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cherry valley forever
Not today Justin
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The Stonewall Inn
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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The Bowery Presents
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Every Hiccstrid kiss
@chiefhiccstrid , I was your Secret Odin this year! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ I hope you’ll like it!!!
Oh. My. Gosh. THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL. I mean seriously, what a beautiful post. I feel blessed. And honored. Thank you! This is simply amazing and I am going to stare at it for a while.
I just need to breathe
I’ve forgotten what it’s like to breathe.
That’s not because plants try to kill me every fall, leaving me scrambling for my little red inhaler in the depths of my bottomless bag.
It’s not because I have this annoying habit of laughing until I’m incapable of moving, wheezing and crying in my seat.
It’s not because of exhilaration and excitement as I lean forward in my plane seat to gaze out over the unknown lands and people down below.
Or even because of the giddiness of meeting someone new and beautiful and oh so interesting.
No, I’ve forgotten how to breathe because for some reason my mind has decided it is a foreman with an invisible vice and instead of pinning wood in its jaws, it pins my chest.
As my mind runs circles and my heart tells me to go and do and be, I feel the slow turning of the handle at my back, the pressure and pain that makes me stand still…immobile.
There’s that voice inside of me telling me what I should do, what I should want;
It tells me to live and smile and enjoy, to sit outside and take in the beauty of the day, to take a deep breath and smell my perfect macchiato made by that beautiful boy behind the counter, but I can’t.
I breathe out in preparation for that deep breath of relaxation and life and what should be, but that little give in my ribs lets my mind spin the handle one more time and suddenly I have no air.
I am left gasping and straining and my mind begins to tease and taunt. Why should you relax? Why should you enjoy anything? What have you done to deserve any pleasure at all? What about all of those deadlines you are ignoring? What about that question you completely misunderstood? What about that single cup in your sink? What about that beautiful person that smiled at you on the bus and you just stuck your nose right back into your damn book? You’re a hot mess and you know it, so why should you enjoy this dumpster fire of a life?
I had a therapist once. She always smiled and listened, and tried to tell me how to make the vice loosen, tried to give me the key to unlocking the handle that cinches it closed on my back.
“You’re just overthinking things, Zee.”
“If you let go of some things you could focus on other things.”
“Why don’t you just make a list? Rank what’s important. Organize. You’re smart. You can figure this out.”
But I can’t figure this out when every spin of the handle takes a little more air out of my lungs and I feel like I’m suffocating, like I’m drowning. And have you ever tried to be organized or logical when you are drowning? There’s a moment when your brain shuts down, when all of the schooling and logic and intelligence you may claim to have goes flying out the window and you are left gasping and scrambling, and trying to do anything to survive. It doesn’t matter how smart you are, when you are drowning you are just the same as every other person, just an animal trying to live.
I see a shadow on the counter in front of me and look up to see that beautiful boy who made my macchiato.
“Are you alright?”
The question makes me want to laugh, but how do you laugh when you have nothing in your lungs to give? I look back down at the coffee cup, see that carefully drawn foam art trembling as I grip that mug so tightly that I’m more certain it’s made of steel than glass.
“I just need to breathe.”
Russian roads, only 30 sec
What’s with Russia and dashcams?
to have car insurance in russia, dashcams are required because russians are terrible drivers
did you really need to ask what’s up with dashcams in Russia after watching this video
still doesn’t beat that dash cam footage of the meteorites coming down and the guy just grumpily adjusts his rearview mirror to avoid the glare and keeps driving
Do you have a link to that one? I’ve seen it before, but I haven’t been able to find it again.
@bennygal16
As a russian i can confurm it. We’re just used to shit and rarely impressed anymore.
inspired (x)
on the subject of jewish superheroes, batman was made jewish by accident, and DC has no fucking clue they did it
I missed this, explain! (Sorry don’t have a great comics background.)
you’re fine! comics are wild and confusing, i understand completely
the kanes are jewish! kate kane is jewish, and canonically bruce’s maternal first cousin, effectively making martha wayne jewish. by halachic standards, that would make bruce jewish.
