#if i also buy stamps

[perilegs]

every time i try to do something scary on purpose for my social anxiety the universe decides to add in unexpected situations 😔

#i was supposed to go pick up a package and then i was like. ok wait. ive gotten good at buying something while pickiing a package up. what #if i also buy stamps #bc you have to ask the cashier for those (same as with the package) #and it was just at my cornerstore so it's a safe nonscary environment #well. as not-scary as any store can be. #but. there were a lot of ppl there. which! i thought would be fine bc the line was still relatively short but. what happened was that they #opened another register. #and i was queuing for the reguster that had stamps and handles packages #and i would have loved to stay at the queue. but. only one person went to the queue of the new register. so there were 2 ppl in line before #me. one already had their stuff on the conveyor belt and the other was about to put their stuff there too #and the person who went to the other register only had like 2 things to buy. so. it was me. in line behind 2 people. versus an almost #empty register. so. i had to switch to the free register before the cashier had the time to b like 'there's a free register here!' #bc i don't have a script for hearing that and saying 'no' !!! #so i just. switched over and bought my snacks. leaving the store with no package and no stamps. #bc if i hadnt i would have had to say something i dont have a social script for and probably stumbled on my words and gone red and dizzy #which. not ideal. #and this sucks ass bc all i really needed was one (1) success in a social situation #bc this week has been kicking my ass social anxiety wise #usually when i go and get coffee from a coffeeshop they dont ask me shit and just make my order to regular milk which. ok. i dont have an #allergy or anything. i just think plant alternatives taste better in coffee #but this week. i got asked 'do you want that in regular milk?' and i was not expecting that #so i was like 'yes please 😊' and drank my grossly milky coffee dreaming about what i could have had #and that happened TWICE #after the first time i did think about it and decide i could have said 'do you have oat milk or something' and then the barista #could have either said yes or no and both of those would b easy to answer #but instead of asking if they have oat milk i just said yes. again. #can you guys imagine some people speak without being scared #some people even go to the store without feeling even an ounce of fear. imagine #leevi talks

[marzipanandminutiae]

Actually, the wise women/Cunning Folk system was Norse in origin and the rest of Europe had wise women replace their own ritualized medical systems (think sleeping at Asclepius's temple) because Europe was conquered by Danish tribes during the end of the Roman period.

No seriously, Scandinavians have (or had, it's dying out because of how good their healthcare system is) a long history of kloke folk that dates back to the pagan seidrmadrs.

Considering what the medical system was like back then, most of the wise women were in many ways a good deal less quackish than the men with MDs, considering they understood the wonders of antiseptics and MDs looked at the concept as some rustic superstition.

No, actually, I want wise women back because their services were free. I mean, yeah, they'd obviously charge a fee NOW, but Granny Weatherwax's comment that, "They didn't pay in cash, but rather in respect, which was cold hard currency" was actually a reality for these women, considering their communities protected them from the witchhunters.

Granted, the witch trials were a little more complicated, considering the word for witchcraft in Nordic countries was troldfolk (who were believed to send curses via illness), who were fought by the kloke folk. ("Sickness is curses sent by the Jotuns" is metaphorically true...) Wise women didn't get properly killed off until the Progressive Era, due to modern medicine finally being both effective, available, and doctors passing laws against "quacks".

Okay, so, by free admission, early modern Nordic history is VERY NOT my main area of expertise. This could all be entirely true for Scandianvian vernacular magic/folk healing practice. But I definitely now it wasn’t true for all practitioners termed “wise women” across Europe.

Just looking into the system of Scandinavian wise women superficially, though, it seems that they- like their British counterparts the cunning-folk, who I’m more familiar with -didn’t need community protection from witch hunters because they were seldom targeted by them. Based on the better sourced parts of the “cunning folk” Wiki page, a charge of “superstition” seems to have been brought against Scandinavian wise women more often, and they did get arrested and sentenced fairly frequently. But the sentence wasn’t usually capital, and for some of them it seems to have acted as good advertising.

(Also in Britain and British colonies, cunning-folk often acted as witch-hunters. So, sorry, granddaughters of the witches they couldn’t burn: you’re actually the granddaughters of the witches who threw innocent people under the bus to deflect suspicion. Or because they genuinely believed those people were evil. Or for the payout. Take your pick.)

I’m also not sure about the assertion that their services were free. In Britain, at least, cunning-folk definitely did not work for free as a rule- why would they, when this was their livelihood? They often received payment in trade rather than currency, but...they very much did expect payment of SOME sort, as I understand it. You have to eat somehow, after all, and I’m not sure one could run a totally self-sufficient farm and a folk medicine/magic practice at the same time.

