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We need more representation. Our community is broken and the only way we can fight the oppression is if we fight back as one. The only way to become equal is to become whole. If we stand United, we can overcome anything that stands in our way. We stand together and we fight together. Exclusionists have power only because give them it. We need to ignore them because as far as we know, the instant they betray or hurt us, they're no longer apart of us. We are powerful. We can and will do this

“Asexual activist Yasmin Benoit talks to PinkNews about how she realised she was asexual, why the LGBT community needs to be more inclusive, annoying comments people make about asexuality, and why she’s embracing her asexuality as a proud, black model.“

I love them

Owls Are Flying Cats

Yes

anyone else here gay and losing their mind 

ATTENTION ALL GIRLS AND LADIES: if you walk from home, school, office or anywhere and you are alone and you come across a little boy crying holding a piece of paper with an address on it, DO NOT TAKE HIM THERE! take him straight to the police station for this is the new 'gang' way of rape. The incident is getting worse. Warn your families. Reblog this so this message can get accross to everyone.

I FOUND IT

peter parker in the 2002 movie is fuckin…. incredible. he gets bitten by a fuckin jacked red blue spider and he doesnt say “hey someone should take me to the hospital mayhaps?” he just goes home. then the bite swells to the size of a fuckin jawbreaker but he’s like “nah i just need a nap.” then he wakes up the next day and discovers that he DOESN’T NEED HIS GLASSES ANYMORE and he has a fuckin six pack. does he flip his entire Fuck? no. he says, “cool.” iconic.

Hi please spread this, you never know if someone needs it

in my head theres a little mouse wearing a little apron and she makes all my emotions

Tree house gay and a pinch of cottage gay

types of gays: house edition (note: im using gay as an umbrella term!)

cottage gay: likes tea, artsy, good w plants, apologizes too much, dies every time someone complements them, lives in their own fantasies, doing their best but never thinks so

penthouse gay: art deco, expensive drinks, cherries and pomegranates, doesn’t close their blinds, knows the name of their barista, loves sunsets and fancy lingerie

castle gay: would have a closet for their capes, four-poster bed with three duvets, probably needs smelling salts, easily digresses, candles and dinner parties

lodge gay: reclusive, opens up to 3 (three) people in their entire lifetime, loves tapestries, hardworking, loves sleeping, could sit outside for hours, listens 2 folk music

tree house gay: has terrible handwriting, never too many throw pillows, constantly anxious, string lights and lava lamps, has taken a ceramic class, loves rice

Gif is not mine but this is so fucking hilarious

Reblog if you actually give a shit about anyone who’s suicidal or depressed.

No one should scroll past this

Fanfiction

Why you joined Tumblr

Reblog this and say in three words or less what led you to join Tumblr.

Can't afford to buy things for your garden?

*Re-posting, with new information

A store-bought bag of topsoil, a roll of landscaping fabric, or a bag of cedar chips doesn’t go very far if you have a large garden or a very limited budget. Here are some ways to create the materials you need for a beautiful, organic, productive garden, by both re-directing household waste, and foraging in your local area. I use a lot of these tricks in my garden to make it almost completely free for me to continue growing new things, and expanding the workable area every year!

For soil

Save your food scraps to create a rich compost for growing veggies and amending your soil. There are numerous options for every size of dwelling and yard. Small space solutions such as Bokashi and vermicompost work indoors and don’t produce bad smells, so you can keep them underneath the sink.Worm towers, compost heaps, and outdoor compost bins are a great solution if you have more space. The more you add, the more rich, nutritious material you can make for your garden. I like composting because it means I don’t have gross smelly garbage bags to deal with, because food waste is diverted. It seems like a lot of work at first, but it actually saves time, money, and transportation.

Seaweed or kelp is one of the best things for your garden, with over 70 essential nutrients, and acting as a weed barrier and a moisture-retentive mulch. I collect seaweed nearby on the beach with my bike trailer, or, when I go for a walk I bring a little home with me each time. It’s an absolute miracle for your soil.

