Hey you. Stop doomscrolling.

Jen. 28. Talk biodiversity in fantasy settings to me.

[loumandliker]

lying to people in positions of power (landlords, rental agencies, employers) to get what u want (a flat, a job, whatever) is cool and u should do it more often.

[wizardarchetypes]

i wish mosquitos didn't make you itchy and give you horribly infectious diseases. i wouldn't begrudge them a humble nibble were it not so

[free-my-mindd]

Can I get a eta on “this too shall pass”.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

it feels really classless to say that remembering that charlie kirk died badly makes you smile and laugh but ill power through. ill say it

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

how it feels remembering charlie kirk got shot in the neck and bled out and died and his legacy is reduced to a joke

[jenisis]

I was supposed to be an artist. A creator. Drawing, writing, sculpting, metalworking, anything. But artists don't get fucking health insurance.

[jenisis]

Wow, turning in my late work is making my grade even worse 🙃 who knew a zero would be better than a 40% 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

This fucking physics class is having such a deleterious effect on my mental and physical health I should have gone for an english degree instead

[jenisis]

Like full disclosure I know it's a me problem! I know it is! It's my fault that I kept forgetting to take the online quizzes when I got home from the 6 hours of class! It's my fault I kept forgetting to do the four to five hours of homework each week on top of the 4 other hours from my other class while holding down my part time job! It's my fault that I have one singular day a week to try and rest/maintain a social life/maintain my hobbies in a household that actively seeks to distress me every time I walk out of my room! It's my fault all the way down! But FUCK man this subject is my literal antithesis! I cannot do math to save my life! The equations just don't WORK for me! Yeah it's probably the undiagnosed neurofuckery I rawdogged for 30 fucking years but it's still my fault that I chose to burn myself out even further by taking accelerated summer courses instead of trying to recover during my two month break! It's my fault my fault my fault my fault my fault!!!!

[jenisis]

Wow, turning in my late work is making my grade even worse 🙃 who knew a zero would be better than a 40% 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

This fucking physics class is having such a deleterious effect on my mental and physical health I should have gone for an english degree instead

[jenisis]

I'm so lucky I don't have a following because some of my posts are like fully sticking my head inside a hornet's nest.

[artbyblastweave]

Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still

[dialectrician]

Okay but if you aren't a vegetarian your case against vampires is actually pretty weak.

[artbyblastweave]

I SAID HOLD STILL

[jenisis]

All the data in the world can point at something and go "hey this is great at getting people to not kill themselves" and bootlickers will go "actually people shouldn't have access to this"

[xxxxactly]

Brutalist maze, Seattle

[3liza]

its called Freeway Park and while it is one of the most interesting single examples of Brutalism in the united states and im proud of it, it is so poorly designed in terms of public safety that it has been renovated twice(?) but continues to be geographically troubling, as its design has facilitated a lot of murders over the years. it was the subject of a funny but gruesome article in the STranger in 2002 called Topography of Terror. the city doesnt keep official tally of how many murders or assaults have happened IN the park but two men in their 30s were stabbed nonfatally during a robbery there earlier this year, for example.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

Suspect that building mazes is perhaps not conducive to public safety, outside of minotaur isolation scenarios.

[cuppydogshane]

all the rights that come with marriage you should be able to have without marriage btw. you should be able to designate a person who can visit you in the hospital regardless of your relationship to that person.

[jenisis]

