History is written at night

Anna - she/they - 31 - French - flight attendant/AmLit scholar - I am a capybara in human form ♡

[mishellejones]

idk i just… love…. romance stories,, i love love,,.. i love watching and reading about people…, falling in love… im

[tf2heritageposts]

you cannot kill yourself unless you have exhausted the following options

go on hrt

leave your family's house

get a leather jacket

spike your clothing

make a fursona

drink horchata

go to a punk rock venue

rp with your friends

go to a national park for a day

[draconym]

If you've already done all these and you need more options may I recommend:

change your name

get a tattoo

put art on your walls

use a fancy soap you love the smell of

build a terrarium and put some pillbugs in it

visit a petting zoo

community theater

SSRIs

smoked paprika

mushrooms

[miamaimania]

“Reading Sign” (2010s) ◈ Paper meets power lines in white silhouette

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

to me the thing about deification is that something fundamental is lost in the process

[post-troy-stress-disorder]

people can’t be immortal. so in order to be immortal you can’t be a person anymore. you have to be distilled. stripped of everything. till you come out the other side as an abstract concept.

[akindplace]

dealing with this grief so it doesn’t get bigger and swallows me whole dealing with my grief so it doesn’t become something akin to no face from the chihiro movies and eats everything and everyone myself included

[akindplace]

being saved by relationships and cozy hobbies and art and love

[girldraki]

Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks

MONESSEN, PA—Recreational cyclist Ethan Coseglia, 38, thoroughly explained the benefits of wearing $35 bike-riding socks to his friend Kevin

[emberlark]

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

[ficklefandoms]

Tim Hawkinson - Mobius Ship (2011)

oh this is neat

[kosmogrl]

well yes!

[teaboot]

I’m sorry, you don’t know WHY??

[howtotrainyourpotato]

this tag is too glorious not to include

[chemicahs]

People don’t realize how much we sound like other things because we are created from the same laws of physics. “That potato in the microwave sounds like it’s screaming” is funny because it really is, air is vibrating out of a small hole which is how our throat works too. The babbling river that sounds like humans whispering, that’s because it’s a wet hollow cave with echo delivering the same functionality. The river doesn’t just sound like us, we sound like a river. They use a metal trashcan to create a lion’s roar for movie sound effects. But the truth is, not only does a trashcan sound like a lion, a lion sounds like a trashcan. Cars purr when you turn them on. Everything is like everything else. Inanimate objects are not so far away from life as it seems.

Remember the next time you feel more alone in the company of large buildings, or maybe less alone among the rocks of the river, that they are not completely unlike the parts of you.

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

yk what I love? that the first text we have written by a woman in England was a Roman woman inviting her best friend to her birthday

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

it’s from Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Lepidina and dated to around 97-105 AD. I find it so comforting to know that even almost 2000 years ago people had friendships like these and wanted to spend their birthday together.

We aren’t so different from each other after all

[kiefbowl]

Happy Birthday Claudia Severa!!!!!!

[shiftythrifting]

Old Tom and Jerry mug with no sign of the cat or mouse in sight.

Found at St. Vincent De Paul Thrift Store, Peru NY

[thedurvin]

A Tom & Jerry was an old cocktail from at least 200 years ago, similar to eggnog but more complicated. You don’t see many mixed drinks these days that require specially-made batter

[word-for-today]

So what happened was that first there was a novel called "Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend, Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis" by Pierce Egan, 1821, that just kinda followed a couple of urban party animals around for ~500 pages, almost Hunter S. Thompson style.

Next that book was adapted into a play simply called "Tom & Jerry, or Life in London", also 1821, and it became so popular that Tom & Jerry became standard nicknames for raucous drunk young guys, so then it got applied to the good-time drink listed above, and then in 1931 it was given to some cartoon characters. Not the ones you're thinking of, though, these two public domain knockoffs of Mutt & Jeff:

That series ended two years later, and then in 1940 MGM started a series of cartoons about a cat and a mouse, and somebody figured hey, Tom is a standard name for a male cat, so let's call the mouse Jerry. Ya know, like the alcoholic drink named after some Regency party boys.

Also, if they had stuck with the naming convention, Spike's name would have been "Bob Logic".

[making-friendos]

One must imagine Sisyphus happy

[ohnoproblems]

please watch furuhata ninzaburo it’s like if columbo was an ambush predator instead of a persistence hunter

[ohnoproblems]

good news

Furuhata Ninzaburō : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Furuhata Ninzaburō (古畑 任三郎) is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes (spe

you no longer have an excuse

[the-real-seebs]

“if columbo was an ambush predator” okay yeah i’m sold

[dsmsix]

[dsmsix]

[naamahdarling]

"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High

[thepioden]

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

[thepioden]

tags by @eridan-ampora

[thepioden]

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.

[raevenlywrites]

love these variations on Fall Drink. Makes me want a tumblr cocktail book

[aniseandspearmint]

Cheap cocoa packet(s) + hot water + shot of flavored non-dairy creamer (measure it with your heart)

[sandersstudies]

I think adults should stop demanding obedience from children and should start focusing on requesting respect. That’s what will actually serve them in the adult world and help them make good decisions mindfully.

[sandersstudies]

I’ve been thinking about talking with my students about this and I guess the basic premise is “I want you to respect me because I have proved, through our continued interactions, that I’m worthy of respect. I don’t want you to blindly obey what I say because I just happen to be the adult in charge. If another adult makes requests of you that aren’t worthy of respect I want you to feel empowered to say no.”

[sandersstudies]

People keep coming to this post to give examples of times where “obedience” is important but in my understanding I think they’re still examples of respect and trust.

I had a lot of respect and trust for my mother when I was small. Now, obviously I can only remember back to being maybe 4-5 and can’t extrapolate earlier than that, but if my mom said “STOP” or “NO” I can’t remember ever sincerely believing “I should stop because my Mother Demands It,” but rather “I should stop because Mom Knows Things and tells me to stop when There Is a Reason.” The older I got, the more opportunities my mom had to model this by showing trust and respect back to me by giving me responsibilities or letting me make some decisions.

Now that I teach kids I try to embody the same thing by not making rules that aren’t For A Reason. I don’t want to catch myself eroding trust by saying “stop” for innocent behaviors, I want students to know that there is always reason behind the rules we make, and they can trust me to make rules that are fair and reasonable. (I made a whole post about how to form trust-building rules with kids). I also show trust and respect back to them.

[sandersstudies]

I cannot tell you how often I say “I believe you” and “I trust you” to kids and what a difference it makes in our interactions together.

[homuraham]

Hamster Escapes the Most Dangerous Prison Maze 🐹

[xylophonetangerine]

[weefidan]

While this seems cute I'm pretty sure it's stressful to the hamster

Does anyone know more about this?

[alex51324]

The hamster does not watch movies, and therefore is unaware that the cardboard and plastic props in his obstacle course are references to well-known cinematic deathtraps.