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the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.

Moon cake and pond cake 🌙 ✨

I just saw a Tik Tok that said writers on AO3 are not looking for constructive criticism in their reviews. I have no audience on this platform so I have to know if this is true? I've always left my pros and cons when reading a fic and now I'm concerned that the authors didn't like that.

Yeah writers are Not looking for criticism, constructive or otherwise. Unless they specifically ask for it, it’s considered rude and honestly a bit hurtful. In the least bitchy way possible, don’t do that. It’s unwanted.

Bill Braun creates paintings that look like construction paper!

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

Description: An illustration of sort of mix between a dryad and a satyr? It's a feminine form, half turned towards the camera. Her skin appears to be wooden, with moss and mushrooms crawling up her legs and torso.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3Z8qG7AKo

Vox

Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef

Not all heroes wear capes. Some are crabs.

GOOD NEWS FOR CRAB FANS EVERYWHERE

I lasted about two years switching to twitter (would not recommend)

so done with tumblr. see u all in two minutes

Also recommend Cook As You Are by Ruby Tandoh. It’s by far the best cookbook I have ever bought, but there is also a free mini easy read version downloadable from her website

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'. And it's free!

itch.io

The Sad Bastard Cookbook by tRaum Books

by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.

Dark side of the loom

Pero buatefack

Lace Leaf Maple~ 🍁

This painting is inspired by the Japanese maples in my yard. After the rain, some leaves on the ground decay until there's only the veins left.

I’m all scratched up and I can still taste spray paint in my mouth and my husband almost fell out of a tree BUT THE GHOST SCULPTURES ARE FINISHED!

They’re finally finished and I’m so happy with them!!

Some progress shots:

I've seen this before, but it's been years and it just came across my Twitter in its dying days. The words are from a favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater, and they are the words I most need to hear when it comes to dealing with chronic pain and illness. I didn't need this the first time I saw it, six years ago. I need it now. Maybe you do, too.

"Be Gay, Do Crimes.

Be Trans Ride Trams ( advocate for free public transport)"

Seen in Dublin, Ireland

My great-grandma is getting close to 100 and her memory is starting to go, and she can’t quite remember what my chosen name is, but she knows my birth name isn’t right. She puts my birth name in quotation marks to signify she knows it’s not correct, and I just. I love her. I love her so fucking much.

Sometimes love is quote marks around your deadname. Sometimes love is “I don’t remember everything about you, but I know you’ve grown and changed. My memory is fading, but I love you.”

“I hope this email finds you well”

First of all the only emails that ever find me well are from AO3

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Art by  yuumei