Random Musings

Female, 20, bisexual, located in California. This blog has a wide variety of things - art, cute animals, lots of steampunk, writing-related stuff, books, and plenty of fandom things (Doctor Who, Welcome to Night Vale, Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, and many others)

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Sorry for my absence here recently.  Between school and work life is pretty crazy right now, and I honestly don’t think I’m going to have the time or motivation to do much with this blog anymore.  So, consider this a long-term hiatus until further notice.

I will, however, continue to be active on my RP blog -- you can message me here for the url (I’ll still try to check in on this account every once in a while, though it won’t be frequent)

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necklaces by KrinnaHandmade on etsy. Do not remove source.

[breastforce]

“Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them…or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

Holy SHIT

[t-ycho]

WELL THEN

[appropriately-inappropriate]

Yep.

They actually tested me for a learning disability in high school because I was consistently failing math.

They discovered that I actually scored in the 80th percentile in that sort of learning.

Problem was, in every other subject, I was in the 99.8th percentile.

I had never learned how to study because I never needed to—and then, when something proved to be even the slightest bit challenging, my brain went

“LOL nope this is impossible abort”

Meanwhile, this entire time I’m scraping by in subjects like English. The assignments I did turn in, I’d score top marks—but I’d avoid turning in projects I didn’t think were “good” enough.

Essentially, my brain had two settings: “100%” or “0%”.

This sort of Baby Genius shit makes kids and adolescents neurotic and self-destructive.

[cassiebones]

We learned about this in Child Development. And we learned to reward hard work and not good job. Like don’t say to a child, “oh you are so smart.” Say “Oh did worked so hard.” Be proud of the child, not the achievement.

[gifsboom]

[kaijutegu]

behold, a young snake conquering the greatest obstacle he has ever encountered: a tiny tree

[mywhisperedcolors]

space dress

[sixpenceee]

[werewolfxo-moved-deactivated202]

novel about a morally grey pirate captain who is cursed to die within 5 years for stealing some forbidden treasure, and only giving her heart to someone and expecting nothing back can break the curse

but rather than go on some journey to find some true love or whatever, she decides to use her last years to travel the seas with her crew and collect treasure and drink and be merry

and on the day of reckoning, she is falling more and more ill, and her crew gather all around her to say goodbye to their captain when suddenly the curse is broken. because she gave her whole heart to her ship and her crew, and expected nothing back.

[they-better-be-mysterious-deact]

#i like it  #i really like stories about True Love that isn’t the romantic kind (x)

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[yungterra-blog]

You want my phone number? It’s useless. The best way to contact me is to fill a human skull with acorns and vigorously shake it into the night. I will hear you eventually.

[scatteringstarslikesprinkles-de]

In other news, my boyfriend’s perfect hair is still perfect

[yungterra-blog]

what the fuck ok

[toxixpumpkin]

The Angst prompts that no one wanted

I sold my soul to bring you back to life after your untimely death and I only have a month left with you so  I’m trying to make it count.

You’re a ghost who’s trying to get to the after life so I’m helping you out but I fell in love and now I don’t want you to go but it’s too late.

You keep having strange dreams that turn out to be us in a past life and you’re determined to find me again but in this life I’m already dead

I’m a firefighter and you live near the station I work at and we talk/flirt with each other a lot. One day me and my team get called to put out a fire and it’s your home ablaze. You don’t make it out.

We live in a futuristic era where you’re a scientist and I’m you assistant. An experiment goes horribly wrong resulting in my death. You try to put my brain in a robot and it works but it’s not the same.  

I’m you’re guardian angel who’s been breaking the rules and keeping you alive longer than you should be and as punishment I have to watch you die.

You’re a civilian and I’m a knight. We fall in love and are the cutesy couple ever. A enemy kingdom attacks our kingdom and in the heat of a battle you’re kidnapped (or killed) right in front of me while I’m unable to do anything about it.

I’m in a gang and you’re too precious for this world but you still hang out with me. One day my gang activity gets your hurt so I completely cut off all ties to keep you safe.

I’m a vampire that has a moment of weakness when you’re near by and it doesn’t end well.

You’re secretly a spy and to keep me safe when things go downhill you have to break up with me and you do it as harshly as possible so I don’t try and follow you (optional: I do follow and your worst fear comes true)

You would always randomly pull me up to dance or just gently hold me while swaying but now I’m standing here alone (up to you why they are alone)

[urdchama]

LUPICIA || The Book of Tea 100

[manafromheaven]

I NEED

[lilac-astranaut-blog]

I have a legitimate need for this… *^*

[william-snekspeare]

William-Snekspeare webcomic premiering next week!

Next Thursday, August 13, is the official starting day of William Snekspeare’s House of Reptiles!

From the artist that brought you “I may not know much” and “I ain’t scare of no things”, comes a fun, pro-reptile, and queer-friendly cartoon about a non-binary kid named Will and their adventures with their many reptile companions. This comic will be updated regularly and will not contain any foul language or sexual themes. (it’s very child friendly!) 

