bedbugsbiting: Being a rude jerk seems like so much work with so little payoff, but some people are.

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Being a rude jerk seems like so much work with so little payoff, but some people are real go-getters.
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at breakfast, Farmkid had gotten out of her seat and was messing around in her play kitchen. she...

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at breakfast, Farmkid had gotten out of her seat and was messing around in her play kitchen. she dropped a magnifying loupe on her foot, and started screaming and crying, and ran out of the room.

Sister retrieved the loupe, sighed, and said, “at least it fell on her foot so it didn’t break,” and then looked at the others of us at the table. “That’s probably the most sociopathic thing I’ve said in a while,” she said.

“You’re a monster,” her husband informed her, and they both laughed, and then she went to comfort the child, who is in a phase of fake-crying loudly until sufficient sympathy has been offered.

(Mostly Farmkid has been lovely this whole visit, big enough to be helpful and patient and so on, but sometimes she’s, well, still a baby.) (We’ve learned, by the way, that she can safely use adult pruners, because she needs both hands to close them so there’s no way for her to get her fingers caught in the blades. However, she needs close supervision because she can’t lock them closed either, and so carries them around brandishing the blades at things.) 

Today Farmkid got to choose both of her parents’ outfits. Her father doesn’t own anything notably interesting, but her mother is wearing neon-striped unicorn knee socks, a black and white floral miniskirt, a purple t-shirt and a teal green cardigan that matches her teal-green underpants that mostly don’t show but well, the miniskirt is pretty short and today is house cleaning day. 
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xmenthefanficseries: I love ancient religions because often, in the source material, the death and..

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I love ancient religions because often, in the source material, the death and death-adjacent deities are like chill as fuck.

My favorite example is Hades. He gets the Underworld mostly because his younger brothers put their fingers on their noses and said “not it.” So like a good big-bro he goes down there and proceeds to basically be the god of bureaucracy.

He gets everything set up so he doesn’t actually have to do anything. Thanatos is the God of Death (also chill as fuck) and he’s the one who ends lives (but only off the shopping list the Fates give him), Hermes’ psychopomps are the ones who bring the souls down, it’s three dead guys who are the ones to judge your soul, and the fearsome three-headed guard dog… Hades named him Spot.

All the shitty stuff that goes on in Tartarus (Hell), yeah, that’s mostly Zeus’ doing. Hades doesn’t come up with the punishments, just provides the acreage. And when gods come down and want to bring people back to life (often after some god has gotten them killed), Hades is like “nah man, paperwork is finished, transfer’s complete, let them have their rest, find someone else to be your punching bag.”

As for the whole Persephone thing, that is a strange one. I’m like 85% sure the story is mostly Demeter propaganda because that goddess is not chill as fuck. I mean, I guess Hades could have kidnapped Persephone with serious malicious intent, but then did a 180 after realizing he was being a total d-bag. Because, seriously, he pretty much lets Persephone take over everything. Like, everyone knew who wore the pants in the Underworld, the motherfucking Iron Queen herself.

And as much as I love Hades in the Hercules animated movie because of the perfect comedic timing of James actually-a-horrible-human-being Woods, yeah, Hades couldn’t give a crap about what everyone else was doing. He often stayed neutral in wars, be it between mortals or gods, mostly because death does not discriminate, all souls end up with him in the end.

When it comes to the Underworld, Hades is basically the equivalent of the general manager who pokes his head in now and again to make sure nothing is on fire. The rest of the time he’s playing with his shiny rocks because being Lord of the Underworld meant he also had domain over gold, silver, gemstones, basically all the pretties.

Hell, Hades needs an actual Helm of Fear in order to be intimidating because otherwise, yeah, nope. I like to think of him as Skinny!Steve whist his brothers are like, well, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman (aka Poseidon). Let’s face it, Momoa could kick your ass just by looking at you sideways and may actually be a demi-god.

So, please, if you’re writing Hades in anything, don’t make him out to be the modern idea of Satan or Lucifer. He’s really just an introvert with high functioning organizational skills who loves rocks and women who can kick his ass.
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busy weekend

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So, yurt times, meaning not a lot of Internetting; I’ve been pretty good about updating Instagram via Stories but I haven’t had the wherewithal to make proper posts that crosspost very much. 

I’d been meaning to clean up around the yurt but I really missed my window for hand-weeding. I needed a weed-whacker but the farm one isn’t working. So finally yesterday I borrowed Mom and Dad’s push mower, because there is literally nothing smaller on the farm than a tractor-towed mower. Yes, not even a ride-on or a tractor belly-mower. To mow around the yurt I’d have to clear everything away, back the Kubota in there, turn it on, turn it off. 

So anyway. Borrowed the push mower and just– mowed the Virginia creeper and garlic mustard and it turns out, poison ivy, down to nothing, and finished digging out the fire pit so I could refill the random hole in the ground next to the outhouse. 

So then @unicornduke came by in the evening since she lives locally, and helped me unload the wood I’d pilfered from the burn pile up on the gravel bank and kept dry in my car by being too lazy to unload it. (I’d spent the morning ferrying Farmkid around to the market and home and all over. I’ve actually basically been in her near-constant company for a large portion of this past week, which really adds up to me not getting a ton done except for that– which is fine, that’s mostly what i’m here for, but my sister is feeling neglectful as a mother, and I’m just a little burnt-out. I like hanging out with her fine, but after a couple of days I’m not as patient with her as I ought to be.)

Anyway– we made a bonfire, took her giant dog on a walk around the farm, while Dini the farm dog tried earnestly to be friends– she doesn’t really care about other dogs but sometimes in her old age she tries to care– and then I cooked a whole chicken cut into like five pieces over the fire, which turned out better than it ought to have given that the fire had died down too much while we were walking around and so I had to build it back up and then just– set the chicken on fire too. It turns out you can just set a chicken on fire. (Not really. But sort of.) 

Then there were s’mores, and then it rained so we all went our separate ways. I sat by the fire in the rain a little bit, because it was really pleasant.

We’ll see if cutting down the vegetation helps alleviate the mosquito issue out by the yurt. They’ve been… active at night and I haven’t managed to seal up all the places they get into the yurt. 

One thing I did get done today was to finally cut out a square from the yard of 20-gauge vinyl I bought online, and set grommets into the four corners of it. I’m going to try it as a new roof hole cover, to keep water out and let light in. Worth an experiment, anyway. 

I wish I’d gotten 2 yards, but they were selling 2-yard cuts for much more than twice as much as 1-yard cuts. I’d make myself a door!

Oh well. I’m going to go bake a chicken for dinner. 
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the-last-hair-bender replied to your post “busy

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the-last-hair-bender replied to your post “busy weekend”

I really like hearing about your yurt. :D

I like my yurt a lot!

I have a set of Highlighted Instagram Stories about the yurt, which means they don’t disappear after a certain amount of time. I think, anyway– I can still see them, at least! 

So I keep meaning to do a proper, like, set of photos of the yurt once it’s all set up, but then I never do. in the meantime, I’ve got occasional Stories! Some of them are dumb (my standards for what goes on Stories are lower than my general standards of social media) but I feel like, put together, they give an approximate impression of the whole situation. 
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