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Large bumper crop of raspberries! There are still more on the vine so to speak but aren't ready yet
hi as pride month draws near for june reminder that cishet aces/aros are not LGBT and don’t belong in our spaces
And like, just a reminder that people like op are the people I don’t want to share my spaces with.
Every time I see an exclusionist on here and I click their profile they’re like 17 or 19 or maybe 21 at best.
And that’s fair- it’s not like people that age can’t have opinions or be right, they’re people.
But when I think about how long it took me to work out my own damn sexuality, gender, and all that crap, and how gently I stepped once I realised I was queer, and how much listening to people I did to see who the hell was out there…how much I am STILL learning about people who have different experiences…
…it feels really odd to see people this young being so secure in their belief of who should be excluded from the community.
Not how to support and include, to help and support, but how to exclude.
Like…being confident in your own sexuality at 19? Fuck yeah, good for you, I’m happy you had a better chance and an earlier start than I did.
But… telling other people they’re not queer enough to be in ‘your’ space?
Your space? Not mine anymore? Huh.
I’m over here at 35 still listening and learning and trying to understand everyone’s perspectives, discovering that sexuality is even more complex and nuanced than I know…and all these people barely out of their teens are talking like they know everything there is to know about being LGBT, ever. Like it’s all been written down, stamped, sealed, confirmed by some Authority.
Mmmm. No. Just… have an ounce of humility. Try gaining some perspective, please.
You haven’t lived long enough to even really listen to real life aces, to really think about what LGBT means. I don’t mean this as an ageist insult, I just really think that this kind of shit deserves TIME- hell I know it deserves time and thought because I am STILL unlearning bad assumptions and behaviours, and STILL meeting people who define themselves outside of the frame that I was once taught meant ‘LGBT’. And you, a teen raised in a world that’s still pretty fucking homophobic and doesn’t recognise half of what the LGBT community itself has taken years to acknowledge, you think you know it all?
Because you’re online? While you’re here, read some posts where ace people talk about how they’re treated. Forget semantics for a while: read the experiences. I’m online too, I have been for some time. Doesn’t make me right, but experience is of some value. Experience in listening to queer people who aren’t quite like me, that is, in trying to understand how I am similar, instead of trying to figure out how they do not belong. In how people rework things, figure out how they can be less harmful, more inclusive, more representative of all those who are marginalised. See, Q is queer but also often Questioning. It’s still important to let people be Questioning, there is an astounding amount of queerphobia in the world and we are NOT done working out the labels. We may never be. Not so long ago, the T in lgbt was under question. Bisexuals are still being excluded. So I’m being told I don’t matter by people who weren’t even born yet when I realised I wasn’t straight. They’re skipping right over all the reflection and going straight to self-affirmation by exclusion.
Which, again- if you are born into a world where you never have to question your identity, oh good grief I hope that’s real for everyone some day. But we’re not there yet, yanno? And I resent being told that after all these years of soul-searching and careful, very careful questioning of whether I belong and how I can be a good member of the community, people arrive so 100% certain of their claim to being LGBT that the first thing they do is try to kick others out.
tl;dr I was here first and I’m not amused.
My general feeling when These Kids start yelling about who does or doesn’t Belong in the collection of the broken, hurt and strange that is the queer community:
Pride month is an especially shitty time to tell queer people that they’re not queer enough and that they’re not welcome.
I’d like to take this opportunity to invite any exclusionists following me to kindly eff off (and also unfollow me while you’re at it :) Happy Pride!
I will extend that invitation as well
I’ll be the first to admit that I still have a lot to learn about queer history and the queer community, and hell, I’m still figuring out my own identity. but I do know that the label ‘queer’ can mean a lot of different things for different people, and I also know what it feels like to be excluded. so to me, pride is about acceptance. to me, the label queer can be claimed by by its oldest definition: anything outside of the socially constructed and recognized ‘norm’. and that absolutely includes heteroromantic and/or cisgendered asexuals, demisexuals or greyasexuals if they so choose. it’s not up to anyone but them to decide if they want to consider themselves part of the queer community or not. A is in the fucking acronym, and that can apply to all asexuals, not just the ones ‘queer enough’ for you.
Friendly reminder you can mcfucking unfollow me if you don’t believe anyone that identifies as ace/aro belongs in the LGBT community. I don’t need exclusionists on my blog, thank you very much.
Sometimes i daydream a bit about having a homestead in the older days, you know back in the past before modern times. .. and then i remember that i wouldn't have had an air conditioner at night... i can totally deal with being hot all day but man summer nights qithout an ac?? I think I'd never sleep properly
Me : what should I do? I’m very confused about my life!!
Aphrodite : Live, Laugh, Love
Ares : If that doesn’t work, Load, Aim and Fire.
In the garden so far...
7 tomato plants, 6 tomatillo plants, a happy accident of 18 cucumber plants, about 6 pea plants, about 6 bean plants, a dozen or so corn sprouts, a blackberry bush(!), a blue berry bush(!), and the grape vine started(!) , a strawberry plant, about 4 watermelon plants, and the raspberries that were already here. Debating on planting cauliflower and spinach in the space that is left in ground, with radishes and carrots in pots… Might also look into some potted herbs.. hmmm… (! won’t produce fruit this year)
Update! One of my loves’ mother has apple and cherry trees... soooo
We now have some cherry tree clippings and some apple tree clippings. Hoping they will take root and in a few years I’ll have some fruit from them as well!!
