i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.

then they started fighting Covid precautions.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.

now my parents think climate change is a myth.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.

then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.

now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.

you can guess who they voted for.

i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.

when did they forget?

This is the traditional dress of young, unmarried girls in the "Oldland" near Hamburg. Sharing; because Germany is not only the Dirndl. The Dirndl is Bavaria. There are so more folklore dresses and so much beautiful things to learn about them! Source: FolkCostum & Embroidery

I feel so called out! Thank you.

me reading the bunker's terminal in fallout 4

A great tip, that I still use today (even if I don't like writing tips most of the times) is - "don't lost your flow". When you stuck on your novel because you have a great scene in your head, but there is space to get there - skip the space at the moment. I mostly do it like this: (Whatever need to happen in short points to get to my scene) "The Scene im wanting to write at the moment) You can even colour coded it, so it's easier to find, when you read your novel again. Maybe the Idea, how you can get to this when I have the desired scene out of my head. Keep your writing flow going! You don't need to write your story straight.

This is, what I loved on wattpad so much (didn't come into my account again! *sniff*) - yoou could interact with the writers. And the people interacted with my noel and was giving me feedback and things. This was so nice!

My favorite thing as someone who primarily reads fanfiction more so than writes it is when an author responds to your comment

Like- you write this beautifully thing and also took time to reply to my three keyboard smashes and conspiracy theory’s? 🥰

One of the things, that you feel your ancestors touching with you.

I love sitting down to crochet or knit while watching TV. Something about it feels very human. Like how many of my ancestors spent time weaving and stitching, creating little useful items with their hands while listening to the stories of the day? Something about it feels so connected to a past I have no real tangible connection to and its beautiful.

My writing would be dead without a good synonym website. Sometimes you brain, as a writer, is just blank and you could not - for your life - think of another world for "frighten". Without the website I use my writing would be so boring! *laugh*

site that you can type in the definition of a word and get the word

site for when you can only remember part of a word/its definition 

site that gives you words that rhyme with a word

site that gives you synonyms and antonyms

Love this! *laugh* So true.

I didn't liked the ending of an Inuyasha episode. So I took a pen and an clear notebook and started writing a better one. And this is how I got into writing, dear children. Now excuse me, I have to stare at one of 96 unfinished stories on my desktop and make zero progress.

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

Oh, huch much I heard this as a kid. Felt my dreams where crusched again and again in the name of money. "But why do you do it, when you don't intent to publish it?" (I'm writing in my free time.) "You need a better degree for this." etc. etc. etc. Why? Am I not allowed to made something just for fun? Just because i like it? Am I not allowed to dream a bit and let my ambioution get me as far ahead as possible? When my Kids tell me their dreams, what they want to become when they adults or something, I try my best to be supportive but still real. "I want to be a doctor", my youngest told me.

"You must study long and be good in school, but than you can do it. I believe in you, when you really want to be a doctor, you could be an doctor", I told her. Because why shouldn't I? When she is good in school, than maybe she will become a doctor one day. She is just class 1 - why should I determinined her future from this point on? She is my daugther. She is capble of doing everything, she sets her mind to and will find a way, that made her happy in life.

I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".

Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"

I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"

Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"

It was a complicated and hard year. So my good is: I took up crocheting in May and it's so therapeutic for me and I'm not that bad at it. I made so much nice things for my home and it gives me the feeling of growing up a lot more. Better times ahead for us all. I feel it.

Since 2024 is right in front of us and 2023 was a REALLY hard year, let’s all say something positive that happened. Maybe it’s a game you played. A song you liked. Something you accomplished. Whatever it is, mine is that I will be on the other side of struggling this year and it’s gonna be hard at first but I will be able to be a more present mother and all around a better person. What’s yours?

Seems like the goat is official "eaten". *laugh*

We did it!

Ok. This sounds like a flower I would associate with Sigyn. I need to write this down, in my mind this flower suits her just fine. And it's such a sweet flower. Found them in the wild sometimes ago, and they we're so little. You could overlook them so easy, but there was so many, keeping company to one another. Huch...so sweet...

Do you have a favourite deity and, if so, why?

(I think favourite deities are a thing pagans are allowed to have - am I right in this?)

Hey! Yes, I have and I know many that have. *laugh* Even when we say, we mostly work with pantheon xy doesn't that mean, that we worship all the gods the same or that we will not get astray and maybe will worship an outsider once in a while. When we took it from a traditional point, it's really natural. A farmer, as example, wouldn't honour the same god as an skald (norse bard) or a "payed warrior". At the moment I'm working with Frigg. If you know norse paganism, it's very clear why. She is the wife of Odin, first of the aesir. "Foremost among the goddess", like the edda call her. She is the godess of "rightful" (from society and family approved) marriage, of pregnancy, childbearing, motherhood and domestic arts. So as a Wife, Mother, Homemaker and fiber artist (I love this word, sounds so eleant), I find it quiet natural, that I'm drawn to her.