https://www.reddit.com/r/amphibia/s/ItAjLrdvar #Amphibia sketch

This is a very interesting tea. Every teabag has a quote from someone named Rosemary Gladstar about plants and Spirit (or spirit). Ingredients are: Rose flower Hibiscus flower Butterfly pea flower Damiana leaf Stevia leaf Hawthorn berry Cinnamon bark #plantstr

[OC] Cost of Living by County, 2023 Map created by me, an attempt to define cost of living tiers. People often say how they live in a HCOL, MCOL, LCOL area. Source for all data on cost of living dollar amounts by county, with methodology: https://www.epi.org/publication/family-budget-calculator-documentation/ To summarize, this cost of living calculation is for a "modest yet adequate standard of living" at the county level, and typically costs higher than MIT's living wage calculator. See the link for full details, summary below. For 1 single adult this factors in... - Housing: 2023 Fair Market Rents for Studio apartments by county. - Food: 2023 USDA's "Low Cost Food Plan" that meets "national standards for nutritious diets" and assumes "almost all food is bought at grocery stores". Data by county. - Transport: 2023 data that factors in "auto ownership, auto costs, and transit use" by county. - Healthcare: 2023 Data including Health Insurance premiums and out of pocket costs by county. - Other Necessities: Includes clothing, personal care, household supplies/furniture, reading materials, and school supplies. Some notes... - The "average COL" of $48,721 is the sum of (all people living in each county times the cost of living in that county), divided by the overall population. This acknowledges the fact that although there are far fewer HCOL+ counties, these counties are almost always more densely populated. The average county COL not factoring in population would be around $42,000. - This is obvious from the map, but cost of living is not an even distribution. There are many counties with COL 30% or more than average, but almost none that have COL 30% below average. - Technically Danville and Norton City VA would fall into "VLCOL" (COL 30%-45% below average) by about $1000 - but I didn't think it was worth creating a lower tier just for these two "cities". - Interestingly, some cites are lower COL than their suburbs, such as Baltimore and Philadelphia. - Shoutout to Springfield MA for having the lowest cost of living in New England (besides the super rural far north) Source: (u/TA-MajestyPalm, reddit post to r/dataisbeautiful)

Helpful map of USA Cost of Living (COL) https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/xDIgGtmQ9t

hello Durian. I am going to try to eat this thing that looks like vanilla ice cream. Just read allllll about the reasons why it’s considered a superfood. It’s really … repulsive tho. Mind over matter.

Knights of Guinevere by Dana Terrace ( and Co.) Pilot episode . . . Dystopian world premise. In a casual interview, she said that the main difference between creating a cartoon for Disney vs. creating a cartoon with Glitch, an independent animation studio, is that it is actually fun now. Hmmmmmmm. It just makes you wonder. Why can’t Disney make it be fun also? They’re already such a rich company, who cares if they make a show that’s not totally on brand, but more experimental? Or if they don’t, they should donate money to the independent animation studios. Out of the kindness of their hearts. Anyways, so the dystopian world premise - POLLUTION, from factories producing merchandise relating to the amusement park in the sky. Serious health problems - also from the pollution from making products to sell. Pervasive poverty and a large working poor class - the characters seem to have to be working all the time. It’s stressful, and it’s a struggle to make enough money. Their living environment also looks dingy and dilapidated. Direct violence and pretty lies from the … ruling class, which is basically a weird dad and daughter duo. There’s a backstory involving a sentient robot (Princess Guinevere) trying to escape the evil dad-daughter duo. Dana Terrace said she’s always liked the horror genre, and that she watched Alien when she was 4 years old. I don’t like the horror genre, although I appreciate dystopian stories. I hope more episodes come out soon. It would be interesting/fun if I start to want to use any of the characters for reference drawing since I’ve never drawn anything in a creepy style before. Something that confuses me is - merch is *always* being made and sold, including for Knights of Guinevere. Usually, in the form of plushy characters or plastic figurines. So, doesn’t that cause pollution in the real world?

Bujo cover page for May & June 2025. Theme: pleasant surprises and unexpected discoveries, which were mainly from nature (although technically, everything is from ‘nature’ including humans and human created things). … We were at a park, and saw a graceful blackbird with a pop of bright, bright orange on the wing. Then, it flew - and the bright orange part was even bigger. It had been hidden in the wing. I found out it’s called a red-winged blackbird. 🐦‍⬛ We walked on and a little ahead were piles of petals on the ground from a tree. The petals were large, light beige colored, and each one had a streak of vivid orange at the base. I didn’t take a photo because I was running out of storage on my phone at the time, but hope to go back at around the same time next Spring and find those petals again. The bright orange color - first hidden in the blackbird’s wing, then on the petals that were otherwise drying and neutral in color, was surprising and pretty. Another pleasant surprise was that I actually found an art prompt challenge that I wanted to do. The flower challenge. This was the first, and so far only one I have done. It was very helpful to my mental health at the time, to do this as a daily thing. The Bitcoin pizza day rally was also a nice surprise, but I suppose that is just because people like to do something meaningful on a special date. After 3 years, I finally figured out a place to hang the wire flower lights from our previous apartment. So those were the highlights of May and June. When drawn onto the same page, it shows some themes and meaningful connections. I think the theme partially comes from choices I made. Like how one choice will lead to another similar choice, because it’s based on my values and interests. I guess I value observing things in nature, helpful things that people do, and stories that are encouraging, while showing pain and hardships, including, how do you respond when encountering human violence.

bujo page for May & June 2025 - went back and did it in August, and finished the last part around the middle of November. theme: pleasant surprises and unexpected discoveries, which were mainly from nature (although technically, everything is from ‘nature’ including human created things). The process also became part of the unexpectedness … though not in an entirely ‘pleasant’ way because I realized everything needed a reference (as in you can’t just think it, then draw it). But then, the way the layout came out was sort of unplanned also. I think it just happened as I tried to fit the various things onto the small page. #artstr #coloredpencil #drawingfromreference

An AirBnB with a Bookshelf This was the first and only AirBnB I’ve stayed in that had, as part of its displays, a slim bookshelf filled with books. It was in the corner between a squashy couch and a small rocking chair, which had a seat of woven plant material over an antique wooden frame. There were favorite picture book series the Berenstain Bears, popular chapter book series The Magic Treehouse (a *huge* selection). Some Great Illustrated Classics. Art books. A boxed set of 5 books by Madeleine L’Engle. (I did not know it was a 5 book series! Even though I read a lot as a kid, I somehow missed or didn’t get into ‘A Wrinkle in Time’.) I decided to start with Book 2, ‘A Wind in the Door’, and it was an unexpectedly emotional reading experience. There was also a thick hardcover art book that looked like it would weigh 25 pounds. I sat in the small rocking chair with it on my lap. ‘World Famous Paintings’, edited by Rockwell Kent (1939). It was the last book I picked to look through. I didn’t think I would like it. However, the descriptions were interesting, and the introduction was really honest … and actually quite kind. A note was jotted on an inner page, angled in the upper left corner, which had piqued my curiosity. This huge, old, boring looking but also intriguing book was a gift from a grandma to someone named Kyra. “This is such a treasure of great artists, you’ll be inspired. Love, Grammy B.”