First you start knitting, then you try crochet (or the other way around) because that cool project requires it, then you see all that marvelous embroidery and you think why not? At a certain point you wonder, is it so hard to sew clothes? Maybe you could try, and you start thinking about that old sewing machine in the attics. Then you see a video of someone spinning wool and you feel your hands itching, but wool is so expensive, how much does keeping alpacas costs, then
First you start knitting, then you try crochet (or the other way around) because that cool project requires it, then you see all that marvelous embroidery and you think why not? At a certain point you wonder, is it so hard to sew clothes? Maybe you could try, and you start thinking about that old sewing machine in the attics. Then you see a video of someone spinning wool and you feel your hands itching, but wool is so expensive, how much does keeping alpacas costs, then
My bunbun Sassy!! As of right now, still don’t know for sure if she is a french angora or an american lop, but hey, she’s still cute... right?
Due to a mix up...
I may actually have bought an american fuzzy lop rabbit from someone off of craigslist and not the french angora I thought her to be... So this poor rabbit has been having to sit still and be brushed like an angora when not only was it not completely necessary (each day) but it was also something she just generally had too much energy to stand for for too long... (wow that sentence looks weird, English is strange huh?)
I say mix up because I want to try and see the best in others instead of actively seeing that the person probably lied to me. BUT I was told that my bun’s ears are flopped over because she was in a cage that was too small, and then the rabbit that I bought was also completely shaved when I came up to buy her so everything was a bit screwy anyway. But, I’ll post pics of my bun in case anyone wants to give her a look to see what she might be!
In the garden so far...
7 tomato plants, 6 tomatillo plants, a happy accident of 18 cucumber plants, about 6 pea plants, about 6 bean plants, a dozen or so corn sprouts, a blackberry bush(!), a blue berry bush(!), and the grape vine started(!) , a strawberry plant, about 4 watermelon plants, and the raspberries that were already here. Debating on planting cauliflower and spinach in the space that is left in ground, with radishes and carrots in pots... Might also look into some potted herbs.. hmmm... (! won't produce fruit this year)
New plants and soon to be over run with cucumbers!!
Well!! Kevin and I have officially added to our ever growing homestead! We now have a concord grape plant, as well as a “mr. stripey” heirloom tomato plant.
I’ve also realized that apparently I got a bit over zealous with my cucumber planting... Turns out, when I started my first round of seedlings I had mis-labeled some cucumber seeds as something else... and then I started another set in a bucket.... thought they weren’t going to make it and started even MORE seed in the ground once I got the garden up and going... Sooo guess who now has 15 cucumber seedlings that are growing very well and look to be able to reach full maturity without a problem? Three other seedlings are off on their own planted in a completely different part of the garden and I don’t know if they will be pulled or not. They have developed a very tiny bit of powdery mildew and may or may not succumb to it... So far it looks like they are bouncing back though and I’m not sure if that makes me want to cheer because I caught it in time, or cry because that means I’ll have 18 cucumber plants!! WHO NEEDS 18 CUCUMBER PLANTS?!
Passion for Homesteading
So I was watching a show on netflix with one of my partners and there was this lady on talking about how she was super passionate about baking and how she would go to culinary school all day and work all night in a restaurant and how her passion for what she wanted never dwindled and fueled her towards her goal... I distinctly remember looking at our roommate and saying straight up that the lady was blowing smoke up our butts because there was NO WAY that she could have been so driven as to done such a thing... Then, on the way home from work (a 30 minute drive mind you), I was tired and worn out, bone weary tired right? And the only thing I could think about was getting home to look at my garden and see what had happened while I was gone, and to get to my rabbit and brush her out and see if it’s time to start combing and collecting wool.... I didn’t even realize, that passion I said didn’t exist? I have for building my homestead... I want so badly to become self sufficient in any small way I possibly can... and didn’t even realize it’s that same passion that the lady was talking about that fueled her and helped her meet her goals... She now owns her own bakery, and is on a show on netflix about it... I think if she can do that? I should be able to get my homestead up and running, even if it’s just a little bit at a time.
Start f my garden and one of the pretty lilac bushes in the back yard
My new tattoo!
So I've been looking into zen buddhism and taoism and jusy generally trying to find a way to help bring more positive energy into my life and today I kind of got slapped in the face by a serious realization... some of my best friends are so negative it is just insane!! I feel like all weekend I've been fighting this on going battle to just keep people from dragging me down and pulling me into conversations or situations that are toxic and unsupportive of my current goals... It amazes me to see just how much I've already changed my own perspectives just by tuning in to different people and a seperate mindfulness of what I say and put my own energy and time into.
Plant shaming
He’s a doctor.
The Department of Awesomely Good Deeds invites you donate any plush toys you no longer need to an outrageously cute and meaningful campaign by a Japanese organization called Second Life Toys. Their goal is to draw attention to the vital importance of organ donation, which doesn’t get a lot of press in Japan, despite some 14,000 people on organ transplant waiting lists.
To do this Second Life Toys takes unwanted toys and uses them to repair each other. Toy donors receive a letter from the recipient toy explaining how the donation improved their lives.
Click here to learn more and to donate to the campaign.
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