#we carry our dead

[weirdlookindog]

Jean Veber (1868-1928) - Nous portons nos morts (We carry our dead), 1905

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Jean Veber - We carry our dead, 1905.

[mushtoons]

they're so in love, but like in a lesbian way

[thatone-churro]

chat i am NOT appreciating the stares i got from walking across campus to cvs in my hoodie and sweatpants as if we didn’t just sit through ANOTHER hurricane like chill man i didn’t sleep well let me get my monster to finish my logic homework in peace 😭

[eisenbrave]

whether by accident or fortune you and i, we are matter and it matters

[icefire149]

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[tiktaaliker]

ok I know I'm already in the process of writing an extremely long video game retelling/au where the protag is a nonhuman who gets suddenly and unwillingly put in a situation where they have to pass as A Normal Guy by the threat of harm/death while also being put into a role where they're the Only One capable of saving the world. but what if I started a DIFFERENT one too

[mydr3aminvi0let]

really annoying and cruel and evil and messed up all my friends don't live in the same city. ive got so good at being alone ive convinced myself i could live the rest of my life alone and never be any less happy, and i still believe that, but then we have a good conversation or they make me laugh too much and it's like. oh. this is what it's all about. why can't we all live in the same building

[hauntingblue]

NAMI HAS TAKEN ACTION!!! LETSGOOOOO

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

[rotisseries]

i just realised that ethel cain famous last words is zelink and i think you should know that

i do💖

[blujayonthewing]

I was trying out variations on colorways for aubree's outfit and, with a few of them, realized that her outfit has trended slightly less colorful over time, and specifically less yellow (originally a green and yellow striped vest, then a green vest over a yellow short sleeved shirt, and now possibly a white shirt and green vest, with only small amounts of yellow embroidery). this wasn't intentional, but nonetheless, the concept that, as the adventure has worn on, she's outwardly losing color-- and specifically in favor of browns and whites, the colors associated with the halfling god of death-- is compelling to me. I mean, I suppose if I had been doing it on purpose, the shadowfell arc immediately following our literal deaths and mysterious rebirths would have been a really good time for the most muted palette... but, then again, aubree was still relatively fresh then, confused and traumatized but also still powerfully and stubbornly alive where it counts; vibrant, burning, shining light into dark corners just by existing. but the more we learn, the heavier things weigh, the fewer outlets she has, the less she feels like she can relate to the people who should understand better than anyone... she's still righteous and angry, but she's also just... sad, and tired, and growing more tired the more she feels like she has to keep herself together for everyone else. and gradually, quietly, her colors are washing out.

[orcelito]

another highlight of dnd:

ranger beheaded a guy (this is a not very agreed upon action by a few party members, including fang). she's getting ready to bury him, fang goes over to... pay respects? something?

she cautions that beheadings are pretty gruesome, and fang just offhandedly replies, "I've seen limbs being ripped off" to be like "i literally have already seen this shit, it's w/e"

except. i said. "rimbs being lipped off"

and i had to pause. and be like. "... let's try that again" sdlkfjslkdfj kind of ruined the serious of the scene for a bit

[hockeytwittereats]

Christmas Tree Farm is a song about how adults made a place where you felt safe when you were a child and now that you're an adult you can still return there to feel safe and loved when the world gets too much.

folklore has a lot in it about healing some of the deep wounds of childhood all over it including the fairy garden vibe of the album.

evermore looks at the adults we lost along the way and how those moments of lost innocence affects us.

Robin is looking at a child as an adult and wanting to give them a space like you had when you were a kid.

[13thpythagoras]

I believe Marx erred in eschewing religion altogether.

Marx should have worked with religion rather than against it; Jesus was already a communist in the wings waiting to be drafted into the movement, Marx missed a huge opportunity to highlight how Jesus was essentially a communist, and that there are a great many revolutionary bible passages that support this, such as

Mathew 19:23-24 — Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Is it not plain as the noon-day sun? Jesus Christ is telling Christians to give up everything they own at the altar of the Lord and become disciples of HIM! Similarly, this was a requirement of ancient Pythagoras, and many of the mystery schools, to gain entrance into their secret societies.

