Once Upon A Midnight Dreary @halcyonsynthesis - Tumblr Blog

Wed. Ness. Day.

Three hours of broken sleep makes Erica something something.

CRANKY AND TIRED.

It’s currently liminal Spacemas on my side of the screen with no end in sight and I’m doing my best to go with it but it’s all very Inception-like.

Kiddo made a choice for himself and, unfortunately, I had to remind him that nobody has a right to make him feel bad for a choice he is comfortable with.

Sadly, I am his one and only cheerleader but I am the loudest cheerleader.

He’s graduating with a business degree and a provincial diploma but not an official diploma from the school because his school is religious and he failed religion in the most spectacular fashion. I genuinely didn’t know a grade could get that low.

After a whole month, my apartment’s management is finally coming to fix the AC and I am excited to be able to cook without sweating.

When I was 12, I biked over to my friend’s house for dinner and her dad made a giant roast. He took his shirt off at the table to carve it and then proceeded to sweat all over it. I didn’t eat that night.

#I wear a sweatband when I cook because I sweat from my forehead #it says ‘sweat them eat cake’

degamonal

1880’s Victorian dollhouse

geyfrog

The first rule of cable management is "out of sight, out of mind"

geyfrog

The second rule of cable management is that all true art is provocative. If zero people want to kill you over it, it's not good art.

gigglepuffpixie

S'ghetti Closet

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behindnightmaresanddreams

I received my very first piece of mail and I legitimately cried. There’s someone out there who not only cares about me but cares enough to take the time to find a card, write the nicest things inside of the card, and send the card all because they know mail makes me feel loved and fills me with joy.

I don’t cry about much. I can hear stories about war crimes or the American concentration camps or, really, the actual worst things in the world, and my heart will break but I won’t cry nor will I be surprised. Be nice to me or if I am witness to kindness, I will be too stunned to speak and will bawl like a toddler who cannot regain control of their emotions.

Why, yes, I have been to therapy before. Why do you ask?

I was promised a thunderstorm and these are not thunderstorm clouds.

So many people live here, you guys. It’s kind of insane.

If you saw last night’s post, no you didn’t. It’s rare that I private a post before the end of the month but I was a little tipsy and wrote more than I was comfortable with. Some topics should not be made public.

It has been 9 days and I’m still in a great deal of pain but at least I haven’t had to lay on the floor yet this week. It’s progress but all of this has made me think twice about Second Job. I am genuinely struggling with the decision.

I looked at flights to Newfoundland today and I just need to get a few things in order before I purchase the tickets and book the hotel. I’m really going to make this happen. An actual vacation. Holy fucking shitballs.

Look at this menace to south central who drinks his juice in the hood.

#if you get that movie reference we should be friends

afbcb

#Greek Chicken Wraps with Garlic Yogurt Sauce

owlservice

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

phrenic-a

Every molecular biology and genetics class I have ever taken uses Huntington’s to demonstrate the tragedy and heartbreak genetic disorders can inflict on peoples lives. This is truly an amazing feat.

news-wtf

An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.

It means the decline you would normally expect in one year would take four years after treatment, giving patients decades of "good quality life", Prof Sarah Tabrizi told BBC News.

The new treatment is a type of gene therapy given during 12 to 18 hours of delicate brain surgery.

The first symptoms of Huntington's disease tend to appear in your 30s or 40s and is normally fatal within two decades – opening the possibility that earlier treatment could prevent symptoms from ever emerging.

Prof Tabrizi, director of the University College London Huntington's Disease Centre, described the results as "spectacular".

"We never in our wildest dreams would have expected a 75% slowing of clinical progression," she said.

None of the patients who have been treated are being identified, but one was medically retired and has returned to work. Others in the trial are still walking despite being expected to need a wheelchair. (aph)

There are three things I’m willing to burn my mouth for - pizza, Mac and cheese, and soup.

Two of my favourite soups to make are Fronion and chicken dumpling.

I already know which meal I’m going to make first when my best friend finally comes to visit.

The moving company I used refuses to provide me with an invoice reflecting the damage discount and have now ghosted me. Good thing I haven’t paid yet.

I will forever hold a grudge against the dictionary for adding “payed” as an acceptable spelling of the word “paid”

We have officially been here for a month and I still feel like I’m moving through molasses. Nothing feels quite “right” yet. Or, as the dictionary would probably allow, “rite”.

fairyinthetrees

“I retain the right to be incredibly moved by those little things no one notices.”

- Maria Semple

megustamemes

Sofa sitting positions

rights-for-redshirts

I found it

mygfturnedintothelawofcycle

This has to be like an ancient relic or something

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@hellsite-hall-of-fame

ororium-z

Happy Pride!

rootbeergoddess

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

candycoloredwolf

Anyone gonna mention how this guy actually preformed live with Carly Rae Jepsen?

restfromthestreets

I’m gonna scream is2g

galaxa-13

I was thinking of reblogging this again just because the original video is still amazing, but then I see the second video and lost my mind. The upgraded fan, the body glitter, the sheer fact that he got to do this with the actual singer.

halcyonsynthesis

Happy Pride Month to all of my fellow queers and the entire LGBTQIA2S+ community!

achillesinhighheels

sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and i'm losing sense of time

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-

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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