#things I have said

[pumpkinupsidedowncake]

Arthur after unleashing the darkness that has haunted this house for centuries: (horrified stuttering)

The newly unleashed ultra nightmare paralysis demon: omg ty bestfriend!! haha anyways gotta go bathe the land of dreams in the crimson lifeblood of my victims :) ilysm ttyl <3<3<3

[artemis-lynn]

Newsies as things my friends and I have said: Part 1

Race, trying to convince Davey to confess his feelings to Jack:

In the words of my great great something grandpa..."You do or you do not. There is no try."

Davey: Wha-

Race: Shut up, Yoda's my grandpa. That's why I'm special as frick, go with it.

[incorrect-marvel-because-why-not]

Tony: Dear past me, you’re a selfish little shit. You know that?

[tt40art]

The paradox of Homestuck is that everything both is and is not a so-called “Homestuck joke.” In this essay, I posit that the nature of modern communication is such that something as simple as falling down the stairs or even using shaving cream can be misconstrued as a “Homestuck joke.”

[gothe]

‘that sucked, but i’m irresistibly cool now, so…’ - ‘my unlimited aura’ - ‘i have amazing things to say’ - ‘you don’t meet somebody like me every day’

[tonysiron]

im just a guy standing in a room surrounded by my national geographic magazines and holding my cancerous garfield mcdonalds cup

[shrimp-scout]

(at the pickleball courts)

(my pickleball partner accidentally hits a shot over the fence, into the skatepark next door)

Partner and my opponents start requesting help

Me: We got a runner!

Skater dude: I got it!

Dude's friends: (cheering him on)

Skater dude: (throws the ball to us, but it makes it nowhere near the fence)

Me: WEAK ARMS.

Everyone on both sides: (ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOSE IT)

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[thelaurenshippen]

watching bridgerton and obviously there were a lot of things wrong with the way socializing has worked in the past, but honestly the idea of a "calling hour" is so appealing. office hours for friendship. you can show up unannounced at my home between 1 and 3pm. you must leave by 3pm. I may give you a pastry. lets bring that back

[pumpkinupsidedowncake]

Ok but what if you move from a bustling city to a farm in a small town, but your old life burned down around you and you can never go back?

What if the land around you is full of food to grow, forage, and fish, but the townspeople who took you in will starve in the winter if you can’t preserve enough of it?

What if more than your new home is at stake? What if the entire country, if not the world, is under siege by a deadly plague?

What if the friendly faces around you could die? What if you can’t save them all? What if help is not coming and this village is all you have now?

And what if you were also a rabbit or perhaps another woodland creature

[pumpkinupsidedowncake]

I recently went through a phase of watching/reading a lot of homesteading content online, and I’ve been looking up gardening information as well. I can’t speak as someone who’s actually done this stuff, just as someone who’s looked into it. (Actual recommendations in bullet points below)

The majority of homesteaders making content are some flavor of right-leaning. It doesn’t always come up, but there’ll be undertones of “ew government” and “preservatives are evil”. The term self-sufficiency specifically seems to appeal to that collection of people, with less emphasis on broader communal ties and more on the nuclear family.

There are exceptions, but expect a degree of woo-woo to be present if you’re looking at random blogs and youtube videos. Herbal remedies may be brought up. If you aren’t looking at stuff about livestock, there will hopefully be less of that. Or less of the attitude of using plants as a replacement for medicine, anyway.

I haven’t focused on cooking, and my advice is to find homestead/plant information separately from cooking info. I think all my recommendations that have recipes attached are ok, but I haven’t checked in detail. If you have any go-to sources of recipes already, you may be better off using or modifying those. Otherwise if you want to read a recipe without the commentary in front of it, you could use the “just the recipe” website. (Copy and paste a recipe page’s url, see the recipe without the preamble or pop-up ads.)

Gardening guides vary in many ways, but I’ve had a better experience with them than homestead related content. If you want an article or video on how to grow a specific type of plant, there will be a good amount of practical advice. Video titles are more likely to tell you how much B.S. is present, in general.

Below are some sources of information I’d recommend.

Youtube recommendations:

Parkrose Permaculture: based in Portland, Angela talks about a broad range of topics. Even if you’re not interested in permaculture design, I find her takes to be a breath of fresh air. She cares about sustainability and inclusivity while occupying a similar niche to many creators who do not. Also there’s guides on unusual fruits!

GrowVeg: what it says on the tin. A lot of great guides on how to grow specific vegetables. Minimal shilling of a garden planner. Meant to appeal to a wide audience. Good information on common pests and diseases.

Epic Gardening: a greater variety of content than GrowVeg, also has a different vibe. More millennial-ish. There’s more clickbaity thumbnails, but also more guides on unusual plants. Side channels include Epic Homesteading and Jaques in the Garden. I’m fairly certain they’re the individual channels of two of the guys. They have a similar vibe to the main channel, maybe a little more conversational or laid back. They also have/are a gardening store.

MIGardener: also is/has a gardening store. Growing guides and tips, and insight from someone who’s both a home gardener and has experience working in the commercial gardening world. Good information on starting seeds indoors.

Website recommendations:

Almanac: you know the old farmer’s almanac? This is their website. If you’re in the U.S. they have planting guides specific to any zip code or city, which is really neat. They do have guides for planting by the moon, which at the very least doesn’t work for the reasons people say it does, but its status as a traditional planting technique makes me care less. Either way you’re planting it at an appropriate time. Their food content seems good, the introductions are short and to the point. They have growing guides for fruits, vegetables, flowers, and more.

National Center for Home Food Preservation: if you’re into canning or other methods of preserving food, this has safety tips and some recipes.

Plants For A Future: database of a bunch of plants with different uses. I would use this to see what’s out there and then find a different source with specific information on one plant you’re into. If you want to see what plants of specific types could grow in your area, it’s pretty handy. There’s sections on different uses of each plant, like how you can eat it, which is cool. However, it also has a section on medicinal uses, which is interesting historically, but as soon as the uses go beyond curing a stomachache I get concerned. This recommendation isn’t particularly relevant if you’re sticking to widely gardened foodstuffs, but I found it neat so it’s here.

I long to have a vegetable garden, homestead & cook all of my meals one day - but in trying to learn about the lifestyle I encounter a staggering amount of fatphobic/diet culture “WELLNESS” and “clean eating” crap. there’s a lot of supremacy in their attitude, almost as if saying “i’m smarter and better than everyone because I don’t eat ___.” I see creators who grow their own food because they claim that “the government is poisoning you!” the conspiracy nonsense is everywhere. the wellness to alt-right pipeline is real, y’all.

that being said, does anyone have any recommendations for resources on gardening, homesteading, and self-sustainability that aren’t fatphobic or woo-woo? it’s getting hard to avoid!

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[podcastwizard]

this is what being twenty five is like btw