🍉Woolly🏳️‍⚧️

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[ratoiogy]

corn recipe

1 corn

direxctjons:

serve adn enjoy 1 corn.

[woollypar]

Is it different if you have to serve for more than one person? I've got a familiy dinner coming up and I don't know how many corn I should prepare for roughly 4 people

Is it good for dates as well?

[woollypar]

Feeling like a real ass rn. I'm not a therapist and my boyfriend isn't my patient. I can't just thoughtlessly say shit I read in a textbook to him. Especially since he's convinced he's tried everything and nothing's gonna work, he'll be less than receptive to anything I have to say cuz he's not even asking me for help.

It's so fucking hard to just shut up and not try to be productive about stuff with people who are venting to me and being all pessimistic and hopeless and shit. Why do I have to be an optimist who has to just watch people suffer constantly. It fucking hurts

[woollypar]

I feel like shit whenever I can't help people and then I say smth stupid that makes them feel worse. That's like the worst.

Like, what? It's not enough to be powerless to help a loved one through a rough situation or even just feel better, I have to ALSO be unable to think through how I phrase a stupid joke about smth unimportant?

And it also sucks when I'm like "Wait should I say this? What if it gets interpreted wrong" abd then I think "No you're being paranoid, it's a silly joke and if you say it in a silly way it should be fine you're not a bad person", and it's like a coin flip decides which voice is right. I either feel like I'm either being considerate of people and situations to a degree that other people think is weird, or I feel like an asshole because I didn't think it through well enough

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a fake good person cuz I do all this to avoid feeling bad but it almost always ends with me feeling bad. Sometimes I'm like way too nice to people who don't deserve it and it drains me (unrelated to how I'm feeling currently (i hope)) and sometimes I'm not nice enough and hurt or put off someone I really fucking care about who REALLY doesn't deserve it

Being a person is fucking hard what IS all this shit

[woollypar]

Brothers Grimm 3. Our Lady's Child

Okay this one is a strange one. I mean they all are but this one hit me from left field.

So basically a woodcutter and his wife have a daughter and they can no longer afford the cost of living anymore (unfortunately topical 200 years later) so the actual Virgin Mary from the bible says "Let me take that kid off your hands for you" and the woodcutter says "Okay I guess I have to"

Which is a wild premise for a story btw. Her father never comes back up ever again, so that scene's not really relevant for the girl's character arc, BUT it does help establish Virgin Mary as a cheritable mother figure to those in need. Showing that she's virtuous and kind does a lot to provide context for her actions in this story.

The Virgin Mary raises the child in heaven until she's a young woman and one day trusts her with a set of 9 keys, only 1 is really important tho cuz Mary says it goes to a door that the girl can't open under any circumstances because it's a sin. The girl of course does this as soon as she's alone and bears witness to the holy trinity who turn her finger to gold, at which point she slams the door and runs away. Mary later asks "did you open the door?", to which the girl answers "no" and Mary is onto her imediately so she asks again twice, each time noticing evidence of her lying, but giving her the chance to come clean nonetheless. The third time the girl lies she's cast down to earth without the ability to speak.

So now we know that the Virgin Mary will dish out divine retribution for sinning with malice or selfishness. We also learn that the girl is the type to disobey her parent/guardian. Which is interesting. Could being raised in heaven be what lead her to develope this way? The lack of hardship, the lack of consequence, or never being taught the importance of honesty? You'd think living in heaven would teach one to be more virtuous, especially being raised by THE mother figure of christian mythology (and yes I'm going to call it mythology since this story is more akin to the divine comedy than the bible (not that I don't also consider that mythology cuz I kinda do)). Idk it's just interesting to me. I don't *think* it's necessarily the lack of hardship or concequence, cuz as you'll see she faces pleanty of consequence in this story and doesn't change her stance.

Once on earth, the girl is in the woods, unable to speak, navigate, or anything. She's not really a native to earth cuz she'd been in heaven her whole life, so she can only really survive on nuts and berries she finds. Her clothes get worn and dirtied to rags and she manages to survive several months like that until a king for some reason finds this filthy forest woman and says "yeah I'd marry that" and they get married. Like immediately. And like, good on him I guess for seeing a woman for who she is but idk what he saw in her tbh

She ends up having a son, Virgin Mary shows up to her when she's alone and asks "Did you open the door?" and the girl, now Queen, is allowed to reply, the first words she's spoken in years and she uses them to deny the allegations once again. So Mary just straight up vanishes her son, gone. People start rumoring that the Queen is a cannibal, that she just ate her sone and that's what happened.

