I'm Trying To Be Happy

My name is Elliot Bird. They/them. 20

[nocontextgoodplace]

[lilsmunky]

How we greet friends now

[chrom-atose]

Glowing aro + nb hearts requested by @coras-bucket-of-gay-trash !!

[whitepeopletwitter]

[warriorbands]

[jumpedoverthemoon]

Physically I’m here but mentally I’m tending to the strawberry patch outside my forest cottage and listening to the ferns rustling in the cool breeze

[silksweets]

something about layers always makes me feel so prepared… like a backpack on its own is great, but a backpack over a jean jacket over a flannel over a tank top? killer. heavy boots on their own are great, but heavy boots over thick socks, laced up around the bottom of your jeans? dude. off we go on an adventure

[fightingbymoonlight]

GIVE ALL CITIES SOLAR PANELS AND ELECTRIC PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION 2020

[crystalzelda]

Unpopular but true: a large reason why grocery store are empty now isn’t just because there’s a bunch of greedy, awful people panic everything in sight to spite others. Sure, there’s some hoarding assholes, but a lot of it is people realizing they will now need over a month’s worth of groceries in one go when they might usually only buy enough to last them a week, maybe two, and people who can no longer supplement with going out, people who are now eating three meals at home when usually their kids eat lunch at school and they have lunch at the office… that’s a hell of a lot more food than most families need to have on hand, including people who normally never cook and just grubhub everything. The food supply chains will hopefully stabilize a bit in the coming weeks - just wanted to point out it’s not all malicious and people aren’t as awful as is being said. I’m under self imposed quarantine, social distancing, working from home and staying away from others. Hoping all of you guys are safe and feeling ok.

[headspacedad]

just about every person coming through my line at the grocery store is just buying what they’d usually buy when they buy groceries.  They’re just buying MORE of it than they’d usually buy.  Because they’re needing more than they’d usually need.  I lost count of how many times I was asked if we had any more eggs simply because people told me they were cooking sit down breakfasts for their kids now instead of ‘something they can send them out the door on the way to school with’.  We’re not sold out of milk because we’ve got milk hoarders stalking up their garage for the next five months with milk.  We’re out of milk because everyone’s home now and drinking more of it.  Same with bread.  Our cake mixes aren’t flying off the shelves because people are worried about dessert shortages.  It’s because people are home and doing baking with their free time.  So - yeah - there are some assholes out there hoarding shit.  But its not that simple.  It’s rarely that simple.  Beware of people that tell you its that simple.

should also point out that my store, and most others, have, for a couple weeks now, had a limit on how much of a certain thing people can buy.  So no, even when we do get trucks in, no one’s walking out of our store with two cartloads full of toilet paper.  And I’ve only had to turn away two people that tried to overbuy in the past two weeks as well.

[waltzshouldbewriting]

Huh. Hadn’t thought about it like that before

[adhdedrn]

#we should all try to be critical and thoughtful when encountering narratives that suggest that humanity is inherently selfish #or promotes the perspective of viewing your community as a hoard that you’re separate from#cause these beliefs really do limit your ability to trust in your neighbors and establish mutual aid networks &#make you more susceptible to eugenics propaganda#criticize individuals behaving badly or even specific behavior that is widespread- but when it comes to criticizing ‘humanity’ or whatever#be careful and think about what you actually mean#I saw someone criticizing getting 3 months of meds & like I normally get my meds in 3 month batches as of like a year ago#cause I’ve been consistently on the same meds for like half a decade#and also I don’t know if I’ll even be able to see my psychiatrist in the coming months (via @closet-keys​)

[imveryclueless]

So I KNOW how important social distancing is right now. But also, I struggle with suicidal depression that is worsened greatly by isolation. So I’m in a rough spot and I don’t know how to handle this.

[4gifs]

[socially-awkward-supervillian]

Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs

[youwinagainmoffat-blog]

jesus that is good to know.

[chandra75-deactivated20180905]

Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten. 

[magehenry-moved-blog]

REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit

my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies

[pkmnbreederbrianna]

Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!

[emo-islandniles]

AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS

[renirabbit]

this post just got so much better

[enjoying-nudiustertian-deactiva]

THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST

[wylltingtrees]

[sashayed]

this is emmett and cullen they are best friends

[clover11-10]

This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.

Dogs are truly angels.

[spacemancharisma]

my psychology professor be like “I don’t believe in nonbinary genders” and five minutes later refers to me as he, then she, then just by my name because it’s become increasingly clear that neither of those are correct even though I am not out in this class

[spacemancharisma]

dr [redacted]: I don’t believe in nonbinary genders

dr [redacted]: except for that fucker I have no idea what they’ve got going on

[moaccyrk]

When your nb power level is so high that other people’s perception of reality start to malfunction.

