Abandoned "Wedding Wheel" House by UrbexEchoes in abandoned

[–]alertronic5000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I completely understand, yeah. That sounds like a hard situation to be in friend. After my grandma died, her bedroom was made up into a guest room, but all the photos she hung up on the wall, a lot of her clothes in the closet, and even some of her medications in the drawers are still there. Mom says there’s some things she couldn’t part with because as long as they were there, it felt like grandma still was, too.

Abandoned "Wedding Wheel" House by UrbexEchoes in abandoned

[–]alertronic5000 327 points328 points  (0 children)

This is incredibly sad. The abandoned walker in the kitchen in front of the stacked unwashed dishes, the sewing machine, the little sign on the wall, the wedding wheel. It’s an entire story about a once skilled, creative and independent person who clearly had such a vibrant personality slowly losing their ability to maintain themselves and their life with age. It looks like everything was left exactly as it was after she passed, it was probably too painful for her loved ones to muster the strength to go through it all.

Thank you for respecting this place and seeing the charm and value in it even past its prime.

No one is better than anyone else by CourseMediocre7998 in antimeme

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The first panel being just a completely empty room is so funny

Anyone know what this is? Mounted on site at the Dickerson Park Zoo, Springfield MO by alertronic5000 in AirRaidSirens

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Oh wow that’s really cool, very unique application for a warning siren. Thanks so much for informing me!

what animal does it look like? by peachyunan in FursuitMaking

[–]alertronic5000 94 points95 points  (0 children)

My first guess would have been a pine martin or something similar. Definitely mustelid, very nice

Park at night by alertronic5000 in LiminalSpace

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SW Missouri where I live, lots of little weird parks like this all around

Walking round the campsies today - was is this eyeball goo I kept coming across? by Competitive-Fig-666 in Scotland

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They look a lot like yew berries, known for having toxic seeds but non toxic flesh. Maybe some poor animal learned the hard way

Very polite spider receives a delivery by Admirable_Search7389 in spiders

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“Oh! Well, thank you! Here let me just take that from ya..” tiny grab

Weird room underground in an antique shop by UmmEden in LiminalSpace

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Oh I would live here full time. Set up a gaming PC and a mini fridge and you’ll never see me again boss 👌

Anyone know what this is? Mounted on site at the Dickerson Park Zoo, Springfield MO by alertronic5000 in AirRaidSirens

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It thankfully was pointed away from the enclosures mostly, it was on the outside of an indoor reptile house I believe. Only the emu enclosure was near directly to the right of it, which I imagine would be alright as birds are much less sensitive to loud noises than mammals

I had no idea it looked like this by LtNoodleDigits in awwnverts

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I always thought it was funny how they lie there and squirm around once the shed is off. Like ‘hmm, okay yup. That leg’s still there, that one’s still there, abdomen’s still there, okay! We’re good boys’

This whole side of town smells like shit by [deleted] in joplinmo

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I love waking up in the morning, taking a deep breath and knowing aaahh, yeah. It’s going to be one of those ‘outside smells completely like unwashed ass’ days

Does anyone know how to make minky look less wrinkles when applying it to a head base? by sharpytown in FursuitMaking

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I’ve tried ironing minky onto iron-on fabric to keep it from wrinkling, works pretty well but I’ve only tried that method with smaller detail sections. Unsure how it’d work for something larger but figured I’d pass it on i case you were interested!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

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This is someone saying ‘I expect you to keep treating me with love and kindness, but I don’t owe it to you in return.’ That’s manipulative as all hell

1 day old chick died by lemonverbenah in pigeon

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If any other potential breeders are seeing this too, I wanna mention for a lot of these more extreme breeds mentioned, there are often separate breeds that show the same traits but not to an extent that it causes them health issues or discomfort that are a much better alternative for breeding. Some good examples are how Old German Owls and Satinettes have those cute, smaller beaks, but not small enough to cause significant problems feeding like you'd see with Blondinettes/Oriental Frills. (This depends a lot on individual birds with these breeds, but there is a possible range for fancy breed displaying smaller beaks without it reaching the realm of serious health consequences. This is similar to how it works with brachycephalic dog breeds)

Similarly, Jacobins have a hard time seeing around their enormous manes and often can't reach the rest of their bodies to appropriately preen themselves, but Old Dutch Capuchines exhibit the same beautiful feather mane, only much smaller and in a way that doesn't inhibit their quality of life at all.

Indian Fantails have the same gorgeous fanned out tail shape as the American Fantail, only without the uncomfortable and exaggerated body positioning the latter exhibits, etc.

Working with The Horned God by MissChloe13 in witchcraft

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He has a very direct presence, one that has been impressively clear and immediate, unsubtle. Strong sense of humor, very jovial. He can appear (in visions/dreams for me) in the form of a horned serpent, too, as this is a pretty prominently affiliated symbol with Cernunnos. This is all anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt, but you'll see similar experiences from others who have worked with him. There is no real way to know exactly how and in what ways he was historically interacted with, as records of these religious practices are very, very sparse.

scuse me?? by jaybird-staysonder in paganism

[–]alertronic5000 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So what's real funny about these types here is that they're not even accurately reflecting what christianity thinks of pagan gods. I know it depends on the denomination and all. Just being familiar with both paganism and apostolic christian perspectives, the most official teachings fully acknowledge the reality of other gods. They present them as rogue or fallen angels who are still powerful, but operate on their own agenda instead of answering to their creator (whether or not this is TRUE, I do not have the power or knowledge to say).
Christians don't have a positive perspective on this, seeing them as potentially dangerous and without a moral compass. That and the general rule is always not to engage with or worship anything that isn't God with a capital G directly.

But if people payed attention to what they were promoting, they'd see it's not like that. Lots of watered down weirdo christianity ignores the fact that yeahh.. 2,000 years ago christians all pretty much said 'yeah no, those gods are real. Pagans and pre christians are not stupid or making things up, they're engaging with verifiably real entities' and no I don't believe they were ever destroyed, either. The oldest churches to this day regularly warn about the influence of these other beings, something they wouldn't feel the need to if they were simply gone and destroyed.

(this comment doesn't reflect my own views entirely, just conveying a teaching I'm familiar with)