let's just call it the fallacy of sunk costs

PJ. she/her. sad clown in her 30s who doesn't know when to stop. chats to self in the tags. bad at sleeping, should probably be in bed right now. ~~~~~~~ mostly x-files and better call saul, or both at the same time ~~~~~~~ part-time gif maker / Quality Content creator™ my xf aesthetic tag is my child

[dangerscully]

“...the loser has to fall”

[dangerscully]

i lied how about the single login

anyway do any mutuals watch High Potential and if so wtf was with the music choice at the end of the s2 finale lmao oh no super high stakes and potentially tragic situation hey siri play a song about wanking

[dangerscully]

doing my once-a-year login to say hi i hope ur all well and i just booked a spontaneous last minute xf tattoo for 4 days time xox

[dangerscully]

when alanis morissette wrote this as a teenager

and when orla gartland wrote this in her 20s

and when self esteem wrote this in her 30s

{alanis morissette — not the doctor | orla gartland — who am i? | self esteem — mother}

[hylianengineer]

86 Stories of Progress from 2024

Not everything that happened this year was terrible.

Would anyone like to join me in my New Year's tradition of reading about good things that happened this year?

[hylianengineer]

A couple highlights:

There are now ZERO COAL POWER PLANTS in the UK. Zero! Also zero in Slovakia, which closed its last coal plant a full SIX YEARS ahead of schedule! This is great because coal is like, the dirtiest fuel source ever. It's awful for the planet, it's awful for our lungs, it's just The Worst. Goodbye and good riddance!

Last year, EU CO2 emissions fell by 8%, and the data's not all in for this year yet but they're on track to drop even more. Yeah, you read that right - the EU may have already passed peak carbon emissions. Excuse me while I do a happy dance over here in the corner - this is a BIG FUCKING DEAL!

This may have been a bad year for abortion rights in the US, but we're an outlier - over the past 30 years, we are only one of four countries to tighten abortion restrictions, while 60 countries have made it more available. This year, France became the first country in the whole world to make abortion a constitutional right. Seven US states did so too - Colorado, New York, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Arizona and Missouri. That's right, Missouri! Shocking, huh?

A drug to prevent HIV infections was 100% effective in trials. That. That's insane. It's not a vaccine, but it is the closest we've ever been to one.

Deaths from tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease in the world, hit an all-time global low. Hooray for preventing a truly staggering amount of death!

Egypt and Cabo-Verde both eliminated malaria, and 17 countries started distributing the new malaria vaccine - remember that? Remember how insanely exciting it is that was now have a vaccine for malaria? It is saving lives as we speak.

Deforestation in the Amazon is half what it was two years ago.

The largest dam removal project in history was completed - removing four dams from the Klamath River, thanks to decades of activism by the Karuk and Yurok tribes. A month later, there were salmon spawning in the river basin again - for the first time in a century. Nature's pretty incredible at bouncing back, if we can just give it the chance. I repeat: Largest. Dam removal. In history!

China finished the Great Green Wall

Prewalski's horses returned to their homeland in central Kazakhstan, where they'd been missing for 200 years!

22 species were removed from the endangered list - let's hear it for the Saimaa ringed seal, Scimitar oryx, Red cockaded woodpecker, Siamese crocodile, Narwhal, Arapaima, Chipola slabshell and Fat threeridge mussels, Iberian lynx, Asiatic lions, Australian saltwater crocodile, Asian antelope,  Ulūlu, Southern bluefin tuna, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, Yellow-footed rock wallabies, Yangtze finless porpoise, Pookila mouse, Orange-bellied parrots, Putitor mahseer (this is a fish), Giant pandas, and Florida golden aster!

This year was deeply shitty in a lot of ways - but not all of them.

[dangerscully]

an extremely rare post to say that GOD ncuti gatwa absolutely shines in doctor who

[soufflegirl]

celebrating christmas as god intended (I'll convince you to meet me in the parking lot of a haunted house on Christmas Eve and steal your car keys to make you follow me inside where the ghosts of Lily Tomlin and Edward Asner will think we're lovers and, after psychoanalyzing us, will make us hallucinate a double murder-suicide)

[urflirtytoday2012]

[dangerscully]

“We lost nine minutes”

[rocktheholygrail]

[leehallfae]

@/girlglimmer (x) // @/christmas-winter (x) // fireflies - suzanne siegel // “orange and blue” - sarah jarosz // beautiful night - momcilo simic // christmas eve - julia andreevna petrova // @/hunting-brother (x) // @/bluecapsicum (x) // suzanne siegel

[dangerscully]

i have a few new years resolutions but a big one i'm going to try — and i encourage everyone to do as well — is to try to eliminate self-deprecating language (including jokes!) from my vocabulary.

[unclefather]

Since 2024 is right in front of us and 2023 was a REALLY hard year, let’s all say something positive that happened. Maybe it’s a game you played. A song you liked. Something you accomplished. Whatever it is, mine is that I will be on the other side of struggling this year and it’s gonna be hard at first but I will be able to be a more present mother and all around a better person. What’s yours?

[dearemma]

welcome to 2024!

[mulderscully]

The world didn't end.

[lilydalexf]

me: The X-Files literally changed the landscape of television, it was so far ahead of its time and nearly everything you see today was influenced by it somehow

also me: fucking alien ass nonsensical garbage show

[brookheimer]

kim wexler funniest character ever actually. she’s told by the district attorney’s office that her own husband jimmy is balls deep in the cartel and may be prosecuted for it and after a few moments of silence she finally responds but says only ‘actually he works under the name saul now.’ howard is the target of jimmy’s very public and humiliating god-complex breakdown moment so naturally he goes to kim to try and let her know and she’s like ‘ok thanks for telling me bye’ then turns around and says ‘hey jimmy wouldnt it be funny if we made this guy suicidal lol but also like i’m not kidding let’s do it.’ lalo salamanca, infamous cartel don and murderer etc, threatens jimmy and kim stands there barefoot and tells him to get his shit together. she has color coordinated sticky notes on her wall to determine how best to ruin an innocent man’s career for fun (and in her mind ‘justice’ but let’s be real here). and everyone still thinks she’s this perfectly normal rational woman because her ponytail is just so perfectly coiffed but instead she’s the embodiment of ‘don’t you just wanna go apeshit’ at every single moment she’s the angel and the devil on jimmy’s shoulder she’s deadpan she’s sincere she’s righteous she’s fucked in the head she is everything to me