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Quarantine Blanket Giveaway!

In light of all the horseshit going on in the world right now, I wanted to do a little something for someone. So I’m giving away the blanket above! If you want a chance to win, reblog or like this post from now until 4/20/2020. At that point, I’ll pick a winner and get it out when I am physically able.

Rules:

Reblog or like the post. Up to 10 times per person.

Be following me, please.

Have to be comfortable with giving me your address.

That’s it!

oh to be in a forest while it's raining <3 🌲🌿🌧🍄

In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.

In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.

Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.

Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.

Oh worm.

deep sea bioluminescent worm

I’M BISEXUAL

WHICH MEANS I LOVE MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER , HOZIER, THE CONCEPT OF DECAY, AND EVERY WOMAN I’VE EVER MET

Jade and striped icebergs. “When seawater at depths of more than 1,200 feet freezes to the underside of massive ice shelves like East Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf, it forms ‘marine ice.’ Enormous hunks of ice calve—or break off—from the ice shelf, creating icebergs. When one of these icebergs overturns, its jade underside is revealed. The wondrous color of this ‘marine ice’ results from organic matter dissolved in the seawater at those great depths,” explained Audubon Magazine. “Green icebergs are infrequently seen because their verdant bellies are underwater; it’s only when they flip over, a rare event, that their richly colored regions can be seen before they melt. Striped icebergs, perhaps even more scarce than jade bergs, are thought to form in one of two ways: either meltwater refreezes in crevasses formed atop glaciers before they calve icebergs (creating blue stripes), or seawater freezes inside cracks beneath ice shelves (creating green stripes).”

Photo #14 by Steve Nicol via Australian Antarctic Division

I like new friends!

Reblog if it's okay for anybody to message you if they're feeling lonely during self isolation. Let's get through this together!

Marvel if you could stop giving me literal goddess to have crushes on that would great. I have so many fanfics already you keep adding more material and I am going to die before I can read it all which is a travesty.

I’D BE THE MAN