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lovelyflier-deactivated20220130:

My 5 month old kitty needs help

Our cat, Crocomire, has been hacking up bile for the last few days. We took him to the vet when he started and they gave him some anti nausea medication which helped for a day but he’s started again and his temperature has gone up. They’re going to take him in to exploratory surgery but that will cost 760$-1080$, depending on recovery speed and time for surgery.

I don’t have the exact amount until tomorrow (12/12/20), but will update with bill and exact cost. I’m a trans lesbian and my wife is a nonbinary lesbian, and while I’m still working we’re in a lot of trouble meeting this bill. I’ve been able to put it on credit but we’ll need to start paying it and we need some help desperately.

Anything you send helps, no matter how little, and if you can’t donate a reblog is always, always helpful.

Paypal: paypal(.)me/dandyquinn

Cashapp: $florlyn

I’ll include an estimate and proof tomorrow when we get the bill. Thank you everyone.

Edit:

The total amount is $864.68! Please keep donating and reblogging, and thank you for all the support!

$124.50/$864.68 (12/13/20)

Thank you for all the well wishes and donations! We still need help, but I just wanted to say thank you for everything that’s been given, the things that’s been said, and the boosting of this post! I will keep the total donated amount constantly updated. Thank you!

aureliobooks:

my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

nicolezaridze:

THEY’RE THE ONLY THING THAT BRING ME PEACE

lamemtv:

no. you know what? fuck you. *uncaramelizes your onions*

romcommunist:

no alcohol in this flask girl this is miso soup

scribblesandfeathers:

Adding small moments of existence to your writing 

What I’m talking about is proof of life outside your characters in your world. Not in the sense of ‘talking to the cashier at the checkout’, but things like:

• Graffiti etched into a desk your character sits in during an exam
• Realising that someone has come along and arranged the cans on the shelf so the labels say something stupid
• Dirty vans that have ‘wash me’ written in the dried mud
• A coin that has been stuck into a piece of gum on a handrail

Little things that show the world still goes on despite whatever is happening to the characters. 

This helps make the world a world, not just a setting. There are other people with other lives doing stupid, funny, dangerous, things that in no way impact the protagonist. You don’t have to dwell on them, they can only be mentioned briefly in passing during the set up of a scene, but it will help create life within the background of the story and give the characters a chance to briefly think about something other than themselves/their situation.

vampryn:

nobody has bitten my neck this october and that is frustrating

podencos:

Happy birthday! What time is it where you are? What are you hoping to gain, let go of, and learn from in this new year? How are you feeling?

If the sun is out, soak into it. Go cloud hunting and try to find yourself a dog, a cat, a giraffe, a whale, a cloud that looks like the last image you imagined. Walk in some grass without shoes on, if you can. If you’re near water, visit it, close your eyes, listen to the world around you. Buy a disposable camera and try not to forget this day; you’ll appreciate it later, even if it doesn’t feel special right now. Look up trees and birds native to your area, go outside, try to identify at least one, let them act as talismans for you in this new year. Have a picnic. Eat a colorful salad, buy a bunch of cute, bubbly drinks, make yourself a sweet treat—chamomile, olive oil cake, blueberry galette w sea salt and lavender butter, strawberries soaked in rosé and dipped in dark chocolate or matcha. Buy yourself a new plant and name it. Or make yourself an arrangement. Write yourself letters, one to be opened six months from now and the other on your next birthday. Ask a friend to make you a birthday playlist and dance in your room, shower w the lights off, paint your nails, have a glass of wine and then another but don’t forget to drink water and orange juice too. Watch a movie, either by yourself or w a friend or two through Houseparty. Buy some clay and hand build a little vase or trinket tray or incense holder. Go on a drive but if you can’t do that, go on a walk, and if you can’t do that, go crazy and stupid and sloppy by having fun w this, buy yourself this, and remember to not only honor yourself on this day but to hold compassion, patience, and love to and from yourself everyday moving forward 🤍

royalhandmaidens:

royalhandmaidens:

thatfunkyopossum:

Click through this link i’m losing my mind its gorgeous

i absolutely love seeing people’s reactions to the pink mosque 😂

the style is called “orsi” and is unique to iran

and stained glass traces its roots to south west and west asia, developed in ancient times and well before the europeans and the roman empire saw it and said “hey i like that, i’ll be leaving with it”

and while we’re talking about mosques in iran, may i present persian mirror work in a different mosque in the same city?

every time someone tries to talk to me about western churches and architecture and their superiority to that of “third world countries” i have to laugh a little at the ignorance, especially when our mosques look like this

jageunyeoujari:

amimijones:

ellorgast:

amimijones:

aubreysflame:

forgot to say that, without Howl chasing girls and Sophie resenting him for it, the film completely erases part of the point of Sophie being old.  Wynne Jones is using an idea that Beauvoir talked about - that being an old woman is both tragic (as we lose male attention/attractiveness) and freeing (as we are freed from the male gaze).  the idea is that with being old comes liberation, and the true meaning of what it is to be a woman, as society no longer forces gender norms on us.

