eros, c'est la vie

I sleep with ghosts, I am bounded by their phantom limbs. I am trapped beneath a thousand dreams.

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Wednesday, November 15.

The Pūteketeke: New Zealand's Bird of the Century.

The votes are in, and after two bruising weeks of voting in New Zealand's Bird of the Century, we have a new champion. It carries its young on its back, which is very cute. It enjoys grunting, growling, and barking, as one does. It possesses an elaborate set of mating rituals, including "the weed dance" and "the ghostly penguin," which is great. It has a colorful mullet—j'adore le style. It has a propensity for vomiting. It is, in other words, a worthy champion. Its name is the Australasian crested grebe, otherwise known as the pūteketeke, and we think you're gonna get on just *great*. 

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If you want to do your bit to help these beautiful creatures, Forest & Bird ask bird enthusiasts to donate an old predator trap through Give a Trap, or add your voice to their collective call-to-action for birds in New Zealand. You can support Forest & Bird directly right here. In the meantime, we have gathered, for your viewing pleasure, a carefully-curated selection of content in tribute to the top five contenders from the #bird of the century election. Every last one a winner. 

Live, love, laugh. Grunt, dance, puke x

[hamotzi]

old friends senior dog sanctuary dogs PART 2 (part 1 here)

[j417l]

need to lose weight

[j417l]

Still need to lose weight

[j417l]

need to lose weight

[peach-foxgloves]

Roxanne Gay putting a fine point on it.

[worse-4-less-deactivated2019091]

Where We Live

Explore your community with this one-of-a-kind interactive map.

NYT published an interactive map of every building in America and it’s extremely beautiful and cool.

[like-a-telescope]

Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.

U.S. unemployment is down and jobs are going unfilled. But for people without much education, the real question is: Do those jobs pay enough to live on?

Essential reading from Matthew Desmond. 

[sleepingunderstatues]

Maya Lin. Wave Field. 1995.

Another work by Lin that I find really stimulating. I believe that Lin talks about the creation of this work in the Art21 series (but it’s been a while). I adore the form of this, the subtle undulations and softness of the thing. I also love the concept of the earth taking on the form of water–two elements coming together. A really beautiful concept. 

Also, this just looks like a lot of fun to experience. And really isn’t that what art should be about sometimes?

[j417l]

Is it dumb to use tax return money to get into a ny design week show you need to pay to get into instead of paying off credit card debt (yes surprise my dumb bf is doing it)

[j417l]

playing out different scenarios of what I would do if E cheated on me

[j417l]

Crazy that I was blogging a year and half ago about anxieties of telling E how I feel about him and now all I think about is when’s the next day he’ll be cumming in me

[j417l]

so E has attack record of cheating on his gfs (I mean it had both happened when he was close to breaking up with current gf) but it makes me uneasy? Not that he’s doing anything now - doubtful - but still makes me wonder about the months we were apart when I was in London

Also in projecting because I spent a night with R before E moved to London ... well a few nights with R, but just one night where we were in same bed, had a kiss - wouldn’t have bothered much with it except we have a sexual (and somewhat intensely emotional, at least for me) history. Anyways.

[chicks2010]

[kibumsfreakk]

Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK

[nyangibun]

This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thenutofroyalty]

Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂

[beatrice-otter]

In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer.  In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job.  Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.

And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what!  People are living with their parents again.  But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.

[bogleech]

A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”

[fucklovepayme]

It’s a luxury to talk to me, it’s a luxury to have my time, it’s a luxury to have my space, and it’s a luxury to have my body.

[astrologanize]

september is busy minds, remember to stay constructive. try not let yourself become pent up, let it out 

october is grasping, remember that you don’t have to be everything. try to follow your intuition 

november is spirit, remember your lessons. try to console the soul

december is unfolding, remember what you are capable of. try to reform 

💫

[j417l]

As if I haven’t just been crying since I woke up basically!

[square-enix]

is anyone else just going through life like “yeah i just gotta get past this last difficult week and then it’s smooth sailing from there!” but like… every week