Midwest is the Best

Abby | 32 | CHI → STL -> ME

[unbotheredmuse]

the woman you’re becoming will cost you people, relationships, spaces, and material things. choose her over everything.

[petaltexturedskies]

One day you’ll have whatever it is you’re now so confusedly seeking. That kind of calm that comes from knowing oneself and others. But you can’t rush the arrival of that state of mind. There are things you only learn when no one teaches them. And that’s how it is with life. There’s even more beauty in discovering it for yourself, in spite of the suffering.

Clarice Lispector, from “Gertrudes asks for advice” in The Complete Stories

[kosmogrl]

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

[kosmogrl]

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

[kosmogrl]

the lioness still concerns herself with things she should have gotten over a long time ago

[abdomaniac-two]

I love living here and I’m going to miss it but only one more week of listening to this fucking snapping turtle that moo-grunts (literally idk how else to describe it if you hear one you’ll understand) it’s right outside of my window and it doesn’t matter what I do or where I am this thing is LOUD

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[in-love-with-movies]

Leave the World Behind (2023)

[raylangivins]

[thadymiller]

Text: congrats on the failure babe, most people don't even try

[midnightvrose]

[tooiconic]

both of them are me

[abuzd]

Daniel Sloss SAID IT THANK YOU DANIEL SLOSS

[shy-retiring-oxford-chaps]

Reblogging again now that Russell Brand's ugly mug is back in the news to remind everyone that in the 2023 Times expose on his abusive behaviour, Daniel Sloss was the only male comedian willing to be named and quoted like "yeah that dude's a scumbag and women have been warning each other about him for years."

[proud-to-be-a-freak]

I also need everyone to know that X is free to stream on his homepage (except for HBO territories) and I am a strongly advocating for every single person but especially cis heterosexual men to watch it at least once.

[yujateaandpi]

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

[finemaleactors]

Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen

[bestperformances]

Viggo Mortensen as Tony Lip / Green Book (2018)

Academy Award Nominated as Best Actor

[ferretfyre]

Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Thank you, Tony. But not everyone can play Chopin. Not like I can.

Mahershala Ali as Dr. Donald Shirley in Green Book (2018, dir. Peter Farrelly)

[dailymanners]

You don't have to laugh at "girl math" or "girl dinner" or "I'm just a girl" jokes. You don't have to laugh at misogynistic humor that demeans women. You don't have to go along with it. You don't even have to sit there awkwardly pretending you didn't hear anything. You are allowed to speak up and say something.

You don't have to be a jerk about it. The most effective yet civil way of dealing with harmful "humor" is just pretending you don't get the joke and asking them to explain. "I don't get it, what's girl math? What's a girl dinner? What do you mean by you're just a girl? Can you explain the joke to me?"

And if you're feeling bold, you can just say (or follow up with) "I think that's misogynistic". That's allowed. You don't have to quietly endure misogynistic "jokes", you can call a spade a spade.

[abdomaniac-two]

So many bruises from moving everything to the storage unit this weekend. Man. And I’m still finding more after my nap. And I know there’s more forming that I can’t see yet. But listen. The only ones who stepped up to help me all weekend were my two female neighbors. Women will rule the world.

[bublegunn]