So Bruce had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony then?
im really fucking mad that DC accidentally made this pun possible, and that i was also not the first to make it
*slams reblog*
Klezmer dolphins.
I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.
The one dancing and flailing at the end
All I keep thinking about is, for the love of God, do not get a drop of water on that instrument.
The hooded figure did not buy their cookies.
Uncle and niece harassing passers-by.
I’d rather you not reblog my art than remove my comments, thank you
honestly they should put a warning before i walk into DEFINITE DEATH
what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”
That’s actually fascinating, does anyone have any examples?
Chinese-American food is a really good example of this and this article provides a good intro to the history http://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/03/illustrated-history-of-americanized-chinese-food
I took an entire class about Italian American immigrant cuisine and how it’s a product of their unique immigrant experience. The TL;DR is that many Italian immigrants came from the south (the poor) part of Italy, and were used to a mostly vegetable-based diet. However, when they came to the US they found foods that rich northern Italians were depicted as eating, such as sugar, coffee, wine, and meat, available for prices they could afford for the very first time. This is why Italian Americans were the first to combine meatballs with pasta, and why a lot of Italian American food is sugary and/or fattening. Italian American cuisine is a celebration of Italian immigrants’ newfound access to foods they hadn’t been able to access back home.
(Source: Cinotto, Simone. The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. Chicago: U of Illinois, 2013. Print.)
Stuff you Missed in History Class has a really good podcast overview of “Foreign Food” in the US.
“I just want Bruce Lee to hold me as long as he can.”
I’m dying.
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#there are two kinds of people #the hopeful and the exhausted
There are three kinds of people: the hopeful, the exhausted, and the pragmatic.
and then there was Thor
The Free Marches
“The Free Marches are not a kingdom, nor even a nation in the most basic sense. People from that region dislike being lumped together as ‘Marchers.’ Rather, they are a collection of independent city-states united only when it suits them; in this respect, they resemble the Bannorn before the arrival of King Calenhad. Because of this, the Free Marches have no capital, and what passes for a central government exists only sporadically, a sort of Landsmeet that convenes only during times of crisis.
I arrived in time for the Grand Tourney while it was on in Tantervale - a remarkable sight indeed. I saw Avvar hillsmen test their mettle against Orlesian Chevaliers, riders from the Anderfels buying Nevarran cavalry horses, Antivan craftsmen selling their wares to Tevinter mages. All of Thedas was on display.”
- From In Pursuit of Knowledge: Travels of a Chanty Scholar by Brother Genitivi
The Anderfels | Antiva | Elvhenan | Fereldan | Nevarra | Orlais | Par Vollen | Rivain | The Tevinter Imperium | The Dales |
DEANNE SMITH IS AN ICON
@makotothunder
california anti-drought measures are always like “take shorter showers! consider brushing your teeth with the sink turned off” and never mention the fact that nestle is bottling all of our fucking water and selling it to people who live in areas with plenty of water
It’s like the Irish potato “famine” I stg
In California, residential use only accounts for 4% of total water use. Industrial use is 80%. Source:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/california-fast-running-out-water-blame-it-big-ag
This is true of any resource. Yes turning your lights off will save you a but of money. But industry wastes far more electricity than you. Yes recycling your garbage is good. But companies, like the retail chain i work at produce far more garbage than you ever could and do not recycle it at all.
Turning natural resource and environmental crises into individual responsibility is form of class warfare so fucking insidious
Honestly just burn every company to the ground or cut them off from electricity and water systems
Tax them heavily for their usage Make recycling mandatory or theyre fined Oh im sorry am i stepping all over your precious free market I hope to choke it out
“Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet?
Or let’s talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? Because I take showers, I’m responsible for drawing down aquifers? Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humans….People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. They’re dying because the water is being stolen.” - Derrick Jensen (author & environmentalist)
