Fallow dreams of a sleeping meadow // Part 8
adult: what do you want to be when you grow up?
me: an old lady with a garden, soulmate, tons of animals, & a peaceful forest home
i wish i were a tiny mouse tucked up in a tiny bed under a tiny patchwork quilt in a burrow under a tree. no responsibilities except making raindrop wine and rose jam and making sure i sweep the little doorstep every morning
GOBLIN PSA
Occasionally you will want to hiss at the sun
That’s normal
Various Wands
Mal Corvus Witchcraft & Folklore artefact collection
West Country, England (Cornwall)I love that porcupine wand so much
Today’s new moon is about renewal, vitality and hope. A lot of us are ending major chapters of our lives and are now ready for a new path to unfold. This is a much needed illuminating new beginning as we end this very dark year.
breaking news: harry potter has quit his job as an auror!
stating that ‘i have no idea why i thought that was a good idea, holy shit’, potter has since relocated to diagon alley and reopened florean fortescue’s ice cream parlour. in a comment, potter said ‘yeah. yeah, this seems more like it’ and added ‘i mean, he gave me ice cream that one time. loved that guy.’
All Pottermore stories and other HP related extra-canon are hereby replaced with this text post
Dear people planning to move to pillowfort:
As someone not involved in the development of pillowfort but am a web developer, I think you should lower your expectations, but not for the reason you think.
Pillowfort is a baby. A newborn. A smol bab. If you were here during the early days of Tumblr, think of that.
Pillowfort simply cannot be the immediate solution to your woes. It needs to be nurtured and cared for to become a mature and happy adult.
If you want Pillowfort to work, they’ll need feedback, advice, bug reports, etc. This is a chance to make Pillowfort the Ao3 of Fanfiction.net. It’s not gonna happen overnight, you need to give it time and love and it’ll get there.
If you don’t want to pay money to get into the beta, that’s ok. It will be open to the public soon enough and you won’t have to pay a dime. Their financial model moving forward sounds good (a subscription fee for super extra features), but even an Ao3 model would work swell for them probably.
We’re living in an interesting time on the internet. Governments across the world are cracking down on content and yet community run websites are starting to thrive more and more.
Tumblr once upon a time was what Pillowfort is today, but this time, let’s make sure Pillowfort can stay independent from mega corporations.
yes this
most of the criticism i’ve seen of pf so far ultimately come back to this
is it an alright platform with a good community? yes. does it have a lot of potential? yes. does it have a lot of problems still being worked out? yes. are the staff open and responsive? absolutely. do i recommend it? yes, if you’re willing to live in a house while it’s being built.
but it’s not a ready-made replacement for tumblr. set your expectations accordingly.
This was one of my favorite things I made in school last year…!
I get what’s trying to be said here and far be it from me not to highlight issues in global food production and worker exploitation. HOWEVER it seems to me that vegans (I’m not one) are expected to bear an unfair amount of criticism over a global system that everyone is a part of. If they want to reduce their harm by not eating meat its childish it instantly be like “well what about…?!” It’s a malicious and childish attitude that says more about how what they’re doing makes you feel insecure than the political realities.
Non-vegans drink coffee, Non-vegans eat vegetables and fruits from developing countries, but this smug rhetoric seems reserved for vegans alone.
Honestly the fair production of food is too serious an issue to be railroaded with attempts from non-vegans to makes themselves feel better.
Yeah but the problem is that the vast majority of vegans are really annoying and judgey about how they presumably are doing more for the environment than the rest of us because their diet is ~cruelty free~ while the rest of us murderers have damned our souls in the blood of innocents for choosing to consume animal products. The majority of vegans also have this pesky habit of claiming that they have the most environmentally friendly, cruelty-free diet on the planet without being willing to discuss the realities of food production, or the ways in which veganism causes damage (like by leading to the colonization of native food-ways, or the insistence of putting plant agriculture on land that is not at all suitable for it, or the demonization of anyone who disagrees with them). Then of course there is the view that runs like a cancer through the vegan community that animals are more valuable than people, and we should be focusing all our efforts on ensuring that animal lives be saved and damn to hell those immigrants working for pennies in the fields. There is also a racism that is inherent to veganism that this picture seems to be getting at which absolutely has to be discussed. Veganism can’t tout itself as the answer to all our woes when it has deeply racist roots.
Like, I get that fair food production is an important issue that affects everyone and that everyone needs to discuss it. The problem is that vegans have put themselves in this place where they have claimed that their diet is the answer to all food production woes without acknowledging the extremely serious problems their diet generates. We will never solve the world’s food problems my forcing everyone to go vegan, and it is high time that vegans started critically looking at exactly what they’re advocating for.
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