Posts tagged "insoulated"
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    Mar

    PSA for anyone who wants to compliment strangers:

    insoulated:

    If your head isn’t shoved too far up your ass, you’ve probably heard that many people, ladies in particular, don’t appreciate being called at in the street. ”I’m doing my best not to be the proverbial Nice Guy, or the asshole yelling incomprehensibly out of a car,” you say. “Sometimes, I would really like to let a stranger know that I like something about them, though! How do I do that without being a creep?” Well! Here’s an example from something that happened to vessellated and me the other day. We were walking up the street past some cars stopped at a light. This one dude in his car proceeded to:

    • Wave at us enthusiastically
    • Smile
    • Wait until we had slowed down and obviously given him our attention, before
    • Rolling down his window and cheerily telling us he liked our (colourful) jeans

    This guy used friendly rather than aggressive non-verbal communication, waited for us to initiate further contact, and complimented our fashion rather than our bodies. He made himself an appealing person to interact with, and showed respect for us. He focused on something we do, not a passive attribute of our bodies, framing us as people, not objects.

    Did this guy think we were hot? Was he secretly thinking scandalously graphic sexual things about us? I don’t know! I don’t really care! He certainly didn’t think it was vital for us to know his opinion regarding our fuckability! It was just a pleasant interaction that made us feel good! And, what’s more, that’s the kind of behaviour that might actually lead to me striking up a conversation with a person. Maybe even get my flirt on, if I were single.

    Aim to be like this dude, and you’ll soon find yourself able to compliment people right, left, and centre!

    That part where, after you make an opening social sally, you wait for the other person(s) to acknowledge and turn their attention on you before you continue, is SO KEY.  And if your attempt to attract their attention results in them ignoring you, TAKE THAT AS THE COMMUNICATION IT IS and leave them alone.  Another day, they might be in the mood to hear the opinions of or make smalltalk with a stranger - if you respect their right to decline such interactions today.

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    Nov

    bookishbutcorruptible:

    artemisofmars:

    roarzap:

    angel-in-pocket:

    priestmisha:

    This is BLK water.

    It is black spring water from Canada.

    It’s infused with fulvic acid (a naturally occuring substance found in pre-historic plant matter). Because fulvic acid is naturally black it changes the molecules of the water, making them black.

    It has a ph balance of 9.0.

    It has natural electrolytes and 77 trace minerals from the fulvic acid.

    It actually regenerates the cells in your body faster than regular water and is a high antioxidant.

    Also, you’re a leviathan now.

    Leviathan.

    LEVIATHAN.

    LEVIATHAN.

    Leviathans?

    Photobucket

    Fuck that shit.

    GET IT AWAAYY.

    And another post is successfully hijacked by a fandom.

    (Source: almondsofcobalt, via gleesquee)

  3. 2
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    Oct

    Ways I can tell someone is a keeper:

    insoulated:

    we make up stupid word games together.

    G and I sing songs to each other - it was definitely a sign!

  4. 7186
    23
    Oct

    darkjez:

    vasawp:

    Kiana Hayeri grew up in Tehran, where the country’s morality police restricted her public behavior. She left in 2005 when she was 17 and moved to Toronto, where she studied photography at Ryerson University.

    Her project’s title, “Your Veil Is A Battleground,” refers not just to the hijab covering — or not covering — their heads in public, which is law under the islamic republic, but also to the hidden nature of their private lives. It goes beyond the restrictions placed on women in public or their private rebellion. Ms. Hayeri also explores how the women choose to present themselves in public.

    “It’s a whole world that many Americans are unaware of,” she said. “Nowadays, with all this talk about war, sanctions and nuclear weapons, people tend to forget about ordinary people, the actual people who live in Iran, and they only look at the government.”

    “This is the generation that is trying to push the boundaries in every sense.”

    Reblogging because I can’t stop looking at the pictures.

    (via dressesandyarn)

  5. 2
    11
    Oct

    insoulated:

    amylnightlight replied to your post: Man I fuckin’ love babies, as I may have…

    No two babies are not on fire. But yeah seriously people, ease the fuck up. I recall someone posting a comment on a pic of Smittenkitchen lady’s 3-year-old ‘welp, better get knocked up with a fresh one!’ Paraphrased, but only barely. :/

    I… Wow. Um. I think that person should win a prize. A prize that involves being slapped several times and explained about feminism and bodily autonomy and also minding your business.

