JUST A CHEMICAL

23/ female/ London/ Literature etc

[aqwult]

it doesn't have to get done, it just has to be perfect

[inkskinned]

wanting to kiss someone is just. like. what do you mean i am experiencing something akin to hunger? what do you mean i can feel this as an actual tactile ache? it is not "i want" like "i want a bike," it is "i want" like i am found wanting. you can want it so much you can force your own pupils to dilate. i'm seasick about it. this is a thing we evolved. this is something that we can physically crave.

[weepycat]

"how to prevent smile lines" there are a thousand more important things to do with your time than postpone evidence of life's joy on your face

[soracities]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why", Collected Poems [ID'd]

[ashstfu]

dostoyevsky kinda ate with “your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

[lamignonette]

[fiti-vation]

[ernasd]

oh this is a life saver

[gallusrostromegalus]

So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO:  if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive.  Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.

Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.

[petermorwood]

Making basic storecupboard or fridge ingredients less basic and more nutritious.

[neil-gaiman]

This is wonderful.

[starryguykai]

the bottom of the museum of human history

[hacash]

#oh man. I am in love with this image.#the idea of a museum with this at the heart of it? the slope down to it?#that you have to unravel the past like a skein of thread as you travel deeper and and deeper backwards in time#to this. the first fire. the way it illuminated the painted walls; the way the aurochs leapt with the flames#ah. perfect. (via @notbecauseofvictories)

[sttinkky]

An overgrown light pole in Poland

[soracities]

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

[soracities]

"anything worth doing is worth doing badly"............."not failing as he fell but just coming to the end of his triumph"......goodnight (it's noon)

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[soracities]

Ellen Bass, "The Thing Is"

[mitchipedia]

Pickles are a gateway drug. The first gherkin is free.

[neil-gaiman]

Oh those Mexicanised dishes.

[octoswan]

“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”

— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed  (via becoming-vverevvolf)

[doggosource]

[oozins]

alternate. words from bertolt brecht

[spinkwagoba-deactivated20230515]

i need to get addicted to completing tasks

[fidelishaereticus]

in case anyone else needs to hear this it’s ok to be more serious. i don’t just mean ‘it’s ok to be serious sometimes’ i mean in general. not everyone has to be funny. it doesn’t have to mean you’re sad or unlikeable. you can just be serious and genuine most of the time and that’s great. i personally think that we’re too focused on ‘funny’ as the primary carrier of likeability right now. i often feel starved for serious conversation, for serious spaces, for a feeling of gravity. you don’t have make good jokes to give people a good time. i say, goof only as the spirit moves you, & don’t worry about it.