aesthetic & thoughts

I collect interesting things in much the same way a crow collects candy wrappers. if u would like to sift through my hoard you are in the correct place!

[wiltking]

so you're telling me the fifa world cup is all men? its all men's teams? and so is the superbowl? and all the sports teams that states are known for and make copious amounts of merch for are also men's teams? and only 5 women have ever entered formula one since its inception in 1950 and only two of them were able to compete? and this is normal? its acceptable?

[wiltking]

i grew up playing backyard soccer on the pc as a child in the early 2000s where boys and girls would play on the same team and against each other and you're telling me that's still an unrealistic fantasy that can't happen in real life?

[grundoonmgnx]

Nick Barlow, Clusterfuck/Keep It Together, 2022

Oil on mountboard, 81 X 81 cm

[shopwitchvamp]

Babe, are you okay? You reblogged Nick Barlow’s Clusterfuck/Keep It Together again

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Chalayan - Fall 1995 RTW

[iapislazuli]

when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people” 

[iapislazuli]

Happy pride month to the filthiest most brutal read I’ve ever been given in my life

[taurzza]

Fall spear, into the dark, into the soft, and might echoing

[doriangraysrockcollection]

i recognize that my body would probably benefit from such as a yoga or pilates class but. well. not to be an edgelord but i need like yoga for assholes or something. i am from massachusetts and the vibe at these things puts me directly into fight or flight mode. why are you acting like this let me out let mE OUT

[mbta-unofficial]

You need to go to a spin class and seethe at the instructor

[hellothanksjellyfish]

I feel like this needs to be more Ben Affleck Tired Massachusetts instead of Stuck Behind a Storrowing Massachusetts

I need a 50 year old Market Basket cashier with a hacking cough and a Dunkies bucket to lead me through a 30 minute flow, all the while yelling that it's another chaturanga or it's not her fault if I fall down the basement stairs again

[doriangraysrockcollection]

yeah my dream is the instructor tells us to do a plank and someone groans and the instructor rolls their eyes like, "yeah, no one wants to do a fuckin' plank, alright jessica? but y'know what's worse? back pain. so we're gonna shut up an' do it anyway. jesus fuckin' christ. you came here."

spin class isn't the right vibe or the right type of exercise. and while i appreciate all the people mentioning various martial arts in the notes, i am unfortunately highly allergic to wearing white

[doriangraysrockcollection]

instructor: alright we done bitchin'? one minute plank starting...now

[3 seconds into plank]

student 1: planks aren't even yoga

instructor: you think i give a fuck?

student 2: i mean, it's a yoga class

instructor: it's masshole yoga. it's different. it's its own thing. you think i give a fuck what they do in Bangladesh or whatever?

student 1: India

student 3: isn't that cultural appropriation?

instructor: ooh, look at havahd ova' there

[10 seconds silence]

instructor: you guys see that new Greek place they're puttin' in on mass ave?

[various noises of assent]

instructor, con't: looks like shit.

[more noises of assent]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

BREAKING NEWS: screenshots from your phone not an appropriate format for submitting work in college classes.

[json-derulo]

Whenever they gave us one of those "read through ALL the instructions before you begin!" trick assignments in school where the steps lead you on an increasingly ridiculous goose chase until the final one tells you to just put your name on the paper and turn it in without doing anything else, I was always like, "Okay, but what's the point? Surely the REAL world won't be anything like this." And then I grew up and discovered that not only is the real world often exactly like that, some people won't even read the first line of the instructions even if they make perfect sense. And these people are called "co-workers"

[woodsdyke]

obviously my favorite thing about tidepooling is The Creatures but i also love how many people i get to know. today i met an elderly couple who were new to identifying intertidal zone animals so i ended up just wandering around with them and IDing stuff for them and answering their questions. i was wearing a great sand dunes national park shirt and they told me about their vacation there a few weeks ago. later a guy unprompted asked me if i knew that hooded nudibranchs smell like watermelon (i didn't. i later found another one and smelled it. they do). then i exchanged numbers with someone while we were standing knee deep in the ocean because we're both looking for new friends in town. and this was all within like two hours

[larkandkatydid]

Certainly, we have all seen booktok confess to the most deranged behavior, so i will believe almost any ludicrous story about them.

However, I have also found that it is a genuine phenomenon where people who don’t read very much are convinced that nobody actually enjoys reading and one way this manifests online is people insisting that people who read more than they do, even when they themselves are not readers, are lying, cheating, disassociating, etc. So, to see someone make a claim about about booktok while also asserting that reading 30 books in an entire year is some kind of unheard of achievement, then maybe that is another non-reader with a bizarre and paranoid hang up about readers.

