#its only for a day

[a-story-i-will-never-write]

I return to the ancestors

I walked along a local reenactment

A pioneer heritage site

I happen to walk by the spinners

Weavers and creators of yarn

They're selling spindles

And wool

And fibers

I buy one

I go home

I feel the weight of my ancestors hands guiding me

As I begin to spin my first yarn

A craft long forgotten but an ancient foremothers chore

My last name means shepherd

Maybe it's in my blood, maybe my grandmother's are guiding me

Either way my hands itch for more

I join the group.

They offer me a broken spinning wheel if I think I can fix it.

I do.

My friends and I fix it

And yet again I feel the hands of maybe a more recent foremother guiding my own hands,

Centuries of tradition guiding the present.

My hands still itch for more.

A walking wheel sits in the cabin

Years it has been untouched.

We fix it, my great great great grandmother's hands guide me as I walk back into my family's place of history

It's not enough.

I learn to forage and soon there is a pot boiling over the fire

Walnuts and woad and weld and false indigo and berries bubble with white homespun yarn floating in the pots

I hand it off to a weaver who teaches me in turn, guided by the hands of both our great heritage of mothers

How wonderful it is to guide history to life again with my own hands

Guided by a long line of grandmothers

How wonderful is it to have this connection

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

[sapphia]

congrats on hbomberguy for getting the internet's highest queer honour

[bulletsgirl]

ppl who werent changed forever by youre gonna go far kid by the offspring when they were like 11 and insanely impressionable you just cant understand me

[dear-ao3]

adults of tumblr how on earth do you decide on what mattress you want to order

[cartarg]

kitty of some sort

[bluegiragi]

work it out (part 1)

early access + nsfw on patreon

[exitwound]

to solve the phonetime disease you know the one where you get stuck on the phone simulating an unconscious state without letting your brain ever actually rest or think or process. to solve this after a long time trying the 'just try really hard not to do this' method to no success i have developed a proprietary system called signing into bed. on account of this mostly happens to me when i get in bed in the middle of the day. and its very simple its a paper sign in sheet that i keep on my bed (so i see it when im about to get in bed) where i made a table for date, reason/what i will do there, time in, time out, and if i want to get in bed i have to sign in first aka decide on an intention and its kind of changing my life

[chrisbangs]

Bang Chan Doing That Move

[bigfatbreak]

been a long week. we'll see if i overstepped at work and am gonna get myself shitmixed/scolded but in the very least, my girls at work should have a better foothold on things

[suntails]

reality

[colfy-wolfy]

dramatic explosion added for comedic effect, laugh now.

sorry if u can't read the text on the first panel, I made this on a whim and didn't put much thought into the colors, here's what she's saying;

"TRIPLE AFFIRMATIVE, TRIPLE AFFIRMATIVE!!!!"

"Hah! April fools! You guys should've seen the looks on your faces!"

then she fucking explodes

[heartorbit]

stay warm! 🌟🍬🤖🎈

[theygender]

The more I learn about judaism the more I wonder where tf christianity got all its bad shit. Why is divorce a sin in christianity when judaism has recognized the right to divorce for nearly a millennia and has codified religious laws for it. Why does christianity consider sex to be dirty (to the point where puritans considered it a sin to enjoy having sex with your own spouse) when in judaism it's considered holy and it's a literal mitzvah to have sex with your spouse on the sabbath. Why does christianity consider it a sign that you're faithless if you question your religion when in judaism that's considered an essential part to developing your faith. I'm probably stating the obvious here but I still can't get over the fact that there's no historical basis to any of this shit before christianity started, it's like christians just said "hey guys what if we took the torah and built a new religion around it but this time it was actively hostile to human life"

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

some misc Barn & Wally doodles from the past week or so <3 i heart them