I have a degree in cultural anthropology with minors in history and art, emphasis in indigenous peoples and textiles. I am devoted to making sure trans, bi, and ace/aro people are included in the LGBT/MOGAI community, fixing racial inequality, stopping antisemitism, ableism, and fascism. I am always willing to listen to others to become a better ally
Check out TundraKatieBean.com for all my art info!
“Mah Face” is my tag for photos of me, which are pretty rare anymore
“Music spam time” is when I’m listening to stuff on spotify/pandora and posting it here
There are a series of tags that I’ll call the “katie X-es” series lol that are things like “Katie knits” “Katie reads” “Katie shiny hunts” Katie plays Pokemon” so if there’s something specific I do often that you aren’t interested in seeing or are avoiding spoilers for you can block those
If you like the lists I make sometimes those are under their respective game tags and “Katie makes lists”
I generally try to tag common triggers like racism, body image, disordered eating, addiction talk, gender talk etc
If there’s anything I’m not tagging that you need tagged for trigger or spoilers please let me know!
Current art projects:
Color in Focus, October 2023 - ??, where my patrons vote on which color I’ll focus my art on for the month!
Visual Dream Journal September
2021- October 2023, also tagged on this blog as “visual dream journal” where I’m
doing an art representation of dreams I’ve had. For a full explanation
of the project check out my patreon announcement post here
August 2020-September 2021 Year of Lyrics A project where I chose one song lyric that I related to and made a 6″x4″ typography piece of it.
If you’re here because of my baby quilt story you can see more of it here and here! I just didn’t want to explode the OP’s notes more than I already had 😅
I block blogs I think are bots, people who post a lot of photos/art/content without credit, and people I just don’t want to interact with for whatever reason. Asks that are rude or invasive will be deleted. If you’re asking something in good faith and would like the message to remain private just say so at the beginning of the ask. Please don’t message me condolences about my mom unless we’ve talked before.
Text recounting of the full events below but oh my god please watch this person explain the wildest thing happening to them
[image text]r/trueoffmychest post by CptnSpaceCase
Today my aide cooked what should not be cooked
I have to get this out, because today feels like an actual nightmare I keep expecting to wake up from.
Iām disabled, and need help with stuff around the house. Today was the second day with a new agency and new home health aide, āTina.ā I set it up so she would come by in the morning while Iām sleeping (insomnia is killer), and I texted her last night what I would need done today.
One of those things was to roast some precut squash Iād gotten so I could have it with my salads and pasta. I was very clear in my instructions: what it looked like, where it was in the fridge, how to use the oven, how to cook it. I also have a roommate who was up and told her she could ask them for help if she couldnāt find anything. Or come get me if truly necessary.
Now, I have three pet ball pythons. They eat rats that I thaw from frozen in the fridge in a reusable plastic bag. Yes, thatās where Iām going with this.
Tina couldnāt find the squash, and so, obviously, that meant she should roast the first other thing she could see that was technically also encased in plastic, in a completely different area of the fridge. The FUCKING RATS. In butter and salt, in my nice baking dish.
And like, thatās insane all on its own, but if youāre going to cook any animal, you should at least clean and skin it first, right??? Like, do the crazy, disgusting thing properly so I can respect the effort, instead of sticking them in as is. Fur and guts and all.
And the smell. Good God baby Jesus the SMELL. It woke me up and had me gagging the moment I opened my bedroom door. Definitely not squash. Or food-smelling for that matter. At first I thought the squash had spontaneously rotted overnight and sheād tried to cook it anyway. That would have been slightly less insane and much preferable.
I had to pull it out of her what she was cooking instead when she said she couldnāt find it (it was in plain sight), had to open the oven and see my snakesā dinners in place of my own and still couldnāt process what the fuck was happening, what I was looking at and smelling. I donāt like yelling at people and generally avoid it. Today was a day for exceptions. And at the end of my half-crazed, dissociative rant, I told her to get the whole dish and its contents and herself out of the fucking house. And to not come back.
Suffice to say, Iāve contacted the agency to report it and am requesting a new aide. Now Iām sitting at a cafe trying to calm down and eat something despite the scent memory thatās taken up permanent residence and turning my stomach. The whole house reeks like musty, sewage-dipped pork that had been left out for a whole day before being cooked in rancid oil, and Iām not sure Febreeze is gonna cut it. I donāt want to go home. š« š
yesterday I had the thought āvisual novel for normal peopleā (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless
On a level of one to “meeting all the possible objects in Date Everything so you can order completing their story lines from least interesting for you to most interesting for you so you end with the best one” how autistic are you?
update from the discord group courtesy of one of my mutuals;
do not trust that damned survey. change your discord password. utilize 2FA.
I use 2FA on every website I log into, and it didnāt ask for any details when I took the survey, but I still donāt trust that thing at all. One can never be too safe.
whoops I accidentally double reblogged but:
hi, i did some research on this but this link was not phishing and hereās why:
qualtrics is a legit website that companies pay to host data gathering surveys to collect metrics on various things. you can also create free surveys but from what i understand the survey results arenāt as in-depth as the paid versions get you.
it looks like the survey originates from a banner on the discord app and you click on it and it takes you to the site and you do the thing there. it was only rolled out to a certain amount of people (for the purposes to maybe only get people they thought would be pro-AI? who knows with Discord) but was then passed around everywhere because Fuck AI. And then Discord realized that things werenāt going the way they wanted and pulled the survery.
I did some further research on the URL itself:
From ESET link checker it rates it as safe, I also plugged it into a few others as well like Fortinet and Bitdefender and both of those came back safe too, hereās a screenshot of ESET:
info on the link itself from urlvoid:
the actual qualtrics site info from urlvoid as well to compare the age of the domain (usually phishing domains are very very young and/or brand new and not legitimate domains but these are both legitimate domains.)
and, inb4 people say āphishing attempts donāt always have to ask you to enter your login credentials to scrape your infoā
no keyloggers or malware after I clicked on the link (itās been 8 hours now and my discord account is fine).
hopefully, this will quell some panic about the discord thing, its always good practice to protect your account with MFA when itās offered and to change your password when you suspect something may not be right, itās better to err on the side of caution etc, but in this case, itās alright and thereās no need to create any undue panic about a link to a survey. fuck AI and Discord should know better than to try and pull more wool over its userbasesā eyes because did they not learn from the NFT thing?
The sexual tension between me and the ten yard roll of my favorite watercolor paper sitting in my cart.
I almost did it. But then “free shipping” turned into $130 when they found out I live in Alaska. Which is stupid the service they wanted to use is the same cost as the lower 48