Sophie is free from Howl’s attentions and therefore safe from harm (a big part of the book is the fact that Sophie believes he eats women’s hearts, and him chasing girls proves this to her).  she takes solace in the fact that she’s old, and finds it freeing.  when she learns more about Howl (notably: that he doesn’t eat hearts and that he’s not evil), she starts to curse her age and resent him chasing girls.  BUT she remains old OF HER OWN VOLITION - Howl notes that she’s perpetuating the spell by wishing to remain “in disguise”.  there are SO many layers to this, and lots to do with gender politics - if she’s still old Sophie can’t get hurt, she likes the freedom, etc.  but of course on a personal level being old is her denying her feelings for Howl, and also a representation of her low self esteem - being old is a defence mechanism and protection, both on a gender level and a personal one.

and the film kinda… loses this?  the only thing that remains is being old = low self esteem.  which really sucks.  because there’s SO MUCH MORE to Sophie being old in the book (perspective I already mentioned), and a HUGE amount of this is gender politics.  that the film just erases.

Also there’s the subversion of that in the book. Sophie’s belief that she’s safe from Howl, isn’t quite true because he fell in love with her while she was under the spell (and in the book, there’s no switching between looking young and old. Sophie is looking ninety the entire time, and Howl falls in love anyway.)

Also, her belief that being old means she can’t go to her stepmother or her sisters, that they’d fail to recognize her or reject her, is also unfounded. Fanny almost immediately recognizes her at the end of the book, and hugs her and cries over her and asks why Sophie disappeared. Sophie’s belief that the love of her family, friends and even her romantic interests is somehow conditional on her appearance is shown to be completely false at the end, which I think is absolutely beautiful.

Like, there’s definitely gender politics and commentary going on about beauty and youth and age and the male gaze and male violence going on, but there’s also this message about how love, real love, transcends all of that.

I actually adore the movie on its own merits, but I think it absolutely did a disservice to Sophie as a character. When I was doing a reread last month, what hit me was that Sophie is every bit as much of a volatile emotional disaster as Howl is, and that’s pretty heckin’ great. 

Howl is a pissy, dramatic asshole even when he’s at his best. He dissolves into green slime when his hair looks wrong. He deals with his problems by getting falling-over drunk and makes the walls shake every time he sneezes just so everyone will take pity on him. He’s a self-proclaimed coward who has to trick himself into taking responsibility for anything.

Movie Sophie deals with this as well as she can. She learns to look past his drama and sees his tender heart and noble intentions. She becomes the mature one in the castle, fixing everyone’s problems, essentially taking up a motherly role to all the other characters.

Book Sophie does the same… but she does it while dealing out as good as she takes. Howl is chasing after every woman except Sophie? Sophie meticulously cuts up his suit into triangles. Howl floods the room with green slime? Sophie hate-magics weed killer strong enough to melt concrete, and chucks it at Howl’s head. Howl can’t stop avoiding his problems? Meet the queen of avoidance, who clung to her curse to avoid confronting her feelings for Howl. Howl has to basically trick himself into taking action? I would like you to meet Sophie, who was too scared to leave her home her whole life, but the moment she’s under a curse is like “WELP, GUESS I’D BETTER LEAVE HOME RIGHT THIS MOMENT AND NEVER COME BACK.”

The moment of Howl and Sophie getting together in the book isn’t “Sophie fixes everything through her inherent goodness.” It’s “Sophie realizes that Howl has been secretly scheming to fix all her problems exactly the same way that she has been secretly scheming to fix all his problems because neither of them is a normal functioning adult, and they both look forward to yelling at each other for the rest of their wonderful lives.” And losing that, losing all of Sophie’s flaws and ridiculous moments as well as Howl’s efforts to fix her life as much as she’s trying to fix his, means that we’re left with a typical romance trope of a woman having to fix all of a man’s problems and be the perfect, mature one in the relationship, while he can coast purely on charm. The revelation that half of Howl’s antics were actually schemes to break Sophie’s curse or even just make her happy is important because for once it goes both ways. Not just “woman fixes man with her love,” but “people fix each other with their love, sort of, except for all the parts that will never change and that’s okay because flaws can be just as attractive as virtues, and if he laughs when you throw weed killer at him then he might be the one.”

Omg YES

while miyazaki is relatively decent at writing women, he has had a…… distant relationship w his own wife throughout their marriage (iirc he said he had trouble writing the romance in the wind rises bc he never felt that way about anyone 🌝🌝) & it is apparent in hmc that he doesn’t grasp the kinds of nuance that goes into m/f relationships esp from the woman’s side. plus miyazaki likes writing mature, responsible girls/women who take their fate into their own hands but in hmc it unfortunately manifested as sophie becoming quite an idealized figure without her accompanying real human flaws in the book. there was a similar criticism of the nausicaa of the valley of the wind movie that the main character is too much of a perfect, messianic figure. but when you add in romance, something that miyazaki had pointedly not indulged in much before hmc, his blind spots & gaps when it comes to gender becomes… more apparent. miyazaki has good intentions of trying to portray women well but through the narrow lens of someone who simply never had to think like one & isn’t even seemingly that invested in his own marriage….

iamyourangelandiwillprotectyou:

sending you love from a cracked screen on a empty stomach

canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit:

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

zmije: