elyn does things

and sometimes they work

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Jfc

[godstiel]

Beating the alcoholic allegations by easily plugging my phone into the charger with no struggle at all

[nuclearbummer]

Julie Bell, world renowned fantasy artist & bodybuilder (1995)

[filmnoirsbian]

She’s still hot & making art btw

[hoursofreading]

#118: Mark this off your to-do list

Thoughts on chores

[delphinidin4]

The plague was spreading rapidly. Deaths in London and the outskirts were thirty-two for the week ending 26 May and the Lord Mayor was issuing new plague orders. The paper bills marked with the words ‘Lord Have Mercy on Us’ that denoted infected households had proved to be too easy to deface and dispose of. They were now to be replaced by a red cross 'fourteen inches in length and the like in breadth upon the wall or boards in the most open place.’ Some of those shut up were so angry that they set out deliberately to infect others. One such, Henry Ross of St. Bartholomew’s the Great, was flogged and throw into Newgate, after he did 'most lewdly presume to go to the King’s Majesty’s Court at Greenwich and there thrust himself in company amongst his Majesty’s household servants and others.’

A description of the bubonic plague in London, 1603, from “After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England” by Leanda de Lisle (via delphinidin4)

[kristina100000]

kris give me a cig

[dorian-they-ao3]

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) • JIMMY STEWART as George Bailey and LIONEL BARRYMORE as Mr. Potter

[dorian-they]

wait WHAT 😳 i mean that feels accurate but still…. WHAT.

[dykecostanza-deactivated2024112]

here’s the official fbi memo about it! you can view the whole document here

the fbi presented these “findings” to mccarthy’s house unamerican activities committee (huac) in an attempt to get it’s a wonderful life pulled from theaters but huac decided not to take any action

[fruitviking]

Some internet language things I really like:

Phrases like “that’s certainly a thing”, “it’s so shaped”, or “one of the most animals” (is there a name for this?)

when people write with little to no punctuation like they are just so done

More specifically, asking questions without punctuation i.e. ‘what’ or ‘why’. It’s like, you want to know but also you are resigned to the answer?

When people capitalise The Thing for emphasis - particularly if they add a trademark symbol to really drive The Point™ home

How we use both bold and italic text for emphasis, but they convey it in different ways and I can’t quite explain how

Responding to things exclusively with punctuation, because sometimes words fail you and all you can say is !!!

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

dear people who didn’t grow up christian: if your christian or raised-christian friends say “hey i wanna show you something from veggietales,” 99.99999% of the time they are not trying to use it to preach to you, they just want you to feel like you’re high for the duration of the silly song they’re boutta pull up

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

this video specifically is the reason i have this sense of humor

[headspace-hotel]

There is a Veggietales LOTR parody called the Lord of the Beans, and it is the best parody of anything created ever.

The Silly Songs with Larry from that movie is an Elvis parody that sets up the line “You’re no elf! You’re an Elvish impersonator!”

Every character name is a glorious pun. The Gollum character lost his magic bean when he used it to summon a 300-pound marshmallow peep and fell into a sugar coma. I don’t even know

[an-autistic-with-personhood]

@petrichoraflora oh I frickin loved that one. My cousin did a parody of that one about a weedwhacker

[delphinidin4]

The hairbrush song has gotten so bad that when my mom says, “Where is my hairbrush?” and I open my mouth, she just goes, “DON’T.”

[slowlikehoney1996]

grounding techniques, ok 5 things i can see. ugly man. shitty palm tree. clear evidence of air pollution. conservative bumper stickers. roadkill. why do i feel worse

[kittwalker]

I used to do the 5 things you see, 4 things you hear etc with my daughter when she was spiralling, but it had a low success rate. Just didn't engage her brain, was too easy to just list shit things that made her feel shit.

I had to get creative.

Now we do shit like:

5 things you can see that you could easily steal without being noticed

4 things you think might be sticky if you licked them

3 things that you could fit in your mouth at once

2 inanimate objects that in another dimension, might fall in love

1 thing you can see that isn't made of cheese, but would be better if was

Obviously not those ones every time, I gotta keep mixing things up, else she doesn't have to really focus. Your mileage may vary, but it mostly works for us.

[byjove]

when I first saw parts of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) on TV as a child, I didn’t realize the dialogue was in Shakespearean Early Modern English, I just thought they talked like that in New Jersey

[stuckinapril]

being uncomfortable becomes easier when you realize that’s literally the point. it’s like working out. if you work out & it becomes easy for you, you already got all you could out of that workout. your body adjusted & is strong enough to handle it now. you’re not improving anymore. that’s why you up the ante with harder workouts, where you’re uncomfortable & not quite strong enough yet. bc eventually you will be strong enough. but if it’s not a challenge, there’s no gain. & that’s exactly how it is with situations out of your comfort zone. the more you put yourself in them, the easier they get—but that in-between phase where you’re struggling is still completely valid and ok and natural. it’s what’s supposed to happen. it’s what’s going to change you as a person. and you should keep doing it

[headspace-hotel]

Some tags I found in notes that I feel are a very, very important caveat

[dankmemeuniversity]

[xjayju]

Why is this so funny

[motheatenmoonlight]

it’s so fricken windy that Jesus got fully picked up blown across the yard

[motheatenmoonlight]

wait I should clarify that this is about our über-cheap nativity set. our lord and savior did not, in fact, materialize in our front yard just to get tossed across it like a divine tumbleweed

[theclownfromdowntown]

[catechumenokie-blog]

Honestly laugh way too hard at this, every time.

[theocseason4]

[carbomcoco]

(via @lazarus-lazuli )

[avagueidea]

Good news! It only took him 3 tries 🎉🎉🎉 congrats cringe husband

[great-and-small]

Was looking for a book today when I saw these various animal books all on the same shelf and noticed their titles made a nice little impromptu poem about veterinary medicine