temple of shame

36, queer/gray-ace, hiding where I can fangirl all I want. Find me on ao3 & spotify. also eatfreeordie (foraging/free food) and unstyleable (fashion)

[templeofshame]

it's kinda wild that i have like 7x as many followers here as on my free food blog, and yet somehow i have a hater there

[rosieandthemoon]

By Jeroen Taal

[templeofshame]

UI is so baffling because like. I need to make sufficient wages to qualify for UI again, so I need to get hours at part-time jobs. But then, once I hit sufficient wages and start getting UI, any wages I make will be taken by the government...

So I have to get part-time work, understanding that I'm then probably gonna blow them off before too long, not because I want to, but because I like being paid for my labor

[rosieandthemoon]

In the Garden of Monsters, Italy

[folklorespring]

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge photographed by Acacia Johnson

[mayleeillustration]

Greta  

[sweatermuppet]

closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

[tiredyke]

[ID: a picture of an article that says, “Hopefully gay liberation will continue to raise confusing issues until the world at large becomes so confused and befuddled about sex and gender and all that people can finally stop worrying if "it's a boy or a girl" and get around to being free to be and to love people.” /end ID]

[rosieandthemoon]

Abandoned Tudor-style Mansion in Ohio

[eflatminorseven]

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

[robfordthemusical-deactivated20]

Remember the time it was so hot in halifax that the lampposts melted because I completely forgot to post about it when I was actually in halifax so here it is 2 weeks late

[gentlemanbones]

They just look so tired and ready to give up.

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

this is an art installation

the melting point of steel is over 2,600 degrees fahrenheit

[candlelion-deactivated20140107]

it was a rough summer in halifax

[emir-kctrk]

Bir evim olsun isterdim. bir dağın başında bir ıssız adada. ya da hiç kimsenin olmadığı apayrı bir dünya da..

[rosieandthemoon]

people keep using my blog tag (#rosieandthemoon) for their own posts, and it used to annoy me bc it screws with my indexing.

But I’m now choosing to see it as an honor, as if I somehow created a new aesthetic lmao. Bc you know what, yeah, these pictures do look like what I post

[rosieandthemoon]

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[simzart]

[worrywart-gardening]

What are some good stories about gardening? Or good non-fiction books about gardening? I'm looking to add to my TBR list on Goodreads. I haven't read many books where characters did much gardening. I can only recall three: two were fantasy about witches where one was really good and the other meh, and The Secret Garden with the bratty kids.

I'm finally starting to read Barbara Kingsolver this summer because I heard her writing often features plants and farming, while focusing on heavier everyday themes.

I recommend The Bean Trees. It's very surprising how a book set in the 1980s is so relevant in 2026. The larger themes deal with refugees and belonging, what makes a good mother, why raise kids in this burning world at all. All the while, there's a cute three-year-old who usually only talks about vegetables, if she talks at all. And a widow in Arizona running a tire shop with a massive vegetable garden in the back.

I just finished reading the sequel, Pigs in Heaven. There is less focus on gardening, but plants are always mentioned as the characters navigate the Indian Child Welfare Act.

[rosieandthemoon]

[benthamandnevis]

Bentham on a blueberry-picking adventure in Finland!

[kellyroman]

Picked some magnolia petals and discovered as they started to wilt at creases they turned a beautiful warm brown color. Then got the idea to use a silverpoint stylus to scratch a magnolia drawing into the petal~ smells divine