And even if you could, still better to have Old Tom down the lane mend your fence in exchange for physicking his cow than do it yourself, right? Save yourself the work.

The assumption of total altruism is one of my big issues with this ask series, and the other is the idea that wise women knew Good Medicine and doctors did not. Obviously, yes, early medical doctors were often convinced that folk medicine practitioners had nothing to offer the field, and I’m sure some practices by some wise women/cunning-folk worked.

But.

Some of the latter were also, to put it bluntly, full of shit.

There WERE people, unfortunately, who used the title of “Wise Woman” or “Cunning-Man” or whatever to fleece their community out of resources in exchange for dodgy cures and ineffective charms. Because that’s just how humanity goes: some people are good, some people are evil, and some people are just out to make a buck (so to speak) however they can. I find it very hard to believe that all laws against Quackery(TM) were totally motivated by early modern doctors’ fragile egos, simply because bona fide quacks have been around forever. From my past research, it seems that that British cunning-folk at least seemed given to pronouncing illness that doctors could not diagnose, the result of curses or hexes. While many did practice herbalism, and some herbalism has medical value given that many medicinal chemicals now usually synthesized are found in plants...there was another side of it, too, that could frequently involve attributing medical problems to magical causes.

And I would be very surprised if that were a phenomenon exclusive to Britain and its colonies.

I understand the longing for a time of free, quality medical treatment from your local badass village wisewoman, protected by her reverential community from evil doctors and omnipresent witch-hunters. I really do. But it seems to me that, for a variety of reasons, that time never actually existed.

(Also I would definitely like a citation on the antiseptics thing. Just because they thought garlic could ward off evil or something doesn’t mean they understood that it had antiseptic properties, or advocated for using it in effective ways. And I can’t really blame doctors for questioning ideas like that- phrased that way, it does sound like rural superstition. If nobody knows the background logic behind why something works, and it only works some of the time, and the people saying it works are making that claim for reasons that fly in the face of then-current science...you might understandably think it doesn’t work at all.)

(It’s not like the cunning-folk were saying “use autoclaves for your surgical tools to avoid infection!” and the doctors shot back with “INFECTION IS A MYTH INVENTED BY SATAN!!!!” At least, not that I know of.)

#ask #anon #long post #history #medical history #sorry I just #I don't buy Burning Times or Burning Times-adjacent narratives anymore #The Bad Ignorant Doctor-Men Stamped Out The Skilled And Totally Selfless Wise Women Because Ego just seems #too easy and simple to jive with most of what I know about how complex humans and history are #(also a lot of doctors recognized the usefulness of herbal medicine too?) #I do believe in magic but. what's more likely if you have a stomach ache- that Pegleg Joan cursed you? #or that you're allergic to shellfish but nobody has a firm understanding of that yet?

[darabeatha]

ANYWAYS, HAVE U GUYS SEEN THIS????

#;t.ezcatlipoca #I LOVE HIM SOOOOO MUCH #HIM AND HIS STUPID KNOCKOFF BRAND THAT'S LIT JUST HIS NAME STAMPED ALL OVER #what was the name mmmmmm there was a brand that was commonly known for doing those tags around the arm #BUT HIS ITS JUST--- TEZCATLIPOCA. #REPEATED !!! #i was joking with mythe about this but #t.ezca getting into a new business of selling bath bombs and soaps and candles #and his bath bombs S U C K #its like the saddest thing; its just-- dusty purple that looks like when u brush ur brushes to clean them #the water that is left over after cleaning the brush? thats it #I LOVE tezca and his 3876487346738 failed businesses #never back down never what? never give up.. never back down never what?NEVER GIVE UUUPP ; OK LETS GET ITTTT #i was talking to mythe about this and how he wouldn't even bother about quality; he's buying in quantities; he's not gonna bother on that #other part; he'll assume everything¿s good #< awful idea #t.ezca is a more marketinable person rather than testing or making the products} #also ohmygod i forgot to mention it but;; i love how they keep his black nail polish; it looks really cool

[orcelito]

Re-release of the Badlands Rumble vash & wolfwood figurines like all my prayers have been answered

Won't be out until June apparently but I've been here for over half a year & The Interest hasn't abated, I'll be here then too.

