i suffer from a disease called “not wanting to work”, and it’s incurable

Chicxulub Impact, 65 Million BC

Me: “So I’m really into history.”

Bro: “Oh me too! I can’t believe a girl is into history like I am. Who’s your favorite Roman emperor?”

Me, automatically, transforming into an NPC with idle dialogue: “The Funnelbeaker Culture grew wheat, millet, and barley using ard ploughs to dig shallow scratches into the topsoil, and ard ploughs and other simple scratch ploughs or spike ploughs would remain standard in northern Europe until the invention of the mouldboard in the early Middle Ages; most of the stones used in the construction of Scandinavian megaliths, including the stone ship cemeteries from the Viking Age, bear ard scratches, indicating that they were picked out of field middens. And that’s all very interesting, but the domestication of bees dates all the way back to the Neolithic, and–”

Bro dude: No, no. I mean real history. Y'know, they important stuff

Me, with a Very Intense look in my eyes; “Oh, important stuff! Well, the oldest spun fibers ever found are in Georgia in the Causcaus region. This means that humans knew how to process flax into fiber as early at 28,000 BCE, and while we have not found woven textiles dating back that far we have evidence of woven cloth being pressed against clay to make textured pottery dating back to 25,000 bce, and that means that woven linen significantly pre-dates settled populations. Now, humans didn’t domesticate sheep until around 11,000 years ago, but I suspect that they gathered shed wool to spin and weave textiles from before that, and that the warmth of woolen garments was a significant factor in humans eventually domesticating sheep, in order to obtain a reliable supply of both fiber and meat, and….”

Reblog to piss off war fanboys

Got My Patreon Working

I hope.

https://www.patreon.com/havekat

Check it out, see if it works, donate if you/would like and feel free to make any suggestions to make it more compelling.

Please

Please support this artist. Her artwork reminds me of the beauty in this world and on a dying planet, that’s important right now.

The nicest thing anyone has said about me recently.

Havekat Painting Give Away!

I’m giving away 8 paintings

One 14″x 10″ original painting

Three 9″x 12″ original paintings

Four 7″x 10″ original paintings

To be eligible for the 14″x 10″ (top row)

    You must follow havekat.tumblr.com and my instagram chalkinginthegarden

To be eligible for the 9″x 12” (middle row)

    You must have been following havekat for 6 months or more

To be eligible for the 7″x 10″ (bottom row)

    You must be a follower of any duration

To enter you must reblog this post and at least one other havekat post with 10 paintings, the caption and link to my etsy must be left intact. Tag the reblogs with “havekat” o they’re easy for me to find.  Each set of reblogs will be considered an entry.  Enter as many times as you wish before August 15th 2018. On the 16th winners will be posted and individually contacted.  

If you can’t wait until then of wish to help me with my current family/financial crisis my work can be purchased on etsy or by contacting me and paying via PayPal (paypal.me/KateHavekost.)

Thank you and Good Luck!!!!

Peonies

Watercolor and Chinese Ink On Paper

2015, 9″x 12″

Dark Magenta Peonies

Private Collection-Chicago, Illinois

I’m in crisis please help by buying art

Several of you have expressed concern about things I’ve said recently. You’re not wrong to be. I’m not in a good place. My mom, she’s my rock. She supports me emotionally and financially. Suddenly two weeks ago she was ripped from my life. While she hasnt passed away, it feels like she has, as she’s now unable to come home, or earn a living. Neither of us were prepared for this. Each day without her has become increasingly hard to survive. There’s no day certain when she may be home. I need her because I need my mom but as the weeks go on the money available is shrinking. As it stands I have $17 in cash for me and the bevy of rescue dogs we have taken in.

But today has been worse still. One of our dogs became deathly ill. In fact her making it through the night is still iffy but the emergency vet care is costing me $2200 money I absolutely don’t have. I’m so scared. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve spent considerable time on the suicide hotline. I have the number written on my wrist.

I’m not asking for donations, though I’m so against the wall I would accept, when generally I would not. I am asking that you buy art immediately. Every piece I’ve ever done is for sale, those on Etsy and those just on Tumblr. I’d virtually accept any offer. I just need money and quick! My Memorial Day Sale didn’t yield sales nor did three mother’s day sales. I really need your help. I don’t know who else to ask.

5/31 Thanks to many of you acting immediately I’m about a 1/3 of the way to being able to pay the vet bill.  More sales are need.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/KateHavekostFineArt 

Don’t just accept the new Terms of Service

Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)

OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:

Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.

My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:

Now you’ll see this page:

Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:

Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.

When we click on that one, what we will get is this:

A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.

(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)

I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.

Now this might be some error on my side, but I just spent 15min unticking every of these fucking boxes and saving.

But for some friggin reason, every time after I saved, clicked ok and everything, every time I return to check if it saved *IT DIDN’T*!!!

So far I’ve tried it on my mobile browser and in the app, but this shit doesn’t save your settings!!

If you did it, please go back and check whether it saved or not!

It doesn’t stick and I bet that’s intentional. So you can go and untick all these boxes but the moment you leave the page it’ll switch them right back on again.

Yep, it just goes right back to ‘on’. What a load of illegal crap. 

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Edgar Allan Poe, J.D. Salinger, Aldous Huxley, Nevil Shute, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on May 20, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

We’re choosing a random winner in two days, so reblog now! And yes, you can reblog this up to five times. :)

by Aenami

I’ve seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.

by matialonsor

The Landscapes and Skylines of Howl’s Moving Castle ハウルの動く城