@ruffboi You're here! 🌈🐻💜🐻🌈

@TsavoJihadLeone Everybody in my house is going to have to see this tomorrow. Maybe multiple times. 😄

Reminder to folks like me coming over from the bird app: There are good reasons different platforms develop their own cultures. Our new friends have welcomed us. Let's get to know them and this place without immediately demanding it all be something different.

@redsheri1 Thank you so much! I'm probably just worn out from the week. Taking a rest day tomorrow.

Ugh. The rest of the night has just been unraveling for me. Can't seem to make anything work. It's getting late, end of the week...I probably need some rest. We'll see how tomorrow goes.

Ate dinner, but unfortunately McD's was sold out of the pumpkin buckets. So it really was like revisiting childhood! 😄

@SicilianaItaliana I'm keeping some presence there because it's currently my only way to keep in touch with some people. But staying to fight for anything feels like wasted effort to me. There's a lot of "all this or all that" thinking over there. Not many people wanting to have an honest discussion and maybe learn something.

I've been working today on getting some things set up for my current art project. It's the end of the month and I've been waiting for an opportunity to get one of those childhood pumpkin buckets McD's brought back. Time to take a break and go get one!

@cmajuscula Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg hefyd! I'm from, and live in, the US. I have Welsh ancestry and decided I want to honor that ancestry by learning the language.

@GlitteryFab I hope he's able to keep getting the care and support he needs. And I hope your own health goes better!

@SalK LOVE candy corn! Not a fan of "candy corn flavored" other things. But I get so happy when the candy corn starts coming out!

@LaurelGreen Halloween season is, in many ways, a huge celebration of a trauma I was lucky to survive. Things that just used "not be my thing" have been trauma triggers for 7 years. I'm working on getting back to a non-violent Halloween so I can enjoy it.

@Iamstaceylynn I love my plant friends! 🌱💚 I have a golden pothos named Keanu Leaves who is growing vines all over the room where the plants are, though. I need to learn how to trim that one.

@moving_target01 I've got a couple of days in the year that are extreme trauma triggers. Another couple still wrapped in grief. Whatever today has been for you, I hope there are better tomorrows. I'm hope you're able to get some rest. If not enough tonight, then soon.

@PaganMother Thank you. I hope your own holiday practice brings blessings to you and your family, too.

@ECNC @WhiteRose That's a good way of looking at it!

@PaganMother I'm still learning not to feel guilty about self-care after years of abuse and trauma. PTSD therapy taught me a lot, but I'm still building healthier habits. Remembering that my ancestors want me to be healthy could help me with that.