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Nefelibata - a cloud walker, A creative person who lives in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams.

Lotus eater - a person who lives a dreamy life of ease, indifferent to the busy world.

Burble - to speak in a excited manner.

Floromancy - divination using flowers.

Floresta - woodland, greenwood, dell, glen, forest a dense collection of trees.

Hederate - to decorate with ivy.

Bumble Bee bliss - joyful and care free.

Tryst - a secret meeting between people who are romantically in love.

Honey hearted - extremely sweet/kind hearted.

Aita - a garden

Bluebell hearted - good natured and hyper empathetic to a fault.

Wonderment - a puzzle or curiosity

Mouse heart - shy and easily scared.

Vim - lively or energetic spirit/enthusiasm.

Kindliness - friendliness evidence by a kindly or helpful disposition.

Wanderlust - a strong desire for adventure.

Bonhomie - good natured cheerful friendliness; geniality.

Resplendent -  shining brilliantly, characterized by a glowing splendor.

Rosarium - a garden specifically for roses.

Florentis - blooming/in bloom, flowering; flourishing, prosperous; flowery, bright/shining.

Lambent - glowing with soft radiance.

Woolgathering - indulgence in aimless thought or dreamy imagination.

Moonstruck - dreamily romantic or bemused.

Stardusted - naive romantic qualities.

Peach hearted - extremely sweet/soft hearted and extremely emotionally sensitive.

Forget-me-dots - someone who's innocently/harmlessly forgetful and naive.

Daisydew - a innocent person.

Honey hymns - a beautiful voice.

Twitterpated - extremely love struck.

Redamancy - the act of loving one who loves you, fully that loves you back.

Phosphenese - the colors or " stars " you see when you rub your eyes.

Strawberry mooned - deeply in entranced by another person.

Balter - to dance aimlessly without grace or skill but usually for enjoyment.

Lumberjacks, like most megafauna species generally require more space than the average hardware store, even a big box store could provide. The misconception is that Lumberjacks are a social species because of how they often work and live together.

This is a matter of necessity, not preference, and a survival technique for thriving under the LogBoss.

A “pack” of Lumberjacks, if not under the environmental pressure of a LogBoss will naturally disperse until they each have a wide territory.

Lumberjacks rarely fight for territory.

One on one, a Lumberjack could drive out a Dad or Lesbian, however the latter tend to travel in social packs.

Lumberjacks will passively retreat on the presence of large numbers of people. Kind of like Sasquatch.

Getting a “pack” of Lumberjacks assembled would be hard enough unless they were forced into a Hardware Store by a LogBoss. In that case, they would already be in a heightened and potentially agitated state far above their natural behavior. This artificial scenario can be likened to a circus animal running amok. If it had been in the wild, the incident would not have occurred.

Free-roaming Lumberjacks are the cryptids of the Hardware ecosystem. They are surprisingly quiet and unobtrusive.

Only experienced silverbacks or the boldest young Dads dare venture into a craft store for long without his mate or offspring to keep roving Craft Ladies at bay and guide him in this strange ecosystem. If a Dad enters with his mate and is separated from her, he will often scuttle for the seeming familiarity of Woodcrafts, Models, or Paints (the latter not to be confused with Fine Arts, unquestioned territory of art students), but he eyes Scrapbooking and Jewelry with trepidation and will usually venture into those exotic areas only in the company of females of his pack.

Lumberjacks are rarely spotted entering craft stores of their own volition, for while they do not fear it as Dads do, they know it is an environment unsuited for megafauna such as themselves.

Hardware store Lesbians generally adapt more easily to craft stores, although they may enlist another Lesbian of a subspecies more adapted to that environment to guide them until they find their niche. Lesbians have even been known to seek the aid of a Craft Lady, a native fauna that share similarities with Lesbians but are usually smaller and nimbler to suit their chosen habitat. Dads who witness this are often awed by the Lesbians’ temerity, for although larger, Dads are generally wary of the cunning and dexterous Craft Ladies and may mistake their enthusiastic pack greetings as predatory swarming.

Craft Ladies, secure in their ecological niche, have no fear of interlopers and take the presence of non-native beings in stride, although they may become territorial about scarcer resources.

This list isn't complete, I know there is a one shot tea boat au that I can't readily find but this will do for now

I'm Not Angry Anymore

Skipping Stones

All You Had to Do Was Ask

I don't have honour but I do have tea

- Acknowledge that Christmas is not a universal holiday and that some people either feel negatively about it or just don’t celebrate it. Stop being offended by this.

- Stop forcing people to participate. Don’t make your Jewish employees wear Christmas outfits, don’t make schoolkids be part of Christmas plays, etc.

- Stop pushing back when Jews are honest with you about how they feel about it.

- Stop deflecting to talk about how Christmas traditions are actually pagan in origin. We know, and also it’s fully irrelevant to our issues with Christmas.

- Recognize things from other cultures. Or at very least don’t *prevent* members of other cultures from expressing them. If your employee wants to put up a menorah, let them. If your coworker wants to add a Chanukah decoration to your office don’t take it down when they’re not looking because it “messes up the Christmas spirit” or whatever.

- Recognize things from different cultures at other times of the year too. Let your Jewish students and employees take days off for the fall holidays. Maybe even consider merchandise or decorations for those holidays too!

- Stop with the double standards. You don’t get to say that a menorah is religious and a Christmas tree isn’t. Either both of them are or neither of them are. A menorah actually is a ritual object but a) plenty of secular Jews use them and b) I don’t think most Christians know that, they just think of Judaism (and therefore Jewish culture) as “a religion” and Christian culture as normal. When people claim to object to Chanukah (the holiday most widely — and often exclusively — celebrated by secular Jews) because it’s “religious,” they’re actually objecting because it’s non-normative.

- Listen when someone is telling you about their experiences with and thoughts about hegemonic culture. Don’t argue that actually it’s fine becaude Christmas is secular or pagan or whatever. Trust people about the experiences they’ve had and how things impact them.

This is an illustration I did for the August 2014 issue of Popular Science Magazine. The assignment was to show a scifi take on human aging in the future. I wanted to do something relatively positive, so I drew a lady whose life has been been prolonged through cybernetic enhancements and augmentation, so she gets to spend time with her great-great-great-great grandchildren. 

What you need is something called an advanced directive - a will is not going to cut it because that won’t some into play until after you’re buried. The youtuber and mortician Caitlin Doughty has a video about it, specifically as it relates to trans people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVgumSUZQRI

A tiny northern girl tries to play with a puppy. A small bells is sewn on the girl’s clothes so that parents can hear where the child is.