Near May Be Better Than Far; It Still Isn't There

"No matter what he thought about, he always returned to these same questions which he could not solve and yet could not cease to ask himself. It was as if the thread of the chief screw which held his life together were stripped, so that the screw could not get in or out, but went on turning uselessly in the same place."

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Alright tell me in the tags, what’s Your Poem? That poem you heard once and it has dwelt within you ever since?

[weirdplutoprince]

Well, well, well. If it isn't the consequences of someone else's actions that I am directly impacted and severely affected by

[apolladay]

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

No pet

Voting ended onJun 11

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

[hasa-diga-eebowai]

earlier tonight, i was feeling lonely, but like, in a good way? like the kind of mood where, if i could have, i would have driven around dark streets aimlessly, getting lost and enjoying the warm summer breeze.

came home and it was immediately replaced with just regular old bad lonely feelings. my bosses all hate me and i'm not that good at my job but can't afford to leave, the work cat has been missing for weeks and it was storming tonight, i have online friends but it's no replacement for irl friends, just everything sucks.

[hasa-diga-eebowai]

17 years ago tomorrow, I left to go to London for a week. I had left my cell phone at home turned off, and from the time we returned to the US until we got home, I eagerly thought about all the messages I'd have waiting for me. Except when I finally rushed in the door and turned on my phone, I didn't have a single message waiting.

And that hasn't really changed almost 20 years later.

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

Nobody’s Side- Chess (Broadway) Judy Kuhn

[legalityoftheraccoons]

“Kids shouldn’t learn about periods” what

what do you even mean. I got my period at 11 and know people who got it younger

[incognitopolls]

This is asking only about movies, not episodes of a TV show. Assume you're only watching one movie at a time.

Assuming you had access via streaming at home and no obligations that day, how many full-length movies (90+ minutes) could you stand to watch in one day?

I can't make it through even one whole movie in a day

Only one

2

3

4

5

6

7

8+

I could literally watch movies for 24 hours straight (up to 16 movies)

Voting ended onMay 5

Definitions of "feature length" vary and can include shorter films, but this is mainly asking about modern mainstream movies, which typically are at least 90 minutes.

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We ask your questions anonymously so you don’t have to! Submissions are open on the 1st and 15th of the month.

[roycohn]

quickly, think of a vine!!! ok, was it...

this bitch empty....YEET

look at alllllllll these chickens

i said whoever threw that paper your mom's a hoe

road work ahead? yeah i sure hope it does

WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE????

hurricane katrina? more like hurricane TORTILLA

back at it at the krispy kreme

FRE SHA VOCADO

and they were ROOMMATES

I WON'T HESITATE BITCH

i'm jared i'm 19 and i never fuckin learned how to read

another (put in tags!!!)

Voting ended onApr 9

[apolladay]

Do you consider your first name unique?

yes

no

nuance

Voting ended onMar 15

[hasa-diga-eebowai]

kenya should have been in the top >:(

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[hasa-diga-eebowai]

i am so fucking pumped that the cast is full of old ass queens

[dragon-in-a-fez]

linguistics professor: so we've covered prefixes and suffixes. does anyone know what an infix is?

student: abso-fucking-lutely

[markovchaingang]

(in sex ed class) this is stupid when are we ever gonna need to use this lol

[maxbegone]

just saw a note on substack about someone named Hannah meeting someone else named Hannah, who had never met another Hannah before — so I got curious. have you met someone who shares the same name as you, and is your name common? (excluding if you’re named after a family member)

common, have met someone with the same name

common, have not met someone with the same name

somewhat common, have met someone with the same name

somewhat common, have not met someone with the same name

somewhat uncommon, have met someone with the same name

somewhat uncommon, have not met someone with the same name

uncommon, have met someone with the same name

uncommon, have not met someone with the same name

my name is typically a nickname, have met someone with the same name

my name is typically a nickname, have not met someone with the same name

other (ie; changed/chose my name later in life, etc)

Voting ended onOct 31, 2025

[cosmictuesdays]

One time I introduced myself to someone, she commented that I had an unusual first name which she didn't see all that often.

I told her I didn't think it was that strange; after all, I heard it every day.

[artpigeons]

"ohh 00s diet culture isn't back because of ozempic, you're overreacting"

idk i keep seeing previously size-inclusive brands remove plus-sized versions of their clothes from their catalogues entirely, even lines specifically aimed at bigger sizes are cutting their size range down and chopping the bigger ones. i keep seeing mean skinny tiktokers get famous because they said something rude about fat people. when i ask my doctor about weight loss (which my country's gender treatment clinic requires before i can access even preliminary talks about hrt), i'm immediately offered drugs about it - drugs which, according to the doctor, we don't know the long-term effects of. but surely! surely it can't be worse than being fat!

like why are people acting surprised? we've made being extremely wealthy the aspirational aesthetic to strive for, made 'being skinny and having a lot of time and money to stay beautiful' a not only viable but lucrative carreer for people, and then released a drug that is wildly expensive and will make people thin.

of course people are gonna make being thin the ultimate status symbol again - it more than ever before signals wealth and leisure-time.

like, do you think it's a coincidence that people are back to constantly spouting 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' again? and pretending being fat is a matter of lacking self-control around cake or whatever? as if people haven't spent decades trying to get these fucks to understand that actually healthy produce and the time to maintain your body are extreme luxuries in our society?

anyway my broke fat ass can't find pants i like and can afford because the size-inclusive lines i'd have shopped at previously have axed anything over a size xl

and like. i'm not even that fat. what the fuck do people bigger than me do. it's really heinous right now for fat peeps.