In A Shoebox

Under the bed

[passionpeachy]

got you some chocolates. don’t worry about the title

[nitewrighter]

Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now?

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.

[foxes-in-love]

[saintfelina]

[thememedaddy]

[celesse]

Lady Foxglove 🍂🧡🦊🧡🍂

My last watercolor piece for Witchtober

[thepoisonroom]

loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done

[elmerseason-deactivated-deactiv]

[0gl1tch0]

I actually learned a fun therapy trick for this!

The statute of limitations on arson is 6 years.

So whenever I remember an embarrassing or shameful thing I’ve done, I ask myself if it was worse than arson. If it wasn’t, and it was 6 or more years ago, I forgive myself.

Also just the comedic shock of going “well, that was a stupid and mean thing I said, but 6 years is the statute of limitations on arson” helps.

[earhartsease]

we love this but also desperately want to know who decided it was six years, so arbitrary

[foxes-in-love]

[genderyomi-deactivated20240903]

me, collared and leashed: just so we're on the same page im an anarchist and don't believe in hierarchies. this is a temporary, voluntary union of egoists that will only continue as long as our desires are aligned

domme: puppies don't speak

me: WOOF!

[kaity--did]

Starting an even NEWER thread of insane shit my husband says to/about our toddler that makes me scream laugh 

For reference here’s the first 50

51. Let’s do it again folks

[kaity--did]

52.

Trying to get a toddler to do anything of importance

[kaity--did]

53.

An overheard conversation

Penny: what is that?

Husband : that? It’s a ceiling fan.

Penny: Ceiling Fan. can I touch it?

Husband: …. I mean yeah sure why not

I turn around to see my husband holding Penny Circle of Life style as she closely inspects the ceiling fan in our bedroom.

[kaity--did]

54.

A continuation of the previous interaction

Me: you know you’re allowed to say no to her.

Husband : why though? It seemed like a reasonable request! Shes never been up there!

[kaity--did]

55.

A transcription of a voice note

“Im fighting for my life in this grocery store. Also, I let her pick out dessert. She picked out these little lemon tea cakes. I got a back up dessert because while I want to respect her decision I don’t trust it’s the right one.”

[kaity--did]

56. He doesn’t care for Ms. Lilly

[kaity--did]

57.

(For reference I have changed the lyrics to a popular lullaby to sing “and mommy will catch you, cradle and all” because I like this better then the alternative)

Husband (whispering aggressively) : that is NOT the words! WOKE AGENDA!

[kaity--did]

58.

(My child is scream singing twinkle twinkle in her bed at 9 PM)

Husband (crawling into our bed): SHE SAID TWINKLE TWINKLE BITCH!

[kaity--did]

59.

“I’ve lost autonomy in my life. All I’m told all day is where to sit and what voice to do and how to play.”

(toddler screeching SIT IN DIS CHAYAH DADA in the distance really made this one)

[kaity--did]

60.

“You’ve never said the word doughnuts to me in your whole life and this morning? You’ve said it Seventeen times”

(proceeds to put her in the car to go get her a doughnut)

[kaity--did]

61.

[kaity--did]

62.

I actually laughed so hard I started sobbing and scared my family at this one

[ajardolive]

I love this

Art by: @pina_bread on Twitter

Indigenous Miku

She is wearing a jingle dress

[spookedbees]

hopping on the miku in different cultures trend with anishinaabe (ojibwe) miku

[akayv-deactivated20241006]

Dogs may wag their tails so much due to rhythm-loving humans, scientists say

Experts hypothesise that attractiveness of behaviour was selected for during domestication process

[depsidase]

[fortunefavorsthebrave-dude]

had a dream griffin mcelroy was giving tours at the aquarium as like a special guest kind of thing and every time he’d stop in front of an animal he’d be like “alright gang gather round. i have no idea what the FUCK this is” and then we’d move on

[puppybearuniverse]

[zeitghost]

my uncle was somewhat of a rascal. we were hanging out on the roof of his barn when i was ten, and we saw some shooting stars. he told me they were angels carrying messages from god. then he handed me his old hunting rifle and taught me how to nick one out of the sky, even when it was travelling all fast like that, and how to triangulate its location — taking me out in his rusty truck down dirt roads, unerring and unceasing, until we saw that gleaming lantern. he pocketed the note from god and took me down to a pinboard where he was working on deciphering the language with his friend who was a linguistics major but got kicked out of grad school. after they shook hands, they held on for just a bit too long and i started wondering why my aunt doesn’t live with my uncle anymore, but then my uncle took me back up stairs and taught me how to fry the angel up real nice, halo and all. it was tasty

[ligeia-of-the-rhine]

““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.