Springlocked Spirit

Gay artist and full time Edwin defender

[springlock-spirit]

Finally putting this here, but reminder that I do have a strawpage! You guys can send me asks or suggestions through there!

snowcakestudios's strawpage

[alphacrone]

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

[alphacrone]

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

[lawfulgoodness]

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."

[ach-sss-no]

#you gotta be more specific man#Hobbits are specifically famous for two Really Long Walks

[teaboot]

Long Walks Georgs were outliers adn should not have been counted

[bettinalevyisdetermined]

[anthroposeen]

charlie kirk did deserve to die. he deserved the way in which he died. he died wearing a shirt that said freedom, and his last word was "violence". he believed that the 2nd amendment required the sacrifice of lives. he loved the weapon that killed him more than the safety of his own young children. i hope it wasn't an instant death. i hope that just for a second he understood what was happening, and i hope he died scared.

[springlock-spirit]

I don’t get political on any of my pages and I usually stay in my lane, but I feel like the arguments people use are trying to justify his death in their minds

He was an absolutely horrible person, and I’m glad he’s dead. “Oh but he has a family—“ I hope they’re better off without him, those kids are probably traumatized just having to share air with him.

If I’m a monster for celebrating his death so be it. He wanted me in a casket several times over simply for existing. I hope he’s rotting in hell, I hope he suffers.

Nobody mourns the wicked, nobody lights a candle to remember.

[bogleech]

junk food is always better than no food

I’ve met people who will actually argue against this (and I suggest just blocking anyone who does) but if your choice is between going hungry and getting fast food or snack food….PLEASE JUST FEED YOURSELF. No food is actually bad enough that it’s better to skip eating entirely. Malnutrition is more dangerous, more immediately, and more long-term than any consequences of eating a damn twinkie or a cheeseburger.

[solrika]

At the peak of my disordered eating, I had a nutritionist who was like “milk and cookies is a good snack because fats+sugars+proteins, but more importantly, it’s food that you’ll eat.” 

[icecoldparadise]

On the bad days where I don’t want to eat cuz food is repulsive, the first thing that doesn’t sound completely disgusting is the thing I’ll eat no matter how healthy or junky it is for THIS EXACT REASON. You can always work out or eat better later, but you can’t do anything to get there if you pass out or worse due to not eating at all.

[presumably-aury]

FED IS BEST APPLIES TO EVERYONE

[pennie-dreadful]

Here’s the thing. Even the “worst” junk food has been fortified with nutrients. That sugar bomb breakfast cereal is also full of iron and B vitamins. Not to mention the protein, fat, carbs and assorted nutrients in the milk. Same with fast food burgers. Even some gummy candies are fortified with Vitamin C. Everyone needs to remember that kids used to die or end up permanently disabled from diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies. There’s a reason why even people with “unhealthy” diets still don’t get pellagra or rickets.

[hollowedskin]

This goes for dehydration too! The only drinks that will not hydrate you are alcohol and seawater. Drinking a coke or a coffee or a chocolate milk is still hydrating! Yes even if it has sugar or caffeine. You need liquids, and even mild dehydration is worse for your body that sugar or whatever it is you’ve been told is bad for you.

Alcohol increases dehydration symptoms (which is why you should go 1:1 for water when you are on a bender) and seawater will give you salt poisoning which is worse than dehydration and will kill you. And if you drink it in small enough amounts that you don’t get sick, the salt still makes it a net negative for hydration.

Drink beverage!!

[whumpologyy]

Ragged breaths and incoherent pleas left Whumpee’s throat as the blade cut across them. Whumper finally relented the pressure, allowing the knife to lightly drag along Whumpee without piercing the skin.

“Stop? Is that what you’re saying?”

Whumpee nodded, teeth clenched, and Whumper looked at them with a strange grin.

“You know, someone could walk in right now,” they cocked their head towards the door, “and I would stop. Just like that.”

