[headspace-hotel]

Any community is a walkable community if you don't mind getting fucking smashed to the consistency of grits by Brad in his Ford Garghonkulous 9000

[little-puppy-paw]

no thoughts, just snail cat bed

[homunculus-argument]

Imagine showing up to work one day and people are like “jesus fucking christ there’s a corpse in here”, herd you to the back room and everyone who sees you also agrees that there is now a dead body where you are sitting, with the appropriate amount of shock and disgust about it. You figure it’s some kind of a prank that they’re pulling, but also the people that you know aren’t into pranks, or aren’t very good actors, are treating you like a corpse. They go weirdly back and forth between talking about you as if you’re not there, and politely asking you to stay still while they figure out who you’re supposed to call in case of a dead body randomly appearing.

Paramedics show up, study you thoroughly and agree that while they can’t see any apparent sign of death, you are, indeed, dead, and ask you to climb aboard the ambulance. You’re taken to the temporary corpse storage that hospitals have.

On the way there you ask them whether this kind of shit happens often, and while they won’t look at you, the paramedics agree that they’ve never had a talking corpse before, though they won’t question the fact that you’re moving on your own.

You’re eventually led to a morgue, where you’re shown a slab to lay on, and at this point you don’t really even question it, you just climb onto the Corpse Shelf and lay down, maybe have a little nap, with no idea what’s going to happen next.

Then you wake up to someone walking into the morgue, who has the shit scared out of them when you move, and they’re like “dude what the fuck, you’re not supposed to be here, this place is for storing dead bodies” and when you’re like “aw man sorry I thought I was a dead body” they have no idea whether you’re joking and they don’t care, you’re just chased out of there.

And you just kinda go home and take a shower, show up to work normally the next day and nobody questions it.

And basically that’s probably how those ants feel when scientists spray them with the Pheromone That Dead Ants Smell Like, and just hang out at the dead-ant-pile until the smell wears off.

[itmeansapricot]

I was waiting to find out what social issue this was going to be a metaphor for, so that ending really punched me in the face.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Imagine if, instead of buying NFTs, those people "adopted" wild animals, zoo animals, or animals in rescue and rehabilitation and get to help great causes and conservation AND get cute photos and stuffed animals and updates about the animals they're supporting.

Imagine if all the money that went into mining cryptocurrency and buying NFTs went into general conservation efforts instead, if it was used to help our planet instead of destroy it more.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Exactly! Instead of an NFT linked to an ugly computer generated image or art stolen from someone else, you get a certificate with a photo of a polar bear and a cute stuffed polar bear to cuddle with, along with the knowledge that you're supporting efforts to protect arctic ecosystems and endangered animals :)

Everyone wins! Unlike with NFTs, where nobody wins.

[musicalhell]

Good news: World Wildlife Fund allows you to do exactly this! There’s a bunch of species to choose from and the plushies are adorable.

[niuniente]

Majority of the big animal sanctuaries and wild life protection programs do this kind of adoption. You adopt a resident of the sanctuary/program and get photos, some goodies and news of the said animal to your email.

Here are a few:

Aussie Ark - Adopt a Tasmanian Devil, a Koala, an Easter Quoll, a Squirrel Glider or a Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby. https://www.aussieark.org.au/adopt/

A Whale Museum - Adopt an orca, also for classroom adoptions for children https://whalemuseum.org/collections/adopt-an-orca

WDC - Adopt a whale-program https://adopt-us.whales.org/

Big Cat Sanctuary - Adopt a feline like a Tiger, a Black Jaguar, a Snow Leopard etc. The list on your right has all adoptable felines. https://thebigcatsanctuary.org/marketplace/

The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee - Adopt an Elephant https://shop.elephants.com/product/43E6178/adopt-an-elephant

The Shark Trust - Adopt a Shark https://www.sharktrust.org/Pages/Category/adopt

World Animal Protection - Adopt a Bear https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/get-involved/adopt-a-bear

You can find lots and lots of adoption options for a good cause just by googling “Adopt [animal]” if you wish to adopt a certain animal.

[chickenfarmersan]

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

At least show us the bison!

[chickenfarmersan]

[zdravomilla-deactivated20220114]

The best update.

[milqi]

wholesome and true - do not mess with the wildlife

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

new favourite hobby, stitching dumb shit onto pretty fabric

[mugwomps]

@elodieunderglass

[theraddestpotato21]

[sarahconnorjr]

Let’s go o o o o o o o o o o

[rowark]

It’s important to understand, the Satanic Temple is an activist group.