Worm tower

Fertiliser

There are three things that are essential for plant growth. These are nitrogen for leaves and vegetation (N), phosphorus for roots and shoots (P), and potassium for water movement, flowering, and fruiting (K). Commercial fertilisers will give the relative concentrations of each of these compounds with and “NPK” rating. Plants like tomatoes also need calcium to produce healthy fruit. You can create amendments for your garden and soil at home so that you do not have to purchase fertiliser.

For nitrogen

Grass clippings contain 4% nitrogen, 1% phosphorus, and 2% potassium (NPK = 4-1-2).

Human urine contains 12% nitrogen, and it’s sterile. Dilute before adding directly to plants.

Legumes such as beans, clover, peanuts, and alfalfa fix inorganic nitrogen into the soil with mycorrhizal organisms and nodules on their root systems. Plant these crops every few years in rotation with others to renew the soil organically.

For phosphorus

Human urine is also a great source of phosphorous and trace amounts of potassium.

Ground up bones or shells add a slow-release phosphorous to the soil

Had a baby recently? Bury the placenta in the garden.

For potassium

Hardwood ashes 

Composted banana peels

For calcium

Break down all of your eggshells, or seashells you have found, in a plastic bucket, using vinegar. This creates a soluble calcium solution you can add to a watering can. 

Soil Acidity/Alkalinity

Many plants are particular about what the soil pH should be.

To make soil more acidic: add oak leaves, pine needles, leaf mulch, urine, coffee grounds or sphagnum. 

To make soil more alkaline: add wood ash, shell, or bone.

Mulch

Mulch is decomposing organic matter that adds nutrition to the soil, while simultaneously keeping out weed growth and retaining moisture. It also attracts worms, fungi and other beneficial creatures to your soil. Free sources of mulch include:

Leaves

Garden waste

Grass clippings

Straw (often straw bales are given away after being used for decoration in the fall. You can also plant vegetables directly in straw bales using a technique called straw bale gardening).

Wood chips (if you can borrow a wood chipper after you’ve collected some wood you can have attractive wood mulch for free)

Straw bale garden

Landscaping fabric

When mulch isn’t enough to keep the weeds down, many people opt for landscaping fabric. It can be quite expensive and inorganic-looking. Free solutions that both attract worms and can be replaced in small segments as they break down include:

Newspaper*

Cardboard*

Egg cartons*

Printer paper, looseleaf, etc. in thick layers*

*try to make sure you are using paper that has vegetable-based dyes, so you aren’t leeching toxins into the soil.

Soil density/drainage

If your soil is compacted and you have plants that require low levels of water, or excellent drainage, add sand. I don’t recommend stealing it from the beach, but ask around and you’d be surprised at how easy it is to get for free. Sawdust also improves drainage. Adding organic matter and mulch encourages worms, who also till and aerate compacted soil.

If the area still needs drainage, dig a hole and fill it with bricks or rocks to create a “dry well”

For drainage in pots, add crushed bricks, terra cotta pot fragments, packing peanuts, small stones, marbles, orsand to the bottom under the soil layer. I find these in construction sites, on craigslist, or at flea markets.

Pots and growing containers

If you have space, raised beds are a great no-dig way to establish growing space. If you are pressed for space (like working on a balcony) there are many cheap or free options for container gardens.

Creating raised beds allows you to build up the soil without digging. Free ways to do this include using rocks or lumber (like my DIY “lasagna garden” made with the sheet composting technique), using the “wattle“ method with sticks and posts you have found, using discarded straw bales, old bricks,paving stones, cinder blocks or really anything else you have lying around.

Hugelkutur raised beds, which fix carbon and provide drainage, can be made by stacking sticks and untreated wood, and then piling soil or compost over it. (Thanks milos-garden)

Rubber tire gardens retain heat in the night and allow for great drainage. They can also be painted in fun ways.

Herb spirals (here is mine: 1, 2, 3) can be built with stones, bricks, and other found materials.

I often use old cooking pots, barbecues, teapots, or other found objects as planters.

