A Little Bit Longer & I'll be Fine

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[sourdough-seal]

“what are you doing this weekend” i am going to fantasy land. i am hiding under the covers in bed. i am making things up. i am contemplating events that didnt happen. i am talking to fake people. i am listening to my tunes. i am envisioning scenarios

[helenvaughans]

the thing is that everyone does actually want the skill set that comes with a humanities degree but a) they refuse to acknowledge that actual WORK goes into acquiring those skills and b) they want to do it all without actually reading a book

[penicillium-pusher]

I think it’s hilarious when people tell me I’m laid back because I’ve pretty much been screaming nonstop in my head since like fifth grade

[horreurscopes]

what they don't tell you is that after you turn 30 you have ocasional but powerful bouts of home ownership fever, which is like baby fever but instead of randomly really wanting a baby you go on zillow and look at modest properties you will nonetheless never be able to afford. and then it passes and you're like wtf was that about. yay time for another $6 coffee to stave off the dread

[margotrobie]

Interview for BBC (July, 2023) The Graham Norton Show (September, 2017)

[dasloddl]

[catasters]

[goverment-agency-bracket]

I have been told to reblog this as USPS propaganda.

[chibisquirt]

USPSPSPS

[flyin-shark]

Stay silly y’all

[rylandsgrace]

#I have never felt more represented

[tryworks]

what they dont tell you about growing up as a very lonely little girl is that you grow up and still a part of you remains that very lonely little girl

[margotrobie]

MARGOT ROBBIE and RYAN GOSLING for IGV Presents

[ivecarvedawoodenheart]

like there comes a point where you think something is fundamentally wrong with you. and then it turns out it’s just Friday and you haven’t washed your hair in three days and maybe you’re also just a little lonely and the combination of all three of those things is whittling a hole into your chest every time you breathe. but also the sun’s up. and you’ve survived everything so far, so you’ll survive this too, even if it hurts, even if you have to survive it many times.

[nefertiris]

fresh prince of bel air (1990-1996) truly was a gift

[whitepeopletwitter]

[enidtheghost]

this is no joke. i looked around the reviews of several different candles just in case it could’ve been a single bad batch but nope.

these screenshots are only from like 4 or 5 different candles but i could’ve grabbed plenty more.

y’all, seriously, loss of smell is a possible effect of covid. if things don’t smell/taste as strong as you remember GET TESTED and ISOLATE. if someone you know is complaining about their candles not having a scent, inform them and encourage them to get tested. and wear a fucking mask, y’all.

[ninja-o-s]

What a fuckin metric to see the disease!

[ciravaesthetic]

Hey, former Yankee Employee here to direct you specifically to the screenshot that mentions “Christmas Cookie” and “Black Cherry.”

Because it’s definitely not a problem with the product if they can’t smell those two.

Some of the STRONGEST SCENTS I’ve ever sold in that store include Balsam & Cedar, Fresh Cut Roses, Christmas Cookie, and Black Cherry.

If you can’t smell a candle that literally smells like an over-sweetened jar of cough syrup, it’s not the candle, it’s the covid.

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

This is how a friend of mine learned her roommate has covid. 3 Yankee candles burning at the same time, roommate complaining she couldn’t smell them, and my friend was gagging through the mask she wore.

My friend has asthma and has been wearing the mask everyday since March because her roommate believes this is allan elaborate hoax. Roommate caved and got tested, came back positive, and two days later was in the ICU (my friend is okay, this happened 3 weeks ago and the apartment is damn near sterile at this point). Last I heard the roommate is still in the ICU.

If you can’t smell or taste anything, get tested, and wear a mask.

[gravityofstars]

I knew I had covid when I couldn’t smell my shampoo. I started grabbing everything in the shower trying to smell it while saying shitshitshitshit because I didn’t have any other symptoms at that point, but sure enough I tested positive the next day. I couldn’t smell a single thing for 9 days.

[commodifiedsouls]

“Cancer/mental illness/disability affects rich and poor alike.”

Uh, no, it doesn’t. Rich people can afford the treatments and accommodations for those things. Poor people cannot. Get the fuck outta here with that classist shit.

[silversarcasm]

Not to mention a higher proportion of disabled people are in poverty and people in manual jobs are more likely to become disabled, there is a class element to disability that cannot be ignored.

[crankautodidact-deactivated2015]

THANK YOU.

[feministfront]

A quote from Chris Rock:

“I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father had an ulcer, and it exploded and you know all these toxins get in your blood. And basically, my father died, whatever, 50 days after his ulcer. So I had a father get sick while I was poor.

My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know… I don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. And my mother’s alive. My mother’s fine, OK? I remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘Was I in the right place?’ Like, this was a hotel. Like it had a concierge, man.

People don’t… if the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, OK? They would burn this motherfucker down!”

[spectralcreep]

I understand why banshees just drift around sobbing and screaming inconsolably at all times, I get it now

[overpricedvodka]

I was walking behind a woman for five minutes and she got catcalled three times.

I usually walk everywhere with my headphones on, but I had them in my bag and I was reading a book on my phone instead (I do that when the foot traffic is light).  A young Latina was coming down the street as I was coming up the avenue, and when she got to the corner a few paces ahead of me, she turned to walk in the direction I was going.  We were traveling at the same speed, but since she was like ten paces ahead and it’s bright outside in the middle of the day, I didn’t feel the need to fall back or slow down to give her more space. At night, I try not to walk too close behind women just so they don’t feel like I’m any sort of threat.

We got to a corner and this dude standing outside of the bodega was like, “Slow down mama where you goin? You don’t have to work today, you can stop and speak.”

She didn’t break her stride. “I’m going to the gym.”  The Walk sign was on, so I didn’t break mine either.  

A block later, a young guy was coming toward us on the sidewalk riding his bike.

“What’s good shorty?”

She didn’t respond.

“Well you was lookin, you can say something, stuck up bitch.”

We kept walking.

In the middle of the next block, an older man was walking toward us and he put on a friendly smile and said, “Smile young lady, it’s a beautiful day.”

I don’t know if she smiled, but we kept walking. She went into the gym and I kept on toward where I was going thinking about how that was just five minutes of her day.  How many other blocks of five minutes are just like that?  

Only one of them was truly aggressive. The other two guys seemed nice enough and it felt more like a pleasant compliment. It felt like the kind of thing a guy says who argues with women online about catcalling. “We’re not all bad guys. We can’t even compliment women? We can’t even say something nice?”

No.  You really can’t.  I was annoyed in that five minutes and I just happened to be walking behind her with no headphones on.  Can you imagine those five minutes over and over every day of your life?  Nobody wants to be spoken to by strangers day in and day out forever regardless of what they’re saying.  

So no.  You can’t say anything. The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.

[mybrainrots]

The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.

[should-be-sleeping]

The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.