They don’t worship Satan - they don’t actually believe in Satan. They call themselves Satanists because Satan is the antagonist in Christian theology.

They are actively trying to promote the separation of church and state, and prevent the US from becoming a theocracy. And their method is genius: they’re fighting religion with religion.

Essentially, they go up against religious-based legislation by petitioning for their own religion to also be represented, since separation of church and state means all religions must be equally represented by the government, or none are. If only one is, then it’s getting special privileges and that’s not allowed.

[thyrell]

just came up with a really good 4 word cooking horror story but idk if you guys are ready for it

[thyrell]

2 cups vanilla extract

[boazpriestly]

[somecunttookmyurl]

there is a tendency with history, i think, because we're so far removed from it, to kind of forget that all of the people were people

a child 10,000 years ago left a handprint on a wall. they were fingerpainting. a viking climbs up a rock just to carve the words "this is very high" 10ft off the ground. somebody centuries... milennia... ago burned their dinner so thoroughly that they buried the ruined pot in the backyard rather than attempt to clean it. shakespeare got drunk and wrote dick jokes. tutankhamun was a little boy who liked ducks more than anything. a roman carves his name into a monument in another country saying "i was here". a prisoner, centuries ago, in the tower of london scratches lines into the wall as a tally marking the days. a medieval monk scrawls in the margins bemoaning the boredom of his work.

every human being across history has said "i was here. i lived. i loved. i made something. i laughed. i cried. please do not forget me"

[somecunttookmyurl]

most of us are not important enough that we will be remembered by name for more than a few decades. we are not kings or queens or great military leaders or innovators or influential artists, musicians, authors.

but all of us, every one, has a deep primal need to persist. we leave handprints on the wall, scratch our names into stones, carve initials into a tree, mark our growth as children on a wall, bury little time capsules. write in the margins of a book. hide notes behind the wallpaper.

reaching out into the future to some unknown human long after we're gone to say

"hello, you. i was here, once"

[somecunttookmyurl]

here i re-wrote it as a poem to fit your tag

Somewhere far away from me And impossibly long ago, now A mother holds her child up high To leave a handprint on the wall

A man I will never meet Climbs a rock for fun He writes a message on the stone And he says “this is very high”

Somebody, once Cooked a meal and burned it Took the pot to the land outside their house And buried the evidence

An Egyptian king Thousands of years before my birth Wore a shirt embroidered with little ducks And kept it, lovingly, in a chest

In a prison cell within a tower A man stretches out through centuries And marks off the days of his sentence As lines on the wall

A long-forgotten monk Labours over a manuscript by candlelight And writes in the margins He is bored, and he has a hangover

They leave pieces of themselves behind And they say

“I was here I was here please do not forget me I was alive and I loved and I got sick I had a favourite animal I was here. Do you love me? I love you”

Yes, I do. I hold your life between my hands And I see it, and I love you

I scratch my name into a rock On a tree, I carve my initials And the initials of someone I love So very much

I bury a box in my garden And I write in the margins I reach into the future To somebody I do not know

A stranger who will never know me

“Hello, you” I say “I was here, once. I loved and I got sick and I had a favourite colour

Do not forget about me, please I love you”

[recoveryforray]

[image description: a screenshot of tumblr tags.

"Poetry. Not really but I don't have a better tag and I'm obsessed with this." end id]

[somecunttookmyurl]

#op i'm *this* close to printing the poem and putting it on my wall

please do! i wrote it for you, stranger i will never meet

and if you print it then maybe somebody finds it, somewhere, in the back of a drawer in 100 years and hold it in their hands and love me as i love them

do not forget about me, please

[erlkonig-gheyn]

May I use your poem as a writing prompt please? I will credit it and link back to you. It’s SO ANGSTY I’m gonna cry

[somecunttookmyurl]

of course!

[ghost-of-a-vulture]

[somecunttookmyurl]

it's beautiful i love it thank you

[sosuperawesome]

Anastasia Trusova on Instagram

[doesitsparkjoytho]

[sindri42]

Every cat I have known would immediately climb up through the hole and start stealing everybody’s food.

[graycoin]

Crime porthole

[if-i-was-a-wyrm]

this was designed by cats

[ilovecatsandbaking]

Just get one of these and put them over the whole, you can have cat and food protection.

[lurking96]

You imprison miette. You put her under the glass like the cheese. Jail for mother for hundreds of years.

