Mosspunkdancer - Mosspunk Dancer

I remember adults telling me that I should be true to myself and that I could be anything that I wanted. Now, they rage about gender and act disgusted when someone wants to have outsides match their insides.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

The older I get the more I understand the nuance of a dystopian collapse. I also better understand both the anger at those that do nothing, and the bleak, "what can I do?" Of the constant grind of oppression that isn't directly next door/ in my community.

fantasy story: but we grew complacent, indulgent, arrogant, spoiled by this era of prosperity and splendour, and in our short-sighted greed and vanity, we ended it. me at 15: I hate this stupid trope. People aren't going to just turn stupid and ruin everything just because things have been "too good" for "too long". Why does this author think that people are inherently stupid and evil? people on social media in 2024: I'm not going to vaccinate my dogs or my children because polio, measels and rabies are so rare they're not a real threat anyway uwu me at 30: Ah. I see.

I fully support cheap and dirty re-enactment for fun. For as much time as I spend reading archeological papers and trying to figure out what exsactly people were doing for clothing or dance.... it's far more fun to wear a blanket, boogie down to some ambient music, and eat like you had to grow it all yourself.

completely obsessed with this. partially inspired my slavic breakfasts. i’m planning a vampire dinner where everything i cook is going to be red.

Some parts of the hospital aren't all bad. The nurse shows up every 4 hours like she has an alarm to bring the pain meds. It's a mixed bag, tho. Sometimes you are sleeping, and the 3 am blood draws come with super bright lights.

I've started calling the hour after I take the pain meds, "easy mode" anything that involves moving should be done then.

The beds sit up for you 9/10- highly recommend.

The blankets all come out of a warmer- so they ate always toasty. The nurses have stellar blanket strategies. 8/10 - will try at home.

This is what I keep running into in research into bronze age Aegean cultures (specifically the textiles of those cultures.) And yes, Evans was a trasarcheologists, but some of the literature out of Greece is WILD.

academic bias is so funny because you’ll be reading about the same historical event and one person is like “Despite the troubles that befell his homeland and near constant criticism of the court King Blorbo remained strong in the face of adversity” and the other one is like “after letting his people carry the brunt of his cringefail decisions Blorbo the Shitface refused to listen to any reason and continued to be a warmongering piece of shit. Also he was ugly.”

Okay, yes. They are emerging in the same year, but their range doesn't substantially overlap.

lotsa old mermaids for mermay!!

Good lort. Do you want to learn how to control your stich length? Take up shashiko. It's just a running stitch, but you have to make sure that thry are all the same length and that the curve is equally divided.

My stitches are still too short.

Being admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery and not going bankrupt. Money Absolutely buys security. And security is happiness.

how much space do fungi need to grow? mush room.

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