A lot of people are radicalised by suffering, which is a valid and sadly all-too-common experience. But you wanna know what really radicalised me? Softness. Joy. Freedom. I spent so much of my adolescence deeply sad and uncomfortable in spaces that weren’t right for me, navigating a body that didn’t feel like home. Despite many many privileges, and lots of moments of genuine happiness, I often didn’t overall enjoy my life. But then I got gender-affirming surgery. I moved into my own modern, clean, comfortable flat in a friendly, walkable city full of nature and beautiful buildings. I started being able to take care of myself. I keyed into robust local social networks of people who shared my interests in nature, creativity and ameliorating the world. And I am deeply, thoroughly content. It has been incredibly radicalising to realise that, contrary to what I thought for so long, it is very easy for human beings to be happy if their material and emotional needs are fulfilled. So alongside my joy there’s this constant simmering rage. I deserve all the good things I have now, sure. But not any more or less than anyone else. The children being bombed deserve this too. So do the homeless people being moved on by police outside my local supermarket. So do the people starving in famines, imprisoned by immigration systems, brutalised by their employers, their families, the state. All I can do is fight for a world where everyone has these things. It’s a choice not to share them equitably.

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Call me Ishmael (Moss) ✦ 30 ✦ they/them ✦ queer artist and writer

This is a gallery for my personal art and stories. Reblogs, rambles, and replies are on my personal blog @herbalsingularitea

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Today's WIP is a visible mending of the bib of Farmwife M's work overalls, which ran afoul of one of the rosebushes we're trying to fight back.

Finished the most recent project for the shop. Behold...a messenger bag.

Its very grannycore...but with bats.

I'll post better pictures later, but for now here is a lil sneak peek :)

I’m calling my style cottagepunk

Happy International Women's Day from your favourite cottagepunk fox girl

It's... It's almost done. Gotta finish one more sleeve and the edges and the buttons. But I guess I'm getting there. I hope.

I really love how the leaves are coming together tho!

How to turn your Neighborhood into a Village

Americans have been deprived of our human, village-dwelling nature - but the good news is - we aren't powerless - we can make a change. Turn your neighborhood into a village.

I am absolutely gothic and punk at soul, and the fact that I enjoy watching Pride and Prejudice has no bearing on that.

Ssssssshhhhh... 🤪

What if I made a sideblog dedicated to the intersection of alt subcultures (goth, punk, vampirecore, etc.) With cottagecore? Would anyone be interested in that? I feel like there's a lot to explore with that and I'd love to be able to share resources with others. Stuff like recipes, style guides, garden inspiration, etc.

It’s solar and wind and tidal and geothermal and hydropower.

It’s plant-based diets and regenerative livestock farming and insect protein and lab-grown meat.

It’s electric cars and reliable public transit and decreasing how far and how often we travel.

It’s growing your own vegetables and community gardens and vertical farms and supporting local producers.

It’s rewilding the countryside and greening cities.

It’s getting people active and improving disabled access.

It’s making your own clothes and buying or swapping sustainable stuff with your neighbours.

It’s the right to repair and reducing consumption in the first place.

It’s greater land rights for the commons and indigenous peoples and creating protected areas.

It’s radical, drastic change and community consensus.

It’s labour rights and less work.

It’s science and arts.

It’s theoretical academic thought and concrete practical action.

It’s signing petitions and campaigning and protesting and civil disobedience.

It’s sailboats and zeppelins.

It’s the speculative and the possible.

It’s raising living standards and curbing consumerism.

It’s global and local.

It’s me and you.

Climate solutions look different for everyone, and we all have something to offer.

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Made in Procreate!

Today's finished creation

I guess you can call this my version of a battle vest, just more granny meets folk punk. Moss Punk? Cottagepunk? I don't know where this vest sits aesthetically speaking but its my vibe so enjoy it in its weird splendor.

I might just keep it for myself, I don't know how many people would want something like this. I might throw it up on the site for a few weeks and see if anyone buys it.

Its made of 100% wool fabric in a swampy green color with a unintentional ombre feature dur to age. The lining is a brown forest patterned cotton fabric, all the fabric used in the appliques are vintage fabric scraps, each from about 1920s thru the 1950s.

I'll upload better pictures later, I was just excited to finally finish this piece. It took about a month and a half since most of this vest was sewn by hand.