That which the sea breaks against

"These are the days that must happen to you." -Walt Whitman

[hydro-homies]

Fucking antivaxx parents

[fakehistory]

while everyone else was in 1819, he was in 2019

[life-at-work]

[julykings]

ready for the healing to begin [more]

[thecolorblockcurator]

The Effect of Moon Baths was Unknown, Faye Wei Wei

[trasemc]

NASA has released new images of Jupiter, taken by the Juno Spacecraft.

[hydro-homies]

Work to live

[electricluvv]

[toastbutteregg]

[boot-souls]

The weird specificity of this post has me feeling some type of way.

[lesbianboboberens]

when Ellen came out, the backlash was so harsh that she didn’t work for three years. lesbians were man-hating dyke perverts, to be kept away from children and from the public eye, and she was treated like it. when she did get back into the industry, she struggled to come back as anything more than The Lesbian who had caused all that controversy. people hated her, and by proxy hated Oprah (and sent her racist threats and insults) for her role in Ellen’s coming out.

so it’s no wonder that when she got the chance Ellen took up a talk show that allowed her to build a reputation as a friendly, happy, and utterly harmless character. since coming out, she has steered almost explicitly away from politics, especially from focusing too much on being a lesbian. she is just a friendly, smiling, liberal-leaning and generous talk show host, almost apolitical and tiptoeing around controversy where her peers (Stephen Colbert, James Corden, Conan O’Brien, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, etc.) have been able to be explicitly political.

when the Ellen netflix special comes out, I think we’re gonna see Ellen be political, be controversial, be crass or snarky or daring in ways that break severely with what we think Ellen’s personality is. And frankly, I want us all to be so ready for it, because the woman has waited so long–has seen an entire generation come and go–just to be able to be an open, successful, controversial lesbian, and i want her to be loved for it

[jenroses]

Have I told y’all about my husband’s Fork Theory?  If I did already, pretend I didn’t, I’m an old.

So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. It’s super useful and we use that all the time. But it has a corollary.  You know the phrase, “Stick a fork in me, I’m done,” right? Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens.  A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one “you poked my trigger on purpose because you think it’s fun to see me melt down” pitchfork.

This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as “It may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.”

[cipheramnesia]

I like this and also I like the low key point that you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way.

[fierceawakening]

Oh this is absolutely great, and describes why I went off at someone the other night for something super minor. (Describes, not excuses. I should have withdrawn and come back when I knew why I was doing that.)

[nxrcissamxlfoy]

Headcanon that of fucking course Mcgonagall was invited to Ron and Hermione’s wedding and that during the reception Ron approached her at her table and held out his hand and asked her to dance, “you know, for old times’ sake.”

[bumblebee-pd]

*walks into pharmacy*

hello yes i would like to purchase 1 mental health please 

[haleyincarnate]

Based off of this post by @kevingetem

[showerthoughtsofficial]

In pop culture, slackers are portrayed as playing guitar, but learning to play any instrument requires a lot of commitment and attention, the opposite of what a slacker stands for.

[regicide1997]

*psst* It’s the fact that capitalism doesn’t value artistic ability if it can’t turn a profit. Capitalism sees all the amateur buskers and starving artists and assumes that, since they’re barely getting by, they must not be putting in enough effort.

[freshdailydoseofashtonirwin]

I just wanna travel & fuck u on hotel balconies

[tiredngay]

20gayteen is almost over. then we’ll have 20biteen. but what will we do for 2020

[moneyes]

we vote.

[afniel]

We vote.