#and crunchy

[ccouchpotato]

medusa comes out of hiding once every ten years to drink the blood of men and find the one who betrayed her

[viscerasteel]

may I add my warcrime lasagna mishap?

[irradiatedpiratebooty]

re-upload of my fallout 2 edit, including a watermark since this video has been reposted without credit to me. its obnoxious but unfortunately this is what has to happen

[sl33py-g4m3r]

tooth extraction update

hope to hell I can sleep and don't get hungry or the gauze bugs me too bad to sleep~~

had mom help me with one cause I wasn't doing it right I felt like; she did it so much cleaner than I ever could~~ tho she's had practice...

if I'm hungry I can't sleep. and I already am... what do drink water to hopefully quell it and get some sleep? but I'm not tired yet either....

tooth socket is almost done bleeding tho so that's good~~ hopefully there's no pain cause I think before the numbing wore off I took an ibuprophin ? so hopefully will get to sleep before pain, if any.

I didn't want to chance food despite mushing it up to baby food texture so the only thing I'm running on is a bottle of soda I drank this morning, and the two remaining walmart cupcakes I ate before going to the dentist.

the paperwork was the longest part~~ not even kidding...

why are all the anxiety tags spelled wrong??

I hope I did the gauze and have been doing the gauze correctly. didn't think to ask them how to do it and it's my first time having to do something like this...

mom did it so much cleaner than me~~~ when she helped earlier....

:(

no pain yet and the bleeding is almost gone so yay~~ I no longer taste blood~~~ wooooooo

so~~ none of; hot tea, hot soup, hot food, soda, small pieces of stuff like rice or chia seeds or maybe oats too idk, get anything I want to eat really mushed up and eat on the other side of my mouth, so no pepper either... no sucking on straws or stuff.....

being without that tooth I need to train my brain to not send my tongue over there~~~ I'm so used to absentmindedly fiddling with that tooth specifically.....

don't touch the hole~~~~ don't touch the wound~~~~~

hope I can sleep tonight~~~

I'm no longer afraid of being alone~~~ medical stuff especially anything dealing with teeth freaks me out~~~ I'd hate to see how this went if I forgot to take the small dose of as needed anxiety meds I have.

look at me actually remembering they exist and to use them AS NEEDED~~~~!!!

day started off good cause I took my meds with water, which I have to do now, and got my laundry done~~~

then this~~~

hope you all have a better night's sleep than me~~~

the healing has only just begun~~~ I hope I can actually eat food tomorrow~~~ and aren't a coward. could've ate today but too scared..

[samwisethewitch]

Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

[heartnosekid]

monkeycatluna on ig

[forecast0ctopus]

AN-TI-BO-DIES

[softichill]

I think abt this tiktok all the time

[ID: A captioned Tiktok by @nextdreadpirate. A comment in the middle of the screen says, "Always tip the maid" as a skinny white man trots into the middle of the screen. He's wearing a frilly maid's dress and cap and holding a notebook and pen. The comment disappears as he says, "Hi! Welcome to the maid cafe where we're-" He turns to the right, does the nya hand gesture with each hand, then kicks up a heel, showing off a black pump. "-cuter than kittens!" He finishes, then drops the pose and turns back to face the camera, shuffling a bit closer and leaning in as he talks. "I'm the diversity hire, Bryson. Are you here for the gamer discount?"

A door opens in the background, and Bryson stands up and turns to the left, holding out a warning hand. "Okay, I can explain," he says to people offscreen, starting to laugh. Someone laughingly says, "Oh my god," and another person starts laughing as the video ends. End ID]

[hexh-pixel]

glitch miku twitter ★ art prints ★ tip jar and wallpapers

[sea-buns]

In the live they said a group of Creakings could be called a "Crunch" and by god have they cooked with this update I'm so delighted

[onthecrescentofthehill]

the paintings in this ep :^(

[candycatfalls]

I Am Never Animating Again Good Bye

[generation-fucked-nostalgia]

An extinct breed of lyric video from an era past...

She's no you // Complicated // Monster high // If You Seek Amy // Butterfly // Starstruck

[cornkernelle]

During an intense art block I took a stab at a couple of canon characters from crk!

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[gaybuckybarnesss]

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