Have I worked out how to make polls yet?
Poll ends in, uhhh, the future?
Was reading on wikipedia about how lots of ancient cultures had beliefs and traditions where you had to offer prayers and/or sacrifices if you wanted to cut down a tree because you were basically killing the spirit that lived within the tree and if you did that without good reason bad stuff would happen to you
we should bring that back. if you want to clear cut a forest you have to pray and sacrifice on behalf of every single tree
The more I learn about ecosystems, the more I realize that characterizing "animistic" belief as superstitious and primitive is one of the dumbest lies ever told
I, as well, am an animist (knows what a soil microbiome is)
Now I don't know all the details about these religions all over the world with beliefs and practices like this.
But this way of believing says that a stream or a tree isn't just a Thing, you can't just use it however you want, it's a Life and you owe it respect. And if you want to cut down a tree, you have to think really hard about whether you really need to use that tree, because there's a Process, and you have to really think about and dwell on the fact that you're killing something that's alive and that gives life.
And the important thing is, if you see the trees and plants and rivers as sacred and living, dumping toxic radioactive waste in the water and clear cutting the forest is an unthinkable act of sacrilege. If you see that the mountains are sacred and have spirit, you can't rip them wide open to blast and dig out coal with dynamite and pickaxes.
You know that if you violate the water, or the forest, or the mountains, with such destructive greed, something terrible will happen.
Unrelatedly, the Appalachian Mountains are haunted by something unknowably ancient and eldritch.
Before the invention of breath or bone, there stood the mountains.
Browsing fabrics is equal parts fun and infuriating, mostly because I'm tired of listings that say shit like "natural linen!" and then you go to the details of the listing and it's a blend of linen and fucking plastic. Same thing with cotton. Even on the nice expensive fabric sites, they like to hide the fiber content at the bottom of the goddamn page and give the listings misleading titles.
See also: vegan leather. It's fucking plastic. If I wanted plastic I would be shopping for fucking plastic! Get that shit out of my search results! God damn it! List it accurately or don't waste my time! Fuck!
IF YOU MAKE ME ORDER SWATCHES JUST SO I CAN LIGHT THEM ON FIRE TO FIGURE OUT THE FIBER CONTENT, I HATE YOU
Okay? And? That means it would benefit everyone to have better fiber content labels, which is my entire issue. Fabric shops don't label the fiber content clearly enough and it makes it harder to find what I am looking for.
I'm not sitting here telling people with allergies that they aren't allowed to use synthetics. I'm saying that I, PERSONALLY, am looking for linen, and it's really hard to find 100% natural linen without plastic blended in.
LEGENDS ONLY
this person has a patreon where people pay them to make fandom discourse. one of the patron rewards is literally that she will make a Twitter discourse thread on the topic of your choosing.
Oh thank fucking god it’s not real
You mean this is something you can get paid for and im out here going to school instead??
Oh god her brain is actually huge
Holy shit.
She just looked at the sustainable energy source that is the relentless batshit insanity of Discourse and said “is anybody gonna monetize this or”
And I mean, we all gotta eat, right?
This is not an ethical way to make your bread but I can’t say it’s not impressive and kind of hilarious
Oh yeah this person.
i wish there was a job you could get at art museums that was titled something like 'designated art imp' where your job is to trundle up jesterlike behind anyone looking at a piece and going 'this isn't art, this is bullshit' and be like 'hmmmmm! and yet it evokes such anger in you, my friend'. i would love to have this job.
Been working on a special project this week 😈😇📚 100% handmade from wood.
Designed as a bookshelf insert, but can also be used as a nightlight or stand-alone piece. It’s also a music box! 🎵🎶
I’m gonna be auctioning this soon with all proceeds to the Club Q victims fund
Fucking hell I am DROOLING
Everyone else when they’re undercover during a con: *just standing around* *miming the actions of the job they’re supposed to be doing* “What supervisor, there’s a very valid reason I’m not doing my job, I, uh……”
Eliot freaking Spencer: Guys stop the crime for a minute I have to go deliver these pizzas. I have to plate 300 hors-d'œuvres by 7:00. Get out of my way I have to go build a house with my bare hands.
me, walking out of a brothel: fucking bullshit
my wife: well what DID you think a brothel was
me: looking sadly at the empty bowl i brought: doesn’t matter
