[screenshotsofdespair]

[astrolocherry]

capricorn is historically the sign of gateway to heaven, and they are also the angels of death who cut the cord with the scythe, so they can open up the gates of hell too  the rings of saturn symbolise the eternal nature of karma. the capricorn in your life is part of your karma, present to pay your blessings or ensure that your debt is repaid

[swan-spotting]

fucking caps

[astrolocherry]

~Mercury in Aries: Energised by thinking and visualising future possibilities and opportunities, personalised and expressive mind, learns through direct experience, hands-on trial and error

~Mercury in Taurus: Bankable mental resources, hidden talents, the sound and satisfaction of speaking, silky voice, can savour the taste of words and memories

~Mercury in Gemini: Interacts curiously and playfully with immediate environment, sources perspective through conversation, fast thinking, fast talking fast moving gestures

~Mercury in Cancer: Vivid record of the past, often a strong accent or comforting/soothing voice, retains childhood perspective and teachings

~Mercury in Leo: Pleasure seeks through imagination and creative delivery, engaging and enthralling storyteller, thoughts are self-oriented, likes to entertain self and others with the mind

~Mercury in Virgo: Regulated, ritualistic, resourceful, ravaging. Relentless pressure to develop mental skills and competencies so that everything can be presented polished in perfection

~Mercury in Libra: Socially responsive conversation chameleon - swift intellectual adaption to join and contribute on the same brain waves as company, expressive with hands

~Mercury in Scorpio: Highly observant and resistant to superficialities, cyclic transformations- complete overhauls of thought patterns, self-view and world views where they are taken to places that make them question everything they see and believe

~Mercury in Sagittarius: Flies to distant places in the search of universal cohesion and truth, research and a philosophic cirriculum to get through on their own, learns through direct experience and teaching

~Mercury in Capricorn: Never wanting to reveal much in conversation - often strongly internalised and used words sparingly, seeks the level of professional expertise , generalises knowledge, wisdom, experience, and enterprise into a concentrated and purposeful message

~Mercury in Aquarius: Envisions fresh and original mediums to deliver information, likes to teach wise words that generate conscious change, open minded in regards to others-though very selective about what they let inside it

~Mercury in Pisces: Distractible while listening and speaking, hears words but doesnt always absorb them, more conceptual and creative than logical, reading is a sleepy hypnotist

[quixoticrobotic]

every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had

[maculategiraffe]

[quasi-normalcy]

Also the gentlemen with the black attaché case who offer you the choice between being safe or being free and the dead rats who live in the basement.

[nimthirielrinon]

I have no idea what Wayside School is

[quasi-normalcy]

It’s a trilogy of absurdist children’s novels published by Louis Sachar (the author of Holes) about a school that was supposed to be one storey with thirty rooms but is actually thirty storeys with a room on each floor because the builders were holding the plans sideways (and apparently this is how architecture works). Each book consists of a series of thirty loosely interrelated short stories about the students on the thirtieth floor, and there are a bunch of weird anomalous things that become running gags throughout the novels and, actually, now that I think about it, I can definitely see how Night Vale would have been inspired by this

[goshyesvintageads]

The Quaker Oats Co, 1966

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Hay Barge Upset,” Toronto Globe. May 30, 1911. Page 11. — Ottawa, May 29. - That portion of the Rideau Canal running through the city, and known as the ‘basin,’ resembled a hay market to day. A barge containing 200 bales of hay, in tow of a tug, was coming down the canal, when the swell from a fast pleasure yacht upset it. The crew had a narrow escape, and the hay filled the canal where the accident occurred. After great difficulty, it was all recovered, but, being soaked with water, will have to be opened and dried. The loss to the owners will be heavy.

[swan-spotting]

fucking fast pleasure yachts

[sesamie-moving]

happy indigenous history month by the way!!

[sesamie-moving]

encouraging my white mutuals and followers to not only have a fantastical pride month but to also seek out ways to support indigenous people wherever you can!!

[hopemushrooms]

In Canada, here are a few ways to support I've seen floating around within the first week of June:

Donate to or spread the word about the Black Indigenous Healing Fund (Vancouver-based)

Follow Land Acknowledgement on Instagram, a new project by 2 two-spirit friends travelling through Anishinabek aki (Ontario) to meet knowledge keepers and learn from the land

Donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society who offer a crisis hotline 24/7 to survivors 1-800-721-0066

Learn more on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's recommendations & the MMIWG Commissions recommendations and take action through On Canada Project's Settlers Take Action page.

We are always encouraged to educate ourselves and there are plenty of opportunities to do so this month, so please take advantage of the IG slideshows, Youtube videos, courses offered online, podcasts, books and other educational resources out there. Remember that educating yourself and other white settlers is only a part of being in solidarity with Indigenous people: supporting them directly is a must!

Other ways to support:

Attend protests and vigils (when invited)

Support language & culture revitalization projects, like the Wolastoquey Language Immersion School (still in the fundraising stage, support here) and the Anishnaabe Odinewin camps and retreats

Support and defend land and water protectors like the folks up at Fairy Creek in BC right now protecting a grove of important old growth trees from being logged, the folks at Unis'to'ten camp defending Wet'suwet'ten territory from the CGL pipeline the hereditary chiefs have not consented to have on their land.

