One of the biggest let downs I have experienced, now that I’m a grown up with my own money, is that I simply don’t have the energy for all the things I wanna do :( mostly this is animal related; I still REALLY like horses, I would love to have X amount of cool species to look at, I would love chickens, doves and ducks, my own little garden with self grown fruits and vegetables… but that simply isn’t possible :(
Mini-me was on the right track when she demanded to have those pets back then because she KNEW I wouldn’t have the energy to like. Actually care for them without mom’s overview xD
I have this vaguely idealized version of myself who can do all that, who can manage a cool job, pets and art on the side, who has a beautiful home with lots of plants and minimal mess.
Now I’m realizing that’s just not what I will be. I really have to watch out for my hoarding already Dx and keeping a sheldue, things clean or general motivation is. SO HARD omg. RIP to my horse dreams I guess lol.
-Ow! -Hold still. -Why did they have to be pink? -Ask the cook. It’s his jeep. -Thanks, Todd. You know, for someone who constantly talks about what an asshole he is, you’re quite a good friend.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency → 1x05 Very Erectus
(i drew a version with the jeep n the machine but i got too tired to finish it, but i’ll put it up as soon as i do!)
Reading a “film couples who’s actors had no chemistry” Buzzfeed article cause I’m bored. Sam Neill and Laura Dern are on there, which is rubbish because they play the “long term couple comfortable in their relationship, also there’s dinosaurs free and eating people so we don’t have time to be romantic with each other NOT LOOKING AT YOU OWEN AND CLAIRE” to perfection. People were in the comments like “who saw the film and thought they were meant to be a couple? They were close colleagues!”
Did. Did you watch the films, Buzzfeed commenters? Did you not hear Alan telling Ian that they were a couple? Or Ellie trying to see if there was any way Alan would have kids (as close colleagues do, apparently)? Or the way she said something like “you’ll always be the best” to Alan after he met her new husband?
A terf posted this calling it “gaslighting” and “terrible” but I thought it was sweet so I’m reposting it from them.
People really do just throw around “gaslighting” to mean “making me consider how my actions impact other people” and “telling me things I don’t like hearing” and “calling me on behavior that harms other people”, huh?
“Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment.” - Wikipedia (I know, I know, you’re supposed to take anything and everything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt, but their definition is more clear than Oxford’s definition, which is “manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.” And either way, this sign is NOT gaslighting.
I now fear even more about what’s gonna happen with Landon. My biggest fear is that they might pull this happy in the afterlife thing for him. And I don’t want that, I want Landon to get to live a long happy life. He deserves that much after an entire lifetime of trauma and pain. Let Landon have something good for once.
Okay I’m gonna get my nerd on here for a minute because one of the things I love about history is what people did at home. Forget your huge wars and royals and whatnot, how did they handle feeding themselves and going to bed?
World War II is a great time for studying this sort of thing because of the need for rationing. Britain in particular had a time of it because once you cut off access to, yanno, the entire world it becomes a very tiny island without a lot of resources to self-sustain. There’s no orange groves in Britain, for instance. Plus global trade meant relying on things from other countries. For example, Britain grew its own cereal crops (eg. wheat, barley, etc) for centuries but then it was cheaper to import them from America so farms turned away from that to focus on things like meat and dairy production. To give an idea of scale, in 1939 Britain imported something in the neighborhood of 20 MILLION tons of food.
So the start of World War II meant not only having to figure out where in the ever loving fuck the food was going to come from, but having to completely revamp farming as the nation understood and was set up for it. Many of us know the West Wing quote about how during WWII FDR said the US would produce 50,000 airplanes and instead managed 100,000. Britain had to do the exact same thing with food.*
(*Note: other countries did as well, of course, such as the US which is where this artwork is from. I’m focusing on Britain to keep this simple though.)
The way you make up for that 20 million tons of food is both by making more and using less.
Making more is a fascinating study on the topic of how farming was changed forever in Britain. But the key takeaway for the purpose of this discussion is what also ties in with using less: People had to pitch in.
These days we think of WWII and we know the stories of victory gardens, Make Do and Mend, ration books, and so on. We remember how people during this time dug in, found inner strength, and did what they needed to do.
But the thing is that didn’t happen automatically.
At the start of WWII preparations went into place. People were taught about blackout curtains and preparing for gas attacks (a reasonable worry after WWI) and so on, but the war didn’t hit them on the home front right away. This led to a period of time of people basically looking around and going huh, we did all this for nothing. Whole buncha hype for no reason.
It was only with time that the danger started to get close, and the need for the extra food came into play. And even then it wasn’t as though ration books were handed out and people went whelp, guess that’s goodbye to meat and sugar for this week! People still had to be brought on board with the concept.
Hence the need for artwork like at the top of this post. “A Fair Share” was a key phrase at the time. It was used to remind people and teach them that they and their neighbors were all in this together. Heck, not just them but their loved ones on the front lines: if you hoarded food, for example, that meant more food was needed, more work for everyone else, more that might have to take the risk of being imported, more chance that ships might get shot down by Germany bringing those supplies to you. You had to do your fair share and thus get your fair share.
Mind you it also helped that leaders stepped in and did the same. Now granted it’s propaganda of a sort but even so the royal family used ration books. Queen Elizabeth 2 (then only a princess) famously used them to get enough cloth for her wedding dress. Of course the royal family had resources the average person did not, not the least of which was their own farm, but even so they understood the importance of showing that they were doing their part.
The other thing about rationing that people don’t realize is that it didn’t stop when the war ended. Most know that rationing got harder and tighter over the duration of the war but it’s not like VE Day suddenly made the food appear. World War II ended on September 2, 1945. Rationing ended July 4, 1954.
(That wedding dress I mentioned earlier? She got married in 1947. Still using ration books.)
So when you look at the above picture, realize that it’s more than just a quick comment about a single concept. Know that it was about a people who were told of a danger, had the knowledge to prepare but thought the requests for it were exaggerated, were hit hard once the danger arrived, may or may not have had exemplary guidance from those in charge on what to do, even so had to dig deep and learn how to work with their neighbors and countrymen to embrace entirely new ways of living so that they all could survive, and who had to keep working and sacrificing for that survival long after the active danger had passed.
…which of course is COMPLETELY unlike any situation we find ourselves in today.
are you disabled or suffer from other chronic conditions that often leave you bed bound? do you often feel like you’re in the “damn bitch you live like this?” meme because cleaning is too exhausting?
my protip is get yourself one of THESE bad boys and hang it by your bed
it’s an over the door shoe rack and the pockets are perfect for holding a lot of household objects.
you can use the pockets to store trash, snacks, meds, and water bottles. if you worry about hygiene, you can also keep some for dry shampoo, deodorant, body wipes, clean undergarments, or toothbrush materials. on good days, you can clean it out and restock it, or have someone else help you. on bad days, you won’t have to worry about getting food and you’ll be able to feel a little better about hygiene.
it’s also really great if you want to keep your hobbies close by!! i can often only work on my bed, and then i have to worry about putting everything away if i have to lay down. if it’s a hobby that has materials that can be stored in the pockets, it can feel more accessible to jump in and out of and take less spoons to set/clean up.
@ everyone who has ever complimented the hair curls/horns i draw on brad thank u, it’s literally my favourite thing to add when i draw him and i love it when people notice it and like it <3