I hope you all will enjoy it as much as I enjoy drawing it. :)

 Hugs and hisses to everybody!!!

[william-snekspeare]

5 more days! 🐍😀

[olivesnook]

[cleolinda]

Why Stardust deserves to become a movie classic.

[whoistorule]

#it should be known as the princess bride of our time

[sizzlebutt]

Not enough people talk about the fact that Leonardo da Vinci was gay. Like, he’s literally the father of modern technology and one of the smartest human beings to ever live and I never ever learned in school that he was gay. 

If all the LGBT people are as “DOOMED” as the bible thumpers think we are, hell, at least we’re in good company. 

[susiephone]

I was about to say I can’t believe I didn’t know this

and then I remembered the American education system

Yes, I can fucking believe I didn’t know this.

But yeah. Leonardo da Vinci was gay. Pass it on.

[gecsplaining]

Leo painted a picture of his lover as Jesus and that’s the image we use today

[bathsabbath-deactivated20200309]

Oh man that is sad. I’m sorry your teachers are failing you.

Some Leonardo facts you should tattoo on your heart:

He was actually convicted for sodomy at age 24, but the allegations were dropped for lack of testimony. The charges affected him immensely, as he was by all means, a very private person.

Da Vinci’s models for Christ are unknown. The claim that he depicted his lover as Jesus most likely arose from the bullshit about Cesare Borgia being the inspiration for White Jesus™ combined with the allegations that Leonardo and Cesare were lovers…There is little to no support for these claims. However, it’s speculated his lover Gian Giacomo Caprotti was the model for his St. John the Baptist.

He was universally beloved (minus Michelangelo lollll), like the nicest, funniest, gentlest, handsomest man you’d ever meet. He was generous beyond words, treated everyone equally, and loved to play pranks.

He was also fuckin’ ripped. It was rumored he could bend a horseshoe in half with his bare hands.

Often wore pink and other vibrant colors.

Rumored to sleep approx. 2 hours a night.

Was left-handed and ambidextrous. He was dyslexic, possibly had ADD, and suffered from frequent paranoia.

He was his own worst critic and often destroyed his work. He still left behind over 13k journal pages, filled with sketches and so many dick jokes.

His last words were: “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”

Would buy caged animals from the market just to set them free. He was allegedly a vegetarian.

For a time he kept a pet lizard and made him a custom set of wings and horns. He would routinely scare the shit out of people with his ‘dragon.’

My all time fave: While staying in the Vatican he would invite guests into a residential room which had been filled with cleaned/dried animal intestines that he had sewn together. He fastened a bellows to the end of the intestines and proceeded to inflate them. Onlookers were so excited to see DaVinci’s new ”invention” that they didn’t even realize this asshole was just blowing up a giant balloon and pinning them to the wall holy shit I love him so much.

[itsokaybaby]

[swiftlywiththefoxes-deactivated]

This drives me mad. I used to work in a bookstore, and was talking to my coworker and he just yelled out “stop flirting with me!” at this ridiculous volume and it was humiliating because  1. I wasn’t 2. I got in trouble for acting unprofessional  3. He embarrassed me in front of a line of people 4. And he only stopped insisting that I was flirting when my boyfriend (who is now my husband) said, “dude, trust me, she’s not flirting with you” to him

That asshole respected my BOYFRIEND saying I wasn’t flirting more than he respected me saying it and I was the one who was talking! The whole scene got me in trouble at work. And the most ridiculous part is we were talking about a fucking book. In a bookstore.

[itsblosseybitch]

One time, my ex boyfriend had a crush on some girl, and said that he thought he might have “a chance” with her.

When I asked him what made him think that, he said “Well, she talks to me.”

[givingupmyurlsoicanreopen-deact]

And this is why it is so difficult to be a girl and be friends with men who are attracted to women.

[radicalrebellion-deactivated201]

Can we also add that this is why a lot of women do the resting bitch face when out in public. Cause dudes swear a glance or a smile is flirting.

[bonequeer]

So yesterday something that perfectly illustrates this happened. I work at a fast food place and this guy comes in at 7am on a Sunday, still probably drunk from the night before, and when I smiled and said goodmorning he said “Did you just say that because you’re being paid to say that?” 

I repressed my urge to sarcastically answer, and said “Nope, I just enjoy saying hi to everyone!” To which he responded, “Oh, so you weren’t flirting with me then.”

Dude, I’m not flirting with your gross 7am-on-a-Sunday-ass, trust me.

My defense mechanism when I’m uncomfortable at work is to smile, so I did that and said “Is there anything I can get you this morning?” to which he responded,

“There, you just smiled! What does that mean?”

At this point I was fed up, so I said, 

“I smile at everyone sir, its just what I do. What can I get you, coffee, a bagel?”

