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There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

*whisper chants* vampire pumpkin vampire pumpkins vampire pumpkins

This is the quality fall shit I’m here for

I think it’s great that Pumpkins (and other squash) were only introduced to Europe around 1600 and the Serbs wasted absolutely no time blaming them for their problems.

"Manifestation"

This artwork presents a young victorian sorceress in a ritual, and it represents the beginning of my spiritual path. I've been inspired by tarot symbology, and for this piece in particular I used as reference the imagery of "The Magician". The cup, the wand, the sword and the pentacle: all of them are tools to create, to manifest, to move forward.

Made with ink and watercolor.

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Anonymous asked:

going to choose to trust you on this because you are the closest person to DC establishment i know: does calling representatives to ask them to avoid sending weapons to israel change anything? i am very frightened of making phone calls and i've heard from other leftists that it's a lost cause but jewish voices for peace is calling for us to call and i want to know if it's worth pushing past my fears. do you think any number of calls could make a difference??????

Yes, it does matter, especially if it's as part of a coordinated campaign. Keep it simple: all you have to do is to say what city you live in and what you're calling about. You don't need to try and convince anyone of anything during your call, you just need to say that you're a voter who feels a certain way about a topic. Doesn't need to take more than 30 seconds. Do this once for your House member and once for each of your Senators.

Eons ago I did an unpaid internship on Capitol Hill, and taking constituent calls is almost always the intern's job. We tallied all of the calls we got from in-district voters up by topic, i.e. "4 calls about fixing this bridge, 6 calls complaining about immigration, 9 calls about an air pollution bill, etc." At the end of the week, staffers added up those tallies and presented them to the congressperson to serve as a measure of what people in their district were focused on. While the exact content of each individual call is ultimately irrelevant, a large number of calls tells members of congress that their voters feel strongly about something- this is what makes coordinated campaigns effective. Because reelection is at stake, members of congress do pay attention to this.

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@triviallytrue Always call the DC office. The DC office is where the policy gets made, district offices are generally for constituent assistance (i.e. “I’ve been having some trouble with the Social Security Administration, can you help me get in touch with them?,” etc.)

@unfortunatebedhead says the internet (yall) should name my absolute Conksuck Bread Lame (knife u use for scoring the top of bread)

yes it is made with a razor blade, a coffee stir-stick and a binder clip

it works so in my opinion it's not stupid!!!!

Mac-Rye-ver

Mac-Rye-ver

thats it everyone else go home

also i do it like this cuz i bake in a screaming hot dutch oven and i dont wanna burn my wrists so borrowers ass halberd it is

also i promised bread pic

SHIT RIGHT TO CLARIFY

@unfortunatebedhead didn't say it was stupid, just that tumblr oughta name the thing. my thoughts vis a vis the Macryever was "if it looks stupid and works it's not stupid" but I smushed both of those thoughts into one post at the start

If you want to be an ally and help people with mental illness the best thing you can do that will make the biggest impact is to offer to help them clean.

Genuinely can't stress this enough, the number one way to be an ally for the mentally ill is to say "hey i'm gonna put away your laundry" or "I swept the floor"

Obviously you don't have to become the unpaid maid for your friends, but cleaning is the thing that creates a hate cycle for the mentally ill. There's 800 things to do and it's hard to even do one.

In the middle of a really dark period last year I texted my mom and sister and was like "will you come help me clean my apartment?" and my apartment was in horrible condition, it was embarrassing--but it was the thing I needed. I had the spoons to ask for help and I know not everyone has that, I realize that.

Reblogging helplines, voting for healthcare, talking about mental illness...all well and good.

But doing the smallest thing to help clean the space around your mentally ill friend is genuinely the best thing you could ever do.

Again, don't feel the need to be a maid for your friend, just ask if they need help, ask what you can do, and ask if you do it with them if that would help.

My wife a couple weeks ago came to my house and we cleaned together. It changed everything. I did a lot of the cleaning, but someone was there with me helping.

Help clean the space of your depressed friend. Life will change.

