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[beanmom]

Need a minute to breathe?

I have a little sideblog called sootheyourself that I started for my kid when they were away at college and struggling with their mental health. (Hence the strange in-jokey blog title and description.) It's a place where I reblog cute cat videos and relaxing art and sweet funny pictures for them, and for anyone else who wants to visit.

New posts show up there in fits and starts, although going forward I am hoping to put a lot more stuff there a lot more often now that *gestures at everything*

But you can stop by any time, and if you go in through the page at https://sootheyourself.tumblr.com/ there are links at the top to my tags for animal videos & pix, posts that are kinda funny, posts that offer support, and posts that are calming. There's even a link to get a random post that you can click as many times as you want. (There are over 1k posts in the archives.)

[sootheyourself]

Join my cat in quietly watching birdies and snow for a bit…

[carbon-caco3]

[power-neko]

之前的学校作业，我画了ao3上的同人文，来自Tashilover的《Looking For Group》，截取了一些片段画了出来，我是通过翻译器来看文章的或许有些地方是理解错误，非常感谢Tashilover创作的这篇文章，也非常感谢jojo创作的linked universe系列，我真的太喜欢这个系列了，这次的作业是设计明信片，所以我打印了一份，这是我第一次在这里发图，或许tag没有添加正确，希望可以在评论区告诉我，我的英文非常菜，大部分的评论只能通过翻译器来查看，如果理解错了意思还请谅解

In my previous school assignment, I drew the same humanities on ao3, "Looking For Group" from Tashilover, and intercepted some clips and drew them. I read the article through a translator, maybe there were some misunderstandings. I am very grateful to Tashilover for creating this article and jojo for creating the linked universe series. I really like this series so much. This assignment is to design postcards, so I printed a copy. This is the first time I have posted a picture here. Maybe tag has not been added correctly. I hope you can tell me in the comments section that my English is very poor. Most of the comments can only be viewed through the translator. Please forgive me if you misunderstand the meaning.

This part of English is machine translation.

I'm power Miao.

See you next time.

[cakewith50oranges]

Having given up on verbally convincing anyone near me to voluntarily watch OFMD, I have started just showing it to my (cis white straight male) husband. Like, after we’ve eaten dinner and we’re just hanging out in front of the TV oh look what’s on, it’s another episode of that silly pirate show.

Last night we watched episode 5 and he was surprised and confused about what Pete and Lucius were doing together in the store room, and he made some amused huffs at the moonlight scene. He is not prepared for what is coming his way.

[bitacrytic]

Maybe you are right. There is a saying in Bengali: koyla r moyla jaye na dhule, shobhab jaye na morle ( a coal remains black even if you wash it, a man (gender neutral) doesn't change even after death). I think when I think of cancel culture, the most popular movement that comes to mind is with the HP fandom. I think many, many, many people have stopped completely engaging with JKR and thus stopped at least a portion of her income so that at least a part of it won't go into terf movements.

I don't know much about her, as pertains to her recent successes or failures, but disengaging from her content sends a much clearer message than merely complaining about her, while still putting money in her pocket.

So yes. I would agree that she could be an example of cancel culture done right... if it is true that people really aren't engaging.

But everytime a new Fantastic Beast movie comes out, I wonder...

[rvexillology]

Many Of May Already Know THis But I Wanted To Share This Fact. Scotland Is Europes Oldest Flag, It Originated In 832 AD

from /r/vexillology Top comment: According to the Guinness Book of Records, [Denmark’s flag (but not necessarily its design) is older](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-continuously-used-national-flag/): > It is often claimed that the Scottish Saltire can lay claim to a longer continuous use as a national flag. According to the Flag Institute, evidence for both the Saltire and the Dannebrog is fragmentary yet their vexillologists believe that the balance of evidence points to Denmark as being older: although St Andrew was named as the country's patron saint in the 14th century, there appears to be no direct evidence that the Saltire was always carried on a blue flag from that date. Flags captured at the battle of Flodden in 1513 bore a saltire, but they were not white on blue. A bill for the manufacture of flags from the same year mentions a red St Andrews flag, not a blue one. The flags captured in 1649–50 by Cromwell after the battles of Dunbar and Worcester include ones with black or red saltires in addition to white ones. Yet a white saltire on a blue flag was thought of as sufficiently emblematic of Scotland for it to be included in the Union Jack in 1606. **It would therefore appear that the saltire, and the saltire alone, that was the symbol of Scotland** – the colours of the flag were not of the first importance, particularly in the first half of the 16th century. This would, according to the Flag Institute, bar it from being defined as “continuous" use of the modern flag.