colossal nerd

How's your anxiety today?

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[aquaheartgirl]

[ilaeriawitch]

[pantspissedinreverse]

[24ozsteak]

you ever just hand things to ur pet to sniff so they can feel included

[grickle14]

Cosmic angst.

[groovysarity]

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The most horrifying thing about being a human is that no matter how intelligent you are or how much customer service training you have, nothing will stop you from being the idiot customer on occasion. At some point you won't read a sign or you'll misread a menu or ask the dumbest question a human has ever formed and there is nothing you can do to prevent this. It will happen. Accept it and continue on your way as one of today's dipshit customers.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

please do yourself a favor & watch this rock climbing–themed drag king/burlesque performance set to “roxanne” by the police with all the lyrics but “rox” edited out

via @edithwigglesandgiggles on instagram

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Found on a pack of machine coffee.

The NO! makes it very funny to me for some reason

[jodiefosterwallace]

"this post transcends language XD" but it's a post with no english cognates at all

[minttttttttttttttttttttttttttt]

[shadowblade8192]

[mamoru]

when you buy a fancy rollerball or a ballpoint or a gel pen you pay for the pen body and the refill inside, assuming the pen is refillable. the more expensive the pen usually the more expensive materials in the pen body or the more human craftsmanship OR the more you got super ripped off.

even the fanciest $1,260 montblanc JFK special edition rollerballs write with a $10 ball. an expensive ball-tipped pen does not write better than a cheap one because the part that actually writes is cheap and DISPOSABLE. that $1,260 rollerball pen? behold its guts:

this is what you actually write with when you buy a $1,260 USD rollerball. you can buy this naked

but a fountain pen? you need the nib to be formed right (usually gold or steel), the iridium tipping to be centered and ground right, the slit to be centered, the tines to be aligned, the feed and section and nib to line up right. a ton of pieces that need to work and are expected to work for ONE HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS

...or at least decades.

you refill a rollerball by throwing away and replacing the part that writes. you refill a fountain pen by adding ink to the part that writes. you get a lot more bang for the buck with expensive fountain pens but when buying a ball-tipped pen you are best off figuring out what refill you like and then just buying compatible pen bodies with those refills. there are a lot of pen bodies made just to fit a shitload of different refills for way cheaper than an actual montblanc. but most people who think they want a rollerball pen really do not want a rollerball pen because rollerballs are picky about paper and are so thin that scratchy paper feels even more scratchy. rollerballs typically fucking suck and if you want ultra thin ink just use a (way more ergonomic) fountain pen. also the pilot g2 is not a rollerball and is one of the worst gel pens out there if anyone was wondering.

but either way, if you want a good ball-tipped pen, just buy a ~$2 USD uni jetstream lite touch hybrid ballpoint and call it a day. wham. an excellent ergonomic pen with waterproof ink that writes on everything and just works™. it is one of the best pens in the entire world and yes it writes better than $1,000 pens. not as good as a $10 fountain pen (PILOT KAKUNO MEDIUM OR FINE) but if you want a ball-tipped pen to buy and just call it a day

uni jetstream lite touch. order it online usually. the uni jetstreams commonly sold in stores are inferior to the lite touch version and if you can only get the regular jetstream there are better ball-tipped pens. so get the uni jetstream lite touch.

[thetetra]

Carolina Eyck

German-born musician and composer Carolina Eyck is one of the world’s foremost theremin virtuosi. On this channel she wants to present this

[smoooothbrain]

do you ever think about how if you dive into the ocean and go deeper and deeper you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light, and if you go up into the sky and go higher and higher you will pass through layers of darker and darker blue until everything is black and cold and the pressure will be so intense that it will kill you without protection but if you keep going you will find little glowing specks of light

[jasontoddsreanimatedcorpse]

sometimes a post makes you get out of bed at 230am to spend a quick hour on something like this

[ryebreadgf]

[coolnormalgirl]

just a little reminder on where i stand

[dogpuppy]

[imovedimovedimovedimoved-deacti]

Do any of you know about that one painting with Aphrodite being born out of lava with a black swan by her side or did i completely hallucinate that? Been searching for a while but i can’t find it for shit.

[thecavenest]

I tried googling that description but no luck either, anyone might know what painting this might be (or if it does exist? cause it sounds sick lol)

[semicolonthefifth]

It took a bit of googling magic, but I think I’ve found it.

This is “Kindled” by Laura K. Cannon, which is part of her portfolio that can be found here: http://navate.com/2wk6im1sartc92iwza7il07bxq2mk5

Is this what you were looking for? @sakyubaso

[tiffanygladiator]

I’m in love.

[nothisacrayon]

Y'all I’m-

[tftftdrwggjhuftguugufuh-deactiv]

the original artist states:

“This went kinda viral on tumblr and people are arguing whether it’s a painting of Aphrodite. It’s not. If she must be a goddess, I think she’d be Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire.

But it doesn’t depict anyone specifically. After some soul-searching I realize that, while I wasn’t thinking about it at the time, it’s a painting about battling depression. I live with MDD so the idea of emerging from the depths is a powerful thing for me.

Is she being born from the lava, or is she climbing out of Hell? I think it’s both.”

so. not Aphrodite, but someone beautiful nonetheless

[thememedaddy]

[orcarriagesthatwork]

I think about this cake every day

[tizzymcwizzy]

sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious

[microsuedemouse]

OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:

When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.

The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?

This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.

I love a botched cake.

[helenarth]

one time me and some pals spotted one of those big cookie cakes in a store. it was done up with red icing and little X's for kisses and in the middle it said

No One Like You

now, it took us a while to realise it meant "(there is) no one like you". at first, we all parsed it as a botched "no one like(s) you"

for ages after when we'd wind each other up we'd declare "NO ONE LIKE YOU ☹️👎"