The King of course is like "C'mon that's ridiculous" and dismisses the claims

This then happens two more times.

The second time is exactly the same, but the third time the Queen has a daughter and the Queen is allowed to see all her children in heaven and how well they've been treated and everything, and Mary says if the Queen tells the truth about opening the door here, she'll be given all her kids back and she'll be able to speak again.

SHE STILL SAYS NO

LIKE-

Girl, you know the routine by now, even if you *didn't* do it, at this point most people would just say what they think Mary wanted to hear even if it wasn't true.

But I wanna try to analyze this because I don't just sumarize these, that'd be stupid

Obviously the Queen has smth she's not understanding about this whole settup. There's a disconnect here, clearly. She knows she did it, Mary knows she did it, they both know it's the lying that's causing these punishments and it's the truth that'll make it all better in the end. Which it does, she's about to be burnt at the stake for her alleged crimes of cannibalism and right when she thinks "I wish I could admit to my lie now" that she's able to speak. So she speaks the truth and Mary saves her and brings her kids back. The moral is obvious here, don't lie, listen to your parents, the truth is always better than a lie, whatever.

There's more to this tho. Why is it the punishment put on her by her fellow humans that pushes her to tell the truth rather than the punishments Mary inflicted? Was it self motivated? Obviously her lies have been selfish, but is she really so selfish as not to care about what happens to her children even when she knows what's going to happen?

Or maybe, *maybe*, the Queen knew whatever Mary did wasn't going to be that harmful to her children. I mean they were given the same upbringing as her, raised in heaven, all the food, water, warmth, and love they could ever need or ask for. Literally an upgrade from being raised as the most privilaged class in earth society and that's saying something. Is that a punishment to the Queen? Probably not. She knows they're taken care of, she definitely knows Mary is a good mom, and she's still got her literal King husband and god knows how many loyal servants.

Initially being cast to earth kind of was a punishment AT FIRST, but she wasn't given the oprotunity to tell the truth again before just becoming Queen. So does the punishment really count if she's given a reward before actually making it right? Kind of, but she can't really learn from it. If anything she learns that silence is a virtue, because she couldn't do anything else.

People can project whatever truths they want onto you if you can't tell them the truth yourself. I think, maybe, that might be the real lesson here. Kinda.

I mean think about it, it wasn't having her home, voice, and kids taken from her that taught her the lesson. Those are punishments unrelated to the sin she commited. Basically it didn't teach her what she did wromg or why it was wrong, just that she did something wrong. Think of it like taking your kid's toys cuz they hit their sibling and the sibling told on them to you. It doesn't teach why they should stop hitting their sibling or that it was the hitting that was wrong specifically. Next time it happens, they're more likely to just lie about hitting their sibling or force their sibling into silence to avoid the punishment rather than apologize for what they did wrong.

This is similar to that I think. The punishments didn't teach her not to lie. The Queen's still hung up on the fact that she knows opening the door was a sin and she thinks the only way out of it is if Mary thinks she didn't do it. But she's wrong. Mary's looking for atonement. Mary wants an admition of guilt so the Queen can finally be absolved.

You can only be forgiven if you know what you did wrong, why it was wrong, and you're sorry. The Queen didn't learn this until as a direct result of her lies and inability to speak (possible analogy for omission of truth), people project their own proposed truths onto her like I said before. They call her a cannibal and she can't defend herself. Her husband, the King, defends her until he has no more excuses to make. But all it takes is the true desire to repent, to tell the truth, to be sorry in order to save yourself.

It's idealistic sure, but it's a good lesson and it's good to know. In personal conflicts with friends and partners, this lesson is very likely to help people communicate better and understand when they're wrong. At the very least it gets you toe be more open to the possibility of being wrong. I kinda like it

I can't speak on the Grimm Brothers' religeous views, but I can guess that they were probably christian and this is how they understood the functions of atonement. You get like infinite chances, but you have to be honest and genuine to be able to overcome a sin. I know some people see this as a bullshit feature of Christianity, and it kinda is cuz some people can justify some heinous shit to themselves by saying "well I attone at church" or whatever and that makes it okay. BUT FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON, I can see this being extremely affirming and comforting. It's nice to not think that your every mistake piles up until the day you die and it can just be too much for anyone to forgive you. I used to feel that way and it gave me a lot of panic attacks any time I did something bad and knew why it was bad and I felt bad for doing it. I think this feature of christianity exists to make it easier to forgive ourselves because we know some higher being sees us and hears us and says "Nah it's good, you feel bad so you're not bad"

Not to say you can't have that if you aren't christian, it's not impossible to learn if you aren't religious at all cuz it's a fairly simple concept. In fact I'm sure there are tons of christians who "know" this idea, but don't fully understand it or how it works. And there are pleanty of christians and non-christians who believe in the exact opposite. There's nuance here, there always is.