Practically the minute I'm home from 6 hours of class and father dearest decides while I'm trying to make my first meal of the day that it's time for me to take the trashcans out. He's recovering from knee surgery so I'm like fine I'll get to it in just a couple minutes my bagel is literally in the toaster. Nevermind that my sister is just lounging on the couch since this morning but whatever it's F i n e. I finish making my food and go take our and our neighbor/tenant's cans out, and hell I'm going so far as to do it the Father's Certified Correct Way (lifting the interior can of literal cat shit and assorted garbage OUT OF THE ACTUAL GARBAGE CAN and dumping it into our neighbor's can) but refuse to do the same for our recycling when ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEAR THE CLANK CLANK OF MY FATHER'S WALKER BECAUSE HE CAN'T F A T H O M THAT I WOULD FOLLOW HIS ASININE FUCKING METHODOLOGY AND YOU KNOW WHAT? HE'S RIGHT! I REFUSE! I CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO TAKE EVERY PIECE OF RECYCLING OUT OF ONE CAN AND TRANSFER IT TO ANOTHER TO APPEASE HIS FUCKING MENTAL ILLNESS!!!!! BUT I HAVE NO CHOICE REGARDING THE GARBAGE BECAUSE HE PUT AN INTERIOR FUCKING CAN IN TO PREVENT US FROM JUST TAKING THE CAN OUT ON TRASH DAY! BUT NOOOOOO HE COMES OUT AND GOES "YA GOTTA BRING OUR RECYCLE CAN IN AND DO THE HOLY RITE OF TRANSFER OF THE REFUSE" AND NOW I'M THE FUCKING BAD GUY BECAUSE I STRAIGHT UP WILL NOT INDULGE IN THIS BEHAVIOR.

And GOD FORBID he has my sister do it because he knows she'll straight up laugh in his face because heaven will crack open and welcome Lucifer back with open arms before she'll do a damn thing she doesn't want to, so now I'm fucking persona non grata in the house cuz I "forced" him to do it himself. FUCK this household.

[hungwy]

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

[sugoiney-weaver]

Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

[prizedpesto]

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

[strange-aeons]

Do you love the colour of the sky? I'm also in Ontario :')

NO ITS REALLY BAD!!!!!!!!!!!

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige

[hojolove]

I had a sales woman in furniture store try and tell me not to buy a hot bubblegum pink loveseat because she wanted me to “think about the future”

Bitch, I am thinking about the future. I already got a hot bubblegum pink couch at home and now I need a loveseat to go with it.

[madgastronomer]

when I first bought my house, I announced my decision to paint my bedroom purple. I had wanted a purple bedroom for thirty damn years, you fucking bet I was gonna have one now. My friends decided, for some reason, that I meant what one of them referred to as “14 year old girl purple” (through what’s wrong with the colors a 14 year old girl chooses, I don’t know, even if they’re not what I want as an adult). They didn’t believe me until they saw the color on the actual wall, even thought they helped me pick out paints. My mother, meanwhile, decided to get worried that if I painted my bedroom a “dark purple”, it would be “depressing”. As if, with an entire house to live in, I would spend all my time in the bedroom, which I wanted to be dark because I would be sleeping in there. In the damn dark.

I had like one, maybe two friends who were all like FUCK YEAH YOU PAINT IT WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT, PURPLE BEDROOMS ARE AWESOME.

But when they actualy saw the finished bedroom, every single one of them was like, “Oh yeah, that’s really pretty.” (Well, the ones who supported me from the beginning were more like WOOHOO.)

And the moral of the story is: Fuck ‘em, please yourself. Either they’ll come around, or you can safely ignore every question of taste they opine about for the rest of time.

[themintycupcake]

This applies to other adulting activities, too. When I was a kid, I decided that I wanted to have a wedding cake made of doughnuts. When I got older, I figured that I would be “mature” about it and get a traditional cake, which the older adults approved of. Now that I’m 25 and facing the possibility of actual marriage in the near future, I’m just like “marriage is a social construct but it comes with tax & insurance benefits, so just give me that goddamn doughnut cake.” If they don’t like it then they don’t have to come to my wedding.

[aridotdash]

https://xkcd.com/150/

[undanewneon]

I would like you all to view my office. I’m thirty and my rainbow room is awesome, people can fight me

[spuffybot]

I’m thirty and my first big furniture purchase was a custom coffin shaped coffee table that opens up and is lined with purple crushed velvet. I would have loved it at 13 and I love it now. Growing up doesn’t mean you have to abandon what makes you happy.

[idareu2bme]

GROWING UP DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO ABANDON WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

[the-haiku-bot]

GROWING UP DOESN’T

MEAN YOU HAVE TO ABANDON

WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[shadesofmauve]

I have told this story before, and I will tell it again, because I am An Old now and repeating stories forever is our prerogative:

When I bought my house, the kitchen was multiple shades of dingy white. It was dismal, but it was now mine! So went to the hardware store for paint (well, several trips, painted swatches on panel, etc — I’m very picky. But this was the final, ‘real’ trip). It was a busy day in the paint section. There were at least five people behind me in line.

