That Which Pleases Me

My cartoon for this weekend’s @guardian books

I know I’ve said this before but vampires

therefore I am in dire need of a heist film where a group of vampires band together to steal back their old stuff from museums

Oceans 1100 AD

Very interested in the hardest part of this beign the vampires trying to trick someone into granting them permission to enter the premises earlier in the day

I feel like this has several simple solutions!

(all ideas shared on this blog are public domain, feel free to go nuts. you can find more story ideas like this on my ko-fi)

"This side of the fandom is so annoying."

Worstie, it's fandom. We're all annoying.

"Do you think they know how annoying they are?"

Yes. Next question.

EMERALD GREEN CUT VELVET CAPE, 1870’s - 1880’s. 

Velvet triangle having a deep floral border with cord and velvet trim having knotted fringe and quilted silk lining.

THIS!

Reblogging this too for folks with anxiety like myself who feel bad when they say they’re too busy but they don’t have every second accounted for doing something so they feel almost like they’re lying. Self-care goes on your schedule too, lovelies.

Scottie, it turns out, was correct. Give yourself more time and make space for miracles.

I saw this book entitled "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask" by Mary Siisip Genuisz and i thought oh I HAVE to read that. The author is Anishinaabe and the book is all about Anishinaabe teachings of the ways of the plants.

Going from the idiotic, Eurocentric, doomerist colonialism apologia of that "Cambridge companion to the anthropocene" book, to the clarity and reasonableness of THIS book, is giving me whiplash just about.

I read like 130 pages without even realizing, I couldn't stop! What a treasure trove of knowledge of the ways of the plants!

Most of them are not my plants, since it is a different ecosystem entirely (which gives me a really strikingly lonely feeling? I didn't know I had developed such a kinship with my plants!) but the knowledge of symbiosis as permeating all things including humans—similar to what Weeds, Guardians of the Soil called "Nature's Togetherness Law"—is exactly what we need more of, exactly what we need to teach and promote to others, exactly what we need to heal our planet.

She has a lot of really interesting information on how knowledge is created and passed down in cultures that use oral tradition. The stories and teachings she includes are a mix of those directly passed down by her teacher through a very old heritage of knowledge holders, stories with a newer origin, and a couple that have an unknown origin and (I think?) may not even be "authentically" Native American at all, but that she found to be truthful or useful in some way. She likes many "introduced" plants and is fascinated by their stories and how they came here. (She even says that Kudzu would not be invasive if we understood its virtues and used it the way the Chinese always have, which is exactly what I've been saying!!!)

She seems a bit on the chaotic end of the spectrum in regards to tradition, even though she takes tradition very seriously—she says the way the knowledge of medicinal and otherwise useful plants has been built, is that a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones. It is a lot similar to the scientific method, I would call it a scientific method. Her way of seeing it really made me understand the aliveness of tradition and how there is opportunity, even necessity, for new traditions based upon new ecological relationships and new cultural connections to the land.

I was gut punched on page 15 when she says that we have to be careful to take care of the Earth and all its creatures, because if human civilization destroys the biosphere the rocks and winds will be left all alone to grieve for us.

What a striking contrast to the sad, cruel ideas in the Cambridge companion of the Anthropocene, where humans are some kind of disease upon the Earth that oppresses and "colonizes" everything else...!...The Earth would GRIEVE for us!

We are not separate from every other thing. We have to learn this. If I can pass along these ideas to y'all through my silly little posts, I will have lived well.

“a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones”

i feel this so much as a cultural practitioner/artist working with plant material ! there’s so many times when i teach things to my students and i say “i’m showing you this way because this is how my teachers show me” and then in the next breath “this isn’t what i was taught but it’s what i like and prefer, so i’m going to show that to you too, and you can choose what works”

cultural traditions need to evolve and adapt over time. i think the less they are updated to reflect today’s world/generation, the less of a chance they have of meaningful survival. keeping things up to date means keeping them alive. “tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire” etc etc

why is deciding what to eat so exhausting. I JUST figured that out several hours ago and now I have to do it again?? why can’t I be like a gila monster and eat a large meal and be good for a few months

ADHD

A well-tailored supervillain costume is to a woman, what lingerie is to a man.

I don’t know what lingerie is to a man, what I know for sure is that a well-tailored supervillain costume on the right guy makes a woman want to take it off him as soon as possible… At least.. this woman…

And this woman will spend obscene amounts of time just imagining the *process* of getting it off

This. This is still a problem. I enjoy this problem very much.

I want him to keep it on, just… open it up where necessary.

I got you: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12132999/chapters/27521589

Oooh yes, I remember this one . A delicious read.

Thank you for your encouragement to post it initially, @mastreworld! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

A well-tailored supervillain costume is to a woman, what lingerie is to a man.

I don’t know what lingerie is to a man, what I know for sure is that a well-tailored supervillain costume on the right guy makes a woman want to take it off him as soon as possible… At least.. this woman…

And this woman will spend obscene amounts of time just imagining the *process* of getting it off

This. This is still a problem. I enjoy this problem very much.

I want him to keep it on, just… open it up where necessary.

I got you: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12132999/chapters/27521589

@iamhisgloriouspurpose yes you do. You’ve most certainly got us 🫠❤️‍🔥

So glad you enjoyed it, my dear @ladyofthestayingpower! One needs a bit of diversion now and then, after all!

I'm just saying, if there's a curse that runs along your family line and you don't tell your kids about it, how the hell are they supposed to go on a quest to stop it?

Tell your children about your medical history.

things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!

The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!

This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!

ITS BACK!!!!!

god i fucking love the quote “dont turn yourself into a sad zoo animal” it has really inspired me!

Try a different hot drink in the morning!

Text someone you haven’t in a while!

Wear a fancy outfit while you have dinner!

Watch and episode of a show you used to love!!

you'll never be punk yr clothes are from shein and yr makeup is from tiktok

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i just wanna thank all the gif makers on here. y'all really keep this site alive and we don't freaking deserve you. thank you for all your hard work. tumblr is nothing without you.

A well-tailored supervillain costume is to a woman, what lingerie is to a man.

I don’t know what lingerie is to a man, what I know for sure is that a well-tailored supervillain costume on the right guy makes a woman want to take it off him as soon as possible… At least.. this woman…

And this woman will spend obscene amounts of time just imagining the *process* of getting it off

This. This is still a problem. I enjoy this problem very much.

I want him to keep it on, just… open it up where necessary.

I got you: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12132999/chapters/27521589

Happy fox