Honestly idk what I'm talking about at this point, it's late at night and I feel the progesterone capsule kicking in so I'm kinda out of it rn. I enjoy writing these blogs tho cuz it helps me keep my thoughts in order and gives me a space to think way too hard about what I'm reading. I'm looking forward to reading more and making more of these

Understand each other and yourselves. Be kind to each other and yourselves. Forgive each other and yourselves. There's nothing more important than that for the human race at large. Love will get us through

follow the tag if you want more

[woollypar]

Brother's Grimm 2. Cat and Mouse in Partnership

The cat and mouse love each other, live together, and historians will say they were roomates. Quite gay

First off, I'd like to say, good for them! Good for them. This is toxic yuri tho so it's not actually good for them past the opening paragraph.

Since this is a shorter one with few details, I'll just sum it up real fast

Basically at every step of the way the cat is making big decisions for their relationship. Forst the cat says they should move in together, she says they should store a pot of fat for winter, she picks the place to store it in a place the mouse can't get it. The cat goes out like three times, each time saying "I've been asked to be a godparent" and pretends to attend a christening, but really she's going to eat like a whole fucking mess of fat from the pot like a psychopath.

I know cats LOVE fat tho so this is a zoologically accurate fairy tale

So yeah this cat does that three times, and when winter comes and they run out of food, they go check on the pot of fat, the mouse peices it together and the cat eats her the end

"And that is the way of the world."

So this one's straight forward and short but I've got quite a bit I wanted to say

Firstly, what a BRUTAL final line. That shit's gonna stick with me and there's like a million different angles to tackle this from, many of which are more modern interpretations but I'll go over how it's significant for the time as well.

One reading, something I joked about earlier, this CAN be read as a toxic yuri story if you want. There's no explicit relationship, anyone can live together, whatever. Obviously none of that matters tho, we're on tumblr and you know how queer readings work.

But reading it this way is interest I feel because it shows us a relationship where there's an explicite power dynamic from the start, down to the animals assigned to the characters. Cats eat mice, duh. But in this story we're shown a cat who can have a partnership with a mouse because they're friends and possibly in love, but clearly they're capable of co-habitating.

Now, the characters are left pretty ambiguous in their exact feelings and motivations. So I can't say whether or not the cat was genuine about her feelings for the mouse, or if she was manipulating her from the start as a way to get food.

In the first interpretation, the cat and mouse had a relatively healthy relationship, but the cat's unrelated greed drove her to selfishly take and take from the mouse until there was nothing left and then, possibly out of fear of being hated by the one she loved, eating the mouse as well. The mouse's trust is betrayed at the cost of her life, and the cat is left miserably alone due to her unending greed. And that is the way of the world.

OR

In the latter interpretation, that was all the cat's intention from the start. She never had any love for the mouse and only used her to make herself feel better. She didn't care how much she took or how selfish it made her, only that she and she alone was happy. That being the case, she eats the mouse and she's happy alone, but she only cares about herself. The mouse and her agency don't matter. And that is the way of the world.

Either interpretation is heartbreaking AND relatable, I love it lol

Things this could maybe be used as allegory, or rather analogy, for are numerous to say the least. I mean humans in general are all capable of living and working together using our combined effort to achieve great things, or even at minimum just like, survive. And we do! BUT there's also a bunch of greedy people who at some point gave their own ideas and others listened to them cuz, why not, why would people lie to me about things that are in everyone's best interest? Maybe their intentions were good and at some point they became bad, or maybe they were always bad from the start, but the end result remains the same, they will take everything and leave you with nothing until you become nothing yourself. It was just as true when it was written as it is now. And that is the way of the world.

There are and always will be people like that and that's what this story warns against. It's really effective and harsh

More transparently good than the last one I read (talked about it in my last blog give it a read if you want), the message is way clearer, it's shorter and more focused in general. I kinda wish the book started with this one because it gives you a much clearer look on the perspecitve of the Brothers and what they like writing about. It definitely sets the tone for the rest of the book by itself

Please read this book too if you're interested and can get your hands on it, you can even read along so you know what I'm talking about if you don't lol

Anyway I'll call it here, thanks for reading, follow the tag if you want more!

[woollypar]

The Brother's Grimm 1: The Frog-King, Or Iron Henry

So the first of the 101 stories is very interesting to say the least and before I get into it, definitely read all of these stories for yourself, they're really good

To start, the way everything is written draws you in imediately. "In old times when wishing helped one" is a very bleak opening that suggests there was a time when life was fair. I'm not sure how much it actually contributes to the story itself, but it's a fascinating hook.

