life is strange and wonderful, enjoy it

a scattering of things i like, and occasionally my own writing/pictures

[chandra-telescope]

hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

[chandra-telescope]

favourite additions

[chandra-telescope]

[crime-bot]

@lulu-baked-beans Mari-

[lulu-baked-beans]

THIS.

These are mottos she lives by. The one I found the most fascinating and hear to her was the Hope is Heavy one.

[crime-bot]

Yeah,,, it can take work to have hope!

[weaselle]

I have this coping candle flame that flickers, Hope it’s simple name, but tho i truly need its light I keep it shuttered every night - the winds that blow through me are cold, the whispered wick a trick to hold, and while the fire burns devout.. I fear, exposed, it might go out. So while I have this Hope, it’s true, it never helps to light my view; I keep it safely tucked inside - so, blinded, then, I too must hide. But deadly dark the night, and cold - with naught but Hope to guide and warm; so time to risk that which I hold, and trust my candle in the storm.

[ascatteredmuseforming]

"Hope is spite, rebranded"

Well now that's speaking my language.

But @weaselle 's poem, speaks to another part, the part where hope lives. The tender center that holds onto the fragile spark of hope with gentle cupped hands and wills it to live.

[josilverdragon]

"The horrors persist but so do libraries, books, iced coffee, sunsets, trees, the word 'fuck', the moon and the sea."

[roberttingle]

annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with their hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦‍♀️

[prismatic-bell]

Worth noting is that people of the time period didn't wash their hair in the way we think of today. They did keep it clean*, but it was accomplished by combing daily with wooden combs to remove dead hair/dead skin/debris/etc. (I watched a video on this by a woman who does "I tried X part of medieval life, here's how it worked out" and walks through the historical context and everything, and she said it was time-consuming but actually worked really well, especially with her hair up in a kerchief and medieval-style braid.)

Which means the hairstyles of medieval women, while in some ways definitely religiously motivated, were also protective hairstyles. You were keeping out dirt and debris that would be hard to remove later. So these women aren't just immodest by the standards of the time, they're dirty. Like not in a moral sense, but a very literal physical one. They're not protecting their hair from getting gross and hard to clean.

*contrary to popular belief, while medieval people didn't bathe the same way we do for a lot of understandable reasons (lack of access to sufficient clean water, labor required to make hot water, being aware the water wasn't necessarily safe), they did actually value bodily cleanliness and used a variety of methods to effectively clean their bodies.

Sexy!

[antarcticconfessions-deactivate]

I love how it doesn't matter what expedition it is.

They all turn into excited kids when they meet penguins.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The Penguin: GIANTS! no way! I’m gonna wave at them THEY WAVED BACK! Holy Shit they’re dancing with me! My Wife is never gonna believe this OMG I got to dance with a Giant today so cool.

The Humans: Penguin! No way! I’m gonna wave at it IT WAVED BACK! Holy Shit it’s flapping with me! I got to play with a Penguin today; so cool.

[number1wifemisser]

where's the joy and whimsy guy? Have they found this one yet?

[redmegarex]

@joy-and-whimsy-official

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! This post is joyful and whimsical!

Who am I to deny a penguin some joy and whimsy 🐧

[theprofessional-amateur]

Do we count this as a passive rickroll?

link to post

[swordofwit]

A very important addition from Rian Johnson himself

[pittsick]

okay i’m gonna say it: fandoms are kinda dying on tumblr, and they’re starving because nobody reblogs anymore.

like… i don’t wanna be that person but be for real?? likes are cute and all but they do nothing for creators. ZERO. NADA. a reblog is literally the oxygen mask keeping this blue hellsite alive. you say you “love” a fic, an edit, a gifset? then BABES… reblog it. boost it. let it breathe.

half the time creators are out here pouring their entire soul, spine, AND three vertebrae into something just for it to get 200 likes and 3 reblogs, two of which are their own. that’s why people stop posting. that’s why fandoms feel empty. content doesn’t magically fall from the sky — it comes from people who feel seen.

and i promise you: reblogging is free. it costs you like 0.2 seconds and suddenly you’re personally responsible for keeping a whole fandom alive. congrats!! so yeah. if you like something? reblog it. scream in the tags. yell. keyboard smash. put sparkles. do whatever. just don’t let creators feel like they’re shouting into a void.

reblogs feed creators. reblogs keep fandoms thriving. reblogs literally save lives (okay maybe not literally but u get it).

support the creators you love !!!!!! or else we’re all gonna be sitting in empty tags like clowns.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[biglawbear]

Good for this person. This is exactly what you do. Screw the job.

I had a job that made me work an all nighter, 30 hours straight, over Thanksgiving. I resigned that Monday and it was one of the most satisfying decisions I’ve ever made.

[running-in-the-dark]

Part 3:

[invaderxan]

Please pay attention to all the manipulation tactics this boss uses, because they’re pulling out every trick in the book.

