Maro, The Canadian blogger

uhhh anyone order some sonknux??

first batch from zeet studio's dunmeshi life drawing session o/

dug up some old sonadow doodles from a few years ago that I still like :)

Oh my god I have it in my 1946 Lily Wallace New American Cookbook too I’m screaming

This is it! This is the white culture we’ve been looking for!

I’m sorry are we just not gonna mention “Beef Tea” “Raw Beef Tea” and “Cooked Raw Beef Tea” one after the other

#WHY

Because the majority of human existence has not been to the knowledge and supply level we are at now.  You can’t just give someone electrolytes in the 19th century, you have no idea what the fuck they are. Someone is sick, and can only keep weak liquids down, but you know enough at this point to realise that man cannot live on water alone.   So you work out really weird ways to infuse foodstuffs into liquids they can handle to try and keep food into them. A lot of these also come from a way to stretch nutrient sources in times of poverty and scarcity. 

Thank you for this addition. People are curiously comfortable assuming everyone in the past was stupid and illogical, and it’s always struck me as showing a sad lack of empathy for fellow human beings. It’s like people in the past aren’t seen as, you know, people

Your local 19th century PhD researcher popping in here to add to this. Toast water is 100% a drink for treating illness. It turns up listed in several household medicine guides in the 19th century, and is listed as for treating people with fever, diarrhoea and vomiting, who can’t keep anything down. It’s essentially oral rehydration therapy. 

It interestingly starts turning up in literature in the period covering five major cholera outbreaks in the UK and US (this was obviously an English language Ngram search).

And peaks several times at epidemic peak points (1830s, 1850, 1880s), including its first peak in 1831/2, which corresponds with the first cholera epidemic in the UK. 

It also corresponds with the year William Brooke O’Shaughnessy discovered that a lot of people who were dying of cholera were severely lacking water and salts in their blood and urine. Dehydration was found to be a major cause of death in cholera patients. “Toast water” was suggested in the Lancet medical journal in 1832 as an initial treatment for cholera patients. 

Most of the recipes in household medicine guides I found suggest sweetening or flavouring the toast water with something if the patient could keep it down in order to cover the terrible taste.

People in the past were just people. And in this particular case, they were trying to keep their loved ones from dying of cholera. 

And here is a link to possibly my fave ever book, with some modern recipes to do the same job , including the water you cooked rice in with the water you cooked rice in plus half a teaspoon of salt - so really toast water was pretty smart - https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Dehydration#Rehydration_drinks

some morning sammys

It's as if Pomni was made to have all these crazy expressions! I seriously love her 💕

The episode was fantastic; I was worried Pomni might distance herself from the group due to her weariness, but instead, we witnessed a tender, caring side that deepened my affection towards her.

I'll definitely be drawing her more often.

The painting, is complete :3

but what’s in the middle

Redraw! :D

I feel like this tweet from @prozdvoices belongs on Tumblr as well lol

Trans girls give me life… Just seeing them discovering and ENJOYING femininity in such an unbridled way…

This feeling is everything

You don’t understand. I literally thought to myself before I opened the video “she’s looks like the spinny skirt girl” and then I watched it and I was like SHE IS THE SPINNY SKIRT GIRL

yup thats me 🙂

I'm not bad, i'm just drawn that way~

My good friend @naitmeir drew Ragatha as Jessica Rabbit and I just followed.. she's too stunning not to! ^////^

new vocal stim

Ecosocialist praxis

I support you poison Ivy

Reblog if you support Poison Ivy

That’s my girl.

Important context:

(from: https://comicbook.com/comics/news/poison-ivy-batman-guide/)

So. Yeah, Neil Gaiman.

It’s true.

A lot of pets will ignore you, but only a cat will follow you from room to room and check your lines of vision to make absolutely certain that you can see them ignoring you.

theyre not ignoring you! this is actually just a cats way of saying they want to keep you company without infringing on your personal space. its the equivalent of going to a friends house while you both separately scroll through tumblr, even though youre glad to be together. alternatively the cat could be curious about what you are doing, but shy to make its presence known. either way the cat is paying very close attention to you!

this made me feel better

I don’t understand why cats will have everything they do demonized no matter how innocent it is

It’s because they are hypersensitive introverts, and humans are mostly social extroverts.

Hypersensitive, introverted humans are often mistaken for antisocial, and as a species, we are myopic and anthropomorphize EVERYTHING.

Semi-social animals are not naturally intuitive to humans.

Dog packs very closely mirror a nuclear human family, made up of a mother and father and their pups, who leave to find their own mates and start their own packs as they mature beyond young adult hood.

Pigeon flocks are like a villiage comprized of one big, extended family, where children mostly stay close and new birds marry in.

Cats don’t work that way. There is no firmly set social structure for more social domestic cats to fall back on. None of the species they are thought to come from are naturally social. They mate, have kittens, and those families disperse to the four winds as soon as the young become self sufficient.

We have selected for higher tolerance to crowding and confinement, but that does not a social structure make.

A group of cats is more like random collage dorm or house mates. Whether or not they get along and how many the group can support long term depends on how well their individual personalities mesh, regardless of blood relation.

Kittens are more out going and have more energy than adult cats, but as they age, being playful and taking the risk of being friendly takes more energy than they have, so they go from being willing to play with every one to prefering the company of favorite familiar entities that have taken the time to learn about that individuals needs and preferences.

Humans, who naturally form close knit pack bonds, are generally out going, and do their very damnedest to form life long bonds of friendship see a cat’s intense curiosity and wary shyness of approach as stalkerish, and its need for quiet solitude when overstimulated (coupled with just *how* fast they become overstimulated) as fickleness, and are completely heartbroken when a friendly, out going kitten grows into a relatively shy, reserved cat.

With no effort to understand, what the average human sees is a sly, untrustwothy animal that is friendly one second, and warninglessly aggressive the next, not because there actually was no warning, but because feline body language is very subtle.

Once again, due to a cat’s sensitivity.

To a cat, humans are VERY loud, over the top dramatic, and socially dense as a fucking brick.

They have to scream EVERYTHING to get across to most of us, and that shit is exhausting.

The fact that they do make that stressful and exhausting effort proves that the ones who like us actually love us VERY much! Just not in a way that big, loud, oblivious drama queens easily pick up on.

Reblogging to the pet blog because animal behavior.

I love this

@imnotactuallyamermaid

the domestic cat is indeed a social animal but like, in a completely different way than we are used to-

their social structure is a loose affiliation of individuals who may or may not be related, that is fairly mutable. lots of our misunderstanding of them comes from the idea that they ARENT social. it’s really weird and somewhat confusing. 

but everything else here is good analogy

part 2 of this

hehe shydow

he panicked