#How to survive the pandemic

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Pics of my Lilith cosplay + finished crochet Hooty!! He's measuring at over six feet, took about 1770 yards of yarn, stuffed with 70 ounces of stuffing, and took over eight months of work, all done by hand! I haven't had time to measure him, but for reference I'm 5'4" and had to carry him around in the giant Ikea bag that he had to be shoved into for most of the con.

[bisexualspace]

you truly can't follow any tags can you

[thoughtportal]

How do you keep your language alive while also protecting the health of elders? That's been the quandary facing Ojibwe educators during the pandemic. As native speakers, Ojibwe elders were the primary teachers of the language, but they were also the most vulnerable to COVID. Leah Lemm of Minnesota's Mille Lacs Ojibwe band tells us how she and others figured out how to continue learning while also ensuring the wellbeing of teaching elders like her own father.

Music in this episode by Airae, Gridded, Megan Woffard, Headlund, Joseph Beg, Jules Gaia, Rymdklang Soundtracks, Molecular Machine. Read a transcript of the episode here.

Some Ojibwe language resources recommended by Leah: James Vukelich's Ojibwe Word of the Day; the University of Minnesota's online Ojibwe dictionary; the  Ojibwe Rosetta Stone project; and the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe and the Minnesota Historical Society's Aanjibimaadizing book project.

[dreamlogic]

2024 year of charlie gets a fucking break (hopefully. maybe. tbd.)

[madamebadger]

Um.

Hi.

Apparently I decided to wake this tumblr up to tell you:

a) I read the Locked Tomb series, and;

b) I am obsessively in love with Camilla Hect and now have three story drafts started about her, and;

c) the above should be no shock because it is well known that I have A Type.

So....

How are y’all?

[icewindandboringhorror]

I’m always paranoid of my tumblr being deleted or malfunctioning or something like that someday, so here’s other places to find me/follow me, just in case lol

~ instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lucalicatte/

~ main youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/LucaLiCatte

~ games/sims youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@cloudycatte

~ facebook page (I rarely use this because I hate facebook but.. it at least allows text posts better than instagram does, so idk maybe I’d use it more if tumblr went away? lol) - https://www.facebook.com/cloudycatteart/

~ Other Links (stuff I don’t use often/isn’t Main enough to list here, like twitter, neopets, other tumblr sideblogs, youtube channels, etc.) are here - http://icewindandboringhorror.tumblr.com/otherlinks )

[suncaptor]

hope is just more dangerous than the reality it imagines away from.

[luciferspartner]

CW covid & ableism, rant incoming

getting more frustrated by the day at the lack of any kind of covid precautions in public spaces. masks gone from buses. mask policies gone from Uber/Lyft/taxis and any other kind of transit too. masks gone from fucking healthcare. masks and social distancing gone from grocery stores and pharmacies. outdoor spaces back to being crowded and maskless. no ventilation improvements. cleaning protocols getting dropped. getting dirty looks as the one masked person in the area (meanwhile strangers think it’s ok to touch my mobility aids which means an extra round of sanitation when I get home). even in medical settings where masks are required the staff don’t offer masks to the unmasked. or if masks are “strongly recommended” the staff saying “oh you don’t need t wear that anymore!” my fucking immunologist with single layer mask that doesn’t fit and falls below the nose. being at the ER waiting area sat next to families who are saying they’re all covid positive but masks pulled below their chins. the safety risks of asking other people to wear a mask while around us and the risks of saying nothing. isolation of losing access to spaces again. even disability support groups and disability events going in person only and maskless and no testing or vaccines and overcrowded with poor ventilation in physically inaccessible places. I have been so so so lucky and privileged to be alive this far into the pandemic but how the fuck are we supposed to survive this shit without totally reconstructing what community care means in the time of covid

