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[livelovecaliforniadreams]

And I realized here that Shawn has the ability to encorcel Cory with just a smirk. -Danielle

Yes. He does. He does. It's also very Shawn/Cory. A very Cory Moment... -Will

[jordanbolton]

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

[luulapants]

My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

[worldscoolest]

[letterful]

“I’ll be so sweet to him, if he calls me. If he says he can’t see me tonight, I’ll say, “Why, that’s all right, dear. Why, of course it’s all right.” I’ll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he’ll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them… They don’t like you to tell them they’ve made you cry. They don’t like you to tell them you’re unhappy because of them. If you do, they think you’re possessive and exacting. And then they hate you. They hate you whenever you say anything you really think. You always have to keep playing little games. Oh, I thought we didn’t have to; I thought this was so big I could say whatever I meant. I guess you can’t, ever. I guess there isn’t ever anything big enough for that.”

— DOROTHY PARKER, from “A Telephone Call”.

[art-of-mathematics]

If you know you know.

... Extrapolating from incomplete data be like...

[amayikes]

This reply deserves to be in its own reblog lmao

[zooarchaeologyatdinner]

I own a shirt that says exactly what the comment above says. And you would not -believe- the number of truly awkward interactions I've had that start with someone saying "so what's the second type?"

[baldonam]

And as my final act of love I shall:

To never be seen again

[wishbzne-deactivated20210526]

mary oliver, ‘from this river, when i was a child, i used to drink’

[ID: “‘What, precisely, will you grieve for?’ For the river. For myself, my lost joyfulness. For the children who will not know what a river can be—a friend, a companion, a hint of heaven.” end ID]

[dogrotpdf]

how’s that house that raised you?

[free-my-mindd]

-Anaïs Nin, 1939

[peef]

-Sam Jumex, 2023

[guiltrose-deactivated20180203]

do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

[autisticadaineabernant]

IF I'M REALLY REALLY QUIET, WILL YOU STAY?????????????

[quasi-normalcy]

Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

[quasi-normalcy]

[fousheezy]

This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe

[disredspectful]

When lasers were discovered they were called “a solution without a problem”, noone had any idea what to use them for. Since then they’re revolutionised communications and SO many parts of technology. CDs, DVDs, printing, fast internet, laser etching for making computer chips, laser eye surgery, spectroscopy, LIDAR measurements of weather patterns, barcode scanners, cooling atomic clocks, nuclear fusion, microscopy, LED technology and materials research. I’m probably not even scratching the surface here. Fund theory and fundamental science research.

[quasi-normalcy]

It's actually kind of heartening, lasers; because before they were invented, their only real antecedents in science fiction were things like rayguns and heatrays and what not. But it actually turns out that their usefulness as a weapon is extremely limited, whereas their usefulness for just about everything else is incredible. It's one of the occasions where we flipped the "Dual Use" coin and it landed very solidly on the good side.

[bowditch]

when people complain about wasted funds on things that don't "help" anyone, like space research, my favorite fact to share is that it was research into small rocket propulsion systems that gave us the mechanism that makes airbags work. space research has literally saved lives.

[baldonam]

Also if anyone has spent there life researching something to a dead end, maybe that research will find it's application somewhere, maybe not... But it's like mapping a maze, now you know not to follow this path, how many people have made great discoveries on their 12th idea because someone else had disproved or walked down that road letting them it wasn't worth it for their goal for their first 11 ideas and they didn't spend their time on it.

[shorylovebot]

shawn/cory + textposts

inspo this post by @merry-melody

[surqrised]

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

[baldonam]

Interest

I believe grief is just repaying the debt

Of all the pain you owe someone

Hurting alone feels like having a headache

At the back of your skull that

Isn't enough for you to do something about

But still makes you flinch and lash out easier

Still makes you stop being yourself

As you watch you being less and less yourself

You finally see the helplessness of complete control

It can also take the shape of a sharp stinging sensation

In your chest that you have no clue about

That you've told yourself is just a part of growing up

But you're certain it’s the end

as you keep telling yourself “it'll pass”

But when someone sits next to you

Holds your face and yells

"Pain yours, Pain mine"

it suddenly turns into something entirely different

Something more along the lines of your aching legs

at the end of the day

after an afternoon going all out

for your favourite sport at 16

The agony of pulling your tooth at 11

When you first found out about the fairy

The burn of a papercut you got

because you were too excited about reading the next page

It has to be paid cleared

For all the times you've saved me,

You deserve to ruin me, to break me!

Anything short of falling apart is disrespectful to you

But love is kind it forgives most of your loans

But you still have to show up at it's door

With every penny you have

and say Thank You

[everoutoftouch]

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.