Now, remember, latex paint is slightly lighter and brighter when wet than it is when dry. And I’d decided to paint my kitchen candy-apple red. The hardware store employee took my gallon off the Paint Jiggler and cracked it open to put a dab on the top, revealing the most incredibly deep pink, and behind me I hear the entire line of people say,

“Oh my god.”

…in perfect chorus.

I did not realize up until that moment that shocking a crowd of strangers with my paint color choices was a life goal, but at that moment I felt an absolutely overwhelming sense of achievement.

[marlynnofmany]

This is the door to my garage. It used to be white. Live your best life.

Mischief the cat says “Who goes there?”

Every visiting friend says “This is so cool.”

If you’re looking for an excuse to do some decorating that will make your soul sing, this entire thread is your sign to do it and don’t look back!

[the-haiku-bot]

This is the door to

my garage. It used to be

white. Live your best life.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[chennnington]

I’m 35. I have been told my place looks like maybe a LP fan lives there.

Not sure what they mean.

[dykepuffs]

When I first moved into my place, I painted the spare room, that eventually became my office, lime green, the kind of lime green that glows down the corridor when I open the door - The colour was only available as an “accent colour” in the section of paints intended for children’s playrooms, and in the shop I got a lot of “Oh your son will love this!” And from people I knew I got a lot of “Oh well, you’re 21 now, you’re basically a teenager, this is a terrible idea, you’ll hate it and need to pull out all the furniture to repaint it.” And I have to report that I am now in my forties and my office still looks like this, and it makes me smile every time I see it.

[marzipanandminutiae]

this is such a modern idea, too

not decorating trends; those have always existed. but the idea that color and decoration is inherently childish

this is the dining room at the Eustis Estate in Milton, Massachusetts, from 1878 (where I used to work, briefly). the walls are TEXTURED MICA SHIMMER on a green background. Adult Space For Adults!

A jewelry shop in Paris c. 1901. kids can’t buy jewelry!

who can forget the classic 1950s colorful bathroom? I’m not a huge fan, but still! adult space! bright colors; decorative designs!

meanwhile “you’re immature if you like Art Nouveau” is a hot take I’ve really, seriously seen on this webbed site (only once, thank the gods). I don’t know who started this, but I’m going to kill them

[taraljc]

I think a lot of it stems from the ubiquitous Waterhouse prints that were sold on college campuses for 20 years. like why would I get a free pass if it were Monet instead Western culture is stupid. The entire point of being an adult is breakfast for dinner and cake for breakfast and dying with the most toys.

[catgirlralsei]

instantly decided to reblog when i got to GROWING UP DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO ABANDON WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

[beatrice-otter]

The examples of decorated homes above are both either modern or upper class, which makes it easy to dismiss because “sure the rich people have beautiful homes” and “sure, modern middle-class people have lots of color in their homes.”

So here’s two examples of traditional Norwegian farmhouse interiors. You know. The kinds of places peasants live in.

This type of painting is called “rosemaling” and today you usually find it on, like, carved wooden bowls and such that are only used for decoration. But back two centuries ago, it was very common to find the interiors of homes covered in it, in projects that were painted little by little over the decades. Because it’s beautiful to look at, paint is the cheapest way of decorating your house, and what else are you going to do on the long winter nights when it’s too dark and cold to work outdoors?

But mostly, they did it because it made them happy, and it was beautiful.

Those old peasants were on to something, I think.

[destinationtoast]

I painted rooms in my house these colors and some people had doubts:

I have been SO HAPPY.

[vaspider]

My wife painted the walls of my studio ORANGE. Glorious sunset orange.

I have always wanted a room that was an amazing color and this one is mine.

[awfulhorrid]

When we decided it was time to paint our home, we wanted something that very much marked it as ours. I think we accomplished that!

[395nm]

higgeldy-piggeldy, at the aquarium, petting the elephants, camels and tits. All of the animals sarcopterygian walk on four legs, but cladistic'ly, fish!