[godlessondheimite]

it’s crazy to me how ice water is a uniquely american phenomenon. it’s the greatest drink in the entire world. how have other countries not hopped on board? genuinely don’t understand how sparkling water is ubiquitous in a way that simple ice water isn’t. whenever i ask for ice water outside the u.s., they put 2 ice cubes in a glass, and i’m always too ashamed of being american to ask for more. but it’s our single healthy habit! luckily i am always prepared (half gallon insulated water bottle that i fill with ice myself and then fill with water and always carry around with me) but it really is baffling every time i travel.

[aceday]

i am agreeing with you but i will say im pretty sure ice water isn’t as healthy for you as room temp water. ice-water slows digestion from what i remember when i asked the waitress in germany why europeans don’t drink water with ice.

otherwise this is what i’ve been saying! not only was i furious when i had to pay for water in germany, but it was always lukewarm and half the time it was carbonated 😭 please i dont want your fizzy bath water for €2.

[godlessondheimite]

I’m annoyed with myself for phrasing my original post in a way that implies I think the temperature of the water affects its healthfulness. I mean America’s sole healthy habit is drinking lots of water, and that happens to be accompanied by a preference for cold temperature, but I don’t think, and have never thought, that cold water is inherently healthier than warm or hot or tepid water. Just that drinking water in general is.

But on the flip side, ice/cold water isn’t unhealthier, despite pervasive cultural myths! l There is no scientific backing for any of those claims whatsoever!

[was-once-somewhere-else]

I just saw a video title on YouTube that said something like “Why is glass transparent?” And that’s an interesting question and I’m sure it’s great that the video exists but my first thought was like “Because glass is terrible, obviously.” Because it’s unwieldy and let’s out warmth and needs to be heated to hundreds of degrees to be shaped and turns into hundreds of tiny daggers if you drop it. Why the hell would we bother with that if it didn’t have some magical quality like being totally transparent despite being solid? Glass is transparent because if it weren’t, we’d use something else.

[was-once-somewhere-else]

looking through my “me” tag and this is apparently what I was thinking 3 years ago

[totally-a-wizard]

If you’re still curious we did not start working glass for its transparency.  It was most likely started as a sanitary concern.  Glass is easy to clean with soap and water, once it’s cleaned out you can use it again for anything and no germs or flavor from the previous meal or drink will remain.

Other materials at the time, namely clay, would absorb flavors and germs meaning that if you ate beef off a clay plate your next meal with that plate could have beef flavor and microbes common on cow meat on it.  That would leak out seemingly at random no less.  Heck imagine a sick person coughing into their soup bowl and then months later their germs hiding in the clay would pop out to infect whole new people.

Also the earliest human use of glass we know of is for its sharpness.  Pre-historic people would use volcanic glass as sharp knives for food preparation.  Also beads.  Pretty much any new substance humans get their hands on for most of our history we immediately try to make into beads.

The fact that it could become see through was a side benefit.

[was-once-somewhere-else]

this is amazing and I’m really glad I reblogged that old bullshit post because I got to learn this

[bedupolker]

"You should always strictly follow the rules, unless i think they're stupid, in which case you can't stop me" is a great trait for a female character to have

[pukicho]

The loudest guy in the fucking world: hey man

[pukicho]

There's more after 'hey man' but you're deaf now

[pancakeke]

vaseline is op for fucked up skin but its texture stat is dogshit

[lithominium]

Put your harpy girl in a harness, then attach a big rope to the harness, then take her to the park and fly her like a kite

[grimoiremanifest]

☝️Probrlem

[lithominium]

Whats the problem

[grimoiremanifest]

how;get down

[turnways]

I am aware the terminology doesnt exclusively refer to one thing but I lowkey hate how "purity culture" has been watered down to someone hating sex scenes and shipping drama when a lot of it is shit like being told youre going to hell for masturbating or children being afraid to speak up about sexual abuse.

[aroaceenjolras]

For real, as an ex-evangelical aroace person raised in purity culture I mostly associate it with my ownership of my body having an expiration date. I used to use "I'm waiting for marriage" as a get out of sex free card in high school until I took a moment to consider the implication that marriage, and thus sex, were an inevitability under that assumption. Purity culture fucking loves sex, but only in the right context. It loves controlling sex. Having too much sex, the wrong kinds of sex, or no sex at all are equal threats to that control.

So hearing people say I'm enacting purity culture by not participating in sexuality is, as you can imagine, really funny and doesn't make me feel like I'm in the twilight zone at all.