Trying to learn how to relax

These are things I can look through when I feel like crap. Over 30.

[memeuplift]

[athelind]

It's a d

it's a dus

It's a dust bu

[maislecoeurasamemoire]

“I want to be strong! I don’t want to be afraid or alone anymore. I… I… I don’t want to keep running, and looking, and never feel like I’m finding what I’m looking for. I’m tired of being hunted. When the galaxy takes something from me, I want the power to let go… and I want the power to heal the echo when it’s gone.”

[creekfiend]

on this website I frequently find myself feeling like ron swanson at home depot

[hypokeimena]

#when people tell you youre wrong when you are actually wrong: embarrassing! but tolerable #when people tell you you are wrong when RON SWANSON AT HOME DEPOT I KNOW MORE THAN YOU: #MOST HARROWING HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

[creekfiend]

funniest tag humanly possible. thank you for your correction, accuracy is important to me.

[oatmealaddiction]

No but like, this is the thing about Sam carrying Frodo and the ring up the mountain. It's a cool scene in the movie, but they don't explain what's happening at all. The ring at this point is so heavy Frodo can't even lift his head. It's like essentially a cinder-block he has to carry around his neck. And finally he gives up and Sam offers to carry him and:

DO YOU GUYS GET IT? THE RING IS A BURDEN, BUT FRODO ISN'T. FRODO DOESN'T WEIGH ANYTHING TO SAM. SAM CAN LIFT HIM EASILY!!!! HE'S NOT A BURDEN AT ALL I —

[grickle14]

Sustainable.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

(via Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends)

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

[regaliasonata]

Should I draw them meeting each other? Yes

Update, I did, check it out 👇🏾

Post by @regaliasonata · 1 image

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[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm «Lighthouse of the Northern Sunset» 2025

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

at the start of every month everyone reblogs some insane poetry that’s like “august has arrived and again I swallow my bones in the burning sun” and every time I’m like damn that makes no sense. but kind of true.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

omg guys happy bone swallowing august

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[morganathewitch]

Autumn portrait.

[trans-for-man-tion]

Is that man mansplaining

or are you misusing that phrase?

warning: i made this while annoyed and tired so feel free to correct it how you see fit

I have noticed a couple of people trying to use the word mansplaining to get trans men or trans masculine people to shut up about whatever topic it is they're discussing

and it made me realize that the word "mansplaining" has been bastardised into "a man that I dislike or disagree with talking about something"

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

I’m not defending the word “mansplaining” but this is critically (and ironically) missing the point of what it was clumsily coined to describe, which is that there is a pattern of men simply adopting the position of teachers when speaking to women. Even in the original essay—really a short anecdote—by Rebecca Solnit that inspired the term, the man she’s speaking to is chagrined when he realizes he’s explaining her own book to her.

“Does he know he’s dominating the conversation” “do you know more about the topic” “would he talk over you” this is irrelevant!!! Definitionally he does not realize what he’s doing; the whole point is that he has unconscious misogynist biases informing his worldview that lead him to instinctively assume comparative ignorance on the woman’s part. It’s the “I can’t operate, this is my son” joke writ large—a systemic bias that women’s ignorance and lack of authority can be safely assumed unless proven otherwise.

[o-craven-canto]

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe

[o-craven-canto]

amphibious -> ambivivent automobile -> ipsokinete autopsy -> ipsovision circumcision -> cyclotomy conspiracy -> synpnoea epilogue -> supraverb homosexual -> idemphilic [thanks to @dative-ciceroni-pizza2h] menstruation -> selenosis [looser] Mesopotamia -> Medioflumina pornography -> lupascript scissor -> schizotron [?] troglodyte -> cavernicole tyrannosaur -> dictatoreptile

(honorable mention: carnivore <-> sarcophage)

[creekfiend]

I was in Mormon brain jail concurrently to when Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held, as it turned out, like 20 miles away from us. We would see billboards when we were driving past in our big white institution van, and we would see magazines in the checkout aisle, on the rare occasions we were allowed to enter shops accompanied, about Elizabeth Smart being held somewhere by some guy. This teenage girl who had been kidnapped and brainwashed and held basically in the next valley over. I don't remember how long she was with him, but this was when everyone was freshly looking for her and panicking about how she had been abducted and was being held against her will and brainwashed. Her picture was EVERYWHERE.

So. Imagine dozens of other teenage girls, being held against their will and brainwashed in Utah, seeing these billboards and going, "huh. I'm having a complicated emotional reaction to all of this. It's possible that I might unpack that in two to three decades."

Both of these situations arise from the same societal attitudes. This guy wanted a teenage girl to be trapped with him and unable to leave, regardless of her feelings on the matter, and for her to act a certain way and comply with his desires. He took her from her home and forced her to be somewhere she did not want to be and would not let her go, and he tried to turn her into a different thing. The difference in societal reactions to when one specific, unauthorized guy does this, compared to when someone's parents pay a fancy sounding institution to do it for them, tells you a lot about how we think about the autonomy of teenage girls.

In Utah, the reason these types of institutions are allowed is because their youth rights laws are abysmal even compared to the rest of the US. Children aren't people, they're the property of their parents. Elizabeth Smart's parents didn't want her to be kidnapped, so it was bad. Our parents did want us to be kidnapped, so it was fine.

Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper’s crime was that he didn’t go through the established system for kidnapping and brainwashing teenage girls. This is not even a little bit hyperbolic.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

now that I have a bit of a belly I keep finding myself just absently like. grabbing and jiggling it. dear god I cannot let this become a stim 😂

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

grabbing and jiggling my belly but frowning and shaking my head in a sinister fashion so people know not to describe me as jolly

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

sometimes the information people infodump… is wrong…

[andremichaux]

Malcolm in the Middle | 5.08, “Block Party”