I feel like practicing any skill would be way more fun if I could have a lil level increase thing that pops up in front of me every time I do good like in Skyrim
“Push ups increased to level 5”
“Writing dialogue increased to level 37”
“Coping mechanisms (healthy) increased to level 18”
Yesterday I almost cried because my baby cousin ran up to my grandmother and was like. “Ha! Buhbuh ba ha.” And she said okay you want to show me something? And he led her over to the garden patch and crouched down and pointed at rocks and plants and was like. “Ah. Habah ba ah” as she listened attentively.
And I was like that happened 1,000 years ago. Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability “come see.” And the adult went.
this is such a beautiful post it doesn’t need my dumb addition, but i can’t fit this in the tags. at the archaeological site Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic there are a bunch of really really fascinating finds and I’m only going to tell you about one tiny detail of one of the most interesting sites in the world.
at this settlement 20-30,000 years ago there lived a person who appears to have been a sort of sorcerer-grandmother-ceramics artist and her workshop was preserved very well in the sedimentary layers. her hut where she had her kilns was full of little sculptures of animals and people that seem to have been made to explode in the kiln on purpose, we’re not sure why but nevermind. the relevant detail is that when you sculpt something with your hands and then fire it, your fingerprints can be preserved in the surface of the clay forever, so we have fingerprints of ancient ceramics artists that have survived for tens of thousands of years. and one of the major artifacts from Dolni Vestonice has a fingerprint on it that is so small it could only have belonged to a child
so this shaman-grandmother-sculptor, who was buried with her pet fox by the way, had children running through her workshop and touching everything she made while she was at her mysterious work of creating the world’s oldest ceramics, none of which appear to be bowls, bottles, pots, or any “useful” items at all, but rather a collection of animal and human and sometimes anthropomorphic figures, some of which appear to be self portraits. exactly the same as sandersstudios’ grandmother being led to the garden by an excited baby. we’ve all been the same for 30,000 years.
I can never reblog that one post that’s like “what fictional food did you desperately want to eat as a child ” bc I had this dinosaur book as a kid and in the book there was this illustration of a T. Rex eviscerating a Triceratops and feasting on its remains and it looked like it was having such a good time with the triceratops carcass that I would have traded anything to be that T. Rex. And I can’t just add that to a random stranger’s post
I see how it is you can all post about cannibalism and blood drinking and it’s cool it’s normal it’s ENCOURAGED even but I say I wanted to indulge in the absolute carnage of felling a 26,000 lb horned beast with my hands and then feasting upon the spoils of my victory as a child and suddenly IM the weird one
Everyone says they want a weirdgirl who is hot and strange and off-putting and then she says she’s harboring a secret desire to be a Mesozoic superpredator from the late cretaceous and you all switch up REALLL fast
my advice for when u feel a spiral coming on or when ur getting too far into ur thoughts on feeling unwanted is to get up and do any small task. my go-to is washing my hands or brushing my teeth. sometimes i just walk around the house a couple times. sometimes i put on a different shirt or style my hair. on low spoons days i literally just change where im sitting or open the curtains. pick a small task that wont make u feel guilty for not doing.
the goal is to break ur train of thought with a simple activity and pull u out of ur thoughts + to demonstrate to urself that u have control over ur environment, which will help ground u. ur brain cannot focus entirely on spiraling if it also has to focus on washing ur hands, and by the time u finish it will have hopefully disrupted the original train of thoughts just enough to begin calming down
debit or credit? you can insert your card now. damn he just went all the way in. that man just inserted his card and kept going until his whole body disappeared into the reader. manager i feel really sick can i go home