[minglana]

i dont mean to be a debbie downer on january 1st of all days but lately (bc of exam season maybe?) ive been feeling like my life is completely stagnant and its going nowhere. i should be finished w my degree. i should either be working or getting my masters. but instead im over here with one or two or even three more years of finishing this stupid degree. and the thing is that YES i could just drop out but i also dont want to. i started this thing and im like halfway through. i should finish it even if its just for the sake of finishing it. i also know that its completely normal to not finish a degree in four years, many of my classmates that i started with are still studying w me, but many of my friends from my same year (who didnt study engineering) are already finished and doing god knows what with their lives... i know its always said that engineering is more difficult than other degrees and that its normal to take more than 4 yrs, but it still doesnt stop me from feeling like shit

i also just feel like bc im studying i dont allow myself to have fun, bc i get distracted on my computer and do things other than studying, and if i didnt have to study i would like to hang out more with my friends. but since i spend so much time on the computer doing stupid shit, i take away the time that should be for me doing extra activities and socializing and leave it to study.

and yet another thing is my ever-constant problem of not being able to make myself study. pre-pandemic i was able to make myself study. i even dare say i enjoyed it. but now i dread even the thought of studying. idk if its bc i dont like most of the classes im taking or if im fatigued or what but i genuinely feel completely lost on what i can do to remedy this problem

[gxlden-angels]

Throughout all of this, I never thought about the potential for my family members to also deconstruct/leave fundamentalist christianity, even if they remained a more progressive christian in the end

[pepprs]

also cringefail double vent posting over things that are not actually that big of a deal once again lol but i am so fucking miserable today in ways i don’t even know how to articulate. i need to move out. i know exactly where i want to live but they raised rent $300 and i can’t afford that but i want to live by myself so badly but my parents are adamant that i can’t bc i can’t drive and im a “diminutive inexperienced young woman” and i want to punch something. i read half of the drivers manual and cried reading it which is fucking stupid bc it s just the drivers manual. but i want to move out so bad. i hate sharing a room with my sister and im not getting the new room anymore bc we don’t have money to finish it up bc my mom is still sick and no one knows what’s wrong with her and she has to get all these tests. i never have a space i can go to that’s just quiet. i don’t want noise. i don’t want to block out noise with more noise. i want QUIET. i don’t want to be afraid to go into rooms or hear noises i don’t want to hear. and i don’t want to be living here for the three extra months it’ll take me to ng et my permit. im just done. i don’t want to live here!!! and things at work suck and are exhausting and draining and so unbearably overwhelming and i feel terribly lonely and disconnected from everyone and small and scared and i don’t have energy to fix any of it or explain what’s going on or ask for help or get a therapist or whatever. and i keep pulling muscles in my neck. and i want to go to sleep!!!!!!

[natandacat]

btw im feeling a lot today bc my neighbor is having a bbq and i really wanna go but i had to lie and say i was working bc everyone there is a hardcore party goer and theres too many covid cases rn so even in an outdoor setting i would need to mask and that crowd would be super weirded out by my n95 and also it would suck bc i wouldnt even be able to eat. anyway. being at risk is like living in purgatory while 99% of the population literally doesnt care.

[thirddeadlysin]

i did not realize how often i had quick little chats with people on Twitter until i wasn't on Twitter anymore and noticed that my day is really lonely 🙃

[skrrtskrrtitsjrrt]

I feel like in a pandemic situation in Middle Earth, hobbits would either do really well with it, or really bad.

Like, on the one hand, hobbits store their food and extra supplies for stuff in their house and like to mind their own business, only going outside to tend a garden. These guys are prepared for just about everything, and i think they could do extremely well in a pandemic;

And on the other hand, hobbits are extremely social creatures, literally have a party for every excuse they can: birthdays, weddings, elections, for funsies. They would really struggle with not having any contact with other hobbits other than their families, although for some (like the Tooks who have generations of family all living in the same smial), it wouldn't be so bad. But to go along with that, it might be harder for those families with generations in their smials because it's easier for a virus to spread, even with everyone distancing and wearing masks, because it's still an enclosed space that is fairly tightly packed.

And I mean, look at the Fell Winter. Yeah, the main issue was that there were no crops and the river froze over to allow predators in the Shire, but it also didn't help that the hobbits were all trapped in their homes trying to survive and comfort each other despite knowing it was an extremely dangerous situation they were in. The loss of contact with other hobbits absolutely had a part in the issues of that dreadful winter.

So yeah, I feel like a pandemic could go either way. I'm mildly curious to see if there are any fics that include this au in it.

[tanktop-lou]

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[nerdishfeels]

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