Whumper raised the knife off of Whumpee, and for a breathless moment they thought it was over. Then Whumper’s grin sharpened.

“But no one’s coming, are they?”

When Whumpee’s scream ripped through the air again, it wasn’t just from pain - but from pure, panicked helplessness

[lostinthelegs]

The comforting weight of Dad's boob

[purpleeyescreations]

MORE PHONE HAHAHAH

[oidial]

very cool saturday, very cool

[oidial]

part 2

[springlock-spirit]

Snow and proxy

[maccamania-fnaf-sideblog]

YOUR RALPH DESIGN IS 6'3???????????

Yeahhh

[socialmaya]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

theyer old enough that they used to connect 

[finnglas]

They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.

[galladegamer]

[headspace-hotel]

They used to be as tall as the Himalayas.

[purkinje-effect]

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

(pov i am your coworker and you are having a casual conversation with me) you know, that reminds me of something that hurts so much to remember that i actually can’t even mention it at all

[tixij]

[ip2lb]

Steve Harvey, walking forward: [audience cheering and clapping] YES!!! KILL!!!!!! [board changes, with a ding, to reveal the word “KILL”]

[our-queer-experience]

she just turned 71! remember that the civil rights movement is not ancient history.

[queer-is-future-deactivated2025]

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Also because my exact address in Queertown is usually nobody's business.

[tarragonthedragon]

In either case, you only need all the details if you're coming back to my place.

[pukicho]

I AM TRANSFERRING FLAVOR DIRECTLY INTO YOUR MOUTH. DO NOT BE AFRAID.

LEMON

BLOOD

LEMON

BLOOD

LEMON

BLOOD

VINEGAR

LEMON

BLOOD

[tainbocuailnge]

something ive noticed after being a hobby cosplayer for years is that in a lot of places the general consensus seems to be that wearing costumes in public is weird and/or socially unacceptable, but whenever I'm in costume in public while on the train to the con venue or having a photoshoot on location or something, people by and large fucking love my costume. they think it's so cool. kids think my costume rocks. their parents are impressed that I made it myself. random grandmas tell me my armor kicks ass. I was at a japanese garden once and barely got around to doing the photoshoot me and my homies came there to do because swathes of visitors who had never heard the word cosplay before were lining up to take a picture with me.

it's the same thing with adjacent hobbies like larp or reenactment or fursuiting, the general image of the hobby is that you're weird nerds (and probably also sex perverts) for playing dressup despite not being a child but when you're actually in costume the response from random normies is categorically positive. I inevitably get weird looks from the kind of people who think having a tattoo is an affront to god but they give me that look for just existing with blue hair and pronouns too and the people who actually talk to me always do because they wanted to tell me they love my costume. and the response that always gets me the most is when they say it looks fun but they would never dare to do the same. it's such a shame. why did wearing a silly little costume have to become an act of bravery.

[scifigrl47]

A couple of years ago, a bunch of Star Wars costumers went to a state park and met for a photo shoot. The organizer notified the park staff that we were coming only to take still pictures, no video, no commercial use items. We gathered together and lugged our stuff into a fairly low traffic location, set up a portable changing tent for those who needed it and got dressed.

Our scout troopers and Jedi and Sith posed against the rock crags and forests and in dappled sunlight. We got great pictures.

And every once in a while someone would come around the bend and find something TRULY unexpected.

Most people scrambled backwards or ducked behind the nearest tree, apparently thinking they'd stumbled into a film shoot of some kind. A few took pictures from a distance.

Once we explained, all of them were delighted. How strange. How wonderous. Two little boys took pictures with every single costumer, a woman sat on a rock and just watched, one guy called home to FaceTime his brother.

The world is mundane and predictable and painful sometimes. And breaks to that are magic. Little bursts of a world turned on its head. In the best way.

[fangyrling]

quick reminder that you're actually not obliged to feel any empathy for someone who would have described your death as 'necessary' if the exact same thing had happened to you