Like a Far-off Memory

When something impossible happens, there are only two possibilities: either your assumptions are wrong, or you have gone crazy.

[skygenders]

getting over your hatred for pink is self-care

[afronerdism]

I love that we’ve all had this shared journey of falling in love with pink and realizing that it’s ok to like pink

[itscassiberry]

Starting out loving being girls, then realising what it means to be a girl, rejecting that and trying to be ‘not like other girls’, realising that it’s not about girls it’s about the patriarchy, learning to love being a woman.

[ghostmage-remade-deactivated202]

i’m starting to realize the “friendship where we bully each other” thing is a complicated subject for me, because as a survivor of bullying and my interests being mocked for basically my entire life, i don’t really find it funny or endearing when pals do it. i don’t mind gentle insults and inside jokes, but idk, there has to be a point where you go “maybe i shouldn’t cut on my friend’s new oc or special interest” and stop yourself. i think we should all try a little harder to know that boundary and not put our friends in those situations

[pandreaa]

[zagenta]

Honestly shoutout to The Social Network for giving us the line “you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an asshole” because if that doesn’t epitomize women’s feelings for entitled male nerds I don’t know what does

[quomododragon]

My students are up to something. They keep coming up to me and handing me pieces of fruit, and when I ask why, they just smile cryptically and say, “Don’t worry about it.”

[quomododragon]

Like, the apples I get. That’s a teacherly thing to give. But one of them just straight up handed me a grape.

[quomododragon]

I took a sick day today and sent an email to the first girl to hand me a piece of fruit, asking if I could have an explanation now.

Her response was to send me this meme:

That clarifies exactly nothing, thanks.

[quomododragon]

Walked into school today to an email from her saying: “There’s more to come, hope it doesn’t leave you *sour* (you’ll get that later).”

Ominous.

[quomododragon]

Just before my first class of the day, one of my students came floating in, a black cloak billowing behind her, hood pulled low over her eyes.

“An offering,” she said, handing me a plain white bag with a green ribbon.

Inside is this:

Life gave me a plastic lemon.

[quomododragon]

WE HAVE AN ANSWER!

Apparently this was the result of a number of my students playing Truth or Dare at a birthday party. I’m not sure which one of them came up with “I dare you to confuse Magistra by handing her a piece of fruit without explanation”, but I 100% approve of any thought process that ends with me getting free food.

[starsparklez]

That was wild until the finish.

[jumpingjacktrash]

this is the most wholesome prank. literally wholesome. full of vitamins and everything.

[imjustabagofbags]

A bar has opened that doesn’t serve alcohol, and it’s surprisingly successful.

Brillig Dry Bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan doesn’t serve alcohol, but owner Nic Sims is counting on customers not caring.

She hasn’t had a drink in 20 years, and she wanted to create a space where people—including, but not limited to, recovering alcoholics—could gather to have fun and socialize without worrying about drinking. In other words, she wants Brillig Dry Bar to have “a bar-like convivial atmosphere, with snacks and drinks and conversation, without it being a bar,” she told MLive.com.

Sims runs the bar as a pop-up out of her husband’s coffee shop, Mighty Good Coffee. She serves interesting non-alcoholic drinks, like Brooklyn Egg Creams, Pomegranate-Rosemary Sodas, and Vegan Pumpkin Chillers, as well as snack plates with meats, cheeses, and cookies.

Though some detractors have accused Sims of being anti-alcohol, the bar’s opening night last Friday was packed. According to BuzzFeed, “Brillig’s first customers included former drinkers, pregnant women, Muslims, teenagers, and college kids.”

The next pop-up will be December 26.

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[elfbeee]

This is actually really cool, especially for people who can’t drink alcohol, like people with liver/digestive/processing issues.

[digi-cow]

That and alcoholism is such a weirdly normal thing and it shouldnt be, this is super important

[naturallytom]

hi can we normalize the idea of choosing not to drink

[cherryclit]

no cuz thats fucking lame

[fairy25]

hey it actually isn’t! i get really really sick whenever i have more than a beer or two and i absolutely hate how people assume i must be lame/a kill joy when i refuse a drink. people choose to be sober or mostly sober for a variety of reasons, e.g. addiction, medical, etc. and not a single one of them is “because i’m a lame person who hates fun” 

[love-god-herself-deactivated202]

The degree to which drinking is seen as a must in social situations is fucking weird, and I think the fact that people are more put off by non-drinkers than by how much alcohol consumption has permeated the culture is … troubling.

[emi--rose]

Yup, not drinking isn’t lame at all, be cool, c'mon

[excusemewhileiplaykh]

Might fuck around and get into one of those funky little pods Sora was in and sleep for a year

[thisisradioactive]

When you make a reference and someone actually gets it

[en-cima]

notice how “girls mature faster” is never stated as a reason why girls should be given more positions of power and authority? It only works to hold girls to greater accountability than boys and to justify men’s attraction to them.

[veryfunnymemes]

[fuckwhoyoucamewith]

it’s never too late to start again. 5pm on a thursday can be your new monday. you don’t have to wait until the new year to better yourself. time is an illusion, don’t forget that. just because you woke up at 1pm, it doesn’t mean you messed your whole day up and that you can’t turn the mood around. it’s never too late to start again!!!!!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

That time of night as an adult where you’re desperately tired and want to sleep but you also don’t want to give up the day yet bc there’s stuff you wanna do. I’m calling it the toddler hour

[knitbelove]

This post came into my bedroom and punched me in the face

[brucebocchi]

[the-memedaddy]

me irl

[chrishallbeck]

Parenting.

hallbeck.com

[sushinfood]

THANK YOU

[bentheechidna]

I love this one personally.

[dare-i-say-asexual]

I was really depressed today and my gf convinced me to go take a bath and then a nap and when I came back out into the main area of our apartment she had cleaned, lit candles, and made me dinner I’m gonna fucking cry I love her so much

[dare-i-say-asexual]

I really appreciate how she’s taught me to run through a checklist of what might be wrong when I’m down and I’ve learned to do the same with her. The questions are all super basic but help me a lot like:

- have you eaten recently?

- have you drank water?

- have you done something for your hygiene yet today?

- do you need to take a rest?

- is the space we’re in causing stress in some way? (too dirty, loud, bright, crowded, etc.)

- has something happened or is there a specific emotion you need to acknowledge right now?

- are you putting something off you need to do or a problem you need to solve and can I help you to accomplish/fix it?

Idk just having someone help me assess my feelings and give me space to open up has really made it so i shutdown due to depression/anxiety less and communicate more clearly. It’s really helped us not fight or get frustrated with each other.