#self-sustaining

[august--and-everything-after]

Ok actual real goal of my forever is to build a life where I'm doing so many things daily (or regularly) that support my mental health that I no longer need antidepressants. I know they're essential to me for the time being cause the alternative is - not something I want to talk about - but I think with the right, highly focused combination of habits I can support myself drug-free.

[soapdispensersalesman]

self-sustaining sentience

[evkircheruhla]

Bildung ist (fast) alles - Education is (almost) everything

„Bildung ist der Zugang zu Freiheit, Demokratie und Entwicklung.“ - „Education is the doorway to freedom, democracy and development.” (Nelson Mandela) Wenn ich wüsste, dass morgen die Welt unterginge, würde ich heute noch ein Apfelbäumchen pflanzen, soll der Reformator Martin Luther gesagt haben. Doch das ist wohl nicht seinem Mund entsprungen. Aber ob es nun stimmt oder nicht, spielt keine Rolle. Vielmehr ermuntert das Zitat, die Hoffnung nicht aufzugeben und das Seine zu tun, um nachfolgenden Generationen eine lebenswerte und friedvollere Welt zu hinterlassen. Wir als Ökumenischer Eine-Welt-Kreis tun, gemeinsam mit Bildungspaten und Spendern für Kinder in Ruanda, das Unsere - seit 2007! "Pflanzen" Sie mit! Als Pate oder Spender. If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant an apple tree today, the reformer Martin Luther is supposed to have said. But that probably didn't come out of his mouth. But whether it is true or not is irrelevant. Rather, the quote encourages us not to give up hope and to do our part to leave a world worth living in and more peaceful for future generations. We as the Ecumenical One World Circle, together with educational sponsors and donors for children in Rwanda, are doing our part - since 2007! ‘Plant’ with us! As a patron or donor.

[minnagaffer1953blog]

[nellaplettblog]

[karynvienerblog]

[themandalalady]

24-081 Self-Sufficiency

Self-Sufficiency “able to maintain oneself without aid” I learned at an early age to be as self-sufficient as I can. Being the oldest of four children in my family, I had to take on more mature roles early on in order to help take care of my brothers and with the household chores. By 12-13, I was a built-in babysitter for all four of us. I recall a distant memory of my parents telling me that…

[idealog]

[moonsun2010]

If there's one thing I've seen over and over again in the Dracula Daily + Re: Dracula fandom, it's the desire for an animated adaptation. Not of media-inspired-by, but of Dracula itself. And so, I've made:

...something that is decidedly not animated.

Yet.

I'm hoping to get Dracula Reanimated (tentative name) in exactly 1 year from now, by the end of DracDaily's 2025 run, perhaps even the beginning of it if I'm really good. But in all honesty, it could take till 2026 given the teeny complication that 1) I've no animation skills whatsoever 2) fulltime job.

So, I hope you'll stay around for the next 2 years at least to see this completed.

In the meanwhile, if you'd like to support a project by actual professionals, try @theholmwoodfoundation . It's a found footage horror fiction podcast by @georgiacooked and @fiotrethewey set in a time long after the events of Dracula, and yet the characters find themselves haunted (literally) by vestiges of the past.

Goodnight, stay safe, and rest well.

[cervinae-canine]

selfshipping with a side character experience:

[moodboardmix]

Cob House, Almaty, Alatau region, Kazakhstan,

Dilyara Mazhitova & Vladimir Radostovets Design,

Photography by Sergey Krasyuk

[aingeal98]

Kim Dokja trying to kill his younger self because he views all his loved ones and the entire world's suffering as his own fault 🤝 Han Sooyoung possessing her innocent child self cursing them to a life of chronic illness due to sleep deprivation all because she needs to plunge the world into suffering in order to save the life of her loved one.

[halleehalfgallon]

don’t throw the baby* out with the bathwater**!

*regular people who live off the land because it’s what humans have done for millennia

**christian nationalists and tradwives who are dominating so much of the self-reliance and sustainability conversations with their nasty ass agenda that people are just handing the whole lifestyle over

i would say “let’s take this lifestyle back!” but it was literally never theirs, dammit. they’re just the loudest mfers in the room because they’re so gross that the rest of us don’t even want to admit that we also want to live in a more self-reliant, sustainable, conscious way. we just, you know, don’t want anyone’s rights relinquished about it.

please keep making sourdough, keep breaking ground, keep planting and saving seeds, keep making jelly. these are HUMAN THINGS and they are the things that are going to keep us going in times of scarcity. 

I’m tired of worrying that I might be mistaken for a Mormon when half of these goofballs on the internet aren’t even doing half the work they say they are. I’m going to go ahead and let those people put on a show for their followers, who really just want something to dream about, and while they’re setting up their cameras so they can pretend to gather storebought eggs I’m going to just….keep working hard, keep crocheting, keep learning how to make clothes, continue to mouth off and talk back, and i’m gonna do all of that in a dress and apron if i fucking want to because they do not own those concepts either. 

my grandmother would call homegrown & home cooked meals and preserves and jellies and handsewn this-and-that “making do” because to her, that is just what life is. and no, she doesn’t *have* to do it anymore, but (with the exception of her daily Pepsi which isn’t very Ballerina Farm of her) she lives pretty much the same way she always has. this is a way of life. when did we decide it belongs to the millennial maga girlies on instagram? 

this is so all over the place and i’m sure you’ve stopped reading by now if you ever even started in the first place but essentially, as someone who is a mother with a very strong identity outside of motherhood and enjoys self reliance and sustainability please can we not just hand over the one thing that humans all over the world, every culture, every language have in common straight into the hands of the people who want to use it to maintain and gain power over women, LGBTQIA folks, and anyone who isn’t white? 

because we do not have to do that. 

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

is it the devil talking when I see hibachis for sale at the local knife (and fancy kitchen gear) shop

[birchsapfaerie]

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