Grace and Perseverence

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus...[h]e too concludes that all is well." Albert Camus

[grace-and-perseverance]

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[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[segel-sudeikis]

[meanderingmolly]

Mr. The Frog we all agreed that a celebrity is not a people

[mommacomms]

The Muppets have one (1) collective brain cell between them and 90% of the time, Kermit has it.

[kaity--did]

Okay in my house we have a strange tradition. My mother builds this beautiful Christmas village.

It wraps all around our house through the rooms and under the trees and it’s wonderful.

Every year she hides the Christmas Vampire

This started when I was a very small got child and spread to all of my friends, including my best friend from elementary school who I just so happened to grow up and marry. Now that we have grown up and moved nearly 600 miles away we still always go home for a week at Christmas for multiple reasons, including the Christmas Vampire.

Needless to say we still partake and things have gotten heated.

Stay tuned for the epic conclusion and to see my husband and father in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s sooty costume when I find the Christmas Vampire First!

Happy Haunting!

[kaity--did]

Dad has no fricken clue how to trash talk and I don’t trust him in the slightest.

[kaity--did]

The saga continues. Mom hasnt finished the village yet and it’s starting to get to her….

Hahahaha, I mean I love this on multiple levels.  But what really threw it over the top was the mom’s anxiety over the world-building and city design being right.  I feel you vampire-hiding mom, I feel you.

can I just say that the Christmas Vampire is infinitely preferable to the Elf on the Shelf

[prince-of-legba]

Christmas town looks amazing, how much is the rent?

[kaity--did]

My mom has started constructing the village, and she would like you to know that the rent in the Christmas village is pay what you can and it can be in Christmas cookies. This village is very anti capitalist and when the Walmart moved in (my dad bought her a ceramic walmart) the villagers protested (read this as my mom made teeny tiny picket signs and stuck them to villagers hands)

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

OP was the picket successful did they run the walmart out of town? I need to know. I am so concerned. Does the vampire live in town? Is he a beloved yet eccentric member of the populace, or do the townsfolk live in fear of him? Does his bat have a warm place to sleep during winter?

[kaity--did]

The picket is on going. This year they are all socially distanced. The vampire lives on the mountain in an old house. No one fears him but there is a story every year. 2 years ago he frightened the carnival worker who operated the merry go round, gave him a heart attack and he was in the hospital! The vampire was so scared he fled and there was a man hunt (because everyone was afraid for their friend and also insurance) …. My mom might be insane his bat is always with him and has a wing of the house to himself

[patriciadaaa]

I love this

[kaity--did]

For every one asking the protestors have changed their target in the village this year

[elodieunderglass]

Content warnings: Christmas, creatures of the night.

[dscgshauntingground]

Obsessed with how people in NYC think nowhere else has corner stores

[inkcresent]

Any drug store on the world??? Like

[madameinquisitor]

A bodega is a feeling. They’re tucked away into buildings, usually the corner, but not always. Their windows are almost completely covered in lotto signs, posters, the occasional neon light. You can still see inside (obviously) but the windows aren’t filled with neatly organized weekly sales, or the big CVS/Walgreens/Duane Reade logos.

They’re not big and spacious with repetitive features and easy to identify isles like your average drug store. They’re small and homey, a unique feature for a place that is lit solely with flourecent lights. They usually have the local bodega cat (and you know a yuppie when they bitch about the cat), who sometimes lets you pet her. Their shelves are lined with snacks from obscure areas of the world, and knock off brands that somehow just taste better than the name brand. Sometimes household necessities are in their own isle, but usually theyre next to a variety of items like pet food, chips, cake mixes, cereal (it changes depending on your bodega). Coolers are filled with both alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks, sometimes humming, other times roaring because they’re fifteen years old and held together with ducttape and a stubborn refusal to replace them. And almost always there’s a deli that can give you a baconeggandcheese (all one word), in the morning and a chopped cheese whenever you’re craving it.

