*gets dressed up to spend time in the woods alone*
once at dawn i dressed up in my regency suit and went for a walk in the woods where i heard someone go “oh” (a little like a moan) and i got terrified i’d interrupted someone dogging or something so i immediately tried to walk away before i saw the person in question, who was just walking their dog (dogging in a sense!) and i got even more scared because they were wearing black skinny jeans and a black hoodie so they looked like they had very long slender arms and legs, and both of us were really shaken so i quickly tried to get out of sight. anyway i forgot i was wearing full 1810s regencywear complete with hat and probably looked significantly more like a ghost than they did. remember you’re never alone in the woods
imagine walking your dog in the woods and seeing an obvious Regency-era ghost notice you and bolt out of sight, visibly shaken
*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love
“i used to live there” is such a sad phrase. seeing places u used to live in is an odd thing. It’s like ‘i know where the best hiding place is in there. my bedroom was the one directly to the left as you walk in. i took my first steps on that flooring. i used to play in that yard with my grandma. she died two years ago. that was the only place i ever knew. those walls contain all of my childhood memories. i can no longer go there, but i know every corner like the back of my hand.’
Been busy working for a relative on another house rehab job lately and haven’t had a chance to work on these guys anymore yet but check out how much just sitting out in the sun a few days has already whitened them. Haven’t even added any peroxide yet!
This is why I always say you can’t beat hydrogen peroxide + exposure to direct sunlight when whitening skulls. The peroxide does degrade faster this way so you have to add a bit more as you go but the addition of sunlight is a huge help in getting skulls much whiter, much faster.
I hate that as Indigenous people, we have to slowly explain the concept of LandBack to basically every colonizer.
Like no we’re not going to just throw you out, or put you in camps, or any of that shit. We just want to be able to take care of our ancestral land and be the ones in charge of protecting it.
Like I know these people were raised with a colonial mindset but after a while I just start to lose sympathy.
Like oh you’re worried about having your home violently ripped out from under you?? What a fucking tragedy.
I wasn’t gonna add to this, but like, no, I wanna add to this.
What will change for you, Whitey McWhiterson, if LandBack takes place?
Not a whole fucking lot.
You might be incentivized to switch to less-polluting modes of transportation, such as biking. Gas might be discouraged.
The environment might be prioritized.
You might become a citizen of, say, Mi'kma'ki instead of the USA.
Your kids might be taught an Indigenous language in schools.
History class would be a lot more up front.
But your day to day life? Very little will change. You’re not gonna be kicked out if your house. You’re not gonna be rounded up and put into a camp. You might be required to have the minimum basic decency towards the environment. It will be the Sovreign Peoples running the show.
But you, Joe Shmoe, will be left alone to live your life.
Which is more than we can say your people did for us.
Fuck Yes. Grew up next to the Seneca Nation and never understood why this concept was hard for people to understand except colonialism fucks up your brain so bad you can’t conceptualize anything like this that DOESN’T involve literally destroying the other culture/peoples. Same way a lot of scared white people are worried black people will get violent or aggressive with them because they know how their ancestors (or, often, they themselves) have treated black people in the past and they’re worried about fucking retribution.
having the ability to stop, slow down, and think “wait, is there any physical reasons I feel bad actually?” is probably one of the most important skills one can have as a mentally ill/neurodivergent person or really just as a human being existing in the world in general
I’d always felt like those “stop! are you hungry? have you had enough water? etc etc…” posts from a few years ago were helpful but sometimes condescending because I really didn’t realize how much some people with emotionally negligent parents just were not taught those skills. It can come off as dismissive to be like “you’re actually just hungry” when someone’s upset but … There are a nontrivial number of people in this world who cannot function normally when they’re hungry and don’t even realize that’s what’s causing it.
Anyways if you’re sad and reading this go have a snack. Even if you have a real problem beyond being hungry you’re not gonna solve it on an empty stomach anyway so just go have a snack. it won’t hurt
If you’re upset, ask yourself: is this caused by SHREK?
Sleepiness
Hormones
Restroom
Eating
Kidneys (dehydration)
Also, friendly reminder that if you can’t drink water for whatever reason, you aren’t a bad person and you should drink SOMETHING. Juice, milk, sports drinks, yes even coffee and energy drinks - there is water in those things and some water is better than no water!
If your options are drink nothing or drink a sugary soda - drink the soda. Dehydration is no joke, and, again some water from a different drink is better than no water at all.
There are basically only two common liquids a human can feasibly drink that are not water positive: Alcohol and Sea Water. So drinking literally anything else is better than nothing because the additives are not strong enough to counteract the water content.
✧ Rubey ✧ 20 ✧ Aus ✧ Do you stop believing in the moon just because the sun comes up?