“I’m not your boss, I’m your friend”

“Other people will be hurt by this and it’s your fault and I’m going to tell them all that”

Mocking language

Jobs are important too

“Be a team player”

“We’re your family too”

Talking as if this is a thing you must do

“We all make sacrifices”

Undermining your authority

“You caused all of this, really”

Accusing you of being “unprofessional”

“Look at the money you cost us”

“Just laugh it off and come back to work”

This is like a 101 course in how employers use guilt trips to coerce you into putting up with their bullshit. This is precisely why you should never trust those employers who insist that they’re “like a family.” They are not. It’s just a ruse so that your boss can neg you into putting your job ahead of your actual life.

[antleredheretic-deactivated2025]

Life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

I firmly believe that some stories can never be translated into a different medium and that's okay

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sometimes it has to be a book. sometimes it has to be a movie. if you try to make it something else, it's not the same story anymore.

[iguanamouth]

forbidden knowledge

[coldfruit123]

Can we see this frame by frame? Please and thank you.

[iguanamouth]

Yes Here Are All The Frames

[pibblepunk-deactivated20200219]

THAT IS NOT WHAT WAS ASKED FOR

[waterbottoe]

How dare you hide this in the notes

[astriiformes]

things stanford pines has definitely bragged about: 

being able to spell his last name using the periodic table of the elements in not one, but two different ways

[astriiformes]

[autisticmight]

what about phosphorous, indium, and einsteinium?

[astriiformes]

he breaks out this chart and mcgucket leaves the room

[blackqueerblog]

People helping people. That’s all this world should be about cuz all we got is each other. Love seeing this kindness from big companies. Needs to happen more often in corporate America. 

[gokuma]

Okay but what company is that? We should support businesses doing good things

[lampfaced]

Found them! https://www.magnaready.com/

They do an entire clothing line, so it’s not just shirts they offer. 

[00jinx]

boooooooooooost

[theconcealedweapon]

Rich people openly brag about intentionally choosing to live off of other people's hard work, while they shame poor people for receiving financial assistance that they need to live.

[whatbigotspost]

Image is a tweet from @investormeldave that is marked up with red type to change its content. The original content is as follows:

Rental property #1 pays for our vacations.

Rental property #2 pays for our mortgage.

Rental property #3 pays for our groceries.

Rental property #4 pays for vehicles and so on.

Have assets pay for your liabilities. It’s a cheat code to a stress free life.

End orginal tweet. The red marked up new tweet reads:

Tenant #1 pays for our vacations.

Tenant #2 pays for our mortgage.

Tenant #3 pays for our groceries.

Tenant #4 pays for vehicles and so on.

Have other people pay for your living costs.

It’s a cheat code to a stress free life.

[mortalityplays]

the funniest thing about being gay is the way that displays of heterosexuality inevitably age into homosexuality. the women's parlour tea societies and pier-side strongmen of the 1900s. the patriotic rosie riveters and coiffed soldier boys of wartime. the A-line skirts and cat eye glasses and mutton chops and flares of the 70s. the camo minidresses and divine sisterhoods and lad on lad on lad culture of the 90s. it's ours now. the bikers and the sailors and the flappers and the beat poets and the hippies and the ladies maids. you parody yourselves to escape from us and we eat it for breakfast forever and ever amen.

[mushroomcaphat]

"DISRUPTION: TACTICS

The faggots never tire of fucking with the men's minds. Once all the faggots let their hair grow long, wore necklaces made of silver and shells and clothes of colorful, elaborate fabrics. They looked so stunning that the men over-looked their principles and began to look stunning also. When the men all looked like faggots, the faggots cut their hair, put on black leather and looked like the men used to look. The men were annoyed and pretended not to notice. Growing bored with basic black leather, the faggots began to elaborate. They wore black fish-net stockings and high heels with their black leather jackets. They carefully sewed imitation rhinestones all over their black leather pants. They wore feather boas as they rode their motorcycles through the devastated city. They wore flowing gold lame gowns and workboots with their short hair and dirty fingernails. They drank beer and swore, in velvet robes and furs. They sipped champagne and talked refined in paint-splattered blue denim. The men did not want to look at any of this. And when they had to, they became confused and petulant and unpleasant, which pleased the faggots."

--Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

[duckdotcom]

secret hug techniques to be used only in dire emergencies

[duckdotcom]

[ploncc]

i love you writing that takes an unexpected turn, i love you characters that start as plot dressing and are now pushing the book to become a series so their stories can be told better, i love you scenes that make themselves thrice as fucked up as you were planning and leave you staring at the wall for ten minutes while brushing your teeth in a haze, i love you emotional beats that evolve organically through the process of punting around the plot like it's a rotten potato you found on the street while walking around with your friends during the fall, i love you writing as the living thing, i love you writing as the active work, i love you writing as the thing that grows and molds and degrades and is born again from itself, i love you writing

[coldasyou]

AND ON THE ROAD TO HELL THERE WAS A RAILROAD LINE (insp)