ghosts & might die

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

Crawlertober Day 6 - Torches

The Princess Posse extends a required invitation to Princess Donut’s Torch Sale. You will take a torch, and you will leave with a torch. Do not resist.

you need to take them into the woods

I do outdoor education work, and within minutes of any elementary to middle schooler getting free permission to mess around with their friends in a clearing, they’re curious and driven again. they’re asking each other questions and yeeting pinecones at trees (science) and using their bodies. sometimes for evil. as is developmentally right. they want to know the names of birds! they want to teach someone pokemon! they want to build stuff and kick stuff and tackle each other and you into the snow!

they’re basically fucking institutionalized for 90% of their lives but their spirits are alive. you need to take them into the woods you need to treat them like animals with powerful inner lives and they’ll show you they are.

They LOVED it. After a few weeks they could name about 20 birds by sight, and were starting to recognize some bird calls. My neighbor teacher always laughed when she'd hear my class chanting bird names when I quizzed them. I'd walk my class down the hall and have a chorus of kids whispering "chicka-dee-dee-dee" to themselves. One student sat one day doing a Tufted Titmouse call to himself ("Peter, Peter, Peter"). We went out to recess and they'd point up at the Chimney Swifts and laugh that they really do flap like they can't stay up, "just like Mrs. Beese said!" One boy got really excited the day we learned about Mourning Doves: "OH, I KNOW THIS ONE! This is my favorite bird!" and he made the cooing sound for us.

It was the almost the most excited about anything they'd been all year.

saw this on Insta and the idea that people who are anti-AI are just using it anyway like... willing to give it up? I ACTIVELY AVOID THAT SHIT BUD! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN TALKING ABOUT?

ALSO

i'm obsessed with the dungeon crawler carl series. I even created an oc crawler. She's an alchemist class that uses potions and bombs and other trap concoctions and switched to a fire salamander race. She has magic capabilities to enhance her potions, slow/trap monsters so she can dissolve them, and camouflage her presence. Her personality is a little morbid and cracked from having to "harvest" ingredients.

Shout out to that one tumblr post that was like: "You know it's not just trans people who ponder their gender, it's healthy for cis people to take a look inside and be like! Yep that's all good!" And I read this post and was like.... like what do you look at inside though T O T??? I asked my boyfriend how he knew he was a boy and he said he just felt this unexplainable intrinsic feeling he was a boy... and I'm like... I HAVE GENUINELY NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WTF 😭😭😭!!!!!!!! So apparently its like. Normal for people to feel this inexplicable 'Gender' feeling or whatever,,, I feel like how asexual people feel when they discover people around them aren't making up the fact they experience sexual arousal T O T

Obviously all my sciency stuff is just speculation! But I'm the type of person who believe that everything has a rationale behind it, and like an adopted child who is curious about their biological parents, I am just interested in my origins! The field of genetics still is mostly just like,,,, hmmm we think this whatever MIGHT be a contributing factor to a person turning out this way... maybe. If you are more interested in the topic I discussed, just look up 'epigenetics' and there should be some more stuff OuO!

I love them your honor