[desperatelyseekingsanity1-deact]

[anti-capitalistlesbianwitch]

A soft no is still a no.

[5starglitch]

I’ll retweet a million times

[slugbfs]

[yesimalittlestitious]

I have no excuse for this except Lizzo is a godess and Griffin and Justin using ‘boy’ excessively is peak comedy.

[maneybabey]

Lizzo: Hey boy, what’cha say boy?

Griffin: genuine wrestle boys?

Lizzo: like a gameboy, hit my phone boy,

Griffin: he’s just a skin boy,

Lizzo: Are you alone boy?

Griffin: Where’s my boy?!

Lizzo: got a boy with degrees, a boy in the street,

Griffin: get riddled with these handsome boys!

Lizzo: shhheesh, it’s all Greek to me, got this boy speakin’ Spanish:

Justin: I’m a fancy boy!!

Lizzo: I. Like. Big boys,

Justin: dirty boys,

Lizzo: Mississippi Boys,

Griffin: really rowdy boys,

Lizzo: I like the pretty boys,

Griffin: my sweet boy!

Lizzo: getcha nails did,

Justin: my BOY!!

Lizzo: I like a big beard,

Griffin: little punk boi,

Lizzo: I don’t discriminate,

Griffin: Clyde, you beautiful boy!

Lizzo: From the playboys, to the gay boys, go and slay boys, you my fave boys!

Griffin: There’s a good boy!

Justin: (hey), heyy!

Griffin: hey there’s a-

Justin: -that’s…

Griffin: now THAT’S a boy that I can get in to!

Justin: aHA-that’s a perfect boy-hehe!

[celebsarchive]

[psychesandsexdrives-deactivated]

Let me tell you a fucking thing about costume design. That’s some in depth, difficult shit to learn. And the fact that this goddess can ramble this shit off the cuff means she knows her shit. ELLE WOODS IS A GODAMNED GENIUS AND IT’s NOT A STRETCH TO BELIEVE SHE GOT INTO HARVARD LAW MMMK?

[katecod]

FUCK YEAH ELLE WOODS OR DIE

[alimarko]

this movie is literally about an attractive woman who loves to party having to prove over and over again that she’s also intelligent and hard-working to those who judge her based on her looks (who also empowers and fights for other women, and fosters unlikely friendships instead of engaging in girl hate) and if you don’t think that’s some great feminist shit then I don’t know what your problem is

[lilyskinned]

Let’s not forget that in the end when the guy wants her again, she turns him down because she knows she deserves better.

[aphony-cree]

The movie’s director made fun of Reese Witherspoon for taking the part too seriously. He was trying to make a silly movie where you laughed at the sorority girl

Reese’s co-stars have said her hard work inspired them to play their parts with more focus too. This is one instance where a lead actor actually should get credit for the movie being as iconic as it is. If everyone had followed the director’s vision this would have been another forgettable college comedy

[ohth-moved-deactivated20191101]

[spookihope]

“uhHA”

[killorbekillian]

“You know, they say - they say you can’t joke about nothin’ today, and they say, ey, you can joke about whateva you want, you just gotta be - you just gotta be willing to offend somebody. And I am willing to offend somebody! So here comes my offensive joke: Uh, what do you call, uh, a man? …Stupid! Ah-haaah!”

[indomie-fried-noodle]

[pyronautphea]

1. These aren’t pictures from Venice, the pictures are taken in Burano. The canals there are always clean and filled with fish and swans.

2. These pictures (unknowingly) transport ecofascist ideas. They transport the ecofascist idea that the Corona virus did the earth a pleasure, which paves the way for genocide and eugenics. It’s racist and ethnonationalistic. It’s social Darwinism. The people who are killed by natural disasters and pandemics (which “clean the nature”) are mostly poor, disabled, Black and Indigenous People of Color, non-westerners, and other marginalized people (aka not the people who caused them). The people who exploit(ed) humans and nature are still profiting. They buy their bunker, they are able to buy food when others can’t, they get tested, they are able to work remotely and get paid, and able to do social distancing/quarantine. They still get to profit off of it (now buying cheap stocks in the crisis which will get pricier once the pandemic is over). They own hospital chains, supermarkets and online shops, which now make lots of money but still pay their now-so-existential staff badly, give them zero-hour-contracts, lay them off and/or ignore safety measures. It’s capitalism which enables the exploitation which leads to natural disasters and pandemic crisis.

3. People should have clean water and air whether or not there is a pandemic.

Literature on ecofascism:

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/eco-fascism-is-undergoing-a-revival-in-the-fetid-culture-of-the-extreme-right

-https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/30/eco-fascists-and-the-ugly-fight-for-our-way-of-life-as-the-environment-disintegrates

- https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2018/09/eco-fascism-ideology-marrying-environmentalism-and-white-supremacy

- https://theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/

[memes-to-show-my-therapist]