And he said “I’m gonna be watching to see if you smile at everyone. I don’t like it when girls lie to me” and then ordered a coffee and a muffin like he hadn’t just said something at 11 on the “Is this guy a serial rapist” scale (where 0 is ‘no’ and 10 is ‘Yes, run away as fast as you can right now.”).

Then he sat there for another hour and a half, staring at me from his table. When he got up and left he came back to the counter, and said “You do smile at everyone. That’s fucked up.” and walked out.

I can’t even be innocuously polite and pleasant to people at my job (where customer service is the number one thing we are supposed to be focusing on) for fear of this shit happening. What happens if he had decided to wait until my shift was over? 

New Rule: If she’s at work, SHE’S NOT FLIRTING WITH YOU.

[angelicroses]

Guys, stop bothering women while they’re working. You’re just being annoying. People have jobs to do that aren’t related to you, and the world doesn’t revolve around your fragile, desperate egos.

[dynastylnoire]

and please don’t ask us when we get off. It sends the creep alarm all the way off.

[octoberreads]

Here’s my story: I was in a bookstore as a customer, with my partner. I went to the counter to ask for a book and my partner trailed along behind me. The guy tells me where I can find it and as I walk away to get it he says to my partner “did you see that hot chick flirting with me, I’m gonna hit that later” to which my partner replied “that’s my fucking wife.”

Asking you to do your job is not flirting.

[thearomantic-deactivated2018070]

One time at work I found out that a male coworker thought I was “in love” with him. I literally just had conversations with him like I would with all my other coworkers. But no, apparently that meant I must be in love with him. I don’t understand why guys think that being civil is flirting?? Every time I have been friends with a guy there is always a point when they’ll either ask me “are you flirting with me?” or “do you have a crush on me??”. Why do you assume that just because I’m treating you like a human being then I MUST want to jump your bones. Your egos need to calm the fuck down tbh.

[lipstickstainedlove-deactivated]

When I was a barista as Starbucks I constantly had guys taking drinks and giving me a creepy smile or asking if I made it special for them.

Trust me dude, your half-caf vanilla latte is no more special than the person behind you.

[kateordie]

This is such a long post but YES. I got this for 10 years and retail. You’re trained to smile and be polite. You HAVE to or you get in trouble. The amount of dudes that have mistaken that for flirting… Boggles the mind.

[nikkibot3000]

DO NOT. CHAT UP. WOMEN. WHEN THEY’RE WORKING. DO NOT. DO. NOT. because let me tell you something. best case scenario, you’re making her uncomfortable. worst case, you’re scaring the shit out of her. I’ve been harassed and stalked so many times in my retail career it’s unreal. after the worst incident, I got special permission to wear a false nametag from then on. I was stalked by a man I spoke to once. two sentences. I greeted him on entering the store and asked if he needed anything. he read my nametag and asked for my number. my male coworker tagged in and let me go stock the backroom until he left. weird, but seemed harmless enough. until he called the store every day to ask if I was working. and asked repeatedly for my schedule, claiming to be my boyfriend. he happened to have the same first name as the guy I was seeing at the time. thankfully, this had happened to enough women across the company that disclosing a coworkers schedule over the phone to anyone other than that coworker, even if it was one of their family members, was a fireable offense. so no one ever did it. he kept at it for SIX. MONTHS. I transferred to another store. he didn’t believe my coworkers when he was told that I didn’t work there anymore, including new hires who had never even met me and knew me only as ‘the girl who used to work here whose stalker won’t stop calling.’ he got hostile. came by and confronted my friend Dave, who had been my supervisor when we worked in the same location and who had been there during my first and only in-person contact with my stalker. thankfully, Dave is a very good actor. he told my stalker, tearfully, that I really had transferred to another store. in the city. and that a few days after starting at my new store, I was tragically hit by a bus while walking to work and had passed away. the daily phone calls finally stopped after that. I had to FAKE MY DEATH to get away from this fucker. who I had greeted once. because it was my job. this happens to women in retail often enough that some national companies have guidelines on handing these situations right in the orientation handbook. hell, our store even had a special ‘I need help but I can’t make a scene because I would be endangering myself’ code. SARA. Send Assistance Right Away. if someone on the sales floor asked a question about ‘sara’ (ex: ‘hey, is sara working today?’) that meant call security and get to that coworker ASAP. she is being paid to be nice to you. the only reason she isn’t calling you a creep and telling you to leave is that she is so dependent on her job that she’s weighing her options: is he more of a danger to me than my loss of income would be if I got fired for telling him off?

[heartofafae-deactivated20210125]

THIS. ALL THIS. 

Also, safety issues aside….

If women being kind, civil, polite human beings to men (in and out of the work place) makes them think that we must want to fuck them….What does that say about the reverse?

Are these men only kind and civil to the women they want to fuck? Is that what warrants basic human kindness? Our fuck-ability? 

[iguanamouth]

Can you draw a tiny lizard dragon that secretly hoards pennies?

[panaran]

Phew! This commission was a lot of work on things I’ve never even tried before. Alchemical work with a skink friend~