I'm on the bluegrass music part of youtube right now and i stumbled across this comment on a really talented banjo cover

The idea that some serbian dad is in the same part of youtube as I am and his 5 year old son is hearing this fire banjo rendition of Foggy Mountain Breakdown for the first and going absolutely ape shit he likes it so much that he's running and jumping all across and around their house is just sending me. Peace and love on planet earth.

surprise! it's a sudoku puzzle

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not anymore

MY SUDOKU

High quality plot twist

Vitold Byalnitsky - Dacha Garden (1910s)

Buffy the Vampire Slayers (1997 to 2003), Behind the Scenes photos

The Lady of Shalott, 1888-1905

William Holman Hunt

i do think there is a degree to which certain kinds of Instagram activists have convinced themselves that traumatising themselves in solidarity is a useful form of activism. "I'm having nightmares and crying so much I want to be sick because of all these videos of dying children but I can't look away while people are getting hurt" I mean don't you think you'd be able to help more if you weren't having nightmares and crying all the time?? don't you think this is a one-way trip to burnout? don't you think maybe increasing the amount of trauma going around is counterproductive? I dunno bro there's something to be said for bearing witness but there comes a point where you gotta look hard at yourself and go "am I helping, or am I just making myself suffer so I don't feel guilty for not suffering while somebody else is experiencing bad shit"

I say "there is no such thing as a thought crime" a lot on my blog. Well, the other side of the coin is there is also no such thing as thought heroics, thought charity or thought activism.

Toad, Norman MacCaig

Published in The Poems of Norman MacCaig (Birlinn, 2011)

transcription:

Toad

if you spend your life bitching and complaining about the fact people are 'expected' to engage in the dreaded pointless banal '''small talk''' instead of learning to trade pleasantries with the people around you, you will never know the true and heady joy of doing a dumb bit with a complete stranger and as a result your soul will remain small

A selkie for #mermay :) 

I love the use of the phrase 'some strange alchemy' as a descriptor for a process you don't understand.

'Through some strange alchemy(crochet) they turned a bundle of yarn into a stuffed giraffe'

'Through some strange alchemy(bad cooking) they turned a perfectly marinated steak into a charcoal briquet'

'Through some strange alchemy(good cooking) they turned a pile of slop into the fluffiest bread loaf I'd ever seen'

'Through some strange alchemy(bad reading comprehension) they took my polite statement and turned into a disgusting act against the poor'

and so on

@stitchposts I need you to know you've obliterated my notifications with this.

Done more than double the original notes.

I have mixed feelings. It's mostly amused bewilderment, with a healthy dose of 'I'm happy that so many people think my dumb joke is funny and that someone elevated it to a fiber-craft that even more people love'

But there's also a definitive pinch of 'fuck you what have you done'

I love tumblr.

I love this so much. DFQC has been suffering so much for Orchid and she's SICK OF IT. Politically, physically, emotionally, her man has shouldered it all for her sake. Orchid goes on to say that before, she was just some fairy and he was the Moon Supreme who made all the decisions themselves.

But a married couple is different. A married couple is equal. She even says that there's no hierarchy in a marriage and that they need to face things together. I want to project this episode into so many churches.

The thing is, she's not just talking about having bone spikes inserted into her body or getting whipped; she's talking about going into the very same contraption that robbed DFQC of his emotions. AND HER POWERS HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN FULLY UNLOCKED. DFQC knows that she's the Goddess of Xishan but Orchid doesn't.

AND SHE'S STILL WILLING TO GO THROUGH THIS TORTURE FOR HIM. This is why I don't really squeal when the first "I love you" is dropped in a drama anymore. It's much more powerful for partners to show/say that they respect each other.