A bodega is not just a cornerstore, it’s the heart of a neighborhood. It’s where the kids go in the morning, swarming in to get drinks, snacks, breakfast, maybe even lunch. It’s where the tired third shifters and barely awake first shifters coming in to chat, pick up a coffee, a soda, a candy bar. It’s where you go after school, after work, late at night, in any mood or outfit.

A bodega is a brief window into the heart of New York. The one that isn’t tailored and refined by the rich, the suburbanites, the yuppies and the ever hungry universities. The one that keeps the city beating, even when all the Wall Street implants and commuters abandon ship.

A bodega is a feeling.

[kaijuno]

…You’ve literally just described a corner store

[pwesident]

i can walk to any of the corner stores in my town and experience this

[sarahsyna]

[Insert ‘It’s Not That Deep Meme’ Here]

[kaijuno]

madameinquisitor blocked me for my comment fsefsefsdzdafvvdghb

[plum-soup]

breaking news: working class neighborhoods exist in cities other than New York

[imsobadatnicknames]

New Yorkers are to Americans what Americans are to the rest of the world

[allerliefste-archive-deactivate]

this is absolutely the best thing i have read all day

[cannibal-rainbow]

“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

[edgar-allen-potpourri]

“hey can you go ask they what does they want for dinner, and when is they coming over to watch movies with they?”

[edrec]

“Hey, can you go ask them what they want for dinner, and when they’re coming over to watch movies?”

Step one is learning how to talk like a human person.

[anghraine]

Friendly reminder:

“I shouldn’t like to punish anyone, even if they’d done me wrong.” —George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

“A person can’t help their birth.” —William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)

“But to expose the former faults of any person, without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable.” —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Every Fool can do as they’re bid.” —Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (1738)

“So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” —King James Bible, Matthew 18:35 (transl. 1611)

“God send every one their heart’s desire!” —William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (~1600)

“Now this king did keepe a great house, that euerie body might come and take their meat freely.” —Sir Philip Sidney, the Arcadia (1580)

“If … a psalme scape any person, or a lesson, or els yt they omyt one verse or twayne…” —William Bonde, The Pylgrimage of Perfection (1526)

“And whoso fyndeth hym out of swich blame, / They wol come up and offre a Goddés name” —Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Tale (~1380)

“þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe [Then hastily hied each person on horse and on foot / hunting with hounds all the high woods / ‘til they came so near, to tell the truth]” —William and the Werwolf (transl. ~1350-1375)

“Bath ware made sun and mon, / Aiþer wit þer ouen light [Both were made sun and moon / Either with their own light]” —Cursor Mundi (~1325)

[advanced-procrastination]

We’ve been using they/them/their pronouns to indicate a person with unspecified gender for a long ass fucking time. The only reason it’s become a big issue lately is because it can be used as a semi-respectful term for trans and non-binary folks and we can’t have that can we

These fucks are literally trying to change our language to hurt trans/nb folks, and claiming that’s just the way its always been

[polyhorde]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Singular “they” predates

Singular “you”

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

hey quick question why did no one ever tell me how fucking insane M*A*S*H is?? their commanding officer is a horse girl. the secretary has psychic powers. this guy walks around a 1950s military outpost in drag and everyone’s just like hey nice dress. the protagonist who is supposed to be the best surgeon in the entire korean war spends every episode strutting around drunk in a hawaiian shirt making homoerotic wisecracks and asking the nurses to step on him like some sort of unhinged bisexual jimmy buffet. guys what the hell is going on in this army doctor show

[dankmemeuniversity]

[lightheartedsuggestion]

What’s going to make you happy right now? Is it some cake? Is it a nap? Is it calling your mom? Is it going on a drive and blasting music? Is it taking a bath? Is it reading a book?

Check in with yourself because you deserve that happiness, whatever it is.

