#death positive
Y’all should send me your favorite death jokes/memes! I really need a good laugh.
I made a blog site elsewhere to make posts, share my experiences, and get my thoughts out on a more personal level. (Don’t worry: this is still my community-based blog, and it’s not going anywhere). I’m unsure if I want to keep it going or not, but I’d have to gauge interest. How many people would be interested in reading my blog? I don’t want to be writing to an empty audience.
I just wanted to extend a welcome and thank you to all of my followers. It’s amazing to see such a huge death positivity community on tumblr!
I wanted to let everyone know that my submit box is open, and you are welcome at any time to submit your photos, stories, thoughts, and questions. I want this to be a thought-provoking community that draws everyone a little closer to death acceptance!
It seems that I have a pattern of meeting popular death writers.
Have you met any other popular people in the death positive community? Please share!!
Post link
“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
What would you want done to your body after you die?
Buried? Cremated? Thrown to the wolves?
FUTURE CEMETERIES: Cruise ships to Skyscrapers | Ask a Mortician
The tooth fairy leaves a coin under your pillow.
Grievers leave two coins on your eyes when you die.
These events are not unrelated.
She leaves a coin and takes a bone because she is your first reminder of your mortality.
She takes the first bones your body will lose and in exchange she gives you your first coins.
Like a child you lose them, or spend them - but they will return to you….
…in time.
Your body changes… ages… and your teeth -the only bones to have seen the world-
- taste it -
are your first reminder.
Childhood ends.
No matter how long you are a child.
Victorian hairwork mourning art, a memorial piece made with the hair of the deceased. On display at the Galloway House
Post link
[image description in alt text]
Hey! My friend @adescagram on Instagram invited me to try @feefal ’s #funguary drawing challenge! For the first week I chose: Coprinopsis comatus (Inky Cap)
Instead of something “scary” though I went for some ominous death positivity
I loved the design so much I immediantly added it to my redbubble. Take a look if ya want!
image descriptions in alt text
CW: death positivity , trans surgery mention ️⚧️, and Bats ______________________________
In english and spanish translations of the Mayan legend, Camazotz is often called the “Death Bat” (“Zotz” meaning bat in the k'iche’ language). They are entities of the underworld and symbols of sacrifice, death, and the night.
While there are fearful tales of them in their native culture, it is important to remember that in many cultures - cosmic beings were not altogether viewed through the western lense of “good and evil”. In fact, in many pre-columbian mesoamerican philosophies the primary dichotmomy was Chaos and Order, with the universe existing in the balance between the two. (and as a physics loving person this makes my heart sing )
Camazotz (sometimes said to be one entity that was “he”, or many of a type of entity that were “they”) to me, is a symbol of natural forces embodying Life and Death. To die is to be unwoven, and return to the earth. To live is to be re-ordered from the unwoven universe. To sacrifice… is to give up personal safety or the order of the status quo - and is something I feel has been relevant to many communities in our ongoing fight for Justice. Though what we work for, is a system that does not make us sacrifice ourselves. ✊✊✊️⚧️️♿
Even to the Mexica (called the “Aztecs” by the spanish), Bats were a symbol of the connection between Life and Death. Order and Disorder. They roost in the underworld (a place that was the womb of humanity) and fly into the celestial heavens. There are many crops and foods that rely on bats indefinitely.And even the fig trees from which the Mexica got their writing paper were planted by bats.Many of Life’s greatest enjoyments were made by bats and yet they are a popular victim of fear…
Point is…
I was REALLY thinking about bats and about my life in general. And yes! this is my Halloween pumpkin. I carved it on Dec. 25th even though I had it since mid October because of my top surgery making it hard to lift or use my arm muscles ️⚧️
(I like to think I sacrificed my chesticles,returned them to theChaos, and rebuilt the place my heart rests…)
I wanted to donate the pumpkin to @batworldsanctuary for the bats to snack on (they take donations!), but they can’t take carved ones .
___________________________
#bats #batart #camazotz #zotz #batworld #batworldsanctuary #mexica #indigipunk #mesopunk #chicano #chicanoart #mexicaart #mexicaarte #chicane #chicaneart #chicanx #chicanxartist #chicanxart #xicane #xicanx #xicanxart #deathpositivity #diadelosmuertos #pumpkincarving #pumpkincarvings #halloweenart #batfacts #transart #transartist #resistanceart
New Bookmarks!
Ancestor bookmarks and a Hades bookmark are now available on my shop! All are hand-drawn with a prayer. $3
Finished this patch while waiting for my number to be called at the DMV! If you don’t recognize the quote it’s from Ask A Mortician!
