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its cold and flu season, which means we take care of ourselves to take care of others!!!
fire cider is so good, easy one month ferment ( or is it pickling? ). use ginger, garlic, spicy peppers, pepper, tumeric root, onion and lemon. horseradish if u can find the stinky fucker. put it in a jar with apple cider vinegar for a month, then strain that bitch and drink a shot every morning or when u feel a cold coming on (with some honeyyyyy babes) and u feel empowered and loved and cared for thru yr own hands. crazy. bonus if u give away samplers to ur loved ones.
Nov 7, 2024
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a good time to make fire cider right now to get us through sick season
recipe:
1/2 onion
5 garlic cloves minced
big chunk of ginger chopped
a bunch of hot chilis
a bunch of cilantro, rosemary or other herbs you want
layered with orange slices, more rosemary, lemon and lime slices
cover fully with apple cider vinegar and raw honey if you'd like
store to ferment for some time and then strain
you can take a shot straight up or dilute in tea/hot water
Sep 25, 2024
antibacterial properties and just a general panacea for winter ills. Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar popularized it and you can make it or buy some. I also second the salt water garage and would add that I’ve been told warm water is best (as a child lol clearly in no actual medical advice or receiving capacity)
Feb 19, 2024
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a lot of the times i can stop an impending cold this way
May 6, 2024
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Dec 1, 2024
@mothersuperior post on latex and the yearndemic reminded me of this essay that I read a few years ago about the commodification and fetishization of the body and how it’s been paralleled with a lack of chemistry and sexuality that we used to see on screen. The title is your tldr: everyone is hot and no one is horny. The sterilization of sexuality and sex is everywhere, past even film. It’s a response to the acceleration of capitalism, war and colonial extraction of the earth. It has crept into the ways we view ourselves, our experience and our bodies.
One thing I took away from this essay is that to align yourself with traditional beauty standards will make you too tired to fuck. Similarly, the whole « working on yourself » grind that I heard on first dates all the time is this strange, individualistic perspective that makes you too exhausted and distracted for the holistic chemistry we desire. We flatten our lives to marketable lines that make us appear attractive - I’m working on myself, I’ve been going to therapy, I have a nice job and apartment. And while people are obviously horny, they don’t know for what - forming our bodies to be better, our minds fixed and correct, we can’t pinpoint what the purpose is cause we’re too fucking exhausted to investigate further than that. Love, desire, and chemistry feel more and more elusive.
For us to morph ourselves into the image of sexiness according to western beauty standards, there is sacrifice (nutrients, your current corporeal form, the ability to be perceived as more than an object, working long hours for your grind) that doesn’t align with sensuality (unless you’re into that). There is no room for the spectrum of sensations you body is capable of feeling. There is no room for desire when we’ve given it all up the capitalist war machine. :p
Mar 10, 2025
i read this book right after leaving an abusive relationship, trying to figure out what love was for me and how i could see it in my recently shook up world.
bell hooks writes in a simple, honest language. it’s a beautiful, accessible book that humbled me and taught me how to love people and where find the love i desired.
Feb 20, 2025