Making wooden planters is easy, and scrap or salvaged wood is also easy to come by. I’m not a fan of using wooden pallets for DIY projects, but they are also a free source of lumber for things like planters.

If you can track down peat moss, cement, and vermiculite, you can make an easy Hypertufa planter in whatever shape you would like, provided you have a form in which it can dry.

I’ve made hanging gardens out of soda cans.

You can build a self-watering container with a 2L pop bottle.

Start seeds in eggshells

Make biodegradable pots out of newspapers.

Wattle raised beds

Rubber tire gardens

Hugelkultur

An herb spiral

Hanging gardens in cans (2)

Trellises and supports

Many plants need external support, such as stakes of trellises, to thrive.

Rebar can almost always be salvaged cheaply or free and makes a great trellis, arch, or purgola 

Build trellises and supports out of the pliable young stems of plants like willow

Rebar trellis/arch

Living willow arch/trellis

Paving

Paving often requires a foundation of sand or another stable and well-drained substrate, and a covering of stones, bricks, or other weatherproof elements. Slowly collect stones over time, or free paving stone fragments to create a mosaic-type walkway. Often people give these things away on craigslist. I made a patio and fireplace out of free salvaged bricks, for example.

Salvaged garden walkway

Greenhouses and cold frames

Here is a gallery of greenhouses made out of salvaged windows and doors

A cold frame is easy to make with salvaged lumber, and plastic sheeting.

Window greenhouse

Palet cold-frame

Seeds and plants

Swap seeds with other gardeners

If you see a plant you like at someone’s house, ask for seeds or cuttings

Save seeds every year and build a library of options. Here is a great guide to seed saving.

Save seeds from foods you like from the grocery store: consider growing peanuts, ginger, garlic, peppers, or a walnut tree: all of these and more can be planted from store-bought produce.

Learn to take cuttings. There is a tonne of info on the web about basic cutting propagation, layering, (like I do with rhododendrons) air layering, and numerous other techniques to take clones of plants you like. This saves going to a nursery and shelling out big bucks for all the variety you want.

For cuttings, willow tea and honey are great rooting hormones/antiseptics/anti-fungal agents, which can save you $40 if you were thinking of buying commercial rooting hormone.

You can root cuttings in a potato! (See my methods for rooting “borrowed” plants here)

Air layering

Rooting cuttings in potatoes

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I hope this helps you build your garden outside of the usual capitalist channels! It can be a cheap or free hobby if you are willing to think outside the box, and maybe put up with things that don’t look as clean or crisp as a hardware store catalogue. If you have any further ideas, please add them! The more information the better.

Limits of the Human Body

Body Heat = 107.6 F

Cold Water = 40 F

Hot Air = 300 F

High Altitude = 15,000 ft

Starvation = 45 days

Diving Depth = 282 ft

Lack of Oxygen = 11 minutes

Blood Loss = 40%

Dehydration = 7 days

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”

— Alexander Den Heijer

Im trying to prove a point to my mum

Repost if school has caused:

Anxiety Depression Suicidal thoughts Social anxiety Eating disorders Self harm Stress

I’m making bread

My depression leaves me the entirety of December, it's a *christmas* miracle

the second it turns December 1st

Please reblog, this is so important.

Daily reminder that “Missing Person” posts are a common and often effective method that abusers use to find their victims that have run away from them. Also used to find people in the witness protection program.  

If you see a “missing person” post with a number that is not just 911 on it, be very wary. And if you do see someone who is supposedly missing, call the police, NOT the number provided on the post. I trust the police as little as anyone but they’ll at least be able to tell you if that person is actually missing and it has less of a chance of giving information to a possible abuser. 

A handy guide to Ancient Greek sculpture!

