2GrinningGirls

GRINNING is what happens when you're out in public and you're thinking about your OTP or your favourite fandom and then you're smiling in a huge embarrassing way and you can't stop. This blog originated out of our crazy non-stop GRINNING for Stony (Yes, we wrote Standard Deviation. Yes, we had more works planned in that universe. No, we don't know if they'll ever get published. We're sorry, we tried but we got stuck and it's hard to unstick!) Now this blog is kind of an amalgamation of all the things we love. (Jennagrins succumbed to Miraculous Ladybug, but that's all in her ML sideblog jennagrinsoverml)

[footsteps-on-the-dance-floor]

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

[ligerscout]

Ready for April fools day Gonna take it to school and eat it

[ligerscout]

I ate ¾ of the jar and I made 3 teachers gag and one friend get angry at me.

[runestele]

fuck bro, I thought you were gunna fill all those cups with mayonnaise and hand them out at school and some serious shit was gunna go down

[chromaherder]

Been thinking about them lately.

[hearteyes-wheeler]

Brutus and his girlbosses getting real tired of the new kid on a power trip

[did-you-know]

Before and after staining the wood:

Source

[htmelle]

I didn’t trust it cause I couldn’t see any grain zooming in so I looked up his name and,

No he’s just that fucking good. Hyper-realistic is underselling it my dude. This is some wizard spell.

[aniseandspearmint]

WOOD?!?!?!

[xam347]

[toskarin]

why didn't they just leave pompeii when the volcano erupted? were they stupid?

[foone]

Fun fact: they did leave Pompeii! It's estimated that the population pre-eruption was something like 20,000, and the most likely number of dead in is in the range of 1,500-4,000. So most people just did leave Pompeii, it's just that not everyone left or could leave.

[fuckinnear]

[toskarin]

I'd have still left. the human body is capable of wonderful things in the face of danger

[crowteeth]

A lot of people died in the boats tho:/

[toskarin]

I would have paddled away quickly

[toskarin]

I take pretty hot baths so I think I'd be able to last a little longer than the average person

[demonicseries]

The scariest thing about pyroclastic flow is that if you can see it, no matter how far away it is, there is no possible way of surviving

[toskarin]

I've done incredible things. I think you'd be surprised.

[toskarin]

I know a lot about the volcano. they could learn much from me.

[slurpygunch]

you should teach them

[toskarin]

I will.

[toskarin]

everyone who has ever died from anything is an idiot. I wouldn't have done that.

[toskarin]

perhaps this could be chalked up to poor diet? I don't think explosions alone can do that.

[at-the-sign-of-the-fox-n-phoenix]

their brains became AEROSOLS IN THEIR SKULLS.

[toskarin]

what?? no

[at-the-sign-of-the-fox-n-phoenix]

correction, some of their brain cells turned to glass, unless you want to bitch about the Smithsonian's knowledge base. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mount-vesuvius-turned-mans-brain-cells-glass-180976073/

[toskarin]

that just doesn't sound correct. they should verify this information

[pink-thing-enjoyer]

How about if instead of encouraging them we instead CHALLENGE them to survive a fictional catastrophe

Like there's no way this bozo is surviving the fires of ibis

[toskarin]

not only could I survive that, but I could do it a second time

[bogleech]

If the pyro plastic flow is on the *ground* you could just stand up on a chair 🙄

[jv]

[rylandgraces]

‘No!’ said Aragorn, taking his hand and kissing his brow. ‘You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!’ Boromir smiled.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

[qiyra]

[burninblood]

turning vintage romantic illustration into buckynat fanart

you know, I did this to cheer us up in anticipation of another disappointment after TB's release today, but … it ended up being pretty much canon and this is what happened after the gala at the Hellfire club!!! LET'S GOOO

(a detail under the cut)

long live buckynat!!!!

[orteil42]

I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

[orteil42]

you are making this so difficult

[not-caused-by-those-who-love]

“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ’70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”

—

Johann Hari,

Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?

(via bigfatsun)

[you-were-made-to-reblog]

[liathwen-slays-dragons-blog]

This is by far my favorite thing in the blooper reel.

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

you left out the most important part

[lalage]

“She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits…”

- Peter S Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[catchymemes]

[henrysfox]

#relatable

[fruityindividual-deactivated202]

"oh. oh." was huge for the english language