#;negative

[everglow-synth]

Hey, just a heads up, I'm probably going to be spotty on my accounts for a while. Today we just scheduled an appointment to have one of our dogs put to sleep, since she's getting very old and sick, reaching the point of essentially sunk costs.

I'm gonna be fine, I'm gonna try and be strong in that time, but I'm definitely gonna find it hard to just get back to business as always for a little while. If anyone wants to talk though, feel free to IM me; mutual RP partners can have my Discord so long as they ask.

#;distant beats (ooc) #tw: pet death #tw: pet loss #tw: pet illness #;negative

[frznkingdom]

*do not reblog*

#;negative #do not reblog #*to be deleted

[bitbrumal]

OOC  that secondhand tablet was a scam... i’m gonna see if i can get smth done via its warranty... that’s how my day is going lol motherfucker.

#;negative #ooc ✦ we don't leave room for jesus. #i'm just :pensive: abt it. i HATE being this sad abt things but digital art keeps me the fuck alive so i'm mildly freaking out #also it's just cruel. what the fuck. what an asshole. the damn thing doesn't work!! 'only used a few times' BITCH /BET/.

[aspecduality]

Nothing quite like opening up a blog (albeit and old and abandoned one) of a fandom you're in and seeing a psa saying "hey straights/asexuals dont use X logo as your ally flag"

....asexuals aren't allies we're fucking LGBTQIA+ now shut your whore mouth

#(im trying not to get too salty the post is over 5 years old and op deactivated) #(but gOd aphobia was much more blantant back then wasn't it) #(at least with the whole grouping us in with straight people it seems) #(also that post is honestly phobic towards queer genders too tbh) #aphobia cw #;negative

[deathinfeathers]

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#Being mentally ill and/or a victim of abuse also doesn't make you child mmmmkay sincerely a mentally ill victim of abuse #;negative #;TBD

[multicoloredspider-andfriends]

[[really not feeling like living anymore

maybe i’ll just die or smthn idk]]

#;negative

[lastoneout]

Ya know when people told me "when you're finally safe enough that you can leave survival mode and start to let go of and process your c-ptsd/trauma things are probably going to get really, really bad before they slowly start to get better" I thought that was reasonable. I did not understand that by "things are going to get bad" they meant "you're going to find yourself in the worst mental state of your entire life, but dw, that means it's working" and tbh I simply wish someone had been more clear.

Edit: If everyone could please take a minute and think about what it must feel like to be struggling and then have multiple strangers say to your face that they find the prospect of going through what you're going through so horrifying that they'd rather kill themselves and then stop leaving comments like that I would greatly appreciate it.

#hply fuck y'all I haven't felt like this?? ever??? #tryinf to be gentle with myself #but I truly feel like I'm made of glass #personal #negative #vent #cw suicide mention #ask to tag

[sidhewrites]

Being kink positive makes it really hard to be a hater of media rip. I used to love watching “the WORST book I’ve read this year” booktube videos but now its like I hear them ask, “Who is this werewolf smut even for?” Omegaverse fans, next question. “Why would you write this?” Because they find it sexy, can we stop focusing on the ewie yucky kink part and focus on the fact that the author used the word knot five times in a single scene? It’s bad werewolf erotica, but it’s not bad because it’s werewolf erotica like come on

#text post #I’m cranky because I want to be a hater but so many people are just dumb #“who did you write this for?’ themselves? obviously???? jesus #negativity #1k #2k #3k #4K #5k #10k #15k #20k

[sometiktoksarevalid]

#cc #negging

[everglow-synth]

So, it finally happened. We let our dog go earlier today. I'm trying to hold myself together, as is my girlfriend, but things are gonna be rough for the both of us for a while. Above all else, I'm just glad she went peacefully.

I wanna thank everyone who's sent in words of encouragement, or even those who held their thoughts from afar. You guys are great, genuinely, and I appreciate all of you.

#;distant beats (ooc) #tw: dog death #;negative

[ratbastarddotfuck]

BODY HAIR, LET'S ALL HEAR IT FOR BODY HAIR 🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

#YIPPEE WAHOO BODY HAIR #ANYONE WHO COMMENTS ANYTHING NEGATIVE ON THIS POST #INCLUDING TAGS #WILL BE BLASTED WITH MY HAIRIFICATION BEAM #I WILL TEAR YOU APART WITH MY TEETH #body hair #the system speaks

[headspace-hotel]

Oh my god I'm sooooo mad right now

So. I have no business telling people not to collect wild plants/materials.

I do it all the time.

However.

The words "wildcrafted," and "foraged," even "sustainably harvested," are terrifying to see in an ad on Etsy or Instagram

There is a such thing as the honorable harvest where you ASK the plant if it is okay to take, with the intention of listening if the answer is NO. Robin Wall Kimmerer talked about this, She did not make it up, it is an ancient and basic guideline of treating the plants with respect.