Vashwood figurines.........🫣🥺🕺

#speculation nation #i know theres the stamp figurines but i didnt want them #i briefly contemplated the ww. but then decided. No. their staml designs r not the ones im interested in. #and my waiting is rewarded... there Will be old design figurines again :D #im not as big a fan of the vash figurine as i am the ww. but theyre a PAIR i cant separate them 🥺 #also vash apparently comes with a little kuroneko which is so cute #im already thinking of how ill rearrange my display case for them #if i can fit thanatos down with the p5 kids to free up the shelf for vw that might be the best bet. #but then again thanatos is big... and the p5 figmas have Quite the large platforms... #idk ill figure it out. maybe vw can hang out with thanatos in the top shelf #like 'me n the boyfriend n the embodiment of peaceful death! ✌️✌️✌️' #itll also depend on how big the vw figures are... i dont actually know... #if. you look at their prices. and go. 'hey fanny. what the fuck.' #dont WORRYYYYYY ABOUT IT $93(each) is better than the like $800 ish itd take to buy one of the original resales #plus i dont have to pay immediately. just whenevr the figurines are actually released #plus... its on Sale...🥺🥺🥺 #🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #im just daydreaming about those figures now. just gotta wait over half a goddamn year lmao #but ive been waiting for the official manga reprint and i can wait for this. woo

[merulanoir]

Today I woke up at 4am and we walked to a place where you could see most of Jerusalem. We had sacharis just as the sun rose.

Now I'm drinking mint tea in the shade, the cafe is playing one of my favorite songs and there's a street cat looking at me judgementally.

Life's so good.

#blackbirb babbles #this year in jerusalem #also i asked where to buy stamps so i could mail touristy postcards and apparently the postal service just doesnt work #so maybe i will just mail them when i get back to finland hahaha

[simplyghosting]

Furious with myself that I didn't buy the dragon stamps when I had the chance

I could have been sending out the coolest letters. Devastated.

#ghost posts #also if you like to send snail mail def check out online post shop #you can find more fun stamp designs #sometimes your local post office will also carry other fun designs #i like buying colorful or holiday ones #dragons #postage stamps

[mildmayfoxe]

personally i think they should make it so that buying things costs less money

#this post in particular is about stamps bc i have to buy more stamps soon. but it’s also about everything #chatpost

[killjoy-prince]

My ANYC haul

I bought some spicy stuff which you can see under the cut

#prince's talk tag #ren dont look #this took so long to go through and sort aaaaaaa my back hurts lolol #man i bought A LOT #i gotta wait for tomorrow for my presentation book to come in so i can put the posters in them #the stickers i can put in my sticker book #as for the charms and buttons i can put some up but not all i dont have a lot of room oops #anyway!! no con makes me wanna spend so much money quite like anyc #ive been to a few different cons in my time but this one takes the cake the artists and vendors are perfection #there was a rally for b/aldurs g/ate where you visited participating booths and either rolled a 20 with a d20 #or bought 10 bucks worth of stuff from each booth to collect stamps #then youd bring it to the last booth to get a prize which was some prints and sticker sheet which you can see on the top row in the 2nd pic #as well as a sticker sheet in the top left of the same pic #and since this game is my current obsession and by extension the vampire in the game i had no problem getting the stamps by spending money #i bought so much of my boy and this wasnt even all they had of him but it was a good chunk #i also bought a bunch of ge/nshin stuff specifically d/iluc bc hes my fave when i was playing a lot and there was an artist who had so much #of him available for sale and he looked so good in their style so i had to #the pic with the flamingo fidget toy i got from the p/r/s/k meetup!! the host gave out little goodie bags as thanks for coming #she was dressed as h/onami which is why the card has her on it #the pic with the cookbook was by an artist ive seen a few times and would buy recipe prints from (the back of the prints has the recipe) #so when i saw they had a cookbook now i had to get it!! its so cute!! #I also bought a bunch of dice bc i love dice and i was with two people who play a lot of d/n/d and enabled me lolol #i havent played in a while but they invited to play sometime and i do wanna join!! so why not #hard to take good pics of the dice tho i get what the sales person at e/verythingd/ice was saying #speaking of: shoutout to that sales person for hustling to get us to spend so much. they are good at what they do. im not even mad #they werent mean or anything but they had a job to do and did it well #the stone dice on the black box was from a different company but i saw those dice and knew i had to get them. they called to me #havent had dice do that since i bought a set at a card shop in italy #the p/ersona tote i got from a booth that had a persona themed pc and you had to take a pic of the display and tweet it to get the bag #we tried saturday but they ran out fast so we had to run to the booth sunday to get it

[itsnotmydreamdaditsyours]

ARAFAHSJDBXNX I HATE WORKING IN PUBLIC ACCESS BUILDINGS. Theres always grown men wandering in here and just hovering around my office and bothering me when I'm trying to work and hounding me for money like im sorry i literally do not have disposable income like that to give you $50 once a fucking week

#listen!!! i know be homeless is hard but stop hounding me for fucking money!!! im like two paychecks away from also being fucking homeless! #offered to buy a guy some food from 711 w my food stamps and he started yelling that he just needed cash like I DOMT HAVE CASH #just bc i work on a fucking college campus doesnt mean im from a rich family bud! i DOMT HAVE SHIT TO GIVE YOY #I DONT EVEN CARRY FUCKING CASH MOST OF THE TIME #qraghqaa!!!!!!!!

