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🐱 Domestic Shorthair/Domestic Longhair

📸 Leyna Warren

🎨 Red (+/-Tabby) & Black Tabby, Black Tortoiseshell Tabby [Cat Chimeras/Mosaics, Chimeras & Tortie Tomcats]

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if you like crafting and also free things, might i suggest the antique pattern library?

it’s a not for profit that’s gathering books, patterns, and other materials related to crafting that are out of copyright (or getting permission from copyright holders in some cases) in order to share them online. they scan items, clean them up, then make everything available for free!

free things are great, especially when you’re just starting to get into something. like oh, i’m supposed to spend money on this hobby i just picked up 20 minutes ago???

the first time i ended up on the site, i seriously spent hours just trawling through everything. there’s the usual suspects like knitting, crochet, embroidery, but there’s also woodwork, calligraphy, and books on things like how to mount and frame pictures. with cross stitch patterns, they also make modern charts with the dmc colour codes available.

links to their webbed site and instagram:

https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

https://www.instagram.com/theantiquepatternlibrary/

behold, a glorious cat cross stitch pattern (link goes to antique pattern library page):

[image id: Multicolour charted cross stitch design of a cat sitting on a red pillow with tassels, holding a green ball]

#cross stitch

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I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.

The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.

In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.

"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.

"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.

"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.

"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.

Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.

PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.

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as a child being told "the moon controls the tides" with no additional explanation was like. oh okay. you want me to believe in magic? you're talking about magic right now? okay. fine

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Photography by Steve Birnbaum

Instagram @vrtlworld

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You can take the apartheid out of South Africa but you can never take it out of a white South African

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@california-andy tagged me so here we go (thank you friend) When was the last time you cried? Uhhh I teared up yesterday but I didn’t really cry. I Haven’t had a real cry in a good while tbh.

Do you have kids? Nope. Just two cats for now.

Do you use sarcasm a lot? Yes. Too much probably.

What sports do you play? … sports…? I mean I’d like to get into roller skating but I need pads so I don’t hurt myself and also probably to not just do it in my small apartment 🙃

What’s the first thing you notice about people? Outfit, hair, eyes, hands/nails.

What’s your eye color? A light brown, almost brown leaning hazel? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Scary movies or happy endings? Why are you pitting two bad bitches against each other?

Any special talents? I can French inhale (there’s a clip of it on the other blog lol). I can sing but that’s not special. Oh! I can manifest really random and useless shit but never anything important or useful. 🤪✌🏻

Where were you born? Northern Illinois

What are your hobbies? Cross stitch, resin art, art in general, uhhhh video games…. I have a lot of hobbies tbh.

Do you have pets? Two cats, Norman and Talia

How tall are you? 5’3”

Favorite subject in school? Choir, English, history. Everything else sucked ✌🏻

Dream job? I do not dream of labor. (But genuinely if I could just be paid to go to school and learn whatever I wanna learn 🤷🏻‍♀️)

I truly do not know who to tag rn so uhhhhh whoever wants to do this is tagged! You’re it! Gogogogo

#me #about me #tag game

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#cats #art #pixel art

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carl sagan said in contact that one measure of a relationship's intimacy is in how many of each person's sub-personas can see and commune with each other. and that hit. do you wanna see if our inner children want to play together 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

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So we all know that Tumblr is US-centric. But to what degree? (and can we skew the results of this poll by posting it at a time where they should be asleep?)

Reblog to increase sample size!

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#moon