THIS IS ALL LEO'S FAULT

*Message me if you wanna be friends, Miss me if you wanna flirt* Welcome to my personal theater of bullshit, where I do my best to be entertaining! You may call my Ivy, (or some other choice names) she/her. I'm 28, ace AF, and not apologizing.

[grungekitty-77]

Reminder that failure is not an enemy to fight and defeat. It's a sickness to treat and care for.

[fervent-bookwomb]

every time i clean my room i’m convinced it’s going to stay clean forever this time

[fervent-bookwomb]

it’s seriously going to stay clean forever this time

[grungekitty-77]

Not at all what you meant, but kind of did happen for me?

There were issues in how I was raised and it fucked with my ability to keep my living space clean. Like at all. Like I was incapable of keeping my room from devolving into hoarder conditions for more than a month.

I could write an essay on all the factors that caused this, but not the point and no one cares. Just know there is a long list of very understandable reasons for why it was this way.

Every time it got cleaned, either because someone helped me or something forced me, it didn't stay that way. The floor soon disappeared. It felt like sisyphus. I was just doomed to live this way.

Then one day as an adult I was forced to yet again clean my room. It took a week as it always did. I enjoyed my clean room knowing I would ruin it within a week.

And I.... didn't.

I waited and waited for this temporary streak to break and... it didn't. I actually kept it clean. "cleaning my room" was an hour every month or two instead of a week every year or two, and it actually got done.

Turns out I had done enough work on my mental health that, without me realizing it, I had healed the parts of myself that were blocking me. I literally had no idea that was the last time my room would be that bad. It took two years before it finally sunk in that this wasn't temporary success, it was permanent change.

Anyway, sorry to side track. I just kind of found it funny that I cleaned my room once and it kind of did stay clean forever after that.

[litafordvsferrari]

that makes me curious

do you think you could beat up your blorbo in a fistfight if you had to

yes

no

nuance i guess?

Voting ended onJun 11

[grungekitty-77]

"You didn't even pause to decide which blorbo you were thinking of?"

Didn't need to. I have a type, and it sure as shit is not pacifism.

[grungekitty-77]

Ebb tide in appetite to-day. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so tumblr instead.

[grungekitty-77]

Alright, who cursed me? Haiku bot found a reblog of my post and it is so over.

[grungekitty-77]

Helpful little bit-sized piece of info to gently spread around.

Trump's new tariffs take effect in November. Right as a bunch of democrats are probably going to be elected.

He has scheduled the economy to tank the second the democrats get any foot hold and the Republicans plan to blame the democrats for the scheduled economy tanking.

This is not the first time a republican has done this, but we need to make sure he doesn't get away with it this time!

So make sure everyone knows. Whatever happens in November was his doing, not the people being elected that month. Do not let them shift the blame.

[grungekitty-77]

When you're a teenager, you live the life your parents give you.

When you're in your twenties, you live the life your circumstances give you.

When you're in your thirties, you live the life you give yourself.

[grungekitty-77]

For real. I can't promise that it'll be a good life or that you'll like it. I just can promise it'll be in your control.

Think about it like this: Say you value outdoor space and green space is a priority for you. You want to live somewhere with a yard.

When you're a teenager, you live in where ever your parents live. They made the choice. Maybe they took your input about the yard. Maybe they didn't. Either way, you have to live in their choice, yard or no.

When you're in your twenties, you live where you can afford. Maybe you're lucky and can get what you want. Maybe you have to settle for plants in the windows. You are not in a position to turn a good place down just because it doesn't have a yard.

When you're thirty? You have some kind of paper trail to your name. Whether it's good or bad depends on the choices you made. What you prioritized and what you compromised. Even if there was no "right" choice, you still got to make a choice!

If you put your energy into your living situation, your thirties is when that starts to pay off. When you finally get to be choosey and decide that a yard is non-negotiable for you.

You probably neglected your career or love life or health or something else in favor of this, but you choose what you ignored. You choose what part of your life you put first and what part you put last. Maybe you'll be happy with it. Maybe you'll realize you made a horrible mistake. Either way, you did it.

And if that worries you, don't get too worked up. Most people are happy with it! Just keep making the choices that feel right for you and eventually you'll have a life to match.

[grungekitty-77]

It's happening again, so just to remind everyone:

TUMBLR ADS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO AUTO-PLAY AUDIO! THAT IS A BUG AND YOU SHOULD REPORT IT!

"This ad is auto-playing audio" is literally on the drop down menu for reporting an ad. Tumblr isn't trying to implement this! Don't protest this "new policy", cause it's not one.

Report the broken ads.

Thank you.

