If you don't let go, I can't leave

30s. french. gifmaker. you'll find mostly niche things here, some of them french.

[creekfiend]

Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead

[creekfiend]

Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement

[natures-rich-palette]

[gardenofgod]

The Crabapple Bandits, by Jason Leo Bantle.

[farmgf]

what the FUCK is going on right now. what is going on

[farmgf]

this post is so funny because it has over 10k notes and no context but all you have to do is look at the time stamp to know exactly what the context is

[stimsational-for-us]

Let the rolling bird calm you.

[apollosfallen]

The only way forward is to stop treating masculinity as synonymous with harmful, monstrous, or dangerous.

[apollosfallen]

There is a fundamental difference between "men are dangerous" (wrong, bioessentialist) and "the patriarchy allows dangerous men to exist unchecked" (true).

[kimberleytate]

Emmerdale Lines I Think About A Lot | Part 1

[icouldshowyoumyscar]

Emmerdale drew me back with robron, but I'm staying for Claudette and her favourite son

[leahberman]

flowers for breakfast

instagram - twitter - website

[salithemage]

the way ozempic has finally made the fact that eating healthy and exercising doesn't necessarily make you thin well known and society's reaction to this is not "oh i guess being thin or fat doesn't actually show if you're healthy" but "oh i guess everyone should be on this drug"

[put-me-down-please]

I hate that this is infact how ozempic is viewed now because I watched, in real time, how my mothers diabetes got significantly better on ozempic, she didn't start it for weight loss, infact she started it before it even got big for weight loss, but all people can talk about is the weight loss on ozempic and not how good it is as a diabetes medication. Watching my mom find energy and happiness because for once a drug wasn't making her lethargic and miserable was wonderful, she was able to feel better, but then it was spouted as this miracle weight loss drug, and suddenly she just couldn't access it anymore at a good price. Not only has the ozempidemic made fatphobia normal in an already fatphobic society but it's making it harder to access for people who genuinely need it because it's seen as a luxury cosmetic drug.

[trangoldin]

[loth-caatgirl]

Oil On Canvas is such a pretty name for a girl

[niceinchnails]

real streaming site called 67 movies northern lion

[niceinchnails]

They got servers called ice wizard and hog rider

[rylandsgrace]

Mamma Mia! (2008) dir. Phyllida Lloyd

[howtobangyourmonster]

But babe, I’m *captain*, I must not leave my ship…

[scribeherself]

There is no drug on earth that can replicate the absolute euphoria of hitting a writing flow state at 2:00 AM. You aren’t even typing anymore. You are a vessel. You are a channel for the gods. The characters are speaking directly into your brain and you’re just the stenographer trying to keep up. You feel like you could fight a bear. You feel like you invented the alphabet

[masnadies]

Eventually (usually the next morning) you will pay for this ability, like those of old who made deals with beings of evil. You will pay with misery, dizziness, the looping of thoughts like old cassette tape spilling out of the case or the spaghetti noodle that refuses to wind on the fork. Your eyes will blur and burn. Your head will echo, the thoughts fading as soon as they are born. Parts of the house will jump out at you as you attempt to walk. In this case, it will always be worth it. The Witching Hours are not a thing of ghosts. They are a thing of the Magic that inhabits us only in the deep night when the sensible sleep and we become a conduit between the universe and the deepest parts of ourselves.

[sophia-helix]

Being groggy is one thing, but the real price I paid for the times this happened to me in my 20s was believing I couldn't write good fiction any other way.

Oh I still wrote, sometimes. But those moments of lightning-struck fluidity had me convinced that was the only good work I ever did, and anything else was inferior, difficult, and obviously laborious to everyone else -- in short convinced me that anything that felt like me was lesser and anything derived from hard often unpleasant work was way less good than the writing that just appeared.

So you know what I did, for all of my 20s and into my 30s? I waited. I didn't write much. If I was writing and it felt like work and got hard, I stopped, certain it would be apparent to readers and not worth the time. I pushed exchange deadlines to the last minute in hopes the lightning would strike late at night (sometimes it did). I wasted years not learning how to write, because I wanted it to feel easy and perfect like it did very, very occasionally. I erased myself from my own work because it didn't feel like enough; I wanted my work to sound like someone else wrote it.

Those "gift from the gods" moments were more like curses, because they led me away from myself.

What changed? Some mental health things in my 30s, some maturity, but mostly I found myself with so many ideas I wanted to write that I couldn't wait for the writing to feel easy and good. I started writing every day, just a few sentences most times, because I knew I'd never finish anything if I didn't just get going. I learned about bad days and good days and in between days.

I wrote about it here, in 4 posts made between age 31 and 41, and I still smile to see how much I grew and changed in that decade, as you can see from those few posts. I realized I had that mentality about everything, not just writing -- if it's easy, it's real and good, and if it feels like work it's not worthwhile -- and changing that mindset changed my whole life. (My 30s were great.)

I still love fugue state writing now. Who wouldn't? But I've stopped making the mistake of thinking that's the only art that matters, and see it as a rare little gift instead, not something to wait for.

[moon111111]

[crpl-pnk]

you ever realize how able bodied people just are not expected to do things that cause them excruciating physical pain? like they’re just. not

if i shouldn’t use my cane because i can sometimes technically walk without it, it would just hurt like a motherfucker then abled people should no longer be allowed to use potholders to take things out of the oven because i mean

well they could technically pick up a hot pan with their bare hands. it would just hurt like a motherfucker

[crpl-pnk]

*sees an abled person using potholders*

i just think it’s really sad that you’re giving up on yourself like that

[crpl-pnk]

if you use potholders how will you ever build up the calluses necessary to pick up scalding hot metal without burning yourself so severely? it’s like you’re not even trying to get better

[darklingdawns]

I mean, my mother uses potholders, but she’s in her 70s. You’re just… too YOUNG to be resorting to potholders at your age.

[kipplekipple]

If you start using potholders, your inability to hold hot metal will only get worse.

[gean-grey-blog]

The funny thing is as a disabled person who used to be a professional cook, “chef hands” are much easier to develop than the ability to walk on partially dislocated body parts

[racketghost]

every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

[racketghost]

[tags via : @heavenly-havoc]