[feefal]

If you’re an artist and you struggle with drawing faces, may I suggest just placing a random object where the head should be??? Works 10/10 times

[viruk42]

A friend reminded me of that time there was a car on fire across the street. Good times… 🙃 Oh, and also not the only time I’ve seen a car on fire from my balcony ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[rowark]

For anyone who doesn't know what's going on in Canada right now (which, let's be real, is probably everyone who's not in Canada):

This week, a mass grave was discovered at a former Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, BC. The grave contained the bodies of 215 Indigenous children.

For people outside of North America, residential schools were places that Indigenous children were sent to, to have their language and culture stripped away from them. They were literally stolen from their families, and scattered across Canada, to ensure that they would be surrounded by children who didn't speak their language. They were given Christian names and forced to speak English. They were horrendously abused, and the survivors have been traumatized.

Hundreds of children never returned. The assumption has always been that they died. This has now been confirmed.

The school in Kamloops closed in 1978. They are now trying to identify bodies to inform family members. The last residential school closed in the 1990s. There is growing demand to search all of them, but the government hasn't responded to that, as of yet. Ottawa JUST gave in to pressure to fly the Canada flag at half mast. They weren't even going to do that.

This is the reality if anti-Indigenous racism in Canada. The residential schools may be closed, but that hasn't stopped the abduction of Indigenous children, let alone the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

[twentythousandvolts]

i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????

[cutepetsuwu]

A field mouse sheltering from the rain inside of a tulip.

[grittymemewarehouse]

[memewhore]

[internetbynight]

A man lights up his cigarette with the flames of a bus burned by anti-government demonstrators in Brazil

[agathasc0ven]

these images of sandra oh in the 90's/early 00's live in my mind rent free

hey god it's me again

[finnglas]

I’m going to give you the best piece of Adult Life Is Hard advice I’ve ever learned:

Talk to people when things go to shit.

I don’t just mean get it off your chest, although that’s good. I mean: Something’s wrong with your paycheck/you lost your job/you had unexpected emergency car repairs and now you’re broke so your credit card payment is late. Like, not just 15 days late. We’re talking, shit got crazy and now you’re 90 days late with compounded interest and late fees and the Minimum Payment Due is, like, $390, and you’ve got about $3.90 in your bank account. Call the credit card company. 

I know it’s scary. I know you feel like you’re going to get in trouble, like you’re gong to get yelled at or scolded for not having your life together. But the credit card company isn’t your parents; they’re just interested in getting money from you. And you can’t squeeze blood from a stone or money from someone who doesn’t have any. So what you do is you call them. You explain you’re experiencing temporary financial hardships, and you’re currently unable to bring your account up to date, but you don’t want to just let it get worse. Can you maybe talk to someone about a payment plan so you can work something out? Nine times out of ten you’ll be able to negotiate something so that at least it’s not just taking a constant, giant shit on your credit score.

- Can’t pay your power bill? Call the power company.

- Can’t pay your full rent? Talk to your landlord.

- Had to go to the hospital without insurance and have giant medical bills looming in your place? Call the hospital and ask if they have someone who helps people with financial hardships. Many do.

- Got super sick and missed half a semester of class because flu/pneumonia/auto-immune problems/depressive episode? Talk to your professor. If that doesn’t help, talk to your advisor.

You may not be able to fix everything, but you’ll likely be able to make improvements. At the very least, it’s possible that they have a list of people you can contact to help you with things. (Also, don’t be afraid to google things like, “I can’t pay my power bill [state you live in]” because you’d be surprised at what turns up on Google!) But the thing is, people in these positions gain nothing if you fail. There’s no emotional satisfaction for them if your attempts at having your life together completely bite the dust. In fact, they stand to benefit if things work out for you! And chances are, they’ll be completely happy to take $20 a month from you over getting $0 a month from you, your account will be considered current because you’ve talked to them and made an agreement, you won’t get reported to a collections agency, and your credit score won’t completely tank.

Here’s some helpful tips to keep in mind:

1. Be polite. Don’t demand things; request them. Let me tell you about how customer service people hold your life in their hands and how many extra miles they’ll go for someone who is nice to them.

2. Stick to the facts, and keep them minimal unless asked for them. Chances are they’re not really interested in the details. “We had several family emergencies in a row, and now I’m having trouble making the payments” is better than “Well, two months ago my husband wrecked his bike, and then he had a reaction to the muscle relaxer they gave him, and then our dog swallowed a shoestring and we had to take him to the emergency clinic, and just last week MY car broke down, and now my account’s in the negatives and I don’t know how I’m gonna get it back out.” The person you’re talking to is aware shit happens to everyone; they don’t need the details to prove you’re somehow “worthy” of being helped. They may ask you for details at a certain point if they have to fill out any kind of request form, but let them do that.

3. Ask questions. “Is there anything we can do about X?” “Would it be possible to move my payment date to Y day instead so it’s not coming out of the same paycheck as my rent?” The answer may be “no.” That’s not a failure on your part. But a good customer service person may have an alternate solution. 

Anyway! I hope that helps! Don’t just assume the answer is “no” before you’ve even begun. There is more help out there than you ever imagined.

[finnglas]

Hey guys, this is an old post, but it’s still relevant, and I thought I’d re-up it for living in COVID times when a lot of people are losing income. Don’t be afraid to toss that in when you call to ask for help! “I’ve experienced a loss of income due to COVID-19″ is gonna be all you need to say for most places, because wow let me tell you how much this is the case. A lot of places are setting up COVID-19 specific relief policies, so this may be even easier than normal. 

Good luck, stay safe, stay inside if you can, and wash your hands. <3