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Linocut snail postcards! 🐌💌

p.s. you can get ‘em on my etsy 👀💛

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Bro being medicated for my executive dysfunction is the weirdest fucking thing I have ever experienced. I don't know what I was expecting? I guess I thought that the meds would help my motivation itself and that the extra motivation would... Override the exec dys? I'm already a very motivated individual so I was curious what would even happen.

But it turns out motivation is not at all the internal feeling I thought it was? It's not like. An emotion I feel in my chest it's just some... Background mechanism you don't actually feel?

Before I felt like I was staring down a wall but since I am so motivated I would run and leap and climb the wall. I thought ADHD meds would give me the energy to climb the wall without feeling exhausted. Instead they just... TORE DOWN THE WALL?

Even that metaphor isn't exact enough. Like I cannot describe how not big or revolutionary it is. It feels simultaneously life changing and boring as shit. It feels so unremarkable cjanxnsj

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When I was 19 or 20, I sewed myself a wool dress for medieval re-enactments. I hated it almost as soon as I put it on. The bodice was cut wrong; the lacing was uneven; the colour was garish; the front closure was historically inaccurate; the embellishments were sewn on with terrible thread. Wearing it, I was constantly aware of its myriad flaws.

Then in my twenties I hit my adult metabolism and didn’t fit into any of my old clothes anymore. I gave my old dresses to my foster mother, who sells costumes for a living, and the green dress sold. It entered the local medieval re-enactment secondhand economy.

Every time I go to an event, someone different is wearing my green dress. It draws my eyes because it’s a lovely colour and the fabric—real wool and enough of it—moves beautifully with the wearer’s body. I never recognize it at first, because every wearer has worn it a different way; it can be mixed and matched, dressed up and down, moved around a good century of history. From ten feet away its lacing looks elegant, its embellishments beautiful gracenotes. I think: Oh my god, that dress looks beautiful. Wait a minute, that’s MY DRESS.

That dress teaches me, every time I see it, to stop looking at myself through such critical eyes. That dress doesn’t just look good, it looks better than most other dresses in its category, because I put in the time and the effort (including using pliers to force a needle through six layers of wool) to make sure it was done right.

It’s my reminder that sometimes the things I do are actually good, and if I indulge my natural tendency to criticize myself in everything, I’ll end up missing when I’m actually awesome.

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Hot Shit | Tom Cardy

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TIL anyone who's going to overwinter in Antarctica has to have had their appendix out. Because removing an appendix that's not causing any trouble just as a precaution is way better than having one that's about to burst when you're on the ass-end of the planet with no way to be rushed to a hospital if shit gets real.

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YAHOO!

muffin for breakfast and sandwich for lunch. gotta appreciate a really classic day of eating.

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I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

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In case any Americans are not aware of this: the rest of the world is FUCKING TERRIFIED of how this election is going to go. If trump wins, it affects more than just America. If trump wins, it will fuck so many other countries in so many ways.

So first of all, PLEASE VOTE. The rest of the world doesn't get to vote in your election, but we do get directly impacted by your election, so please do what we can't, and vote.

Secondly, remember that you're not just voting for America. You're voting on behalf of the all the countries that will be impacted by this election.

Please, for the love of God, vote blue, and save not just America from a second trump term, but the whole goddamn world.

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yet again bashing my pointer at the enormous sign that says "it's not that [witches/goblins/vampires/motherfucking krampus] are necessarily specifically jew-coded in an antisemitic way - though they may be and in fact often are, but you do have to take that part case by case - so much as it is that the entire european idea of what is monstrous is so deeply intertwined with ideas of jews as inhuman outsiders that some of that is going to leak in from the groundwater no matter what you do".

do not piss on the poor about this post i do not have it in me.

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Healthcare insurance should be automatic.

Voter registration should be automatic.

Tax filing should be automatic.

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Thinking about this tweet every time I see/hear about the Harris vs. Trump polls being close.

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"to get treatment for adhd you (person with untreated adhd) need to schedule and then show up for several appointments" is the kind of shit the greek gods would inflict on a guy who ate his son

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b-b-but we’re protecting women, right?

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The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

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Sunset over the stars - Submitted by nnaynaee

#1F767F #3A9296 #B9C4B3 #EAC5AA #E1672B

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Happy Halloween everyone! 🦇🍷

New prints just dropped - the holiday will end, but the bats will be with you all year round!

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