    So, like, this one time I was at the park with the kid whose nanny I am.  Some grandma was there with a slightly older kid, and she asked how old The Nannee was.  Normal question; I answered that he’s almost 2.  She says, “Oh, time to get working on a little brother or sister!!!” I’m like O.O but I mutter something about how he has a baby sister, who’s home with their mother.  She’s all “That’s what I told my daughter, but she waited a long time.  Finally he has a little sister, but he was almost 4 when she was born.”  GOOD JOB WOMAN.  IF YOU WERE MY MOTHER I WOULD WAIT 8 YEARS JUST TO SPITE YOU.

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    Oct

    insoulated:

    I’m going to engage in some “therapy”

    by which I mean

    “watching My Little Ponies and doing sketches for my Hallowe’en costume”

    BEST THERAPY.

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    Oct
    marisais: 2011_10_23 by Maja K K on Flickr.

    marisais:

    2011_10_23 by Maja K K on Flickr.

    (via zashiki)

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    Jul
    insoulated: Undersally had her thirtieth birthday recently, and what better way to celebrate than Katamari-themed art? These were supposed to be invitations, but…stuff happened, and they weren’t ready in time. But imagine getting a sweet card with this on it! I had a really cool idea for a poster, too, but my wrist kicked up a giant fuss, and… I need to space out my drawing more, and try not to become a giant ball of tension while I work. I really like the undersally cousin design-I wanted to incorporate more symbols of Things Undersally Does, but I figured staying simpler is better. The dress is meant to suggest a red one she owns-there’s a reason it’s different from the normal A-line smock they wear. I feel like I’m only just starting to get some skillz with digital art. I’m working on something now (as long as my wrist holds out) that’s a bit more similar to my traditional painting style, although the finished product won’t be. I think that might be a good way to develop the skills I need to do more stylized work like this, and be really happy with the result.

    insoulated:

    Undersally had her thirtieth birthday recently, and what better way to celebrate than Katamari-themed art?

    These were supposed to be invitations, but…stuff happened, and they weren’t ready in time. But imagine getting a sweet card with this on it! I had a really cool idea for a poster, too, but my wrist kicked up a giant fuss, and… I need to space out my drawing more, and try not to become a giant ball of tension while I work. I really like the undersally cousin design-I wanted to incorporate more symbols of Things Undersally Does, but I figured staying simpler is better. The dress is meant to suggest a red one she owns-there’s a reason it’s different from the normal A-line smock they wear.

    I feel like I’m only just starting to get some skillz with digital art. I’m working on something now (as long as my wrist holds out) that’s a bit more similar to my traditional painting style, although the finished product won’t be. I think that might be a good way to develop the skills I need to do more stylized work like this, and be really happy with the result.

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    Jun
    insoulated: adriofthedead: chubbymon: cabbagebear: i-eat-green-things: Be my guest! And herbivores in nature don’t go grocery shopping, have farmer’s markets, cook their vege, use fertilizer or pesticides, use salad dressing, or have holier-than-thou blogs. This^ Some plant eaters also eat rocks to help digest their food. So go ahead. Be a real plant eater. Eat some fucking rocks. Whoops, and then I science’d: Chimpanzees use cooperative techniques to hunt prey (By the way, chimps are usually not very social, and although they tend to have a loose community that they belong to, they need a lot of personal space.) Chimpanzees use tools, including intentionally sharpened sticks, to hunt prey Male chimpanzees may hunt for social (reproductive) purposes, not simply for nutritional needs Japanese macaques prepare edible roots using tools and water to remove dirt and debris, apparently using salt water to improve the taste  (Unfortunately, I can’t find an available full text version of this, but if you look up ‘Japanese macaques’ and sweet potatoes, you can find summaries of the findings.) These are just examples from primate species that I could think of off the top of my head, and look up in a few minutes. Yes, there are some disgusting, immoral things being done to the animals we use as food sources. Yes, that should stop. Yes, you have a right to make whatever food choices you want. But fuck you, don’t feel like you’ve got a right to tell other people they’re wrong for what they eat. And don’t pretend like you’re following some kind of sanctified back-to-nature code. It’s a magical, vicious, tool-using, killing-not-only-for-food-purposes-ing world out there, and that’s actually just fine. What all these lovely commenters said. Plus, aren’t there some groups of humans in both traditional (Inuit springs to mind) and modern (Paleo) cultures who eat non-cooked meat with reasonably few ill-effects?  I may not think they’re the healthiest diets, but people manage to live on them okay.  Heck, steak tartare is essentially raw beef, and while people do worry about bacteria, most steak eaters have no problem with the pure raw meat of it all. Also, I submit that anyone who believes all carnivores eat every part of every animal they kill has never met a cat.

    insoulated:

    adriofthedead:

    chubbymon:

    cabbagebear:

    i-eat-green-things:

    Be my guest!

