#brownie mary

[oldguardleatherdog]

The post about San Francisco medical cannabis outlaws Dennis Peron and "Brownie Mary" Rathbun where I added the story about my encounters with them and how they saved me from dying of AIDS wasting in 1996 has come around again, and this comment never fails to bring a tear to my eye...

"You're my family now. I will take care of you."

When I'm feeling burned to a crisp in my activist life, when I'm going up the wall in frustration with my community's inaction and maddening self-involved nearsightedness, when I think about how easy it would be just to give it up and enjoy life on all fours, something like this crosses my dash and reminds me what true compassion, true selflessness, looks like in practice -

and I get off my high horse, quit whining and feeling sorry for myself, and get back to work for my family, and I renew my promise to always take care of you 🧡 as much as any dog can

[aiiaiiiyo]

[lifewithchronicpain]

Damn, this post suddenly got popular again. It’s my most reblogged post and it’s a good one. Especially with this addition by @oldguardleatherdog, thank you! Glad it’s going around again this disability pride month.

In photographs, she looks like a scout leader about to ask if you’ve had anything to eat today. It takes a moment to see that often, just out of focus, her fingers are holding a joint and her vest is covered in risque pins, including an embroidered cannabis leaf.

Mary Jane Rathbun, jailed thrice and the reason for California’s groundbreaking action on medical cannabis, was better known as Brownie Mary, the patron saint of AIDS patients. More than twenty years after her death, it’s not hard to understand why this grandmotherly figure remains one of San Francisco’s most beloved activists.

She’s been called the Florence Nightingale of HIV/AIDS. She was famous for bringing her magic brownies to gay men and others suffering from wasting syndrome, a name for the deleterious effects on appetite caused by the stigmatized retrovirus.

Much like Nightingale’s work on hygiene and compassionate care, Brownie Mary’s legacy lives on in the recipes and procedures still used today in medicinal edible production.

Rathbun’s illicit distribution began in the early 1970s, when she was in her early 50s, while she worked at an IHOP in the Castro, 37 years before government-approved research finally proved that her hypothesis about distributing ingestible cannabis to AIDS patients was worth investigating. (Read more at link)

[deansmom]

The fact that the spn fandom is entirely incapable of a nuanced discussion involving Dean and the relationship with his mother shouldn’t surprise me as much as it did when I came back to fandom, and as much as it still does when I’m forced to see it with my own two eyeballs

Mary Winchester was a person before she was a mother, and I’m going to be so honest with you, I think by the time she died, John didn’t like who that person was. So I think when she died, he did what a lot of people do, which is put the person they lost on a pedestal. And that’s who Dean grew up hearing about, that’s what all of his memories of his mom were contextualized with, this person who didn’t exist. And so then his mom comes back and I think it’s very, very clear to Dean almost immediately that this isn’t the same person John told him about.

In the real world, we have no context to draw from and nothing to compare it to, the experience of getting a dead parent back and to be part of your life again. We can’t know how he felt beyond what we were shown in canon - So of course Dean is thrilled, but he’s also a Winchester and deeply traumatized, and tries so hard to make it seem normal and not internalize his complicated feelings about her and her being alive. He’s dealing with:

Grappling with losing the mother he was told she was and resenting mary for it because she’s standing in front of him

Realizing that John robbed so much from him by denying him the version of his mother who feels like looking in a mirror

The guilt of how and why mary is there

Trying to reconcile his feelings of resentment and anger that he knows should be directed at John, but John’s not there, so they end up getting directed at mary, and feeling bad about that

A deeply traumatized inner child who has his safe person back, and just wants his mom to hold him and tell him it’s going to be okay, but he knows that isn’t fair to ask of her

And meanwhile mary was dealing with

✨trauma✨ from being brought back to life

Having to confront her own failures as a parent (which is silly it’s not her fault she died but y’know, feelings tend to be silly)

Having to reconcile her toddler with the man in front of her who’s older than her being her son

