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[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

So I'm reading Icelandic Magic: Practical Secrets from Northern Grimoires by Stephen E Flowers and it's fascinating but also, a few things:

A bunch of these guys are assholes, yeah, but like. Specifically in a Light Yagami kind of way omg

I know people like to pull the "follow the pagan tradition and convert to-!" I'm sure some people just up and did, but Icelandic history is so much more interesting in how things developed. It wasn't so much a "conversion" as an "oh you have more cool stuff to look at? Nice, give it here! Ok cool now we're gonna use these names too and maybe shake stuff up a bit while we keep our old stuff in the mix. Why are you crying. Why are you sending witch hunters after us. We didn't sign up for this."

Scandinavian/Nordic culture is/was largely about knowledge, learning, and preservation. It was specifically Christianity that said they should destroy stuff that wasn't Christian.

I want this book.

[strictlyquadrilateral]

when i did actually get diagnosed with autism, i showed up to take the test and the room contained such a miserably dirty fishtank that i lectured the proctor about proper fish care for a good several minutes beforehand, and when i came back to get the results he proudly showed me how clean the fishtank was. i'm not even a fish person. it was just that dirty.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

How to fix a ripped plushie (clear and easy to follow) by 浪浪山陈三丫头手缝师傅

[pocket-deer-belly]

ok thank god there's so many fucking videos showing you how to do a ladder stitch like it's some kind of magic trick but here's the actual use case for it: closing a seam you can't reach the inside of. in all other cases, if you're fixing a ripped seam on pants, or on a tshirt, the ladder stitch is a messy, glorified running stitch.

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

This is how I see ALL my plushies closed in the shop. And I keep meaning to put a page up about it, but I also offer repairs and most things are fixed like this, especially if the piece doesn't need replaced.

SO! If youve gotten something from me and would like to try fixing it yourself if something happens (hopefully it doesn't) this is an option for some things. If you don't want to have a go at this or something bigger has happened, hmu.

[retrodynamics]

Honestly if you say or do something strange, an employee probably WILL tell all their coworkers about it all day, however they’ll basically never remember it was you specifically and instead just a faceless “customer” amalgamation of every time someone said something to them. Plus you’re giving them enrichment and something to mutually bond over. So really you’re doing an important service by being a little awkward.

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

If any one of you ever comes across this book NOT from the library - I will trade you handsomely for it.

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

The Moon - david blackbird mckinsey

The long stone hallways are dark, with barely a hint of charcoal grey to guide your way. Still, you move forward, not quite sure how you got

It's a bit weirdly formatted when on mobile,

But I set up some things for me to finish on the website over the weekend.

[spr0utling]

"Masculinity is always rewarded in society!!" In the 1900s, women could get lobotomized for anything that was deemed as "masculine behaviour", you dared to even wear pants? lobotomy. In many of these cases doctors recognized that lobotomies would result in either the woman dying or becoming a vegetable, enough that they would be refered to as "a veritable household pet". Lobotomies were done for multiple reasons, but one of them was for being masculine.

If by "rewarded" you mean "getting your entire functions reduced to nothing because you were forced to recieve a nail through your eye to destroy your frontal lobe and most likely dying in the process" then yes, masculinity is "rewarded"

[fillianore-moved]

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

[bloodbonestelephones]

Death

The Nine of Cups

Justice

The Nine of Swords

The King of Swords

The Hanged Man

The Hermit

The Six of Swords

The Eight of Cups

The Five of Cups

The Sun

The Three of Swords

‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

I just found out I could get my service dog her own legit health insurance for the same as one of my credit card payments

Time to work nights then

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

I actually remembered I have a smaller card (still a few digits but smaller than the one I've been working on) that clearing could add around 1/3 of the funding for getting her health insurance instead.

There's a lot going on rn but the big card could seriously come down soon, and then clearing the smaller card would give consistent base cost for her health insurance. I just want to give her the privilege of getting old and crispy (a yard and a lot of grass eventually too)

I can't maintain my shop stock rn for at least a bit but if you'd like to help (literally anything at all helps) you can send something here:

Donate to Help Me Stay Safe and Fulfill Commitments, organized by David McKinsey

I'm currently facing the threat of homelessness because my abusive ex is tryi… David McKinsey needs your support for Help Me Stay Safe and F

And it goes straight into debt so the work I'm.doimg can actually be used for something other than the few big black holes in my life that got so much wider as I tried to avoid the Stuff going on rn.

It helps me and work morale knowing less is.being eaten up by random shite and helps chip away at stuff so I can hopefully divert funds into quality of life including for Fern, my service dog.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[creekfiend]

i like "social ergonomics" bc like yeah. furniture is usually made in a way that's like "we think this is probably what is needed for a human to immediately perform any given task" and often we are wrong about what types of furniture or spaces will have a detrimental long term impact on our bodies. ergonomics ideally looks at the evidence of the impact on bodies and then works backwards from there to come up with design.

social ergonomics should mean looking at social structures and analyzing the outcomes they have re: human welfare, and then taking that information back to the design board and redesigning things to hurt people less.

this should also be a zine. someday. but that would require me being able to sit upright

[swordshapedleaves]

My partner is a game designer. He crafts experiences intended to elicit specific behaviors from thousands of strangers as his full time job. He often looks at social structures from this perspective in his free time and we talk about it a lot. and hoo boy are a lot of our systems not doing what they are officially meant to do.

[creekfiend]

i am thinking about this ALL of the time. maybe I should also be a game designer

[propelledbydisaster]

if you’re genuinely interested in game design you should check out Radiator Yang’s game The Tearoom (NSFW, unless you work at the Sucking Off Dude’s Guns factory).

I realize it’s weird to show up on someone’s post to say “you like game design. Have you played this game about giving head in a bathroom?” but it’s a really thoughtfully made game (see the artist’s statement, which is also NSFW) that is also about the effects of surveillance on communities. when, after about half an hour of play, I realized what mindset the game had deliberately cultivated in me, I had to turn off my computer and stare at the ceiling for ten minutes. and that’s Game Design, to me

[creekfiend]

oh thank you for that link to the artist's statement about this game, that was FASCINATING

[snippit-crickit]

fox thingy?? fox thingy,,

[brigitoshaughnessy]

Michael Shanks going ham on Amazon while the writers and showrunner remain relatively quiet (for legal reasons, I’m sure) just feels a lot like:

[elliewilliams]

whats yalls ultimate fave character. like years have passed, interests have come and gone, yet theyre still here. mines ellie williams

[animentality]

[opossum-mypossum]

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

I just found out I could get my service dog her own legit health insurance for the same as one of my credit card payments

Time to work nights then