“no one will notice if you stop posting/talking/texting/etc” is the mind killer. it is the evil. it is the little childhood version of myself who feels so insignificant and unwanted but she IS wanted. I am wanted and loved and noticed even if I can’t see it right now
The birds eating the Gavle Goat are jackdaws, which are corvids, but not crows.
People also call the family corvidae the "crow family" but that family includes ravens, jays, rooks, magpies, etc. So, I guess you could call jackdaws crows if you really want to, but if you're going to do that you should commit to that classification and call bluejays crows as well.
The jackdaws are, however, very cute, and very good for taking up the mantle of destroying the goat.
Important update: a duck is involved.
Jävlabocken, more like.
EXCUSE ME THERE IS A PLANT THAT CAN MIMIC FAKE PLANTS?????
IT'S CALLED A BOQUILA TRIOFOLIOLATA AND IT'S FUCKING WITH MY BRAIN
IT APPARENTLY CAN MIMIC OTHER PLANTS AND AT FIRST I WAS LIKE "oh cool man it must take it's genetic code and copy it or feel the roots or something like that!! :3"
AND THEN I READ AN ARTICLE ON IT AND THESE FUCKING PARAGRAPHS HIT ME LIKE A BUS
LIKE READ THIS SHIT
WHAT THE FUCK MOTHER NATURE
I went to find the article. It's fascinating.
My favorite response to “that’s not a word” is “then why do you know what it means?”
condola rashad as joan of arc i am free on sunday at 5 im just letting you know that i would be available on sunday at 5 if someone asked me to dinner on sunday at 5
These are so fun to make
Ask and you shall receive!
Love your additions! Birds got that drip
Oh yeah should probably add this one too-
I've never done this before
Sorry this is the best post I've seen in a while
I'll leave this post alone now
This is way too much fun
I'm not done yet I suppose
no no no you dont get it this is all i wanna do now. I love birds I love them I love them
Scott Prior, Backyard, Winter Twilight, 2021, Watercolor
Red Sprites, between stars and storms l Paul M Smith
This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.
If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.
when susan sontag wrote “I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it”
btw I have neither changed nor lived my life and am still waiting for it. hope this helps
“I thought the earth
remembered me, she
took me back so tenderly, arranging
her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds. I slept
as never before, a stone
on the riverbed, nothing
between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated
light as moths among the branches
of the perfect trees. All night
I heard the small kingdoms breathing
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling
with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.”
—— Mary Oliver 🌲🌲
what im learning is that you cannot avoid your way into a life you enjoy
Hello, I hope you all have been behaving yourselves. I’ve missed you.
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So. I haven't been here in a long, long time. I've just not... I've not had the patience for this. For Spiritual!Tumblr in general. There's something about this place that seems to bring out the worst in me, and I've seen it bring out the worst in other people as well.
I have been asking myself why I started this Tumblr to begin with, and that was to learn. For a while I felt I had done an adequate job of it. I learned about my hard-to-pin-down god. Then I learned about fellow Luciferians, some of whom I count among my closest friends, some of whom I vehemently dislike. Over time, I found that, while Tumblr was originally a place where I could learn and keep my focus, it rapidly became a place to breed contempt and unleash it at will. A place where my manic impulses to argue were rewarded again and again. The only thing I think I could learn from that is the blindingly obvious realization that Spiritual!Tumblr is bad for me. I am bad for it. Bad path.
I don't need Tumblr to be... what I am now. A Luciferian? I don't know. A Satanist? Again, don't know. What I do know is that no god is ever going to give a fuck about this dreadful little site or the petty squabbles of clashing devotees therein. Spiritual growth is in the dirt under your fingernails. It's in a life of active participation. It is far the fuck away from here.
This blog is more-or-less done. I might pop in to manage some of my side blogs, but yeah. This blog has run its course.
Thank you @whoreofabaddon for being a such a good friend and a shining example of accountability. Girl, text me any time, okay? You can grab my digits from Listener if you don't already have 'em. (This is assuming you haven't already abandoned ship, which it seems you may have.)
Thank you @luxettenebris for being a beacon of light in the Luciferian community. I respect you so much!
Thank you @wanderinglistener for goddamned everything. You are one of my very best friends and I am so grateful for your presence in my life! I am so proud of everything you're doing.
Thank you to all of you followers who have been with me through all of my weird little twists and turns. Keep pushing yourselves.
*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade*
hey….
nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.
it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.
*leaves the way i came*
This is possibly the healthiest post I’ve seen on this site
@poetryinmysilence said: I AM SO ENVIOUS I WANT TO BE THERE OREGON WASHINGTONG ASDGG%#H%#H
I feel so privileged to have had the opportunity! We went from San Francisco all the way up the 101 to the Washington State peninsula before finally returning home. I got to see the redwoods, the sea lion caves, I even got to see the house from The Goonies. I was hoping to see the rainforest in Washington, but by the time we reached it it was too dark. Someday, I guess.
The Pacific Northwest is so beautiful, and I hope you get a chance to see it some day. It’s so so beautiful. Lots of gorgeous hiking/camping/kayaking opportunities. The air smells sweet and earthy. It’s so good.