[sew-birb]

Bastard observation dome

[botanyshitposts]

best part of my job is tricking the seeds

[botanyshitposts]

we have a lot of cereals (rye, barely, wheat, etc) coming in right now that are the kind that get planted in the fall and germinate in the spring and to get them to sprout we just put them in a refrigerator for five days and then put them in an incubator that turns a light on for 8 hours a day for another week and they’re like ahhh at last spring has come…. twas a long and brutal winter…… at last the sun returns to the fields of yore

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[pangur-and-grim]

man, I have very little sympathy for people who’re like “I gotta let them play in traffic, my cat WAILS and acts MISERABLE unless I let them outside!” 

because like……….so does mine? at a certain point each day Grim decides she wants out, and until that happens she a) follows me about SCREAMING, and b) sits atop whatever I’m doing and bites my hands. this is not an exageration

wanna know what I do? I take her out. either supervised in my backyard or on leash in the front

she naps in the sunlight, eats copious amounts of grass, rolls in dirt, and murders butterflies. after 15-30 minutes (equivalent to the time you’d spend on a neighbourhood dog walk) I take Grim back in, and she happily sleeps/plays/cuddles indoors for the remainder of the day

it’s legitimately low-effort

[pangur-and-grim]

the UK literally had so many pet cats killed by cars and dismembered by wildlife between 2014 – 2018 that the country thought there was a cat serial killer on the loose.  

and that wasn’t the first time, either – the EXACT same situation played out in the UK in 1990 because so many pet cats were dying in “safe neighbourhoods”

you want more information on your “culture”? cats kill 55 million birds per year in the UK.

do you understand the significance of that? the average background extinction rate is 1 per million species year, and cats have caused SIXTY-THREE extinctions of small animals in the last century. we’re currently in the midst of a mass-extinction crisis occurring at a speed we haven’t seen on this planet before……like, Iove your cat, love your planet, or get the fuck off my post.

[deactivated-this-account-deacti]

I ended up having a really interesting conversation with some people at the bus stop today. They were getting out of some sort of ‘clean and sober’ meeting and had starting saying how they were so bored because they didn’t have anything to do, and had to stay at home because all their old friends would pull them back. So I said something like, ‘So this is the time to do all the stuff your parents told you they didn’t have money/time for!’ “Whatcha mean?” “You know, like when you were five and you REALLY wanted to have that toy or do that thing and you were like, ‘Please mom please I gotta have this I gotta go do this’ and they went ‘Hell no you think I’m paying for that do you want to goddamn EAT?’ “ And this light went on in their eyes. The lady is going to go check thrift stores for an Easybake Oven and I told her about Wilton cake decorating classes. The dude is going to Griffith Park and ride horses, because, ‘I always wanted to be a cowboy, and you can’t drink when you’re on a horse ‘cause you’ll fucking die!’ Fuck it. This is what being an adult is. Sure it’s bills and work and relationships, but damn it, it’s also time to do the things you LIKE. I signed up for a free class/lecture on Water Gardens. I’m going. It’s time.

[ruthfully]

Jill. Jill you are wonderful.

[lostwolfling]

no joke, this is such an important aspect of overcoming trauma. I mean the trauma of abusive parents, the trauma of broke ass parents who got toxic because of it, the trauma of capitalism. Like fuck it. Go to Wrestlemania. Build a shit ton of terrariums.

[judgingyourgrammar]

I took a stained glass class during the pandemic and now I have a hummingbird hanging in my kitchen window. And this year I’m finally getting chickens!!

[prismatic-bell]

This is literally why I have my Sailor Moon thermos.

[alarajrogers]

it doesn’t even have to be the trauma of bad parents. It can be the everyday human pain of “I lost my favorite toy when I was 12 and never found it again.” It can be the parents who loved you and fully sympathized with your desire to have the thing, but honey, we just don’t have the money right now. It can be the fact that you no longer live with your brother who’s highly allergic to dogs, so you can finally have the dog you always wanted that you always understood why you couldn’t get, and you accepted it, but it was still painful. It can be the Atari games or Nintendo games or Sega games that don’t exist anymore that you played in your childhood.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve realized – you don’t have to be suffering some great trauma, something unusual and particularly damaging, to feel pain. You don’t have to have lost your entire home in a hurricane to have lost something you truly valued and miss a lot. You don’t have to have had toxic parents to have been denied some things you wanted because they just didn’t have the money, or the resources, or the health.

Time is pain. Loss and disappointment are part of human existence. But you don’t have to try to justify why your specific loss or disappointment is especially bad to admit that it hurts and do something to rectify that hurt in some small way.

[mj-irl]

Good advice

[meme-machinee]

@where-am