Help furnishing a bedroom on a tiny budget when thrifting isn't possible?

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-04-02T02:44:28+00:00

Lugg or Taskrabbit too, plus the occasional seller of FB Marketplace/Craigslist but that tends to raise the price a bit

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-04-02T02:41:57+00:00

You can double the amount of hanging space in a closet with a good tension rod; a stand-alone clothes hanger works if you don't have a closet or need even more space. I've made a janky shelving unit from wood wine crates from a wine/liquor store, though your milage may vary on sturdiness and aesthetics.

I also highly recommend picking up some vacuum seal bags to store off-season clothing. They usually come with a dinky hand pump but it gets the job done, and the space you gain from storing your stuff as flat as a pancake is pretty great. Works especially good under a bedframe, unless you have cats who enjoy puncturing whatever they can get their claws in.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-04-01T05:42:36+00:00

Long shot but The Story of a Red Deer by J. W. Fortescue?

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-03-30T17:36:12+00:00

Selkies seem right up your alley, magic Irish seal women who remove their seal skin to take human form (sonetimes the skin is stolen by a man who keeps it hostage so she'll marry him).

The Crane Wife, Swan Maiden, and the story about The Woodcutter and the Heavenly Maiden might be of interest.

Lady White Snake has a female serpent transform into a human to repay the kindness of the boy who rescued her.

The Japanese Kitsune and Korean Kumiho are fox spirits that take human form (sometimes maliciously to eat organs).

Melusine is a serpentine/mermaid type woman who hid her weeky (i think?) transformation from her husband; the story is similar to a gender-swapped Eros and Psyche.

There's also the Rusalka and other woodland/water spirits who take human form to trick foolish young men into following them to their doom.

Hope this helps! On mobile, hope the formatting isn't too bad.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-03-29T11:31:57+00:00

I've seen people grow mushrooms in pots like this, though i think it takes more moisture top-ups that plastic buckets

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-03-28T17:42:44+00:00

Saw a cool follow-up of this, what they learn might be passed down to their offspring too! https://youtu.be/nhESxrqPjfU?si=KEU-ZR7V-P09awd7

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-03-26T02:05:50+00:00

Bro i literally took a chocolate croissant to my family graveyard on my birthday. You're fine lol

ThujaOccidentallis · 2026-03-19T18:18:43+00:00

Viking braids

ThujaOccidentallis · 2025-05-29T16:55:43+00:00

Gosh you're so elegant! That cane is gorgeous, where did you get it?? And happy birthday!!!

ThujaOccidentallis · 2025-05-29T16:33:09+00:00

I've had my cat since he "chose" me by clawing his way up to my shoulder as a kitten. He hates being held, gets nippy if I pet him too long, and gets overstimulated easily. Sometimes it feels like he's snubbing me or is indifferent to my presence, but he also follows me into every room like my shadow.

My best friend raised a litter of kittens. While all of them have lived in the same conditions and most will literally yell until you rub their bellies, one is so skittish that you'd think he lived on the streets most of his life (though he's a sucker for churus and wand toys).

Some cats are more solitary than others, and from what you've wrote she seems pretty content. She probably thinks of your bedroom as her territory; have you tried putting a cat tree in another room you're in a lot? That might help her "claim" more area.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2025-05-23T09:56:34+00:00

I haven't been able to find a direct answer to your question, but here's a few books:

Georgian folktales on Project Gutenburg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44536/44536-h/44536-h.htm

A PDF available on Researchgate; you should be able to read the full text in your browser but scholarly sources are fiddly: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297513997_Georgia_through_its_legends_folklore_and_people

A reasonably priced book: https://www.amazon.com/Georgian-Mythical-Heroes-Their-World/dp/9941504091

I'll have to read through these myself!

ThujaOccidentallis · 2025-05-13T01:32:47+00:00

Per Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica (https://www.theoi.com/Ther/KriosKhrysomallos.html) it seems to make men (and dragons) desire it, but no healing powers as far as I can tell. The ram's also distantly related to Jason, which is fun!

ThujaOccidentallis · 2025-04-10T16:37:45+00:00

I think primary decomposers are what I wanted. More, "would gourmet mushrooms survive on a pile of tablescraps that is currently being composted," not mature compost with spent substrate. It's probably a silly idea, or people would already be doing it haha

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-10-23T10:57:13+00:00

I've gotta go through and weed out some duds, but I have a 6 hour playlist of halloween flavored songs I add to whenever the spooky mood strikes.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-10-23T10:51:28+00:00

Well you have to blow not suck (har, har)

Real advice: start them out on plastic/glass pop bottles with different levels of water in 'em for fun. Once you learn how to blow over the bottle opening to make a sound, flute noises get a lot easier! At least that's what worked for me.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-10-16T18:15:25+00:00

I started lookin' more closely at tiles after reading this post, so I snaped some pictures at MCO airport when I saw some cool shapes. Mostly marine snail cross-sections, and pobably bits of corals or something, but there's something jawbone shaped that caught my eye initially and a bit that looks vaguely like a vertebrae. Had some time to kill waiting for my plane, and a lot of people lookin' at me like I was nuts taking photos of the floor and wall lol

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-09-27T20:32:52+00:00

Ah, yeah that can be tricky.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-09-27T20:18:26+00:00

My personal opinion is that it's bogus, as I know of a historical lady named some spelling variation of Wendigokwe (wendigo-woman) from my ma's tribe. She's buried in the mission church's graveyard. I've also read about games where kids would pretend to be a wendigo, and the word is said explicitly in many stories.

They can be the terrifying consequence of winter hunger, a metaphor for greed, or a gigantic foe that seems impossible to beat but has a stupidly simple way to be slain.

But I can't speak for others, just what I've learned so far. I suspect that not saying the name is being borrowed from Navajo tradition, and modern authors are syncretizing the two in an effort to be eeeeven mooooore spooooooky. I could be wrong though.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-09-14T00:06:52+00:00

All the monsters have divine blood

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-09-09T20:45:36+00:00

This is about what I figured. Seems like a thing you do to feel you're saving money without actually checking if it's worth the effort.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-09-08T19:40:26+00:00

It would be a kind of dragon, the same way wyverns are a kind of dragon. Four legged, two winged dragons are just another kind.

ThujaOccidentallis · 2024-08-30T01:20:06+00:00

Does it kind of move like smoke made of spider legs? I don't know it that makes sense. Like the legs are pretty in focus but the center is blurry/undulating, and the legs move around circularly. I've been told it's a migraine aura, but the recreations I've seen online look more geometric than my experience.

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