you can be depressed in pants

welcome to the queue

[aesungaia]

Everyone's Friend

[meangirlnurse]

this is literally a stick and poke tattoo done by a stoned teenager who forgot what cats look like

[meangirlnurse]

😭

[yorkshirearthurdent]

I think if I heard I Gotta Feeling by The Black Eyed Peas in the correct circumstances it could move me to tears. It's like the promise of a brighter future that never came to pass

[wordsforyoungmen]

[elizabethanism]

On this day in 1953, novelist Shirley Jackson replied to a disappointed reader.

[thasmin-vibes]

I fucking can't breathe

[ilovedthestars]

"how do you feel about labels as a queer person?"

[meanbuddhist]

just identified a behavioral pattern within myself

[endless----pain]

By Wealthy Loser on Instagram

[silentstep]

#TEMPORARY AND SMALL JOY IS STILL JOY NONETHELESS   (via smokeandsong)

[god-of-all-things]

you want to write a version of the modern major general, you're reaching for a topic but ideas seem quite ephemeral. you know the many versions and you quote the lyrics gleefully. and yet when you sit down to write its anything but peacefully. you're very well acquainted with the patter song original, but when you go to sculpt a verse its downright oppositional. in short while you're enthused about the concept its untenable. you simply cannot parody the modern major general

[darkcomedies]

evoking bertholt brecht’s “the way people cast a play!” quote as a spell against prescriptive, stereotypical, fatalistic typecasting

[darkcomedies]

idk what to tell you except go look at the fishwives

[puppygirldick]

Jacek Yerka - Tsunami --

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: tweet from @/MrNeilScott reads: "Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him." Nabokov to his New Yorker editor. Attached is an excerpt reading: I shall be very grateful to you if you help me to weed out bad grammar but I do not think I would like my longish sentences clipped too close, or those drawbridges lowered which I have taken such pains to lift. In other words, I would like to discriminate between awkward construction (which is bad) and a certain special — how shall I put it — sinuosity, which is my own and which only at first glance may seem awkward or obscure. Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him. /end ID]

[karis-the-fangirl]

My sister and I worked out the perfect cast for Muppet Dracula

[alwaysatomicconniseur]

#the gonzo and rizzo dynamic this implies is rizzo being like ‘gonzo i think we should get out of here’ at every turn#while gonzo is like ‘rizzo don’t be ridiculous’#gonzo: haha wow this castle is so cool and count dracula is such a nice guy!!#rizzo (trembling like a nervous Chihuahua) oh god oh god oh god#gonzo: check it out this guy’s got no reflection! crazy!!#rizzo: gonzo. we are gonna DIE here.#dracula *crawling down the castle like a lizard*#rizzo: GONZO ARE YOU SEEING THIS- wait#gonzo: *crawling down the wall like a lizard too* wahoo!!! (penny-anna)

[nooneknowsyoureadog]

[cobaltegg]

so like, what if you were the last surviving animorph but it's been canonically established that you still had your best friend's DNA in your body

[annabelle--cane]

the greatest pain of my life rn is that I love the concept of permeability of the soul so much and would like to export it to other media discussions the same way people talk about "drift compatibility" outside of the context of pacific rim, and it comes directly from a 25 page short story that's written like a play script and is freely available online so should theoretically be really easy and accessible to direct other people to, but that short story is also straight up completely incomprehensible without the ~1500 pages of dense gothic scifi that precedes it.

[nonas-third-tantrum]

reminds me of this post (there is in fact at least one person who read the unwanted guest without reading the rest of the series. they rated it 3/5)

[dykeselfcest]

it is unfortunate that there's no reason for most people to remember high school chemistry because the best analogy I have found for "the amount of energy that it takes me to initiate a task, which can be higher than the amount of energy it takes to actually complete the task" is "activation energy" and it's not precisely perfect but

yeah. and you can even include "thing that reduces the barrier to doing the task" as a catalyst/enzyme

anyway. unfortunately this does not actually clarify anything for the average person. but #ToMe it works