May 25
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I'm glad you changed your mind! About doing that!!
[Overkill is made by Pedro and Sam]
transcript below:
tbh i know i say concerning things a lot but like i do have my pokemon to keep me safe in an actual emergency like tami is an absol, enough said about that. decibel is a flying type that is large enough to carry me and has echolocation. dash is able to be ridden as well and is pretty quick, as well as capable of climbing with a rider. and pickle is just resourceful and willing to die for me (and im going to be real with you guys id die for her if i had to too) hell i also got .zip and even if theres no phone services rotom phones are very durable and known for helping get trainers our of sticky situations + electric type go zappy or a way to charge other electronics (if its built for rotom or youre very careful)
like theyve all gotten me out of sticky situations more than i can count i would not be alive today if not for them. not even talking about the shit ive mentioned you all seem to fixate on. without dash, tami, or pickle, i would not have survived my 13th birthday.
I'm feeling very intense grief tonight over our Boston Terrier. She was actually the original face of this blog, but she was so sick when I made the blog I didn't want to discuss her, I just wanted her to be comfortable til it was time to say goodbye. Argos came home about a month and a half after she passed. It was actually supposed to be much longer between them but things worked out differently.
He's a new great love, and I adore the journey we're on. But, sometimes, well into the night, grief comes in waves and it sucks to have to feel the weight of making the call to end your friends life, even if that was the only choice.
I think that when Sonic dies, he'll want his body (not enbalmed) to be placed in a no-frills hole in the ground to be reclaimed by the earth. He knows people will want fanfare and a bigass statue and stuff, and he knows he can't prevent that entirely, but he can at least request that his grave be about giving life back to the planet he loved.
a family friend passed away this weekend and it really has me thinking about US funerals/death culture. Like, his wife's funeral is the first funeral I remember clearly (not the first I went to though) and she had been embalmed and just looked...wrong. she was old and had cancer and had been so thin and pale, but the last time I saw her she was still so bright and warm. but her body looked like it had been plumped up somehow, her wrinkles smoothed out, and the makeup they used several shades too dark/orange. It was unsettling, and her husband seemed unhappy about it too, and now that's the last memory any of us have of her face. I know there are embalmers who do good work and some people really want it, but it is often pushed on grieving families here as the only safe way to have an open casket (or in some states, the only legal way). But it isn't always necessary. And it's also not common enough for people to have their wishes for their bodies/funerals written down, so there's often a lot of guesswork for their families about the best way to honor the deceased. One of my grandfathers had a clear plan and it was easy for us to be sure everything was how he would want it. It really helped us get onto the actual grieving instead of worrying about getting things right for him. The other had no plans, so the days after his death were filled with the stress of his kids and wife debating and arguing over the best options. It was really clear to me that the kindest thing you can do for your loved ones is have a plan. And yet, people are still so weird about talking about what they want or writing it down or anything. Like, I asked my mom some time after her dad's funeral what she wants for herself and she freaked out about it. She's in her 60s and if Dad goes first or is unavailable for some reason, I'm her next of kin and already her emergency contact on everything, so I should know that. But despite helping to plan several funerals and knowing how hard it is on a family, she still won't talk about it and she doesn't have any legal documentation of what she wants either. It's legitimately concerning for me. I hope she has another 40 years with us, but if anything happens I will be a wreck and I would rather take the guesswork out of as much as possible. My aunt and uncle are the ones organizing the funeral for our family friend, and thankfully it seems like he had pretty clear plans so they aren't just guessing. I don't really have a point, other than to say know your rights for your death and the deaths of loved ones, get a plan in place, and have it written down. I highly recommend Caitlin Doughty/Ask A Mortician on YouTube as a resource
This video was made by one of my favorite Youtubers. Her name is Caitlin. She is a mortician. Her channel, Ask a Mortician, makes documentaries centered around death. This ranges from Bone Chapels in Portugal, to lost tradgedies. Like this one.
Youtube decided this video offended them, and it was buried. Their reasoning: it wasn't educational. The entire thing is educational. Caitlin's team worked with the families of the survivors, historians and researchers to make this video. It took months. In response, Caitlin asked her viewers to share the video. This video does discuss a major naval tradgedy, and how the dead were recovered, treated, and identified. It is sad. It is heavy. I personally believe that this is a story that needs to not be forgotten.
I know its not everyone's cup of tea. If you can watch it, please do. If you need to protect your mental health thats also okay. Please let me know if I need to add tags.
Todd Barstow from Go Eat Worms is a Can of Worms. He looks like a child, he is not. What he is still eats, but not in the way we do.
“People don’t like to think about the rot in their lives, but it’s a pretty natural thing, y’know? Like, it’s everywhere and it helps nature and stuff. Without it we’d have a bunch of dead things everywhere, taking up space living things need to grow. That’s what the worms already know, that the rot is there for the living as much as it is for the dead. Have you ever seen the rot, it’s really pretty. The shades of green, orange, and the yellow and the black and white. It’s so pretty, once you get over it. And it’s so efficient, kinda like worms. Worms eat stuff that nobody likes, so that it goes back to the dirt where it’s needed. Rot makes it easy for them, it tells them when something needs to be broken down. The worms break it down and new things grow, new things that will rot again for more new things to replace it. It’s a cycle, an ouroboros.”
“Say, if you were to die from Asphyxia which form of it would you prefer? I’m partial to suffocation myself.”