A Gift for Burning

Julie (she/her). Successful twenty-something. Lesbian. Poet. This blog is fandoms, justice, positivity, gorgeous people, animals. I’ve been adopted by a little black cat named Calcifer Ash.

[jesperfahey]

and of all my friends say it wasn’t meant to be

[brahmstoker-deactivated20181201]

“Woman does not emerge from a man’s rib’s, not ever, it’s he who emerges from her womb.”

—

Nizar Qabbani

one of the greatest lies of patriarchy is claiming framing the father as the lifegiver

(via lilacmeadow)

[lingrix]

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

[luxgalador]

Something I sincerely wish everyone in any management capacity would understand better

[artroubles]

[lesbianredpanda]

Tumblr is gonna die without me knowing a single fucking thing about Homestuck and honestly I think that’s pretty sexy of me

[redlipstickresurrected]

Sue Sareen (British, b. Merseyside, England, based Nottingham, England) - 1: Cheerful Cat Rufford  2: Sleepy Cat  3: Curled Up Cat  Drawings

[meggernauts]

[suspend]

this inspired me to really stop and appreciate everything..

[ihateboys-deactivated20240714]

girls don’t want jobs they want homemade banana bread and good pussy

[claratwelve]

Yaz: *shows affection* Thirteen: *is speechless and swallows hard*

[pangur-and-grim]

local worm loves heating vent

[pangur-and-grim]

to those commenting on her bones (or lack-thereof): that’s just how a lady sits

[fatbushtit]

i really like kiwis

[cat-memes-only]

[acindra]

Matt utterly destroying the Rules Lawyer round of Um, Actually

(The game was to point out all of the incorrect things in a single round of combat shown in a comic)

[saintvitus]

[ikchen]

wiggle wiggle (x)

[vitya-speaks]

oh…

oh my goodness…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

$30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a "personal scooter"

When scooter companies like Bird started the street value of the components to be found within each of these VC-backed ewaste-in-waiting devices, and tactics for hotwiring them.

Now, with hundreds of these scooters abandoned and rotting in impound lots, likely never to be recovered, maybe now is a good time to invest in a $30 scooter “conversion kit”, which ships direct from China, and plugs-and-plays to convert one of these scooters to a “personal scooter,” with all recovery and payment components permanently disabled.

https://boingboing.net/2018/12/08/flipping-a-bird.html

[spectrometrie]

Lioconcha Hieroglyphica is officially my favorite mollusc

[elodieunderglass]

we’re all busting our asses out here while this Clam is just doodling the Phylogenetic Trees that describe the fundamental relationships of All Life

[smilesandvials]

I thought these were ancient clams used as writing surfaces at first…