[redrockbutch]

Lately I've been making lots of chicken sandwiches but like. On ciabatta w cubed chicken thighs n zucchini I threw in a pan w some lemon pepper and olive oil n vinegar dressing or something

It's just the right amount of effort for how much better it is that it doesn't feel like spending 90 min on something gone in 9, which can be frustrating for me re cooking for myself only

But on the other end of the scale I made gyoza Mostly from scratch (bought the wrappers) and those took a long time but being able to eat a True Full Serving of Gyoza... Unmatched. Might experiment w flash freezing them and then cooking them like they're frozen gyoza from the store, cause that'd be a great semi ready meal to have available

#food diary #my new tag where i talk about what i make and the goal is to be solely positive or neutral but i do have chronic GI problems #and some disordered eating issues im working on so they might be mentioned #anyways im making gyoza instead of buying it frozen bc You Cant w food stamps #and also to learn how to enjoy the necessary system maintenance that is Eating #which honestly has been so much better than i ever thought it could be even like 2 years ago?

[modernbaseball]

i wish so so so much that i could write letters instead of texting or calling... i love talking to people and im good at it but i write long form messages more often than not and i often need at least a day to respond to some things because i would like to think about it first. And i like glitter pens and stickers and little paintings.

#but also me if i wrote letters instead: apologies it took me a month to send this because i did not want to go buy stamps

[spirirsstuff]

guess who just spent around 180 dollars at barnes and noble buying manga (me)

#randomrambles #a shame the buy one get one half off sale wasn’t still on #but a family member let’s me use their rewards and i got them 7 stamps for a discount (you need 10) #but i got some death note some ultra despair girls and some spy x family so im set for about a week #but also pain bc they didn’t have death note 4 (black edition which has 7 and 8) #but they had the side stories #maybe next time i can find number 4 i hope #maybe i just spent a fuck ton of money but im very happy with myself #the rest of my family is going to be extremely surprised when i come home #it’s HEAVY like my arms were hurting carrying them around the store and waiting in the long ass line #but very rewarding i will be reading for a while

[kagaintheskywithdiamonds]

I love how I'm getting ads for USPS forever stamps. Which are a thing that I regularly buy as a business expense. I go through those 100-per rolls so fast. Why are you advertising to me. The person who is already regularly buying the product

#ALSO stamps are like... a thing you buy because you need them? #i go through a shitton of stamps because i send out a shitton of mail #if I was NOT regularly sending out mail... why would i buy stamps #who is the target audience for this ad

[tokkias]

sigh sigh i have to write because i'd like to finish this fic today but i do just wanna stay in bed

#mya's mumbles #i'm half way through this is so bangin #but thats still another 2k/3k words i have to write #but i also have to do adult things like #buy stamps

[someowlhouseaccount]

im trying to organise my stamp collection after taking a months-long stamp-collection-maintenance hiatus i dont wanna be distracted by whatever this owl house episode leak stuff is :0

#first you gotta soak the envelopes off of the stamps #then you gotta let them dry #then you have to squish them under heavy book for like 1-2 days #then you put them in album #and at some point you also gotta identify the stamps #for identifcation purposes #this is usually easy enough but then sometimes there are the annoying stamps that come in multiple different perforation sizes #so then you gotta get your precision ruler out #(or ideally a stamp perf gauge if youre fancy but i dont want to make the financial commitment to go buy one of those) #and i havent even mentioned the uk machin stamps yet >:( they have COLOURS

[gaytrapinch]

literally the first thing im doing when im rich is buying myself the fanciest fucking knife set i can afford like look at this shit i dont even cook that much but i would if my knives were this beautiful

#like okay looking at knife sets sure yeah zwilling is high quality but theyre absolutely swagless. except for the uh. fuckin uh #now s sets. but then like okay they have pink handles but theyre STAMPED why would i pay $200 for STAMPED knives #but wusthof. the beautiful design of the blocks. the wood handles. thwy are speaking to me. #anyways im a kitchen knife guy now apprently. #also on my list is buying a set of hand forged damascus steel knives. just for funsies #my poasts