Is everyone stiff as a board and smiling demonically? It’s archaic

Is everyone beautiful and smooth as a dolphin? It’s classical

Is everyone screaming and on steroids? It’s Hellenistic

marvel follow train

my dash is starting to get messy so i want to follow some new people and become mutuals! u can reblog this to find new people too!

rb this post if ur blog has the following

marvel obv (preferably at least 90% of ur blog)

posts about anyone from the mcu cast & characters 

no starker or thorki shippers

no anti tony blogs

ᵐᵘᵗᵘᵃˡˢ ⁱᶠ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵒⁿ’ᵗ ᵐⁱⁿᵈ ˢᵖʳᵉᵃᵈⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳᵈ ᵒᵘᵗ ˢᵒ ᵗʰⁱˢ ᵈᵒᵉˢⁿ’ᵗ ᶠˡᵒᵖ ♡

Words that describe someone’s voice

Adenoidal: adj: if someone’s voice is adenoidal, some of the sound seems to come through the nose

Appealing: adj: an appealing look, voice etc. shows that you want to help, approval or agreement

Breathy: adj: with loud breathing noises

Brittle: adj: if you speak in a brittle voice, you would sound as if you’re about to cry

Croaky: adj: if someone’s voice sounds croaky, they speak in a low rough voice that sounds as if they have sore throat

Dead: adj: if someone’s eyes are dead, or if their voice is dead, they feel or show no emotions

Disembodied: adj: a disembodied voice comes from someone who you cannot see

Flat: adj: spoken in a voice that does not go up or down

Fruity: adj: a fruity voice or laugh is deep and strong in a pleasant way

Grating: adj: a grating voice, laugh, or sound is unpleasant and annoying

Gruff: adj: a gruff voice has a rough low sound

Guttural: adj: a guttural sound is deep and made at the back of your throat

High-pitched: adj: a high pitched voice or sound is very high

Honeyed: adj: honeyed words sound nice, but you cannot trust the person who is speaking

Hoarse: adj: someone who is hoarse or has a hoarse voice speaks in a low rough voice

Husky: adj: a husky voice is deep and sounds hoarse often in an attractive way

Low: adj: a low voice or sound is quiet and difficult to hear or deep sounding

Matter-of-fact: adj: used about someone’s behavior or voice

Monotonous: adj: a monotonous sound or voice is boring and unpleasant because it does not change in loudness or become higher or lower

Nasal: adj: someone with a nasal voice sounds as if they are speaking through the nose

Orotund: adj: an orotund voice is loud and clear

Penetrating: adj: a penetrating voice or sound is so high or loud that it makes you slightly uncomfortable

Plummy: adj: this word shows that you dislike people who speak like this

Quietly: adv: in a quiet voice

Ringing: adj: a ringing sound or voice is very loud and clear

Rough: adj: a rough voice is not soft and is unpleasant to listen to

Shrill: adj: a shrill noise or voice is very loud, high and unpleasant

Smoky: adj: a smoky voice is sexually attractive in a slightly mysterious way

Silvery: adj: a silvery voice or sound is clear, light, and pleasant

Singsong: adj: if you speak in a singsong voice, you voice rises and falls in a musical way

Small: adj: a small voice or a sound is quiet

Strangled: adj: a strangled sound is one that someone stops before they finish making it

Strident: adj: a strident voice or sound is loud and unpleasant.

Taut: adj: used about something such as a voice or expressions that shows someone is nervous or angry

Thick: adj: if your voice is thick with an emotion, it sounds less clear than usual because of the emotion

Tight: adj: a tight voice or expression shows that you’re annoyed or nervous

Thin: adj: a thin voice or sound is high end unpleasant to listen to

Tremulous: adj: is it not steady for explained, cause you’re afraid or excited

Throaty: adj: a throaty sound is low and seems to come from deep in your throat

Wheezy: adj: a wheezy noise sounds as if it’s made by someone who has difficulty breathing

Wobbly: adj: if your voice is wobbly, it goes up and down, usually cause you’re frightened, not confident or you’re going to cry

I lose followers every time I say “trans women are women”

so I’m gonna keep saying it until I weed out all ya

I love this

Timoclea (4th century BCE): the Woman Who Threw Her Rapist in a Well

This was not the post that was scheduled. But it was one that spoke to the moment. If you’re in the US, please vote. 