    And herbivores in nature don’t go grocery shopping, have farmer’s markets, cook their vege, use fertilizer or pesticides, use salad dressing, or have holier-than-thou blogs.

    This^

    Some plant eaters also eat rocks to help digest their food.

    So go ahead. Be a real plant eater. Eat some fucking rocks.

    Whoops, and then I science’d:

    Chimpanzees use cooperative techniques to hunt prey

    (By the way, chimps are usually not very social, and although they tend to have a loose community that they belong to, they need a lot of personal space.)

    Chimpanzees use tools, including intentionally sharpened sticks, to hunt prey

    Male chimpanzees may hunt for social (reproductive) purposes, not simply for nutritional needs

    Japanese macaques prepare edible roots using tools and water to remove dirt and debris, apparently using salt water to improve the taste 

    (Unfortunately, I can’t find an available full text version of this, but if you look up ‘Japanese macaques’ and sweet potatoes, you can find summaries of the findings.)

    These are just examples from primate species that I could think of off the top of my head, and look up in a few minutes. Yes, there are some disgusting, immoral things being done to the animals we use as food sources. Yes, that should stop. Yes, you have a right to make whatever food choices you want.

    But fuck you, don’t feel like you’ve got a right to tell other people they’re wrong for what they eat. And don’t pretend like you’re following some kind of sanctified back-to-nature code. It’s a magical, vicious, tool-using, killing-not-only-for-food-purposes-ing world out there, and that’s actually just fine.

    What all these lovely commenters said.

    Plus, aren’t there some groups of humans in both traditional (Inuit springs to mind) and modern (Paleo) cultures who eat non-cooked meat with reasonably few ill-effects?  I may not think they’re the healthiest diets, but people manage to live on them okay.  Heck, steak tartare is essentially raw beef, and while people do worry about bacteria, most steak eaters have no problem with the pure raw meat of it all.

    Also, I submit that anyone who believes all carnivores eat every part of every animal they kill has never met a cat.

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    Jun

    brightly coloured manicure

    Hey Insoulated, look!  It’s a different take on the newspaper trick that lets you make awesome rainbow stripes!

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    Jun

    BTW, here’s my photo of the needlefelted Angel-Banishing Sigil.  It was sweet; I learned a lot since the first one I made and I really hope he liked it!

    insoulated:

    About halfway through the evening, ruchu asked Tracy (who we were sitting by) (and who is awesome by the way) when/if/how it would be appropriate to give Misha the presents we’d brought. Tracy called down the table to ask him, and Misha responded with, “I was starting to wonder ‘WHERE ARE MY PRESENTS?’”

    Sass aside, I think he was quite touched that we’d brought him presents. And apparently, he has been taught the proper way to receive gifts with the respect they deserve, which is to wear as many of them at once as possible. He then graciously posed for photos in all his splendour.

    The only gift tragically NOT pictured here, because it is covered up by our majestic team jersey, is…well, remember that awesome thing undersally gave me for my birthday? No? Well, anyway, I asked her to make one to give to Misha, which is pinned to his shirt underneath. Apparently, it was “Inundate the Overlord With Fibrecrafts” Day.

    And yes, ladies, gentlemen and others, that is, in fact, a horrendously blurry picture of Misha Collins stuffing a cross-stitch of his son into the front of his pants. That is a thing you have now seen. You’re welcome.

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    Mar
    vessellated: insoulated: I drew another beep. Yep. The first one is showing only at the exclusive art gallery of vessellated’s fridge. AHHHHHHHHH. CUTEST BEEP. Why is this the best thing? Whyyy. GOSH. I love you. Also, your five years old child signature is my favourite.

    vessellated:

    insoulated:

    I drew another beep. Yep.

    The first one is showing only at the exclusive art gallery of vessellated’s fridge.

    AHHHHHHHHH. CUTEST BEEP. Why is this the best thing? Whyyy. GOSH. I love you.

    Also, your five years old child signature is my favourite.

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    (Source: matafari, via vessellated)

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