Luke 12:15: Then [Jesus] said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Life is not measured by how much you own.”

Communism then, making many of the same demands, it baffles me and bewilders me why and how man-with-a-brain TM Karl Marx could have missed this astronomically significant connection that he was tapping into a much older lineage of thought. Perhaps it is hubris, and the desire to be an original discoverer of original truth, that hero the west craves.

Yet it is through my learnings from eastern philosophies that taught me to cast off the need for a hero, or necessarily, salvation. Balance is the central value of the eastern perspectives, I've found, not salvation.

Calling religion the opiate of the masses and telling people to get over it does nothing to show people a better way. Now the Dalai Lama is exiled from his majestically beautiful homeland and there are countless other stories like this, where religious freedoms are trampled under authoritarian structures.

Jesus was absolutely an anti-racist and anti-capitalist if you look at the bible, he's the poster child of our movement, essentially telling people to come back to Jesus and that they've lost their way, and that antiracist-democratic-socialist-communism is actually the preferred method of governance for Christians, always has been; it's a train to get on, reclaiming these roots.

[pibsboots]

I've always had chronic fatigue. I remember being twelve, and an adult mentioned how I couldn't possibly know how tired they felt because adulthood brought levels of exhaustion I couldn't imagine. I thought about that for days in fear, because I couldn't remember the last time I didn't feel tired.

Eventually I came to terms with the fact that I was just tired, and I couldn't do as many things as everyone else. People called me lazy, and I knew that wasn't true, but there's only so many times you can say "I'm tired" before people think it's an excuse. I don't blame them. When a teenager does 20 hours of extracurriculars every week and only says "I'm too tired" when you ask them to do the dishes, it's natural to think it's an excuse. At some point, I started to think the same thing.

It didn't matter that I could barely sit up. It was probably all in my head, and if I really wanted to, I could do it.

When I learned the name for it, chronic fatigue, I thought wow, people that have that must be miserable, because I am always tired and I cannot imagine what it would feel like if it were worse.

Spoiler alert, if you've been tired for a decade, it's probably chronic fatigue.

Once I figured that out though, I thought of my energy as the same as everyone else's, just smaller in quantity. And that might be true for some people, but I've figured out recently that it absolutely isn't true for me.

I used to be like wow I have so much energy today I can do this whole list for sure! And then I'd do the dishes and have to lay down for 2 hours. Then I'd think I must gave misjudged that, I didn't have as much energy as I thought.

But the thing is - I did have enough energy for more tasks, I just didn't go about them properly.

With chronic fatigue, your maximum energy is obviously much smaller than the average person's. Doing the dishes for you might use up the same percentage of energy that it takes to do all the daily chores for someone else.

If someone without chronic fatigue was to do all the daily chores, they would take breaks. Because otherwise, they're sprinting a marathon for no reason and it would take way more energy than necessary. We have to do the same.

Put the cups in the dishwasher, take a break. Put the bowls in, take a break. So on and so forth. This may mean taking breaks every 2-5 minutes but afterwards, you get to not feel like you've run a marathon while carrying 4 people on your back.

Today, I had a moderate amount of energy. Under my old system of go till you drop, I probably could have done most of the dishes and wiped off the counter and then been dead to the world for the rest of the day.

Under the new system, I scooped litter boxes, cleaned out the fridge, took the trash out, cleaned the stove, and wiped off the counter and did all the dishes. And after all that, I still had it in me to make a simple dinner, unload the dishwasher, and tidy the kitchen.

It was complete and utter insanity. Just because I sat down whenever I felt myself getting more tired than I already was.

All this to say, take fucking breaks. It's time to unlearn the ceaseless productivity bullshit that capitalism has shoved down our throats. Its actively counterproductive. Just sit down. Drink some water. Rest your body when it needs to rest.

There will still be days where there is nothing to do but rest, and days where half a load of dishes is absolutely the most I can do. But this method has really helped me minimize those, which is so incredibly relieving.