As well as the description of the daughter being so beautiful even the sun was astonished. The way the brothers write about everything is extremely impressive, their descriptions are vivid and get right to the point.

I'm kind of suprised this is included in a horror collection, not because the stories aren't horrifying (I'll get to that in a second), but the stories are more dark comedy than anything. Like there's no way people weren't reading these in the late 1700's and laughing their asses off. Especially another story I'll cover in a future blog post.

Back to this story, the princess drops her golden ball down a deep well and we're introduced to the frog. The line "Your tears could melt a heart of stone" is just poetry, the frog is clearly smitten with her, but obviously the princess is used to this cuz she's imediately taking advantage of that.

She promises to give him anything with no intention of keeping the promise, and he asks for her companionship (I'm guessing romanticly?)

Anyway, she's just not interested, but he gets her ball for her and she runs off without him

Now here's where I have the most to say beyond summary

She's having dinner with her dad, the king, and the frog just followed her home and begs to be let in because she promised him she would. She doesn't want to, but her dad makes her.

It describes how the princess choked on every bite of her meal while sharing a plate with the frog, how she shared it unwillingly because she was being pressured by her dad and the frog. It describes how she revolted at his touch when taking him to her room, he was cold and gross. She sets the frog down on the floor in her room, but he insists on being put in bed with her or else he will tell her father.

This whole situation is like, REALLY horrifying in concept, and I feel like that was intended to an extent. The lack of agency she has this whole time is explained in detail, her rage and discomfort are given ample time to build and it makes sense that this is where she blows up at him. The fact that she would not be afforded space in her own room, her own bed, and didn't have the right to say no is upsetting. If it was a more modern story, this would no doubt play differently from this point on.

Instead, the story ends in a way that I feel is a bit confused? It sorta fast tracks the character arcs and ends the frog plot in like half a paragraph then shifts gears to what feels like a DIFFERENT fairytale with a new character and then it ends.

Like, the frog turns into a prince, and then I think the very next sentence says they were to be married. Then says the prince explained a witch turned him into a frog (he doesn't explain why). And there's just no indication of what the girl is thinking or what her opinions are at this point in the story even though the whole thing focused on that.

The end of the story is about the titular Iron Henry, who is the prince's servant that put three iron rings around his heart when his prince was turned into a frog. Henry things he hears the carriage breaking apart, but it's the rings around Henry's heart breaking because his heart started beating with so much joy. I headcanon Henry as being gay for the prince I guess

I could just call the ending bad and leave it there, but that's too easy and my feelings are way more complicated than that. I think there's a really good feminist reading of this that takes the Brothers' view on humanity into account.

A lot of these stories, not necessarilly all, show the ways in which the Brothers believe the world to be unfair. Sometimes explicitly so. They don't think the world is a kind and fair place, and they tend not to write that into their stories.

In this story we see a woman, with all the beauty and privilage in the world, suffer at the hands of a patriarchy. Her feelings are ignored by the frog, her father, and eventually the narrative as a whole, not even mentioning at all her in the final paragraph. She became a background character in her own story and if it feels wrong, then good.

The world isn't fair, humanity is not kind. There's love and beauty, sure, but no justice. This is a theme that will run through probably every single story I talk about in this blog and I want to establish this theme here cuz I'll probably have to refer back to it and ammend it a bunch later lol

Was this intentional? Fuck if I know, this is like a 200 year old fairytale. It's what I got out of it tho, and I think it's a very powerful message.

There's a lot of women marrying kings and men marrying princesses in these btw, it's crazy

If you wanna read more of these just follow #woolly's horror collection blog (all spaced, you'll see it in the tags) and keep an eye on that, they'll be posted irregularly.

Thanks for reading if you did, hope you stick around!

[woollypar]

Just bought this collection of classic horror stories today cuz it's a REALLY cool collection and I haven't read any of these yet. So I guess I'll blog about my experience while reading it for fun, I already have some thoughts to share

[junglejim4322]

Good things will happen in September

[junglejim4322]

I completely forgot I scheduled this post a year in advance and woke up to see the cat fish of fortune had come in the night to deliver the good news. Auspicious September everybody

[woollypar]

My birthday is this month so I really hope so

My last few birthdays (as in on the day of my birth and not the celebration) for as long as I can remember have been truely miserable. I straight up sobbed last time man. I hope for not that this year

[woollypar]

Trans Angewomon

So Digimon Survive lets you do the Patamon into Angemon into Angewomon evolution line and I think it's sick as fuck. Some other games let you do this too from what I've heard: Digimon World Championship (ds), Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode (3ds), and Digimon World: Next Order (Switch/PS4/Steam). There might be others, but it's a really cool line that I like a lot for the transness of it.