[thecatwhowalksbyherself-deactiv]

I use this with my hospice patients a lot. Because "is there anything I can do to help?" rarely gets a response. But, "I'll be here till 6:30 and would like to do one thing to make your room more comfortable before I head out" frequently does get an answer. Often something they deem "too small to bug anyone with" like closing the blinds so there's no reflection on the tv, or repositioning their socks because the heels have wandered into the front and are uncomfortable, or they want ice cream before dinner today, or getting an extra blanket.

I also use this on myself. What's one thing I could do to make my environment more comfortable right now? Does it cure my mental illness? Hell no! Does it make me feel more in control of my feelings and the world around me? You betcha!

[bluelivesaintshit]

Former girl scouts: yeah idk it just kinda seemed like house wife training

Former boy scouts: yeah it was basically lord of the flies with a homophobic youth pastor. One time we [most fucked up story you've ever heard]

[duchessofostergotlands]

“Before the very first hike in Västergötland, I met the dean in a chapel; he blessed the hikes and gave me a note with words to think about during the journey that actually began on a pilgrimage route. I had the little note in my pocket on all the hikes and often thought of the words that were written there: Freedom. Slowness. Simplicity. Lightheartedness. Silence. Sharing. Spirituality.”

- Crown Princess Victoria in the foreword for the book “Upptäck Sverige med Kronprinsessan Victoria.” These words are identified by the Swedish Church as key for pilgrims 

[euphrates75]

No harm to any religion. It’s just a lamp ads by an Australian company. However, it’s funny!

[katiekomics-deactivated20240416]

I’m going to cry 😂😂

[tienriu]

Ahaha, the reason why Mohammad is specifically mentioned as not being able to be there is because in Islam, portrayals and portraits of Mohammad are forbidden.  But they didn’t want to be seen as either hand waving him as at the table but not shown or as explicitly omitted.

Very smart move there advertising script writers.

[lynati]

THEY HAVE A JEDI AT THE END BECAUSE JEDI IS A RECOGNIZED RELIGION IN AUSTRALIA omfg

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

I am obligated to reblog this because Reasons.

[johnthestitcher]

This may not make compete sense the first time you watch it, but it’s really funny!

[kisforkarol-deactivated20260127]

Jedi is not a legit religion in Australia. People just keep putting it down in the census every few years.

[justcatposts]

They are evolving. 

(via)

[zerodaryls-deactivated20250101]

one of my favorite CDs in existence is the 2002 album “Disney’s Princess Favorites”, because the front cover looks like this:

and the back cover looks like this:

the disc itself, i recall, is that same purplish/magenta color. very standard princessy album, very cute and pretty and magical, featuring several faves from the disney renaissance era. great songs to dance around your room to at age 7. it was clearly promoting the hell out of the new cinderella 2 tracks, which were simultaneously terrible and total bops and i will stan them to this day. absolutely phenomenal, everything i needed as a child.

and then… and then track no. 4 comes out of nowhere, deep and dark and brooding as all hell:

mind you this was always one of my favorite songs on the album, but would i have ever heard it if it hadn’t been wedged between “can you feel the love tonight” and “reflection”? absolutely fucking not. it’s not even IN the original beauty & the beast; it’s from the broadway musical version.

this album has perplexed me from a young age because… whO PUT THIS TRACK LIST TOGETHER AND WAS LIKE “YOU KNOW WHAT CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 10 WANT TO LISTEN TO? A SONG ABOUT A DEPRESSED, CURSED MAN SINGING ABOUT HOW POINTLESS HIS LIFE IS WITHOUT LOVE.”

and they were absolutely correct. this song has been filling me with emotions i cannot fathom the depth of since i was seven.

[lumiereswig]

christ that feeling of being seven and loving everything pink and purple and sparkly is fuckin real, tho. used to listen to a cd just like this in my lil bedroom cd player that i mourn to this day because i LOVED that thing

[hjbender]

Thor & Loki Dealing with each other’s madness

[sidewindervx]

[omgitburnssogood]

amy schumer is the queen of subtlety