Forest Witch Embroidery Pattern From LittlePinStudio

Important PSA

Don’t ever buy these for your dog

Today, I unfortunately had to put down my dog, Boomer. He was only 2 years old. Boomer, unfortunately ate something he wasn’t supposed to, and the damages he sustained were not something he could come back from. What they found in him were two smaller pieces of sharp plastic, and another larger piece that I recognized. It was the end of one of these toys, a toy that he loved greatly. When the plastic of this toy gets chewed it, it becomes significantly sharper, and I can’t tell you how many times in the past I’ve cursed like a sailor after stepping on one. It’s worse than a lego, and it once cut the bottom of my foot. So please. Don’t buy this toy for your dog, and if you have before, stop buying them and take awake any that you may still have. I can’t stomach the fact that something as simple as a toy supposedly MEANT for a dog could have potentially had a hand in something so devastating for both me, and my family.

Happy National Coming Out Day

I love you guys <3

It’s finally happening.

chop was a bastion of safety and freedom. we cannot let them take this silently.

i dont normally post about this shit mainly because tumblr was supposed to be a place for me to go to escape, but at this point i dont think i can keep that up.

ohmigosh! have y'all HEARD Sayuri?!?!?! her singing is AMAZING!!!!!

sometimes, i'm really tired of being nice

sometimes, i really want to stick a large sheet of paper to a building and spray paint it.

sometimes, i just want to tell someone "fuck you"

but then, i remember i'm broke

Please take a moment to remind yourself of how much you've already overcome. You might have felt like you weren't going to make it then, but you're here now and you made it. If you were able to get through all that, I promise you will be able to make it through whatever comes your way next or what you are going through now. Stay strong, you got this! 💛

watchin' harley quin episode 1 and harley's already a badass! you go, girl!

yeah, but it's fun to do it to someone

tickle tickle tickle

tickling is fun until I get fed up with it (2 seconds in) and then decide to beat the assailant to a pulp

How Portland organizers are mass-producing cheap protest shields

Taken from this twitter thread (link is to a mirror on nitter)

Two weeks ago, these shields were getting built by 3 people in a garage. Today, an assembly line of over 25 volunteers (and two dogs 🐶) gathered at Clinton Park in Southeast Portland to help put them together. Using Twitter to coordinate, volunteers gather 3 times a week (location announced the night before) to build these shields. All materials – including duct tape, power tools and pool noodles – are donated (along with everything on this extremely packed snack and supply table).

So how does a protest shield get made? 🤔

Step 1.) Acquire a 55-gallon barrel. (In the beginning, Ghost (@ghostmobpdx) was buying these barrels – which once carried liquids like soy sauce and canola oil – off of Craiglist. Now all of the barrels are donated.)

Step 2.) Remove the barrel lid. Using a circular saw, a volunteer slices the barrel into four sections. You now have five soon-to-be shields! 🛡🛡🛡🛡🛡

Step 3.) Using a hand drill, a different volunteer makes 6 holes in the center of the plastic. (Shield building sessions are BYOPT: Bring Your Own Power Tools.🛠️🧰)

These holes will be used to attach bolts, padding and straps so the shield can be carried like this:

(A plan is in the works to upgrade to drilling 8 holes so the shields can have backpack-style straps. This will help protesters avoid dropping their shields when they have to move fast.)

Step 4.) A volunteer adds the aforementioned bolts. 🔩BOLT FACT🔩 Since starting, Viv (@viv______) estimates they’ve used over 1,200 bolts. That’s a lot of bolts. 😮 (Can you spot the faded NLG number on this volunteer’s arm?)

Step 5: Another volunteer adds foam and straps. The straps are made from strips of sturdy ratchet tie material. Foam also gets added over the bolts on the front of the shield to protect people from hard edges.

Step 6: It is ~noodle time.~ A different group of volunteers slices pool noodles lengthwise and fits them along the rough edges of the shield material. This is to protect the protester and anyone they might bump into.

NOODLE FACT: The volunteers who do this part of the process are called the “noodlers.” (!!!) Here is a noodler in action:

Step 7: Another group of volunteers adds a layer of duct tape around the entire shield (except for the foam/strap section). Each shield needs about 2 rolls of duct tape, and Viv estimates they’ve used 400-500 rolls so far.

After volunteers have attached the pool noodles, bolts, foam, straps and duct tape to the plastic barrel material, you arrive at the final step of shield building…

Step 8: Spray paint and stencil the shield. Ghost spray paints the surface of each shield black. From there, individuals can add their own unique designs. One volunteer brought these handmade stencils that included images of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

As a final touch, this message is spray painted onto the interior of every shield: “THIS SIGN WAS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE AND IS NOT INDICATION OF ANY GROUP AFFILIATION” (sometimes accompanied by a protective sigil from local witches or a stencil of Portland’s elk statue).

In total, each shield takes about 3 hours to make and requires passing through multiple groups of volunteers before it’s finished. All materials and time to produce them is donated, and the shields are offered free of charge to BIPOC protesters and $10 for everyone else. Ghost, Viv and the volunteers have made about 250 shields so far, and build between 30 and 55 shields per session.

How does it feel to see the shields in action? Ghost: “My heart is so warmed, just every time. I’m so proud. There was one time – God, it was beautiful -  where a tear gas canister full on exploded off the damn thing and the person is still running away. And the shield was fine.“

While y'all are here, have you heard of Portland’s Black Resilience Fund? BRF is a 100% volunteer-led organization providing Black Portlanders with relief from financial burdens for basic living expenses and life emergencies. Here’s a cool story: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/06/19/28554154/the-portlanders-behind-the-black-resilience-fund-are-young-black-queer-and-hopeful

Zora Ideale headcanons!!

let's have fun, ok? ~♡

•zora can cook, his cooking is kinda spicy but it has this strange homely feeling to it

•zora gets the stinkbugs just by spending time with them, like, they like him so they follow him

•zora likes the black bulls but he just generally dislikes people

•definitely an ambivert, he's perfectly fine by himself but he's pretty good with people, too!

•definitely theatre kid

•a vine kid???

•zora's kinda the guy who gets girls just cuz they think he's mysterious

•zora would be a fox, as an animal

•zora would prolly take people on dates to dangerous places

•i kinda doubt he hasn't pet a lion, but he also has self preservation, so...

•has prolly tried flower pressing

•has ended up with his hair covered in flowers somehow

•definitely a drama queen, but he works it like no other

•has sat on a bench in a park, feeding birds and talking to them

•"yeah, ross, they're annoying but they feed you, so you peck your hate out at the birdfeed."