#2020 resolution

[paygeling]

GET ME SOME HELP.....SOME THERAPY

[fungusqueen]

About a year ago, I started a list of “Mushroom Species I’ve Eaten” because I met a friend who told me he kept a list of all the new mushrooms he tries. He forages almost every day and is much more daring than I am so his list is much more comprehensive than my own. So I’ve been inspired to increase my list ever since, trying more mushrooms when the opportunity presents itself. Apparently stinkhorn mushrooms are edible...which, if you have experience with stinkhorns, they’re stinky as hell and pretty repulsive. But I just read this article where the writer eats stinkhorn mushrooms and I think stinkhorns might be on my 2020 foraging radar (among other species). Right now I’m also looking to try Huitlacoche, Honey mushrooms (Armillaria spp.), Sparassis, and Beefsteak fungus (if I haven’t missed the season for it). Hope the earth provides me with some new tasty mushrooms for 2020 ~

*edit: inserting pic of dried stinkhorn mushroom for reference (it doesn’t look too bad dried) 

[chrisflemingslegs]

2020 Resolutions

1) Give more love, take no shit. 

I’m going to use my compassion and empathy to make the world around me a little bit better. I will love and support my friends to the best of my ability. I will volunteer locally to help my community. This is going to be a year of LOVE and EFFORT.

I will set personal boundaries that keep me healthy. I will say “no” when I don’t want to do something and confront people when they make me uncomfortable. I will not let myself be stepped on or taken advantage of this year.

2) Eat better, get healthier.

Not to lose weight, but because I honestly think it would improve my mental and emotional health. Science has proven repeatedly that exercise can help your mood, and my bf and I are both going to try to be more regular with our gym visits. 

3) Make more art, write more stories.

I just got back into the fanfiction scene and I had forgotten how much fun it was. This year I want to write a long, detailed story that I can be proud of. I want to practice my skills and get better, as well as developing new skills. I bought some fabric paints and I’m gonna start painting denim jackets as gifts (we’ll see how it goes, I’m not a great painter). 

[pensierincircles]

7 of 366

You go away,

while I look

the distance

between us

growing

and

growing.

Adding tension

to a thin tether.

The tether snapped.

Go away,

you don't need me

anyway.

[kucingterlantarsblog]

So, this is my 2020 resolution lineart homework! It says i wanna have lot of money , te-he!

I got the inspiration from bank note 10 rupiah in 1959. Yeah, we're not use it anymore.

[pensierincircles]

6 of 366

I wonder what's going to happen now. Which paths am I going to choose and who am I going to meet?

It's almost soothing when it's like this. Quiet. Mysterious.

Unknown.

It's right in the unknown that I find something I thought I lost a while ago: hope.

[theyearofnoclothes]

day one hundred seventy - we need a new system

I didn’t include the coronavirus death toll in my last post but it’s irresponsible to ignore it, even on a tumblr about not buying clothes. 118,434 Americans have died from the virus to date, but not just any Americans. Per an AMP Research Lab analysis of covid deaths through June 9th, “Collectively, Black Americans represent 12.4% of the population in the U.S., but they have suffered 24.3% of known COVID-19 deaths—i.e., they are dying at twice their population share.”

Systemic racism is a hard thing for White people to understand. If 2020 has done anything, it has perhaps enlightened a few more of them. The glaring racial disparity in coronavirus deaths has nothing to do with science and everything to do with society: as just one example, coronavirus is particularly dangerous for people with pre-existing conditions. Per the Brookings Institute, Black Americans disproportionately have pre-existing conditions because they disproportionately "live in neighborhoods with a lack of healthy food options, green spaces, recreational facilities, lighting, and safety.” Black Americans live in these neighborhoods because White Americans forced them to through decades of racist real estate practices known as redlining. Black Americans stay in these neighborhoods because White Americans created policies and practices that pay Black Americans less, arrest Black Americans more, and pretend that everyone has an equal shot at the American Dream while ignoring statistics that prove the greatest predictor of future success for a child is the wealth they’re born into. 

Racist policies are pervasive in health care. They’re pervasive in housing. In education. In entertainment. And most certainly in fashion.

In the past few weeks we’ve seen leaders from Reformation, Ban.Do, Bustle and Refinery29 exit over accounts of discrimination and outright racism in their workplaces. We’ve seen Anna Wintour apologize (badly) after literal decades of White-centering bullshit in her magazines. We’ve seen Aurora James of Brother Vellies create a campaign for retailers to dedicate a mere 15% of their inventory space to Black brands, and we’ve not seen fashion rise to the quote unquote challenge. 

For many White folks, discovering that every single facet of American life was designed to help them and hurt those not like them is overwhelming. But this discovery is nowhere near as overwhelming as living within a system designed to oppress you at every turn.

Unfortunately, barring a full throated people’s revolution, structural racism cannot be dismantled in a day, a week, or a month. Removing Yael from Reformation does not suddenly bring fairness to the company’s promotion practices or diversity to their board or ad campaigns. Reminding people that Urban Outfitters is a terrible company will not change the fact that Richard Hayne owns it (though the revelations of Anthropologie racial profiling customers may shake a few White women of their Anthro habit). Change may be coming, but it is certainly not coming from the top.

Instead it is up to you, dear reader. Do you want your favorite store to take the 15% pledge? Write them and tell them! Want your favorite brand to release a diversity report on their workforce? Tweet them and ask! Need more than lip service from your fashion news sources? Stop reading them until they show receipts! Want to stop giving White male millionaires more money? Start buying from BIPOC- and women-owned places instead! Also just like, stop buying fast fashion, but you knew that already.

I took this year to stop buying clothes because I was doing it mindlessly and wanted to better understand my role in a capitalist machine. I wish I could similarly take time to stop being an American, but we simply cannot wait for White people to sit with their feelings while Black people die. We also can’t wait until November to electorally fight for change, so in this moment we’ll need to heed Beyonce’s claim that the best revenge is our paper. Spend wisely!

[pensierincircles]

Well, I think we can all agree my writing resolution for 2020 went to shit.