Deadinaflash

A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.

You know what, I got a whole bunch of fabric / old clothes at home and no idea what to do with it. I might just learn how to do this too

As a bit of a prepper myself any sewwing ability is a vaild skill that is essential for so many things anyone who says otherwise is objectivly wrong

Oh yeah, sewing has tons of practical survival uses. However I chose stuffed animals in this example because survival is a social thing. To survive these prepper dudes are going to have to be around a lot of people who are not their prepper buddies. And a big part of effectively doing that is just passing the time well together. Which requires earplugs and card games and things that comfort children. These are not luxuries, they're essential because they maintain the social structures that keep us alive.

I fucking adore amethysts. I don’t care what their “meaning” is…magpie brain like pretty purple rock. Adorn self with rocks. Be cute.

Hee hee hoo hoo shiny rock

Honestly I do like knowing the ‘meanings’ of gemstones but I think of them as less a thing they ‘do’ and more like you know. The meanings of flowers. Like, amethyst means peace and calm. Having one isn’t going to magically heal my anxiety sure that’d just be silly but I like that I can give a pretty purple rock to a friend as a way of saying ‘I hope you have a nice chill time today’ just like you would with flower language. Especially since saying the same thing with flower language would use lavender and a lot of people I know are allergic to that so here have a purple rock instead

the only medicinal properties crystals have is “I did not previously own a shiny rock but now I do :)”

Unless it is specifically rock salt. Then you can also add ‘mmm tastey’ to the list.

Mike Hawk, huh

This is so beautiful and affirming. 

humans are the same

Scottish independence vote yes campaign slogan idea

Irish independence vote yes campaign slogan idea

Welsh independence vote yes campaign slogan idea

[ID: A photo of a van door, open so the text is cropped, reading: England Removal /End ID]

we once went spelunking, and a our guide said that once he was in a cave with a stream, so he could hear running water, and his brain was like ‘oh, running water? that means there must be Ducks out there’. and he saw like…low light shadows of ducks. that his brain just Put There.

I want to add to this that people who lose their hearing as adults have reported hearing music “being played loudly from somewhere”, and other auditory hallucinations, bc the brain will just panic and put your brain’s ipod on *fucking shuffle* if it’s not getting any input

hate bluetooth headphones that talk. you are a machine you may NOT speak to me