[cordezshenanigans]

[verymarykate]

Parenting in the 80's Part 1 with Jenn Marsala

[depsidase]

[csny]

eastcoast: we hate our city and it makes us feel bad. but we like feeling bad

west coat: we hate our city and it makes us feel good

chicago: we love our city

[k1ttyy-br41nss]

happy pride

[quadrilioquy]

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[sonicxshadowgenerations]

[andhumanslovedstories]

There's something about lazily studying Mandarin Chinese that's made language learning seem far more approachable. It would be cool to be fluent one day, but I've always been clear with myself that I don't have an actual goal with this besides maintaining a streak in my language app for a certain amount of days. I can quit whenever I want, which is remarkably good at making me not quit. Sometimes I study Chinese for hours because I'm having a good time, but mostly I'm lazily plucking at this language for sometimes literally a minute. After a year of doing this, even though Chinese is so difficult and different from English, it turns out I can still get from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing slightly more than nothing in a pretty short period. An incredible jump in knowledge with not that much work. In fact, the gap between English and Chinese is so vast that microscopic progress feels incredible. When I have to write out literally any pinyin by memory, and I get 75% of the letters and none of the tones correct, I feel like a genius. Today I almost spelled 音乐会/yīnyuèhuì correctly on my first try, and I wanted to call everyone over to see how I effortlessly nailed two-thirds of it.

It's much more encouraging than any of the "easier" languages I've studied. My primary emotion when studying Spanish was embarrassment that I was still so bad at Spanish. Meanwhile, now I'm like, "If I can suck at Chinese, I can suck at anything," which is very inspirational because doing something really, really badly means that you are in fact doing it. I saw an ad for Hebrew language learning course and had the realization that I could probably get really, really, really, really bad at Hebrew in what, a couple months? The thought made me very excited. I could get horrendous at any language in a couple months. I could get horrendous at anything. With a little time and not that much effort, I could nail two-thirds of shooting a basketball. The sky's the limit, but if you don't care about getting all the way up there, one inch off the ground can still be pretty impressive.

[teaboot]

Skully is the ultimate dead roommate/wingman combo! :D And he likes you too! :DD

SKULLY FACTS:

-Lore has no idea who or what the smoky skeleton fart is. He just sort of moved in one day. But he isn't chatty and doesn't mind washing the dishes, so he can stay.

-Skully is here because Lore ate him.

-Lore was not aware of this.

-He likes to wear pajama pants

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[cellarspirit]

fuuuck accidentally mixed up dowsing rods and sounding rods and now my pepeneus can detect freshwater springs

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

"omg baby i'm so wet"

i know

[the-real-seebs]

Someone linked me this beautiful poster, and I'm just really impressed.

My contribution:

[hood-ex]

[swiftlark]

hot take possibly? but i actually think it’s okay for things to be marketed for adults. it’s literally okay if things aren’t suitable for children. i feel like we are losing the plot

[zoestorm]

Correct. Furthermore: children bending or breaking the rules to get a peek at something that's not intended for them is a part of growing up.

[mattbors]

I should get to turn this joke I made for a group chat into a 48 page one-shot.

[ashubii]

This is why I have TikTok

[ayatollahsmegmafactory]

[rowanisawriter]

imo the pov character should be lying to themselves and concealing shit from themselves constantly

[unyieldingsilence]

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[rowanisawriter]

exactly, bestie. Exactly