[grungekitty-77]

When you're a teenager, you live the life your parents give you.

When you're in your twenties, you live the life your circumstances give you.

When you're in your thirties, you live the life you give yourself.

[handern]

idk how as people get older they stop trying to get interested in whatever kids are into these days my favorite thing to do in the whole world is to name drop common kids interests and see them start to vibrate

I managed to find TWO ways to reference Minecraft (it will never die) during my tours + two local influencers kids love + Roblox and I'm considering that a personal achievement like the kids found my exemples relatable and got excited about it, I won at life, keep pretending that your disdain for kids' interest doesn't stem from how out of touch you feel and how you think acknowledging it will make you realize that what was familiar to you is now long gone, kids born in 2016 invite me to their servers all the time

[grungekitty-77]

I work with kids and this is exactly why I keep up with stuff like Fnaf and Poppy Playtime. I try to keep a casual eye on whatever is trending, even if I don't really care all that much.

Because it is amazing to see the way a kid will just light up when they find an adult that can hold a conversation with them about the thing they like!

Fair warning, you are more often than not signing up for twenty minutes of listening to a kid babble at you with a frightening intensity. Most children are painfully starved for connection. So when they find a common interest with a friendly adult, they act appropriately ravenous. They don't know when their next "meal" is going to be, so the will do the conversational equivalent of shoving everything into their mouth without stopping to chew.

It's cute and I'm glad I can give them something they obviously needed, but there are only so many ways you can say "We'll have to wait and see in the next episode/chapter/game/book/movie/etc." before your eye starts to twitch.

[cuppydogshane]

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

[grungekitty-77]

Ok I kind of have to reblog since it turned to 8PM exactly right as I read this post.

[grungekitty-77]

Whoever decided to make camera filters opt-out on your phone should be whipped until they bleed

[galileosballs]

Very few things-that-don't-matter bother me like the concept of 'zero-waste sewing', especially when it's also touted as 'beginner-friendly'.

Using your fabric efficiently? Makes total sense. No objection to that.

But specifically designing patterns such that every single part of a length of fabric is consumed by it? You're setting people up to fail. For one, you can really only do this with patterns made mostly of rectangles and right triangles, which can only make a very narrow range of garments that simply do not play nice with many people's bodies (especially bodies with lots of curvature). For another, a zero-waste pattern is also a zero-error-tolerance pattern. One wrong cut or measurement and the whole thing's toast. The wiggle-room that a more standard pattern allows also allows you to fix problems when they occur.

If you make a zero-waste garment and never wear it because it looks bad on you? That's not actually zero-waste. If you start a zero-waste garment and can't complete it because you made one little mistake? That's not actually zero-waste.

But more importantly, the whole idea of 'zero-waste' as a desireable outcome is antithetical to the methods and traditions of sewing. It's a form of functionless, guilt-driven, aesthetics-first minimalism that has no place in actual sewing practice. The scraps of fabric left over from cutting a pattern are incredibly useful. Larger pieces can become parts of new projects. Smaller pieces can become patchwork. Even really tiny scraps can become stuffing or batting or kindling or any number of other things. Home sewing has always been about not wasting things, but the way to not waste things is not by piously making only garments that suck, it's by repurposing, reusing, and recycling everything you buy. Once that fabric reaches your house, 98% of its environmental impact has already happened.

Use it all, sure, but use it well.

[grungekitty-77]

Daugther of a seamstress here!

Remember that people have been sewing clothes for thousands and thousands of years. If this was a smart way of doing it, they would've started doing it ages ago!

This goes for any craft or trade as old as human civilization. Barring anything that requires more modern inventions or discoveries, I promise you someone already figured this out. And the only reason they didn't keep doing it, is that it turned out to be a stupid idea.

[lesbianshepard]

Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.

[lesbianshepard]

If you manage to get on the turnpike before the cops stop you, a soccer mom is gonna do the Jersey slide in a RAV4 and turn your entire group into a wet speedbump

[bunjywunjy]

this? you want to walk down this????

please say sike

[bunjywunjy]

IT'S NOT A FUCKING STREET ITS AN 8-LANE SUPERHIGHWAY THAT GOES OVER A SWAMP

[hapalopus]

footpath

[bunjywunjy]

that is grass. just like ur ass, if you try to walk this thing

[phantomomo]

Image me gently taking your hand as I tell you the following:

This is ABSOLUTELY a perfectly fine footpath.

In fact, with how much space I’m seeing here, it is entirely plausible, that the European hordes will just create a temporary little Wanderweg right next to the highway. With that much space they might not even have to interfere with traffic.

