How To Donate An ESIM

legit the best advice i can give you: feed your friends

any time someone is in any kind of crisis or upheaval, offer to feed them. tell them they don't have to choose what it is if they can't make decisions, just ask about allergies and preferences and tell them you're just gonna make food happen at their house.

friend having a baby? delivery gift certificate to order food to the hospital after the kid shows up.

someone's relative passes away? offer to make them dinner.

buddy gets laid off? ask if you can order them lunch.

pal stuck in a depressive episode? offer to drive them to fucking mcdonalds, if that's what they want.

people in crisis are tired and sad and angry and the last thing most of them are doing is thinking about feeding themselves. so if you have the ability or time or money, providing that is always, always a good move.

legit i do this all the time, and it is 100% always appreciated. i have taught all my friends that when something happens, we feed each other. it makes people feel extremely cared for, and I cannot recommend it enough.

They make me unwell

Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

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Description of the side effects of addiction to elfbark: *describes Fitz personally exactly*

Fits: Wow that's terrible. Sure glad I'm not addicted to elfbark!

~quarantine vibes masterpost~

as requested (though this is more resources and less vibes) and with a bigggg caveat that, obviously, life looks very very different for all of us right now. hopefully something on the list below will be useful to you. (art)

activities

this is gonna sound stupid but i really recommend deep-cleaning your house/apt, for a number of reasons. one, you’re gonna be spending some serious time in there, you deserve a nice space. two, you will inevitably unearth fun stuff you forgot you had. case in point: i found a deck of cards and now all we do is play rummy 500.

reading. so hot right now. trends really do come back. 

comfort reads (and these) (and these). personally i’ve been alternating between bon-bon YA and slow, lush works by writers i already know i love, like melville & anne carson.

pandemic reads (and these).

scribd (unlimited ebooks & audiobooks) has a one month free offer rn; it’s usually $9/month. kindle unlimited also has a 2-month free subscription but i’m not linking to that, stop giving your money to amazon.

crafts!! producing an object with my own two hands feels like the best thing right now. i’ve been making kitschy potholders because i am emotionally in the third grade, but that spring cleaning will probably turn up all sorts of good crafty objects. if the adult coloring book your aunt gave you is lost for good, i recommend checking out #colorourcollections pages from years past.

go for walks/runs/whatever, but keep it local (no driving 4 hours away and infecting a new town with your old town’s germs), isolated (no popular jogging trails!), and legal (state parks & beaches are closed for a reason). 

shopping, but make it free

PC games: here + here

print-and-play boardgames (& also cards against humanity, family edition)

magazines (through RBD + your library)

tv/movie streaming: HBO is free rn! & here are 10 other free streaming services. feel-good show plug: leverage is available on IMDB tv :-)

academic books: biiig long list here; does not include de gruyter (not all books are free rn, but a lot are–i downloaded 27 the other night. you may need to use a university VPN in order to have access, i can’t quite tell); cambridge UP; or manchester UP.

life, but make it virtual

free exercise classes (big list here; i hate working out so i’ve just been doing yoga with adriene.) 

museum tours

theater & opera (the UK’s national theatre at home; the shows must go on; the met)

NPR has an ongoing list of free virtual concerts, sorted by genre & time.

nikon is offering all of their photography classes for free during april

fender’s offering 3 months of free online guitar lessons

adobe creative cloud is free for students until june

also there are a million academic MOOCs available right now, if your brain is in a place where that seems doable. 

food

supercook lets you input the ingredients you’ve got and suggests recipes that make use of them! good for figuring out to do with those weird beans in the back of your pantry.

in my house: we’re working through the stupid big tea stash i unearthed and eating a lot of big-batch comfort food–soups, homemade mac & cheese, etc. 

maybe this is only happening in california but we haven’t had flour in a full month so here is a roommate-approved chocolate cake recipe that only uses 1 tbs of flour

keep track of local food service strikes! if you’re ordering delivery from local businesses, please tip generously. 

oh you’re trying to work?

(wheeze)

i hate working at home because i am really, really bad at it. the only thing that’s done the trick for me is physically changing workspaces (i never work at the dining room table downstairs but i live there now), wearing headphones, and lighting a candle.

ambient sound: coffitivity; DIY mixer.

cold turkey. 

in general i’m just trying to be gentle with myself and acknowledge that doing work right now is absurd–it’s has to happen but it doesn’t have to be good or graceful.

coronavirus-specific resources:

facemask template. this is the handsewing one i’ve been using, from the NYT; if you have fabric + a basic sewing kit (needle, pins, thread) you’ll be good to go. if you don’t have access to a sewing kit, the CDC has two new-sew options here.

healthdata.org. this website has been good for helping my brain be reasonable about the situation; data is saturating the news rn but this site has concrete region-specific projections about fatality rates and resource use and is good for reminding you that this thing has an end point.

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

✨ my picrew icon maker is here!! ✨ please tag me if you use/post it anywhere, i’d love to see what you make with it!

https://picrew.me/image_maker/136066

So many summer fields

An ode to the passage of time.

“Running into the sun, but I’m running behind.”

- prints ! -

The sanctions won't even work on a group like Lions' Den so this is just pointless anti Palestinian-ism