[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[mistahgrundy]

[aviandinosaurfluff]

I am sore and tired after working a 14.5 hour day yesterday.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[shortwaveradioenthusiast]

[kingedwardsapphires]

Me stepping out of the optometry office after slamming four lokos with the doctor and immediately meeting the love of my life (but I have social anxiety)

[pocketss]

distressing things to say to your friends

[monstrous-ideas]

Its been five years of it’s august and the flow of time still haunts me

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“everyone is mad at me and they just won’t tell me” —> “no one has said anything about being mad at me and i haven’t done anything to warrant being mad at so if someone is silently fuming about me and not saying anything that’s their problem and actually quite weird of them and i can effortlessly move on with my life”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

this took SUCH a huge deal of unlearning because, like so many of you, i came out of a home where being quietly in trouble WAS the default state, and i DID grow up not just with the assumption but borderline religious conviction that Everyone Is Mad At Me, I Am Bad, I Must Exist In A Constant State of Attempting to Pacify The Natural Rage I Inspire In Everyone. and no it actually turns out that my family are the freaks . and yours are too

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“this isn’t true because i DEFINITELY silently fume at people in the hopes they’ll figure out what they did and apologize” that’s not good. you shouldn’t do that

“this isn’t true because the ex-friendship that traumatized me ended explosively after they were mad at me and never told me why” that’s not good. they shouldn’t be doing that

“i don’t think this is true because my current friend group is constantly icing me out until i figure out what ive done to upset them and properly apologized without being told” hey thats not good. they should not be doing that

if the peacefulness of your relationship with someone (familial, romantic, friendly, anything) can be destroyed by effective communication/asking them for effective communication, you have got to get out of there. if you can’t get out of there, you’ve got to throw away any ideas about what that person thinks of you because they have their own shit to figure out before they can accurately read anyone else

[milquetoaast]

source

[taffywabbit]

something I really enjoy is that I've now seen like 4 or 5 variations of roughly this same video, all slightly different in their angles and timing while obviously being the exact same bunny and room, implying that this is a consistent and frequent behavior for this bunny instead of just a funny thing it did once that got caught on camera. I wish I could have as much raw unfiltered enthusiasm for anything as this little rabbit has for its dinnertime

[there-is-no-romeo]

bauhaus. in the middle of baustreet

[catasters]

[prideprejudce]

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

[prideprejudce]

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

[sterna-hirundo]

If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.

[goslinggf]

"girl dinner" "boy kibble" can y'all just eat a meal gender neutrally

[goslinggf]

gender neutrients

[aviandinosaurfluff]

Ah, I had a twofer today. One person younger than me by a decade and the other older than me by more than that both asking me to repeat how old I am. I don't know how much longer I can play the party trick of being 12-13 years older than people expect, but I never tire of the silence and faces that follow the reveal.

[aviandinosaurfluff]

Well, it was a rare day where I came home, did my vocal exercises, did some creative stuff, and then finally went on a run in the neighborhood (mostly steps), and was treated with the rising of a full moon.

[chthonic-cassandra]

Walking great distances has never been extreme behavior to me. It has forever helped me regain my equilibrium, and I would always rather do the existentially important things in my life on foot. If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Traveling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.

Werner Herzog, A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin

[aviandinosaurfluff]

Camping was okay, although I did leave early because I wasn't sleeping well (forgot my earplugs) and worn out from the previous two weekends of travel. I just needed a day at home, so I headed out on Saturday evening.

I think the weekend cemented my desire to not camp with that whole crew again. There were two comments made -- again, by people who don't know me -- that were just needless AND incorporated my perceived gender into it.

No, I didn't pack my own food because I am "tough and don't need anyone to make [me] breakfast /macho voice", it's because I didn't want to split costs without knowing what they would be, but primarily because I did not want to be beholden to an unknown eating schedule, which would have spelt the ultimate doom of my enjoyment of the weekend.

And yes, I am tearing these old hosen apart because the crotch wasn't great for mobility, not "Because [I've ] got a big dick". And clarifying that that simply wasn't the case just brought more comments about my imagined dick size -- again, by a complete stranger.

😘 Fare thee well