occultie

tag yourself, I’m a chaotic fashion gay

lawful fashion gay- ranges anywhere from casual to fancy, but sticks to simple safe things everyone agrees looks good

tacky fashion gay- has a lot of clashing pieces of clothing that never quite come into a good looking outfit but sometimes looks endearing for it

comfort fashion gay- does NOT care about fashion and is usually wearing very soft basic clothes, you could look in their closet and have no idea what’s their normal clothes and what’s their pajamas

chaotic fashion gay- breaks every single rule known to man and somehow it works; has zero fear and at least five conflicting aesthetics which should not logically go together

ranger52enroute

Words from a National Park Ranger in Yosemite regarding the shutdown.

(Name not shared for obvious reasons.)

“Today I worked. We held Yosemite open to 4th of July-level traffic with no support staff whatsoever. We did so with 4 rangers in Wawona/Badger, 4 in Yosemite Valley and (may be slightly off….) 4 in Mather. That is 12 people working while we were seeing 240-270 cars per hour coming into South Entrance. Let that sink in. TWELVE people. In a park the size of Rhode Island. Badger sold almost 1,000 lift tickets today (their limit is 1200).

There are piles if human shit everywhere. Gross, but so seriously true. Every roadside turnout has toilet paper and trash. Garbage cans are overflowing until we can get time to pick it up. People are screaming about paying their taxes and having rights, people are fighting over tickets issued for violating closures when they duck under barricades and walk past signs so they can do what they want.

Keeping parks accessible is reasonable if people can fend for themselves and care for the park themselves, but the large majority can’t. The large majority needs a map because their GPS quits working when cell service drops, and they don’t have one because the Entrance staff wasn’t there to give them one. The large majority has no idea what a cat hole is and would never consider picking up their used toilet paper and sticking in their purse. The large majority doesn’t know what to do if they break an ankle and can’t get 911 on the phone. The large majority cannot use their public lands in a way that allows them to remain unimpaired for their kid’s children. That is why they hire the National Park Service. To provide a service to the vast majority who don’t know how to be a true steward for their land or don’t care to be.

I beg all of you to stay home and not visit your parks until everyone comes back to work. Your experience will be ten thousand times better.”

nerdiegirlie

tip for the holidays: interrupt any family argument with “I will take it! I will take the ring to Mordor. Though I do not know the way”

potterpan

If you think someone’s shirt is cool, tell them! If you think your friend is beautiful, tell them! If you love someone’s art, tell them! Speak goodness into the world, it is time to stop suppressing kind thoughts.