Seeing so much of John’s worst qualities in both of them and recognizing the trauma of a shitty dad

The fact that they had this idea of who she was, and it’s nothing like her at all, and trying to understand why John would lie to them while also probably coming to terms with what looks like confirmation of her own worst fears about who she was as a parent

I cannot stress this enough: the last time her feet touched the ground, she had been married, with a new baby, and a 4 year old, she wasn’t a hunter, John barely knew about hunting, and it was the 80’s. She woke up in what, 2017 and her husband’s dead, her babies are grown men (again: older than her!!!) and the most prolific hunters in the world. Oh, also, angels? God? The afterlife?? Funny story! Like I’m sorry, you wanted her to have well-adjusted coping skills for that????

The Mary hate just gets me because she’s Dean in a different font, and so many of y’all hate her for such superficial bullshit that you could let go of if you took 5 seconds to think about the situation critically for both of them. The only bad guy here is, was and will always be John Winchester. John was there, but Mary tried her best. Mary tried to do what was best for them when she left, because she didn’t want to damage their idea of who she was anymore than she had. Mary literally died trying to save Sam from the destiny that heaven had written for him - John couldn’t be bothered to think about his kids.

And if you think that Dean ever genuinely hated Mary, your critical thinking skills need some work. The thing that prompts his speech in 12.22 is Mary saying to his younger self, “I only want good things for you, Dean. I'll never let anything bad happen to you.” So he says

I hate you. And I love you. 'Cause I can't – I can't help it. You're my Mom. And I understand...'cause I have made deals to save the ones I love more than once.

I forgive you. I forgive you. For all of it. Everything. On the other side of this, we can start over, okay? You, me, Sam. We can get it right this time. But I need you to fight. Right now, I need you to fight. I need you – I need you to look at me, Mom. I need you to really look at me and see me. Mom, I need you to see me. Please.

Translation: “you’re right. I resent you for not being the person I was sold, I resent you for your death being the thing that ruined dad, I resent you for being the touchstone for so many of heaven’s plans for us. I resent you because you’re here, and John isn’t, and it’s easier to hate someone tangible than someone dead. And if I hate you, it’s only because I can see so much of myself in you, and I’m so incredibly angry that John treated us the way he did. My whole world, my whole identity revolves around you being someone that you never were, and wrapping my head around that is scary, but when I pull my head out of my ass and look around, you were just a kid. And you did your best, you’ve always tried to do what’s best for me and Sam, and I don’t hate you. I don’t know if I like you right now because you’re a stranger, which is scary - but I love you. So please, mom, I’m sorry that I’ve been taking my bullshit out on you. Just… try. For me. Please.”

Anyways!!! You guys don’t deserve Mary.

[ask-philosophical-stars]

[kraymerman]

Now that the Grand Fest has officially come to an end and the winners announced, I would like to give a few words.

To Team Past: Congratulations big time for your win! You put in the good fight and prevailed despite, quite frankly, overwhelming odds (and out of our two opponents, you were the ones I would've wanted to win, if it wasn't us)! Well well done! 👏👏👏

And to my fellow folks on Team Future: Well done! We faced the same overwhelming odds as Team Past, combined with Past's odds stacked against us, and although we came in a very, very dead last, by Joe we didn't go down without a fight, and the effort alone, the drive to never give up, deserves praise enough. That just makes us underdogs, just like the dear idols that represented us! And unlike the Past or the Present, there is no way of escaping the Future, it'll come whether you like it or not! Be it tomorrow, next week, or next year, we will, eventually, prevail! Because we're the Future, and the Future is the marching passage of Time! Well done, guys! Well done indeed! 👏👏👏

(have the Splatpost I made after the fest ended. it's the exact same one that I had for the fest, but I just added the underdog part)

[littleplantfreak]

this could be us after a really sick slumber party js

[amethiosspouse]

funny mari doodle

extra funny version utc:

[fairylandblog]

