By: Revanche

Just a little (link) love: poor bear edition

October 3, 2019

Just a little link love

I’m quite proud of this work journal for young kids that I made. A preview of the interior:

Remember to focus on the important stuff that money can’t buy.

The Four Tigers Sword: a Twitter thread

Look at this beautiful rainbow baby quilt! I would love this for me, as an adult 🙂

Have you made any easy eco-friendly switches in your life that you want to share?

The cost of reproductive choices

So many reasons to love Piggy and Kitty. I want to quote the whole post because it’s all my favorite but I’ll settle for just one. HOW DO I PICK: “Guess what happened the last time I was on the phone with my sweet, loving, stubborn, old-fashioned grandpa, and he said something racist? That’s right: I read my beloved g-paw for so much filth the trash can got jealous. Thrown off guard by my vehemence, he immediately apologized, and has successfully checked himself since then.”

A little bit on Anthony Stewart Head. ASH has a very special place in my heart as Giles and I hope that his time away while working on Buffy was worth it for him. It makes me think about whether or not he actually made enough money to make it worth it for their family, too, or whether this was one of those moves you make to sacrifice in order to build your professional reputation even if the money doesn’t make sense. I made a move like that about 8-9 years ago, forgoing the higher salary in a lower COLA to get out of a toxic sector of my industry. While it took me four years to get back up to that higher salary I could have gotten right away, the move away from the toxic sector was worth at least 30% of that salary. The amount of stress I would have been under would have destroyed my health entirely. At the time, I was stopping to dry heave outside work every day and my vision suffered. A few more years of that and life would have been over.

Qandeel Baloch’s brother was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison. I should hope so. He was utterly remorseless and felt that he had the right to murder his sister just because he didn’t like how she was living her life. And a look at her life before the end was sobering. I’ve never quite understood how people live when they garner attention in media or social media. In today’s world, it seems like there are no holds barred anymore, even in death you are no longer accorded an ounce of respect or dignity.

Totally unsurprising: “