I'll Be Your Murse Someday

you feel angry (you feel pain)

stop, take a moment to gather yourself and breathe deeply (stop, take a moment to apply first aid to your wound)

find the root cause of your anger; what brought your anger about and how come? (find what caused your injury; what hurt you, what type of wound?)

what can you do to regain control? try not to fuel the anger with violence; mitigate by being gentle to yourself and others (what can you do to keep you safe from further and future injury? what further treatment do you need? try not to aggravate your wound; be gentle and cautious)

The first time he cheated death, Sisyphus had just angered Zeus by revealing the location of the Asopid Aegina whom Zeus abducted. Which is super valid, fuck Zeus.

Sisyphus knew that Zeus would send the god of death Thanatos after him, so he prepared a trap and trapped Thanatos in the chains meant for him.

After that, nothing on Earth was able to die so long as Thanatos was in chains. Which meant no animals could be sacrificed to the gods. This angered the gods, who made Sisyphus' life so miserable with pain and illness that he would beg for death. And so he released Thanatos.

But then came the second time Sisyphus cheated death. As he was dying, he asked his wife to dump his naked corpse in the middle of the public square. Denied a proper burial, his soul ended up on the far side of the river Styx, unable to cross.

He complained to Hades and Persephone about how his wife disrespected him, and begged them to let him return briefly to the world of the living to scold her and make her bury him properly. They agreed, and Sisyphus returned to life. He then embraced his wife, and refused to return to the Underworld.

It's only when he finally died of old age that he was sent to Tartarus and punished with the boulder.

I don't remember where I've seen it, but I like the interpretation that Sisyphus doesn't have to push the boulder. He can choose to stay in Tartarus and rest. But he was promised that if he managed to push the boulder to the top of the mountain, he'll ascend to Elysium.

And Sisyphus, in his stubbornness and cleverness, refuses to give up on a challenge.

Me: *unmutes it*

Punch was rejected by his mother shortly after birth and raised by staff at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. When he was introduced to other monkeys later on, he had trouble fitting in something that can happen with primates raised by humans. To comfort him, caretakers gave him a plush toy, and he’s often seen holding it like a surrogate companion.

[via/ X ichikawa_zoo]

HE FOUND AN ADULT MONKEY WHO ACCEPTS AND TAKES HIM IN

[Notice: flashing images!] I wandered around San Francisco’s Chinatown this past week with tiny horse silhouettes to make this labor of love stopmotion. 🐎🏮 Happy Lunar New Year and Year of the Horse everyone! 🥰🧧 May the new year bring you lots of happiness and fortune. ❤️

Some behind-the-scenes: - Some aunties saw me taking photos and invited me to their Chinese New Year celebration next weekend. 😆 - I tried not to get in the way of any stalls or customers, so I didn’t take many photos inside the various markets or bakeries (although I did get a pineapple bun and tangerines while I stopped by)! - I texted Cuddly Potatoes to see if she had time to help me cut out horses on her die-cut machine, and she immediately said yes. ❤️ - I used tape on my phone screen to line up the paper in the same spot every time! I can finally remove it now! 🤣

The face of a man sat waiting to annihilate:

Basically, people are using their key fobs to set off their car alarms when they see ICE.

This is effective for several reasons:

Obviously, it alerts everyone that something is wrong. Given ICE has been terrorizing Minnesota, people are likely to immediately know it is ICE. This gives people time to flee or barricade themselves in their homes.

ICE loses the element of surprise.

ICE now tackling press.