I have an art blog now! Everything I have ever drawn and posted is now on @sleepyselkiesketches!
I’m not deleting anything from this blog, but this is going to be the last piece I post here.
ADHD
Add onto this the constant feeling of being overwhelmed. You didn’t get the laundry done yesterday and now there are piles of it. You forgot to take out the chicken so now you’re trying to throw something together for dinner at 9 pm. You forgot to order your prescription and now it’s the weekend so you’re going to go without for 2 days. There are dishes in the sink. You forgot to plug in the vacuum so now you can’t even clean the floor. There are hobbies you can’t do because you’ve convinced yourself you aren’t allowed to experience fun until the work is finished. Slowly, it all builds and you are left sitting there with so much to do and the inability to organize tasks leaves you paralyzed and lost amid everything! Honestly, you fucking break down crying because you feel like an incomplete person incapable of caring for themselves.
When you are used to the no-nonsense, no-context approach of medieval Irish stories, trying to read Old Norse saga literature does feel kind of like you're being told a medieval story by Uncle Colm from Derry Girls.
#you know young thorgrim as it was #ah this wouldn't be the thorgrim who was thorstein's son #THAT thorgrim lived on the other side of the fjord #or WAS it that thorgrim? #no it was the other thorgrim #his father was thorstein too you see but he was quite a different man #although you wouldn't know it to look at his farm #a mess of a place it was #i said to him thorstein i said you need to start asking thorgrim to help you more #and he said they've a haunting #would you believe it! #a haunting! #it would have been around then or was it the winter after that when they had the famine #no i think it was that winter #and a young man arrived. a warrior he was. #i never knew his father but his father's uncle— (via @trans-cuchulainn)
If this were a medieval Irish story, it would be more like:
"There was an excellent warrior, Thorir his name. He was fostered by Thorstein, who had a son called Thorgrim, but it was not an auspicious time for their farm, because there was a haunting there. When Thorir saw the dead man, he tied a withe around its feet, but it pursued him anyway. Then he performed the sword-feat, and cut the man into many pieces. He took his head and went back to Thorgrim mac Thorstein. 'O fosterbrother,' he said, 'I have killed the man who was haunting you, that is, the revenant.' Thorgrim said, 'This is a great deed.' And that is why that place is called Hill of the Dead Man."
And we will never find out who any of these people are or what was up with the revenant or what Thorir was trying to achieve with the withe -- or even who the revenant was before he was dead.
Meanwhile in the Norse saga we're still learning his family tree and Thorir hasn't even shown up yet.
I currently have a horrible curse afflicting my right foot and ankle. It’s called “fucked up tendons.” The curse is temporary but only if I do as it directs. It punishes me severely for standing and walking too much in a given day. Explaining this to my managers at work has not been as productive as I hoped, as the curse is invisible to those who are not under its effects and my job typically requires me to walk nonstop for 4-6 hours, but the magic armor known as “big ass foot brace my mom wore after she had to get surgery on her foot and still has and is letting me borrow it because I’m hurt and she’s convinced it’ll help and I’m just desperate for people with power over me to take me seriously” has rendered it extremely visible to anyone who encounters me, and I must say this has led to me increasing my odds of being free of the curse.
Remember that the right person will never get tired of you even in the worst times
No, they will! But they'll work through it, or walk away for a bit (i'm talking minutes to hours) and then come back.
People can love you and still need to get away from you for a bit. And there is nothing toxic about that — it's good, in fact. It helps remind everyone involved that everyone has boundaries, and everyone needs time to themselves.
It's okay. Calm down before you talk about something that made you angry while your loved one is sick. Be sure of what made you mad so you can discuss it together.
Love isn't a one-way street, and it's something that takes work. Part of that work is knowing when you need to step away.
Delphinium from my garden, sparkling with raindrops in the sunlight
(c) riverwindphotography, July 2023
Source: riverwindphotography
Sparkling after the rains moved through
(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, July 2023
Source: riverwindphotography
candle holders Made with broken & discarded items by Gab Bois
candle holders Made
with broken & discarded
items by Gab Bois
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Simona Ruggeri (Italian)
Baby Ghosts, 2020
Acrylic on paper
Glasswinged butterflies are a South American species known for their transparent wings
autism is living by vampire rules. light sensitivity. eating the wrong food makes you want to die. need to be explicitly invited places. weird sleep schedule. eating the same thing every time. specific rituals and routines. burst into flames at the sight of a crucifix. etc.
text from my dad (2021) - my dad
“i’ll admit that my main problem with this is that i haven’t asked”
submitted by @cornandcoconutsoup
Original text for context
op this provides no context
does anyone want to lay on the floor with me and be weird
when your art program’s closing message hits you straight in the heart and makes you stop and contemplate the state of it all
This is sickkkkk