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"What didn’t kill me only made me stronger And I begin to bloom like a lotus flower again”

[ketchuplaser]

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

why the FUCK is there a big spider on my bedroom wall it doesn't look like any spider i've ever seen in my entire life what the fuck

[2-point-5]

are you sure it's a spider?

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

yes i am it looks like this

[2-point-5]

oh that's a wolf spider. they taste like celery and pork and they aren't poisonous.

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

why is it in my room

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

and why do you know what it tastes like

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

@sicklythiasus why do you know what a wolf spider tastes like

[2-point-5]

nom nom.

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

what

[2-point-5]

yummy yummy in my tummy tummy

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

when and why did you eat a wolf spider

[2-point-5]

band camp, 2019. there was an infestation. i started eating them to get rid of them. i have since eaten cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, and those little green grass spiders.

the greenies taste like vegetarian sausage.

[cause-boys-dont-cry-deactivated]

why was your solution to eat them

[2-point-5]

i mean, no one else was gonna.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

[therosecleric]

life is so unforgiving sometimes. i don't know how else to communicate how desperately i need help. i want to try and keep going but it's been so difficult. 🌿https://gofund.me/26980abfe

[maureen2musings]

Forests in fog

throughdarkforests

[prokopetz]

I feel like 90% of "ancient curses" are probably adequately explained by the fact that the self-proclaimed adventurers who ostensibly fell victim to them were, as a class, a bunch of dipshits who engaged in frequent international travel in an era before antibiotics and vaccines. Like, the list of novel pathogens these guys were risking exposure to on a regular basis was effectively "all of them". That's gotta leave a mark.

[prokopetz]

@mytheralmin replied:

The other 10%, well let’s just say the sand got them

Quite likely, if by "the sand got them" we mean "they got mesothelioma from inhaling tomb dust".

[siegesquirrel42]

if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with the pharaoh's curse

[despazito]

[minyoonjin]

softest love of my life...💜

[maureen2musings]

Pups enjoying the hikes!

earthtosarahphoto

[sceptixfakemon]

taste my steel you stupid citrus

[theshehulkproject]

Some D&D party is out there playing the coolest campaign ever.

[nonasuch]

I saw this when it was posted! Some highlights from the comments:

[solradguy]

Ok I guess if you want to get really absolutely technical about it, I guess Martin Luther's 95 Theses were a zine. I guess. I suppose.

[qqueenofhades]

[cheddar-baby]

i could smell your boytoy coming from down the road. Wretched little rotted morsel of a thing, may he fall to time and become carrion

[daysleftofsecondterm]

This is my depression tracking crochet project, each stripe represents one day, white for little to no effect from depression, blue for depression, dark blue for deep depression, and black for ideation (I hope to never use it.)

The project here must be read left to right, starting with the first blue stripe, let yourself take it in.

Do you see how the big block of dark blue becomes normal blue, and then white? Things get better, this is physical proof. You will be okay, I will be okay, all of us will be okay

Remember that things can, and WILL, get better, when things get bad the next 992 days.

[homunculus-argument]

I'm not a catholic and have never even seen one up close, but I think the pope should start excommunicating people on the reg again. Just start publicly going "you know what, fuck you, you can't sit with us. You're not allowed in church or heaven on the grounds of being JD Vance. Eat shit and go to hell."

Stir shit up a little. What's the point of being the mouthpiece of god if nothing you say has consequences.

[homunculus-argument]

it's rushed and ugly, but I threw this together about it anyway.

[blackarachnya]

theyre making another movie

[darkspaceboytoy]

I won’t let them.

[wholesome-animal-images]

[lonnson]

The feared sting-ray

[bright-cherry-bombzz]

The elusive and mysterious StingRug

[copperbadge]

SNUG RAY

[sandersstudies]

I had this freshman tell me she “couldn’t” audition because she was too scared of the stage, and might have a panic attack. I asked how she felt about walking around onstage in costume and not saying any lines. That was fine. I was like okay awesome let’s lay some groundwork now and maybe senior year you can have like three lines!

[sandersstudies]

I remember this kid who came into an audition and froze up, just couldn’t speak. Competent reader and speaker but when people were watching she couldn’t do a thing.

We cast her anyway, in a chorus role. Offered her lots of support and encouragement and kindness and grace.

At the next audition she whispered. Anyone who had never seen her before would have thought she was the most nervous kid there. But the directing team was abuzz afterward. Did you see? She did it! Once or twice I could actually almost hear her! Amazing.

Got cast again, in a chorus role. She’d been making friends with the other kids, and they offered her encouragement too.

And the next audition we said wow I can hear her! She’s speaking! Let’s give her a handful of lines! She can do it!

Anyway as a mentor in the performing arts these things are huge wins for me. Some kids are competent and confident performers at 7 or 8 almost by nature. Others, even much older kids and adults, have to make progress by inches. But progress is exciting! The only place to go is up!

[sandersstudies]

If a student is encouraged properly, theatre is one of the best sources of self-esteem, self-reflection, and both spontaneous and rehearsed eloquence/comprehensibility that there is. It truly could be considered a cornerstone for communication disciplines of all kinds if it just attracted the right people to teach it. (Unfortunately a lot of people are attracted to directing for a sense of power over others, and not an interest in mentoring and coaching.)