Domesticated Fairies

Known for her work in the field of folklore, Katharine Mary Briggs made a significant contribution to the study of fairy tales through the introduction of her concept of domesticated fairies. Her work in folklore explored how ordinary people incorporated these legendary figures, often perceived as wild and otherworldly, into their lives. Domesticated fairies have intimate relationships with people, usually in the house or community, and adopt more human-like traits than their wilder counterparts. Briggs named a variety of domesticated fairies, including brownies and hobgoblins, that lived in human buildings. Most of the time, people believed that these fairies were helpful since they would help with farm work or perform duties around the house throughout the night. It was common practice to provide them with small presents or food in exchange for their services, such as a bowl of cream or a piece of bread. People believed these fairies to embody the family's spirit and regarded their presence as a blessing, guaranteeing prosperity and protection.

Domesticated fairies reflect the human impulse to explain and personify the enigmatic forces present in both household life and the natural world. The people were able to make sense of the unexplainable occurrences or strokes of luck that occurred in their day-to-day lives by attributing the happenings in their homes to these animals. Fairies and humans shared a mutually beneficial relationship, with the fairies providing nutrition and recognition, and the people benefiting from the fairies' labor and protection. Briggs observed the capricious nature of these fairies. Despite their usual kindness, these fairies can turn mischievous or even vindictive if they perceive injustice or disregard. Regarding the unseen forces that are considered to influence human affairs, this facet of their character served as a reminder to retain respect and care for those invisible forces. The fact that these fairies appear to be both beneficial and possibly destructive is a reflection of the intricacies of human interactions as well as the necessity of maintaining a sense of equilibrium and respect within society.

The concept of domesticated fairies is an example of how folklore evolves to accommodate the social and cultural conditions of the time period. When people lived in agrarian cultures, where their daily lives concentrated around the home and the farm, the incorporation of fairies into these settings offered a means to bring the mystical into the everyday. These tales reaffirmed societal standards and values, emphasizing the importance of appreciation, hospitality, and awareness of one's surroundings. The investigation of domesticated fairies that Katharine Mary Briggs conducted offers a glimpse into the way in which folklore acts as a bridge between the real and the mythological, providing solace and comprehension in a world that is full of uncertainty. Her body of work exemplifies the profound influence that storytelling has on the formation of cultural identities and the maintenance of the collective imagination. Through the examination of these stories, we are able to acquire a more profound understanding of the various ways in which people throughout history have attempted to cohabit with the unseen and the unknown, successfully incorporating them into the fabric of everyday life.

[neonstatic]

Gobbled down a block of medium strong cheese with grapes like a man on the run. Don't know why I was rushing. Didn't even get 5 min into the video I was watching and it was all gone. Barely tasted anything rly. Happy Grapes and Cheese Thursday!

[nightfall-1409]

once again swinging at the hornets nest but if you can in fact swap out the phrase "Filoni's OC" with the phrase "Mary Sue" when you're talking about Ahsoka Tano.

then question why the fuck you feel that way about her.

genuinely what did she do other than be the main character in some star wars properties.

[the-ultimate-squish]

[aiiaiiiyo]

[anothermansjeans]

it’s almost 11pm and i just but sugar cookies in the oven, someone stop me

[impulsivemuses]

"Oh, I remember you~!" Emberlynn walked up to Mary, grinning. "I didn't know you were gonna be at this party too!" Small world. - @infernal-feminae

"You got an invite too, hm? I am quite shocked I must say~." Ignore her, Emberlynn... she's already been at this party an hour and already she's tipsy from her 'all you can drink buffet' of the wine aisle in the backyard which is why she's acting so strange. "You look... quite cute that small, have I ever said that before~? Tee hee!" Mary kneels down to Emberlynns height. "You drink, cutie?"

[octaviasdread]

okay, Frankenstein on stage in a 1930s/wartime setting is actually such a good idea

i was so worried about the script adaptation and how they’d choose to stage it - but i went in knowing nothing

and had the BEST time