Digimon don't really have genders, or at least the social construct only loosely applies to them. They can be gendered, but there's no real basis for such a thing in the digital world. Biological sex isn't even a thing because they don't have sex or reproduce at all, data just gets recycled and it's very rarely if ever created or destroyed. So in this case any such things are entirely constructs of the human mind, and Digimon are just blank slates we project onto in order to relate to them.

I think this line draws a lot of attention to that concept because it shows by example how fluid gender can be for digimon, just as it is for humans. They can be assigned a gender and have their expression later on run contrary to the gender they were assigned, and that gender identity might change as it matures.

I even came up with a little story for how this could happen

A tamer meets their Patamon, they'te both still young and imature, but excited to face the world together. As time goes on, they both grow a sense of responsibility and maturity. Patamon matures into Angemon just as the tamer matures into an adult. But now that they're more mature, they have responsibilities with no direction, no sense of self. The still have no clue who they are or who they want to be, it's a period of uncertainty and depressive episodes. Once they figure out who they've wanted to be this whole time, Angemon evolves into Angewomon. With the transformation looking as if Angemon was breaking apart to reveal Angewomon underneath, like she was there the whole time. The two of them feel more whole than they never have before with a renewed excitement for life and a whole new set of challenges to overcome, but they have each other, and the infinite capacity for growth and change that both Digimon and Humans have in comon.

Kept it a bit vague cuz I feel like the tamer themself doesn't even need to be trans, the blatant allegory is more than enough, it's not even subtle lol. But they could be trans for sure. Might make more art to fill out this line more, like a mega, maybe an armor evolution, jogress (dna digivolution), and include the tamer as well. Idk there's a lot that can be done here if I want, but this is mostly for fun. I hope you liked the art and my analysis of the evolution line. Angewomon makes me very happy now and I have a newfound respect for her that I never had before

[mohgazah]

There is a fire in my heart that no one can see‼️

This is the Third time I’ve lived through the brutality of hunger its harshness, its silence.

I walk through the streets of the city and find nothing to feed my children.

🩸The first time was last year, when I documented my situation holding onto a piece of bread after over a month of deprivation.

🩸The second time was 6 months ago when I brought some flour for my family and I was very tired because it was a very long walk.

🩸Now, I’m reliving that same pain.

The helplessness before my children, the heartbreak, it feels like I’m failing as a father. This is the very definition of powerlessness. I am of no use to them.💔💔

*Do you feel the weight of this hunger in my heart?

*Can you hear the cries of my children’s empty stomachs?

*Is anyone out there listening?

*Can anyone help us or Or convey the voice of this hunger to those who can help us?

Please donate, we are in dire need of your humanity. I hope you will not leave us to die in this harsh hunger. We want to feel that there is someone we can rely on to lighten this burden a little.

My campaign is verified on Gazavetters under # (88).

Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who supports us in these difficult circumstances. 🌹🫶🇵🇸

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[maidthings]

i don't really understand the urge to pick fights with the same few women over and over again

[woollypar]

I really regret my actions

[sortalikethemountain]

think i’m gonna call it off,

even if i drink a duff,

i just wanna love someone who calls me ‘homie’

you can have an eldest son named bart,

drink a couple duffs cause you’re homer simpson

you can say that lisa’s very smart

drink another duff cause you’re homer simpson

good luck bart

well good luck bart

you have to stop at moe’s cause you’re homer simpson

good luck bart

well good luck bart

you have a wife called marge cause you’re homer simpson

[sortalikethemountain]

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i did not warm up my voice at all for this, enjoy

[tariqah]

Americans be like: My grandpa 😠😠😠 served in the Korean War 😠😠😠 and killed 9 people 😠😠😠 to fund his college degree in clownery 😠😠😠 Respect him or leave the country 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬

[username00000000001-blog]

That’s a super light story huh? My great grandfather got killed in action from a land mine to protect this country. If you don’t wanna respect the history or stand for a national anthem😁then leave to your peaceful home and fuck right off

[butchflirt]

How did your great grandpa stepping on a landmine protect this country

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[stantler]

Happy Memorial Day

[woollypar]

I have this friend who keeps calling me an armadillo and it makes no fucking sense

[woollypar]

What do they call posts on tumblr? Do they call them tumbles?

[woollypar]

In theory you could put ANY liquid into a mug