would be noticeable to a millionaire, they would still get by. And, assuming the law is properly implemented, they would be paying the same equivalent of their yearly income that a poorer person would. That’s what makes it fair. They would be impacted the same way - but you are looking at the amount rather than the equation.

Also, it’s important to make sure that even the rich would pause at the cost of a fine. They need to fear the law just as a poor man does. 

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

Oh no… rich people facing fines that might actually make them consider not doing illegal things because the punishments might actually hurt them… how unfair… -V

[lewmzi]

Finnish person here. Our speeding ticket system owns and only people who bitch about them are people who wanna break the laws - the loudest whiners are the rich people who think they can just pay their way out of trouble and that’s why we have laws like that.

[thespectacularspider-girl]

400 dollar ticket.

Person making 10 dollars an hour: “Fuck, I better slow down”

Millionaire driving a Jaguar: “LOL 400 DOLLARS, FUCK THAT, NYOOM”

Compared to a proportional ticket.

Person making 10 dollars an hour and must pay 400 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”

Millionaire who must pay 100,000 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”

[futureevilscientist]

Like wtf. Some people have been so brainwashed by capitalism and worship of the rich that they literally can’t tell the difference between fairness and unfairness anymore.

It IS fair. The fact that it flies in the status quo so much should make you think about that status quo.

[sweetp101]

Redblooded gets too many speeding tickets I bet ;)

[slow-riot-deactivated20200720]

Weirdly anti-millennial articles have scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they are now two feet down into the topsoil

[tramampoline]

its so wild like “this generation with no fucking money is learning to prioritize essentials” and all these chucklefucks can write is advertisements for these companies

[catparazzi]

at least our jeans won’t tear at the seams after two washes

[awfullydull-deactivated20170619]

FUCK FABRIC SOFTENER IT’S UTTERLY POINTLESS

AND FUCK DRYER SHEETS LITERALLY NOBODY EVER HAS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH STATIC TO WARRANT PAYING OUT THE ASS FOR THAT SHIT

DO YOU WANT CLEAN CLOTHES? YOU DON’T EVEN NEED TO BUY FUCKING DETERGENT JUST MAKE YOUR OWN* IT’S SO GODDAMN EASY AND 80X CHEAPER

FUCK THE ENTIRE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY *Fuck The Entire Laundry Industry Recipe

1 cup Washing Soda (not Baking Soda. Different things.)

1 cup Borax (not Boric Acid. Also a different thing.)

½ cup - 1 cup grated bar soap (you can use literally anything. I often use Ivory because it’s easy to get and I find it works well, a lot of people like Fels-Naptha, which is an actual laundry bar. Some people use Dr. Bronner’s. Really does not fucking matter.) After grating your soap, combine all ingredients. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Use maybe a ¼ cup per load.

[madsciences]

^^^ I’ve done this for years now and it works as well as any store bought detergent

[ghostoftwentysomethingspast]

WHAT Thank you, tumblr user awfullydull! Your URL does no justice to the good advice you give!

[legallynonbinary]

Also you can MAKE your own washing soda very VERY cheaply.

Step one: acquire $5 bag of baking soda from Costco.

Step two: lay that motherfucking baking soda out on a baking tray.

Step three: bake the baking soda on a tray in an oven at 400° for 1 hour (to make the moisture evaporate, leaving washing soda)

Step four: revel in how easy and cheap it is to make your own washing soda, and maybe take a moment to be angry that the industry upcharges the fuck out of something that is so easy to make.

[legallynonbinary]

I see some of y'all complaining about static and/or wanting nice smelling laundry. Go to a craft store, find 100% wool yarn balls. If it doesn’t come in a ball, ask an employee to make it into a tight ball for you. Wash in the washing machine to make it felted. Remove from washer, add a few drops of essential oil to the ball, allow to seep in. Dry with clothing. Doesn’t need to be rewashed ever, and if it stops smelling, add few more drops of essential oil. Bam, reusable dryer sheets.

[polar-academia-deactivated20230]

I love this post so much it’s filled with helpful advice, hatred, saving money, and fucking the system all in one

[boota]