...and yet such force in that stance, / upright, heart thrust out / to the world, unguarded, no hope // without the possibility of a wound. / "To hold oneself in this pose," he said, / "takes incredible strength."
- Mark Doty
Hello Americans I need your help with my vegetable thing
TL;DR: If you are able, could you email your senator and tell them that you support the Fresh Produce Procurement Reform Act? They will actually give a shit this time I promise, they just need to know you care*. Email is fine! All you have to type is “I support the Fresh Produce Procurement Reform Act”. You can tell them Tumblr sent you if you want.
HERE’S WHY: In my day job I help administer paperwork for one of the best government programs you’ve never heard of, the Local Food Purchase Agreement. This program:
Buys produce from small sustainable farmers with an emphasis on supporting BIPOC farmers
Pays those farmers good money
Gets local businesses to pack that produce
Delivers the produce to food aid programs in schools and community organizations to be distributed for free without conditions
Broke people get extremely nice fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, meat, eggs
A lot of the products are heirloom and culturally important foods. No generic government potatoes here.
Also there are huge funding carve-outs for indigenous food sovereignty products
People send in notes about how this is what they’ve always wanted to feed their families but they usually can’t afford it. I love this program so much.
^ This is a stock photo but the produce genuinely looks like this. I have both worked in and lived off food aid programs in my lifetime and if you ever have you know that “brown bananas” and “fun game! find the squash that isn’t moldy” is usually the best it gets. Produce that is actually fresh and high-quality and tastes nice and is heritage varieties of culturally important foods is basically asking for the moon. Except they might actually give us the moon this time. It turns out that the moon only costs, like, twice what my small town spends on police every year. Let’s get the moon!
*Here’s the thing, no one hates The American Farmer. Farm stuff is almost always bipartisan. This makes it easier to get food to people! Let’s do the thing!
I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”
He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.
But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.
I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.
Please remember that this also applies to teenagers and preteens, they might be acting like a knowitall who doesn’t give a shit, or a first class jerk, but chances are fair they feel like shit for one reason or another and adults just chalk it up to teenage angst instead
Almost every time you see someone, child, teen, or adult, who is having some emotional meltdown over something minor, it’s a “straw that broke the camels back” situation.
Kids and teens may have bigger reactions or it may take less to overwhelm them, but it’s important to remember that they are still people and it’s hard being a people.
as a child I wondered why adults were so stupid (doing things out of habit/routine/heuristics rather than reasoning explicitly about what to do based on their goals) and the answer is that adults are unimaginably fucking tired all the time
Hi, OP, great blog and I mean this sincerely. Now. Genuinely. What the fuck oh my god you can’t just do this to people without warning oh my god i am literally sobbing this is round one? round one you bracketed these two absolute gut punches against each other and put them there for everyone and the devil to see? Round ONE?
“if I were harrow I simply would have fallen in love with the hot butch and not the apocalypse corpse rip to her but I’m different” ok but are you fully incorporating the psychological burden of being 200 dead children in your self insert reader x gideon fanfic here. because I think you are not!! loving gideon means accepting your own existence and the possibility of being loved back. loving the body is impossible. it’s destruction of the Tomb and thus destruction of the self.
I love this post bc I have “reader x” filtered out, as one does, so whenever it comes up on my dash I think Hwat are yall Reblogging and then I open it to find my own post
Just read a perfectly fine fanfiction that took place in Germany but something that stood out to me was a chapter where the characters walk across a field and is approached by the farmer yelling at them to get off his land.
I’ve come across this plot point a few times and I feel like it’s worth telling writers that most of Europe has some version of Right To Roam. The laws aren’t the same in every country but generally you’re allowed to walk and rest on private property like fields and forests so long as you don’t destroy anything or leave trash, but not gardens or fenced in areas. The owner of the land might put up a sign asking you to follow certain guidelines like no horses or keeping your dog on a leash but but there’s no real repercussions to not following the rules besides the owner eventually fencing the area off so people can’t enjoy it anymore.
I’ve personally walked around on a field while the farmer was harvesting potatoes with his big ass machine and collected the leftovers while my dog was trotting calmly besides me and he looked straight at me and didn’t care one bit because Denmark also has an old tradition of letting people collect what’s left as a form of charity (for my fellow Danes, that’s what “rev vi marken let, det er gammel ret, fuglen og den fattige skal også være mæt” means in the song Marken Er Mejet) This is just a tradition and not a law however so it depends on the farmer.
The very north of Europe like Norway and Sweden even give people the right to put up tents and camp on other people’s private land (except gardens and such). Again, the laws vary from country to country but as a rule of thumb you have more right to roam the further north you go and less the further south but if you want to write in a specific country look up the laws there.
Wow. Yall are really just allowed to exist in public huh?
found this informative, about how studios are going to attempt to use influencers (particularly small ones) to try to cross pickets by paying a lot for movie promos, and that SAG-AFTRA likely will not let you in if you do this. my suspicion is they’re hoping people won’t understand the implications so wanted to spread the word!!
Very important note here, yes.
PROMOTION is part of an actor’s job. And it’s one of the things they’re not allowed to do on strike.
SAG Actors are not allowed to do promotions at ComicCon this year. They can attend, as long as they don’t:
Participate in specific-show promotions (e.g. “five years later - actors of X series”)
Talk about their current work
Talk about upcoming work
They are encouraged not to attend at all, in part because those are complex issues and it’s easy to trip on them.
TikTok and YouTube INFLUENCERS are likely to be contacted by studios and told, “how would you like to make a LOT of money, talking about this show?”
…Do not take the poisoned bait.
That counts as crossing the picket line, and would result in:
Being banned from SAG-AFTRA membership for life, and
Possibly being blocked from other union jobs if they find out that you scabbed during a strike.
if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking “heat exhaustion symptoms” i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you’re aware it’s even an issue. ohh my god
if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.
and there’s a very good chance that you’re gonna think “it’s not heat exhaustion, i don’t feel any warmer than i have all day” when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn’t the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water
(sorry OP for unsolicited post addition but)
a LOT of doctors and pharmacies forget to tell you whether or not “increased susceptibility to heat” is a side effect of a prescription medicine, so if you are on ANY medicine (especially psych medicine), go online and see if your medicine is in this category! also stimulants (yes caffeine counts) can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion as well so please consider carefully whether or not you want to slam that can of monster when you’re outside and it’s hot, even if the can is icy cold!
“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on
that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other
detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And
so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the
historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his
desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never
subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In
order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to
quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking
about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story.
And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27
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