Basically it is not wrong to use plants and other living things, even if this means taking their life. But you are not the main character. You have to reflect on your knowledge of the organism's life cycle and its role in the ecosystem, so you can know you are not damaging the ecosystem. You have to only take what you need and avoid depleting the population.

Mary Siisip Geniusz also talked about it in an enlightening way in her book Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have To Do is Ask. She gave an example of a woman who was on an island and needed to use a medicinal herb to heal her injured leg or she would not survive the winter. In that situation she had to use up all of the plant that was on the island. This was permissible, even though it eliminated the local population, because she had to do it to save her life. But in return the woman had the responsibility to later return to the island and plant seeds of that plant.

And what makes me absolutely furious, is that there are a bunch of people online who have vaguely copied this philosophy of sustainability in a false and insulting way, saying "wildcrafted" or "foraged" materials to be all trendy and cool and in touch with nature, when it is actually just poaching.

If you are from a capitalistic culture the honorable harvest is very hard and unintuitive to learn to practice. I am not very good at it still. This is why it is suspicious if someone is confident that they can ethically and respectfully harvest wild materials with money involved.

So there's this lichen that is often called "reindeer moss." It looks like this:

It grows only a few millimeters a year.

This is "preserved" reindeer moss.

It is from Etsy, similar is also sold in many other online shops, many of which have the audacity to describe it as a "plant" for decorations and terrariums that needs no maintenance.

It is not maintenance-free, it is dead. It has been spray-painted a horrible shade of green. The people buying it clearly don't even know what it is. It is a popular crafting material for "fairy houses," whatever the hell those are. So is moss, also dead, spray-painted, and wild-harvested. Supposedly reindeer moss is harvested sustainably in Finland, where it is abundant, for the craft industry. However poaching of lichens and mosses is absolutely rampant.

It's even more upsetting because there's hardly any articles drawing attention to the problem. This one is from 1999. And the poaching is still going on.

There is a "moss" section on Etsy, and it is so upsetting

These mosses and lichens were collected from the wild. Most of the shops are in the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia, which are the major locations of moss and lichen poaching. There are some shops based in Appalachia selling "foraged" reindeer moss.

Reindeer moss may be abundant in Finland, but in Appalachia it should NOT be harvested to be sold on Etsy as craft supplies! Moss doesn't grow quickly. Big, healthy colonies like this took years to grow. Some of these shops have thousands of sales, all of bags and bags of moss and lichen, and thinking of how much moss and lichen that must be, I am filled with horror.

Clubmosses do not transplant well, and these ones have no roots. The buyers do not realize they have bought a dead plant because clubmoss stays green and pliable after it is dead.

This is especially awful because in Mary Siisip Geniusz's book she talked about clubmosses being poached so much for Christmas wreaths that they had almost disappeared from a lot of forests.

I don't even know if this is illegal if it's not a formally endangered species so I don't know if I can report them I'm just. really sad and angry

#moss #lichen #poaching #environment #sustainability #negative

[fagtainsparklez]

my class is discussing the "real" definition of lesbian i'm going to explode

#icarus speaks #neg #I HATE THIS CLASS RAHHHHHHHH

[aspecduality]

Whats with ace week making aphobes crawl outta the woodworks too jfc

I make a comment agreeing with someone in a fandom that fanon relating everything to sex and/or ronance and this karen comes outta nowhere to derail the post and be all "uM aCkRuaLLy" and proceed to act like romance is just a thing everyone likes and that media doesn't push romance even in illogical places and that im on a high horse for pointing out that there is this push

#;negative #(wtf these people come from??? what planet are you living on???)

[deathinfeathers]

.

#Listen #I hyperfocus on threads and dynamics #I'm very aware of that #Autism + ADD its hard for me to divvy my attention equally across all of my followers #Threads are going to fall to the wayside it happens #It happens quite a bit #But if I tell you that I'm interested in your muse and/or a thread that's been sitting on the Backburner #I'm not saying that to appease you or like spare your feelings #I don't follow people I'm not interested in writing with #Because my focus isn't centered on you /right now/ doesn't not mean that I'm not interested in writing with you #It can take a hot minute for me to get back to shit full disclosure #But if you come to me upfront and ask me if I am or am not interested in any given thread or muse #You're going to get an honest answer #If you choose not to believe it then I don't know what to tell you man #Siiiiiigh #;negative #TBD

[multicoloredspider-andfriends]

[[not feeling very good about being here lately. idk why since nothing happened and no one’s done anything to make me feel this way.

feel like i’m broken or something. not worth the time.]]

#;out of colors #;negative