Full post, with footnotes and whatnot, here. Books here. Patreon here. Art notes after the cut.

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Smile (tw: depression/mention of suicide)

I don't know what to do with my life and now I am deeply upset. How do I write an essay on someone else's life, when I'm struggling through mine? How do I push past the darkness in my mind to make room for knowledge that I'm going to spit out on a test later on? How do I maintain clubs when everyone is screaming at me to do my work? How do people manage this? I certainly can't. I try so hard for this to work, but whenever I get comfortable, Life decides that I shouldn't be happy. The only thing stopping me from leaving is my friends and family. They're my anchors, yet I feel them slipping away, leaving me to fend for myself. I wish there was a manual for this kind of stuff, so I won't feel lost every time I get out of bed, so I don't feel that I'm living someone else's life. But I try to look on the bright side of things, even though doing that exhausts me more than everything else. I put on a smile, give hugs and compliments so that other people's joy fills my own. Is this why most comedians tend to be depressed? Are they trying to fill the void in themselves with others laughter? All I know is that life is unfair, but if you put on a smile, people tend to believe it no matter how fake it is.

Dodekatheism/Hellenic Polytheism Resources

This is by no means a complete list, it’s just a collection of some sites, articles, and books I’ve found online that are interesting or useful.

Ancient Greek Cults:A Guide by Jennifer Larson

Aristotle on Religion by Mor Segev

Brutality of Citizen Wives, The by Mary E. Naples, M.A.

Collection of Greek Ritual Norms

Dionysus and His Cult and Worship; a Gender Study by Leah Hatch  

Divine Appetites and Animal Sacrifice by Mat Carbon

Greek Philosophy and Religion by Gábor Betegh

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies- Classical Inquires page 

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies-Library

Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies- Research Bulletin

Homer’s Gods, Plato’s Gods by Dr. Garrett 

Households, Families, and Religion by Matthew Dillon

Human Transgression–Divine Retribution by Aslak Rostad  

Imagining the Afterlife by Radcliffe Edmonds

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Introduction to Inner Purity and Pollution in Ancient Greek Religion by Andrej Pertovic

Meaning of Reciprocity in Ancient Greek Religion, The by A. Koutoupas

Mortal and Divine In Early Greek Etymology  by Shaul Tor

Oracular Functioning and Architecture of Five Ancient Apollo Temples Through Archaeoastronomy: Novel Approach and Interpretation by Belen Martin Castro, Ioannis Liritzis, and Anne Nyquist

Pausanias’ Descriptions of Greece

Personal Religion in Ancient Greece by Emily Whitmore

Plato’s Writings

Pythagoreans, Orphism and Greek Religion by Gábor Betegh

Recovering the Past: The Origins of Greek Heroes and Hero Cult by Jorge Bravo

Rethinking Aphrodite as a Goddess at Work by Gabriella Pironti

Sacred and the Profane, The by Mircea Eliade

Theoi.com

Theoi.com- Library

Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion by Robert Parker

Unraveling the Eleusinian Mysteries by Mary E. Naples, M.A .

!!!!!!!!!!

Listen up. There is literally an app that can help you avoid self harm and I don’t know why we aren’t talking about it.

Calm Harm can be tailored to your needs and will provide strategies to help you get past those crucial moments of wanting to harm.

It’s also totally FREE.

once again, it’s called CALM HARM

"Wannabe dictator's enormous unfeasible poured concrete vanity project"

If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s

Please, please read to this:

If you have a blog, or are a writer and someone comes to you with suicidal thoughts, HELP THEM. I've seen and experienced people coming to popular blogs or accounts and asking for advice on depression and or suicidal thoughts and people just turn them away thinking they're asking for attention. They're in a very dangerous mindset and they see you as someone they can go to for help. You may not know them or read what they published but they see you as a friend, someone that could help them through this, and if you just turn them away, because "they may have wanted attention", and were "leeching off your success" they need help. Even if you have 5 followers, someone could be in danger and just wants you to help them through it.

Please reblog, it could help someone out.

Relog if you need this energy

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