But also have you seen the space between your highways? I‘d say the gaps each easily fit another whole stream of European walking hordes. Or maybe even two going opposite directions :D

[bunjywunjy]

tightly grips your hand with both of my sweaty hands.

the grass is not a permanent feature. there just happens to be a chunk of it there. the side of the road can vary from grass to swampwater ditches to steep embankments to absolutely nothing within a very short distance.

they will call in every highway enforcer in the state and mass incarcerate the lot of you before they allow you to Darwin Award yourselves across 6 lanes of traffic into an international incident or, (their real concern) impede the progress of the single most important north-south interstate corridor in america, ball kicky game be damned.

(I'm starting to believe that a fair number of you in the notes have We're Better Than Stupid Americans embedded so deeply into your cultural identity that you will Just Not Listen to anything we say to you about the material circumstances about the place we live in, rather than taking us at our word that there is a reason that most Americans travel the way we do and it's a good reason.)

[shithowdy]

maybe if we let enough europeans trample our verges they'll form functional desire paths

[grungekitty-77]

How very Western European to show up to a foreign country, ignore how the locals do things, ignore being told the reasons they have for doing it that way, ignore the polite requests for you to respect the rules of the land you are visiting, and insist that the locals are just too dumb and savage to understand that your enlightened way is clearly just superior. It works just fine back home in your COMPLETELY DIFFERENT COUNTRY WITH COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND CULTURE after all! If us stupid foreigners would just submit to you like God intended.

Oops, that last part isn't supposed to be out loud, is it?

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

for my fellow psychotics who struggle with thinking someone is in their house, a method I’ve found that really works are these guys:

i put them on my front door and anytime it opens they ring. that way if i think someone has broken in or i see someone who isn’t there i can think back to if the bells have rung, and if they haven’t i can assure myself it’s not real. obviously it’s not fool proof, like if you are prone to auditory hallucinations, but it has really helped me calm down in time to avoid major psychotic breaks. it’s a real lifesaver

nonpsychotics encouraged to rb

[grungekitty-77]

This is what my mom did to keep track of us when we were toddlers. She will vouch that there is absolutely no silent way to open this door! She knew the second a child left their room.

Plus, you can make them super decorative if you want!

[saintfelina]

[hexenmond]

Image description: a tweet by divinelydaria.

saw an inspiring video that said you need to have 4 hobbies.

create, consume, cavort, commune

create: bring something to life consume: appreciate the art of another cavort: move your body daily commune: have a community to socialize with

end image description.

[lierdumoa]

I think you need hobbies that do all four things but the number of hobbies needed to cover all these needs may vary. Some hobbies pull double/triple duty. Some hobbies can cause repetitive stress injuries so it's good to have a few different ones that fulfill the same need so you can rotate to get the fulfillment without the carpal tunnel.

[grungekitty-77]

I also add a fifth item to my list. I don't have a nifty alliterative word for it. Sorry.

You should also do something outside.

Maybe it's not a year-round hobby due to the temperature, but pick your preferred discomfort and do it during that season. (Yes. You do have to pick between hot discomfort or cold discomfort. You can't avoid sweating and shivering.)

Your brain kind of needs outside time. It's really not healthy to go more than a year without spending any time around plants.

[schafpudel]

am i stupid or are we veering towards "caring about the environmental impact of human industry is fascist and reactionary" on this Webbed Site

[grungekitty-77]

My complaint is that we don't actually need this much light.

You don't have to turn night into fucking day! You can function if it's slightly dimmer than a sunny midsummer afternoon! My issue is that some people insist that they are blind if their pupils have to adjust any larger than pinpricks!

"Waaah. I can't see the road without stadium grade spotlights overhead AND the LED search beams on the front of my car turned up to the brightest setting at all times!" Ok, maybe you just need to admit your aren't safe to night drive anymore. If you are actually that fucking blind, then you shouldn't be passing the vision test!

Literally I have had to pull over due to people's highbeams shining so bright that I cannot see the road through the glare!!! Those lights designed for "safer roads", are actually endangering me!!!

Do you really need to light your business up like it's still open to "deter theives"? I'm certain you can get away with a little less than reading-fine-print-and-comparing-different-shades-of-the-same-color levels of light if you just need to make human sized figures identifiable.

Not to mention how hostile this makes THE. ENTIRE. WORLD. to anyone with sensory issues! Just deal with bright lights ALL THE TIME! Even at night! Nowhere is dim! The entire world is lit up like an operating table at all times! You don't get to ask for it to be any less than that anywhere at any point because people can't find their own asses in dim lighting apparently!

IDK, I think some of you just need to let your eyes adjust for two seconds before you decide to turn on the 5,000,000 lumens flashlight.