Thinkin' About String

I only joined tumblr so I can follow interesting people and see lots of pictures of pigeons and borzois. I don't understand how this works and, frankly, the internet doesn't need any more of my blah blah. Still, this seems promising as a platform for sharing pictures of my horrible little dogs.

[its-what-lurks-on-channel-x]

I got a girlfriend, that’s better than this And you don’t remember at all As we get older and stop making sense You won’t find her waiting long Stop making sense, stop making sense Stop making sense, making sense

[its-what-lurks-on-channel-x]

Stop Making Sense, 1984 (dir. Jonathan Demme)

[lord-kitschener]

Sure, relationships typically start with a honeymoon phase that then grows into something deeper but a bit more mellow if things work out, but it’s depressing as fuck that this has turned into a really, really common script for straight relationships that says it’s totally normal and inevitable for dudes to just become more and more emotionally checked out of the relationship, and leave it to their girlfriend/wife to perform if she wants to get even a crumb of affection from him. I’m so fucking tired of seeing women constantly being taught that decades of emotional neglect is just our lot in life.

[yardsards]

what “getting out of the honeymoon phase” should mean: you aren’t joined at the hip anymore and can spend time apart, but you still greatly enjoy eachother’s company and deliberately make time to be together. you’re not just a unit, you’re a matched set (like, you’re susan and bob rather than susanandbob). you start to see eachother’s flaws and don’t put eachother on a pedestal but instead love eachother as human beings, flaws and all.

what it should NOT mean: you barely talk anymore. you feel like two completely different people, tied together by a frayed thread. you’re annoyed by eachother’s flaws and don’t like to be around eachother

[cumaeansibyl]

similarly: “relationships are hard, they take a lot of work” means that cooperation on a daily basis in both the practical and emotional realms takes conscious effort. you can’t coast on those honeymoon feelings forever, and you aren’t psychic, so you have to pay attention and communicate so you can honor each other’s wants and needs.

it should not mean that you’re fighting every two days or walking on eggshells to avoid the anger of an unreasonable partner or breaking your back trying to get the slightest sign of affection or respect from someone who’s checked out and doesn’t care about you.

[meangirlnurse]

some of y’all like “i was raised lukewarm Protestant but now i have a Witch Sideblog on Tumblr so i’m not culturally Christian”

[andrusmagnus]

Chopper American 19thC

[caviling]

As someone who rarely knows what’s going on, it’s interesting to watch Tumblr’s whole goofy algorithms-are-flagging-everything-let’s-purge-sexy-content-but-let’s-also-let-the-Nazis-keep-Naziing thing happen from a slight remove. And by interesting I mean confusing and depressing!

[guldentusks]

More Twitter sketches! It was National Unicorn Day the other day…

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[mughalshit]

Necklace

India, possibly Jaipur c. 18th century

Gold inlaid with white sapphire; back enameled red, white, and green, pearls and green stone pendant and center; gold thread chain and slide closure                  

[argumate]

an apocalyptic cult prophetically warning that the world won’t end, ever

[argumate]

it’s just going to keep going on like this, groans dismal prophet

[990000]

source

[grossgiirl-deactivated20200228]

This is how I used to teach a couple of students how to create vehicles or weird creatures when they had trouble coming up with ideas

[lieutenantfish]

I have been imagining ordinary objects as spaceships all my life, and this post gives me feelings of vindication.

[fish-tails-siren-scales]

Yelena Bryksenkova

[bearie]

if your neighborhood looks like this you need to paypal me $100

[narwhaled]

this is an average looking neighbourhood wym

[bearie]

paypal.me/nursepeach

[nosleepinhelena-deactivated2017]

[zsnes]

may i use the bathroom

[pacificrim-archive]

occupado

[caviling]

Maribou! <3

[sttngfashion]

If anyone has $600-$800 (the estimated selling price) and is looking for some costumes from the season 1 episode “When the Bough Breaks” (that’s the one where some people steal some children from the Enterprise) - here they are!! There are also a shit-ton of items from TOS, including MANY cafans and jumpsuits and some original William Ware Theiss drawings!! Here are a few of my faves.

Also the last time I watched this episode I did not realize THAT IS JERRY HARDIN AKA Deep Throat from The X-Files AKA Melora Hardin’s dad!!!!

[caviling]

Somebody gimme eight hundred bucks

[vesperosy]

do you ever spend hours upon something only to realize it was 132 dpi 🙃

[art-nimals]

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755), Greyhound in a Landscape, 1746, oil on canvas, Sotheby’s

[ghoti-and-us]

Rob Rey