Tired and Covered in Mud

They/Them Swamp dweller. Forager. Witch. Amatuer Photographer. All pictures I post are mine. Please do not use without permission. (Technically this is my main blog, BUT 9/10 times I use my side blog, InfinityDump)

[irishkae]

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[kosmogrl]

[chaoticneutralwife]

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[animentality]

[poppyseed-art]

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[jabberding0]

Wei Weaving is a Chinese artist

[nepharim-tree]

[bedupolker]

It feels cool to be "in" on celebrity gossip before anyone else. I ran into Californian Condor V9 and looked her up on the condor lookup website. It says her current mate is dead and she has no kids but I saw her with a new man AND a juvenile.

[taciturn-nerd]

OP I hope you don't mind but I made a tabloid cover out of this

I used two more condor photos by Andrew Orr and Alam Clampitt from peregrinefund.org

Gotta use the skills I learned from making tabloids out of the Jane Austen novels somewhere right?

Great, now I feel like I'm bird shaming. Congrats V9 on your new family!

[animals-with-fan-art]

This is art to me

[pocket-deer-belly]

you have to also love fat people who can't perform feats of physical prowess or impressive athletics. you have to also love fat people whose fatness is unpalatable and unfashionable. or i'll kill you. i'll fucking kill you.

[pocket-deer-belly]

you do not love fat people if the only love of fatness you can muster is for off-season bodybuilders

[redlipstickresurrected]

Stephen Vollo (American) - Strainer, Paintings: Oil on Canvas on Panel

[storm-of-feathers]

I look at ppl who are "anti medication" the same way i look at anti vaxxers tbh.

[storm-of-feathers]

Like I'm sorry to sound "we can't all be neurotypical, karen" but. some people actually genuinely need medication. like cannot function or even be alive without it. I get that the psychiatry field has a lot of abuse but saying that no one should use it is insane.

[valcaira]

Hope this isn't derailing but I've genuinely had people tell me (e.g. my mom's friend) to stop taking my rheumatoism medication because "big pharma" and "they are poisoning us" and should instead take globuli and pray 💀

You know. The medication. That medication my joints and tendons would ERODE AWAY without.

Anti-medication people are so fucking stupid it's insane.

[vergess]

Anti medication people scared me away from trying antipsychotics as an adult (rather than being forcibly sedated as a kid) for like a decade, until I got a psych willing to start me on a microdose and go up from there.

And it turns out, I spent that decade in a constant state of crisis for no fucking reason other than fearmongering about how I would lose my entire sense of self, stop being able to make art or even read books, would be functionally lobotomized and unable to even understand how broken I'd become, etc etc.

Medication can be misused, especially in high control settings like psychiatric institutions. But if you're living under your own care, medication may be what lets you go from struggling to survive, to actually living a life.

It's worth trying.

This is, IMO, true of all medication, doubly true of psych meds, and triply true of pain meds, which people are notoriously afraid to take.

[shofarsogood]

A (now ex) boyfriend convinced me to stop my antidepressants. I wound up in the psych ward for a week.

Medication is really important.

[swampsandspells]

And of course all those anti-medications people will recommend plant/herbal substitutes like... Dont they know where we got the chemical? We got the chemical and refined it to have more specific/reliable results?

Blood pressure meds came from Dandelions, but do you know how much dandelion you'd have to eat to keep up with the meds you replaced it with? Like? Im quite certain its fuckin a lot.

Take your meds. 💛

[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[ariaste]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!

[great-art-and-a-purple-tongue]

Seven Flowers and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter

It isn't so much about edible plants as it is about decorative ones, but I think it fits the theme of this growing list enough for me to add it.

[the-haiku-bot]

Seven Flowers and

How They Shaped Our World by

Jennifer Potter

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

Everyone keep sending your attacks. She can't protect him forever

[r-si]

this bitch is literally crazy… she used to be a fitness influencer and scammed hundreds of women with alleged personalized fitness and diet coaching and she got sued by the state of texas and i believe settled for like 250,000 dollars. she then pivoted hard to conservative evangelical christian influencing. her husband is actually her second husband and he was fired from the kansas city police department for excessive use of force and when their family dog got hit by a car he whipped out his gun and shot it instead of taking it to a vet. they also forcibly exploited an unhoused man and sent him to a christian rehab… AND she holds religious retreats for roughly 700 dollars where her husband shows up despite the fact the events are described as being “women only spaces” and they baptize people in a horse trough…

[postillfastill]

[strawberrycinema]

Also for anyone that didn’t grow up in a fundamentalist Christian space, “husband is under spiritual attack” is usually code for having an affair/watching porn/is gay

[parkchanwoohoo]

Oh my god I had no idea I've been under spiritual attack this whole time

[porterdavis]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[swampsandspells]

Um. No? Missouri just passed a law that makes divorce easier for pregnant people. There's still SOME good in the world.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-new-law-pregnancy-cannot-block-divorce/70965275

[depsidase]