The Tumblr of Sigrid Ellis, out of fucks to give

But my parents were birders, so hiking we did go.

And about a mile up the trail, a woman came rushing up to us, clutching her binoculars to her chest. "Come quickly," she said, with a British accent. "You have to see this!"

This is what birders are like. They are as excited about a life bird as any fan would be spotting their favorite celebrity. You have to see, you have to.

So my parents rushed off with her, and I plodded along behind them.

To find a cluster of Brits huddled in a bird blind, staring at..

A blue jay.

A goddamn blue jay.

And I was a teenager, but I knew better then to mouth off in front of my mom. So I nodded, and smiled, and bit my tongue, until an elderly man looked at me with tears in his eyes, and said, "Isn't it BEAUTIFUL?"

And I stopped. And looked at it. The way they were. As if it were new. And damned if they weren't right.

#Welcome back, Sharpay

“If the narcs think I’m gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy’s window!”

There's a waxiness to the dandelion stems that I think might help them last longer exposed to the elements, but I'm not sure on that. Halfway curious what sort of wicks they'd make.

I'm thinking it'll be useful for adding to things that are meant to be left to nature, or allowed to return to the earth on their own time. They'll probably come in very handy for the garden, since it's one less bit of plastic to worry about.

"Why are you learning basket weaving and cord making and crochet and spinning and all of these other things?" Ehhhh...

Truthfully? I always found it fun, and I always felt that having a toolkit of survival skills like that was just a very prudent course of action.

If I can make cord I can make a fire bow. If I can make baskets I can carry things, but I can also make fish traps. If I can crochet, knit, sew, etc. I can make and repair clothing. Once a t-shirt is too far gone you can still cut it into strips, and cord those strips and crochet into a big ol blanket that'll get many more years out of every fiber.

Future you will thank you for not pinning your ability to enjoy and get any sense of achievement on having the base energy levels of a teenager.

@magnetfamily week 2026 day 2: Companion | Enemy

they must have to have this conversation every time they see each other

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!!!

I love ALLIGATOR LIZARDS!!! These are Southern Alligator Lizard (Elgaria multicarinata), family Anguidae.

Southern Alligator Lizard - Elgaria multicarinata

Southern alligator lizard - Wikipedia

thanksgiving

christmas

not pictured: when I came back from the holidays and there’d been a huge storm while I was gone, so all that was left was a pelvis

but we persist. valentines

st patricks day