KaylaMarie,

one day., you wake up and decide the only fight worth fighting, is the fight within yourself.

[badnovels]

[captaincardboardbox]

[howlermonkey69]

[dubiouslexism]

[vomitingwords]

"Some pills are indeed hard to swallow." she said. "Knowing that in the end, it can hurt you—instead of healing you."

Why does pain come first? // ma.c.a

[sixpenceee]

This red and black snail. This snail species is called Platymma tweediei. 

[writing-prompt-s]

When a person dies, they reincarnate into the creature they’ve killed the most in their life. But this is not the tale of people trying to influence what they’ll reincarnate into.

This is the story of one person’s quest to figure out how the hell they ended up reincarnating into a ruler of the Fay court.

[the-memedaddy]

me irl

[nbcthegoodplace]

This is the ONLY Valentine’s gift idea. 

[sixpenceee]

Clathrus columnatus (AKA column stinkhorn), is a type of fungus. It has a widespread distribution, and has been found in Africa, Australasia, and the Americas. It may have been introduced to North America with exotic plants.

[booomerangarrow]

And they smell like rotting meat, which is super fun, but they’re great for your garden, so just let them run their course. They usually show up just a few times a year, during cold rainy weather.

[star-anise]

Soft skills for the apocalypse

Let’s face it, if the world ends, so many of us will flee somewhere else for safety that we’ll end right back up in communities again. There’s going to be more to it than growing your own food and knitting handspun socks.

I’m linking to resources, but a many of these skills, being interpersonal, are best taught in live trainings by professional instructors, where you can see and feel all the interpersonal dynamics going on in the room, and by experience, trying them out on real people in an educational setting.

When the world ends, it will be helpful to be able to::

Run a meeting

Peacefully negotiate

De-escalate a potentially violent situation

Organize a community

Cope when you’re having a panic attack

Co-regulate to help a child keep calm

Identify community resources

Protest safely and peacefully

Even small local pieces of activism today, like organizing a protest march or lobbying your municipal government to make public spaces more accessible, have a double reward: There’s the work you’re doing, and the skills you learn when you do it.

[a-ton-of-unearned-confidence]

the assumption that people with violent killing skills should be given priority/power in a post-apocalyptic society is the reason it stays post-apocalyptic and doesn’t actually rebuild society

[star-anise]

the assumption that people with violent killing skills should be given priority/power in a post-apocalyptic society is the reason it stays post-apocalyptic and doesn’t actually rebuild society

[aceofblueheart]

So Im taking this textile history course and learned about something called the String revolution: the invention of how to make strings (yarn) was essential in so many things. Its how we got bows (improved hunting), tents and clothes (easier to survive) and sails (long distance travel!). So: if you want to be able to say you have a postapocalyptic skill, just learn to spin and / or weave.

[ghostpalmtechnique]

There is no assumption that violent people “should be given” power. The assumption is that they will *take* power.

[star-anise]

And that, having been given power, they will or should continue to rule by violence alone, because nobody capable of wielding violence on a large enough scale to beat everyone else would or could use less violent methods at any other time.

Which is actually, in my experience, a terribly bad assumption to make.

It’s not like modern militaries, much less countries that are modern military powers, resolve all civil matters with trial by combat. There is always some sort of recognition that at some point, violence should not be a political factor. (Even if this has gotten rather sloppy with regards to the use of police brutality) 

No matter what, we’re gonna end up sitting around debating things in fuckin’ committees.

It’s just, you know, post-apoc as a genre has traditionally been the playground of people who like to imagine that violence will be the BEST way to solve conflicts, and they will get to be AS VIOLENT AS THEY LIKE. Therefore, despite the genre’s scrupulous attention to some small logistics like how they will all have enough weapons, it has never been tremendously accurate.

[baywrites]

Love You

I’m the thunder

To your lightning in the room.

A complimentary piece

To your tasteful typhoon.

A lion tamed

By a love thats insane,

Before you I was just

A kid playing games.

Now thanks to you

Love has a name.

I’m stuck on you girl

Like you’re glued to my brain.

You came into my world

And made my crazy seem sane.

.

I love you, you, you

For who you are.

You’re no plain Jane

You’re a rock n roll, soul train,

Free spirit walking

Like a movie star.

I love you, you, you

For who you are.

You’re my girl, my world,

My rubiks cube, my spark.

You’re my puzzle of trouble,

My permanent mark.

I love you, you, you

For who you are.

And you love me too

That’s my favorite part.

—JB Wright—

[a-quietsoul]

“teach me how to overcome my fears; it feels like forever since i truly feel like living instead of simply breathing. teach me how to pull them at their roots and stomp them out; it feels like forever since i feel i’m strong and brave and good about myself. teach me how to reach out and fall back on others; it feels like forever since i feel i can rely on someone and feel not so alone.”

— aumirah

[beforethefilm]

why do we have to make up a reason

for everything

when couldn't it be enough

that butterflies float

and swallows fly

when will it be enough,

perhaps when we realise

our progress makes us forget

that trees look beautiful in the wind

[bruce-wayne]

Dear Jonas, by the time you read this everything will have happened, irrevocably. It can no longer be changed.

DARK (2017–)

[wnq-writers]

You loved the thunder but couldn’t handle the storm.

greektemper

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“There is a truth that everyone knows but you. Each of us has it; no one is immune. Not a secret, not a scandal, but something simple and obvious to everyone else. It can be as simple as losing weight, or as difficult as leaving a husband. How awful, to sense that everybody knows the thing that would change your life, and yet no one is friend enough to tell you! You are left to guess, all by yourself. Until that moment comes when it reveals itself to you, and of course this revelation always comes a moment too late.” - Andrew Sean Greer, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

[askmichigan]

Most of you think it is April

But it is actually the 105th of January

[nebelzeit]

[sixpenceee]

Evaporating seawater forms an inverse waterfall. (Source)