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Lillie. 23. NJ. Second guessing a lot of stuff about myself lately.

[anxietyproblem]

[softbrah]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The fact that this sounds like something you’d put on a resume is.....very disturbing.

[roboco-san]

man I miss being 14 when I was willing and able to write whatever stupid indulgent bullshit I wanted and feel like I was absolutely killing it

[jaubaius]

Husky getting nervous at his first swimming lesson

[bigdogdabeast]

I like this WAY more then I should

[chapdietostie-deactivated202406]

BIG BABY <3

[404-later]

[swellio]

do i need to say more

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

That man is staying home even though his head takes up his entire house. #StayHomeSaveLives

[screenshotsofdespair]

[thechekhov]

Steven Let’s play a fun game about adventure and mortal peril! What could possibly go wrong? Universe is playing a Warlock who thinks he’s a Sorcerer. 

Why not Bard? you ask

Well…

There was another contender for the position.

[teenagerposts]

[aproblemlikebrianna-deactivated]

I’ll need a bigger mug for that, please and thanks.

[concerningwolves]

Can I just–

[autodiscothings]

Oh it got better

[teenagerposts]

[aproblemlikebrianna-deactivated]

I’ll need a bigger mug for that, please and thanks.

[concerningwolves]

Can I just–

[autodiscothings]

Oh it got better

[ashbur-deactivated20250915]

Writers when they uploaded their chapter two whole minutes ago and haven't gotten any validating comments yet

[marisatomay]

my brother has been criticizing me all day and he told me if i wasn’t happy i could go somewhere else so i wouldn’t ruin everyone else’s dinner so i took the massive bowl of pasta + special sauce i spent the last 2 hours making from scratch for the whole family and i left

[marisatomay]

it really is incredibly bold to mercilessly criticize the person who is not only making your dinner but also holding a knife

[marisatomay]

I sequestered myself in the other side of the house and ate my family-sized pasta from a mixing bowl using a serving spoon in the dark because the sun went down in the 2+ hours I spent stewing and I was too stubborn to turn on a light

[marisatomay]

the only person I shared my pasta with was my dad who on a conference call at the time and didn’t just stand there and watch my brother be an asshole like the rest of my family and since he came to me in my sanctuary with his bowl and asked nicely if he could have some pasta i did share with him

[marisatomay]

sometimes you’re an adult who has been quarantined with your parents, younger siblings, grandfather, and dog for the last 2 months because of a global pandemic and some nights you just have to take your pasta and Leave because you are an adult who knows when to tap the fuck out

[rivkahstudies]

OP thank you not only for the amazing image of you eating pasta in the dark and your father kindly pleading for your mercy but also a wonderful example of when to set firm boundaries and prioritize yourself bless u

[marzipanandminutiae]

reading letters from 1818 is wild

“it’s that time of the year when I get colds for no apparent reason again” have some Clairitin hon

[marzipanandminutiae]

But also we’re not becoming allergic to everything nowadays like certain white moms fear. Allergies have always existed. They were just talked about differently

Like “oh clams always ~turn my stomach~”. Or “what a pity he was taken from us at age 5”

[rosslynpaladin]

“Well we didn’t have all this fancy chronic illness stuff in the Olden Days, what did people do then??”

They died, Ashleigh. 

[explorerrowan]

This is a picture tracking bullet holes on Allied planes that encountered Nazi anti-aircraft fire in WW2.

At first, the military wanted to reinforce those areas, because obviously that’s where the ground crews observed the most damage on returning planes. Until Hungarian-born Jewish mathematician Abraham Wald pointed out that this was the damage on the planes that made it home, and the Allies should armor the areas where there are no dots at all, because those are the places where the planes won’t survive when hit. This phenomenon is called survivorship bias, a logic error where you focus on things that survived when you should really be looking at things that didn’t.

We have higher rates of mental illness now? Maybe that’s because we’ve stopped killing people for being “possessed” or “witches.” Higher rate of allergies? Anaphylaxis kills, and does so really fast if you don’t know what’s happening. Higher claims of rape? Maybe victims are less afraid of coming forward. These problems were all happening before, but now we’ve reinforced the medical and social structures needed to help these people survive. And we still have a long way to go.

[twodotsknowwhy]

This is one of my favorite anecdotes to show how clever rewording of statistics can make them say the opposite of what they mean:

Every time a state makes riding a motorcycle without a helmet illegal, the number of ER patients seriously injured in motorcycle accidents skyrockets. Every single time.

When you phrase it just right, it makes it sound like it’s more dangerous to ride a motorcycle with a helmet than without one. Of course, the reality is that before those laws, those patients were going to the morgue, not the ER.

[marithlizard]

Seems like a good time to reblog this, eh?  

[noahnomore]

[catchymemes]

[aeliad]

HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT! 

It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it. 

Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266

[wiseacrewhimsy]

Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.

[the-geek-cornucopia]

In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.

[fluffygif]

Tag someone who needs a pupartment!

Credit: lacorgi

[escondig]

I had a strange experience today that I can’t share anywhere else. So I get an LinkedIn update about my ex from a 7 year long relationship about “Congratulate him for his new position at. . .”. I usually ignore those, but for some reason I couldn’t help but notice he updated his pic for the first time in a while. Out of curiosity, I look up the company and I find their “Meet the team” page. Lo and behold, my ex is right there in one of those classy black and white studio photos. And you know the first thought I had?

He had the dorkiest turtleneck on.

Like, really dorky. I laughed out loud because I’ve never seen him wear such a thing and it looked sooooo strange on him (not horrible, just strange). But it was...a nice feeling. After getting it out of my system, I couldn’t help but sigh with a peaceful smile.

“Look at you, ya dork. You made it.”

[thedailyshow]

[gay-hopeless-romantic-deactivat]

The U.S. in a gif series.

[pdawgz]

Pls keep reblogging this till this become a classic tumblr post , because it needs to be