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[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolour here on Tumblr and also on [insta]

EDIT: I do not interpret "just managing" as "just suffering, just enduring, curling into a fetal position and waiting for it to be over." Managing is an active process.

So I'm using this post as a platform to make the reminder that "the power of the people is greater than the people in power," and we all are cordially invited to:

Take good care of ourselves. Mental, physical, emotional health. Hydrate. Move if we can, get outside if we can.

Keep up a routine. Remember quarantine and we all had to find a routine? This is the same.

Be intentional in our news consumption. Let's not stick our heads in the sand but let's not doomscroll either. Get an RSS aggregator. Subscribe to WTF Just Happened Today, Yoour Local Epidemiologist, Fix The News (for some inspiring hopeful news!). We'll check our feeds a few times a week, but no more than once a day.

Connect with friends and loved ones. Remind ourselves that while SOME people are horrible, for the most part people are awesome... if complicated. Share our fears but also our hopes. Eat together.

Now that we're keeping healthy, safe, sane, and hopeful... now we also fight. Quietly if we prefer, loudly if we prefer. But sustainably. I hate that I had to live through three rounds of this nonsense where a few people use half of us as tools to fuck over ALL of us, but here we are again. So let us take just one moment every week or so to...

Use 5calls to keep blowing up our reps phones. Tell them to either break ranks with the Orange Administration, or to stand up louder than just matching outfits and signs. Or to THANK them for standing up.

Use Vote411 to find elections before the midterms. A lot of villages, cities, townships etc have local elections that will affect where we live... and more importantly, the people in office there will affect things upwards too.

Use Ballotpedia to know exactly what's on our ballots ahead of time.

Protest, because it actually works.

Use Vote.org to make a plan to vote in the midterms. Make a plan that is immune to voter suppression tactics. Get our documents in order. Reach out to our friends to go to the polls as a group. Plan to livestream our visit, up until the point we have to turn our cameras off.

Make and share memes that promote hope, organizing, solidarity, and/or resistance.

Get involved with an action network like Indivisible, MoveOn, or Working Families Party.

Go to a local town hall meeting. Speak up.

Heck, start our own local activism networks, letter campaigns, call campaigns, or fundraisers with Action Network.

And we will remember our self-care. We will remind ourselves and each other that they want us scattered, focus is how we resist.

It IS coming back. Things ARE going to get worse. The world has become a place where a very few people are pulling levers and pushing buttons that are actively destroying much of what is good about living in a society where people care for each other.

Many others are in shock, sputtering "but can they do that?" MANY many others are waiting for someone to come save us.

But there are those who are actively, loudly, opposing.

And there are more people speaking up, acting up, every day. More people saying it's time to get scrappy. It's time to get into some good trouble. The shock is wearing off.

Yes, it's gonna get worse before it gets better (the long-term damage of the acts of the past momentum of all the damage that has been done will take that long to be felt -- but it WILL get better.

If WE will it.

[gleamiarts]

take a bite

this is part of a zine! digital | physical

[krscblw-2]

some moments last forever, but some flare out with love, love, love

[turtletoria]

Mohammed and his family are in need of your help!! They are still very far from their goal of $70,000, currently only having raised $5,878 to evacuate from Gaza. Every donation counts so please don't become discouraged - every dollar counts no matter how little!!! With your help, Mohammed and his family can realize their dreams of reaching safety and rebuilding their lives starting with finishing Mohammed's education. Please donate and share widely!!!

This campaign is also a spotlight fundraiser from Artists 4 Gaza where your donation could get you a free art request from one of their many many talented artists!! Click for more info!

[the secondary graphic was made by the amazing @/starelegy_ (IG)]

[bonersniper]

your man thinks onions should be incarcerated for 5-10 years

[valdevia]

The following documents were retrieved from the remains of the ship 'Storaker', its crew and most of its cargo lost in a storm off the coast of Denmark while returning from an archeology expedition to the Viking burial ground of Söndrum:

Excerpt from the diary of main archeologist Ture J. Arne (pictured right on item #2), March 22 1905: “We found something strange today. It wasn't far from the other graves in the area, but it was buried deeper. The extraction was difficult since it had become encased in a hard piece of stone we had to break through. […] This… artifact, it doesn't look like anything we've seen from the old Norse. A piece of loot from one of their raids, perhaps?”

“The crew is quite disturbed by the artifact, and I've heard far-fetched speculation about its origins. As much as I hate to admit it, it makes me feel uneasy too. […] There's one more thing I'm hesitating to write down. When I touched its surface I felt a nearly imperceptible vibration inside. None of the others seemed to notice. […] Tomorrow we'll load it on the ship and take it to Copenhagen.”

Arne's diary, March 25: “The mood on the ship has been odd. Some men have grown obsessed with my artifact. They try to pry it open, free what's inside. The captain sent crewmen to watch over the cargo and stop the fights. I tried to sneak in to see it at night, but they saw me.”

Arne's diary, March 27: “They will not take it away from me. I am the head of this expedition. This finding will put my name on history books. I will not let these thugs see what's inside before me. […] They say a storm is coming. That may be my moment to take it. Free it.”

Undated entry in Arne's diary: “The storm is here. I hear the men fighting outside now. It is time.”

The remains of the ship Storaker were found in April 1905, drifting in the Kattegat area. The ship was heavily damaged and no living crew was found on board. Artifacts matching the images were never located, and are presumed lost at sea.

[Read more Megalomorpha]

[lopashes]

smoke break for two

[abyssalzones]

put me to work

[voice crack] hey guys I remembered how to draw

[lonely-dog-draws]

The man is back. This time, I am on a bench in the park. He is twisting long blades of grass into strange spirals, but his fingers keep cutting through them instead. Is this when we met?

[billpottsismygf]

Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit / The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[bandichree]

Comprehensive color chart for The Season of Radiance! Included is a accessibility guide with written descriptions for each dye option for anyone who may need it (colorblind, etc). Alt text included in the images!

Each color was color-picked from a screenshot of the Rainbow Trousers shirt portion during daytime lighting for accuracy and consistency.

Hope this helps, have fun dyeing!

[uncanny-tranny]

Learning to internalize the message above, but art is in all of our bones. If you feel afraid to create art because it won't be "good enough," it's worth it to explore why you feel that fear. Creating art is one of the basic impulses of people, and if you want to create art, then you absolutely must.

[umbrellainkart]

There’s a difference!

[thegracefulwillow]

thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed,

[incaseofspace]

what a lovely group of twelve! sure hope nothing bad happens to them

[saintaviator]

the feeling of being watched or followed