Aimless Wanderings

kayla-denker:

wiki-but-made-them-up:

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People love to make fun of Archeologists for how often we say objects were used ritualistically, as if we overuse that designation or just say it when we a don’t know what something was used for. But that’s only because people don’t stop to think how full of ritual all of our lives are.

The meme is actually correct for the most part, hotdogs are ritually consumed during baseball games. Lots of people only even eat hotdogs if they’re watching baseball. The expectation for us to eat turkey on thanksgiving is another example of us ritually consuming food. Drinking coffee every morning is another ritual we do. Going to the gym several days a week is a ritual.

“Ritual” doesn’t necessarily mean “religious.”

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autumnhobbit:

queen shit (and she was right)

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prismatic-bell:

nitrogennightmare:

thisdiscontentedwinter:

poetry-protest-pornography:

Oh, I love this an inordinate amount.

This guy covers children’s songs in the style of various artists, and he’s incredible.

I’m weirdly emotional about it?

This is amazing!

This is the exact opposite energy of the “what happens after the camera cuts and you’ve destroyed you labtop for 5 seconds of entertainment”

This guy not only wrote a whole song but dressed up and FILMED it! For what! For 1 and a half seconds of MY entertainment! That must have been HOURS of shooting and editing! I’m touched, this is art

I feel it’s important you all know this is actually a group of five dads, and they started this as a way to entertain their kids. The bands on the band wheel are their favorite bands, while the songs on the songs wheel are their kids’ favorite songs.

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kaban-bang:

punkitt-is-here:

snoopyoftheday:

snoopy of the day

Yeah wait what the fuck

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kaban-bang:

punkitt-is-here:

snoopyoftheday:

snoopy of the day

Yeah wait what the fuck

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byjove:

To me, there are several different species of car/truck guy.

Materialistic truck/car guy who has a $50k+ new vehicle he does not need for work, he can barely afford and he purchased as a status symbol and expects everyone to be soooo impressed by his smalldickmobile? Sucks. Horrible guy. Makes it his entire identity. Financially irresponsible, usually an asshole driver and parker because nothing matters but his vehicle, usually extremely vapid and unpleasant.

Shitbox car/truck guy who really loves his 15+ year old piece of shit vehicle and is keeping it on the road through thoughts and prayers and is attempting to soup up his 2002 Chevy? Down to earth, resilient, usually capable of helping you with your car problems because he has had every car problem imaginable, humble, often much more interesting than materialism car guy.

It’s the same for vintage vehicles too, the guy who bought a fully restored muscle car just to show it off sucks ass but the guy who has spent 5 years slowly rebuilding a ‘68 Chevrolet Chevelle he found rusted out on Facebook marketplace is a car guy I can respect.

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catasters:

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thegeekstressart:

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

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fireball-me:

61below:

xenobotanist:

sewerfight-deactivated20250114:

Imagine a bee rn in a hive muttering “the beekeeper is not real because he is not intervening or helping me at all with this disastrous relationship I have with another bee”. now imagine that’s you talking about the good lord. now imagine a dog with a propeller hat on

Filing this in my memory right next to this thread:

is anyone imagining a dog with a propeller hat on

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i-want-to-stargaze:

grickle14:

No doubt.

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