Notices by ruth [personal / 🦇 / 🕷️ ] (ruth@wandering.shop)

A reminder that bumblebee bats are the cutest and sweetest and best. <3333 (actually I adore all bats and especially vampire ones)

#bat #bats #cute #smol

Hm, for folks, what are some larger instances you might recommend to folks which have busy timelines and are a little more generic which aren't mastodon.social?

Hey artists with other jobs to make rent... sometimes we compare ourselves to and our work to folks who do it full time or who can put in more hours... and sometimes we can be unkind to ourselves about it. Maybe it’s the extra time it takes us, the slower speed at which we improve, or the finished result. Maybe it’s the breaks we need or lack of energy.

Your #art matters. Your #painting or #fiberarts or #embroidery or #crossstitch or # quilting or #sketch? You make the world beautiful. Thanks.

"Consequently, it is imperative that we not only concentrate our efforts on the publishing of cybre narratives, but that we also repeatedly and unrelentingly affirm these narratives as important, topical, and meaningful, at least as much as those being published on a grander scale. "

"In an internet which overflows with information, we have given up the means of producing our own knowledge—and it is well past time to take those back."

https://marrus-sh.github.io/cybremonday/CMON0100/

CYBREMONDAY

Hey writers of the kind who end up on Masto -- if I'm linking to a work of yours from my blog, would you prefer it to your site? goodreads? scribd if you sell there? Amazon?

I'm sitting here trying to think of a single way to link to the actual book itself, but I run into httpRange14 (this is a work joke). And even in libraries, OCLC is a vendor...

... I was thinking of this earlier in the shower & yelling "NONE OF YOU ARE FREE FROM SIN"

#mastodogs #mastodog a sweetie
https://wandering.shop/media/OOES3JUzwf2BaaRrkTw

Thursday afternoon encouragement:

1. You (probably) won't ever be the best at everything. That's ok!
2. What people actually value as "best" is very different in communities, subgroups, and culture!
3. Being "best" means worrying about others vs. learning from them.

But...
1. Even if you're not the "best" at X, you can be the one who does X for your friends.
2. You can decide what you value and work toward that, not metrics.
3. You can make dang good things to be proud of/to help folks.

🎉 ❤

Hey Mastonauts! Le Guin's LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS is on Audible (US) for under $4.