the cottage core kid

ive been very stressed recently and this is my outlet through all the things i find relaxing enjoy :)

[andhumanslovedstories]

A real rough one for Scurvy

[andhumanslovedstories]

Here’s an evening update to prove she is beautiful

[destielementary-my-dear-watson]

[what-even-is-thiss]

Since they don’t teach gay sex ed in school let me tell gay guys and anyone else that wants to use the back door that douching is bad for you. It will cause long term problems.

Also starving yourself all day will not work because sometimes it can take up to two or three days for something to move through you.

Just eat a bunch of fiber and use the bathroom at least an hour or two before your booty call if you can. If you hate eating fiber just get yourself some fiber pills to take with meals. If you eat enough fiber the section after the colon should remain relatively clean on its own. Just wash the outside part. Not your insides. Those clean themselves.

Also if he shames you for anything that happens by accident in the bedroom and/or refuses to use a condom he’s a jerk-wad and an idiot and you should dump him.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yes! It dries out your colon and makes you more susceptible to micro-tears in your anal walls and makes it more likely that you’ll get constipated. There’s also a small but real chance that you could get a perforated bowel which is a medical emergency. It also washes away a natural layer of mucus in there which, while gross, is necessary.

Doing it once in a long while is probably fine but it’s not necessary unless you’re doing something super intense that goes up into your colon and you’re not willing to clean up afterwards.

If you absolutely must, use clean douching equipment and lukewarm water with a teaspoon of salt per cup of water dissolved in it. The salt mixed in will keep the water from dehydrating you because yeah, that’s another risk of douching. Your body has a very specific balance of salt it wants and plain water will sap away some of that.

Also remember to use lube, kids! It reduces your risk of getting an STD or a minor injury!

[lasagnacatlady]

Not applicable to me, but I've always been an advocate for inclusive sex education.

Stay safe!

[chantylay]

Douching is also bad for vaginas for anyone on this thread with those. They are self-cleaning as well and putting soap up there can mess with your ph balance and increase your risk of yeast infections. Just take a piss before and after sex to avoid a UTI and let your parts take care of themselves.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It’s when you squirt water up one of your holes to “clean” it. It’s unnecessary and bad for you but unfortunately a lot of people do it.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Hey, gang! This post isn’t a safe space for homophobes, transphobes, or slut shaming! If this info isn’t relevant to you then you can just scroll past it!

[sailorcuba]

the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u

[arborealgargoyle]

like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but I applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done

[arborealgargoyle]

This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat’s meowing, and I have a funny story

I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn’t meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears aren’t fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that aren’t audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldn’t hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn’t want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.

Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so they’d be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. I’d be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and I’d immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn’t. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens “yes baby?” And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones she’d had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that’s the best way to get a human’s attention.

Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn’t seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And I’m a baby give me love!

[visualobscurity]

[ly0nheart1]

Apparently you fuck the mechanic while being super uninterested.

[anthology-of-interest-2-deactiv]

He’s probably having an existential crisis because the cover of the book is exactly what’s happening to him while he’s balls deep in the mechanic.

[vulgarweed]

The early roots of Chuck Tingle metaporn.

[bigbigbigtruck]

Pounded In The Butt By Infinitely Recursive Depictions Of My Engine Failure

[grandmawitch]

What Florence Welch + iced coffee for breakfast feels like:

[schuylerpeck]

what a wonderful thing where we get to share a home with a little animal friend. and that all the little animal friends love to watch the traffic go past or fall asleep in sun-warmed windowsills so that I can have the unbridled pleasure of walking around town and saying hi or wishing them sweet dreams and admiring their good naps. I like that that gets to happen.

[schuylerpeck]

I want to roll up my sleeves, dig my hands deep into the dirt, feel the soil under my fingernails, and carry the smell of the wet earth back home with me. I want to plant something, a tomato bush or lemon seeds; set the terra cotta pots in the light just so, remembering where the afternoon light likes to dance in the living room; on the balcony, by my bedside. I want to pay attention, even when nothing’s happened yet. Wave good morning to it. Whisper encouragement into its sleeping pocket of dirt before I call it a night, too. Mark the days in the margin of my journal of everything that’s happened, with a little note aside: today, just a sprout—two weeks, two branches opening young arms to the world. I want to hold something green and fresh in my hands. Admire the time it took to get here; the slow and precious process. Remember the care, the patience it takes, to keep a living thing alive. 

[veiligplekje]

[veiligplekje]

[renthony]

JKR literally wrote a manifesto against nonbinary people and trans men, and smeared autistic people while she was at it, so can y'all please stop acting like the JKR bullshit is somehow an issue unique to trans women only?

Stop acting like this isn't a community-wide issue that affects ALL trans people. Especially autistic trans people.

Our trans brothers & nonbinary siblings in the UK deserve better than this. Stop forgetting them. Stop erasing them.

[cheerfulomelette]

Since some people are unaware of the breadth and depth of JKR's ableism:

In her award winning(!!!) essay, Rowling explained that she believes autistic trans men and boys (like myself) are not mentally competent to consent to our own medical care.

We're easily influenced, you see. Gullible. Liable to be led astray by militant trans activists, social media, and the glamour and popularity that comes with being transgender.

JK Rowling, outspoken feminist and champion for the rights of women, wants to deny medical autonomy to "girls" because she thinks we're overly-emotional, frivolous, and susceptible to peer pressure.

She has spoken directly about her belief that autistic "girls", especially, should not be allowed to transition because we're intellectually incapable of forming, recognising, and articulating our own identities, and especially vulnerable to "social contagion".

But, of course, the law doesn't (shouldn't) discriminate, and if autistic teens and/or adults can't legally consent to treatment of gender dysphoria, we can't legally consent to the treatment of anything. We won't be able to access any treatment or medication without approval from a responsible adult.

The ability of trans kids to consent to their own medical care has already been the subject of a court case (Bell vs Tavistock). It was overturned on appeal, but one of the potential consequences of that specific case was that cis teens could have lost access to hormonal contraception without parental consent.

If Rowling gets what she's said she wants, the knock-on effect may well be that autistic people in the UK lose the ability to live independently.

This is one of the things she's putting her social and financial clout into. Her ongoing activism is a danger to the lives and wellbeing of all trans people and all autistic people in the UK and abroad.

[veiligplekje]

[bakwaaas]

[cryptid-corpse]

I would like to go back to the part of my childhood where I made potions out of mud and weeds

[black-academia]

black girls x cottagecore

[dreamysunrise-deactivated202004]

I really wanna try embroidery!!

[desultory-suggestions]

One day you’ll sit in the sun and things won’t feel so bad

[satisfactoryanswer123]

Isolation tip : Go outside and find some wildflowers! These ones here I found in my yard, but little flowers can be found almost anywhere where there’s some dirt. Put them inside a book and stack other books on top and you will get pressed flowers in a few days! Remember to get some fresh air and go outside if you can. Even just opening a window can really improve your mood!