life is like a three-legged jackal

Val. 28. Aspiring Stage Manager. I'm all goody-goody, apple pie and baseball only in so far as I know who to use a baseball bat to make someone's face look like an apple pie.

[quotemadness]

“You don’t have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.”

— Lauren Burns

[swanjolras-blog-archive-deactiv]

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us— we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

[thundergrace]

Zelda is right. Return the rights. They're taking off all this shit for tax purposes and so that they don't have to pay residuals but worse than that, for a great deal of projects, they also own the rights meaning these projects can never be available anywhere else.

[yourlocaladhder]

Anxiety is not activism.

[hope-for-the-planet]

The original tweets were not directed at environment-related anxiety, but I think it applies to all of the crises currently underway in our world.

Anxiety is not activism.

[hope-for-the-planet]

Bringing this back today

[hickeygenderarchive]

st. george and the dragon (1908-9) - briton rivière / the vigil (1884) - john pettie / vanitas still-life (1705) - evert collier / david garrick as richard iii (1745) - william hogarth / micro sff stories tweet

[maybuds]

the older i get, the more i need time & personal space to be as boring as possible

[should-be-sleeping]

I understand old men sitting on porches staring at an empty field more now than ever.

[julykings]

from Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos. 

[honeytuesday]

my blog is just one long love letter to myself and all the people i used to be

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

Incredibly fucking crucial information for Americans where period tracking digitally is concerned: DELETE YOUR DATA, DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND DELETE YOUR APPS

[nightfalltwen]

Clue’s statement regarding data privacy. https://twitter.com/clue/status/1521859643055685636?s=20&t=IvQvFD2XyIox_m2ag0tzzw

[theafternoontiger]

Visit Original Link

[laralaralara]

i’m gonna make it through this year if it kills me

[newspapersinyourshoess]

This blog is grieving for Natasha Romanoff

(Reblog if yours is too)

[ao3commentoftheday]

you don’t get good at doing something by not doing it

you get good at doing something by doing it badly and learning how to do it better

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

You don’t learn from success, you learn from failure how to achieve success.

[ohifonlyx33]

you see, the thing is, i hate failure.

[ao3commentoftheday]

in order to find success, you must first submit yourself to the mortifying ordeal of being kinda crap at something

[stardustandspite]

Also, reality check with yourself to make sure failures are actual failures. Did you produce something kinda ok? That’s not a failure, that’s a kinda ok success. Was your goal just to keep yourself entertained? Then as long as you were entertained your good. Not everything has to be high quality.

[aethersea]

Thank you to Gretchen McCulloch for fielding this question, and sorry that as a result the world’s foremost internet linguist has been devoured by the brown one. She will be missed.

[autctopus]

we all know pokemon was made by an autistic person but consider the idea that it was made for autistic people as well:

1. absolutely nothing in the entire game requires dexterity or quick reaction time. you can beat the game with no problems even if you have the reaction time of a shuckle

2. game mechanics based on categorization, things placed neatly into categories that are easy to memorize

3. there are multiplayer elements but the game itself? completely single player. no social interaction required to enjoy the hell out of this game

4. you are not only encouraged but expected to have empathy for and form an attachment to these virtual creatures that do not actually exist, which is very easy for an autistic person with hyperempathy to do

5. the whole point of the game is collecting things. autistics will understand this one

[helianthus-hellion]

6. making eye contact with an npc is an act of aggression

[heartshop]

Anne Sexton, Complete Poems­

[rednightmare18]

25-35 is such a weird fucking age because you’re 100% a bread-and-butter Standard Edition Millennial but the cool teens are like “ok boomer” because you have a Real Job but the actual Boomers at your job are like “I’m not going to listen to a literal fucking child” as they download 16 self-replicating viruses and meanwhile the Gen Xers are telling you to refinance a mortgage for a house you don’t have and you’re sitting there at the Adults Table with the pretty tasty casserole you cooked because you’ve finally figured out how to do that now but everyone is eating the Boomer’s store-bought macaroni instead and admittedly they do sort of taste similar so it probably wasn’t worth all the trouble of cooking from scratch and you’re trying to comfort the freshly-graduated sobbing 22-year-old next to you because she just woke up here and doesn’t know where she is but you have like maybe 5k dollars in a savings account labelled RETIREMENT that grows approx. twelve cents a year and you keep eating dry macaroni while smiling incomprehensibly and periodically blacking out like ??????????

[witcheshaven]

[rude-and-still-ginger]

Omg someone FINALLY put it into WORDS

[bixbiboom]

[ID: A tweet from Taliesin Jaffe @.executivegoth that reads: “If you can't handle me at my worst you're probably well adjusted with healthy boundaries.” /end ID]