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and later, you can also ask them to help YOU clean! reciprocity feels good, helping feels good, and working on other peoples problems always feels easier than working on your own

Small list of things you can do that are super easy to help someone in a mental health crisis:

  • Help them clean
  • Fix them/bring them food
  • Plan a low effort fun day ("wanna go see a movie?")
  • Offer to do an errand, like go get groceries (bonus for doing it together)
  • Take out the trash
  • Draw them a picture

Feel free to add things that you would like when you're going through a hard time. There's a reason people do meal deliveries for the sick and people who recently lost someone.

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Fuck it, I’m posting the selfcare checklist. I created this for my university seminar students on how to make yourself feel better when anxiety, loneliness, or whatever negative feeling hits. These 10 things are questions literally every single person needs to answer 

Have I?  (physical needs/daily needs)

  • Eaten
  • Drank
  • Slept
  • Showered

Have I? (metaphysical needs/every few days needs)

  • Sat down (reoriented motivations, stopped working, etc)
  • moved/exercised (have you been sitting too long?) 
  • been outside (10+ minutes in daylight)

Have I? (social needs/weekly)

  • Talked to someone? 
  • Gone somewhere? 
  • Done something novel? (not exactly new, but interesting or diferent)

You have to answer these questions in order and if you can’t move forward, repeat steps/start over. If you find you can never move forward that’s when it’s time to seek professional help. 

Sexiest Podcast Character — Unscripted Bracket — Round 3

Propaganda

Lup (The Adventure Zone: Balance):

  • Is somehow the hot twin between her and Taako
  • Lup Bluejeans (née... Taaco? Tacco? Taco? Tako? who tf knows this is why I'm going with her husband's last name. doylistly she gets her last name from her brother whose last name is given as "Taako again but spelled differently"): Hot, funny, smart and undead. Is there anything else you could want in a woman?? Well, in case there is: she's also canonically trans
  • LUP IS THE HOTTEST. VOTE LUP.

Chine (Friends at the Table: Sangfielle):

  • ”Look at how they grow ‘em here in Blackwick. God damn.”
  • taz fandom i'm begging to you please listen to fatt: sangfielle and experience chine please duck is an extended bit about wayne newton and he doesn't even try to blow up a carnival to upset mother nature and force a random town to forever be attendants to the aforementioned eternal carnival please oh please...
  • If Chine eating a mattress has a million fans, I am one, etc. etc.
  • just LOOK AT HIM
  • and he can turn into a shrew monster
  • this guy has great tits, this guy is a monster, this guy is nonbinary and all the bugs love them!! he's a dad, a writer, a macrame artist?? they're a goofball, they're deadly serious, they're shockingly competent! he's a vessel of the chaos of nature itself!! he's an animal control guy that sides with the animals, he's the living embodiment of adhd with a side of depression, and weirdly suspicious of the color yellow?? they swing a rusty poll-ax, they know how to read music and are completely comfortable singing with their co-workers..... which is to say:
  • vote for chinel <3
  • Vote for chine hes a wereshrew and morally ambiguous and easily lusted for
  • CHINE IS A BIG HAIRY EXOTERRORIST WOODSY FAILDAD WERESHREW DOG-GUY DOG-BOY... THEY ATE A WHOLE MATTRESS TO ESCAPE PRISON AND HE ATE A LIGHTBULB TO TOUCH THE GENIUS OF CREATION... AND HE'S REALLY GAY. THEY/HE LEGEND (AS IN ACTUAL LEGEND, PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF THEM)
  • GO MY PSIONIC WARRIORS!!!!!!!!
  • as a wise person said in the tags last time: don't you want to fuck the unknown??? the hairy and wild unknown??
  • LOOK AT HOW THEY GROW EM IN BLACKWICK YALL a vote for Chine is a vote for trans wrongs
  • Chine is a rampaging landfill detonation of a person(?). Next question.

Art of Chine made by @wereshrew-admirer.

The doctor explains how the tardis is bigger on this inside (x)

Help. This actually makes sense.

Indeed, one of the most fascinating moments in Classic Who!

Time And Relative Dimensions In Space